⚡️ Speed up function create_position_ids_from_input_ids by 26%

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📄 26% (0.26x) speedup for create_position_ids_from_input_ids in src/transformers/models/ibert/modeling_ibert.py

⏱️ Runtime : 2.11 milliseconds → 1.67 milliseconds (best of 63 runs)

📝 Explanation and details

The optimization achieves a 26% speedup by eliminating unnecessary type conversions and reducing tensor operations in PyTorch.

Key optimizations:

1. Direct boolean comparison: Changed input_ids.ne(padding_idx).int() to input_ids != padding_idx, eliminating the .int() conversion. PyTorch's torch.cumsum can work directly with boolean tensors and automatically returns int64 dtype.

2. Removed redundant type conversion: Eliminated .type_as(mask) since torch.cumsum on boolean tensors already produces the correct int64 dtype, avoiding an unnecessary tensor copy/conversion.

3. Conditional addition: Added if past_key_values_length != 0: check to only perform the addition when needed, reducing operations in the common case where past_key_values_length=0 (which happens in 40 out of 47 test cases based on profiler hits).

4. Simplified final operations: Restructured the computation to use separate mask application and padding_idx addition steps, which is more efficient than the original complex expression.

Why it's faster:

• Boolean tensors use less memory than int tensors (1 byte vs 4 bytes per element)
• Fewer intermediate tensor allocations and copies
• PyTorch's internal optimizations for boolean operations are more efficient
• Conditional logic avoids unnecessary arithmetic when past_key_values_length=0

Impact on workloads:
This function is called during model embedding initialization in the forward pass (as shown in function_references), making it part of the critical path for every inference. The optimization particularly benefits:

• Large batch processing (33.7% speedup on large batches)
• Long sequences (30.1% speedup on 500-token sequences)
• Models with frequent zero past_key_values_length (27.4% average speedup across most test cases)

The optimization maintains identical numerical behavior while being consistently 18-59% faster across all test scenarios.

✅ Correctness verification report:

Test	Status
⚙️ Existing Unit Tests	🔘 None Found
🌀 Generated Regression Tests	✅ 45 Passed
⏪ Replay Tests	🔘 None Found
🔎 Concolic Coverage Tests	🔘 None Found
📊 Tests Coverage	100.0%

🌀 Generated Regression Tests and Runtime

import torch

from transformers.models.ibert.modeling_ibert import create_position_ids_from_input_ids


# unit tests

# ---------------------------
# 1. Basic Test Cases
# ---------------------------


def test_basic_no_padding():
    # No padding, should assign positions starting from padding_idx+1
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]])
    padding_idx = 0
    expected = torch.tensor([[1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 49.7μs -> 38.6μs (28.9% faster)


def test_basic_with_padding():
    # Padding in the middle and end
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0], [1, 0, 2, 3]])
    padding_idx = 0
    # For each row, non-padding positions get incremental numbers starting at padding_idx+1
    expected = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0], [1, 0, 2, 3]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 47.9μs -> 38.0μs (26.3% faster)


def test_basic_custom_padding_idx():
    # Padding index is not zero
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[99, 1, 2, 99], [1, 99, 2, 3]])
    padding_idx = 99
    expected = torch.tensor([[99, 100, 101, 99], [100, 99, 100, 101]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 48.4μs -> 38.9μs (24.4% faster)


def test_basic_past_key_values_length():
    # past_key_values_length shifts the position ids
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0], [1, 0, 2, 3]])
    padding_idx = 0
    past_key_values_length = 2
    expected = torch.tensor([[0, 3, 4, 0], [3, 0, 4, 5]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx, past_key_values_length)
    output = codeflash_output  # 47.5μs -> 40.2μs (18.1% faster)


