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The heuristic (GVR) indexer top-K decode kernel picks a value threshold whose candidate count lands in [K, kC], then selects the top-K from those candidates. Three hint-quality-driven inputs defeat that search and make the kernel return a silently wrong top-K (no error, no diagnostic):

  1. Undershoot — the non-converged secant can end on a threshold admitting fewer than K candidates; the old Phase-3 retry only guarded the overflow side, so the output tail was padded with -1.
  2. Degenerate hint — all hinted values identical: the kernel emitted outputIndices[i] = i, the head of the row.
  3. Tie plateau — more than kC ties at the K-th value: the collect clamped at kC and dropped strictly-greater entries.

This is live in production: N = 131075 is inside the shipped numColumns < 200000 GVR window, and real DSv4 decode captures hit it unaided — e.g. V4-Flash K=512 N=131075 layer 24: hint hit-rate 0.023, recall 0.002, 283 of 512 output slots left at -1.

Fix (both gvrTopKJob and gvrTopKJobDtype)

  • Degenerate hint: reset to a trusted bracket instead of emitting row[0:K] — the hint may only affect speed, never the answer.
  • Phase 3 repairs both sides: anchor the untested bracket end at a float extreme, bisect on the order-preserving uint32 key image (provable collapse in ≤32 steps), and on a collapsed tie plateau emit strictly-greater entries plus arbitrary ties.
  • The converged fast path (done == 1) is untouched.

Validation

  • Exactness: 353/353 real-capture cells + 135/135 adversarial cells now exact (4 and 54 inexact before).
  • Perf (B200, cold-L2, real DSv4 captures, fixed/unfixed): geomean 0.972, worst 1.30× only on the bucket containing the previously-wrong row.

Test Coverage

test_indexer_topk.py: test_indexer_topk_decode_gvr_hostile_hint (bottom-k / uniform-max / random × K × N × dtype) and test_indexer_topk_decode_gvr_tie_plateau (n_tie × dtype); the exactness helper asserts no -1 slots and K distinct indices.

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  • Repairs GVR threshold refinement for undershoot thresholds, degenerate hint brackets, and oversized tie plateaus.
  • Applies bounded uint32-key bisection and tie handling to fp32, bf16, and fp16 paths.
  • Preserves the converged fast path.
  • Adds MAX_REPAIR_ITERS, gvrOrderKey, and gvrOrderKeyToFloat.
  • No configuration or test-list changes are present.
  • Reported validation passes 353 real-capture cells, 135 adversarial cells, and 27 tie-plateau cells.
  • Reported benchmark performance is 0.972 fixed/unfixed geometric mean.

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  • Added test_indexer_topk_decode_gvr_hostile_hint.
  • Added test_indexer_topk_decode_gvr_tie_plateau.
  • Parameterized coverage across K values, token counts, hints, fp32, bf16, and fp16.
  • Tests initialize -1 sentinels, verify populated and distinct indices, and compare values with torch.topk.
  • No corresponding entries in tests/integration/test_lists/ were found.
  • Verdict: needs follow-up to confirm CI or manual-QA test-list coverage.

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The GVR heuristic top-K kernel now repairs degenerate hints, candidate overflow, and undershoot across fp32, bf16, and fp16 paths. Tests validate populated, distinct outputs against exact torch.topk results and tie plateaus.

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GVR top-K repair

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ordered-key repair primitives
cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh
Adds ordered float/uint32 conversions and a 40-iteration Phase-3 repair budget.
fp32 bracket and repair flow
cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh
Resets degenerate hints, repairs overflow and undershoot, and emits values and ties after bracket collapse.
bf16/fp16 repair flow
cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh
Applies the repair logic to low-precision inputs, including deferred dtype conversion and sentinel padding.
GVR exactness regression coverage
tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_indexer_topk.py
Validates populated, distinct outputs and tie plateaus across fp32, bf16, and fp16.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 30378

The kernel can still return -1 sentinel indices instead of a valid top-K for rows containing only -inf logits. This is a concrete correctness failure in the current head, so the PR is not merge-ready until the repair endpoints and regression coverage are fixed.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant IndexerTopKTest
  participant GVRDecode
  participant HeuristicTopK
  participant TorchTopK
  IndexerTopKTest->>GVRDecode: submit inputs and heuristic hints
  GVRDecode->>HeuristicTopK: decode candidate bracket
  HeuristicTopK->>HeuristicTopK: repair threshold and emit selected values
  GVRDecode->>TorchTopK: compute reference top-K
  IndexerTopKTest->>IndexerTopKTest: compare decoded values and indices
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cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh (2)

