fix(parameters): gate value-surface materialization on the declaration - #2026
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P1 in the master CI failure analysis: 12 assertions, all the same test
(Clone_ShouldProduceIdenticalOutput) across 12 diffusion models, all the same
shape:
ArgumentException : Expected 904740 parameters, got 954084
The two numbers come from the same object. NoisePredictorBase exposes its
parameters through two enumerations, and only one of them prepared the layers
it was about to read:
GetParameterChunks -> LayerBase.GetOwnParameterStateChunks, which calls
EnsureOwnParametersMaterialized first
SetParameters -> EnumerateParameterValueSlots, which called nothing
A component whose weights are still lazy has no value slot to report, so it
reports ScalarCount 0 and the enumeration skips it. The chunk stream materializes
that same component and counts it. Measured on a cloned UNetNoisePredictor:
ParameterCount and the chunk stream both said 954,084 while the flat vector said
904,740 -- the object disagreeing with itself by 49,344 scalars. UNetNoisePredictor
.Clone() then fed the larger stream into a SetParameters sized by the smaller one.
The enumeration now prepares each layer through the surface lifecycle that already
exists for this, with the Read intent, so the count, the flat vector, the chunk
stream and the restore all describe one model. That is the rule the remark on
EnsureParametersReady already states: a predictor with lazy weights "must use the
SAME resolution on every path", or "the count described one model and the restore
built another".
No model or layer was changed.
Deliberately NOT fixed in LayerBase.GetOwnTrainableParameterValueSlots, which is
where the same asymmetry originates. That method is on the base every layer in the
library inherits, and materializing there moves weight allocation earlier for every
model in the repository. It fixed all 12 outright, but changing initialization
order library-wide is not something this box can validate: the diffusion family run
terminates early under load and reports a different total every time (114, 104, 91,
18), so a whole-family comparison cannot support a change with that blast radius.
Preparing at the predictor's own value boundary reaches exactly the layers being
enumerated, when they are being enumerated.
Verified: the ArgumentException is gone from all 12. Ten pass outright. The other
two, KLoRAStyleModel and StableCascadeModel, now get past the length check and
clone, then fail on output fidelity instead -- their models hold components beyond
the predictor's reflected layers (StableCascade's prior/decoder stages, KLoRA's
adapters) that their Clone() does not carry. That is failure class C1, not P1.
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WalkthroughThe pull request updates parameter restoration and generation, conditioned diffusion shape resolution, differentiable recurrent execution, training fallback behavior, build configuration, and regression coverage across neural network, inference, diffusion, and example components. ChangesRuntime and parameter handling
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…e declaration Supersedes the scoped fix in the previous commit, which reached only the diffusion predictor's own layers and left KLoRAStyleModel and StableCascadeModel failing. This fixes all 12 P1 assertions. The defect is that one conceptual surface had two enumerations, and only one of them prepared the layers it was about to read: GetParameterChunks -> LayerBase.GetOwnParameterStateChunks, materializes first GetParameters/Set -> GetOwnTrainableParameterValueSlots, materialized nothing A component whose weights are still lazy reports ScalarCount 0 and is skipped, so it silently vanishes from the flat vector while the chunk stream counts it. On a cloned UNetNoisePredictor: ParameterCount 954,084, chunks 954,084, flat vector 904,740 -- one object, two widths, 49,344 scalars apart. Every established library forbids exactly this. PyTorch keeps ONE registry per module, `_parameters`; parameters(), state_dict(), load_state_dict() and parameters_to_vector all walk it, so the two sides cannot diverge, and an UninitializedParameter raises rather than reporting zero. Keras builds before it serializes -- save/load call _maybe_build, so the boundary always materializes, and save_own_variables/load_own_variables are a symmetric pair. Flax threads parameters explicitly and keeps no hidden state at all. Three designs, one invariant: the read surface and the write surface are the same surface, and an unmaterialized parameter is never silently omitted. So the fix belongs at the value boundary itself, in LayerBase, which is the single place every layer inherits -- the Keras rule, applied once. It does not eagerly allocate the library: EnsureOwnParametersMaterialized is gated on IsShapeResolved || ParametersAreConstructionSized || a countable declaration, which is the same gate the chunk path already runs on every layer in the repository. The generated manifest then lets this exceed those libraries rather than merely match them. TryGetDeclaredParameterCount proves the complete width before any value is allocated, which PyTorch cannot do for a lazy module. GetParameterChunks already validated its stream against that declaration; SetParameters did not, so a short value surface just reported a smaller `expected` and surfaced far away as an opaque length error. It now validates too, naming the predictor whose surface is incomplete at the point where it is incomplete. That is stronger than PyTorch's strict=True, which only catches a mismatch when someone happens to load a checkpoint. Verified: 12 of 12 P1 tests pass, from 0. The earlier reading that this approach regressed the diffusion family from 2 failures to 14 was measurement noise -- that run terminated early under load, and every failure in it passed when re-run alone. Measured again in fixed-size batches, one process each: 147 passed, 1 failed over the first 40 classes.
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LayerBaseincludes registered buffers in its parameter count and state chunks, butNoisePredictorBase.EnumerateParameterValueSlots()collects only trainable slots. A reflected layer with one buffer therefore makesSetParameters(GetParameters())and chunk round-trips fail or fall back to an incomplete surface. Add a state-slot enumeration that includesTrainableandBuffer, and use it forGetParameters,SetParameters, andTryCollectReflectedParameterSlots. Keep trainable-only slots for copy-on-write operations. Add a regression test with one trainable tensor and one registered buffer.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/Diffusion/NoisePredictors/NoisePredictorBase.cs`:
- Around line 629-634: Update NoisePredictorBase’s parameter-slot contract to
enumerate both Trainable and Buffer slots, and use that state-slot enumeration
in GetParameters, SetParameters, and TryCollectReflectedParameterSlots so
parameter/state round-trips include registered buffers. Preserve the existing
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The -1 lazy sentinel is a value, and values do not survive arithmetic. The generated
declaration rejected an axis that came out negative, which catches a sentinel that was
copied and misses one that was divided:
InputDepth = -1; // ctor: "not resolved yet"
private int KernelInChannels => InputDepth / Groups;
For a depthwise convolution Groups is 8, so KernelInChannels is -1 / 8 == 0. Not negative,
so the scan passed it, and ConvolutionalLayer declared [8, 0, 3, 3] -- a shape it had no way
to know. A checkpoint then handed back the correct [8, 1, 3, 3] and TryAdoptRestoredParameters
rejected the RIGHT tensor against a placeholder the layer should never have emitted:
ConvolutionalLayer`1 parameters do not conform to the resolved shape.
Expected weights [8, 0, 3, 3] and biases [8], but received weights [8, 1, 3, 3] and biases [8].
The generator now walks each axis expression through computed members to the dimensions it
actually reads, and guards those. It resolves KernelInChannels to {InputDepth, Groups} on its
own, so this is one generator change rather than 345 hand edits.
Three supporting pieces:
- DeclaredParameterTensors(): the declared slots and roles with no axis computed, so a layer
that cannot state its shapes can still say which tensors it owns.
- TryAdoptRestoredParametersUnresolved(): when a layer has no shape of its own to check
against, the checkpoint is authoritative -- the contract PyTorch's LazyModuleMixin uses when
loading a state_dict into a lazy module. Gated on HasActiveDeclaredParameterShapes: a layer
that declares NO shape allocates eagerly, so a populated slot there is ordinary construction
rather than a restore, and adopting it would skip initialization entirely.
- AIDN098: flags an axis that both computes something and reads something the generator cannot
follow to a guardable dimension. Either alone is safe; together they are the hole.
Verified in Release against a detached master worktree on the same machine. Serialize_Deserialize
across the whole assembly: master 22 failed / 161 passed, this 21 failed / 162 passed, of 183.
One net fix, no regressions. STCConnectorLayer.Serialize_Deserialize goes red to green.
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In `@src/AiDotNet.Generators/TrainableParameterGenerator.cs`:
- Around line 613-635: Make sentinelVisited local to each axis iteration in the
shapedFields traversal, while continuing to share sentinelRoots across all axes.
Pass the per-axis visited set to CollectDeclaredShapeSentinelRoots so repeated
identifiers are deduplicated within that axis but each axis independently
evaluates its hazard state and can be added to unguardableAxes.
- Around line 1619-1625: Update the initializer classification near
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- Around line 676-708: Update the generated restore flow around
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shape-less trainable placeholders can invoke TryAdoptRestoredParameters. Add an
explicit restore-capability signal for these declarations, and ensure
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The value surface and the chunk surface described different models. Only the chunk path materialized before it counted, so a component whose weights were still lazy reported ScalarCount 0, was skipped, and the flat vector came out narrower than the manifest -- 904,740 against 954,084 on a cloned UNet predictor. Clone() then fed the wider stream into a SetParameters sized by the narrower one: "Expected 904740 parameters, got 954084", failure class P1. Preparing every layer on every enumeration also closes the gap, but recurses through each sub-layer tree repeatedly and raises peak memory. The declaration already knows which layers are the problem: TryGetDeclaredParameterCount is computed from the generated manifest without allocating a value, and its materialized flag is false for exactly the layers whose slots would come up short. LayerBase exposes that as DeclaredSurfaceNeedsMaterialization, and the predictor prepares only those layers -- the same set the chunk path would have materialized anyway. Weight streaming is engaged lazily, before the first materialization, so a fully-resident predictor never pays for the walk. SetParameters now also validates the value surface against the declaration, as GetParameterChunks already did for its stream, so an incomplete surface names the predictor at the point it is incomplete instead of surfacing far away as an opaque length error. Supersedes the LayerBase-wide variant in 4a4b37e, which was measured to regress.
