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Two independent ggml patches. Both are upstream-ggml issues rather than
NeMo-Speech ones, and both should go to ggml as well; they are carried here
because ggml-patches/ is how this repo consumes ggml changes.

They are in one PR because they are both single additions to the series with no
other footprint. They are separate commits and can be split if you would rather
take them one at a time.

Numbering: these are 0019 and 0020 because #28 claims 0018. If #28
lands after this, or not at all, they will need renumbering — happy to rebase.


0019-sve-vec-dot-f32-tail — a correctness fix

ggml_vec_dot_f32's predicated SVE tail used:

sum1 = svmad_f32_m(pg, ax1, ay1, sum1);

The _m form merges into its first operand. Here that is ax1, not the
accumulator — and ax1 comes from a predicated svld1_f32, whose inactive
lanes are zero. So the tail step overwrote the inactive lanes of the
accumulator with zero, discarding every partial sum they held.

sum1 = svmla_f32_m(pg, sum1, ax1, ay1);   // same product, merges into sum1

The effect is large. Any dot product longer than one SVE vector whose length is
not a multiple of the vector width loses the lanes the tail does not cover. A
standalone reproduction running the same data through both intrinsics on a
128-bit SVE host (4 floats per vector):

n svmad_f32_m (today) exact error
101 67.08 260.83 −74.3%
102 134.42 263.84 −49.1%
103 202.01 266.85 −24.3%
104 269.86 269.86 0.0% (no tail)

We found it through NanoCodec, where it moved CPU-decoded audio by 23 dB.

It has no effect on the CUDA benchmarks — confirmed by measuring with and
without it on top of the im2col patch below, which reproduced the same RTF to
within the harness's ±0.0002. The CUDA path does not call this function. It
matters for CPU inference on any SVE machine.

Tests

ggml already fails on this, and that is worth stating plainly. On an SVE
host, test-backend-ops -o CONV_TRANSPOSE_1D fails today at every case with 7
channels — 7 % 4 ≠ 0 on a 128-bit implementation — with errors up to 72.1
against a 1e-7 threshold:

[CONV_TRANSPOSE_1D] ERR = 48.725056877 > 0.000000100   ne_input=[1,7,1,1],ne_kernel=[1,1,7,1],s0=1: FAIL
[CONV_TRANSPOSE_1D] ERR = 72.132731258 > 0.000000100   ne_input=[1,7,1,1],ne_kernel=[1,1,7,1],s0=2: FAIL
[CONV_TRANSPOSE_1D] ERR =  0.075775883 > 0.000000100   ne_input=[2,7,1,1],ne_kernel=[1,1,7,1],s0=1: FAIL

What that suite cannot do is say who is wrong. It scores every backend against
the CPU, so a fault in the CPU presents as the CUDA kernel being broken — which
is very likely why this survived: the signal pointed away from the bug. With the
patch, CONV_TRANSPOSE_1D goes to OK.

So the patch also adds tests/test-vec-dot-f32.cpp, which checks the CPU
against arithmetic rather than against another backend, and therefore names the
culprit. It covers something the existing test structurally cannot, too: in a
CPU-only build there is no second backend to disagree, test-backend-ops
skips the CPU as its own reference, and the bug is invisible. That is exactly
the configuration where it matters, since the CUDA path never calls this
function.

618 cases — lengths 1 to 300 plus sizes around 512, 1024 and 4096, each with two
patterns whose exact result is known in binary32 (ones against ones, and a ramp
against ones, so a dropped lane and a misread lane look different).

Unpatched, on a 128-bit SVE host, it fails 456 of 618:

  n=5     ones      got          2.0  want          5.0  (-60.0%)
  n=9     ones      got          3.0  want          9.0  (-66.7%)
  n=10    ones      got          6.0  want         10.0  (-40.0%)
  n=11    ones      got          9.0  want         11.0  (-18.2%)
ggml_vec_dot_f32 exactness (618 cases): FAILED
  456 of 618 cases wrong

Patched, 618 of 618 pass. Lengths that are exact multiples of the vector width
pass either way, which is the other half of why this survived — it only bites on
a remainder.


