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Summary

  • Cherry-picks the 9 commits of [Draft] Redmule platform pulp-platform/Deeploy#67 onto TrainDeeploy/devel.
  • Adds the new Deeploy/Targets/Redmule/ platform (Platform/Engine/Deployer/Bindings/Parsers/Tiler/Templates/TileConstraints/TopologyOptimizationPasses), the FP32 RedMulE matmul kernel TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/Matmul_fp32_Redmule.c, plus tiled-runner glue for Siracusa_w_redmule.
  • Adds CI workflow ci-platform-siracusa-redmule-tiled.yml (uses ghcr.io/runwangdl/deeploy:redmule image; auth via secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN).

Verified

  • Cherry-pick clean, no manual conflicts. 3 shared files auto-merged: DeeployTest/CMakeLists.txt, TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/CMakeLists.txt, Deeploy/Targets/PULPOpen/Templates/FloatGemmTemplate.py.
  • from Deeploy.Targets.Redmule import Platform, Engine, Deployer, Bindings imports OK.
  • pytest -m siracusa_redmule_tiled collects 3 cases (Kernels/FP32/GEMM/{Regular,TransB} single/double-buffer); fixtures present.
  • Local kernel/sim run not done — needs the runwangdl/gvsoc@35d00d1 fork build that the CI image bundles.

Test plan

  • CI Siracusa + RedMulE (Tiled) job pulls ghcr.io/runwangdl/deeploy:redmule and finishes the 3 collected cases.

runwangdl and others added 22 commits May 10, 2026 14:12
Minimal port of RedMulE-platform code from the user's redmule_platform
branch (which had accumulated unrelated CCT_Optim merges) onto a clean
devel base.

What landed:
- New target Deeploy/Targets/Redmule/ (Platform, Engine, Deployer,
  Bindings, Parsers, Tiler, Templates, TileConstraints,
  TopologyOptimizationPasses).
- FP32 RedMulE matmul kernel TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/Matmul_fp32_Redmule.c
- Test runner DeeployTest/testRunner_tiled_siracusa_w_redmule.py plus
  Float test fixtures (testFloat{Matmul,MatmulLarge,MatmulLarge256,2DConvolution,2dConvLarge,GEMM,GEMMtransB}).
- Wiring in platformMapping.py, top-level CMakeLists.txt,
  DeeployTest/CMakeLists.txt, TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/CMakeLists.txt.
- Makefile: GVSOC_COMMIT_HASH points at runwangdl/gvsoc fork 35d00d1
  (carries the light_redmule vendored copy + Siracusa cluster wiring).

Fixes / portings required for devel compatibility:
- Deeploy/Targets/PULPOpen/Templates/FloatGemmTemplate.py: define
  float32_tPtr locally (unresolved import left on devel).
- Deeploy/Targets/Redmule/TopologyOptimizationPasses/Passes.py: switch
  from the retired _permuteLastTwoDims / _appendTransposeNode helpers
  to upstream's _appendTranspose.
- Add empty __init__.py to Targets/{Chimera,Redmule,SoftHier}.

What intentionally did NOT land:
- CCT_Optim-era edits to PULPOpen Templates (Add/Conv/GELU/Layernorm/
  MatMul/MaxPool/Relu/Softmax), Generic Layers.py computeOps, CCT test
  suites, parallel/unroll rewrites.
- Buggy -march=rv32imc inside meson-build-script-rv32imf.txt.
- Hard-to-merge edits to DeeployTest/Platforms/Siracusa/src/deeploytest.c.
- The old-style .github/workflows/TestRunnerTiledSiracusaWithRedmule.yml;
  new-style ci-platform-siracusa-redmule-tiled.yml TBD.

Verified end-to-end: testFloatMatmul on GVSoC (runwangdl/gvsoc@35d00d1,
pulp submodule @ 371772c) passes with 'Errors: 0 out of 256'.
The Tests/ directory layout on devel was reorganized into Kernels/,
Models/, Others/ subdirectories. Drop the flat-path Float test inputs
ported from redmule_platform; they'll be re-added under the new
structure in a follow-up.
Mirrors the neureka-tiled pattern:
- DeeployTest/test_siracusa_redmule_tiled_config.py with empty
  L2_{SINGLE,DOUBLE}BUFFER_KERNELS dicts (to be populated once Float
  kernel test fixtures land under Tests/Kernels/Float/).
- conftest.py: register 'siracusa_redmule_tiled' pytest marker.
- test_platforms.py: two parametrized test functions (L2 single- and
  double-buffer) for the redmule platform.
- .github/workflows/_runner-siracusa-redmule-tiled.yml: reusable runner
  mirroring _runner-siracusa-neureka-tiled.yml.
- .github/workflows/ci-platform-siracusa-redmule-tiled.yml: top-level
  trigger, defaults to ghcr.io/runwangdl/deeploy:redmule Docker image.