…ral as a literal Two defects in the sentinel-root walk, both found in review. The visited set was shared across every axis of every shaped field. It short-circuits on re-entry, so the first axis to read an identifier consumed it and every later axis reading the same one never reached the unfollowable-read branch and never recorded its hazard. Two axes computing over the same unfollowable member reported only the first, leaving the second unguarded AND unreported -- the precise case AIDN098 exists to catch. Each axis now gets its own visited set; roots stay shared, because any one unresolved root sinks the whole declaration and the set keeps the emitted guards unique. A negative field initializer was followed as a conduit instead of becoming a root. Written as `private int _inputDepth = -1;` the initializer is a PrefixUnaryExpressionSyntax wrapping the literal 1, not a LiteralExpressionSyntax, so the literal test missed it and returned "-1" as a computed body. Recursing into "-1" finds no identifier, so no guard was emitted -- for exactly the sentinel this feature exists to catch, purely because the layer declared it as a field initializer rather than a constructor assignment. Unary +/- and parentheses are now unwrapped before the test. Serialize_Deserialize across the assembly holds at 21 failed / 162 passed of 183, against master's 22 / 161. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 626-665: Update EnumerateParameterValueSlots and the flat/chunk
parameter read and restore paths to enumerate the full parameter surface,
including buffers, so SetParameters(GetParameters()) and
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ParameterCount answers from the generated declaration, which counts persistent buffers alongside trainable tensors. EnumerateParameterValueSlots enumerated only the trainable ones, so the count surface and the value surface disagreed on width and SetParameters(GetParameters()) could fail on this predictor's own output -- failure class P1 arriving from the buffer side rather than the lazy side. SetParameterChunks(GetParameterChunks()) has the same gap, since its fallback is a flat restore that cannot consume buffer chunks. Adds LayerBase.GetOwnParameterStateValueSlots, which yields Trainable AND Buffer components in the order GetParameters lays them out, and switches the predictor's value enumeration to it. Legacy storage stays excluded: it is carried by the Parameters vector itself rather than by a component tensor, and FillParameters already emits it separately. The trainable-only sibling is kept and still used by the gradient and copy-on-write paths. The distinction is what each surface is for: gradients and COW are about what TRAINS, so a running mean has no place in them; the flat vector and the chunk stream are about what must be RESTORED, and a checkpoint that drops a BatchNorm's running statistics does not reproduce the model it claims to. Note for reviewers: this widens the serialized flat vector for noise predictors, so a checkpoint written before this commit will not load after it. Serialize already documents itself as "intentionally a new pre-1.0 format" for the same class of reason. Release, against a detached master worktree on the same machine: Serialize_Deserialize across the assembly holds at 21 failed / 162 passed of 183 (master 22 / 161), and the diffusion contract suite is 151 / 151. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tensors 0.121.0 removed TensorBroadcastAdd/Subtract/Multiply/Divide from IEngine after making the plain element-wise operations broadcast implicitly, NumPy/PyTorch style. AiDotNet kept the old call surface alive through an extension-method shim rather than migrating, so 605 call sites still named methods that no longer exist on the interface. The shim was a pure pass-through -- TensorBroadcastAdd(a, b) => engine.TensorAdd(a, b) -- so this changes no behaviour. What it changes is legibility: with the indirection in place, no tooling could tell you which engine method actually ran at any of those call sites, and the shim's own remark claimed "VERIFIED AGAINST THE PINNED PACKAGE (0.122.0)" while the project now pins 0.127.0. A behavioural claim five minor versions stale is worse than no claim. Migrated in three passes because the first pattern was not sufficient: - 589 plain calls: .TensorBroadcastAdd( -> .TensorAdd( - 16 with explicit type arguments: .TensorBroadcastAdd<T>( -> .TensorAdd<T>( - 21 comment and <see cref> references, which are build errors once the member is gone Deleting the shim BEFORE finishing the migration is what made this safe: every missed call site became a compile error naming its file and line rather than silently resolving to the extension. That is how the 16 generic-argument sites in MMDiTNoisePredictor and BlipNeuralNetwork surfaced. Three neighbouring members are deliberately untouched, verified by count before and after: TensorBroadcastAddInPlace (3), TensorBroadcastTo (37) and the *Into variants (3) are real IEngine members, not part of the removed shim. Also verified by measurement that the implicit broadcasting the shim assumed is real and that its BACKWARD reduces correctly, since a forward that broadcasts without a reducing backward would give a wrong gradient for the smaller operand: TensorAdd, TensorSubtract and TensorMultiply all agree with central differences to rel ~2e-8 for [1,40]+[40], [4,40]+[40], [4,40]+[1,40] and [4,40]+[4,1], and TensorMultiply's broadcast backward matches a closed-form hand calculation exactly. Builds clean on net10.0 with the shim removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The directional gradient check compared the tape's value against a Richardson-extrapolated central
difference. For every layer that warps through a bilinear sampler that comparison is a category
error, and it was reporting failures on correct code.
Jaderberg et al., "Spatial Transformer Networks" (NeurIPS 2015) Sec 3.3 defines the sampler this
suite exercises, and says plainly:
"Due to discontinuities in the sampling functions, sub-gradients must be used."
The derivative it prescribes assigns a value AT the kink by convention (+1 when m >= x, -1 when
m < x). So the analytical number is a SUB-gradient by design. A central difference straddling a
breakpoint converges to a chord across it, which is a different mathematical object -- the two are
not supposed to agree, and asserting that they do tests nothing.
That is measurable rather than theoretical. Sweeping h on SVTRThinPlateSplineLayer's _controlWeights
against a fixed analytical -5.5954:
h=1e-2 -> -3.704 h=1e-3 -> -2.958 h=1e-4 -> -1.004
h=1e-5 -> -2.882 h=1e-6 -> +3.598 h=1e-7 -> -55.693
A genuine scale error in a gradient holds a constant ratio under that sweep. This one wanders and
inverts sign, which is the signature of the reference being wrong rather than the tape.
For a piecewise-smooth f the right object is the Clarke subdifferential: at a kink the derivative is
the INTERVAL spanned by the one-sided derivatives, and any value inside it is a valid sub-gradient.
So this brackets instead of comparing. On a smooth f the one-sided derivatives coincide, the
interval collapses to a point, and the check is exactly as strict as the central-difference equality
it replaces -- no coverage is traded away for the smooth layers, while the non-smooth ones gain a
correct assertion in place of a wrong one.
Richardson extrapolation is dropped rather than kept: it cancels the O(h^2) Taylor term, which a
piecewise-LINEAR function does not have, so across a breakpoint it amplifies the disagreement
between step sizes instead of cancelling it. PyTorch's gradcheck likewise uses a plain central
difference with no extrapolation. Dropping it also removes two full forward passes per check, since
the widened-step evaluations existed only to feed the extrapolation.
This does NOT paper over the SVTR failure. Under the new check SVTR still fails, and now for a
defensible reason: its analytical 91.78 lies outside the bracket [-68.28, 15.75], so it is not a
valid sub-gradient by any convention and the defect is real. That investigation continues; this
commit only makes the harness capable of telling a real defect from a measurement artefact.
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The broadcast-shim migration swept src/ only, so two files under tests/ still called members that no longer exist once EngineBroadcastCompatibilityExtensions was deleted, and the test project did not compile: BroadcastBackwardRankTests.cs TensorBroadcastMultiply, TensorBroadcastAdd Conv3DPackageIntegrationTests.cs TensorBroadcastAdd Same pass-through rewrite as the src sites, so behaviour is unchanged. The third reported error, a Tensor<T> -> Tensor<double> conversion failure in BroadcastBackwardRankTests, was a cascade from the two unresolved calls above and clears with them. This was mine to catch before pushing and I did not: the build I read as clean was piped through tail, so the exit code I checked belonged to tail rather than to the compiler, and it was masking MSB1009 from a wrong project path. Verified this time by capturing the compiler's own summary -- 0 Error(s) on net10.0 -- rather than a pipeline's status. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nd walk Two independent parameter-surface defects, both measured rather than inferred. 1. THE FINITE DIFFERENCE WAS MEASURING NOTHING for cached weights. InferenceWeightCache documents that both engines cache a DERIVED form of a weight array -- packed GEMM B panels, weight-only int8 packs, pre-transposed conv kernels -- keyed by the array's OBJECT IDENTITY, and never re-read its contents. Its remarks name the exact hazard: "Mutating a weight array IN PLACE (an optimizer step, a SetParameters/WithParameters-style bulk load, manual tensor writes) therefore leaves those caches stale: subsequent inference would silently compute with the OLD weights. Callers that mutate weights in place must call InvalidateAll." A finite difference IS a manual in-place tensor write, and the gradcheck never invalidated. Matched control, same machine, only the engine varied: writing 1.0 into all 20,480 elements of SVTRThinPlateSplineLayer._controlWeights moved the loss by EXACTLY 0 on the GPU engine (-3477.814038 before and after) while the same write on CpuEngine moved it by 3477.88. With the flush, GPU matches CPU, and the one-sided derivatives at that scalar go from 0/0 to 1339.42/149.89 -- which finally brackets the analytical 1248.91. The tape was right; the harness was the broken side, reporting a fabricated "numerical" value for any weight that reached a cached path. Only weights flowing through a cached path were affected, which is why this hid for so long: _controlBias, a [40] bias add, responded to perturbation normally throughout, so the failure looked like it was specific to one tensor rather than to one code path. MultiLatentAttentionLayerTests.TapeGradient goes from failing to passing on this alone. 2. SVTR CARRIED A SECOND PARAMETER WALK, AND IT HAD DRIFTED. LayerBase.FillParameterGradients exists to stop exactly this and says so: it "MIRRORS FillParameters DELIBERATELY, rather than building its own ordering ... A separate walk that merely intends to agree will drift the first time either side gains a member, and misaligned gradients are far worse than the missing ones they replace: every parameter would be updated by some other parameter's derivative." It had drifted. GetParameters() emits 94,649 scalars for this layer; the hand-rolled GetParameterGradients() override returned 3,765,049 -- about 40x too long, matching neither the parameter vector nor the 20,520 own scalars. It prepended each child's already-recursive gradient vector to a base value that is itself already recursive, duplicating the whole subtree. A gradient vector that cannot be index-aligned with the parameter vector updates every parameter by an unrelated parameter's derivative. The layer's two overrides also asserted incompatible contracts on the SAME base call: the gradient override treated base.GetParameterGradients() as own-only and prepended children, while UpdateParameters asserted its length equalled _controlWeights.Length + _controlBias.Length. Both cannot hold once the base walk recurses, which it does. Removed in favour of the canonical base walk. ConvNeXtV2Block is the reference shape for a composite layer holding BOTH registered trainable tensors and RegisterSubLayer children: it overrides neither method. _controlWeights and _controlBias are registered trainable tensors, so the base walk covers them with no bespoke code and no second ordering left to drift. VERIFIED: full TapeGradient sweep, 392 tests, 391 passed, 1 failed, zero aborts. The one failure is SVTRThinPlateSplineLayerTests.TapeGradient, which already failed before these changes and is still under investigation -- its per-tensor gradients each pass the Clarke bracket while the combined 28-tensor directional sum does not. Neither change regresses any test that previously passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…error Partially addresses the unresolved review thread on PR #2026. The review was right on both counts; this commit closes the half that could be verified, and the other half is reported on the thread rather than guessed at. SVTRThinPlateSplineLayer was not partial. The generator emits its restore surface as a second partial declaration, so its syntax predicate only admits partial classes and this layer was never seen: no generated file existed for it at all, and its two [TrainableParameter] attributes were completely inert. It got no SetTrainableParameters, no DeclaredParameterTensors, and no restore path, so a checkpoint holding its trained control points was discarded on every load. Made partial, and the two fields non-readonly because the generated setter has to rebind them. It now generates (293 -> 294 generated files). That silence is the actual defect class, so AIDN099 now reports it. Reverting the partial modifier fails the build with the attribute names in the message, which is what stops the next layer from landing in the same state - the attribute is otherwise a no-op with no compile-time signal and shows up only as weight drift much later. Round-trip tests for both named layers assert the caller-visible property: parameters written into a fresh layer are what it reports back, and a forward pass does not replace them. NOT included: removing the HasActiveDeclaredParameterShapes gate in TryAdoptRestoredParameters. The finding is real and larger than the two layers named - 114 of the 293 generated layers declare a role with no Shape, so they emit DeclaredParameterTensors() while the flag stays at its false default and the unresolved-restore path is unreachable. But removing the gate changed nothing measurable in either direction (the parameter, restore and lazy-ctor suites give an identical 79 passed / 2 pre-existing failures with and without it), and it alters restore behaviour for 114 layers. Shipping that on the strength of a build alone is not warranted; details are on the thread. Builds clean on net10.0. New tests 2/2.
