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Metal GPU: layer-level batch + Q4 shader fix + threshold tuning
Worker A (perf-dev): Metal TQ Q4 matmul - Fixed nibble unpacking bug in matmul_tq_q4 shader (interleaved, not sequential) - Full dispatch implementation replacing stub - Threshold tuned: n >= 8192 for immediate mode (avoids 0.15ms per-dispatch overhead) - Batch mode dispatches at any size (overhead amortized) Worker B (core-dev): Forward pass batch mode - Batch scope moved to layer level (was inside individual projection blocks) - Added flush after wo and w_down projections (fixes latent correctness bug where GPU results weren't flushed before CPU consumption) - MoE shared expert also wrapped in layer batch scope Merge Gate: 34/34 tests pass, both CPU and Metal builds clean, 30.9 tok/s on SmolLM2 (no regression from batch restructuring). WBS v1.3 progress: [x] Phase 1: Core matmul GPU dispatch [x] Phase 2: Element-wise shaders (rmsnorm, silu, mul, add) [x] Batch mode restructured to layer level [ ] Phase 3: Full forward pass orchestrator (connect element-wise ops) [ ] Phase 4: Optimization (double buffering, fused attention) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -867,10 +867,11 @@ void tq_matmul_q4(float* out, const float* x, const uint8_t* w_qs, const float*
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extern int tq_metal_matmul_q4(float*, const float*, const uint8_t*, const float*, int, int);
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/* GPU: batch mode (batched independent matmuls), or immediate for
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* very large matmuls where GPU throughput overcomes per-dispatch
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* overhead (~0.1ms). For batch-1 inference on Apple Silicon unified
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* memory, matmul is bandwidth-bound — Metal helps most for large
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* output dimensions (classifier/logits) or when CPU is busy. */
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if (tq_metal_batch_active() || n >= 512) {
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* overhead (~0.15ms). For batch-1 inference on Apple Silicon unified
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* memory, matmul is bandwidth-bound — Metal helps most when the
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* output dimension is very large (e.g., classifier/logits). Smaller
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* matmuls (attention, FFN) are faster on CPU via NEON Q4xQ8 path. */
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if (tq_metal_batch_active() || n >= 8192) {
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int rc = tq_metal_matmul_q4(out, x, w_qs, w_scales, n, d);
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if (rc == 0) return;
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}

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