# Multi-LoRA Tuning

**Note**: The LoRA configuration folder should be specified by exporting `VLLM_TUNED_CONFIG_FOLDER=/path/to/configs`.
Without this, the shrink/expand kernels will use default configurations.

## Tuning Process

Multi-lora shrink/expand Triton kernel tuning follows a similar methodology from
[Triton MoE tuning](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/main/benchmarks/kernels/benchmark_moe.py).

1. Define the searching space. Here is an example of searching space:

   ```python
   block_m_range = [16, 32, 64, 128, 256]
   block_n_range = [32, 64, 128, 256]
   block_k_range = [32, 64, 128, 256]
   num_warps_range = [4, 8]
   num_stage_range = [2, 3, 4, 5]
   num_ctas_range = [1]
   split_k_range = [4, 8, 16, 32, 64]
   ```

2. Get all hidden_state sizes and num_slices that the target model uses for a specific TP size.

   For example, you can acquire the info by simply checking
   [add_lora_linear](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/main/vllm/lora/punica_wrapper/punica_gpu.py#L181):

   ```python
   print(f"x_shape: {x.view(-1, x.shape[-1]).shape}")
   print(f"num_slices: {len(output_slices)}")
   for i in range(len(output_slices)):
       print(f"a{i} shape: {lora_a_stacked[i].shape}")
       print(f"b{i} shape: {lora_b_stacked[i].shape}")
   print("y_shape", y.shape)
   ```

3. Benchmark the shrink/expand kernel runtime with different kernel configurations generated from the pre-defined search space
   by performing a grid search to find the optimal kernel configuration.
   vLLM's [benchmark_lora.py](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/main/benchmarks/kernels/benchmark_lora.py)
   can be used to search for configurations for different shapes.

## Config Files

### File Naming

| Kernel Type               | File Name Template                          | Example                                     |
|---------------------------|--------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| shrink                    | `{gpu_name}_SHRINK.json`                   | `NVIDIA_H200_SHRINK.json`                  |
| expand                    | `{gpu_name}_EXPAND_{add_input}.json`       | `NVIDIA_H200_EXPAND_TRUE.json`             |
| fused_moe_lora_w13_shrink | `{gpu_name}_FUSED_MOE_LORA_W13_SHRINK.json` | `NVIDIA_H200_FUSED_MOE_LORA_W13_SHRINK.json` |
| fused_moe_lora_w13_expand | `{gpu_name}_FUSED_MOE_LORA_W13_EXPAND.json` | `NVIDIA_H200_FUSED_MOE_LORA_W13_EXPAND.json` |
| fused_moe_lora_w2_shrink  | `{gpu_name}_FUSED_MOE_LORA_W2_SHRINK.json`  | `NVIDIA_H200_FUSED_MOE_LORA_W2_SHRINK.json` |
| fused_moe_lora_w2_expand  | `{gpu_name}_FUSED_MOE_LORA_W2_EXPAND.json`  | `NVIDIA_H200_FUSED_MOE_LORA_W2_EXPAND.json` |

The `gpu_name` can be automatically detected by calling `torch.cuda.get_device_name()`.

### JSON Structure

Optimal kernel configuration files are saved as JSON files with the structure `config_data[max_loras][num_slices][m][k][n][i]`,
where `i` is an optional dimension in the `fused_moe_lora` configuration, representing the intermediate size of the MoE layer.