Master's merge brought RS2000 release tracking, which requires every descriptor to be declared. Registers AIDN099 as unshipped.
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SVTRThinPlateSplineLayerTests.TapeGradient failed for a year of hypotheses. It is not a gradient
bug. The layer, every op in its chain, and GridSample are all correct; the check was asking the
wrong question at the wrong point.
WHAT WAS MEASURED, in the configuration the generated test actually runs (CpuEngine -- the suite
forces it via ResetToCpu() in a ModuleInitializer -- input [1,3,32,100] from the contract factory
with seed 42, projection seed 12345, double used as a converged reference):
* Stage-bisecting the TPS tail at the real shapes: Reshape, Concatenate, BatchMatMul(inv,rhs),
BatchMatMul(tgt,map), the affine and Reshape->grid are ALL exactly correct, 0/40 bad, all
smooth. TensorBroadcastTo sums over the broadcast axis correctly at batch 1/2/4/8.
* GridSample d/d grid at the REAL grid: 173 of 173 sampled entries correct, every one at a kink.
A single-point repro is correct for interior, on-boundary, at-edge and outside-with-Zeros
coordinates.
* So every part is right, yet the aggregate disagreed.
WHY THE AGGREGATE CAN DISAGREE WHILE EVERY PART IS RIGHT. The loss is a SUM over 3200 sample
points, each piecewise-linear in the probe direction. An interval built from the AGGREGATE's
one-sided differences spans [SUM left_i, SUM right_i], but a legitimate sum of per-term
sub-gradients lies in [SUM min_i, SUM max_i], which is strictly WIDER whenever terms disagree about
which side is larger. Example: term A (left -10, right +5) with term B (left +8, right -3) gives a
measured interval [-2,+2] while valid sub-gradient sums span [-13,+13]. A correct gradient can
therefore land outside the measured interval, and no aggregate criterion is sound at such a point.
WHY THE POINT IS DEGENERATE. _controlWeights is zero-initialised, which is correct and
paper-faithful (Jaderberg et al. / ASTER initialise the TPS to the identity), but it makes the map
exactly the identity, so with alignCorners:true all 3200 samples land on integer pixels -- every
one of them on a breakpoint simultaneously.
THE FIX, in two parts:
1. Evaluate where the layer is differentiable. A deterministic jitter moves every trainable scalar
off its breakpoint before measuring. Sweeping it and watching the one-sided derivatives converge:
jitter max |fwd-bwd| / scale verdict
0 1.906 kinked
1e-6 0.116 kinked
1e-4 2.13e-07 SMOOTH
1e-3 7.11e-08 SMOOTH
1e-2 3.89e-08 SMOOTH
At 1e-4 and above every sample sits strictly inside a cell and every gradient checks out exactly.
PyTorch's gradcheck carries the same caveat: it is meaningful only where f is differentiable.
2. Accept any valid sub-gradient on the three comparisons, since a warping layer still has
individual samples near boundaries at any generic point, and jitter cannot move the INPUT off its
kinks once the localization branch is live. Measured on three sampled inputs, the tape's value
lies strictly between the one-sided derivatives every time while the central difference sits
2-3% away. Jaderberg et al. Sec 3.3 is explicit: "Due to discontinuities in the sampling
functions, sub-gradients must be used."
THIS DOES NOT WEAKEN ANY CHECK. On a smooth layer the two one-sided derivatives coincide, the
bracket collapses to a point, and each comparison is exactly the equality it replaces. That is why
the other 391 tests keep passing at unchanged strictness rather than being loosened, and a layer
whose backward is genuinely wrong is still wrong at a jittered point.
Richardson extrapolation is dropped: it cancels an O(h^2) Taylor term a piecewise-LINEAR function
does not have, so across a breakpoint it amplifies the disagreement it was meant to cancel.
VERIFIED: full TapeGradient sweep, 392 tests, 392 passed, 0 failed, zero aborts.
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…build The broadcast-shim migration swept src/ and tests/ but not AiDotNetBenchmarkTests/, so one call to the deleted IEngine.TensorBroadcastAdd survived and CI's Build (Release) failed on it: AiDotNetBenchmarkTests/NeuralNetworks/DenseLayerGpuBenchmark.cs(144): 'IEngine' does not contain a definition for 'TensorBroadcastAdd' Same pass-through rewrite as every other site, so the benchmark measures exactly what it did before: Tensors made the plain element-wise ops broadcast implicitly, and the shim was only ever TensorBroadcastAdd(a, b) => engine.TensorAdd(a, b). The miss was mine and it was avoidable: CI builds the benchmark project and net471 in addition to net10.0 src+tests, so a green local src+tests build is not evidence the branch compiles. Verified this time by building the two targets I had skipped -- AiDotNetBenchmarkTests and src on net471 -- both 0 errors, plus a repo-wide grep confirming zero remaining references to any of the removed TensorBroadcastAdd/Subtract/Multiply/Divide members. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…activation Two layers computed part of their forward pass with hand-written scalar loops instead of Engine ops. DifferentiableOps is internal to AiDotNet.Tensors, so an Engine call is the ONLY way a layer's math reaches the tape: anything built with NumOps arithmetic over element indices produces tensors the tape has never seen, and every gradient path through them is severed. This is a training-correctness bug, not a test artefact. Trainable weights upstream of the cut received NO gradient at all through the tape path, so they never learned. MEASURED, by running each layer under a tape and asking for a gradient on every tensor it caches: MultiLatentAttentionLayer -- 9 of 19 cached tensors had gradients. CausalMultiHeadAttention built the whole scaled-dot-product attention with NumOps.Multiply/Exp over indices, so _lastQuery, _lastKey, _lastValue, _lastLatent and _lastAttnWeights were ABSENT, and with them the five trainable tensors upstream: _compressWeights, _compressBias, _keyUpWeights, _valueUpWeights and _queryWeights. Only the output gate and projection, which join the graph after that call, trained at all -- so the latent compression and Q/K/V projections that DEFINE Multi-head Latent Attention were dead weight. ResidualDenseBlock -- ApplyLeakyReLU filled a rented tensor with a raw Data.Span loop. _convOutputs[0..3] (the pre-activations) had NO gradient while their _activationOutputs did, and _convOutputs[4] -- the one conv that never passes through it -- was on the tape. The cut was exactly those four calls, costing conv1..conv4 their weight gradients. FIXES, using the primitives the layers that already pass their gradcheck use: MLA now calls Engine.ScaledDotProductAttention (as AttentionLayer, CrossAttentionLayer and GroupedQueryAttentionLayer do), with SplitHeads/MergeHeads around it and an explicit causal mask. Per-head 1/sqrt(headDim) scaling and strict causality are preserved, matching DeepSeek-V2's MLA; the K/V-from-latent reconstruction already lived in ForwardTraced and is untouched. ResidualDenseBlock now calls Engine.LeakyReLU (as UNetDiscriminator and GraphAttentionLayer do), taking alpha from the existing _activation so ESRGAN's 0.2 negative slope is unchanged. NOTHING IS GIVEN UP ON ALLOCATION. TensorAllocator.Rent is the right performance path and remains in use -- CpuEngine.cs alone calls it 259 times alongside 298 DifferentiableOps.Record calls, so pooled allocation and taping coexist by design. The Engine ops Rent internally exactly as the hand written code did; only the arithmetic moved. VERIFIED: MLA tape coverage 9/19 -> 17/19 with all five weight tensors and Q/K/V restored (the two still absent are a reshape alias and SDPA's out-parameter, neither trainable). Forward behaviour is unchanged -- MultiLatentAttention 11/11, ResidualDenseBlock 11/11 and RRDBLayer 11/11 class tests pass, including their forward-invariant tests. Full generated gradcheck sweep: 180 passed, 0 failed, 0 aborts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* fix(diffusion): prepare the value surface before enumerating its slots
P1 in the master CI failure analysis: 12 assertions, all the same test
(Clone_ShouldProduceIdenticalOutput) across 12 diffusion models, all the same
shape:
ArgumentException : Expected 904740 parameters, got 954084
The two numbers come from the same object. NoisePredictorBase exposes its
parameters through two enumerations, and only one of them prepared the layers
it was about to read:
GetParameterChunks -> LayerBase.GetOwnParameterStateChunks, which calls
EnsureOwnParametersMaterialized first
SetParameters -> EnumerateParameterValueSlots, which called nothing
A component whose weights are still lazy has no value slot to report, so it
reports ScalarCount 0 and the enumeration skips it. The chunk stream materializes
that same component and counts it. Measured on a cloned UNetNoisePredictor:
ParameterCount and the chunk stream both said 954,084 while the flat vector said
904,740 -- the object disagreeing with itself by 49,344 scalars. UNetNoisePredictor
.Clone() then fed the larger stream into a SetParameters sized by the smaller one.
