⚡️ Speed up function apply_rope by 25%

[codeflash-ai]

📄 25% (0.25x) speedup for apply_rope in invokeai/backend/flux/math.py

⏱️ Runtime : 406 microseconds → 324 microseconds (best of 5 runs)

📝 Explanation and details

The optimization achieves a 25% speedup by leveraging PyTorch's kernel fusion capabilities and improving memory access patterns.

Key Changes:

• Fused operations: Replaced separate indexing and arithmetic (freqs_cis[..., 0] * xq_[..., 0] + freqs_cis[..., 1] * xq_[..., 1]) with chained operations (xq_.mul(freqs_cis).sum(dim=-1))
• Simplified tensor operations: Used .reshape() instead of .view() for better robustness with non-contiguous tensors

Why it's faster:
The original code performs multiple tensor indexing operations (freqs_cis[..., 0], xq_[..., 0], etc.) followed by separate multiplication and addition. The optimized version uses .mul() followed by .sum(dim=-1), which allows PyTorch to:

1. Fuse kernels - combine multiplication and summation into fewer GPU/CPU operations
2. Improve memory locality - reduce intermediate tensor creation and memory transfers
3. Optimize broadcasting - handle the element-wise operations more efficiently

Performance characteristics:
The optimization shows consistent 24-36% improvements across different test cases, with particularly strong gains on:

• Batch operations (33% faster on test_apply_rope_basic_batch)
• Even-dimensional tensors (36% faster on test_apply_rope_basic_even_last_dim)
• Different data types (32% faster on float64 tensors)

This is a mathematical transformation optimization that maintains identical numerical results while reducing computational overhead, making it especially valuable for ML workloads where apply_rope (Rotary Position Embedding) is frequently called during attention computations.

✅ Correctness verification report:

Test	Status
⚙️ Existing Unit Tests	🔘 None Found
🌀 Generated Regression Tests	✅ 6 Passed
⏪ Replay Tests	🔘 None Found
🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests	🔘 None Found
📊 Tests Coverage	100.0%

🌀 Generated Regression Tests and Runtime

import pytest  # used for our unit tests
import torch
from invokeai.backend.flux.math import apply_rope
# function to test
from torch import Tensor

# unit tests

# ----------- BASIC TEST CASES -----------


def test_apply_rope_basic_2d():
    # Basic test: 2D input, shape (2, 2)
    xq = torch.tensor([[1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0]])
    xk = torch.tensor([[5.0, 6.0], [7.0, 8.0]])
    freqs_cis = torch.tensor([[[0.1, 0.9]], [[0.2, 0.8]]])
    out_q, out_k = apply_rope(xq, xk, freqs_cis) # 76.7μs -> 60.6μs (26.5% faster)


def test_apply_rope_basic_batch():
    # Test with batch dimension
    xq = torch.tensor([[[1.0, 2.0]], [[3.0, 4.0]]])  # shape (2,1,2)
    xk = torch.tensor([[[5.0, 6.0]], [[7.0, 8.0]]])
    freqs_cis = torch.tensor([[[0.25, 0.75]], [[0.5, 0.5]]])  # shape (2,1,2)
    out_q, out_k = apply_rope(xq, xk, freqs_cis) # 76.8μs -> 61.8μs (24.2% faster)

# ----------- EDGE TEST CASES -----------


def test_apply_rope_incorrect_shape_raises():
    # Edge case: Incorrect shape should raise
    xq = torch.tensor([1.0, 2.0, 3.0])
    xk = torch.tensor([4.0, 5.0, 6.0])
    freqs_cis = torch.tensor([[0.5, 0.5]])
    # xq shape is not divisible by 2 in last dim
    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
        apply_rope(xq, xk, freqs_cis) # 49.9μs -> 50.2μs (0.474% slower)






#------------------------------------------------
import pytest  # used for our unit tests
import torch  # required for torch.Tensor
from invokeai.backend.flux.math import apply_rope
# function to test
from torch import Tensor

# --------------------
# Basic Test Cases
# --------------------


def test_apply_rope_basic_batch():
    # Batch input, shape [2, 4]
    xq = torch.arange(8, dtype=torch.float32).view(2, 4)
    xk = torch.arange(8, 16, dtype=torch.float32).view(2, 4)
    # freqs_cis shape [2, 2], last dim is 2
    freqs_cis = torch.tensor([[1.0, 0.0], [0.0, 1.0]])
    out_xq, out_xk = apply_rope(xq, xk, freqs_cis) # 70.8μs -> 53.2μs (33.1% faster)

def test_apply_rope_basic_even_last_dim():
    # Last dimension is even
    xq = torch.tensor([[1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0]])
    xk = torch.tensor([[5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0]])
    freqs_cis = torch.ones((1, 2, 2))
    out_xq, out_xk = apply_rope(xq, xk, freqs_cis) # 58.3μs -> 43.0μs (35.8% faster)

# --------------------
# Edge Test Cases
# --------------------





def test_apply_rope_dtype_preservation():
    # Test with float64
    xq = torch.ones((2, 4), dtype=torch.float64)
    xk = torch.ones((2, 4), dtype=torch.float64)
    freqs_cis = torch.ones((2, 2, 2), dtype=torch.float64)
    out_xq, out_xk = apply_rope(xq, xk, freqs_cis) # 73.2μs -> 55.6μs (31.5% faster)

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