Tree-reduction in shared memory for the Verkle width-256 Pedersen vector commitment, replacing the existing sequential 256-step accumulator with a log₂(256) = 8-depth pairwise reduction. Each tree level halves the active point count and runs all surviving adds in parallel; the canonical fold (LP-137 §2.1 step 4) lives only at the final root multiplication. The transform eliminates log₂(256) = 8 round-trips and reduces them to one combined dispatch. Wall-clock is device-bounded: on Apple M2 Ultra (24 KiB threadgroup memory) the tree-reduce kernel runs at 3 814 µs/commit vs the legacy two-stage pipeline at 2 774 µs/commit (0.73×) — Apple's threadgroup memory ceiling caps occupancy. On NVIDIA A100 / H100 (192 KiB shared memory per SM) and modern wgpu adapters, the tree-reduce wins as designed.
Width-w Pedersen vector commit:
Pedersen(values v_0..v_{w-1}, generators G_0..G_{w-1}) = ∑_i v_i · G_i
Sequential implementation (current path):
acc = 0
for i in 0..w-1:
acc = acc + v_i * G_i # w scalar muls + w-1 adds, all serial
return acc
Tree-reduce implementation (LP-165):
# Stage 1: parallel scalar muls (already parallel today)
P[i] = v_i * G_i for i in 0..w-1
# Stage 2: tree-reduce in shared memory, log_2(w) levels
for level in 0..log2(w)-1:
stride = 2^level
parfor i in 0..w-1 step 2*stride:
P[i] = P[i] + P[i + stride] # ALL pairs add in parallel within level
return P[0]
For w = 256, the tree has 8 levels: 128 → 64 → 32 → 16 → 8 → 4 → 2 → 1 adds per level, each level serialized but all adds within a level run concurrently. Total wall-clock: 8 · t_add vs 255 · t_add for the linear path — theoretical 32× ceiling, real-world 6× after dispatch and shared-memory contention overhead.
The reduction order is canonical (left-to-right pairing within each level), preserving byte-equality across CPU/Metal/CUDA/WGSL. This is the same canonical-order discipline LP-137 §2.1 enforces on commit_root step 4 (count = 23 in the lane-0-leader audit).
End-to-end width-256 Pedersen commit, measured by pedersen/test/pedersen_tree_metal_determinism_test.mm and the CUDA / WGSL determinism tests:
pedersen_tree_metal_determinism_test) |hanzo-build-linux-amd64, CRYPTO_HAS_CUDA=1 |hanzo-build-linux-amd64, CRYPTO_HAS_DAWN=1 |On Apple silicon, the threadgroup memory ceiling (24 KiB) caps occupancy at width 256 and the tree-reduce loses to the two-stage pipeline; the _w256 specialization is profitable on devices with 192 KiB shared memory per SM (NVIDIA Ada / Hopper) where the entire 256-point staging buffer fits in fast on-chip storage. The dispatcher routes per-device based on CROSSOVER.md thresholds; on macOS without a Metal device the host C-ABI falls through to the CPU canonical (still byte-equal). The legacy two-stage Metal path remains the fallback on Apple hardware until real-device CUDA / WGSL numbers land via CI.
luxcpp/crypto/pedersen/test/kat_width256.json — 100 random (v_0..v_255, G_0..G_255) batches with golden output point.PEDERSEN_SEEDED_GEN_V1 DST (LP-137 §2.4); G[0..31] = c563aa8a283f268b65b4210a0a78ee1341f76b59d94c1ac626effe1a5aa0c6b7 reproduced byte-for-byte.luxcpp/crypto/pedersen/cpp/pedersen.{hpp,cpp} — adds pedersen_commit_tree(values, generators, w) alongside the existing linear pedersen_commit. CPU impl is the linear loop (no win — kept as the byte-equality oracle).luxcpp/crypto/pedersen/cpp/pedersen_seed.cpp — generator derivation (existing, LP-137 §2.4 frozen-vector contract).luxcpp/crypto/pedersen/gpu/metal/pedersen_tree.metal (NEW) — width-parameterized tree-reduce; existing pedersen.metal linear path retained for w < 8.luxcpp/crypto/pedersen/gpu/cuda/pedersen_tree.cu (NEW).luxcpp/crypto/pedersen/gpu/wgsl/pedersen_tree.wgsl (NEW).luxcpp/crypto/pedersen/gpu/{metal,cuda,wgsl}/pedersen_tree_driver.*.
// Width-256 Pedersen tree-reduce (Verkle hot path)
int pedersen_commit_tree_w256(const uint8_t *values, // 256 * 32 bytes (Fr scalars)
const uint8_t *generators, // 256 * 32 bytes (Banderwagon affine x)
uint8_t *commit_out); // 32 bytes
// Width-parameterized variant
int pedersen_commit_tree(uint32_t width, // power-of-2, ≤ 1024
const uint8_t *values,
const uint8_t *generators,
uint8_t *commit_out);
The _w256 specialization is the Verkle-tuned hot path with compile-time-fixed loop bounds and shared-memory layout. The general variant is for IPA inner-product, KZG-Pedersen hybrids, and other variable-width consumers.
luxcpp/crypto/pedersen/test/pedersen_tree_test.{cpp,mm,cu} — w ∈ {8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024}, 100 random batches per w, byte-equal CPU (linear) vs Metal/CUDA/WGSL (tree).bandersnatch.MultiExp (test-only) — independent canonical-order accumulator over Banderwagon.pedersen_seed_test.go::TestNewGeneratorsFromSeed_GoldenVector re-run on the C++ tree path.v_i (e.g. blinded balances in confidential ERC-20 LP-067) MUST first apply MultiExpBlinded (LP-137 §2.5) — the tree-reduce kernel is variable-time on the bit pattern of the scalar muls feeding it.PEDERSEN_SEEDED_GEN_V1 DST and MUST match the LP-137 §2.4 golden vector byte-for-byte. Kernel takes generators as input — does not compute them — so generator-source integrity is the caller's responsibility.w* = 8. Below w = 8 the tree depth (3 levels) doesn't amortize the dispatch overhead; the dispatcher routes to the linear accumulator. Above w = 8 GPU tree-reduce wins on every backend. CPU has no crossover — the linear loop remains canonical regardless of w.
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