0020-im2col-1d-coalesced-tiles — a perf patch, bit-identical

The generic im2col kernel coalesces its store but scatters its load:
consecutive threads write neighbouring output elements, which for a 1D
convolution sit far apart in the source row. At NanoCodec's last upsampling
layer that is 65 KB between warp neighbours, and the kernel sustains ~220 GB/s
where sibling kernels on the same device reach ~900.

The patch stages each output tile through shared memory, so both the load and
the store are contiguous.

This is not only a codec kernel. On the v2602 MagpieTTS checkpoint the
decoder's convolutional feed-forward blocks issue im2col every layer, every
step — all 12,052 of the launches in a five-sentence paragraph. That is why the
win shows up in decoder inter-token latency rather than in codec throughput.

Measured

GB300, v2602 f16, --top-k 1 so the code sequence is held fixed, median of 5
runs per case, GPU idle-gated. Applied on top of #32 (the no-op contiguity elision), which is its baseline
here — these two are independent and can land in either order:

case e2e RTF decoder ITL
line 0.0416 → 0.0408 1.71 → 1.68 ms
paragraph 0.0385 → 0.0375 1.67 → 1.63 ms
script 0.0386 → 0.0374 1.67 → 1.61 ms

By kernel, on the paragraph with --cuda-graph-trace=node: im2col goes
74.3 ms → 61.3 ms, −17.5%, over an unchanged 12,052 launches.

Correctness

Output is bit-identical, verified by sha256 of the decoded WAV on all three
cases (this build is byte-reproducible under --top-k 1).

Tests

The patch extends the im2col 1D cases in test-backend-ops. The existing ones
do exercise the new kernel — and pass — but thinly: three cases at OW=3000
with unit stride, single batch, and IC*KW an exact multiple of the tile
height, plus eight at OW=18, which is too short to fill a tile at all.

Six single-point mutants of the new kernel are caught by that suite. Three
defect classes are not:

mutant caught by existing 11 caught by added 3
fault confined to partial-IC*KW rows of a later OW tile ✗ 0 ✓ 2
fault affecting only batch > 0 in a later tile ✗ 0 ✓ 3
fault affecting only stride > 1 in a tile interior ✗ 0 ✓ 2

Each escapes all eleven existing cases entirely. The three added cases combine a
full tile interior with non-unit stride, dilation and padding, batch > 1, and
partial tiles on both axes — which is the shape of defect a blocked kernel
actually has.

The added cases also pass against the stock generic kernel with the tiled
dispatch disabled, so they test im2col's semantics rather than this
implementation's, and would be equally valid in ggml without this patch.

All 14 1D cases pass on this branch, on both backends.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed ARM SVE F32 dot products for vector lengths containing tail elements.
  • Performance

    • Improved CUDA 1D convolution preprocessing with coalesced tiled memory access while preserving identical results.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for SVE dot products across SIMD-width and tail boundaries.
    • Added CUDA convolution tests for batching, tile boundaries, padding, stride, dilation, and F16 output.
    • Added coverage ensuring degenerate 2D cases continue to use the appropriate processing path.

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The patch catalog adds an SVE F32 tail accumulation fix with CPU tests. It also adds a shared-memory CUDA kernel for eligible 1D im2col operations, guarded dispatch, coverage tests, and catalog entries.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
SVE tail accumulation correction
ggml-patches/0022-sve-vec-dot-f32-tail.patch, ggml-patches/README.md
The SVE tail path supplies the accumulator as the first svmla_f32_m operand. CTest builds and runs arithmetic-reference cases across SIMD-boundary lengths.
CUDA 1D im2col tiled path
ggml-patches/0023-im2col-1d-coalesced-tiles.patch, ggml-patches/README.md
A shared-memory tiled kernel handles compatible 1D convolutions. The dispatcher retains the generic kernel for other shapes and oversized batches. Tests cover batching, tile boundaries, convolution parameters, and F32/F16 outputs.