With empty configs the tests collect and skip cleanly (pytest 'got
empty parameter set'). No wmem variants since RedMulE does not use
Neureka weight memory.
- yapf / isort / autoflake / trailing-whitespace across the Redmule
  Python target and platformMapping wiring.
- clang-format over TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/Matmul_fp32_Redmule.c.
- Add SPDX/license header to Matmul_fp32_Redmule.c (reuse hook).
The GAP9 CI uses ghcr.io/pulp-platform/deeploy-gap9:devel, which is
only pullable with pulp-platform org credentials. On a fork the job
fails at 'Initialize containers'. Add github.repository_owner guard
so forks skip the jobs cleanly.
The docs workflow publishes to gh-pages, which on a fork races with
external pushes and lacks origin remote setup. Gate on
github.repository_owner == 'pulp-platform' so only upstream publishes.
Point the redmule tiled CI config at existing upstream FP32 kernel
test fixtures under Tests/Kernels/FP32/GEMM (Regular, TransB). Both
single-buffer and double-buffer variants verified locally end-to-end
on GVSoC (Errors: 0 / 256, runtime ~4k cycles).
Without this fallback _select-env.yml resolves to the upstream
pulp-platform/deeploy:devel image, which ships a GVSoC build that
does not include the light_redmule model — the redmule test runner
then hangs. Point the default at the fork's custom image so push
events get the correct GVSoC build.
ghcr.io/runwangdl/deeploy:redmule is a private package; add
credentials block using the workflow's GITHUB_TOKEN so the runner
container step can pull it.
Adds a single training-pipeline job to the Siracusa+RedMulE CI workflow,
running the same Models/Training/CCT/cct_train fixture the Siracusa-only
tiled CI already exercises -- forward + backward + SGD, L1=128000, L2=2M,
default_mem_level=L3, single-buffer. RedmulePlatform inherits from
PULPPlatform and declares engines=[RedmuleEngine, PULPClusterEngine];
RedmuleEngine binds only Matmul/Conv/GEMM (FP32), so the rest of the
CCT graph (LayerNorm, GELU, MaxPool, *Grad ops) falls back to
PULPCluster, which already carries TrainDeeploy's training kernel set.

Pieces:
- test_siracusa_redmule_tiled_config.L3_SINGLEBUFFER_TRAINING_MODELS
  + TRAINING_MODEL_OVERRIDES mirror the Siracusa values
  (num_data_inputs=1, tolerance=5e-3 for CCT step-0 attention-reduction
  drift) so the override semantics match across platforms.
- test_platforms.test_siracusa_redmule_tiled_training_l3_singlebuffer
  is a thin clone of the existing Siracusa training test with
  platform="Siracusa_w_redmule"; markers
  (siracusa_redmule_tiled, training, singlebuffer, l3) line up with the
  marker filters the existing redmule CI runner workflow consumes.
- ci-platform-siracusa-redmule-tiled.yml gains a
  siracusa-redmule-training-tiled-singlebuffer-L3 job invoking
  _runner-siracusa-redmule-tiled.yml with marker
  "training and singlebuffer and l3".

Local validation: pytest --collect-only -m "siracusa_redmule_tiled" now
collects 4 cases (3 existing kernel + the new CCT training case). Real
end-to-end run deferred to CI -- needs the runwangdl/gvsoc@35d00d1 fork
bundled inside ghcr.io/runwangdl/deeploy:redmule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s crashing

The Siracusa+RedMulE CCT_train CI job (added in b682739) crashed during
tiling with KeyError 'C' inside RedmuleGEMMTileConstraint -- the constraint
unconditionally reads parseDict['C'] but GEMMRedmuleParser.parseNodeCtxt
only populates it when len(node.inputs) == 3 and noBiasHoisting is True
(the default). Backward-pass codegen for CCT (GradFusedMatMul rewrites)
emits a flurry of 2-input ONNX Gemm nodes (alpha=1, no bias), which match
the binding but never get a 'C' field -- hence the lookup blows up.

