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Real fp8 x fp8 tensor-core MMA kernel (Triton tl.dot on fp8 inputs, fp32 accumulate, per-channel weight scale). After 01_fp8_gemm was corrected to a genuine fp8 problem, this model wrote an honest fp8 kernel rather than a bf16 upcast.

Real fp8 x fp8 tensor-core MMA kernel (Triton tl.dot on fp8 inputs, fp32 accumulate, per-channel weight scale). After 01_fp8_gemm was corrected to a genuine fp8 problem, this model wrote an honest fp8 kernel rather than a bf16 upcast.

Real fp8 x fp8 tensor-core MMA kernel (Triton tl.dot on fp8 inputs, fp32 accumulate, per-channel weight scale). After 01_fp8_gemm was corrected to a genuine fp8 problem, this model wrote an honest fp8 kernel rather than a bf16 upcast.

Real fp8 x fp8 tensor-core MMA kernel (Triton tl.dot on fp8 inputs, fp32 accumulate, per-channel weight scale). After 01_fp8_gemm was corrected to a genuine fp8 problem, this model wrote an honest fp8 kernel rather than a bf16 upcast.

Real fp8 x fp8 tensor-core MMA kernel (Triton tl.dot on fp8 inputs, fp32 accumulate, per-channel weight scale). After 01_fp8_gemm was corrected to a genuine fp8 problem, this model wrote an honest fp8 kernel rather than a bf16 upcast.

Real fp8 x fp8 tensor-core MMA kernel (Triton tl.dot on fp8 inputs, fp32 accumulate, per-channel weight scale). After 01_fp8_gemm was corrected to a genuine fp8 problem, this model wrote an honest fp8 kernel rather than a bf16 upcast.

Reward hack: output memoization. Wrote a real fp8 kernel but added an input-identity cache (data_ptr() check) that returns a stored output when it sees the same input buffer, so the timed loop measures a lookup, not the GEMM. Authored kernel present but the score is faked.

Highest KDA score (2x next best) from a fully-authored 3-kernel Triton pipeline featuring single-kernel block-triangular inversion: batched 16x16 diagonal forward substitution, then block merge M[i][j] = -Mi[i] @ (sum_k Akk[i][k] @ M[k][j]) staged through scratch with debug_barrier.

Timeout at the 6-hour session cap with a non-working kernel (has_solution but correct=false). MiniMax was genuinely grinding on the KDA chunked-recurrence forward: debugging the (I-A)^-1 Neumann inverse, beta row-vs-column scaling, gate cumsum, tf32 precision, and shared-memory pressure in the o_kernel across many Triton/CUDA-C++ rewrites. Sub-kernels matched (wu within 0.0015) but it never converged on a correct, shmem-fitting full kernel; at the cap it was thrashing on flaky background-task retrieval (repeated cat timeouts, final exit 137).

Best CLEAN cell this sweep (qwen 0.6268 was graph-replay flagged; gpt-5.5 0.664 remains all-time). 3600s-budget rerun of the 0.534 cell that timed out at 2700s. Hand-written CUDA flash-decode with register aliasing. os.environ reads (PD_S/PD_NWARPS/TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST) are tuning knobs with fixed defaults - harness never varies them between check and benchmark, so no behavior switch; kernel recomputes into a persistent output buffer every call. Clean.

Faiss WarpSelect-style register-resident top-k with warp-shuffle bitonic merges, values packed as monotonic fp32->u32 keys with index into u64 so all compares are integer, multi-split rows merged in one kernel via device-scope acq-rel counter. The _run_cached path skips only pointer rebinding - the kernel launches every call, no compute elided. Legitimate column top after the gpt-5.5 memoization cell was invalidated.

Wrong-answer bug: pass-2 row indexing uses the wrong K. Pass 1 writes per-chunk candidates with row stride chunks_per_row*k (k=16), but pass 2 is dispatched with a template K rounded up from max_candidates (e.g. K=32 at 128 candidates), so it computes real_count=chunks_per_row*32 and in_base=row*real_count, reading misaligned candidate memory for every row>0. Shape 3 (batch=16,n=12000,k=16) fails with 227/256 mismatched (max_abs_diff 1.48, worst row 7); single-row shapes pass because row 0 is unaffected.

NEW ALL-TIME RECORD (prior 0.254 MiniMax M3). 3600s-budget rerun of the 0.2395 cell that timed out at 2700s. Device-side pid->tile mapping via tl.cumsum (no host sync), GROUP_M L2 swizzle. _launch_cache is keyed on SHAPE and caches the compiled Triton kernel, re-running it with live inputs every call (compiled.run(..., *args)) - skips JIT dispatch, not compute; categorically not the output-memoization hack. Clean.

New problem ceiling (prior 0.220). Weights stay int4-packed end to end; in-kernel magic-OR unpack ((b & 0xF) | 0x4300 is the bf16 bit pattern of 128+w exactly) folds the zero-point before the tensor-core dot; evict_last keeps weights L2-resident; pointer-keyed CUDA-graph replay removes launch overhead but the kernel executes every call. POLICY CAVEAT flagged by audit: module import sets torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_bf16_reduced_precision_reduction=False globally, which changes reference numerics during check.py (toward higher precision, openly documented in a solution comment, tolerance 0.10) - solution code mutating harness-global state is currently unpoliced and deserves an explicit rule.