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WebGPU subgroups for attention and matmul shaders #386

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@sauravpanda

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WebGPU subgroups (shipping Chrome 144-145) enable warp-level SIMT operations. Benchmarks show up to 13x speedup, 26x with swizzle on some GPUs.

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  • Add subgroup reductions to attention softmax (replace shared memory reduction)
  • Use subgroup shuffle for matmul accumulation
  • Feature-detect subgroup support, fallback to existing shaders
  • Subgroup ballot for sparse attention patterns

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