A bias-less Gemm with alpha=1 is mathematically just MatMul, and the
Redmule platform already routes ONNX MatMul through
MatMulRedmuleMapper / RedmuleMatMulTilingReadyBindings (no C operand
needed). So instead of papering over the parser, lower the op:

- Add RedMuleBiaslessGemmToMatMulPass in
  Targets/Redmule/TopologyOptimizationPasses/Passes.py. It matches Gemm
  nodes (the 2-input pattern reused from RedMuleGEMMTransposePass),
  guards on len(inputs) == 2 and alpha == 1, materializes any
  transA/transB (constants get folded, variables get a Transpose
  appended via the same _appendTranspose helper the transpose pass
  already uses), then rewrites op="MatMul" and clears attrs.
- Wire it into RedmuleDeployer.loweringOptimizer.passes BEFORE
  RedMuleGEMMTransposePass so the latter only ever sees real (3-input)
  Gemms; otherwise it would write transA/transB=0 onto what we just
  rewrote into a MatMul, and the stale Gemm op would still hit the
  bias-required tile constraint.

3-input Gemms (forward CCT FCs, the existing testFloatGEMM/testFloatGEMMtransB
kernel fixtures) are untouched: the new pass returns the graph
unchanged when len(inputs) != 2, and RedMuleGEMMTransposePass continues
to see them as before.

Local validation: pytest --collect-only -m "siracusa_redmule_tiled"
still yields the same 4 cases (3 kernel + 1 training); module import
of Deployer + the new pass class both succeed. Real run deferred to CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit replaces 39bb8f1's experimental Gemm->MatMul lowering pass
(which unblocked the original KeyError 'C' but exposed a deeper Transpose
rank-mismatch bug downstream) with two smaller, locally-verified fixes:

1) Hoist a properly-shaped zero C tensor in GEMMRedmuleParser when an
   ONNX Gemm has only A and B (e.g. backward GradFusedMatMul rewrites in
   CCT_train).  Fixes for the hoist path:

   - GEMMRedmuleParser.__init__ used to set self.noBiasHoisting *before*
     calling super().__init__(), but MatMulParser.__init__ also writes
     self.noBiasHoisting from its own default of True -- so the caller's
     flag was silently clobbered.  Reverse the order and forward the
     kwarg.
   - The hoist used to allocate a 1-element np.zeros((1)) scalar; that
     would never satisfy RedmuleGEMMTileConstraint's "C dim equals
     output dim" assertion.  Allocate a zero array whose shape matches
     node.outputs[0].shape.
   - Pass _type=PointerClass(float32_t) to ctxt.hoistConstant so the
     buffer is type-annotated up-front.  Without it,
     MemoryScheduler.getConstantTensorOffset later trips an
     AttributeError on the un-annotated buffer.
   - Append the hoisted Constant to node.inputs so the tiler picks
     it up via its node.inputs + node.outputs walk, AND register the
     Gemm as a user via newCtxt.addUser so the
     MemoryConstraintFlow kill-set assertion (which walks _users)
     finds a consumer.
   - Engine.GEMMMRedmuleMapper now instantiates with
     noBiasHoisting=False so the hoist path is actually taken.

   Drop the BiaslessGemmToMatMulPass class (added in 39bb8f1) and its
   Deployer registration: the parser-side hoist is the smaller fix and
   side-steps the MatMul broadcasting issue entirely.

2) Fix Generic/TransposeTileConstraint and PULPOpen/TransposeTemplate to
   use a *spatial-view* interpretation of perm.  When MatMulLayer.
   computeShapes broadens an already-existing tensor that is
   simultaneously a forward MatMul B input *and* a downstream
   non-broadening consumer (Gemm/Transpose), data_in and data_out of a
   downstream Transpose can end up with different ranks.  Both
   addGeometricalConstraint and serializeTilingSolution previously
   assumed len(perm) == data_in_rank == data_out_rank; they now offset
   their shape lookups by len(shape) - len(perm) so the perm targets
   the trailing spatial dims in either tensor.  PULPTransposeTemplate's
   alignToContext gets the same treatment for its dimLen_<idx> lookup
   and parallelDim selection.

   Aligned cases (existing kernel fixtures testFloatGEMM /
   testFloatGEMMtransB) compute identical offsets of 0 and behave
   exactly as before.  This commit verifies the fix locally on
   Models/Training/CCT/cct_train: testMVPTraining.py and
   testMVPOptimizer.py both exit 0 on Siracusa_w_redmule, producing a
   ~7.7 MB TrainingNetwork.c and matching OptimizerNetwork.c.

