Flash attention support.

keras/src/backend/jax/nn.py

@@ -986,7 +986,14 @@ def _dot_product_attention_core(
 
 
 def dot_product_attention(
-    query, key, value, bias=None, mask=None, scale=None, is_causal=False
+    query,
+    key,
+    value,
+    bias=None,
+    mask=None,
+    scale=None,
+    is_causal=False,
+    flash_attention=False,
 ):
     query = convert_to_tensor(query)
     key = convert_to_tensor(key)
@@ -1000,6 +1007,7 @@ def dot_product_attention(
 
     # `dot_product_attention` is only available in jax>=0.4.31
     if hasattr(jax.nn, "dot_product_attention"):
+        implementation = "cudnn" if flash_attention else "xla"
         return jax.nn.dot_product_attention(
             query,
             key,
@@ -1008,6 +1016,14 @@ def dot_product_attention(
             mask=mask,
             scale=scale,
             is_causal=is_causal,
+            implementation=implementation,
+        )
+
+    if flash_attention:
+        raise ValueError(
+            "Flash attention is not supported in your "
+            "current JAX version. Please update it "
+            "using `pip install -U jax jaxlib`."
         )
 
     # Ref: jax.nn.dot_product_attention

keras/src/backend/numpy/nn.py

@@ -1033,8 +1033,17 @@ def _dot_product_attention_xla(query, key, value, bias, mask, is_causal, scale):
 
 
 def dot_product_attention(
-    query, key, value, bias=None, mask=None, scale=None, is_causal=False
+    query,
+    key,
+    value,
+    bias=None,
+    mask=None,
+    scale=None,
+    is_causal=False,
+    flash_attention=False,
 ):
+    if flash_attention:
+        raise ValueError("Flash attention is not implemented in NumPy.")
     # Ref: jax.nn.dot_product_attention
     # https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/blob/jax-v0.4.32/jax/_src/nn/functions.py#L828
     # Not support `query_seq_lengths` and `key_value_seq_lengths` args

keras/src/backend/tensorflow/nn.py

@@ -964,8 +964,20 @@ def _dot_product_attention_xla(query, key, value, bias, mask, is_causal, scale):
 
 
 def dot_product_attention(
-    query, key, value, bias=None, mask=None, scale=None, is_causal=False
+    query,
+    key,
+    value,
+    bias=None,
+    mask=None,
+    scale=None,
+    is_causal=False,
+    flash_attention=False,
 ):
+    if flash_attention:
+        raise ValueError(
+            "Flash attention is not supported yet in TensorFlow backend."
+        )
+
     # Ref: jax.nn.dot_product_attention
     # https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/blob/jax-v0.4.32/jax/_src/nn/functions.py#L828
     # Not support `query_seq_lengths` and `key_value_seq_lengths` args

keras/src/backend/torch/nn.py

@@ -864,8 +864,28 @@ def _get_large_negative(dtype):
     return convert_to_tensor(val * -0.7, dtype=dtype)
 
 
+def is_flash_attention_enabled(query, key, value, mask=None, is_causal=False):
+    params = torch.backends.cuda.SDPAParams(
+        query,
+        key,
+        value,
+        mask,
+        0.0,
+        is_causal,
+    )
+    is_enabled = torch.backends.cuda.can_use_flash_attention(params, False)
+    return is_enabled
+
+
 def dot_product_attention(
-    query, key, value, bias=None, mask=None, scale=None, is_causal=False
+    query,
+    key,
+    value,
+    bias=None,
+    mask=None,
+    scale=None,
+    is_causal=False,
+    flash_attention=False,
 ):
     if bias is not None:
         raise ValueError(
@@ -891,7 +911,35 @@ def dot_product_attention(
     query = torch.transpose(query, axis0, axis1)
     key = torch.transpose(key, axis0, axis1)
     value = torch.transpose(value, axis0, axis1)
-    attention_output = torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention(
-        query, key, value, attn_mask=mask, is_causal=is_causal, scale=scale
-    )
+
+    if flash_attention:
+        is_enabled = is_flash_attention_enabled(
+            query=query,
+            key=key,
+            value=value,
+            mask=mask,
+            is_causal=is_causal,
+        )
+        if not is_enabled:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Flash attention is not enabled in `torch` backend. "
+                "The dtype of the inputs should be float16/bfloat16 "
+                "and your GPU should support flash attention implementation."
+            )
+
+        with torch.nn.attention.sdpa_kernel(
+            backends=[torch.nn.attention.SDPBackend.FLASH_ATTENTION],
+        ):
+            attention_output = torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention(
+                query,
+                key,
+                value,
+                attn_mask=mask,
+                is_causal=is_causal,
+                scale=scale,
+            )
+    else:
+        attention_output = torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention(
+            query, key, value, attn_mask=mask, is_causal=is_causal, scale=scale
+        )
     return torch.transpose(attention_output, axis1, axis0)

keras/src/ops/nn.py

@@ -2131,7 +2131,16 @@ def __init__(self, is_causal=False):
         super().__init__()
         self.is_causal = is_causal
 
