- 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).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stand up the xtrain project skeleton: a Cargo workspace mirroring xserv's
csrc/ + crates/ layout, with a single xtrain-cuda crate that wraps the CUDA
Runtime over hand-written extern "C" FFI. build.rs compiles csrc/test/vecadd.cu
via the cc crate targeting sm_120 (RTX 5090) and links cudart.
A gated integration test runs the vector-add kernel on the GPU and asserts the
result. When nvcc is absent (local GPU-less machine), build.rs skips CUDA
compilation and sets a `no_cuda` cfg so host-side cargo check still works.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