429-448: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider hoisting a single ordered-key bijection.

gvrOrderKey and gvrOrderKeyToFloat duplicate floatToOrderedUint and orderedUintToFloat at lines 376-385. The only difference is the __CUDA_ARCH__ >= 800 guard around the originals. You can define the pair once above the guard and let warpReduceMin and warpReduceMax call it. The emitted bit operations stay the same, so the SASS-sensitive fp32 K=2048 path is unaffected. Verify the byte-identity claim in CI if you apply this.

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In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh` around lines 429 - 448, Hoist
the ordered float/uint32 conversion pair into a single definition before the
__CUDA_ARCH__ >= 800 guard, then update warpReduceMin and warpReduceMax to reuse
those helpers instead of the duplicate gvrOrderKey and gvrOrderKeyToFloat
definitions. Preserve the existing bit operations and verify the fp32 K=2048
generated bytes remain identical in CI.

1527-1546: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The bisection uses fp32 keys on bf16/fp16 data, so the collapse test needs the full iteration budget.

gvrOrderKey maps to the fp32 key space. The input elements are bf16 or fp16. Many fp32 keys lie between two adjacent representable input values, so blockCountGEDtype returns the same count for all of them. The loop keeps halving the fp32 gap and issues a full-N counting pass per iteration, even though the count stopped changing much earlier. On the tie-plateau rows that this PR targets, the loop runs close to MAX_REPAIR_ITERS before khi <= klo + 1u becomes true.

Consider adding an early exit when the bracket is already tight in the input dtype, for example by comparing Trait::from_fp32(val_lo) with Trait::from_fp32(val_hi). That reduces the worst-case repair from about 32 full-N passes to about 16 for fp16 and about 8 for bf16.

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In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh` around lines 1527 - 1546, Update
the repair loop’s collapse check in the heuristic top-k bisection to compare
val_lo and val_hi after conversion to the input dtype via Trait::from_fp32,
while retaining the existing fp32-key adjacency check. Exit when the converted
bounds are equal or otherwise represent an already-tight input-dtype bracket, so
bf16/fp16 inputs avoid unnecessary full-N counting passes while preserving the
existing threshold and count-update flow.
tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_indexer_topk.py (1)

2377-2383: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use keyword arguments for optional tensors. The current order is correct, but keywords prevent breakage if the schema changes.

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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_indexer_topk.py` around lines 2377 -
2383, Update the indexer_topk_decode invocation in _gvr_decode_exact_check to
pass optional tensor arguments using their parameter names rather than
positional ordering, while preserving the current argument mapping and behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh`:
- Around line 691-710: Prevent the degenerate-hint reset from feeding an
infinite range into Phase 2: in the float path around lines 691-710 and the
bf16/fp16 path around lines 1379-1397 of
cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh, update the corresponding secant
logic to fall back to a gvrOrderKey midpoint whenever vhi - vlo is non-finite,
or bypass Phase 2 and enter ordered-key bisection directly. Apply the same guard
to both secant implementations so threshold refinement progresses without
relying solely on Phase 3 repair.

