Every tape op allocates its output via Tensor::zeros -> GpuBuffer::alloc ->
cudaMalloc, a synchronous process-serialized driver call. Under the single-
process thread-per-GPU DDP model the rank threads' hundreds of per-step allocs
serialize through the driver (KI-5 root cause); it costs single-GPU too.
Add a per-device, size-classed caching pool: GpuBuffer::alloc serves from a
free-list (request rounded up to a size class so repeating training shapes
reuse buffers), only cudaMalloc on a miss; Drop returns the buffer to the pool
instead of cudaFree. Thread-safe via a global registry keyed by device id with
each device's free-list behind its own Mutex (registry lock held only to clone
out the per-device Arc<Mutex<_>>, so rank threads don't contend across devices).
The buffer records its alloc-time device so Drop returns to the right pool.
Transparent: physical capacity may be rounded up, but len()/memset/copy bounds
all use the requested length, so the rounded tail is never read and numerics are
unchanged. zeros() still memsets (reused buffers hold stale bytes).
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The ~1-ULP cross-rank param divergence is NOT caused by coalescing: the
original ungrouped all-reduce is itself run-to-run nondeterministic on
this box (6 reruns: cross-rank diff {0, 0, 5.96e-8, 5.96e-8, 1.19e-7,
1.19e-7}), so the T8 test's `max|p0-p1| == 0.0` assertion is flaky here
(passes ~1/3 of runs) independent of T11. Diffs are ≤1.19e-7 (a few ULP,
numerically benign; loss-match stays ~6e-7). Noted as a follow-up to
loosen the assertion to a tight tolerance; coalescing was reverted purely
because it gives ~0 scaling benefit.
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T11 set out to coalesce/overlap the gradient all-reduce per the original
KI-5 hypothesis. Profiling on dash5 (8× RTX 5090, dim384, per-rank batch
32, seq 256) falsifies that hypothesis:
- grad all-reduce is only ~6-7% of each step;
- per-rank fwd+bwd inflates ~linearly with world (136→780 ms for the
SAME per-rank workload) and dominates;
- coalescing the ~150 per-tensor all-reduces into one grouped/flat
launch gives ~0 scaling gain AND breaks cross-rank bit-identity
(max|p0-p1| 0.0 → 1.49e-8), violating the T8 correctness gate — so
the coalescing commit (b8b5821) was reverted.
Real bottleneck (NOCOMM=1 still inflates; util shows 1-2 of 8 GPUs busy
at a time; CPU not starved; per-thread default stream doesn't help):
single-process thread-per-GPU ranks serialize on the single CUDA
context's per-op cudaMalloc / driver calls. Fix direction (out of T11
scope): a caching/pool allocator, or process-per-GPU. Recorded in
docs/known-issues.md with the measured table; KI-5 stays Open.
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Replace the per-parameter eager all-reduce (~150 tiny serial NCCL calls
for dim512, DDP's dominant cost after T10's batched forward) with a
coalesced bucketed all-reduce: pack grads into a few large contiguous
scratch buffers, all-reduce each bucket once (fused via ncclGroupStart/
End), fold the 1/world average into one per-bucket scale, unpack back.
The packed buffer is the concatenation of the grad tensors, so NCCL's
element-wise sum over a bucket equals the per-tensor sums — bit-identical
to the un-bucketed path; only launch/latency overhead is removed. DDP
cross-rank param identity + loss-match are preserved.
Adds xtrain_cuda::device::copy_d2d (cudaMemcpy D2D) for the pack/unpack.
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Per-run design doc docs/runs/03-v3-tinystories-dim512.md (data 245.8M tok full
TinyStories ~0.53 epoch / arch dim512 16L core 67.13M vs total 118.59M, what
changed vs v2 / hyperparams 30000 steps batch 32 seq 256 lr 6e-4→6e-5 warmup
1500 + cosine clip 1.0 single-GPU batched via T10 / results train 10.91→1.40
best val 1.3027 ~26K tok/s / improvement vs v2 1.71→1.30 with side-by-side
samples). Notes v3 validated T10 batched forward at scale and avoided KI-5 by
staying single-GPU; v4 proposal + open levers (KI-2/3/4/5, data ladder).