C compilation + GVSoC simulation still need to be validated on CI
(can't run the runwangdl/gvsoc fork locally in the agent container).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Siracusa+RedMulE training CI on 1782a88 got past Python codegen but
failed at link time:

    ld.lld: error: undefined symbol:
        Conv2d_Im2Col_fp32_fp32_fp32_HWC_8_Redmule
    >>> referenced by TrainingNetwork.c:5386 in
        _node_1_tokenizer_..._Conv_cluster_fork

The original RedMulE PR (pulp-platform/Deeploy#67) shipped only the
matmul kernel TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/Matmul_fp32_Redmule.c.  The
ConvTemplate references a `Conv2d_Im2Col_..._8_Redmule` kernel that has
no corresponding source in the tree, and 67b754b already deleted the
testFloat2DConvolution / testFloat2dConvLarge fixtures that would have
exercised the Redmule Conv path.  So the Conv binding has always been
load-bearing only for non-test models like CCT_train, and on those it
breaks the link.

Two coupled changes route Conv through the existing PULPClusterEngine
(which has a working PULP_Conv2d_Im2Col_fp32_fp32_fp32_HWC):

- Drop 'Conv' from RedmuleMapping.  Without it Conv falls through to
  the second engine in RedmulePlatform's engine list (PULPCluster).
- Drop RedMuleAdjustWeightMemoryLayoutPass from the lowering passes.
  That pass transposed Conv weights from [F,H,W,Cin] to [H,W,Cin,F]
  for the RedMulE accelerator's expected layout; once Conv is on the
  PULPCluster engine, PULP expects [F,H,W,Cin] and the pre-applied
  transpose makes Tiling produce out-of-bounds tile rectangles
  (locally repro'd: AssertionError "Rectangle offset should be zero
  when the dimensions are the same. Received rectangle
  HyperRectangle(offset=(3, 0, 0, 0), dims=(3, 3, 3, 32))" in
  TilingCodegen.minimizeRectangle).

Both are clearly marked in-source as "restore when the RedMulE Conv
kernel lands."  Locally validated end-to-end:
- testMVPTraining.py    -> exit 0 (TrainingNetwork.c emits
  PULP_Conv2d_Im2Col_fp32_fp32_fp32_HWC for the tokenizer Conv).
- testMVPOptimizer.py   -> exit 0.

Matmul / Gemm continue to bind to RedMulE as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ank line

Pure formatting / unused-import cleanup, applied verbatim from the
"All changes made by hooks" diff in the failing Lint & Licenses CI
job for 78a05d4.  No behaviour change.

- Generic/TransposeTileConstraint.py: yapf collapses the
  `assert` and `tilerModel.addConstraint(...)` calls onto fewer lines.
- Redmule/Engine.py: autoflake drops the now-unused `ConvLayer`
  import (Conv was unmapped from RedmuleMapping in 78a05d4).
- Redmule/TopologyOptimizationPasses/Passes.py: trim trailing blank
  line at EOF.
- DeeployTest/test_platforms.py: isort wraps the long
  L3_SINGLEBUFFER_TRAINING_MODELS import line.

Local pre-commit couldn't be run end-to-end in the agent container
(clang-format wheel build fails on Python 3.10 / aarch64), so applied
the patch from the CI's own pre-commit log instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both `_runner-siracusa-redmule-tiled.yml` and `_runner-siracusa-tiled.yml`
ran tests with pytest's default stdout capture on, so the per-test
"Cycles" line that GVSoC prints (and that the Deeploy testRunner
forwards) was eaten by pytest and never made it to the CI log -- making
it impossible to compute a speedup number from the existing artifacts.

Add a new optional `pytest-flags` input to both runner workflows
(default preserves the existing behavior: `-n 4` on the redmule runner,
empty on the plain siracusa-tiled runner).  Override it from the two
training callers:

- ci-platform-siracusa-redmule-tiled.yml /
  siracusa-redmule-training-tiled-singlebuffer-L3
  -> "-s -p no:xdist"  (xdist re-buffers stdout even with -s; only one
                        test in this matrix so dropping -n 4 is harmless)
- ci-platform-siracusa-tiled.yml /
  siracusa-training-tiled-l3-singlebuffer
  -> "-s"  (already sequential)

After this lands, the next push will produce log files where the
cct_train Cycles report appears verbatim on both platforms; the diff
gives the actual speedup of routing FP32 Matmul/Gemm through RedMulE
vs. the PULP cluster fallback.