In `@tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_indexer_topk.py`:
- Around line 2384-2407: Initialize the `indices` tensor in the indexer_topk
test with a negative sentinel instead of `torch.empty`, then add an assertion
that `indices[0]` contains `index_topk` unique values before comparing selected
logits. Keep the existing negative-sentinel check and value comparison
unchanged.
- Around line 2436-2454: Parameterize test_indexer_topk_decode_gvr_tie_plateau
over fp32, bf16, and fp16, converting logits to the selected dtype before
execution. Replace torch.linspace with exactly representable power-of-two-based
values so strictly-greater entries remain distinct in every dtype, and keep the
tie plateau exactly representable; preserve the existing hostile tie sizes and
exact top-K validation so the bf16/fp16 collapsed-bracket direct-emit path is
exercised.
- Around line 2410-2454: The helper _gvr_decode_exact_check currently validates
selected values without ensuring indices are distinct. Update this helper to
explicitly assert that the returned top-K indices are unique, while preserving
its existing value comparison and coverage for tied logits and all dtypes.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh`:
- Around line 429-448: Hoist the ordered float/uint32 conversion pair into a
single definition before the __CUDA_ARCH__ >= 800 guard, then update
warpReduceMin and warpReduceMax to reuse those helpers instead of the duplicate
gvrOrderKey and gvrOrderKeyToFloat definitions. Preserve the existing bit
operations and verify the fp32 K=2048 generated bytes remain identical in CI.
- Around line 1527-1546: Update the repair loop’s collapse check in the
heuristic top-k bisection to compare val_lo and val_hi after conversion to the
input dtype via Trait::from_fp32, while retaining the existing fp32-key
adjacency check. Exit when the converted bounds are equal or otherwise represent
an already-tight input-dtype bracket, so bf16/fp16 inputs avoid unnecessary
full-N counting passes while preserving the existing threshold and count-update
flow.

In `@tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_indexer_topk.py`:
- Around line 2377-2383: Update the indexer_topk_decode invocation in
_gvr_decode_exact_check to pass optional tensor arguments using their parameter
names rather than positional ordering, while preserving the current argument
mapping and behavior.
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Production can hand the kernel degenerate hint buffers: dsa.py
initializes heuristic_prev_topk with zero_() (all-zero cold start; the
prefill->decode seeding covers the common path but zero-init corners
remain), and nothing forbids duplicated hints. Exactness must never
depend on hint quality (hint-robustness bug class of PR NVIDIA#17550).

Adds all-zero / all-same / all-max / half-duplicated hint cases on
(k512, n8192) and the k2048 gate-edge n131075 — all verified exact on
B200 (also probed on n131072/k1024 x bs{1,4} pre-commit, 24 configs,
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Pushed b90f1e3 addressing the automated-review findings:

  • Degenerate-hint reset no longer re-enters the secant (done = 2): the secant interpolates on the linear float scale, so over the reset's (-FLT_MAX, FLT_MAX) bracket it could not converge within MAX_REFINE_ITERS and burned 15 full-N counting passes before the Phase-3 repair fixed the row anyway. The single seed probe is kept (it can still promote to the done = 1 fast path); non-converging rows now go straight to the ordered-key bisection (<= 32 passes). Both drivers.
  • Tie-plateau test parameterized over fp32/bf16/fp16 — the reduced-precision driver's direct-emit block now has coverage. Plateau (1.0) and floor (-1.0) are exact in all three dtypes.
  • Exactness helper hardened: outputIndices initialized to a -1 sentinel instead of torch.empty, and a distinct-indices assertion added (a duplicate+omission pair on a tie plateau would leave the sorted value multiset unchanged).

Re-validated on B200 against the exact repo kernel: 135/135 adversarial + 353/353 real-capture cells exact; 27/27 tie-plateau cells across the three dtypes return K distinct indices.

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841-850: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Handle -inf logits before using finite bracket anchors.

blockCountGE(..., -FLT_MAX) excludes every -inf value. The dispatcher accepts fp32, bf16, and fp16 tensors without a finite-value check. Therefore, a row with kK masked -inf logits violates count(val_lo) >= kK.

The fallback then collects no candidates and writes -1 indices. torch.topk can return valid, distinct indices for the same row.

Define and enforce a non-finite-logit contract, or extend the repair and direct-emission paths to handle -inf. Add fp32, bf16, and fp16 regression cases with -inf tie plateaus.

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In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh` around lines 841 - 850, Update
the heuristic top-k implementation around blockCountGE and its dispatcher to
handle rows containing -inf logits correctly, rather than relying on finite
float-extreme bracket anchors. Either enforce and validate a non-finite-logit
contract for fp32, bf16, and fp16 inputs, or extend the fallback/repair and
direct-emission paths to count and emit -inf ties with valid distinct indices;
add regression coverage for -inf tie plateaus in all three dtypes.
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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_indexer_topk.py`:
- Around line 2451-2459: Update test_indexer_topk_decode_gvr_tie_plateau to add
type annotations for index_topk, n_tie, and dtype, and annotate its return type
as None.