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docs/09-batched-forward.md: the launch-bound diagnosis recap, the
[B*S,dim]-flatten + fused batched-attention design (RoPE per-seq position +
causal masking inline in softmax), the attention forward/backward via
strided-batched GEMM, autograd implications, the looped-split/merge dead-end
post-mortem (1127 tok/s, host round-trips), verification methods + before→after
throughput, and the v3 recommendation (per-rank batch 16-32, single/small world
until KI-5 bucketed all-reduce lands).
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Mark KI-1 (single-sequence launch-bound, the root cause of "DDP weak scaling")
FIXED by the T10 batched forward. dim384/12L, batch 16, seq 256, 1 GPU,
back-to-back A/B:
before (single-seq): ~1653 tok/s, GPU util 0-15%, ~3 GB
after (batched): 25627 tok/s (batch16) / 40263 (batch32),
util 37% mean / 54% peak, ~10 GB
→ single-GPU ~15.5x (batch16) / ~24x (batch32); util 0-15% → 37-54%.
A single GPU at batch 32 (40K tok/s) now beats the old 4-GPU setup (3163) ~12x.
The v3 falsification history (larger batch doesn't help a single-seq design) is
kept. DDP residual weak scaling is a NEW, higher-level bottleneck batching
exposes (eager all-reduce of all params each step) → recorded as KI-5
(bucketed/overlapped all-reduce), out of T10 scope.
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Feed a real batch of B sequences as ONE batched forward/backward, replacing the
"loop B times + let the tape SUM grads + clip ×1/B" hack. CE mean over B*S rows
is already the batch-mean loss, so backward yields the batch-mean gradient
directly → clip pre-scale = 1.0.
DDP stays equivalent: each rank runs one batched forward over its b_local =
B_global/world sequences (local-mean grad Σ_local/b_local); all_reduce_average
(sum across ranks /world) = Σ_global/B_global = global batch-mean → clip
pre-scale 1.0. The ddp_correctness single-GPU baseline batches the same way.
DDP loss matches single-GPU 5.7e-7, cross-rank params bit-identical (0.0).
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forward_batched(ids[B*S], batch)/loss_batched: run B equal-length sequences as
ONE forward over flattened [B*S] ids, so every linear is one big [B*S,dim] GEMM.
Attention reshapes to [B*nh,S,hd], runs the fused batched causal SDPA (per-seq
mask + RoPE period=S, no cross-sequence attention), writes back [B*S,dim]. The
old per-(batch,head) loop + host-round-tripping split/merge_heads + the additive
causal_mask leaf are gone. forward(ids[seq]) is now forward_batched(ids,1), so
the sampler / inference path (batch=1) is unchanged.
+batched_ids_tensor helper. New batched.rs test: batched forward == looped
single-sequence (logits identical 0.0, grads 6.4e-4, loss identical). PyTorch
parity now exercises B>1 (B=2,S=4): loss 5e-8, logits 6.9e-6, all 25 param
grads within rtol — verifying per-seq RoPE position + per-seq causal masking.
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Add the batched-forward primitives. Linears/norms/elementwise/embedding/CE
already act on flat [rows,dim], so they work unchanged on [B*S,dim]; only
attention + RoPE need sequence awareness:
- RoPE: kernel takes a `period` (= seq len) so position = row % period, i.e.
per-sequence position on a flattened batch (period == tokens = single seq).
- Fused batched causal attention: new `Tensor::attention`/`attention_backward`
+ ops node, running QKᵀ and PV as cublasSgemmStridedBatched over the B*nh
(sequence,head) blocks (new sgemm_strided_batched binding) and a causal
softmax kernel (scale + per-row causal mask inline) — the whole attention is
3 launches regardless of B*nh, no per-head/per-seq loop, no host round-trip.
- transpose_4d12 ([B,S,nh,hd] <-> [B,nh,S,hd]) to lay out the batched heads.
grad-checks: new batched-rope, transpose_4d12, batched-attention dQ/dK/dV all
pass finite-diff (attn dK 1.5e-2, dQ 7.5e-3, dV 2.9e-4; rest tighter) alongside
the existing 12.
