Python module

attention_with_rope

An opaque KV Cache optimized attention mechanism with Rope.

`AttentionWithRope`

class max.nn.attention.attention_with_rope.AttentionWithRope(*, rope, num_attention_heads, num_key_value_heads, hidden_size, kv_params, devices=None, dtype=float32, linear_cls=<class 'max.nn.linear.Linear'>, stacked_qkv=False, scale=None, has_bias=False, float8_config=None, clip_qkv=None)

Implementation of attention that uses the rope frequency.

Initializes the attention layer.

Parameters:

rope (RotaryEmbedding) – The rope layer to borrow the freqs_cis value from.
num_attention_heads (int) – The number of attention heads.
num_key_value_heads (int) – Number of key/value heads.
hidden_size (int) – The dimension of the hidden states.
kv_params (KVCacheParams) – KV Cache Params, including the number of kv heads, the head dim, and data type.
dtype (DType) – DType of the QKV and output projection weights.
devices (Sequence[DeviceRef] | None) – Device to place the weights and run the computation. If multiple are provided, the first device is used. Use DistributedAttentionWithRope to use all devices during attention computation.
linear_cls (Callable[..., Linear]) – Linear class to use for the outputs dense layer.
stacked_qkv (bool) – Whether the weights are stacked together.
scale (float | None) – Value used to scale the results of the attention output.
has_bias (bool) – Whether to use an attention bias.
clip_qkv (float | None) – If provided, the QKV weights are clamped between [-clip_qkv, clip_qkv]
float8_config (Float8Config | None)

`qkv_input_scale`

property qkv_input_scale: TensorValue | None

The max of q, k, and v scale input vectors.

`qkv_weight_scale`

property qkv_weight_scale: TensorValue

The max of q, k, and v scale weight vectors.

`rope`

rope: RotaryEmbedding

`wqkv`

property wqkv: TensorValue

The concatenation of q, k, and v weight vectors.

`wqkv_bias`

property wqkv_bias: TensorValue | None

The concatenation of q, k, and v bias weight vectors.

`AttentionWithRopeQKV`

class max.nn.attention.attention_with_rope.AttentionWithRopeQKV(n_heads: 'int', kv_params: 'KVCacheParams', wq: 'TensorValueLike', wk: 'TensorValueLike', wv: 'TensorValueLike', wo: 'LinearV1', scale: 'float', rope: 'RotaryEmbedding')

Parameters:

n_heads (int)
kv_params (KVCacheParams)
wq (Value[TensorType] | TensorValue | Shape | Dim | int | float | integer | floating | ndarray)
wk (Value[TensorType] | TensorValue | Shape | Dim | int | float | integer | floating | ndarray)
wv (Value[TensorType] | TensorValue | Shape | Dim | int | float | integer | floating | ndarray)
wo (LinearV1)
scale (float)
rope (RotaryEmbedding)

`rope`

rope: RotaryEmbedding

`AttentionWithRopeV1`

class max.nn.attention.attention_with_rope.AttentionWithRopeV1(n_heads, kv_params, wqkv, wo, scale, rope, bias=None, perm_idx=None, quantization_config=None)

Implementation of attention that uses the rope frequency.

Deprecated: Use AttentionWithRope instead.

Parameters:

n_heads (int)
kv_params (KVCacheParams)
wqkv (TensorValue)
wo (LinearV1)
scale (float)
rope (RotaryEmbedding)
bias (TensorValue | None)
perm_idx (TensorValue | None)
quantization_config (QuantizationConfig | None)

`bias`

bias: TensorValue | None = None

`perm_idx`

perm_idx: TensorValue | None = None

`quantization_config`

quantization_config: QuantizationConfig | None = None

`rope`

rope: RotaryEmbedding

`DistributedAttentionWithRope`

class max.nn.attention.attention_with_rope.DistributedAttentionWithRope(*, rope, num_attention_heads, num_key_value_heads, hidden_size, kv_params, devices=None, dtype=float32, linear_cls=<class 'max.nn.linear.Linear'>, stacked_qkv=False, scale=None, has_bias=False, float8_config=None, clip_qkv=None)

Initializes the distributed attention layer.

Parameters:

rope (RotaryEmbedding) – The rope layer to borrow the freqs_cis value from.
num_attention_heads (int) – The number of attention heads.
num_key_value_heads (int) – Number of key/value heads.
hidden_size (int) – The dimension of the hidden states.
kv_params (KVCacheParams) – KV Cache Params, including the number of kv heads, the head dim, and data type.
devices (Sequence[DeviceRef] | None) – Device to place the weights and run the computation. Must provide at least 2 devices for distributed attention.
dtype (DType) – DType of the QKV and output projection weights.
linear_cls (Callable[..., Linear]) – Linear class to use for the outputs dense layer.
stacked_qkv (bool) – Whether the weights are stacked together.
scale (float | None) – Value used to scale the results of the attention output.
has_bias (bool) – Whether to use an attention bias.
float8_config (Float8Config | None) – Float8 configuration for quantization.
clip_qkv (float | None) – If provided, the QKV weights are clamped between [-clip_qkv, clip_qkv].