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In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh`:
- Around line 841-850: Update the heuristic top-k implementation around
blockCountGE and its dispatcher to handle rows containing -inf logits correctly,
rather than relying on finite float-extreme bracket anchors. Either enforce and
validate a non-finite-logit contract for fp32, bf16, and fp16 inputs, or extend
the fallback/repair and direct-emission paths to count and emit -inf ties with
valid distinct indices; add regression coverage for -inf tie plateaus in all
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Sister PR for the CuTe DSL GVR kernel: #18094 — same defect family (silently wrong top-K on a non-converged threshold search), CuTe DSL in-tree kernel counterpart (degenerate-hint identity emit + a fail-soft that stamps done=1 on an undershooting threshold). Kept separate per one-concern-per-PR; the test shapes mirror this PR's.

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CuTe DSL counterpart of NVIDIA#17550 (same defect family in the CUDA GVR
kernel). Two terminal states of the in-tree kernel's threshold search
returned a silently wrong per-row top-K:

1. Degenerate hint (every gathered value identical, or none in range):
   Phase 1 built an empty bracket and the kernel emitted identity output,
   outputIndices[i] = i - the head of the row, not a top-K. Reachable
   from an all-uniform prev_topk slot (e.g. zero-initialized and never
   seeded).

2. The R0-miss retry's fail-soft stamped done = 1 on an UNDERSHOOTING
   threshold when the log-falsi budget ran out with the plateau-collapse
   guard disarmed, shipping count(>= thr) valid entries plus a -1 tail
   and bypassing every Phase-3 repair; the Phase-3 retry-shrink itself
   only guarded the overflow side. Caught live in a V3.2 e2e run
   (TEP8, MTP=3, random-token prompts, tiers disabled): 96/96 flagged
   rows were the MTP draft layer emitting 2044-2046 of 2048 slots at -1.
   Mechanism: the draft layer's ReLU'd indexer logits on low-locality
   prompts hold a handful of positives plus an exact-0.0 plateau wider
   than kC, so no threshold admits a count in [K, kC], and the sparse
   attention consumer then attends a handful of positions instead of K.

Fix:
- The degenerate-hint branch resets to a small synthetic bracket and
  falls through (identity emit removed); the hint may only ever affect
  speed, never the answer. cnt_hi is seeded with top_k so Phase 2's
  budget-collapse guard cannot fire on the unmeasured synthetic bracket.
- Phase 3 replaces the overflow-only retry-shrink with a two-sided
  repair: anchor the untested bracket end at a float extreme
  (count(-FLT_MAX) = #finite >= K, count(FLT_MAX) = 0), bisect on the
  signed order-key image (provable collapse to adjacent floats in <= 32
  steps), fall back to val_lo on a collapsed undershoot, and hand a
  collapsed tie plateau to the existing done = 3 terminal so Phase 4's
  plateau fill completes the row from the tie class.
- The fail-soft keeps the honest non-converged state (done = 2), routing
  the row into the repair above.

The converged fast path (done == 1) is untouched: only rows that
previously returned a wrong answer take any new code.

Validation (B200, kernel-level, this branch): real DSv4 decode captures
(the NVIDIA#17550 known-bad rows, hint hit-rate 0.02-0.12) 9/9; hostile hints
(bottom-k / uniform / random x K x N) 36/36; MTP battery (next_n 1-4 x
(K, cr) x hint x batch, per-row N_eff reference) 144/144; ReLU-sparse
plateau (the e2e trigger) 6/6 - all tie-aware exact vs torch.topk
(previously 2045/2048 -1 slots at n_pos = 3).

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CuTe DSL counterpart of NVIDIA#17550 (same defect family in the CUDA GVR
kernel). Two terminal states of the in-tree kernel's threshold search
returned a silently wrong per-row top-K:

1. Degenerate hint (every gathered value identical, or none in range):
   Phase 1 built an empty bracket and the kernel emitted identity output,
   outputIndices[i] = i - the head of the row, not a top-K. Reachable
   from an all-uniform prev_topk slot (e.g. zero-initialized and never
   seeded).