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v3 tested the documented mitigation (raise global_batch to amortize the
per-step all-reduce). Isolated back-to-back A/B on 4× RTX 5090, dim384/12L,
seq256:
global_batch 32 (8/rank) → 3163 tok/s
global_batch 256 (64/rank)→ 3200 tok/s (8× batch, +1.2%, within noise)
8× larger batch = 1/8 the all-reduces per token, yet no speedup → all-reduce
is NOT the bottleneck. GPU util 0–15%, mem ~2–3 GB/32 GB → the workload is
launch-bound: the single-sequence model design (each sequence its own tiny
forward/backward, per-op kernel launches) starves the GPU, and batching only
adds proportionally more serial launches. Real fix is batched (multi-sequence)
forward so GEMMs fill the GPU — a T4/T5 autograd/model change, not a batch knob.
Bucketed/overlapped all-reduce stays deferred (no value until launch-bound is
fixed). KI-1 kept Open with the corrected root cause.
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Scaling run v2 design doc + comparison-table update. v2 = dim384/12L/12h
SwiGLU ffn1536 (core 28.32M, total 66.92M), trained 4500 steps / ~36.9M
tokens on full TinyStories (reused v1 u16 cache) via NCCL DDP across 4
RTX 5090s. Best val 1.7055 (train 10.89→1.72), a clear jump over v1 2.58
and v0 3.80. Exported to xserv (135 BF16 tensors) and archived in the
dash5 registry; xserv greedy token-matches xtrain on 2/3 fixed prompts
(3rd diverges late under BF16 drift). Records the DDP weak-scaling caveat
(global batch too small → all-reduce dominates) → links docs/known-issues
KI-1; v3 proposal applies KI-1's fix (much larger global batch).
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Surfaced by v2 (world=4, global_batch=32): ~3593 tok/s, no speedup vs v1
single-GPU. Root cause + proposed fixes recorded; also consolidates deferred
T7 items (bf16, activation recompute) and the large-vocab modeling note.
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The T8 DDP path now matches the single-GPU `bin/train`: CLI-tunable arch
(scaling-ladder rung), the cached token-id stream (`load_cached`), held-out
val-loss eval + best-val checkpointing, and LR warmup→cosine. Rank 0 owns the
val corpus and runs the no-grad eval / writes the best checkpoint (params are
bit-identical across ranks). The eval/checkpoint logic is reused from
`xtrain-train` (`eval_loss`, `checkpoint::save`) rather than duplicated.
- DdpConfig gains eval_every / eval_batches / ckpt_path.
- train_rank takes `valid: Option<&Corpus>` and returns DdpResult
(losses + evals + best_val); launch threads the val corpus to rank 0 only.
- bin/train_ddp reworked to the bin/train CLI (positional tokenizer/corpus +
--dim/--heads/--head-dim/--layers/--ffn/--steps/--batch/--seq/--max-lr/
--val-tokens/--eval-every/--ckpt), reusing the u16 cache.
- DDP correctness test updated to the new signatures (semantics unchanged).
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Expose eval_loss() and add a --eval-ckpt <path> branch to bin/train: load an
existing checkpoint into a model of the given arch and score it on the held-out
val split, then exit. Lets v0 and v1 be measured on the identical validation set
(the acceptance metric) without a separate eval binary.
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- Corpus::load_cached: tokenize the (large) corpus ONCE, cache the id stream to
<corpus>.u16.bin (gpt2 vocab 50257 < 65536 → exact u16), read cache on reruns.
- Corpus::split_tail: hold out a tail slice as a validation corpus.
- train(): take an optional valid corpus + eval_every/eval_batches; periodic
deterministic val-loss eval that checkpoints the BEST val model; returns
TrainResult{train_losses, evals, best_val}. T6 fixed-cadence path preserved.
- bin/train + bin/export_safetensors: read architecture (--heads/--head-dim/
--layers/--ffn) + opt knobs (--steps/--batch/--seq/--max-lr/--val-tokens/
--eval-every) from CLI flags; defaults reproduce the v0-baseline tiny config.
- gitignore the multi-GB corpus + *.u16.bin caches + *.ckpt (dash5-only).
