April 2025: Delivered hardware-optimized multimodal inference and performance improvements across two repositories, focusing on Gaudi-enabled GLM-4v-9b and DeepSeek-V2. Resolved graph recompilation issues tied to image variations and batch sizes, and implemented advanced attention optimizations to boost throughput and latency. These changes enable scalable, production-ready multimodal inference on Gaudi hardware and accelerate end-to-end pipelines.

January 2025 (2025-01): Key deliverable was the DeepSeek-v2 Gaudi optimization with DeepSpeed multi-card training support in HabanaAI/optimum-habana-fork. The work includes fused attention kernels and RMS normalization to boost performance, support for flash attention and bf16 in attention softmax, and updated documentation plus multi-card training examples with DeepSpeed to streamline adoption on Gaudi hardware. No major bugs were reported this month. Overall impact includes improved training throughput and scalability on Gaudi, reduced onboarding friction for Habana users, and a solid foundation for future model scaling. Technologies demonstrated include Gaudi-optimized kernels, DeepSpeed integration, fused attention and RMS normalization, bf16 precision in attention softmax, flash attention compatibility, and comprehensive documentation.