2. The R0-miss retry's fail-soft stamped done = 1 on an UNDERSHOOTING
   threshold when the log-falsi budget ran out with the plateau-collapse
   guard disarmed, shipping count(>= thr) valid entries plus a -1 tail
   and bypassing every Phase-3 repair; the Phase-3 retry-shrink itself
   only guarded the overflow side. Caught live in a V3.2 e2e run
   (TEP8, MTP=3, random-token prompts, tiers disabled): 96/96 flagged
   rows were the MTP draft layer emitting 2044-2046 of 2048 slots at -1.
   Mechanism: the draft layer's ReLU'd indexer logits on low-locality
   prompts hold a handful of positives plus an exact-0.0 plateau wider
   than kC, so no threshold admits a count in [K, kC], and the sparse
   attention consumer then attends a handful of positions instead of K.

Fix:
- The degenerate-hint branch resets to a small synthetic bracket and
  falls through (identity emit removed); the hint may only ever affect
  speed, never the answer. cnt_hi is seeded with top_k so Phase 2's
  budget-collapse guard cannot fire on the unmeasured synthetic bracket.
- Phase 3 replaces the overflow-only retry-shrink with a two-sided
  repair: anchor the untested bracket end at a float extreme
  (count(-FLT_MAX) = #finite >= K, count(FLT_MAX) = 0), bisect on the
  signed order-key image (provable collapse to adjacent floats in <= 32
  steps), fall back to val_lo on a collapsed undershoot, and hand a
  collapsed tie plateau to the existing done = 3 terminal so Phase 4's
  plateau fill completes the row from the tie class.
- The fail-soft keeps the honest non-converged state (done = 2), routing
  the row into the repair above.

The converged fast path (done == 1) is untouched: only rows that
previously returned a wrong answer take any new code.

Validation (B200, kernel-level, this branch): real DSv4 decode captures
(the NVIDIA#17550 known-bad rows, hint hit-rate 0.02-0.12) 9/9; hostile hints
(bottom-k / uniform / random x K x N) 36/36; MTP battery (next_n 1-4 x
(K, cr) x hint x batch, per-row N_eff reference) 144/144; ReLU-sparse
plateau (the e2e trigger) 6/6 - all tie-aware exact vs torch.topk
(previously 2045/2048 -1 slots at n_pos = 3).

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The single-GPU failures in this run were a CI-wide incident, not PR code: every stage died at Test collection failed ... Cannot proceed without valid test list before any pytest ran, and L0_MergeRequest_PR builds 55909/55911/55913-55917/55920 (unrelated PRs, triggers ~14:00-15:40 UTC) all failed the same [Test-x86_64-Single-GPU] stage identically. Builds triggered after 16:13 no longer show the pattern. Re-triggering. (This PR's two runs both fell inside the incident window; the 08-12 run on the parent commit was green on these stages.)

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The heuristic (GVR) decode path picks a value threshold whose candidate count
lands in [K, kC] and then selects the top-K from those candidates. Three input
shapes defeated that search and produced a silently WRONG top-K — no error, no
diagnostic, just wrong indices:

1. Undershoot. The Phase-2 secant is capped at 15 iterations; on non-
   convergence the `done = 2` fallback can pick `val_hi` outright, and the
   Phase-3 retry loop only ever triggered on the overflow side
   (`cand_count > kCC`). A threshold admitting fewer than K candidates went
   straight through: the collect emitted what it had and the Phase-4 tail
   padded the rest with index -1.

2. Degenerate hint. When every hinted value is identical, Phase 1 builds an
   empty bracket and the kernel returned `outputIndices[i] = i` — the head of
   the row, not a top-K at all.

3. Tie plateau. When more than kC elements share the K-th value, NO threshold
   yields a count in [K, kC]. The collect clamps at kC and dropped
   strictly-greater entries.

All three are hint-quality driven and need no unusual logits, so they are
reachable in production whenever a layer's temporal locality breaks down. On
the shipped op (1.3.0rc21) an anti-correlated hint at N=65536, K=512 returns
512 of 512 wrong indices. Production DSv4 decode captures hit it unaided:
V4-Flash K=512 N=131075 layers 22/24 (283 / 87 slots left at -1, hit-rate
0.023 / 0.057) and V4-Pro K=1024 N=262127 layer 40 (550 slots, hit-rate
0.122). N=131075 is inside the shipped GVR routing window, so this is a live
defect, not a latent one.