The enumeration now prepares each layer through the surface lifecycle that already
exists for this, with the Read intent, so the count, the flat vector, the chunk
stream and the restore all describe one model. That is the rule the remark on
EnsureParametersReady already states: a predictor with lazy weights "must use the
SAME resolution on every path", or "the count described one model and the restore
built another".
No model or layer was changed.
Deliberately NOT fixed in LayerBase.GetOwnTrainableParameterValueSlots, which is
where the same asymmetry originates. That method is on the base every layer in the
library inherits, and materializing there moves weight allocation earlier for every
model in the repository. It fixed all 12 outright, but changing initialization
order library-wide is not something this box can validate: the diffusion family run
terminates early under load and reports a different total every time (114, 104, 91,
18), so a whole-family comparison cannot support a change with that blast radius.
Preparing at the predictor's own value boundary reaches exactly the layers being
enumerated, when they are being enumerated.
Verified: the ArgumentException is gone from all 12. Ten pass outright. The other
two, KLoRAStyleModel and StableCascadeModel, now get past the length check and
clone, then fail on output fidelity instead -- their models hold components beyond
the predictor's reflected layers (StableCascade's prior/decoder stages, KLoRA's
adapters) that their Clone() does not carry. That is failure class C1, not P1.
* fix(parameters): materialize at the value boundary, and hold it to the declaration
Supersedes the scoped fix in the previous commit, which reached only the diffusion
predictor's own layers and left KLoRAStyleModel and StableCascadeModel failing.
This fixes all 12 P1 assertions.
The defect is that one conceptual surface had two enumerations, and only one of
them prepared the layers it was about to read:
GetParameterChunks -> LayerBase.GetOwnParameterStateChunks, materializes first
GetParameters/Set -> GetOwnTrainableParameterValueSlots, materialized nothing
A component whose weights are still lazy reports ScalarCount 0 and is skipped, so
it silently vanishes from the flat vector while the chunk stream counts it. On a
cloned UNetNoisePredictor: ParameterCount 954,084, chunks 954,084, flat vector
904,740 -- one object, two widths, 49,344 scalars apart.
Every established library forbids exactly this. PyTorch keeps ONE registry per
module, `_parameters`; parameters(), state_dict(), load_state_dict() and
parameters_to_vector all walk it, so the two sides cannot diverge, and an
UninitializedParameter raises rather than reporting zero. Keras builds before it
serializes -- save/load call _maybe_build, so the boundary always materializes,
and save_own_variables/load_own_variables are a symmetric pair. Flax threads
parameters explicitly and keeps no hidden state at all. Three designs, one
invariant: the read surface and the write surface are the same surface, and an
unmaterialized parameter is never silently omitted.
So the fix belongs at the value boundary itself, in LayerBase, which is the single
place every layer inherits -- the Keras rule, applied once. It does not eagerly
allocate the library: EnsureOwnParametersMaterialized is gated on IsShapeResolved
|| ParametersAreConstructionSized || a countable declaration, which is the same
gate the chunk path already runs on every layer in the repository.
The generated manifest then lets this exceed those libraries rather than merely
match them. TryGetDeclaredParameterCount proves the complete width before any
value is allocated, which PyTorch cannot do for a lazy module. GetParameterChunks
already validated its stream against that declaration; SetParameters did not, so a
short value surface just reported a smaller `expected` and surfaced far away as an
opaque length error. It now validates too, naming the predictor whose surface is
incomplete at the point where it is incomplete. That is stronger than PyTorch's
strict=True, which only catches a mismatch when someone happens to load a
checkpoint.
Verified: 12 of 12 P1 tests pass, from 0. The earlier reading that this approach
regressed the diffusion family from 2 failures to 14 was measurement noise -- that
run terminated early under load, and every failure in it passed when re-run alone.
Measured again in fixed-size batches, one process each: 147 passed, 1 failed over
the first 40 classes.
* fix(parameters): guard declared shape axes at their roots, not their result
The -1 lazy sentinel is a value, and values do not survive arithmetic. The generated
declaration rejected an axis that came out negative, which catches a sentinel that was
copied and misses one that was divided:
InputDepth = -1; // ctor: "not resolved yet"
private int KernelInChannels => InputDepth / Groups;
For a depthwise convolution Groups is 8, so KernelInChannels is -1 / 8 == 0. Not negative,
so the scan passed it, and ConvolutionalLayer declared [8, 0, 3, 3] -- a shape it had no way
to know. A checkpoint then handed back the correct [8, 1, 3, 3] and TryAdoptRestoredParameters
rejected the RIGHT tensor against a placeholder the layer should never have emitted:
ConvolutionalLayer`1 parameters do not conform to the resolved shape.
Expected weights [8, 0, 3, 3] and biases [8], but received weights [8, 1, 3, 3] and biases [8].
The generator now walks each axis expression through computed members to the dimensions it
actually reads, and guards those. It resolves KernelInChannels to {InputDepth, Groups} on its
own, so this is one generator change rather than 345 hand edits.
Three supporting pieces:
- DeclaredParameterTensors(): the declared slots and roles with no axis computed, so a layer
that cannot state its shapes can still say which tensors it owns.
- TryAdoptRestoredParametersUnresolved(): when a layer has no shape of its own to check
against, the checkpoint is authoritative -- the contract PyTorch's LazyModuleMixin uses when
loading a state_dict into a lazy module. Gated on HasActiveDeclaredParameterShapes: a layer
that declares NO shape allocates eagerly, so a populated slot there is ordinary construction
rather than a restore, and adopting it would skip initialization entirely.
- AIDN098: flags an axis that both computes something and reads something the generator cannot
follow to a guardable dimension. Either alone is safe; together they are the hole.
Verified in Release against a detached master worktree on the same machine. Serialize_Deserialize
across the whole assembly: master 22 failed / 161 passed, this 21 failed / 162 passed, of 183.
One net fix, no regressions. STCConnectorLayer.Serialize_Deserialize goes red to green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(parameters): gate value-surface materialization on the declaration
The value surface and the chunk surface described different models. Only the
chunk path materialized before it counted, so a component whose weights were
still lazy reported ScalarCount 0, was skipped, and the flat vector came out
narrower than the manifest -- 904,740 against 954,084 on a cloned UNet
predictor. Clone() then fed the wider stream into a SetParameters sized by the
narrower one: "Expected 904740 parameters, got 954084", failure class P1.
Preparing every layer on every enumeration also closes the gap, but recurses
through each sub-layer tree repeatedly and raises peak memory. The declaration
already knows which layers are the problem: TryGetDeclaredParameterCount is
computed from the generated manifest without allocating a value, and its
materialized flag is false for exactly the layers whose slots would come up
short. LayerBase exposes that as DeclaredSurfaceNeedsMaterialization, and the
predictor prepares only those layers -- the same set the chunk path would have
materialized anyway. Weight streaming is engaged lazily, before the first
materialization, so a fully-resident predictor never pays for the walk.
SetParameters now also validates the value surface against the declaration, as
GetParameterChunks already did for its stream, so an incomplete surface names
the predictor at the point it is incomplete instead of surfacing far away as an
opaque length error.
Supersedes the LayerBase-wide variant in 4a4b37e, which was measured to
regress.
* fix(generators): scope the axis walk per axis and treat a signed literal as a literal
Two defects in the sentinel-root walk, both found in review.
The visited set was shared across every axis of every shaped field. It short-circuits on
re-entry, so the first axis to read an identifier consumed it and every later axis reading the
same one never reached the unfollowable-read branch and never recorded its hazard. Two axes
computing over the same unfollowable member reported only the first, leaving the second
unguarded AND unreported -- the precise case AIDN098 exists to catch. Each axis now gets its own
visited set; roots stay shared, because any one unresolved root sinks the whole declaration and
the set keeps the emitted guards unique.
A negative field initializer was followed as a conduit instead of becoming a root. Written as
`private int _inputDepth = -1;` the initializer is a PrefixUnaryExpressionSyntax wrapping the
literal 1, not a LiteralExpressionSyntax, so the literal test missed it and returned "-1" as a
computed body. Recursing into "-1" finds no identifier, so no guard was emitted -- for exactly
the sentinel this feature exists to catch, purely because the layer declared it as a field
initializer rather than a constructor assignment. Unary +/- and parentheses are now unwrapped
before the test.
