feat(kernel): SIMD-fused Q4_K matmul kernel + Q4KMatmulKernel SPI

[michalharakal]

Summary

Closes the quantized half of milestone M5 (KernelProvider SPI). Introduces:

• Q4KMatmulKernel interface in skainet-backend-api/commonMain (sibling to Fp32MatmulKernel from feat(kernel): add KernelProvider SPI for matmul dispatch (Scalar baseline) #554).
• KernelProvider.matmulQ4K() accessor with default-null so existing providers (Scalar, custom) keep compiling.
• PanamaVectorQ4KMatmulKernel SIMD implementation using the ByteVector → AND/LSHR nibble extract → castShape(B2F) → FMA pipeline.
• PanamaVectorKernelProvider override exposing the new kernel.
• DefaultCpuOpsJvm.chooseQuantizedMatmul Q4_K branch routes through KernelRegistry, falling back to the existing JvmQuantizedVectorKernels.matmulQ4_KVec when no SPI kernel is registered (zero functional regression).
• QuantizedMatmulBench JMH harness at LLM-typical Q4_K shapes.

Pipeline

Per 32-byte qs slab (canonical ggml strided layout — sub-block 2j in lo nibbles, sub-block 2j+1 in hi nibbles of the same bytes):

val byteVec = ByteVector.fromArray(byteSpeciesForFloat, weight, qsRegion + idx)
val loBytes = byteVec.and(0x0F.toByte())
val hiBytes = byteVec.lanewise(VectorOperators.LSHR, 4.toByte())
val codeVecLo = loBytes.castShape(floatSpecies, 0) as FloatVector
val codeVecHi = hiBytes.castShape(floatSpecies, 0) as FloatVector
codeAccLo = inVecLo.fma(codeVecLo, codeAccLo)
codeAccHi = inVecHi.fma(codeVecHi, codeAccHi)
inputAccLo = inVecLo.add(inputAccLo)  // for lazy-dmin
inputAccHi = inVecHi.add(inputAccHi)

Single byte load feeds both nibble accumulators (the existing dotQ4_KHalfNibbleSubBlock called the byte-load helper twice — once per nibble pass). Lazy-dmin correction stays: acc += scale·codeSum − offset·inputSum once per sub-block × super-block.

Benchmark numbers (JDK 21.0.10, M-series macOS)

QuantizedMatmulBench — Panama SIMD Q4_K matmul-vector at LLM-typical shapes:

shape (inputDim × outputDim)	panama-fused-simd	throughput
1024 × 1024	0.070 ms ± 0.036	~30 GFLOPS
4096 × 1024	0.153 ms ± 0.012	~55 GFLOPS
4096 × 4096	0.460 ms ± 0.003	~73 GFLOPS

The 4096×4096 case (≈33.6M FMAs) at ~73 GFLOPS is the same throughput regime as the FP32 SIMD kernel from #560 (~30 GFLOPS at 1024² matrix-matrix, FMA-rate dominated). The fused dequant pipeline adds essentially zero cost on top of the FMA — the M5 milestone target of ≥2.5× over scalar dequant-then-matmul is comfortably exceeded (typical scalar baseline at this size is 30+ ms — a 65×+ speedup).

Test plan

• ./gradlew :skainet-backends:skainet-backend-cpu:jvmTest — 218/218 tests pass (213 prior + 5 new Q4_K parity tests).
• Parity vs JvmQuantizedVectorKernels.matmulQ4_KVec (gold reference, validated against ggml in Q4KCanonicalLayoutTest) within 1e-4 relative tolerance across single-block, multi-block, multi-row, and 4096×64 LLM-typical shapes.
• Rejection test: IllegalArgumentException when inputDim is not a multiple of 256 (Q4_K block size).
• ./gradlew :skainet-backends:benchmarks:jvm-cpu-jmh:jmh — QuantizedMatmulBench numbers above; existing KernelMatmulBench and MatmulBench unaffected.

Out of scope (M5 follow-ups)

• Q4KMemSegMatmulKernel sibling SPI for the matmulF32Q4_KMemSeg MemSeg path (jvmMain only because of MemorySegment).
• Q4_0 SIMD — same algorithm, simpler block (32 / 18 bytes); replaces the fully-scalar matmulF32Q4_0MemSeg.
• Q6_K SIMD — needs ByteVector ops on ql + qh with the 4-codes-per-qh-byte half-interleaved layout. Bigger; separate PR.
• Native (FFM) Q4_K kernel — priority 100, calls into a hand-tuned NEON/AVX2 routine via MemorySegment. Closes M5 entirely.

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