# ---------------------------
# 2. Edge Test Cases
# ---------------------------


def test_all_padding():
    # All elements are padding
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0]])
    padding_idx = 0
    expected = torch.tensor([[0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 48.1μs -> 37.6μs (27.8% faster)


def test_all_non_padding():
    # No padding at all
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]])
    padding_idx = 0
    expected = torch.tensor([[1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 47.7μs -> 37.9μs (26.0% faster)


def test_empty_input():
    # Empty tensor
    input_ids = torch.empty((2, 0), dtype=torch.long)
    padding_idx = 0
    expected = torch.empty((2, 0), dtype=torch.long)
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 44.9μs -> 36.3μs (23.7% faster)


def test_single_element_padding():
    # Single element, which is padding
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0]])
    padding_idx = 0
    expected = torch.tensor([[0]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 47.7μs -> 40.0μs (19.3% faster)


def test_single_element_non_padding():
    # Single element, which is not padding
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[7]])
    padding_idx = 0
    expected = torch.tensor([[1]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 47.6μs -> 38.3μs (24.3% faster)


def test_padding_idx_negative():
    # Negative padding_idx
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[-1, 1, 2, -1]])
    padding_idx = -1
    expected = torch.tensor([[-1, 0, 1, -1]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 49.2μs -> 38.3μs (28.4% faster)


def test_padding_idx_large():
    # Large padding_idx
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[1000, 1, 2, 1000]])
    padding_idx = 1000
    expected = torch.tensor([[1000, 1001, 1002, 1000]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 47.9μs -> 38.2μs (25.6% faster)


def test_past_key_values_length_zero():
    # past_key_values_length = 0 (default)
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0]])
    padding_idx = 0
    expected = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx, 0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 47.8μs -> 37.5μs (27.4% faster)


def test_past_key_values_length_large():
    # Large past_key_values_length
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0]])
    padding_idx = 0
    past_key_values_length = 100
    expected = torch.tensor([[0, 101, 102, 0]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx, past_key_values_length)
    output = codeflash_output  # 49.2μs -> 39.3μs (25.3% faster)


def test_padding_idx_not_in_input():
    # Padding idx not present in input_ids
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[1, 2, 3]])
    padding_idx = 99
    expected = torch.tensor([[100, 101, 102]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 48.7μs -> 37.1μs (31.4% faster)


def test_non_square_input():
    # Non-square input (batch size != sequence length)
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1], [2, 0], [1, 2]])
    padding_idx = 0
    expected = torch.tensor([[0, 1], [1, 0], [1, 2]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 49.6μs -> 37.8μs (31.2% faster)


# ---------------------------
# 3. Large Scale Test Cases
# ---------------------------


def test_large_batch():
    # Large batch size, moderate sequence length
    batch_size = 100
    seq_len = 10
    input_ids = torch.zeros((batch_size, seq_len), dtype=torch.long)
    input_ids[:, 1:] = torch.arange(1, seq_len).expand(batch_size, seq_len - 1)
    padding_idx = 0
    # First column is padding, rest are non-padding
    expected = torch.zeros((batch_size, seq_len), dtype=torch.long)
    for i in range(batch_size):
        expected[i, 1:] = torch.arange(1, seq_len)
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 45.0μs -> 33.6μs (33.7% faster)


def test_large_sequence():
    # Large sequence length, small batch
    batch_size = 2
    seq_len = 500
    input_ids = torch.ones((batch_size, seq_len), dtype=torch.long)
    padding_idx = 0
    expected = torch.arange(1, seq_len + 1).expand(batch_size, seq_len)
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 48.0μs -> 36.9μs (30.1% faster)


def test_large_batch_and_sequence_with_padding():
    # Large batch and sequence with random padding
    batch_size = 50
    seq_len = 20
    padding_idx = 0
    input_ids = torch.randint(0, 5, (batch_size, seq_len))
    # Set some elements to padding_idx randomly
    input_ids[input_ids == 0] = padding_idx
    mask = input_ids.ne(padding_idx).int()
    # Compute expected output
    expected = (torch.cumsum(mask, dim=1).type_as(mask) * mask).long() + padding_idx
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 22.0μs -> 15.3μs (43.9% faster)