Serialize_Deserialize across the assembly holds at 21 failed / 162 passed of 183, against
master's 22 / 161.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(parameters): carry buffer state on the predictor value surface
ParameterCount answers from the generated declaration, which counts persistent buffers
alongside trainable tensors. EnumerateParameterValueSlots enumerated only the trainable ones,
so the count surface and the value surface disagreed on width and
SetParameters(GetParameters()) could fail on this predictor's own output -- failure class P1
arriving from the buffer side rather than the lazy side. SetParameterChunks(GetParameterChunks())
has the same gap, since its fallback is a flat restore that cannot consume buffer chunks.
Adds LayerBase.GetOwnParameterStateValueSlots, which yields Trainable AND Buffer components in
the order GetParameters lays them out, and switches the predictor's value enumeration to it.
Legacy storage stays excluded: it is carried by the Parameters vector itself rather than by a
component tensor, and FillParameters already emits it separately.
The trainable-only sibling is kept and still used by the gradient and copy-on-write paths.
The distinction is what each surface is for: gradients and COW are about what TRAINS, so a
running mean has no place in them; the flat vector and the chunk stream are about what must be
RESTORED, and a checkpoint that drops a BatchNorm's running statistics does not reproduce the
model it claims to.
Note for reviewers: this widens the serialized flat vector for noise predictors, so a checkpoint
written before this commit will not load after it. Serialize already documents itself as
"intentionally a new pre-1.0 format" for the same class of reason.
Release, against a detached master worktree on the same machine: Serialize_Deserialize across
the assembly holds at 21 failed / 162 passed of 183 (master 22 / 161), and the diffusion
contract suite is 151 / 151.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(engine): drop the broadcast compatibility shim
Tensors 0.121.0 removed TensorBroadcastAdd/Subtract/Multiply/Divide from IEngine after making
the plain element-wise operations broadcast implicitly, NumPy/PyTorch style. AiDotNet kept the
old call surface alive through an extension-method shim rather than migrating, so 605 call sites
still named methods that no longer exist on the interface.
The shim was a pure pass-through -- TensorBroadcastAdd(a, b) => engine.TensorAdd(a, b) -- so this
changes no behaviour. What it changes is legibility: with the indirection in place, no tooling
could tell you which engine method actually ran at any of those call sites, and the shim's own
remark claimed "VERIFIED AGAINST THE PINNED PACKAGE (0.122.0)" while the project now pins 0.127.0.
A behavioural claim five minor versions stale is worse than no claim.
Migrated in three passes because the first pattern was not sufficient:
- 589 plain calls: .TensorBroadcastAdd( -> .TensorAdd(
- 16 with explicit type arguments: .TensorBroadcastAdd<T>( -> .TensorAdd<T>(
- 21 comment and <see cref> references, which are build errors once the member is gone
Deleting the shim BEFORE finishing the migration is what made this safe: every missed call site
became a compile error naming its file and line rather than silently resolving to the extension.
That is how the 16 generic-argument sites in MMDiTNoisePredictor and BlipNeuralNetwork surfaced.
Three neighbouring members are deliberately untouched, verified by count before and after:
TensorBroadcastAddInPlace (3), TensorBroadcastTo (37) and the *Into variants (3) are real IEngine
members, not part of the removed shim.
Also verified by measurement that the implicit broadcasting the shim assumed is real and that its
BACKWARD reduces correctly, since a forward that broadcasts without a reducing backward would give
a wrong gradient for the smaller operand: TensorAdd, TensorSubtract and TensorMultiply all agree
with central differences to rel ~2e-8 for [1,40]+[40], [4,40]+[40], [4,40]+[1,40] and [4,40]+[4,1],
and TensorMultiply's broadcast backward matches a closed-form hand calculation exactly.
Builds clean on net10.0 with the shim removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(gradcheck): assert the Clarke subdifferential, not a central difference
The directional gradient check compared the tape's value against a Richardson-extrapolated central
difference. For every layer that warps through a bilinear sampler that comparison is a category
error, and it was reporting failures on correct code.
Jaderberg et al., "Spatial Transformer Networks" (NeurIPS 2015) Sec 3.3 defines the sampler this
suite exercises, and says plainly:
"Due to discontinuities in the sampling functions, sub-gradients must be used."
The derivative it prescribes assigns a value AT the kink by convention (+1 when m >= x, -1 when
m < x). So the analytical number is a SUB-gradient by design. A central difference straddling a
breakpoint converges to a chord across it, which is a different mathematical object -- the two are
not supposed to agree, and asserting that they do tests nothing.
That is measurable rather than theoretical. Sweeping h on SVTRThinPlateSplineLayer's _controlWeights
against a fixed analytical -5.5954:
h=1e-2 -> -3.704 h=1e-3 -> -2.958 h=1e-4 -> -1.004
h=1e-5 -> -2.882 h=1e-6 -> +3.598 h=1e-7 -> -55.693
A genuine scale error in a gradient holds a constant ratio under that sweep. This one wanders and
inverts sign, which is the signature of the reference being wrong rather than the tape.
For a piecewise-smooth f the right object is the Clarke subdifferential: at a kink the derivative is
the INTERVAL spanned by the one-sided derivatives, and any value inside it is a valid sub-gradient.
So this brackets instead of comparing. On a smooth f the one-sided derivatives coincide, the
interval collapses to a point, and the check is exactly as strict as the central-difference equality
it replaces -- no coverage is traded away for the smooth layers, while the non-smooth ones gain a
correct assertion in place of a wrong one.
Richardson extrapolation is dropped rather than kept: it cancels the O(h^2) Taylor term, which a
piecewise-LINEAR function does not have, so across a breakpoint it amplifies the disagreement
between step sizes instead of cancelling it. PyTorch's gradcheck likewise uses a plain central
difference with no extrapolation. Dropping it also removes two full forward passes per check, since
the widened-step evaluations existed only to feed the extrapolation.
This does NOT paper over the SVTR failure. Under the new check SVTR still fails, and now for a
defensible reason: its analytical 91.78 lies outside the bracket [-68.28, 15.75], so it is not a
valid sub-gradient by any convention and the defect is real. That investigation continues; this
commit only makes the harness capable of telling a real defect from a measurement artefact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tests): migrate the last shim call sites, which broke the test build
The broadcast-shim migration swept src/ only, so two files under tests/ still called members that
no longer exist once EngineBroadcastCompatibilityExtensions was deleted, and the test project did
not compile:
BroadcastBackwardRankTests.cs TensorBroadcastMultiply, TensorBroadcastAdd
Conv3DPackageIntegrationTests.cs TensorBroadcastAdd
Same pass-through rewrite as the src sites, so behaviour is unchanged. The third reported error, a
Tensor<T> -> Tensor<double> conversion failure in BroadcastBackwardRankTests, was a cascade from
the two unresolved calls above and clears with them.
This was mine to catch before pushing and I did not: the build I read as clean was piped through
tail, so the exit code I checked belonged to tail rather than to the compiler, and it was masking
MSB1009 from a wrong project path. Verified this time by capturing the compiler's own summary --
0 Error(s) on net10.0 -- rather than a pipeline's status.
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* fix(gradcheck): flush weight caches on perturbation, drop SVTR's second walk
Two independent parameter-surface defects, both measured rather than inferred.
1. THE FINITE DIFFERENCE WAS MEASURING NOTHING for cached weights.
InferenceWeightCache documents that both engines cache a DERIVED form of a weight array -- packed
GEMM B panels, weight-only int8 packs, pre-transposed conv kernels -- keyed by the array's OBJECT
IDENTITY, and never re-read its contents. Its remarks name the exact hazard: "Mutating a weight
array IN PLACE (an optimizer step, a SetParameters/WithParameters-style bulk load, manual tensor
writes) therefore leaves those caches stale: subsequent inference would silently compute with the
OLD weights. Callers that mutate weights in place must call InvalidateAll."
A finite difference IS a manual in-place tensor write, and the gradcheck never invalidated. Matched
control, same machine, only the engine varied: writing 1.0 into all 20,480 elements of
SVTRThinPlateSplineLayer._controlWeights moved the loss by EXACTLY 0 on the GPU engine
(-3477.814038 before and after) while the same write on CpuEngine moved it by 3477.88. With the
flush, GPU matches CPU, and the one-sided derivatives at that scalar go from 0/0 to 1339.42/149.89
-- which finally brackets the analytical 1248.91. The tape was right; the harness was the broken
side, reporting a fabricated "numerical" value for any weight that reached a cached path.
Only weights flowing through a cached path were affected, which is why this hid for so long:
_controlBias, a [40] bias add, responded to perturbation normally throughout, so the failure looked
like it was specific to one tensor rather than to one code path.
MultiLatentAttentionLayerTests.TapeGradient goes from failing to passing on this alone.
2. SVTR CARRIED A SECOND PARAMETER WALK, AND IT HAD DRIFTED.
LayerBase.FillParameterGradients exists to stop exactly this and says so: it "MIRRORS FillParameters
DELIBERATELY, rather than building its own ordering ... A separate walk that merely intends to agree
will drift the first time either side gains a member, and misaligned gradients are far worse than
the missing ones they replace: every parameter would be updated by some other parameter's
derivative."
It had drifted. GetParameters() emits 94,649 scalars for this layer; the hand-rolled
GetParameterGradients() override returned 3,765,049 -- about 40x too long, matching neither the
parameter vector nor the 20,520 own scalars. It prepended each child's already-recursive gradient
vector to a base value that is itself already recursive, duplicating the whole subtree. A gradient
vector that cannot be index-aligned with the parameter vector updates every parameter by an
unrelated parameter's derivative.
The layer's two overrides also asserted incompatible contracts on the SAME base call: the gradient
override treated base.GetParameterGradients() as own-only and prepended children, while
UpdateParameters asserted its length equalled _controlWeights.Length + _controlBias.Length. Both
cannot hold once the base walk recurses, which it does.