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  participant im2col_1d_tiled_kernel
  participant SharedMemory
  participant InputTensor
  participant OutputTensor
  im2col_cuda->>im2col_1d_tiled_kernel: dispatch eligible 1D convolution
  im2col_1d_tiled_kernel->>InputTensor: load coalesced input values
  im2col_1d_tiled_kernel->>SharedMemory: stage tiled values
  SharedMemory-->>im2col_1d_tiled_kernel: provide staged tile
  im2col_1d_tiled_kernel->>OutputTensor: store coalesced im2col values
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The optimized CUDA path has no confirmed correctness issue, but the new SVE regression test is currently not included in the project's test build, reducing protection against regressions. The documented impact of the SVE bug also remains potentially overstated.

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In `@ggml-patches/0020-im2col-1d-coalesced-tiles.patch`:
- Line 43: Update the base-offset calculation in the tiled im2col path so the
batch index uses the IC_IH_IW stride and the channel index uses the IH_IW
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vector width silently lost work -- on a 128-bit implementation, 25%, 49% or
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Arm ACLE SVE svmad_f32_m svmla_f32_m inactive lane merge first operand semantics

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In Arm ACLE (Arm C Language Extensions) for SVE, the merge predication suffix (_m) indicates that for inactive lanes, the result is copied from the first vector argument [1][2]. For the specific intrinsics svmad_f32_m and svmla_f32_m, the first vector argument is the one that serves as the accumulator or target for merging: 1. svmad_f32_m(pg, a, b, c): This computes a * b + c on active lanes [3]. Because it uses _m (merge) predication, on inactive lanes, it returns the corresponding lane value from its first operand, which is a (the first multiplicand) [3]. This is often unsuitable for accumulator patterns because the accumulator (c) is ignored on inactive lanes in favor of the first operand (a). 2. svmla_f32_m(pg, acc, a, b): This computes acc + (a * b) on active lanes [3]. Because it uses _m (merge) predication, on inactive lanes, it returns the corresponding lane value from its first operand, which is acc (the accumulator) [3]. This preserves the previous state of the accumulator on inactive lanes, making it the correct choice for multiply-accumulate loops where partial sums must be maintained [3][4]. Using svmad_f32_m when an accumulator is needed typically results in data corruption or bias, as the inactive lanes of the accumulator are overwritten by the first operand (often a loaded data vector), rather than preserving the existing sum [3].

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Correct the documented impact percentages.

svmad_f32_m(pg, ax1, ay1, sum1) replaces inactive sum1 lanes with ax1, while the reduction still includes sum2 through sum8. Therefore, 25%, 49%, and 74% do not represent fixed losses from the full dot product. State that these percentages apply to the affected accumulator, or provide measurements for explicit input sizes and data.

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figures describe loss in the affected accumulator, not fixed loss from the full
dot product; alternatively replace them with measurements tied to explicit input
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In `@ggml-patches/0020-im2col-1d-coalesced-tiles.patch`:
- Line 89: Restrict the tiled-path predicate to true 1D configurations by also
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The generic im2col kernel coalesces its store but scatters its load:
consecutive threads write neighbouring output elements, which for a 1D
convolution sit far apart in the source row. At NanoCodec's last
upsampling layer that is 65 KB between warp neighbours, and the kernel
sustains ~220 GB/s where sibling kernels on the same device reach ~900.

0020 stages each output tile through shared memory, so both the load and
the store are contiguous.

This is not only a codec kernel. On the v2602 MagpieTTS checkpoint the
decoder's convolutional feed-forward blocks issue im2col every layer,
every step: all 12,052 launches in a five-sentence paragraph, which is
why the win shows up in decoder inter-token latency rather than in codec
throughput.

