⚡️ Speed up function _tridiagonal_forward_body_tf by 72%
#1078
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📄 72% (0.72x) speedup for
_tridiagonal_forward_body_tfincode_to_optimize/sample_code.py⏱️ Runtime :
407 milliseconds→237 milliseconds(best of16runs)📝 Explanation and details
The optimized code achieves a 71% speedup (407ms → 237ms) by replacing TensorFlow's
tensor_scatter_nd_updateoperations with a more efficient one-hot mask-based update strategy.Key optimizations:
Eliminated expensive scatter operations: The original code called
tf.tensor_scatter_nd_updatetwice per iteration, each requiring index tensor creation viatf.reshape(i, [1, 1])and value reshaping viatf.reshape(c_val, [1]). The line profiler shows these scatter operations consumed ~23% of runtime (105ms + 32ms). The optimized version replaces this with vectorized arithmetic usingtf.one_hotto create a mask, then updates viac_prime * inv_mask + mask * c_val. This mask-based approach is faster because it avoids the overhead of dynamic index construction and scatter's internal branching logic.Explicit element access with
tf.gather: Changed implicit indexing (e.g.,c_prime[i - 1]) to explicittf.gathercalls. While this adds slight overhead for gather operations, it makes the computational graph more uniform and predictable for TensorFlow's optimizer, and works better with the mask-based update pattern.Reduced graph complexity: By eliminating multiple reshape and scatter operations, the optimized code creates a simpler computation graph with fewer nodes. This reduces TensorFlow's internal dispatch overhead and memory allocation/deallocation cycles.
Performance characteristics from tests:
Why this matters:
The function appears to be a body function for a loop-based tridiagonal solver. Since it's designed to be called iteratively (as evidenced by returning
i + 1and updated arrays), the per-iteration savings compound significantly. The mask-based update pattern is a well-known TensorFlow optimization that trades a small amount of redundant computation (updating all elements with a mask rather than just one) for much lower dispatching and memory management overhead—a favorable tradeoff in TensorFlow's execution model.✅ Correctness verification report:
🌀 Click to see Generated Regression Tests
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git checkout codeflash/optimize-_tridiagonal_forward_body_tf-mkgn5a91and push.