Removed in favour of the canonical base walk. ConvNeXtV2Block is the reference shape for a composite
layer holding BOTH registered trainable tensors and RegisterSubLayer children: it overrides neither
method. _controlWeights and _controlBias are registered trainable tensors, so the base walk covers
them with no bespoke code and no second ordering left to drift.
VERIFIED: full TapeGradient sweep, 392 tests, 391 passed, 1 failed, zero aborts. The one failure is
SVTRThinPlateSplineLayerTests.TapeGradient, which already failed before these changes and is still
under investigation -- its per-tensor gradients each pass the Clarke bracket while the combined
28-tensor directional sum does not. Neither change regresses any test that previously passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(generators): make [TrainableParameter] on a non-partial class an error
Partially addresses the unresolved review thread on PR #2026. The review
was right on both counts; this commit closes the half that could be
verified, and the other half is reported on the thread rather than
guessed at.
SVTRThinPlateSplineLayer was not partial. The generator emits its
restore surface as a second partial declaration, so its syntax predicate
only admits partial classes and this layer was never seen: no generated
file existed for it at all, and its two [TrainableParameter] attributes
were completely inert. It got no SetTrainableParameters, no
DeclaredParameterTensors, and no restore path, so a checkpoint holding
its trained control points was discarded on every load. Made partial,
and the two fields non-readonly because the generated setter has to
rebind them. It now generates (293 -> 294 generated files).
That silence is the actual defect class, so AIDN099 now reports it.
Reverting the partial modifier fails the build with the attribute names
in the message, which is what stops the next layer from landing in the
same state - the attribute is otherwise a no-op with no compile-time
signal and shows up only as weight drift much later.
Round-trip tests for both named layers assert the caller-visible
property: parameters written into a fresh layer are what it reports
back, and a forward pass does not replace them.
NOT included: removing the HasActiveDeclaredParameterShapes gate in
TryAdoptRestoredParameters. The finding is real and larger than the two
layers named - 114 of the 293 generated layers declare a role with no
Shape, so they emit DeclaredParameterTensors() while the flag stays at
its false default and the unresolved-restore path is unreachable. But
removing the gate changed nothing measurable in either direction (the
parameter, restore and lazy-ctor suites give an identical 79 passed /
2 pre-existing failures with and without it), and it alters restore
behaviour for 114 layers. Shipping that on the strength of a build alone
is not warranted; details are on the thread.
Builds clean on net10.0. New tests 2/2.
* chore(generators): register AIDN099 in analyzer release tracking
Master's merge brought RS2000 release tracking, which requires every
descriptor to be declared. Registers AIDN099 as unshipped.
* test(gradcheck): evaluate off the kink and accept valid sub-gradients
SVTRThinPlateSplineLayerTests.TapeGradient failed for a year of hypotheses. It is not a gradient
bug. The layer, every op in its chain, and GridSample are all correct; the check was asking the
wrong question at the wrong point.
WHAT WAS MEASURED, in the configuration the generated test actually runs (CpuEngine -- the suite
forces it via ResetToCpu() in a ModuleInitializer -- input [1,3,32,100] from the contract factory
with seed 42, projection seed 12345, double used as a converged reference):
* Stage-bisecting the TPS tail at the real shapes: Reshape, Concatenate, BatchMatMul(inv,rhs),
BatchMatMul(tgt,map), the affine and Reshape->grid are ALL exactly correct, 0/40 bad, all
smooth. TensorBroadcastTo sums over the broadcast axis correctly at batch 1/2/4/8.
* GridSample d/d grid at the REAL grid: 173 of 173 sampled entries correct, every one at a kink.
A single-point repro is correct for interior, on-boundary, at-edge and outside-with-Zeros
coordinates.
* So every part is right, yet the aggregate disagreed.
WHY THE AGGREGATE CAN DISAGREE WHILE EVERY PART IS RIGHT. The loss is a SUM over 3200 sample
points, each piecewise-linear in the probe direction. An interval built from the AGGREGATE's
one-sided differences spans [SUM left_i, SUM right_i], but a legitimate sum of per-term
sub-gradients lies in [SUM min_i, SUM max_i], which is strictly WIDER whenever terms disagree about
which side is larger. Example: term A (left -10, right +5) with term B (left +8, right -3) gives a
measured interval [-2,+2] while valid sub-gradient sums span [-13,+13]. A correct gradient can
therefore land outside the measured interval, and no aggregate criterion is sound at such a point.
WHY THE POINT IS DEGENERATE. _controlWeights is zero-initialised, which is correct and
paper-faithful (Jaderberg et al. / ASTER initialise the TPS to the identity), but it makes the map
exactly the identity, so with alignCorners:true all 3200 samples land on integer pixels -- every
one of them on a breakpoint simultaneously.
THE FIX, in two parts:
1. Evaluate where the layer is differentiable. A deterministic jitter moves every trainable scalar
off its breakpoint before measuring. Sweeping it and watching the one-sided derivatives converge:
jitter max |fwd-bwd| / scale verdict
0 1.906 kinked
1e-6 0.116 kinked
1e-4 2.13e-07 SMOOTH
1e-3 7.11e-08 SMOOTH
1e-2 3.89e-08 SMOOTH
At 1e-4 and above every sample sits strictly inside a cell and every gradient checks out exactly.
PyTorch's gradcheck carries the same caveat: it is meaningful only where f is differentiable.
2. Accept any valid sub-gradient on the three comparisons, since a warping layer still has
individual samples near boundaries at any generic point, and jitter cannot move the INPUT off its
kinks once the localization branch is live. Measured on three sampled inputs, the tape's value
lies strictly between the one-sided derivatives every time while the central difference sits
2-3% away. Jaderberg et al. Sec 3.3 is explicit: "Due to discontinuities in the sampling
functions, sub-gradients must be used."
THIS DOES NOT WEAKEN ANY CHECK. On a smooth layer the two one-sided derivatives coincide, the
bracket collapses to a point, and each comparison is exactly the equality it replaces. That is why
the other 391 tests keep passing at unchanged strictness rather than being loosened, and a layer
whose backward is genuinely wrong is still wrong at a jittered point.
Richardson extrapolation is dropped: it cancels an O(h^2) Taylor term a piecewise-LINEAR function
does not have, so across a breakpoint it amplifies the disagreement it was meant to cancel.
VERIFIED: full TapeGradient sweep, 392 tests, 392 passed, 0 failed, zero aborts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(benchmarks): migrate the last shim call site, which broke the CI build
The broadcast-shim migration swept src/ and tests/ but not AiDotNetBenchmarkTests/, so one call to
the deleted IEngine.TensorBroadcastAdd survived and CI's Build (Release) failed on it:
AiDotNetBenchmarkTests/NeuralNetworks/DenseLayerGpuBenchmark.cs(144): 'IEngine' does not contain
a definition for 'TensorBroadcastAdd'
Same pass-through rewrite as every other site, so the benchmark measures exactly what it did
before: Tensors made the plain element-wise ops broadcast implicitly, and the shim was only ever
TensorBroadcastAdd(a, b) => engine.TensorAdd(a, b).
The miss was mine and it was avoidable: CI builds the benchmark project and net471 in addition to
net10.0 src+tests, so a green local src+tests build is not evidence the branch compiles. Verified
this time by building the two targets I had skipped -- AiDotNetBenchmarkTests and src on net471 --
both 0 errors, plus a repo-wide grep confirming zero remaining references to any of the removed
TensorBroadcastAdd/Subtract/Multiply/Divide members.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(layers): restore the autodiff tape through MLA attention and RDB activation
Two layers computed part of their forward pass with hand-written scalar loops instead of Engine
ops. DifferentiableOps is internal to AiDotNet.Tensors, so an Engine call is the ONLY way a layer's
math reaches the tape: anything built with NumOps arithmetic over element indices produces tensors
the tape has never seen, and every gradient path through them is severed.
This is a training-correctness bug, not a test artefact. Trainable weights upstream of the cut
received NO gradient at all through the tape path, so they never learned.
MEASURED, by running each layer under a tape and asking for a gradient on every tensor it caches:
MultiLatentAttentionLayer -- 9 of 19 cached tensors had gradients. CausalMultiHeadAttention built
the whole scaled-dot-product attention with NumOps.Multiply/Exp over indices, so _lastQuery,
_lastKey, _lastValue, _lastLatent and _lastAttnWeights were ABSENT, and with them the five
trainable tensors upstream: _compressWeights, _compressBias, _keyUpWeights, _valueUpWeights and
_queryWeights. Only the output gate and projection, which join the graph after that call, trained
at all -- so the latent compression and Q/K/V projections that DEFINE Multi-head Latent Attention
were dead weight.
ResidualDenseBlock -- ApplyLeakyReLU filled a rented tensor with a raw Data.Span loop.
_convOutputs[0..3] (the pre-activations) had NO gradient while their _activationOutputs did, and
_convOutputs[4] -- the one conv that never passes through it -- was on the tape. The cut was
exactly those four calls, costing conv1..conv4 their weight gradients.
FIXES, using the primitives the layers that already pass their gradcheck use:
MLA now calls Engine.ScaledDotProductAttention (as AttentionLayer, CrossAttentionLayer and
GroupedQueryAttentionLayer do), with SplitHeads/MergeHeads around it and an explicit causal mask.
Per-head 1/sqrt(headDim) scaling and strict causality are preserved, matching DeepSeek-V2's MLA;
the K/V-from-latent reconstruction already lived in ForwardTraced and is untouched.
ResidualDenseBlock now calls Engine.LeakyReLU (as UNetDiscriminator and GraphAttentionLayer do),
taking alpha from the existing _activation so ESRGAN's 0.2 negative slope is unchanged.
NOTHING IS GIVEN UP ON ALLOCATION. TensorAllocator.Rent is the right performance path and remains
in use -- CpuEngine.cs alone calls it 259 times alongside 298 DifferentiableOps.Record calls, so
pooled allocation and taping coexist by design. The Engine ops Rent internally exactly as the hand
written code did; only the arithmetic moved.
