diag(distill): per-kernel JIT logging in forward cache (PMAT-698i)#1815
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The Phase 3 cuda dispatch defect cascade (PMAT-698e..h) has been chasing missing pre-warm entries ONE KERNEL AT A TIME by inferring kernel names from CUDA error messages. After 5 iterations the dispatch still emits 4 GH-480 patches (= JIT events) post-pre-warm but the kernel names are not logged. This diagnostic adds eprintln to ForwardKernelCache::get_or_compile so every JIT event prints its kernel key. After one dispatch we get the full list of missing pre-warms in one pass — pre-warm sweep becomes O(1) instead of O(N) iterations. Mirrors the existing [BWD-CACHE] logging on the cuda_backward path. Test plan: - [x] cargo check --features cuda — clean build - [ ] Live gx10 dispatch logs every forward-cache JIT event with kernel name → identifies all kernels still missing from pre_warm_for_model in one pass Stage 6 of the Phase 3 cuda dispatch defect cascade — diagnostic, not fix: PMAT-700-B → PMAT-698e → PMAT-698f → PMAT-698g → PMAT-698h → PMAT-698i (DIAG) Next: PMAT-698j (consolidated pre-warm sweep based on diagnostic output) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-05-20 — real distillation 1.5B teacher → 0.5B student on
Blackwell GB10 with the full PMAT-698e..n + PMAT-700-B cascade active.
initial_loss = 7.6746
final_loss = 7.2036 ← LESS THAN initial
62 steps, 122.7s, no errors
F-DISTILL-SMOKE-001 ("final_loss < initial_loss") discharged.
Phase 3 of SPEC-DISTILL-001 is COMPLETE.
Evidence:
- evidence/distill-phase-3-real-kd/dispatch.json — dispatch manifest
- evidence/distill-phase-3-real-kd/launch-final-pass.txt — full training log
Run dir on gx10: /home/noah/runs/distill-smoke-20260520-070404/
Trained student checkpoint: student-trained.apr/model.safetensors
Cascade summary (all merged):
- #1804 PMAT-700-B (cuBLAS prewarm skip)
- #1808 PMAT-698e (workspace cap)
- #1809 PMAT-698f (APR magic in weights loader)
- #1810 PMAT-698g (non-LoRA backward pre-warm)
- #1813 PMAT-698h (rms_norm_gamma_reduce pre-warm)
- #1815 PMAT-698i (FWD-CACHE diagnostic logging)
- #1817 PMAT-698j (THE root cause — warm! macro key)
- #1820 PMAT-698k (cache-key alignment: rope fwd + rmsnorm eps)
- #1823 PMAT-698m (smoke setup: non-degenerate batch)
- #1824 (post-mortem doc)
- #1827 PMAT-698n (rmsnorm pre-warm at both 1e-6 + 1e-5 eps)
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
The Phase 3 cuda dispatch defect cascade (PMAT-698e..h) has been chasing missing pre-warm entries ONE KERNEL AT A TIME by inferring kernel names from CUDA error messages. After 5 iterations:
This diagnostic PR adds
eprintlntoForwardKernelCache::get_or_compileso every forward JIT event prints its kernel key. After one dispatch we get the full list in one pass.Mirrors the existing
[BWD-CACHE]log on the backward path.Sample expected output (post-merge dispatch)
Then PMAT-698j adds those kernel names to
pre_warm_for_model.Test plan
cargo check --features cudaclean buildpre_warm_for_modelDefect cascade — stage 6 (DIAGNOSTIC)
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