Kernel-test jobs and other non-training callers keep the original flags
(no -s, full xdist parallelism) so their wall-clock isn't affected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements the kernel symbol that
Deeploy/Targets/Redmule/Templates/ConvTemplate.py has been pointing at
since the original pulp-platform/Deeploy#67 port -- it was a declared-
but-never-defined dangling reference, which is why 78a05d4 had to
unmap Conv from RedmuleMapping and route it through PULPCluster.

- TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/Conv2d_Im2Col_fp32_Redmule.c
  All 8 cluster cores cooperatively build the [N_out, P*Q*C] im2col
  matrix in the hoisted L1 transient buffer (contiguous slices of
  output positions, zero-pad when h_in/w_in fall outside the input).
  Core 0 then triggers a single RedMulE GEMM
      [N_out, K] @ [K, F]  ->  [N_out, F]
  via MatMul_*_Redmule / Gemm_*_Redmule from Matmul_fp32_Redmule.c.
  When has_bias is true the [F] bias is broadcast in-place into pOut
  and Gemm runs with y_addr = z_addr = pOut (same pattern the existing
  MatMul kernel already uses for its Y=Z=pDstY zero-init).

- Conv.h declares the new symbol.

- ConvTemplate.py:
  * forwards ${bias} and ${has_bias} (PULPFPConv2DParser already
    populates them) -- the previous template silently dropped bias.
  * sizes the im2col transient buffer to the full per-tile
    H_out * W_out * (C*P*Q) footprint instead of the prior 8-row
    scratch; one big GEMM amortises RedMulE's MMIO setup cost.

- Engine.RedmuleMapping restores 'Conv': ConvLayer([Conv2DRedmuleMapper]).

- Deployer.py restores RedMuleAdjustWeightMemoryLayoutPass -- it
  permutes Conv weights from [F,P,Q,C] to [P,Q,C,F] = flat [P*Q*C, F],
  exactly the right operand the im2col GEMM consumes.  Both Conv and
  the layout pass were disabled together in 78a05d4 (PULPCluster
  fallback expects [F,P,Q,C]); both come back together now.

Locally validated: testMVPTraining.py + testMVPOptimizer.py both exit 0
on Models/Training/CCT/cct_train @ Siracusa_w_redmule; generated
TrainingNetwork.c now emits Conv2d_Im2Col_fp32_fp32_fp32_HWC_8_Redmule
for the tokenizer Conv (was PULP_Conv2d_Im2Col_*_HWC).

GVSoC numerical tolerance still has to be checked on CI -- this is a
new kernel, not a wrapper around an existing one, and the broadcasted-
bias path was never exercised before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…Actions UI

Two unrelated cleanups bundled together because both are CI hygiene:

1) clang-format complaint on TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/Conv2d_Im2Col_fp32_Redmule.c
   from 4517cc9 -- one wrapped const assignment had to be collapsed onto a
   single line to satisfy the pre-commit hook.  Applied verbatim from the
   "All changes made by hooks" diff in the failing Lint & Licenses run
   (job 75249916168).  Zero behaviour change.

2) Post-run summary in both runner workflows.  pytest -s already pipes
   GVSoC's "BENCH train_cycles=... opt_cycles=... weight_sram=..." line
   to the log; tee it to /tmp/pytest_out.log and have a follow-up step
   grep it into $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY so reviewers don't have to dig
   through ~30k-line raw logs to find a speedup number.

   - _runner-siracusa-tiled.yml emits one row per BENCH line (multiple
     training models share that workflow), keyed by weight_sram so the
     reader can identify which model.  Kernel-only invocations have no
     BENCH lines and the step quietly no-ops.
   - _runner-siracusa-redmule-tiled.yml additionally queries the GitHub
     Actions API for the matching CI • Siracusa (Tiled) push run on the
     same head_sha, pulls its training-l3-singlebuffer job log, greps
     the BENCH line with weight_sram=94953 (the cct_train fixture) and
     prints a speedup table inline.  Best-effort: API failures or a
     baseline that hasn't finished yet are logged and skipped, never
     fail the redmule training job.

   Net effect: open the Actions UI for a push run, click into the
   RedMulE Tiled workflow, and the run summary shows
       train_cycles | Siracusa | + RedMulE | speedup
   directly -- no manual log scraping.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…del summary

What changed:

1) DeeployTest/test_siracusa_redmule_tiled_config.py:
   L3_SINGLEBUFFER_TRAINING_MODELS gains ResNet8/resnet8_train and
   MobileNetV1/mobilenetv1_train alongside the existing CCT_train.
   These are the Conv-heavy / DW-PW-heavy fixtures the Siracusa-only
   training CI has been validating; they're the workloads where RedMulE
   should actually show up in the speedup table.

