[WIP]support fused neighborhood attention for npu #1034
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Summary
This PR introduces support for Fused Neighborhood Attention (FNA) optimized specifically for NPU architectures. The implementation focuses on memory efficiency and hardware affinity to prevent performance bottlenecks. Key modifications include:
Grid Dimension Refactoring: Adjusted the attention grid to a 2D structure. This change optimizes thread block mapping and prevents User Buffer (UB) overflow, ensuring the workload fits within the NPU's local memory constraints.
NPU-Affinity Softmax: Refactored the Softmax tiling and grid dimensions to align with NPU compute unit sizes, maximizing throughput and reducing synchronization overhead.
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Testing Done
make testto ensure correctnessmake checkstyleto ensure code stylemake test-convergenceto ensure convergence