`GGUFQAttentionWithRope`

class max.nn.attention.attention_with_rope.GGUFQAttentionWithRope(*, rope, num_attention_heads, num_key_value_heads, hidden_size, kv_params, dtype, quantization_encoding, devices=None, linear_cls=<class 'max.nn.linear.Linear'>, scale=None, has_bias=False, clip_qkv=None)

Implementation of attention with GGUF quantized weights.

Initializes the attention layer.

Parameters:

rope (RotaryEmbedding) – The rope layer to borrow the freqs_cis value from.
num_attention_heads (int) – The number of attention heads.
num_key_value_heads (int) – Number of key/value heads.
hidden_size (int) – The dimension of the hidden states.
kv_params (KVCacheParams) – KV Cache Params, including the number of kv heads, the head dim, and data type.
layer_idx – The layer number associated with this Attention block.
dtype (DType) – DType of the weights, should always be uint8.
devices (list[DeviceRef] | None) – Device to place the weights and run the computation. If multiple are provided, the first device is used. Use DistributedAttentionWithRope to use all devices during attention computation.
quantization_encoding (QuantizationEncoding) – Quantization encoding of the weights.
linear_cls (Callable[..., Linear]) – Linear class to use for the outputs dense layer.
scale (float | None) – Value used to scale the results of the attention output.
has_bias (bool) – Whether to use an attention bias.
clip_qkv (float | None) – If provided, the QKV weights are clamped between [-clip_qkv, clip_qkv]

`rope`

rope: RotaryEmbedding

`wqkv`

property wqkv: TensorValue

The concatenation of q, k, and v weight vectors.

`wqkv_bias`

property wqkv_bias: TensorValue | None

The concatenation of q, k, and v bias weight vectors.

`GPTQAttentionWithRope`

class max.nn.attention.attention_with_rope.GPTQAttentionWithRope(quantization_config, rope, num_attention_heads, num_key_value_heads, hidden_size, kv_params, devices=None, dtype=float32, scale=None, linear_cls=<class 'max.nn.linear.Linear'>)

Implementation of the GPT-Q attention layer.

Initializes the attention layer.

Parameters:

rope (RotaryEmbedding) – The rope layer to borrow the freqs_cis value from.
num_attention_heads (int) – The number of attention heads.
num_key_value_heads (int) – Number of key/value heads.
hidden_size (int) – The dimension of the hidden states.
kv_params (KVCacheParams) – KV Cache Params, including the number of kv heads, the head dim, and data type.
dtype (DType) – DType of the QKV and output projection weights.
devices (list[DeviceRef] | None) – Device to place the weights and run the computation. If multiple are provided, the first device is used. Use DistributedAttentionWithRope to use all devices during attention computation.
linear_cls (Callable[..., Linear]) – Linear class to use for the outputs dense layer.
stacked_qkv – Whether the weights are stacked together.
scale (float | None) – Value used to scale the results of the attention output.
has_bias – Whether to use an attention bias.
clip_qkv – If provided, the QKV weights are clamped between [-clip_qkv, clip_qkv]
quantization_config (QuantizationConfig)

`wqkv`

property wqkv: TensorValue

The concatenation of q, k, and v weight vectors.

`distribute_value()`

max.nn.attention.attention_with_rope.distribute_value(v, devices)

Parameters:

v (TensorValue)
devices (list[DeviceRef])

Return type:

list[TensorValue]

AttentionWithRope​

qkv_input_scale​

qkv_weight_scale​

rope​

wqkv​

wqkv_bias​

AttentionWithRopeQKV​

rope​

AttentionWithRopeV1​

bias​

perm_idx​

quantization_config​

rope​

DistributedAttentionWithRope​

GGUFQAttentionWithRope​

rope​

wqkv​

wqkv_bias​

GPTQAttentionWithRope​

wqkv​

distribute_value()​

`AttentionWithRope`

`qkv_input_scale`

`qkv_weight_scale`

`rope`

`wqkv`

`wqkv_bias`

`AttentionWithRopeQKV`

`rope`

`AttentionWithRopeV1`

`bias`

`perm_idx`

`quantization_config`

`rope`

`DistributedAttentionWithRope`

`GGUFQAttentionWithRope`

`rope`

`wqkv`

`wqkv_bias`

`GPTQAttentionWithRope`

`wqkv`

`distribute_value()`