2) Conv mapping reverted (again).  4517cc9 wired Conv to a new
   Conv2d_Im2Col_fp32_fp32_fp32_HWC_8_Redmule kernel; the kernel itself
   works (CCT_train passes locally and on CI with this commit's revert
   undone), but RedmuleConv2DTileConstraint.addPolicyConstraint
   hard-pins inputHeightVar / inputWidthVar to the full feature map
   (see lines 108-112 in TileConstraints/ConvTileConstraint.py),
   which makes the activation tensor unconditionally fit-in-L1.  For
   CCT2's 8x8 tokenizer that is fine; for ResNet8 / MobileNet middle
   layers with 32x32 activations it makes the tiler infeasible
   (DEEPLOY_PATTERN_MEM_copyIdx_* > 196 KiB > 128 KiB L1 budget).
   PULP's Conv2DTileConstraint already supports spatial tiling with
   halo regions, so routing Conv back to PULPClusterEngine keeps the
   bigger Conv-heavy fixtures tilable; MatMul / Gemm continue to bind
   to RedMulE.  RedMuleAdjustWeightMemoryLayoutPass is removed from
   the lowering passes for the same reason (it permuted weights into
   [P,Q,C,F] for the RedMulE kernel, which PULP can't consume).

   The RedMulE Conv kernel + ConvTemplate + Conv.h decl + chunked
   im2col logic all stay in tree as ready infrastructure: re-enable the
   single 'Conv': ConvLayer([Conv2DRedmuleMapper]) line and restore the
   weight-layout pass once RedmuleConv2DTileConstraint learns spatial
   tiling (the kernel itself was already redesigned in this commit to
   stream im2col in IM2COL_CHUNK_ROWS=16 chunks rather than one big
   buffer, so the L1 footprint of the RedMulE Conv path is also no
   longer a blocker -- only the tile constraint is).

   ConvTemplate.computeTransientBuffersSize correspondingly went back
   to 16 * K rows instead of the full-image H_out * W_out * K -- aligns
   with the kernel's chunked behaviour and keeps L1 budget room for
   activations when Conv eventually rebinds to RedMulE.

3) Conv2d_Im2Col_fp32_Redmule.c refactored to chunked im2col.  The
   kernel now loops over output positions in IM2COL_CHUNK_ROWS=16
   chunks, builds im2col for each chunk in parallel across the 8
   cluster cores, then triggers one RedMulE GEMM per chunk.  Multiple
   RedMulE setups (~200 cycles each) instead of one, but the buffer
   never exceeds 16 rows × K, which keeps the future re-enable
   feasible even on ResNet8-class spatial sizes.  Existing local
   validation (CCT_train, ResNet8_train, MobileNetV1_train codegen
   exit=0) passes.

4) _runner-siracusa-redmule-tiled.yml summary step rewritten in Python
   to handle multiple BENCH lines per job: now parses every
   `BENCH train_cycles=... weight_sram=...` line, fetches the matching
   Siracusa-baseline run via the GitHub Actions API, and prints one
   speedup row per model paired by weight_sram.  Previously hard-coded
   to the single CCT weight_sram=94953 case; with ResNet8 +
   MobileNetV1 in the matrix the previous logic would only match CCT
   and silently miss the other two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds pointwise (1x1) Conv backward kernels routed through RedMulE.  The
math is the same matmul-after-reshape that pulp-trainlib's
PULP_PWConvGrad{W,X}2d_fp32_fp32_fp32_CHW already does, but the inner
GEMM is now a single RedMulE trigger after a parallel transpose.  This
is the most natural RedMulE win in CCT-style training: the dY @ X^T
(weight-grad) and W^T @ dY (input-grad) reductions on MobileNet-style
PW blocks have K = H*W ≥ a few hundred elements once you walk a couple
of blocks past the stem, which is well above the K=27 size where the
RedMulE setup cost dominates on the CCT tokenizer.

What landed:

- TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/PWConvGrad_fp32_Redmule.c
  Two kernels:
    PWConvGradW2d_fp32_fp32_fp32_CHW_Redmule(dY, H_out, W_out, C_out,
                                             X,  H_in,  W_in,  C_in,
                                             dW, pTransposeBuffer)
    PWConvGradX2d_fp32_fp32_fp32_CHW_Redmule(dY, H_out, W_out, C_out,
                                             W,  C_in,
                                             dX, H_in,  W_in,
                                             pTransposeBuffer,
                                             transposeBufferSize)
  Each one builds the required transpose (X^T or W^T) in parallel
  across the 8 cluster cores into the hoisted transient buffer, then
  fires a single MatMul_fp32_fp32_fp32_Redmule.

- TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/inc/kernel/Conv.h
  decls for both new symbols.

- Deeploy/Targets/Redmule/Templates/ConvGradTemplate.py (new)
  Two NodeTemplate subclasses (RedmulePWConvGradWTemplate,
  RedmulePWConvGradXTemplate) that hoist the transient transpose buffer
  (C_in * H_in * W_in for dW; C_in * C_out for dX, identical to the
  PULP version so PWConvGradX TileConstraint keeps working) and emit
  the kernel call in the per-batch loop.

- Deeploy/Targets/Redmule/Bindings.py
  RedmulePWConvGradW2DBindings / RedmulePWConvGradX2DBindings with the
  same ConvChecker(2 inputs -> 1 output) signature as the PULP versions.

- Deeploy/Targets/Redmule/Tiler.py
  Tiling-ready bindings paired with the *existing* PULP
  PWConvGradWTileConstraint / PWConvGradXTileConstraint -- the tile-shape
  search is engine-agnostic; only the binding body changes.

- Deeploy/Targets/Redmule/Engine.py
  Adds 'ConvGradW': ConvGradWLayer([PWConvGradW2DRedmuleMapper]) and
  'ConvGradX': ConvGradXLayer([PWConvGradX2DRedmuleMapper]) to
  RedmuleMapping.  Both reuse PULPPWConvGrad{W,X}2DParser, which already
  screens for kernel_shape == [1, 1] / group == 1; non-PW backward
  Convs (regular 3x3 ConvGradW, depthwise variants) transparently fall
  through to PULPClusterEngine (which still carries the full
  [PW, DW, regular] mapper list).

- DeeployTest/test_siracusa_redmule_tiled_config.py
  Kernels/FP32/ConvGradW_PW (1x1 dY 1x128x12x12, dW 128x64) and
  Kernels/FP32/ConvGradX_PW_block_11 (1x1 dY 1x256x3x3, W 256x128) added
  to the redmule kernel matrix.

- DeeployTest/test_siracusa_tiled_config.py
  Same fixtures added to the Siracusa baseline kernel matrix so the
  CI step-summary speedup table has matching PULP cycle numbers to
  diff against.

Local pytest --collect-only yields 5 redmule kernel tests
(3 GEMM + 2 PWConvGrad).  Real cycle / numerical correctness checks
happen on CI; the summary script written in 46e4f3c already parses
BENCH lines for training, the kernel-side `Runtime: N cycles` parsing
will be a follow-up in this PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to 28b18a8.  The previous commit wired both PWConvGradW2D and
PWConvGradX2D into RedmuleEngine.Mapping; CI failed on ResNet8 / MobileNet
training because their non-PW (3x3 / DW) backward Convs reached
RedmuleEngine first (first-match in DeploymentPlatform._selectEngine)
and the layer-level mapper list there carried only the PW Redmule
mapper -- backtracking exhausted at the platform layer instead of
falling back to PULPClusterEngine.

Tried two fixes locally before settling:

1) Add DW + regular PULP mappers to RedmuleEngine's ConvGradW/X layer.
   Parsing now succeeds (3x3 binds to the PULP regular mapper just
   like before), but the tiler reports infeasible memory-pattern
   constraints with min-size 196608 B on the same nodes that worked
   on pure PULP -- some interaction we couldn't fully diagnose
   between adding mappers to the layer and the pattern-memory solver.

2) Don't touch RedmuleEngine.Mapping at all; instead, insert the
   RedMulE PW mappers at position 0 of PULPClusterEngine's existing
   ConvGradW / ConvGradX layers from RedmulePlatform.__init__.  This
   keeps the same Layer object the pure-PULP path uses.

Approach 2 works for ConvGradX but still trips the infeasibility for
ConvGradW; isolation showed it's specifically the W mapper's
insertion that breaks tiling (X-only is green on all three training
fixtures, W-only fails on ResNet8 / MobileNet).  The suspect is the
W template's new C_in * H_in * W_in transposeBuffer footprint being
accounted for by the pattern-memory solver even on nodes where the
PW parser declines and the mapper is never selected -- but the exact
mechanism is non-trivial to chase and out of scope for this round.

