phase 6+7+8: model loading, BPE tokenizer, GPT-2 inference (Milestone ①)

Phase 6 — Model Loading (xserv-model):
- safetensors parser with single/sharded file support
- ModelConfig with dual naming (GPT-2 n_embd/n_head + modern HF naming)
- Weight loading flow: safetensors → mmap → CPU Tensor → GPU

Phase 7 — BPE Tokenizer (xserv-tokenizer):
- Full BPE encode/decode from tokenizer.json
- GPT-2 byte-to-unicode mapping (printable ASCII identity + shifted bytes)
- Pre-tokenization regex, special token handling
- Chat template support structure

Phase 8 — GPT-2 Complete Inference:
- GPT-2 model definition: wte, wpe, 12 transformer blocks, ln_f
- Forward pass: embedding → (LayerNorm → MHA → residual → LayerNorm → MLP → residual) × 12 → LN → logits
- QKV split with correct [batch, heads, seq, dim] layout (fixed reshape bug)
- Greedy sampling from last-position logits
- Interactive CLI: xserv-cli <model-dir> [--max-tokens N]

Verified: GPT-2 124M generates coherent English text on RTX 5090.
"The future of AI is uncertain. The future of AI is uncertain..."
"Once upon a time, the world was a place of great beauty..."

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/08-gpt2.md

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+# Phase 8: GPT-2 Complete Inference — Design Document (Milestone ①)
+
+## Goal
+
+Wire everything together: load GPT-2 124M, tokenize input, run forward pass, sample tokens, decode output. First time seeing the model "speak".
+
+## Model Architecture (GPT-2 124M)
+
+```
+hidden_size = 768
+num_heads = 12
+num_layers = 12
+vocab_size = 50257
+max_position_embeddings = 1024
+activation = GELU
+normalization = LayerNorm (pre-LN)
+tied embeddings (lm_head == wte)
+```
+
+## Forward Pass
+
+```
+tokens [S]
+  → wte[tokens] + wpe[0..S]           → [S, 768]
+  → for each layer:
+      residual = x
+      x = layernorm(x, ln_1)
+      x = attention(x)                 # Q,K,V from linear, MHA, output linear
+      x = x + residual
+      residual = x
+      x = layernorm(x, ln_2)
+      x = mlp(x)                       # linear→GELU→linear
+      x = x + residual
+  → layernorm(x, ln_f)
+  → logits = x @ wte.T                → [S, 50257]
+  → sample(logits[-1])                 → next token
+```
+
+## Sampling
+
+- Greedy: argmax
+- Temperature: logits / T → softmax → sample
+- Top-K: keep top-k logits, rest = -inf
+- Top-P: sorted by prob, cumsum ≤ p
+
+## CLI Binary
+
+```
+$ cargo run --release --bin xserv-cli -- --model path/to/gpt2
+
+xserv> The future of AI is
+GPT-2> ...generated text...
+```
+
+## Test Plan
+
+- [x] Greedy generation produces coherent English text
+- [x] Interactive CLI works (pipe and interactive mode)
+- [x] Multiple prompts verified: "The future of AI is", "Once upon a time"
+
+## Takeaways
+
+1. **QKV split + head reshape 的 layout 陷阱（最关键的 bug）**：GPT-2 的 `c_attn` 输出 `[S, 3H]` 需要 split 成 Q/K/V 再 reshape 成 `[1, num_heads, S, head_dim]`。关键错误：从 `[S, num_heads, head_dim]` 直接 `reshape` 到 `[1, num_heads, S, head_dim]` 不等于 transpose！Reshape 只是重新解释 flat data 的 shape，不会重排数据。必须手动按 `[batch, head, seq, dim]` 的目标 layout 写入数据。同理 merge_heads 也需要手动重排。
+
+2. **CPU round-trip 作为 correctness first 策略**：`add_tensors`、`add_bias`、`split_qkv`、`merge_heads` 都通过 CPU round-trip 实现。虽然慢（每次都有 GPU→CPU→GPU 拷贝），但确保了正确性。Phase 15 会写专门的 CUDA kernel 替换这些操作。
+
+3. **GPT-2 的 Conv1D 权重布局**：GPT-2 用 `Conv1D` 而非 `Linear`，权重存为 `[in, out]`（不是标准 Linear 的 `[out, in]`）。计算方式是 `x @ weight`（不需要转置）。这和 Qwen3/LLaMA 的 `[out, in]` 布局不同——Phase 10 需要注意。
+
+4. **Greedy decoding 的重复问题**：GPT-2 124M 在 greedy decoding 下极易陷入循环（"The world was a place of great danger, and..."）。这是已知行为，temperature + top-k/top-p sampling 可以缓解。当前实现只有 greedy，sampling 将在后续添加。
+
+5. **无 KV Cache 的性能代价**：每生成一个 token 都要重新跑完整 forward pass（O(S²) attention）。50 tokens 的生成需要 50 次 full forward，每次的 attention 复杂度还在增长。Phase 9 的 KV Cache 会将 decode 降到 O(S) per token。