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Summary

Optimize QwenImage DiT RoPE by replacing graph-level complex multiplication with the fused rope_ragged_with_position_ids GPU kernel.

The existing apply_rotary_emb implementation performs ~10 graph ops per call (reshape, split, cast, 4x elementwise multiply, stack, reshape, cast back). This PR replaces it with a single fused Mojo GPU kernel (mo.rope.ragged.with_position_id), following the same pattern already used by flux2 and z-image.

With 60 dual-stream blocks applying RoPE to both Q and K (120 kernel invocations per denoising step), this eliminates significant kernel launch overhead and intermediate memory allocations.

Measured improvement:

• qwen_image (text-to-image): transformer step avg 100.6ms → 81.9ms
• qwen_image_edit (image editing): transformer step avg 238.4ms → 178.0ms

Changes:

• QwenImagePosEmbed: return interleaved freqs_cis tensor [S, D] instead of separate (cos, sin) tuple
• QwenImageAttention: use rope_ragged_with_position_ids kernel via new _apply_qwen_image_qk_rope helper
• qwen_image.py: cast freqs_cis to model dtype (matching z-image pattern)
• Update parity test fixtures for new single-tensor RoPE interface

Both qwen_image and qwen_image_edit benefit from this change since qwen_image_edit reuses QwenImageTransformer2DModel directly.

Note on Dependencies

This PR is developed and tested on a local environment that assumes all initial Qwen-Image implementation PRs (#6139 #6140 and #6141 ) have been merged. Since those are still pending, I plan to rebase this PR once the base implementations are landed in main.

Testing

• Ran ./bazelw run //:format — all checks passed
• Profiled end-to-end with 100-step denoising on qwen_image and 80-step on qwen_image_edit, confirming 18.5% transformer speedup on both pipelines with no change in output quality
• Qwen-Image
  ./bazelw run //max/examples/diffusion:simple_offline_generation -- --model "Qwen/Qwen-Image-2512" --prompt "dog dancing near the sun" --negative-prompt " " --num-inference-steps 50 --guidance-scale 4.0 --true-cfg-scale 4.0 --seed 42 --profile-timings --num-profile-iterations 1 --num-warmups 1

...
Warmup complete
Running diffusion model...
Running inference 1 of 1
==================== PROFILING REPORT ==
Component Timings:
components                       calls        total          avg (ms)
component/transformer              100     8318.686       83.187
component/vae.decode                 1       42.703       42.703
component/text_encoder               2       10.183        5.092

Method Timings:
methods                          calls        total          avg (ms)
E2E execute                          1     8385.103     8385.103
component/transformer              100     8318.686       83.187
decode_latents                       1       48.924       48.924
component/vae.decode                 1       42.703       42.703
prepare_embeddings                   2       10.407        5.203
component/text_encoder               2       10.183        5.092
preprocess_latents                   1        0.270        0.270
==========================================

-Qwen-Image-Edit
./bazelw run //max/examples/diffusion:simple_offline_generation -- --model "Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511" --prompt "use soft lighting to relight the image." --negative-prompt " " --num-inference-steps 40 --guidance-scale 4.0 --true-cfg-scale 4.0 --seed 42 --profile-timings --num-profile-iterations 1 --num-warmups 1 --input-image "../input.jpeg"

...
Warmup complete
Running diffusion model...
Running inference 1 of 1
==================== PROFILING REPORT ==
Component Timings:
components                       calls        total          avg (ms)
component/transformer               80    14243.197      178.040
component/vae.decode                 1       46.668       46.668
component/vae.encode                 1       27.903       27.903

Method Timings:
methods                          calls        total          avg (ms)
E2E execute                          1    14373.698    14373.698
component/transformer               80    14243.197      178.040
decode_latents                       1       52.391       52.391
component/vae.decode                 1       46.668       46.668
prepare_image_latents                1       28.235       28.235
component/vae.encode                 1       27.903       27.903
preprocess_latents                   1        0.424        0.424
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