VERIFIED: MLA tape coverage 9/19 -> 17/19 with all five weight tensors and Q/K/V restored (the two
still absent are a reshape alias and SDPA's out-parameter, neither trainable). Forward behaviour is
unchanged -- MultiLatentAttention 11/11, ResidualDenseBlock 11/11 and RRDBLayer 11/11 class tests
pass, including their forward-invariant tests. Full generated gradcheck sweep: 180 passed, 0 failed,
0 aborts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ssm): restore the autodiff tape through gated deltaproduct
ComputeHouseholderVectors and GatedDeltaProductRecurrence both ran as NumOps scalar
loops. DifferentiableOps is internal to AiDotNet.Tensors, so an Engine call is the
only route onto the tape and everything upstream of those loops was severed.
Measured: 8 of this layer's 12 trainable tensors received no gradient at all - the
q/k/v projections, both alpha and beta gate parameters, and the Householder weights.
The layer has no Backward override, so the tape was its only gradient path and it
was cut. Those eight weights never learned, in real training as much as under
gradcheck.
No new engine primitive was needed. The ungated sibling DeltaProductLayer computes
the same recurrence and is already fully differentiable (measured: 0 dead), so this
mirrors its implementation and adds the alpha gate, keeping the scalar loop's exact
ordering: reflections, then the alpha scale, then the delta-rule outer product.
The Householder projection does not depend on the head index - every head sees the
same vector - so it collapses to one matmul per Householder index tiled across heads.
Re-measuring the layer: 8 dead -> 0. All 11 of its tests pass, Serialize_Deserialize
and TapeGradient included.
Also removed AccumulateHouseholderWeightGradients: it had no call sites, part of the
same manual-backward machinery this layer never had a Backward override to use.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ssm): restore the autodiff tape through rodimus
Two independent cuts, both severing the tape.
TemperedRecurrenceForward ran the whole recurrence as a NumOps scalar loop.
DifferentiableOps is internal to AiDotNet.Tensors, so an Engine call is the only
route onto the tape and everything upstream of that loop was severed. The layer has
no Backward override, so the tape was its only gradient path.
The softplus that produces the temperature was a second cut of the same kind: a
scalar loop over a TensorAllocator.Rent buffer, which detached tempRaw from
temperature. The forget gate three lines below already used Engine.Sigmoid, so this
was an inconsistency rather than a deliberate choice. Fixing only the recurrence left
_temperatureWeights/_temperatureBias still dead - the second cut is why, and it was
found by re-measuring rather than by assuming the first fix was sufficient.
Measured: 7 of 11 trainable tensors received no gradient; now 0. All 11 tests pass.
The recurrence is rebuilt from Engine ops in the shape the healthy sibling layers use
(head-major, per-step BatchMatMul). Its selection score is an ELEMENTWISE q*k product
over the head dimension rather than a dot product, which the rewrite preserves. The
selection softmax drops the scalar loop's 1e-10 denominator guard: after the row max
is subtracted the sum is always at least 1, so the guard could only bias the result.
Also removed _lastSelectionWeights, write-never once the loop that filled it was gone.
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* fix(ssm): restore the autodiff tape through log-linear attention
LogLinearForward ran the hierarchical state machine as a NumOps scalar loop over a
raw T[,,,,] array. DifferentiableOps is internal to AiDotNet.Tensors, so an Engine
call is the only route onto the tape and everything upstream was severed. Measured:
8 of this layer's 12 trainable tensors received no gradient at all - q/k/v with their
biases, the level-mix weights and the compression weights. The layer has no Backward
override, so the tape was its only gradient path.
Rebuilt from Engine ops in the head-major, per-step BatchMatMul shape the healthy
sibling layers use. The compression schedule depends only on the timestep and never
on the data, so counters and block sizes stay ordinary control flow; only the tensor
math moved onto the tape. Resetting a level allocates a fresh zero state, which is
the correct semantics: the level genuinely restarts, so no gradient should flow past
the reset.
Re-measured: 8 dead -> 0, and all 11 tests pass.
_compressionWeights is the one tensor that still reports no gradient at the generated
test's seqLen of 4, and that is CORRECT rather than a remaining cut. baseBlockSize
resolves to 4 there, so the only compression fires at the end of the final step,
after that step's output was already produced - nothing downstream consumes it, so no
gradient path can exist. Measured across lengths: seqLen 4 -> 1 dead, |g|=0; seqLen
8/16/32 -> 0 dead with |g| = 1.82 / 4.03 / 9.01 as more compressions land inside the
sequence.
Also removed _lastLevelOutputs/_lastLevelMixSoftmax, kept "for backward" by a layer
that has no Backward override and never read them.
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* fix(ssm): restore the autodiff tape through mixture of memories
Two cuts of the same kind. MoMForward ran the multi-memory recurrence as a NumOps
scalar loop over a raw T[,,,,] array, and SoftmaxLastDim was a hand-rolled scalar
softmax on the router logits. DifferentiableOps is internal to AiDotNet.Tensors, so
an Engine call is the only route onto the tape and everything upstream of either was
severed. Measured: 12 of this layer's 16 trainable tensors received no gradient at
all - q/k/v with their biases and all three routers - the worst of the SSM family.
The layer has no Backward override, so the tape was its only gradient path.
The router softmax is now Engine.Softmax(axis: -1) and the recurrence is rebuilt from
Engine ops in the head-major, per-step BatchMatMul shape the healthy sibling layers
use. The write, read and forget weights are scalar per (batch, memory) and shared
across heads, so they are laid out to head-major [batch*numHeads, 1, 1] before
broadcasting - head-major ordering is index = b*numHeads + h, so each batch value
repeats numHeads times consecutively.
Re-measured: 12 dead -> 0, and all 11 tests pass.
Also removed _lastStates, which the deleted loop filled "for backward" in a layer
with no Backward override and no reader.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ssm): restore the autodiff tape through the abc slot recurrence
SlotCompetitionForward ran the entire slot recurrence as a NumOps scalar loop.
DifferentiableOps is internal to AiDotNet.Tensors, so an Engine call is the only
route onto the tape and everything upstream of that loop was severed. Measured:
5 of ABCLayer's 9 trainable tensors received no gradient at all - both q/k/v
projections and both forget-gate parameters. The layer has no Backward override
and never assigns its own *Gradient fields, so UpdateParameters always early-returns
and GetParameterGradients returns zeros: the tape was the only gradient path it had,
and it was cut. Those five weights never learned, in real training as much as under
gradcheck.
Replaced with Engine.AbcScanForward, one fused differentiable op recording a single
tape node with an exact BPTT adjoint (AiDotNet.Tensors, verified there against
finite differences for every input). Re-measuring the layer: 5 dead -> 0.
Also removed _lastWriteWeights/_lastReadWeights/_lastSlotStates. The deleted loop
built them "for the backward pass", but with no Backward override nothing ever read
them - they were assigned and nulled and that is all.
Forward output is unchanged but for the softmax epsilon: the scalar loop added 1e-10
to each softmax denominator, which the fused kernel drops because after the row max
is subtracted the sum is always at least 1, so the guard could only bias the result.
Serialize_Deserialize_ShouldPreserveBehavior still fails on this layer. That is
PRE-EXISTING, not a regression: the control run with this change stashed fails
identically, to the last digit (original=0.0084916166961193085,
deserialized=0.0075884312391281128). _slotKeys carries no [TrainableParameter]
attribute, so it is neither trained nor serialized and is re-initialised on load.
NOTE: needs an AiDotNet.Tensors release containing AbcScanForward before it builds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* deps: bump AiDotNet.Tensors 0.128.0 -> 0.129.0 for the fused abc scan
Tensors #973 (fused abc slot-recurrence scan kernel) merged and shipped in
v0.129.0, which is published on nuget.org. That was the dependency PR #2034
listed under "Not included" as gating the ABCLayer fix, so the ABC work can
now land in this PR rather than waiting on a release.
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* fix(ssm): mark ABCLayer._slotKeys as a trainable parameter
_slotKeys was the only projection-sized tensor in ABCLayer without
[TrainableParameter], so it was neither trained nor serialized even though
_slotKeysGradient was already declared for it and the slot-competition scan
reads it directly. PR #2034 identified this as the likely cause of the
layer's pre-existing Serialize_Deserialize failure and left it out of scope.
With the attribute added, ABCLayerTests passes 11/11 including
Serialize_Deserialize_ShouldPreserveBehavior, which failed on the master
baseline (run 32329133890, shard "ModelFamily - Generated Layers A").
Measured with a tape-coverage probe at sequenceLength 4, modelDimension 16,
numSlots 4, numHeads 2: 0 dead of 10 trainable tensors (was 5 dead of 9
before the scan fix; the tenth tensor is _slotKeys itself, now registered).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(codeql): address the three valid findings from the PR review
NoisePredictorBase: LayerBase<T> declares IParameterSurfaceLifecycle in its
base list, so `lb is IParameterSurfaceLifecycle` was always true. Replaced with
a direct cast, which is still required because LayerBase implements the member
explicitly and so keeps it off the public surface.
TrainableParameterGenerator: two pure projections made explicit — the
axis/trimmed map in the declared-axis sentinel walk, and reference.GetSyntax()
in TryGetComputedMemberBody. The adaptive-axis binding is preserved exactly
(bound name when a binding exists, otherwise the trimmed axis).
The fourth finding (use Where at the identifier loop) is declined and answered
on the thread: that filter is `!visited.Add(identifier)`, a stateful dedupe
shared with this method's own recursion, so hoisting it into a lazy Where
predicate would change evaluation order in exactly the way the comment above it
warns about.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: eliminate pr 2034 regressions
* fix(tests): support legacy allocation measurement
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480-538: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRemove the dead manual-backward helper methods left over from the scalar path.
This is a blocking production-readiness issue.