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Add Config::from_arch(vocab, n_heads, head_dim, n_layers, ffn) so the model
size is a tunable rung instead of a hardcoded tiny config, and Config::core_params()
(num_params minus the two vocab×dim tables) — the figure the ladder is sized
against (the 50257-vocab embed+lm_head adds a fixed ~25M that is not capacity).
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xtrain-side top-k next-token logit dump (f32 forward, same model/config/ckpt
as the exporter) mirroring xserv's dump-logits, so the closed-loop check can
compare both sides numerically for the same prompt + weights.
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Architecture diff table (xtrain TinyTransformer vs xserv qwen3.rs), the
QK-norm structural decision + BF16 acceptance criterion, the tensor-name +
layout mapping table, and the dash5 closed-loop verification recipe.
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New bin export_safetensors: load an xtrain checkpoint, map every param to its
HF Qwen3 tensor name, transpose 2D projection weights [in,out]->[out,in]
(1D norms + [vocab,dim] embed/lm_head kept), cast to BF16 (xserv's qwen3
forward is BF16-only), and write config.json + model.safetensors + a copy of
the gpt2 tokenizer.json. Sized exactly like bin/train.rs. safetensors 0.5 to
match xserv. GPU body gated behind not(no_cuda).
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xserv's Qwen3 forward unconditionally applies per-head RMSNorm to Q and K
(q_norm/k_norm, shape [head_dim]) before RoPE — even gamma=1 is a real RMS
divide, not identity. xtrain never had this, so an exact xserv<->xtrain loop
was structurally impossible. Add it (reusing the 2D rms_norm op on the
[seq*nh, hd] head rows, inserted between reshape and rope to mirror
qwen3.rs's order) so the trained model is genuinely Qwen3-compatible.
params() inserts q_norm,k_norm after wv; num_params() counts them; the
PyTorch parity refs (parity.py / adamw_parity.py) + their name lists add the
same step so the dumps stay self-consistent.
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30-step bench charged the one-time NCCL init + 4 model builds (present at world=4,
absent at world=1) against the wall clock, understating steady-state scaling
(in-loop tok/s already showed ~53k at 4 GPUs). Bump to 150 steps.
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dash5 verify: loss trajectory matches single-GPU to max_rel 1.16e-7 and
cross-rank params are bit-identical (0.0), but DDP-vs-single-GPU per-param rel
diff is ~2.8e-3 after 20 AdamW steps — expected, since the two differ only in
gradient summation order (fp add isn't associative) and that rounding compounds.
Bump check (c) 1e-3 -> 1e-2 (a/b stay tight). Also remove an unused DType import.
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Design doc for the NCCL DDP path: comm bootstrap (rank-0 UniqueId + grouped
CommInitRank), thread-per-GPU launch model (Var is !Send), all-reduce-then-
local-step scheme (in-place fp32 AllReduce on .grad() + /world, each rank steps
its own GpuAdamW), why params stay consistent (NCCL bit-identical reduce + same
init/state), batch sharding math vs single-GPU, verification plan + scaling
table. Lists TP/PP/ZeRO/bf16-comm as out-of-scope follow-ups.
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bin/train_ddp: spawn one thread per visible GPU (CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES selects
the set), NCCL all-reduce gradients each step, train the tiny transformer on
TinyStories; doubles as the throughput driver (prints global tok/s). no_cuda
build keeps a stub main.
tests/ddp_correctness: (1) 2-rank DDP vs single-GPU over the same synthetic data
-> loss trajectory max_rel < 1e-3, cross-rank params bit-identical (==0.0), DDP
vs single-GPU params rel < 1e-3; (2) 1/2/4-GPU throughput table on a fixed
per-GPU workload. Gated #[cfg(not(no_cuda))], auto-skips with < 2 GPUs.
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DDP training step (train_rank) on top of DdpContext: each rank advances the
SAME RNG, draws the whole global batch, and runs forward+backward only on its
shard (i % world == rank) so the union over ranks is the single-GPU batch in the
same order. After backward, all-reduce-average the device grads, then finish the
mean with clip(pre_scale = 1/b_local) -> Sigma_global/B_global, identical to the
single-GPU clip(1/B). Each rank then runs its own GpuAdamW.step; same init +
same averaged grad + same optimizer state keep params bit-identical across ranks.