Measured on a GB300, greedy so the code sequence is held fixed, median
of 5 runs per case on an idle-gated GPU, applied on top of the no-op
contiguity elision:

  case        e2e RTF           decoder ITL
  line        0.0416 -> 0.0408    1.71 -> 1.68 ms
  paragraph   0.0385 -> 0.0375    1.67 -> 1.63 ms
  script      0.0386 -> 0.0374    1.67 -> 1.61 ms

By kernel, on the paragraph: im2col 74.3 -> 61.3 ms over an unchanged
12,052 launches, -17.5%.

Output is bit-identical, verified by sha256 of the decoded WAV on all
three cases.

Tests: the patch extends the im2col 1D cases in test-backend-ops. The
existing ones do exercise the new kernel, but thinly -- three cases with
OW=3000 at unit stride, single batch and IC*KW an exact multiple of the
tile height, and eight more at OW=18, which is too short to fill a tile
at all. Six single-point mutants of the new kernel are caught by that
suite, but three defect classes are not: a fault confined to the
partial-IC*KW rows of a later OW tile, one that only affects batch > 0
in a later tile, and one that only affects stride > 1 in a tile
interior. Each escapes all eleven existing cases and is caught by the
three added ones, which combine a full tile interior with non-unit
stride, dilation, padding, batch, and partial tiles on both axes.

The added cases also pass against the stock generic kernel, so they test
im2col's semantics rather than this implementation's.

This is a general ggml improvement and should also be sent to ggml.
The tail step used svmad_f32_m(pg, ax1, ay1, sum1). The _m form merges
into its FIRST operand, which here is ax1, not the accumulator -- and
ax1 comes from a predicated svld1_f32, whose inactive lanes are zero. So
the tail overwrote the inactive lanes of the accumulator with zero,
discarding every partial sum they held.

svmla_f32_m(pg, sum1, ax1, ay1) computes the same product and merges
into sum1, leaving the inactive lanes untouched.

The effect is not small. Any dot product longer than one SVE vector
whose length is not a multiple of the vector width loses the lanes the
tail does not cover.

Tests. ggml already fails on this, and that is worth stating plainly:
on an SVE host, `test-backend-ops -o CONV_TRANSPOSE_1D` fails at every
case with 7 channels -- 7 % 4 != 0 on a 128-bit implementation -- with
errors up to 72.1 against a 1e-7 threshold. What it cannot do is say
who is wrong. The harness scores every backend against the CPU, so a
fault in the CPU reads as the CUDA kernel being broken, and that is the
likeliest reason this survived: the signal pointed away from the bug.

So the patch adds tests/test-vec-dot-f32.cpp, which checks the CPU
against arithmetic instead of against another backend. 618 cases:
lengths 1 to 300 plus sizes around 512, 1024 and 4096, each with two
patterns whose exact result is known in binary32 (ones against ones, and
a ramp against ones, so a dropped lane and a misread lane look
different). Unpatched it fails 456 of 618:

  n=5   got   2.0 want   5.0   -60.0%
  n=9   got   3.0 want   9.0   -66.7%
  n=10  got   6.0 want  10.0   -40.0%
  n=11  got   9.0 want  11.0   -18.2%

Patched, 618 of 618 pass, and CONV_TRANSPOSE_1D goes to OK.

The new test also covers a case the existing one structurally cannot: in
a CPU-only build there is no second backend to disagree, so
test-backend-ops skips the CPU as its own reference and the bug is
invisible. That is precisely the configuration where it matters, since
the CUDA path never calls this function.

Lengths that are exact multiples of the vector width pass either way,
which is the other half of why this survived: it only bites on a
remainder.

It found us through NanoCodec, where it moved CPU-decoded audio by
23 dB, and it has no effect on the CUDA benchmarks -- confirmed by
measuring with and without it on top of the im2col patch, which
reproduced the same RTF inside the harness's +-0.0002.