This commit:
- Drops the 'ConvGradW' / 'ConvGradX' entries from RedmuleMapping
  entirely; documents the failure mode in-source.
- Inserts only PWConvGradX2DRedmuleMapper at position 0 of the
  PULPClusterEngine ConvGradXLayer in RedmulePlatform.__init__.
  PWConvGradW2DRedmuleMapper, its template, binding, and kernel stay
  in tree as ready infrastructure -- restore the insertion (and the
  Kernels/FP32/ConvGradW_PW matrix entry) once the W-side regression
  is diagnosed.
- Removes Kernels/FP32/ConvGradW_PW from the redmule kernel matrix
  for the same reason; ConvGradX_PW_block_11 stays.

Locally validated: CCT_train, ResNet8_train, MobileNetV1_train codegen
all exit 0 on Siracusa_w_redmule; MobileNet TrainingNetwork.c now
emits PWConvGradX2d_fp32_fp32_fp32_CHW_Redmule for the PW input-grad
nodes (was PULP_PWConvGradX2d_*).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ernel CI

Two stability fixes on the PW backward path + a temporary CI scope cut to
let the kernel tests validate numerical correctness on CI before
re-enabling the full training matrix.

PWConvGradW kernel rewrite:
  The previous single-shot transpose buffer was C_in * H_out * W_out
  floats.  On MobileNetV1 early blocks (C_in=32, H_out=W_out=48) that's
  a 288 KiB transient -- the pattern-memory solver runs out of L1 budget
  before the GEMM even gets to consider tiling.  Switch the kernel to a
  chunked accumulation: PWGW_CHUNK_P = 16 output positions at a time,
  one RedMulE Gemm trigger per chunk where the previous dW serves as the
  bias-and-z operand (y_addr = z_addr = pGradWeight pattern, same trick
  Matmul_fp32_Redmule already uses for Y=Z=pDstY zero-init).  When P >
  CHUNK_P the kernel also needs a contiguous [C_out, this_chunk] slice
  of dY, so the transient buffer also reserves CHUNK_P * C_out floats
  past the X^T region.  Net L1 footprint is fixed at
  CHUNK_P * (C_in + C_out) * 4 B, independent of feature-map area.

  Stride > 1 is handled by deriving (SP, SQ) = (H_in/H_out, W_in/W_out)
  in the kernel and sampling X at (h_out*SP, w_out*SQ).  Mirrors what
  pulp-trainlib's PULP_PWConvGradW2d does internally without changing
  the public signature.

PWConvGradX kernel rewrite (stride-aware):
  The old kernel computed dX[C_in, H_in*W_in] = W^T @ dY[C_out, P] with
  P = H_in*W_in.  That's correct only for stride 1; for stride 2
  downsample 1x1 convs (ResNet8 layer2/3) the GEMM would over-iterate
  and produce wrong dX values.  Fix: GEMM into a dense
  tmp[C_in, H_out*W_out], then scatter to pGradIn at strided positions
  while leaving the rest zero.  The template's transient buffer grows
  to C_in*C_out + C_in*H_out*W_out to host both W^T and tmp.

Mapping:
  RedmulePlatform.__init__ now inserts both PWConvGradW2DRedmuleMapper
  and PWConvGradX2DRedmuleMapper at position 0 of the PULPCluster
  ConvGradW / ConvGradX layers (previously X-only).  Re-add the
  ConvGradW_PW kernel test to the redmule matrix so CI exercises the
  W path with reference reference inputs and a known ORT-computed dW.

Scope cut:
  L3_SINGLEBUFFER_TRAINING_MODELS is temporarily empty in the redmule
  test config -- the kernel-level tests above are the cleanest way to
  validate the new kernels' numerical correctness; full-network runs
  will resume once those are green.  The Siracusa-baseline training
  matrix is untouched, so per-kernel speedup vs PULP is still observable
  through the CI summary's per-fixture baseline lookup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
5b59d3a emptied L3_SINGLEBUFFER_TRAINING_MODELS to isolate the new
PWConvGrad{W,X} RedMulE kernels behind the kernel-test matrix; that
made @pytest.mark.parametrize get an empty list, which pytest treats
as "error raised while trying to determine id of parameter 'test_params'
at position 0" at collection time -- not just on the training job but
on the kernel-singlebuffer-L2 job too, because both jobs collect the
same test_platforms.py module.

Restore CCT/cct_train (the smallest of the three training fixtures)
as the minimum non-empty entry so parametrize stays happy.  Kernel
tests run independently from training tests in the same module --
the kernel matrix is still our primary correctness signal for the new
kernels; CCT just gives parametrize something to enumerate, and runs
as a bonus end-to-end sanity check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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