Adds a deterministic build_model (same LCG init as bin/train) shared by ranks +
baseline, a per-step loss all-reduce for the reported global-mean loss, and the
thread-per-GPU launch() helper (thread::scope; Var graph is !Send so each rank
builds its model thread-locally, only UniqueId/config/&Corpus cross threads).
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New crate xtrain-distributed (mirrors xserv-distributed): hand-written NCCL
FFI (GetUniqueId / CommInitRank / AllReduce / CommDestroy / Group{Start,End},
ncclUniqueId passed by value per the NCCL ABI) and a safe DdpContext wrapper —
rank 0 mints the UniqueId, every rank inits its communicator under a group, and
all_reduce_average_grads in-place AllReduce(sum)s each param's .grad() device
buffer then scales by 1/world (reuses T7's scale_inplace kernel). AllReduce runs
on the null stream so it orders with the model's kernels (no extra barrier).
build.rs follows the per-crate convention: no nvcc -> no_cuda cfg (crate
compiles to empty, cargo check passes host-side); with nvcc, links -lnccl
-lcudart like xserv-distributed's build.rs.
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Design doc for the T7 fp32-preserving speedups: cuBLAS matmul fwd/bwd
(row-major⟺col-major layout), GPU AdamW + GPU grad-norm (no per-step
param/grad roundtrip), drop per-op sync + device memset. Includes the
verification table (regression suite green + tok/s 2770→8220 ~3x), the
deferred bf16/recompute follow-up rationale, and the T8 all-reduce note.
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Default-stream kernels run in order and every host read goes through a
stream-ordered cudaMemcpy (to_device), so the per-op cudaDeviceSynchronize
after each kernel was pure overhead — remove all 21 in tensor.rs. Host
data is still correctly ordered by the D2H memcpy that reads it.
Also zero op-output buffers with cudaMemset (device-side, async) instead of
a blocking H2D memcpy of a host zero buffer on every allocation — that
copy was itself a hidden per-op sync point.
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Eliminate the per-step GPU↔host roundtrip of every parameter/gradient.
- optim.cu: adamw_step (m/v on device, in-place param update), sumsq_accum
(block-reduced global grad sum-of-squares), scale_inplace.
- GpuAdamW: device m/v state per param; step launches the kernel reading
each param's .grad() and rewriting the param buffer in place — no host
roundtrip. Host AdamW kept as the torch-parity reference.
- clip_grad_norm_gpu: device sum-of-squares reduction (only the scalar norm
comes back), in-place rescale of grads by pre_scale·clip_factor.
- train_loop: use GpuAdamW + clip_grad_norm_gpu.
- test: GPU AdamW vs host reference parity (max abs err < 1e-6).
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Route Tensor::matmul and matmul_backward through cuBLAS Sgemm instead of
the hand-written tiled kernel. fp32 → same GEMM up to rounding order, so
the T3 cuBLAS tolerance and downstream grad-checks are preserved.
- cublas.rs: thread-local persistent handle + row-major sgemm helper with
transpose flags (col-major⟺row-major as the T3 oracle does).
- matmul_backward: dA/dB via cuBLAS OP_T, dropping the two transpose
kernels + their allocations the T3 version ran.
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cargo runs tests with cwd = crate dir, so the bare relative default
data/tinystories-valid-3mb.txt didn't resolve. Anchor it to the repo root via
CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR so the test runs out of the box (still overridable with
XTRAIN_CORPUS).
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The loss trajectory already matched torch.optim.AdamW (worst relerr ~2e-4),
but the float64 torch reference diverged per-weight from the f32 GPU training
after the model memorised the batch (flat region: weights underdetermined,
loss identical). Fixes: run the torch reference in float32 (match engine
precision), shorten to 10 steps (weights still well-determined), and compare
final params with an allclose-style rtol+atol metric (a pure relative metric is
misleading on near-zero weights).
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Design doc for the T6 training stack: Goal / Module Layout / Key Design
Decisions (AdamW math + decoupled WD, LR schedule, global-norm grad clip with
batch averaging, checkpoint format, data pipeline + xserv tokenizer reuse,
sampler) / 验证方法 (AdamW parity, checkpoint round-trip, real training, host
unit tests).
