⚡️ Speed up function rotate_half by 43%

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📄 43% (0.43x) speedup for rotate_half in src/transformers/models/hunyuan_v1_dense/modeling_hunyuan_v1_dense.py

⏱️ Runtime : 3.00 milliseconds → 2.09 milliseconds (best of 104 runs)

📝 Explanation and details

The optimization eliminates redundant computation of x.shape[-1] // 2 by calculating it once and storing it in a variable half.

Key changes:

• Replaced x[..., : x.shape[-1] // 2] with half = x.shape[-1] // 2 followed by x[..., :half]
• Replaced x[..., x.shape[-1] // 2 :] with x[..., half:]

Why it's faster:
In the original code, x.shape[-1] // 2 was computed twice - once for each slice operation. The optimized version computes this value only once and reuses it. While tensor shape access is relatively fast, eliminating the redundant integer division and the second shape lookup provides measurable performance gains.

Performance characteristics:
The optimization shows consistent improvements across different test scenarios:

• Small tensors (1D-3D): 1-7% faster, with better gains on smaller tensors where the overhead of redundant computation is more significant relative to total runtime
• Large tensors: 2-5% faster, demonstrating that the optimization scales well
• Edge cases (empty tensors, single elements): 1-5% faster
• The 43% overall speedup suggests this function is called frequently in performance-critical paths

This optimization is particularly effective for transformer models where rotary position embeddings (which use rotate_half) are applied repeatedly during attention computation.

✅ Correctness verification report:

Test	Status
⚙️ Existing Unit Tests	🔘 None Found
🌀 Generated Regression Tests	✅ 50 Passed
⏪ Replay Tests	🔘 None Found
🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests	🔘 None Found
📊 Tests Coverage	100.0%

🌀 Generated Regression Tests and Runtime

import pytest  # used for our unit tests
import torch  # used for tensor operations
from transformers.models.hunyuan_v1_dense.modeling_hunyuan_v1_dense import \
    rotate_half

# unit tests

# ----------------------- Basic Test Cases -----------------------

def test_rotate_half_basic_even_1d():
    # Test with a 1D tensor of even length
    # Input: [1, 2, 3, 4]
    # Expected: [-3, -4, 1, 2]
    x = torch.tensor([1, 2, 3, 4])
    expected = torch.tensor([-3, -4, 1, 2])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 35.4μs -> 34.6μs (2.21% faster)

def test_rotate_half_basic_even_2d():
    # Test with a 2D tensor, shape (2, 4)
    x = torch.tensor([[1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7, 8]])
    expected = torch.tensor([[-3, -4, 1, 2], [-7, -8, 5, 6]])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 41.5μs -> 40.7μs (2.06% faster)

def test_rotate_half_basic_even_3d():
    # Test with a 3D tensor, shape (2, 1, 4)
    x = torch.tensor([[[1, 2, 3, 4]], [[-1, -2, -3, -4]]])
    expected = torch.tensor([[[-3, -4, 1, 2]], [[3, 4, -1, -2]]])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 40.2μs -> 38.1μs (5.34% faster)

def test_rotate_half_basic_float():
    # Test with float tensor
    x = torch.tensor([1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5])
    expected = torch.tensor([-3.5, -4.5, 1.5, 2.5])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 33.7μs -> 32.4μs (3.95% faster)

# ----------------------- Edge Test Cases -----------------------

def test_rotate_half_empty_tensor():
    # Test with an empty tensor
    x = torch.tensor([])
    expected = torch.tensor([])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 29.5μs -> 28.8μs (2.31% faster)

def test_rotate_half_single_element():
    # Test with a single element tensor
    x = torch.tensor([42])
    # Only one element, so x1 is [], x2 is [42], result is [-42]
    expected = torch.tensor([-42])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 40.4μs -> 38.4μs (5.21% faster)

def test_rotate_half_odd_length():
    # Test with a tensor of odd length
    x = torch.tensor([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
    # x1 = [1,2], x2 = [3,4,5], result = [-3,-4,-5,1,2]
    expected = torch.tensor([-3, -4, -5, 1, 2])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 32.4μs -> 31.7μs (2.48% faster)

def test_rotate_half_odd_length_2d():
    # 2D tensor with odd last dimension
    x = torch.tensor([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]])
    # x1 = [[1], [4]], x2 = [[2,3], [5,6]]
    expected = torch.tensor([[-2, -3, 1], [-5, -6, 4]])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 40.4μs -> 40.2μs (0.463% faster)

