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Summary

  • Added benchmark script for profiling training loop performance
  • Found that mode="reduce-overhead" in torch.compile gives 4.9x speedup
  • Applied optimization to main training loop

Benchmark Results

Mode ms/batch Speedup
none (no compile) 132.95 1.0x
default 98.29 1.4x
default+compiled_backward 92.09 1.4x
reduce-overhead 28.41 4.7x
reduce-overhead+fused 27.25 4.9x
max-autotune 26.21 5.1x

Key Findings

  1. reduce-overhead mode is the big win - Uses CUDA graphs to minimize kernel launch overhead
  2. Fused Adam provides marginal additional gain (~2%)
  3. Compiled backward (autograd) helps ~6% with default mode, but no benefit with reduce-overhead
  4. AMP (mixed precision) has compilation bugs with reduce-overhead mode
  5. max-autotune is slightly faster but has long compilation time

Expected Impact

Original epoch 3 timing: 195.40s
Expected new timing: ~40s (4.9x faster)

vijk777 and others added 3 commits January 22, 2026 07:12
benchmark script for profiling training loop performance.
found reduce-overhead compile mode gives 4.9x speedup.

results:
- none: 132.95ms/batch
- default: 98.29ms/batch
- reduce-overhead+fused+bwd: 27.11ms/batch

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
benchmarking showed reduce-overhead mode gives significant speedup
by using CUDA graphs to minimize kernel launch overhead.

before: ~98ms/batch (default compile)
after:  ~27ms/batch (reduce-overhead)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@vijk777 vijk777 merged commit 5d2e202 into main Jan 22, 2026
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@vijk777 vijk777 deleted the vj/perf branch January 22, 2026 15:26
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