def test_large_past_key_values_length():
    # Large past_key_values_length with large input
    batch_size = 10
    seq_len = 100
    padding_idx = 0
    past_key_values_length = 50
    input_ids = torch.ones((batch_size, seq_len), dtype=torch.long)
    expected = torch.arange(1 + past_key_values_length, seq_len + 1 + past_key_values_length).expand(
        batch_size, seq_len
    )
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx, past_key_values_length)
    output = codeflash_output  # 46.8μs -> 38.1μs (22.9% faster)


def test_large_input_all_padding():
    # Large input, all padding
    batch_size = 100
    seq_len = 50
    input_ids = torch.full((batch_size, seq_len), 0, dtype=torch.long)
    padding_idx = 0
    expected = torch.zeros((batch_size, seq_len), dtype=torch.long)
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 58.9μs -> 48.2μs (22.4% faster)


# ---------------------------
# 4. Mutation/Robustness Tests
# ---------------------------


def test_mutation_padding_idx_change():
    # Changing padding_idx should change output
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0], [1, 0, 2, 3]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, 0)
    output1 = codeflash_output  # 49.1μs -> 38.9μs (26.0% faster)
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, 1)
    output2 = codeflash_output  # 15.6μs -> 9.88μs (58.4% faster)


def test_mutation_past_key_values_length_change():
    # Changing past_key_values_length should change output
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0], [1, 0, 2, 3]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, 0, 0)
    output1 = codeflash_output  # 46.3μs -> 36.2μs (28.0% faster)
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, 0, 5)
    output2 = codeflash_output  # 15.5μs -> 11.4μs (36.0% faster)


def test_mutation_input_change():
    # Changing input_ids should change output
    input_ids1 = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0], [1, 0, 2, 3]])
    input_ids2 = torch.tensor([[1, 0, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 0]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids1, 0)
    output1 = codeflash_output  # 46.7μs -> 36.3μs (28.7% faster)
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids2, 0)
    output2 = codeflash_output  # 15.5μs -> 9.77μs (59.1% faster)


# codeflash_output is used to check that the output of the original code is the same as that of the optimized code.

import torch

from transformers.models.ibert.modeling_ibert import create_position_ids_from_input_ids


# unit tests

# --------------------------
# BASIC TEST CASES
# --------------------------


def test_basic_single_sequence_no_padding():
    # Sequence: [1, 2, 3, 4], padding_idx=0
    # Should return: [1, 2, 3, 4]
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[1, 2, 3, 4]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 50.9μs -> 41.1μs (23.8% faster)


def test_basic_single_sequence_with_padding():
    # Sequence: [0, 1, 2, 0], padding_idx=0
    # Should return: [0, 1, 2, 0]
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 49.8μs -> 38.8μs (28.1% faster)


def test_basic_multiple_sequences_same_length():
    # Batch: [[0, 1, 2], [1, 0, 2]], padding_idx=0
    # Should return: [[0, 1, 2], [1, 0, 2]]
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2], [1, 0, 2]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 49.2μs -> 37.9μs (29.8% faster)
    expected = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2], [1, 0, 2]])


def test_basic_all_padding():
    # All elements are padding
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 0, 0]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 48.1μs -> 38.5μs (24.9% faster)


def test_basic_different_padding_idx():
    # Sequence: [3, 1, 3, 2], padding_idx=3
    # Should return: [3, 4, 3, 5]
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[3, 1, 3, 2]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=3)
    output = codeflash_output  # 48.3μs -> 38.2μs (26.4% faster)


def test_basic_past_key_values_length():
    # Sequence: [0, 1, 2], padding_idx=0, past_key_values_length=2
    # Should return: [0, 3, 4]
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0, past_key_values_length=2)
    output = codeflash_output  # 48.5μs -> 40.5μs (19.8% faster)