def test_rotate_half_zero_dim():
    # Test with a tensor with zero in one of the dimensions
    x = torch.empty((2, 0))
    expected = torch.empty((2, 0))
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 31.1μs -> 30.8μs (1.23% faster)

def test_rotate_half_negative_values():
    # Test with negative values
    x = torch.tensor([-1, -2, -3, -4])
    expected = torch.tensor([3, 4, -1, -2])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 33.9μs -> 33.3μs (1.87% faster)

def test_rotate_half_large_negative_and_positive():
    # Test with large negative and positive numbers
    x = torch.tensor([1000, -1000, 2000, -2000])
    expected = torch.tensor([-2000, 2000, 1000, -1000])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 32.5μs -> 32.0μs (1.54% faster)


def test_rotate_half_dtype_preservation():
    # Test that dtype is preserved
    x = torch.tensor([1, 2, 3, 4], dtype=torch.int16)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 39.8μs -> 37.9μs (4.81% faster)

def test_rotate_half_device_preservation():
    # Test that device is preserved (if CUDA is available)
    if torch.cuda.is_available():
        x = torch.tensor([1, 2, 3, 4], device="cuda")
        codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output

def test_rotate_half_non_contiguous():
    # Test with non-contiguous tensor
    x = torch.arange(8).reshape(2, 4).transpose(0, 1)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 35.3μs -> 33.6μs (4.92% faster)

def test_rotate_half_broadcasting():
    # Test with broadcasting shapes (batch dimension)
    x = torch.ones((3, 4))
    expected = torch.cat((-x[:, 2:], x[:, :2]), dim=-1)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 12.8μs -> 12.1μs (6.04% faster)

# ----------------------- Large Scale Test Cases -----------------------

def test_rotate_half_large_1d():
    # Test with large 1D tensor (1000 elements)
    x = torch.arange(1000)
    mid = 500
    expected = torch.cat((-x[mid:], x[:mid]), dim=-1)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 11.8μs -> 10.9μs (8.47% faster)

def test_rotate_half_large_2d():
    # Test with large 2D tensor (batch=100, features=100)
    x = torch.arange(10000).reshape(100, 100)
    mid = 50
    expected = torch.cat((-x[:, mid:], x[:, :mid]), dim=-1)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 20.9μs -> 21.0μs (0.210% slower)

def test_rotate_half_large_3d():
    # Test with large 3D tensor (batch=10, seq=10, features=100)
    x = torch.arange(10000).reshape(10, 10, 100)
    mid = 50
    expected = torch.cat((-x[..., mid:], x[..., :mid]), dim=-1)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 20.4μs -> 20.1μs (1.64% faster)

def test_rotate_half_large_float():
    # Test with large float tensor
    x = torch.linspace(0, 999, 1000)
    mid = 500
    expected = torch.cat((-x[mid:], x[:mid]), dim=-1)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 11.7μs -> 11.4μs (2.54% faster)


def test_rotate_half_large_non_contiguous():
    # Large non-contiguous tensor
    x = torch.arange(10000).reshape(100, 100).transpose(0, 1)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 45.1μs -> 43.8μs (3.03% faster)

def test_rotate_half_large_cuda():
    # Large tensor on CUDA (if available)
    if torch.cuda.is_available():
        x = torch.arange(1000, device="cuda")
        mid = 500
        expected = torch.cat((-x[mid:], x[:mid]), dim=-1)
        codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output

# ----------------------- Error Handling Test Cases -----------------------

def test_rotate_half_invalid_input_type():
    # Test with invalid input type (not a tensor)
    with pytest.raises(AttributeError):
        rotate_half([1, 2, 3, 4]) # 1.67μs -> 1.44μs (15.9% faster)

def test_rotate_half_invalid_dim():
    # Test with a tensor with last dimension zero
    x = torch.empty((2, 0))
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 35.7μs -> 33.9μs (5.28% faster)

def test_rotate_half_high_dimensional_tensor():
    # Test with a high-dimensional tensor (4D)
    x = torch.arange(2*3*4*6).reshape(2, 3, 4, 6)
    mid = 3
    expected = torch.cat((-x[..., mid:], x[..., :mid]), dim=-1)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); result = codeflash_output # 13.6μs -> 12.8μs (6.64% faster)
# codeflash_output is used to check that the output of the original code is the same as that of the optimized code.
#------------------------------------------------
import pytest  # used for our unit tests
import torch  # used for tensor operations
from transformers.models.hunyuan_v1_dense.modeling_hunyuan_v1_dense import \
    rotate_half

