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Pallas HBM Windows Open on Any Tensor Axis

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AmesingFlank kitzbergerg unography Cui, Yifeng Vincent Moens ethche 谢翊凡
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Pallas stagers just gained the ability to align HBM windows on any tensor axis, not just the last one, and a critical autotuning crash is fixed.

The Pallas frontend is flexing serious new muscle with a 16-PR stack from AmesingFlank that extends stage-aligned HBM windows to any tensor axis [1], covers static value slices [2], and supports aligned dynamic HBM windows [3] for projection kernels. Meanwhile, the autotuner now handles kernels with callable arguments, fixing the `TypeError: Cannot serialize type: code` that broke AOT tuning for things like flex attention's score_mod [4]. On the XPU front, a torch-xpu-ops commit pin [5] lands fixes for register spilling, group_reduce asserts, and TopK NaN behavior. "AOT tuning currently does not work for any kernel with a callable input" [4], but that's no longer the case. Elsewhere, DreamerV3 gets a focused correctness patch fixing episode-boundary semantics [6], and TensorDict deprecates `TensorDictModule.device` ahead of removal in 0.17 [7]. Buckle up, because the Pallas changes alone shift how you write tile-based kernels.

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  1. [1] [Pallas] Stage aligned HBM windows on any tensor axis ↗ pytorch/helion
  2. [2] [Pallas] Lower static value slices as basic indices ↗ pytorch/helion
  3. [3] [Pallas] Stage aligned dynamic HBM windows ↗ pytorch/helion
  4. [4] [autotuner] AOT tuning for callables ↗ pytorch/helion
  5. [5] Update torch-xpu-ops commit pin (#194185) pytorch/pytorch ↗
  6. [6] [BugFix] Match DreamerV3 reference semantics ↗ pytorch/rl
  7. [7] [Deprecation] Deprecate TensorDictModule.device (#1770) ↗ pytorch/tensordict

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Quick answers

What shipped in PyTorch on August 22, 2026?
Pallas stagers just gained the ability to align HBM windows on any tensor axis, not just the last one, and a critical autotuning crash is fixed. In total, 63 commits and 18 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to PyTorch on August 22, 2026?
13 developers shipped this update, including AmesingFlank, kitzbergerg, ethche, unography, 谢翊凡, dependabot, Tomasz Szulist, and Cui, Yifeng, and 5 more.
What were the notable PyTorch updates?
[Pallas] Stage aligned HBM windows on any tensor axis, [Pallas] Lower static value slices as basic indices, and [Pallas] Stage aligned dynamic HBM windows.
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