This is an upstream ggml bug, not one of ours. It should go to ggml as
well; the patch is carried here because the series is how this repo
consumes ggml fixes.
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Restore the batch and channel strides in base.

Line 43 still swaps the two strides for the contiguous [N, IC, IH, IW] layout. The batch index must scale by IC_IH_IW. The channel index must scale by IH_IW. An earlier review flagged this and it was marked addressed, but the reviewed patch carries the swapped form.

For N=1, IC=64, IH=1, IW=257 (the third new test case), channel iic reads from x[iic * IC * IW + iiw] instead of x[iic * IW + iiw]. Every channel above 0 reads past the input allocation, so the tiled path returns wrong values or fails with a CUDA illegal-address error.

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-            base = iic * IC_IH_IW + in * IH_IW;
+            base = in * IC_IH_IW + iic * IH_IW;
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In `@ggml-patches/0023-im2col-1d-coalesced-tiles.patch` at line 43, Correct the
`base` calculation in the tiled indexing logic so the batch index `in` is
multiplied by `IC_IH_IW` and the channel index `iic` by `IH_IW`, preserving the
contiguous `[N, IC, IH, IW]` layout.
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In `@ggml-patches/0023-im2col-1d-coalesced-tiles.patch`:
- Around line 80-101: Restrict the tiled dispatch in im2col_cuda to cases where
KH, IH, and OH are one and s1, p1, and d1 are all zero. Keep the generic kernel
path for calls with nonzero height parameters so it preserves the generic
indexing behavior.

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In `@ggml-patches/0023-im2col-1d-coalesced-tiles.patch`:
- Line 43: Correct the `base` calculation in the tiled indexing logic so the
batch index `in` is multiplied by `IC_IH_IW` and the channel index `iic` by
`IH_IW`, preserving the contiguous `[N, IC, IH, IW]` layout.

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Comment thread ggml-patches/0023-im2col-1d-coalesced-tiles.patch
The tiled kernel has no height axis: it takes s0, p0 and d0 and ignores
s1, p1 and d1 entirely. The dispatch selected it on KH == IH == OH == 1,
which a 2D call can satisfy while still carrying a nonzero p1 -- with
IH = KH = 1, p1 = 1, d1 = 1 and s1 = 3, OH is 1. The generic kernel then
computes iih = ioh*s1 + ikh*d1 - p1 = -1 and writes a padded zero, while
the tiled kernel reads an input sample. The two paths disagree.

Require the 1D sentinel before dispatching. ggml_conv_1d passes
s1 = p1 = d1 = 0, so every genuine 1D convolution still takes the tiled
path and the optimisation is unaffected.

Add that degenerate 2D case to test-backend-ops; it is the shape the
predicate now has to reject.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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14-33: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Enable ggml tests when project tests are enabled

When NEMO_SPEECH_BUILD_TESTS enables BUILD_TESTING, the root build adds only tests/cpp. The nested ggml project defaults GGML_BUILD_TESTS to GGML_STANDALONE, which is off because ggml is added as a subdirectory. Therefore, test-vec-dot-f32.cpp is never built or registered with CTest. Set GGML_BUILD_TESTS=ON before add_subdirectory(ggml) when BUILD_TESTING is enabled.

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In `@ggml-patches/0022-sve-vec-dot-f32-tail.patch` around lines 14 - 33, When
BUILD_TESTING is enabled, set GGML_BUILD_TESTS to ON before the root build’s
add_subdirectory(ggml) call so the nested project builds and registers
test-vec-dot-f32 alongside the existing tests. Preserve the default behavior
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In `@ggml-patches/0022-sve-vec-dot-f32-tail.patch`:
- Around line 14-33: When BUILD_TESTING is enabled, set GGML_BUILD_TESTS to ON
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and registers test-vec-dot-f32 alongside the existing tests. Preserve the
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