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  • Increased LTX2_LPIPS_THRESHOLD and LTX2_FEATURE_LPIPS_THRESHOLD from 0.05 to 0.15.
  • Preserved the eager-versus-CUDA-graph threshold at 0.01.
  • Removed the CUDA-graph and LPIPS waiver entries while retaining the NVFP4 waiver.
  • Changes are scoped to LTX-2 LPIPS calibration and waiver cleanup.
  • No API, performance, or error-handling issues were identified.
  • The unrelated nvbug 6655990 issue remains unchanged.

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  • Modified the LTX-2 golden LPIPS test and the CUDA-graph feature-accuracy test thresholds.
  • The eager-versus-CUDA-graph comparison remains covered with the 0.01 threshold.
  • Updated tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt by removing the CUDA-graph and LPIPS waiver entries.
  • Retained the NVFP4 waiver entry.
  • Verdict: sufficient.

Description

Closes nvbug 6655986 (post-merge LTX-2 LPIPS regression on B200, builds ≥ 2924).

Root cause: PR #17693 routes the unquantized bf16 MLP up-projection through a cuBLASLt GELU-tanh epilogue (torch._addmm_activation(use_gelu=True)) that applies GELU to the fp32 accumulator instead of the bf16-rounded GEMM output. The per-layer delta is at bf16-ULP scale (~2e-4 mean over LTX-2's ~1056 fused MLP calls), and the fused path is in fact closer to the fp32 reference — but the shifted rounding trajectory compounds across LTX-2's diffusion blocks × denoising steps into LPIPS ≈ 0.094 against goldens that were calibrated on the pre-#17693 trajectory.

Resolution: This is golden-calibration drift, not an output-quality regression, so accept the new trajectory instead of gating the perf win off:

  • Raise LTX2_LPIPS_THRESHOLD and LTX2_FEATURE_LPIPS_THRESHOLD from 0.05 to 0.15. Historically, benign rounding-trajectory drift (container bumps, kernel-numerics changes) lands in the 0.04–0.10 band while true quality regressions have shown up at 0.4+, so 0.15 still catches real breakage with margin.
  • Remove the two nvbug 6655986 waiver entries from waives.txt.

The within-build eager-vs-cuda-graph comparison (LTX2_CUDA_GRAPH_LPIPS_THRESHOLD = 0.01) is intentionally untouched and remains the tight numerics guard.

Notes:

  • LTX2_FEATURE_LPIPS_THRESHOLD is shared by the fp8-blockwise / nvfp4 / cuda-graph profiles, so the quantized variants get the same headroom.
  • nvbug 6655990 (Wan 2.2 multi-GPU) shares the same culprit commit but has separate tests/waivers and is not addressed here.

Test Coverage

  • examples/visual_gen/test_visual_gen_ltx2.py::test_ltx2_lpips_against_golden (unwaived here)
  • examples/visual_gen/test_visual_gen_ltx2.py::test_ltx2_feature_accuracy_against_golden[cuda-graph] (unwaived here)
  • examples/visual_gen/test_visual_gen_ltx2.py::test_ltx2_cuda_graph_lpips_matches_eager (unchanged 0.01 gate)

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… 0.15 and unwaive

PR NVIDIA#17693 routes the unquantized bf16 MLP up-projection through a
cuBLASLt GELU-tanh epilogue that applies GELU to the fp32 accumulator
instead of the bf16-rounded GEMM output. The per-layer delta is at
bf16-ULP scale (the fused path is in fact closer to the fp32
reference), but the shifted rounding trajectory compounds across
LTX-2's diffusion blocks and denoising steps into LPIPS ~0.094 against
goldens calibrated on the old trajectory.

This is golden-calibration drift, not a quality regression, so accept
it by raising LTX2_LPIPS_THRESHOLD and LTX2_FEATURE_LPIPS_THRESHOLD
from 0.05 to 0.15 and removing the two nvbug 6655986 waivers. The
within-build eager-vs-cuda-graph comparison keeps its tight 0.01
threshold as the sensitive numerics guard.

Signed-off-by: Chang Liu <9713593+chang-l@users.noreply.github.com>
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/bot run --extra-stage "DGX_B200-PyTorch-Post-Merge-1, DGX_B200-PyTorch-Post-Merge-2"

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The change increases standard and feature-accuracy LPIPS thresholds for LTX2 tests and removes obsolete CUDA-graph and LPIPS waiver entries. The CUDA-graph threshold remains unchanged.

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LTX2 test tolerance updates

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Update LTX2 thresholds and waivers
tests/integration/defs/examples/visual_gen/test_visual_gen_ltx2.py, tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
Standard and feature-accuracy LPIPS thresholds increase from 0.05 to 0.15. The CUDA-graph threshold remains 0.01. The CUDA-graph and LPIPS waiver entries are removed, while the NVFP4 waiver remains.

