March 2025 monthly work summary for huggingface/optimum-habana. Focused on performance optimization for the Stable Diffusion 3 pipeline on Habana accelerators by padding prompt embeddings to ensure compatibility with softmax_hf8 kernels, improving resource utilization and overall pipeline performance. No major bugs fixed this month.

February 2025 — HugoingFace Optimum Habana (huggingface/optimum-habana) monthly summary. Key features delivered: - None recorded for this repository in February 2025. Major bugs fixed: - Mixtral MoE forward pass: fixed experts_max indexing to reflect the actual number of available experts minus one, preventing out-of-bounds errors and aligning expert selection with the configured architecture. Commit: 5af3367b330bbb93d9cc0c2d47de1edc33b94425 (#1755). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased reliability and correctness of the Mixtral MoE forward path, reducing the risk of runtime errors and misrouting due to mismatched experts_max values. The change aligns runtime behavior with the architecture, improving stability for experiments and deployments that leverage Mixtral with Habana. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Python, PyTorch, and MoE architecture concepts; debugging and correctness fixes; collaboration with HuggingFace Habana integration; Git-driven change management. Business value: - Improved stability and correctness in production-like workloads, enabling safer experimentation with Mixtral configurations and lowering troubleshooting overhead.