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Acceptance tests (GPU-gated not(no_cuda), run on dash5):
- adamw_parity_dump.rs + adamw_parity.py: build the tiny model with fixed init,
run N AdamW steps on a fixed batch, dump the loss trajectory + final params;
the Python side rebuilds the identical model and runs torch.optim.AdamW with
matched lr/wd/betas/eps, comparing trajectory + final params within rtol.
- checkpoint_roundtrip.rs: train a few steps, save, load into a fresh model with
a DIFFERENT init, assert identical logits/loss on a fixed input.
- real_training.rs (#[ignore], --release): train on TinyStories for a bounded
budget; assert loss drops substantially and print greedy samples.
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Training loop (train_loop.rs): sample batch_size sequences, forward loss +
backward (tape SUMs grads), clip_grad_norm with ×1/batch averaging, AdamW step
with scheduled lr, zero_grad; logs loss/lr/gnorm/tok-s and checkpoints
periodically; returns the loss trace.
Checkpoint (checkpoint.rs): flat little-endian dump of params() in order
(magic/version/count + per-param ndim/dims/f32 data); load_into validates and
overwrites a matching model's params via set_value (exact f32 round-trip).
Sampler (sample.rs): autoregressive greedy / temperature generation — re-runs
forward on the growing prefix (model is single-sequence, RoPE pos=row).
bin/train.rs: end-to-end entry — load tokenizer+corpus, train a tiny 4-layer
model for a bounded budget, checkpoint, print samples. no_cuda stub keeps it
buildable on a GPU-less host.
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New xtrain-train crate scaffold. Data pipeline reuses xserv's from-scratch
GPT-2/Qwen BPE via a path-dep (../../../xserv/crates/xserv-tokenizer, resolves
on both ~/projects and dash5 /opt/wjh/projects): Corpus::load tokenizes the
corpus into one id stream and samples fixed-length (input, target) next-token
windows (LCG-seeded, reproducible). Trims a range-downloaded file to whole
stories (<|endoftext|> boundaries).
Also the host-only training math: LrSchedule (linear warmup + cosine decay)
and global L2 grad-norm + clip scale, each with a local unit test.
Corpus: data/tinystories-valid-3mb.txt — first ~3MB of TinyStories-valid
(fetched on dash5 via hf-mirror.com; HF direct unreachable). Substitution
noted: a real TinyStories subset, not the full set.
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New xtrain-optim crate. AdamW with per-param m/v moments keyed by params()
index, global bias correction, and decoupled weight decay (matches
torch.optim.AdamW). Split into a pure-host step_host (flat f32 buffers,
unit-testable on a GPU-less host) and a step(&[Var]) wrapper that round-trips
each param value/grad through the GPU tensor (gated not(no_cuda)). Per-step lr
argument leaves room for an LR schedule.
Host unit test checks the update against an independent reference recurrence
over 20 steps and the pure-decay (g=0) boundary.
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parity_dump.rs (#[ignore] fixture generator) dumps the model's exact
weights, ids, forward logits, loss, and per-param grads after one
backward. parity.py rebuilds the IDENTICAL model in PyTorch (same x@W
convention, RoPE rotate_half pos=row, RMSNorm, SwiGLU, causal SDPA),
runs fwd+bwd, and compares logits + every grad within rtol.
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Finite-diff grad-checks (same L=sum(W∘out) harness as autograd.rs) for
embedding (incl. repeated ids), reshape, transpose_3d01, transpose_2d,
and split/merge_heads round-trip. Gated #![cfg(not(no_cuda))].
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Phase T5 structural ops on top of the T4 set, needed to assemble the
tiny transformer:
- embedding: gather rows by I32 ids (CUDA kernel) / scatter-add backward
(atomic, so repeated ids accumulate). csrc/ops/model.cu + ffi.
- reshape: contiguous metadata-only view (Tensor::reshape), no kernel.
- transpose_3d01: [a,b,c]->[b,a,c] for the multi-head layout (kernel).
- autograd nodes: embedding/reshape/transpose_3d01/transpose_2d, plus
split_heads (->Vec<Var>) / merge_heads for per-head attention.
- tape: Var::zero_grad + set_value so a hand-written GD step can update
params and clear grads between steps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