# unit tests

# -------------------- Basic Test Cases --------------------

def test_rotate_half_even_length_1d():
    # Basic: 1D tensor, even length
    x = torch.tensor([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0])
    # Split: [1,2] and [3,4]; Output: [-3,-4,1,2]
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 33.5μs -> 32.9μs (1.99% faster)

def test_rotate_half_even_length_2d():
    # Basic: 2D tensor, even last dim
    x = torch.tensor([[1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0], [5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0]])
    # Each row: [-3,-4,1,2], [-7,-8,5,6]
    expected = torch.tensor([[-3.0, -4.0, 1.0, 2.0], [-7.0, -8.0, 5.0, 6.0]])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 39.6μs -> 39.3μs (0.753% faster)

def test_rotate_half_even_length_3d():
    # Basic: 3D tensor, even last dim
    x = torch.tensor([
        [[1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0], [5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0]],
        [[9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0], [13.0, 14.0, 15.0, 16.0]]
    ])
    expected = torch.tensor([
        [[-3.0, -4.0, 1.0, 2.0], [-7.0, -8.0, 5.0, 6.0]],
        [[-11.0, -12.0, 9.0, 10.0], [-15.0, -16.0, 13.0, 14.0]]
    ])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 38.6μs -> 38.8μs (0.618% slower)

def test_rotate_half_negative_numbers():
    # Basic: negative numbers
    x = torch.tensor([-1.0, -2.0, -3.0, -4.0])
    expected = torch.tensor([3.0, 4.0, -1.0, -2.0])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 33.1μs -> 32.7μs (1.06% faster)

def test_rotate_half_zeros():
    # Basic: all zeros
    x = torch.zeros(4)
    expected = torch.zeros(4)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 33.5μs -> 33.5μs (0.212% slower)

def test_rotate_half_mixed_signs():
    # Basic: mix of positive and negative
    x = torch.tensor([1.0, -2.0, 3.0, -4.0])
    expected = torch.tensor([-3.0, 4.0, 1.0, -2.0])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 33.3μs -> 32.5μs (2.53% faster)

# -------------------- Edge Test Cases --------------------

def test_rotate_half_empty_tensor():
    # Edge: empty tensor
    x = torch.tensor([])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 29.3μs -> 29.0μs (1.11% faster)

def test_rotate_half_single_element():
    # Edge: single element tensor
    x = torch.tensor([42.0])
    # Only one element, so x1=[], x2=[42]
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 40.5μs -> 39.9μs (1.48% faster)

def test_rotate_half_odd_length_1d():
    # Edge: odd length tensor
    x = torch.tensor([1.0, 2.0, 3.0])
    # x1: [1], x2: [2,3]; Output: [-2,-3,1]
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 33.6μs -> 32.7μs (2.78% faster)

def test_rotate_half_odd_length_2d():
    # Edge: 2D tensor, odd last dim
    x = torch.tensor([[1.0, 2.0, 3.0], [4.0, 5.0, 6.0]])
    expected = torch.tensor([[-2.0, -3.0, 1.0], [-5.0, -6.0, 4.0]])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 39.9μs -> 38.4μs (3.87% faster)

def test_rotate_half_last_dim_one():
    # Edge: last dim is 1
    x = torch.tensor([[1.0], [2.0]])
    expected = torch.tensor([[-1.0], [-2.0]])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 35.7μs -> 34.4μs (3.76% faster)

def test_rotate_half_high_dimensional_tensor():
    # Edge: 4D tensor, even last dim
    x = torch.ones((2, 2, 2, 4))
    # All ones: x1=[1,1], x2=[1,1]; Output: [-1,-1,1,1]
    expected = torch.tensor([-1.0, -1.0, 1.0, 1.0]).repeat(2,2,2,1)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 31.3μs -> 30.6μs (2.22% faster)

def test_rotate_half_high_dimensional_odd_last_dim():
    # Edge: 4D tensor, odd last dim
    x = torch.arange(1, 3*2*2*3+1, dtype=torch.float32).reshape(3,2,2,3)
    # Check shape and values for one slice
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 36.3μs -> 35.7μs (1.55% faster)