-    def call(self, query, key, value, bias=None, mask=None, scale=None):
+    def call(
+        self,
+        query,
+        key,
+        value,
+        bias=None,
+        mask=None,
+        scale=None,
+        flash_attention=False,
+    ):
         return backend.nn.dot_product_attention(
             query,
             key,
@@ -2140,10 +2149,18 @@ def call(self, query, key, value, bias=None, mask=None, scale=None):
             mask=mask,
             scale=scale,
             is_causal=self.is_causal,
+            flash_attention=flash_attention,
         )
 
     def compute_output_spec(
-        self, query, key, value, bias=None, mask=None, scale=None
+        self,
+        query,
+        key,
+        value,
+        bias=None,
+        mask=None,
+        scale=None,
+        flash_attention=False,
     ):
         return KerasTensor(query.shape, dtype=query.dtype)
 
@@ -2152,7 +2169,14 @@ def compute_output_spec(
     ["keras.ops.dot_product_attention", "keras.ops.nn.dot_product_attention"]
 )
 def dot_product_attention(
-    query, key, value, bias=None, mask=None, scale=None, is_causal=False
+    query,
+    key,
+    value,
+    bias=None,
+    mask=None,
+    scale=None,
+    is_causal=False,
+    flash_attention=False,
 ):
     """Scaled dot product attention function.
 
@@ -2207,6 +2231,7 @@ def dot_product_attention(
             bias=bias,
             mask=mask,
             scale=scale,
+            flash_attention=flash_attention,
         )
     return backend.nn.dot_product_attention(
         query,
@@ -2216,4 +2241,5 @@ def dot_product_attention(
         mask=mask,
         scale=scale,
         is_causal=is_causal,
+        flash_attention=flash_attention,
     )

keras/src/ops/nn_test.py

@@ -2208,9 +2208,12 @@ def test_psnr(self):
             bias=(None, True),
             scale=(None, 1.0),
             mask_and_is_causal=((None, False), (True, False), (None, True)),
+            flash_attention=(True, False),
         )
     )
-    def test_dot_product_attention(self, bias, scale, mask_and_is_causal):
+    def test_dot_product_attention(
+        self, bias, scale, mask_and_is_causal, flash_attention
+    ):
         mask, is_causal = mask_and_is_causal
         query_shape = (2, 3, 4, 5)
         key_shape = (2, 6, 4, 5)
@@ -2232,6 +2235,57 @@ def test_dot_product_attention(self, bias, scale, mask_and_is_causal):
                 mask_shape
             )
 
+        if flash_attention and backend.backend() in [
+            "torch",
+            "tensorflow",
+            "numpy",
+        ]:
+            self.skipTest(
+                "Not supported in TF and NumPy and supported for "
+                "PyTorch with specific requirements."
+            )
+
+        if flash_attention and backend.backend() == "jax":
+            try:
+                outputs = knn.dot_product_attention(
+                    query,
+                    key,
+                    value,
+                    bias=bias,
+                    mask=mask,
+                    scale=scale,
+                    is_causal=is_causal,
+                    flash_attention=flash_attention,
+                )
+            except ValueError as e:
+                if e.args[0].startswith(
+                    "Flash attention is not supported in your "
+                    "current JAX version"
+                ):
+                    self.skipTest(
+                        "JAX version does not have "
+                        "`dot_product_attention` function."
+                    )
+            except RuntimeError as e:
+                if e.args[0] == "cuDNN is not detected.":
+                    self.skipTest("No CuDNN to run flash attention for JAX.")
+                elif e.args[0] == "Require at least Ampere arch to run":
+                    self.skipTest(
+                        "Requires at least Ampere arch to run flash attention "
+                        "for JAX."
+                    )
+        else:
+            outputs = knn.dot_product_attention(
+                query,
+                key,
+                value,
+                bias=bias,
+                mask=mask,
+                scale=scale,
+                is_causal=is_causal,
+                flash_attention=flash_attention,
+            )
+
         expected = _dot_product_attention(
             query,
             key,
@@ -2241,15 +2295,6 @@ def test_dot_product_attention(self, bias, scale, mask_and_is_causal):
             scale=scale,
             is_causal=is_causal,
         )
-        outputs = knn.dot_product_attention(
-            query,
-            key,
-            value,
-            bias=bias,
-            mask=mask,
-            scale=scale,
-            is_causal=is_causal,
-        )
         self.assertAllClose(outputs, expected)