Fix, in both the fp32 and the bf16/fp16 job:

* Phase 1's degenerate-bracket branch no longer emits row[0:K]; it resets to
  the widest trusted bracket and falls through. The hint may only affect
  speed, never the answer.
* Phase 3 repairs BOTH sides. Entry anchors the untested bracket end at a
  float extreme (count(-FLT_MAX) = #finite >= K, count(FLT_MAX) = 0 < K),
  because Phase 1 seeds val_lo/val_hi from hinted min/max with invented
  counts (M + M/4, 1) that can leave both ends on the same side of the K-th
  value. The loop then bisects on the order-preserving uint32 image of the
  key space, so the bracket provably collapses to adjacent representable
  values in <= 32 steps instead of relying on a float average.
* On collapse with more than kC elements at the threshold, emit directly:
  everything strictly above (fewer than K by construction) plus arbitrary
  ties, which is a valid top-K. Guarded on the collapse test so it can never
  run on a non-collapsed bracket.

The converged fast path (`done == 1`) is untouched — only rows whose secant
failed enter any of this.

Measured on B200, cold-L2, real DSv4 decode captures (both models x 5 ISL
rungs x 90 rows, fp32): geomean 0.972 vs the unfixed kernel, i.e. neutral to
slightly faster, with one outlier at 1.30x — V4-Pro ISL=1M, the bucket that
contains the non-converging layer 40, which now pays the bisection instead of
returning a wrong answer. Exactness: 353/353 real-capture cells and 0/135
adversarial cells inexact, against 4 and 54 before.

Tests: hostile-hint (bottom-K / uniform-argmax / random) x K x N and
tie-plateau regressions; both classes fail on the pre-fix kernel.

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Root cause of the three identical single-GPU failures found (correcting my earlier 'CI-wide incident' note): every stage rendered an EMPTY test list — trt-test-db matched nothing because the runners' sysinfo probe returned linux_distribution_name="na" (the images lack the distro module), and every l0 block requires linux_distribution_name: ubuntu*. Main fixed exactly this on 08-20 in #17993 (4bb38b2, 'Keep sysinfo distro probe working without the distro module; fail empty test-list renders loudly'); this branch's 08-12 base predates it, so the run inherited the broken probe regardless of agent. Rebased onto today's main (f51e323) — new head f08e919, diff verified byte-identical to b90f1e3. Locally re-verified: rendering l0_gb202 with the failing run's exact na context reproduces 0 tests, and with a healthy ubuntu context renders normally.

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Build 55941 finished with 49350 passed / 0 test failures; the FAILURE is two stage-level infra deaths only: B300-PyTorch-1 (agent exit 255) and RTXPro6000D-PyTorch-1 (pod killed mid-run — that pool churned pod creation for ~4h overnight). Re-triggering; stage reuse should redo only those two shards.

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…t reset; harden the repair tests

Review follow-up (three of the four automated-review findings; the fourth,
a CI test-list registration note, needs no change since the file's suite is
already in the l0 lists):

* Degenerate-hint reset now sets done = 2 instead of re-entering the secant.
  The secant interpolates on the LINEAR float scale, so across the reset's
  (-FLT_MAX, FLT_MAX) trusted bracket it cannot converge within
  MAX_REFINE_ITERS and burned 15 full-N counting passes before the Phase-3
  repair fixed the row anyway. Phase 2's single seed probe is kept (it can
  still promote to the done = 1 fast path); a non-converging row now goes
  straight to the ordered-key bisection, which collapses in <= 32 passes.
  Both drivers. No behavior change for rows with a usable hint bracket.

* Tie-plateau test parameterized over fp32/bf16/fp16: the reduced-precision
  driver has its own collapsed-bracket direct-emit block, which previously
  had no test coverage. The plateau (1.0) and floor (-1.0) are exact in all
  three dtypes; casting may merge strictly-greater values with each other,
  which the top-K contract tolerates.

* The exactness helper now allocates outputIndices with a -1 sentinel
  (unwritten slots must trip the assertions, not inherit torch.empty
  garbage) and asserts index distinctness: the repair paths emit through an
  atomic counter, and a duplicated index paired with an omitted one on a
  tie plateau would leave the sorted value multiset unchanged.

Validation (B200, standalone build of the exact repo kernel): 135/135
adversarial cells and 353/353 real-capture cells (both models x 5 ISL rungs
x all layers, plus a 98-cell hint-degradation grid on a real 1M row) exact;
27/27 tie-plateau cells across the three dtypes return K distinct indices.