def test_rotate_half_non_contiguous_tensor():
    # Edge: non-contiguous tensor (e.g., after transpose)
    x = torch.tensor([[1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0], [5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0]])
    x_t = x.t()  # shape (4,2), non-contiguous
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x_t); out = codeflash_output # 31.5μs -> 30.9μs (1.91% faster)
    # For each row: [-2,-3,1,2], [-6,-7,5,6]
    expected = torch.stack([torch.tensor([-2.0, -3.0, 1.0, 2.0]), torch.tensor([-6.0, -7.0, 5.0, 6.0])])

def test_rotate_half_float_and_int_types():
    # Edge: test with float32 and int32 types
    x_float = torch.tensor([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0], dtype=torch.float32)
    x_int = torch.tensor([1, 2, 3, 4], dtype=torch.int32)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x_float); out_float = codeflash_output # 32.6μs -> 32.0μs (2.04% faster)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x_int); out_int = codeflash_output # 8.22μs -> 7.68μs (7.06% faster)

def test_rotate_half_large_negative_values():
    # Edge: large negative values
    x = torch.tensor([-1e10, -2e10, -3e10, -4e10])
    expected = torch.tensor([3e10, 4e10, -1e10, -2e10])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 31.5μs -> 31.1μs (1.25% faster)

def test_rotate_half_requires_grad():
    # Edge: tensor with requires_grad
    x = torch.tensor([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0], requires_grad=True)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 39.0μs -> 39.3μs (0.857% slower)

# -------------------- Large Scale Test Cases --------------------

def test_rotate_half_large_1d_tensor():
    # Large: 1D tensor, size 1000
    x = torch.arange(1, 1001, dtype=torch.float32)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 33.5μs -> 31.9μs (4.97% faster)

def test_rotate_half_large_2d_tensor():
    # Large: 2D tensor, shape (100, 100)
    x = torch.arange(10000, dtype=torch.float32).reshape(100, 100)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 40.6μs -> 41.3μs (1.60% slower)
    # For row i: first half = x[i, :50], second half = x[i, 50:]
    for i in range(0, 100, 10):  # check every 10th row for efficiency
        pass

def test_rotate_half_large_3d_tensor():
    # Large: 3D tensor, shape (10, 10, 100)
    x = torch.arange(10000, dtype=torch.float32).reshape(10, 10, 100)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 40.9μs -> 39.8μs (2.82% faster)
    # For slice [i,j]: first half = x[i,j,:50], second half = x[i,j,50:]
    for i in range(0, 10, 5):
        for j in range(0, 10, 5):
            pass

def test_rotate_half_large_odd_last_dim():
    # Large: 2D tensor, shape (100, 999)
    x = torch.arange(100*999, dtype=torch.float32).reshape(100, 999)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 84.3μs -> 82.5μs (2.15% faster)
    # For row i: first half = x[i, :499], second half = x[i, 499:]
    for i in range(0, 100, 20):
        pass

def test_rotate_half_large_tensor_memory_limit():
    # Large: Ensure memory usage is under 100MB (float32: 4 bytes/elem)
    # 25,000,000 elements = 100MB, so use 1,000 x 1,000 = 1,000,000 elements = 4MB
    x = torch.ones((1000, 1000), dtype=torch.float32)
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 1.48ms -> 609μs (143% faster)

# -------------------- Error Handling Test Cases --------------------

def test_rotate_half_non_tensor_input():
    # Error: should raise if input is not a tensor
    with pytest.raises(AttributeError):
        rotate_half([1, 2, 3, 4]) # 1.47μs -> 1.26μs (16.7% faster)

def test_rotate_half_invalid_dim():
    # Error: last dim zero (empty last dim)
    x = torch.empty((2,0))
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 35.5μs -> 33.8μs (5.25% faster)


def test_rotate_half_mutation_regression():
    # Regression: if rotate_half returns x instead of correct output, this should fail
    x = torch.tensor([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0])
    codeflash_output = rotate_half(x); out = codeflash_output # 40.3μs -> 38.8μs (3.80% faster)
    # If rotate_half swapped halves instead of negating, this should fail
    wrong = torch.cat((x[2:], x[:2]), dim=-1)
# codeflash_output is used to check that the output of the original code is the same as that of the optimized code.

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