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The PR raises LTX-2 LPIPS thresholds, but two affected tests are still skipped, so the new limits are not fully validated. The change is otherwise localized and mergeable with explicit owner awareness to remove those obsolete waivers or confirm the intended test coverage.

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Comment on lines +51 to +54
LTX2_LPIPS_THRESHOLD = 0.15
LTX2_CUDA_GRAPH_LPIPS_THRESHOLD = 0.01

LTX2_FEATURE_LPIPS_THRESHOLD = 0.05
LTX2_FEATURE_LPIPS_THRESHOLD = 0.15

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Remove the two obsolete LTX-2 waivers.

tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt still skips test_ltx2_cuda_graph_trtllm_backend and test_ltx2_example. The backend test uses LTX2_LPIPS_THRESHOLD, so its skip prevents validation of the changed threshold. Keep only test_ltx2_feature_accuracy_against_golden[nvfp4]. The affected tests are listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml.

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Rationale for raising the LPIPS threshold to 0.15: CI observed a 0.09 drift from the golden output. Repair Bot traced this to an FP16→FP32 accumulator change; although each layer differs only at the BF16-ULP level, the errors accumulate to a 0.09 E2E LPIPS drift. A 0.15 threshold provides reasonable headroom, making the test resilient to expected BF16-level numerical drift while still catching larger regressions. See NVBug 6655986, comment 5.

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I am going to approve this PR, but we probably still need to update the golden files for failed tests due to new perf optimization features.

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The multi-GPU/TP WAN2.2 LPIPS tests exist to protect one invariant:
parallelism does not change the output. They previously measured distance
to a frozen golden video, which conflates parallelism error with
whole-build numerics drift: PR NVIDIA#17693 (cuBLASLt GELU-tanh epilogue on the
unquantized bf16 MLP path) applies GELU to the fp32 accumulator, shifting
the bf16 rounding trajectory of every WAN2.2 run, and stepped
[attn2d_2x2] 0.224261 -> 0.279512 across the 0.25 gate at post-merge
build 2924 with no quality change. On an otherwise identical stack
(4xB200, rc24 image, CI torch 2.12.0a0+...nv26.05), toggling only the
NVIDIA#17693 mlp.py hunks moves two single-GPU fully-eager runs 0.2588 apart:
the benign trajectory shift alone exceeds the old threshold, so
golden-anchored gating cannot hold a tight bound.

Restructure the gate (test names kept; test-db lists and waives.txt
reference them):

- Primary: score every variant against a fully-eager single-GPU
  reference generated in-session at the current build (session-scoped
  fixture; one ~3-minute generation amortized over all variants in the
  pytest session). Both sides shift together under benign numerics
  changes, so this gate fails only when parallelism itself changes the
  output. Calibrated per variant on 4xB200 across all ten variants on
  both the pre- and post-NVIDIA#17693 stacks; the distribution is bimodal:
  * exact class (0.05): ulysses4, cfg2_ulysses2 and
    cfg2_ulysses2_attn2d_2x1 reproduce the single-GPU output bit-exactly
    (LPIPS 0.000000) -- CFG splitting, Ulysses head repartition and the
    attn2d head-dim split are reduction-order invariant. The old 0.25
    gate could not see even a total loss of that exactness; 0.05 can.
  * reduction-reordering class (0.32): TP GEMM splits and the attn2d
    sequence-KV split reorder floating-point reductions; the one-ULP
    seed amplifies over the 4 denoising steps to a saturation band
    (measured: tp2-family 0.2098/0.2036 on the post-/pre-NVIDIA#17693 stacks,
    attn2d_2x2-family 0.2597/0.2232, tp3 0.2618); compositions are
    bit-stable (cfg, ulysses and attn2d-head add exactly 0.0 on top of
    tp2 or attn2d_2x2). A genuinely different output (seed-43 control)
    measures 0.6656, well above the bound.
- Backstop: keep the frozen-golden comparison at 0.32 as a
  catastrophic-quality bound. The single-GPU fully-eager run (the
  golden's own configuration) already measures 0.2223 (post-NVIDIA#17693) /
  0.2568 (pre-NVIDIA#17693) against the golden, so distances inside the
  decorrelation band carry no signal; only far-from-everything outputs
  should fail it.
- Remove the nvbug 6655990 waiver for [attn2d_2x2].
- _assert_lpips_below_threshold gains an optional label so a failing
  gate identifies itself in the junit message.

Same root cause as nvbug 6655986 (LTX-2, recalibrated in PR NVIDIA#18384);
this change additionally makes the WAN multi-GPU suite structurally
immune to the drift class: within-build scores re-anchor at every build
instead of accumulating against an aging golden.

Signed-off-by: Chang Liu <9713593+chang-l@users.noreply.github.com>
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