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Vaibhav JindalandCopilot 74777f44fb fix(test): drop unsupported device kwarg from config-based RoPE con… (#1514)
## Summary

Fixes the cuTile / cuTeDSL / correctness RoPE CI jobs that started
failing across both H100 and B200 (e.g. run 37538343198) with:

```
TypeError: LlamaRotaryEmbedding.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'device'
```

## Root cause

Newer `transformers` (observed on 5.19.0 in CI) removed the `device`
keyword from the **config-based** `*RotaryEmbedding.__init__`
(`__init__(self, config)`). Our `transformers_version_dispatch(...)`
helper still forwarded `device` in `after_kwargs`, so every RoPE test
that builds a rotary embedding raised the `TypeError` **at setup**,
before any kernel ran — which is why all cuTile + cuTeDSL jobs failed on
both architectures at once. The on-pod/mirror `transformers` (<= 5.15.0)
still accepted `device`, so it only surfaced in CI where public PyPI
resolves a newer version.

## Fix

The config-based constructor derives device from the input tensor in
`forward` (`inv_freq` is moved to `x.device`), so passing `device` at
construction is redundant. This PR drops `"device": device` from every
`after_kwargs`, while keeping it in `before_kwargs` for the pre-4.48.0
positional-`dim` path.

Changed call sites:
- `test/transformers/test_rope.py` (3)
- `test/cutile/test_rope.py` (3)
- `test/cutedsl/test_rope.py` (3)
- `benchmark/scripts/benchmark_rope.py` (1)
- `benchmark/scripts/benchmark_llama4_rope.py` (1)
- `src/liger_kernel/utils.py` — docstring example updated

## Verification

- `test/transformers/test_rope.py`: **81 passed** on transformers 5.15.0
(backward-compatible).
- Simulated the 5.19.0 strict signature (reject `device`): the **old**
pattern raises the exact CI `TypeError`; the **new** pattern constructs
successfully and `forward` returns `cos`/`sin` on the input's CUDA
device.
- `ruff check` + `ruff format --check`: clean.
- cuTile/cuTeDSL backends aren't installed on the dev pod, but all three
test files use the identical dispatch pattern, so the fix applies
uniformly.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <[email protected]>
2026-10-07 20:52:57 +00:00
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