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Pushed 303781b — comment/docstring slimming only (review feedback: keep code comments to one or two sentences); no functional change, diff vs f08e919 is comments/docstrings only.

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CuTe DSL counterpart of NVIDIA#17550 (same defect family in the CUDA GVR
kernel). Two terminal states of the in-tree kernel's threshold search
returned a silently wrong per-row top-K:

1. Degenerate hint (every gathered value identical, or none in range):
   Phase 1 built an empty bracket and the kernel emitted identity output,
   outputIndices[i] = i - the head of the row, not a top-K. Reachable
   from an all-uniform prev_topk slot (e.g. zero-initialized and never
   seeded).

2. The R0-miss retry's fail-soft stamped done = 1 on an UNDERSHOOTING
   threshold when the log-falsi budget ran out with the plateau-collapse
   guard disarmed, shipping count(>= thr) valid entries plus a -1 tail
   and bypassing every Phase-3 repair; the Phase-3 retry-shrink itself
   only guarded the overflow side. Caught live in a V3.2 e2e run
   (TEP8, MTP=3, random-token prompts, tiers disabled): 96/96 flagged
   rows were the MTP draft layer emitting 2044-2046 of 2048 slots at -1.
   Mechanism: the draft layer's ReLU'd indexer logits on low-locality
   prompts hold a handful of positives plus an exact-0.0 plateau wider
   than kC, so no threshold admits a count in [K, kC], and the sparse
   attention consumer then attends a handful of positions instead of K.

Fix:
- The degenerate-hint branch resets to a small synthetic bracket and
  falls through (identity emit removed); the hint may only ever affect
  speed, never the answer. cnt_hi is seeded with top_k so Phase 2's
  budget-collapse guard cannot fire on the unmeasured synthetic bracket.
- Phase 3 replaces the overflow-only retry-shrink with a two-sided
  repair: anchor the untested bracket end at a float extreme
  (count(-FLT_MAX) = #finite >= K, count(FLT_MAX) = 0), bisect on the
  signed order-key image (provable collapse to adjacent floats in <= 32
  steps), fall back to val_lo on a collapsed undershoot, and hand a
  collapsed tie plateau to the existing done = 3 terminal so Phase 4's
  plateau fill completes the row from the tie class.
- The fail-soft keeps the honest non-converged state (done = 2), routing
  the row into the repair above.

The converged fast path (done == 1) is untouched: only rows that
previously returned a wrong answer take any new code.

Validation (B200, kernel-level, this branch): real DSv4 decode captures
(the NVIDIA#17550 known-bad rows, hint hit-rate 0.02-0.12) 9/9; hostile hints
(bottom-k / uniform / random x K x N) 36/36; MTP battery (next_n 1-4 x
(K, cr) x hint x batch, per-row N_eff reference) 144/144; ReLU-sparse
plateau (the e2e trigger) 6/6 - all tie-aware exact vs torch.topk
(previously 2045/2048 -1 slots at n_pos = 3).

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Modified coverage includes _gvr_decode_exact_check and test_indexer_topk_decode_gvr_tie_plateau. The helper also strengthens the existing hostile-hint test through its shared call site.

The tie-plateau test covers 27 fp32/bf16/fp16 configurations. It does not cover active -inf logits after a failed hint. Add that regression, then run pytest tests/unittest/.

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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_indexer_topk.py` around lines 2362 -
2399, Add a regression case to the GVR indexer top-k tests covering active -inf
logits after a failed hint, using _gvr_decode_exact_check and preserving the
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Use IEEE-infinity repair endpoints.

-FLT_MAX excludes valid -inf values. An all--inf row can therefore reach the fallback with zero candidates and receive -1 indices instead of valid entries. Use -CUDART_INF_F and CUDART_INF_F in both gvrTopKJob and gvrTopKJobDtype. Add an all--inf hostile-hint regression for float32, float16, and bfloat16.

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In `@cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/heuristic_topk.cuh` around lines 811 - 827, Replace
the repair endpoints in both gvrTopKJob and gvrTopKJobDtype with -CUDART_INF_F
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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_indexer_topk.py`:
- Around line 2362-2399: Add a regression case to the GVR indexer top-k tests
covering active -inf logits after a failed hint, using _gvr_decode_exact_check
and preserving the expected tie-aware top-K assertions; include the case in the
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