# --------------------------
# EDGE TEST CASES
# --------------------------


def test_edge_empty_sequence():
    # Empty input
    input_ids = torch.empty((1, 0), dtype=torch.long)
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 45.2μs -> 35.6μs (27.1% faster)


def test_edge_all_non_padding():
    # All tokens are non-padding, padding_idx=0
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[1, 2, 3, 4]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 49.2μs -> 38.6μs (27.4% faster)


def test_edge_alternating_padding_nonpadding():
    # Alternating padding/non-padding
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 3]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 48.5μs -> 38.0μs (27.5% faster)


def test_edge_padding_idx_negative():
    # Negative padding_idx
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[-1, 1, -1, 2]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=-1)
    output = codeflash_output  # 48.9μs -> 37.7μs (29.8% faster)


def test_edge_large_past_key_values_length():
    # Large past_key_values_length
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0, past_key_values_length=100)
    output = codeflash_output  # 49.0μs -> 40.2μs (21.9% faster)


def test_edge_2d_batch_varied_padding():
    # Batch: [[0, 1, 2, 0], [1, 0, 0, 2]], padding_idx=0
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0], [1, 0, 0, 2]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 49.0μs -> 37.5μs (30.7% faster)
    expected = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0], [1, 0, 0, 2]])


def test_edge_padding_idx_out_of_vocab():
    # Padding idx not present in input
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[4, 5, 6]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 58.0μs -> 46.7μs (24.1% faster)


def test_edge_input_ids_with_negative_values():
    # Negative values in input_ids, padding_idx=0
    input_ids = torch.tensor([[0, -2, 3, 0]])
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 50.5μs -> 40.3μs (25.3% faster)


# --------------------------
# LARGE SCALE TEST CASES
# --------------------------


def test_large_batch_and_sequence():
    # Large batch, sequence length 1000, batch size 16
    batch_size = 16
    seq_len = 1000
    # Create input_ids with padding at random places
    input_ids = torch.randint(0, 10, (batch_size, seq_len))
    # Set some tokens to padding_idx=0
    input_ids[:, ::10] = 0  # every 10th token is padding
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 78.9μs -> 67.2μs (17.3% faster)
    # Check that first non-padding position after padding is padding_idx+1
    for b in range(batch_size):
        for i in range(1, seq_len):
            if input_ids[b, i] != 0 and input_ids[b, i - 1] == 0:
                pass


def test_large_past_key_values_length():
    # Large sequence, large past_key_values_length
    seq_len = 1000
    input_ids = torch.ones((1, seq_len), dtype=torch.long)
    past_key_values_length = 500
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(
        input_ids, padding_idx=0, past_key_values_length=past_key_values_length
    )
    output = codeflash_output  # 58.0μs -> 48.4μs (20.0% faster)
    # Should be: [501, 502, ..., 1500]
    expected = torch.arange(1, seq_len + 1) + past_key_values_length


def test_large_all_padding():
    # Large sequence, all padding
    seq_len = 1000
    input_ids = torch.zeros((1, seq_len), dtype=torch.long)
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 54.3μs -> 43.3μs (25.3% faster)


def test_large_no_padding():
    # Large sequence, no padding
    seq_len = 1000
    input_ids = torch.arange(1, seq_len + 1).unsqueeze(0)
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=0)
    output = codeflash_output  # 47.9μs -> 36.5μs (31.4% faster)
    expected = torch.arange(1, seq_len + 1).unsqueeze(0)


def test_large_random_padding_idx():
    # Large sequence, random padding_idx
    seq_len = 1000
    padding_idx = 7
    input_ids = torch.randint(0, 10, (1, seq_len))
    input_ids[:, ::17] = padding_idx  # every 17th token is padding
    codeflash_output = create_position_ids_from_input_ids(input_ids, padding_idx=padding_idx)
    output = codeflash_output  # 45.8μs -> 34.0μs (34.6% faster)


# codeflash_output is used to check that the output of the original code is the same as that of the optimized code.

To edit these changes git checkout codeflash/optimize-create_position_ids_from_input_ids-mia5lom5 and push.