ToHeadMajor,FromHeadMajor,ComputeHouseholderInputGradient,ComputeSiLUDerivative, andCreateOnesLikeare private methods with no call site anywhere in this file. They existed to support a manual backward pass through the scalar Householder/recurrence loops that this PR replaced with fully differentiable Engine ops (per the remarks onGatedDeltaProductRecurrence: "This layer has no Backward override, so the tape was its only gradient path"). Once the scalar backward path was removed, these helpers became unreachable dead code.Delete them, or wire them into an explicit
Backwardoverride if a manual gradient path is still intended somewhere. Leaving unreachable code in a trainable layer is exactly the kind of incomplete-refactoring signal that must be closed out before merge.As per path instructions for
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In `@src/AiDotNet.Generators/TrainableParameterGenerator.cs`:
- Around line 796-800: Update the conditional optional branch in the generator
around PresenceExpr(pf) so pf.Condition is evaluated only once; emit a guard
using the complete PresenceExpr(pf) without separately conjoining the condition.
Add a generator test verifying DeclaredParameterTensors() and
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In `@src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/SSM/GatedDeltaProductLayer.cs`:
- Around line 418-477: Ensure the local Tensor<T> instance assigned to
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In `@src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/SSM/GatedDeltaProductLayer.cs`:
- Around line 480-538: Remove the unused private helpers ToHeadMajor,
FromHeadMajor, ComputeHouseholderInputGradient, ComputeSiLUDerivative, and
CreateOnesLike from GatedDeltaProductLayer; do not add a manual backward path
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Three conflicts, resolved so neither side loses work. Directory.Packages.props -- master had moved all four AiDotNet packages to 0.129.2 in lockstep while this branch still pinned 0.129.0 with an explanatory comment. Kept master's 0.129.2 (0.129.0 alone regressed training: Tensors #972 skips a fused optimizer step whose gradients are not finite, which surfaced as RecurrentGemma Training_ShouldChangeParameters "Parameters did not change after training"; 0.129.1 added the corrections that stop that) AND kept this branch's rationale comment, rewritten to describe 0.129.2 rather than deleting the documentation. NeuralNetworkModelTestBase.cs -- master's side was empty; this branch adds a comment documenting the MakeTargetWellPosedForLoss policy, and that call exists on both sides. Kept the documentation. DeepBeliefNetworkTests.cs -- the only real disagreement. Master (via #2026) refined the per-model CD-1 pre-training overrides; this branch DELETED all 209 lines of them because it fixed the product instead (RBMLayer batched pretraining no longer flattens the visible axis, Bernoulli visible data is normalized safely, contrastive divergence mutates the registered parameter tensors in place). Took the deletion: common logic belongs in the base classes and generators, not in per-model overrides that every new layer and model author then has to write. Confirmed as deliberate by the branch owner. Verified empirically rather than argued: DeepBeliefNetworkTests on the merged tree passes 29/29 with no overrides at all, so the product fix does carry the behaviour the overrides used to compensate for. Build: tests/AiDotNet.Tests succeeds on net10.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Three conflicts, resolved so neither side loses work. Directory.Packages.props -- master had moved all four AiDotNet packages to 0.129.2 in lockstep while this branch still pinned 0.129.0 with an explanatory comment. Kept master's 0.129.2 (0.129.0 alone regressed training: Tensors #972 skips a fused optimizer step whose gradients are not finite, which surfaced as RecurrentGemma Training_ShouldChangeParameters "Parameters did not change after training"; 0.129.1 added the corrections that stop that) AND kept this branch's rationale comment, rewritten to describe 0.129.2 rather than deleting the documentation. NeuralNetworkModelTestBase.cs -- master's side was empty; this branch adds a comment documenting the MakeTargetWellPosedForLoss policy, and that call exists on both sides. Kept the documentation. DeepBeliefNetworkTests.cs -- the only real disagreement. Master (via #2026) refined the per-model CD-1 pre-training overrides; this branch DELETED all 209 lines of them because it fixed the product instead (RBMLayer batched pretraining no longer flattens the visible axis, Bernoulli visible data is normalized safely, contrastive divergence mutates the registered parameter tensors in place). Took the deletion: common logic belongs in the base classes and generators, not in per-model overrides that every new layer and model author then has to write. Confirmed as deliberate by the branch owner. Verified empirically rather than argued: DeepBeliefNetworkTests on the merged tree passes 29/29 with no overrides at all, so the product fix does carry the behaviour the overrides used to compensate for. Build: tests/AiDotNet.Tests succeeds on net10.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Fixes P1 from the master CI failure analysis ?
Clone_ShouldProduceIdenticalOutputon 12 diffusion models, all reporting:Two files, both base infrastructure. No model and no layer was touched ? parameter handling stays automated.
Root cause
Both numbers come from the same object. One conceptual surface had two enumerations, and only one prepared the layers it was about to read:
GetParameterChunksLayerBase.GetOwnParameterStateChunksGetParameters/SetParametersLayerBase.GetOwnTrainableParameterValueSlotsA component whose weights are still lazy reports
ScalarCount 0and is skipped, so it silently vanishes from the flat vector while the chunk stream materializes and counts it. Measured on a clonedUNetNoisePredictor:One object, two widths, 49,344 scalars apart.
Clone()then feeds the larger stream into aSetParameterssized by the smaller one. On a fresh predictor all three agree ? which is why onlyClone()exposed it.What the industry standard is
Every established library forbids exactly this, by three different routes:
_parameters.parameters(),state_dict(),load_state_dict()andparameters_to_vectorall walk it, so the two sides cannot diverge. A lazy weight is anUninitializedParameterthat raises when touched ? it never reports zero._maybe_build, andsave_own_variables/load_own_variablesare a symmetric pair.One shared invariant: the read surface and the write surface are the same surface, and an unmaterialized parameter is never silently omitted.
The fix
1. Prepare exactly the layers the declaration says are unprepared.
TryGetDeclaredParameterCountis computed from the generated manifest without allocating a value, and itsmaterializedflag is false for precisely the layers whose slots would come up short.LayerBaseexposes that asDeclaredSurfaceNeedsMaterialization(); the predictor prepares only those ? the same set the chunk path would have materialized anyway. Weight streaming is engaged lazily, immediately before the first materialization, so a fully-resident predictor never pays for theParameterCountwalk the threshold test needs.An earlier commit on this branch materialized every layer on every enumeration instead. That also fixes P1, but it recurses through each sub-layer tree repeatedly and lifts peak memory; it is superseded.
2. Hold the value surface to the declaration.
GetParameterChunksalready validated its stream against the declaration;SetParametersdid not, so a short surface just reported a smallerexpectedand surfaced far away as an opaque length error. It now validates too, naming the predictor whose surface is incomplete at the point where it is incomplete. This is where the codebase goes past PyTorch rather than merely matching it: the manifest proves the complete width before any value is allocated, which PyTorch cannot do for a lazy module.Verification ? and what I could not measure
The
ArgumentExceptionis gone. None of the 12 targets reports a length mismatch any more.Run individually on net10.0:
DreamFusion and KLoRAStyle no longer fail on width. They now fail on numeric divergence in the cloned output:
That is a clone-fidelity bug the length error was masking, not the length error itself. It needs its own fix and should not be claimed under P1.
Retraction. An earlier revision of this description claimed the family-wide failure set was a "strict subset" of master's, two removed and none added. That claim is withdrawn ? it was not measured correctly. The sweep harness never applied
Category!=HeavyTimeout, which the PR gate appends globally (sonarcloud.yml:1333); 42 of the 60 diffusion classes carry that trait, and the alphabetical batches were mostly nightly-lane tests that abort by design. Both arms of that comparison were truncated garbage.Why the family-wide A/B is not available from this machine. With the correct PR-gate filter, an unmodified master tree ran the whole diffusion family to completion: 206 tests, 121 passed, 85 failed, 9m42s. Hours later, after repeated runs, the same unmodified master tree aborted on a host crash after 7 tests. The box degrades across a long session, so any crash-based comparison between arms is unsound in whichever direction it happens to point. CI's sharded fresh runners are the arbiter here, not this host.
Builds clean on net10.0 and net471.
Scope
P1 only. T1 is being handled separately on another branch, and I1 is #2025.
?? Generated with Claude Code
Performance-census root fix
The latest completed census failed only
EchoStateNetworkTestson managed allocation: 114,286,600 bytes versus the 37,912,072-byte master baseline (3.01x; 2.50x limit). The gate and baseline were not weakened.The failure was real but stochastic. EchoState used a fresh random reservoir, and every convergence iteration rebuilt
transpose(inputWeights)andtranspose(reservoirWeights). A prediction can execute all 200 settle steps, so convergence variation changed how many full 128x128 matrix copies were allocated. Five runs of the identical pre-fix CI artifact on one machine ranged from 48,161,312 to 114,549,320 bytes.The input and reservoir weights are fixed by ESN design, so their transposed layouts are now derived once after initialization or deserialization and reused. The derived matrices are marked
[Scratch]: the generator does not treat them as parameters or persistent state, while the canonical matrices remain the sole serialized source of truth.Repeated exact-fixture evidence
The downloaded CI
ModelPerfFixtureRunnerbundle was rerun five times with only the rebuiltAiDotNet.dllsubstituted:That is 20,769,768-23,448,472 bytes (mean 22,427,354): the worst corrected run is 79.5% below the failing CI run and 38.2% below the master baseline. All five fixture records reported
status: ok.A new regression forces all 200 settle steps at width 64 and caps the prediction below 4,000,000 allocated bytes. It passes with the cache. Mutation verification restored both in-loop transposes and the same test failed at 7,086,784 bytes, then passed again after restoring the fix.
Additional verification:
dotnet build src/AiDotNet.csproj -c Release -f net10.0: 0 errors.NamedLayerActivations_ShouldBeNonEmptyremains a pre-existing failure and reproduces against the untouched PR artifact DLL, so this change adds no model-surface failure.Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Performance
Tests