"""BP-train a small cascade-form standard transformer (L distinct blocks), saving ckpts every --save_every for the A0.2 on-trajectory gradient gate (cascade_probe.py --ckpt). Plain LLM training — this is also the BP twin for the C-tier money runs.""" import argparse, math, pickle, time, json import numpy as np, torch, torch.nn as nn, torch.nn.functional as F from pathlib import Path ap = argparse.ArgumentParser() ap.add_argument('--tag', default='casc_bp6') ap.add_argument('--L', type=int, default=6); ap.add_argument('--C', type=int, default=256) ap.add_argument('--H', type=int, default=8); ap.add_argument('--T', type=int, default=256) ap.add_argument('--B', type=int, default=24); ap.add_argument('--steps', type=int, default=4000) ap.add_argument('--lr', type=float, default=3e-4); ap.add_argument('--warmup', type=int, default=200) ap.add_argument('--seed', type=int, default=0) ap.add_argument('--save_every', type=int, default=500); ap.add_argument('--log', type=int, default=200) ap.add_argument('--wandb', default=''); ap.add_argument('--wandb_run', default='') ap.add_argument('--opt', choices=['adamw', 'muon'], default='adamw') ap.add_argument('--muon_lr', type=float, default=0.02) ap.add_argument('--tok_init', type=float, default=0.0) # >0: init tok/pos std (GPT-standard 0.02) ap.add_argument('--cosine', action='store_true') # warmup then cosine decay to lr_min_ratio*lr over --steps (long runs) ap.add_argument('--lr_min_ratio', type=float, default=0.1) args = ap.parse_args() torch.manual_seed(args.seed) dev = 'cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu' DD = Path('/home/yurenh2/ept/ep_run/data/tinystories_bpe') vocab = pickle.load(open(DD / 'meta.pkl', 'rb'))['vocab_size'] def get_batch(split): data = np.memmap(DD / ('train.bin' if split == 'train' else 'val.bin'), dtype=np.uint16, mode='r') ix = torch.randint(len(data) - args.T - 1, (args.B,)) x = torch.stack([torch.from_numpy(data[i:i + args.T].astype(np.int64)) for i in ix]) y = torch.stack([torch.from_numpy(data[i + 1:i + 1 + args.T].astype(np.int64)) for i in ix]) return x.to(dev), y.to(dev) class Block(nn.Module): def __init__(self, C, H): super().__init__() self.ln1, self.ln2 = nn.LayerNorm(C), nn.LayerNorm(C) self.attn = nn.MultiheadAttention(C, H, batch_first=True) self.ff = nn.Sequential(nn.Linear(C, 4 * C), nn.GELU(), nn.Linear(4 * C, C)) def forward(self, z, mask): h = self.ln1(z); a, _ = self.attn(h, h, h, attn_mask=mask, need_weights=False) z = z + a; return z + self.ff(self.ln2(z)) tok = nn.Embedding(vocab, args.C).to(dev) pos = nn.Embedding(args.T, args.C).to(dev) if args.tok_init > 0: with torch.no_grad(): tok.weight.normal_(0, args.tok_init); pos.weight.normal_(0, args.tok_init) blocks = nn.ModuleList([Block(args.C, args.H) for _ in range(args.L)]).to(dev) mask = torch.triu(torch.full((args.T, args.T), float('-inf'), device=dev), 1) params = list(tok.parameters()) + list(pos.parameters()) + list(blocks.parameters()) if args.opt == 'muon': from muon import build_hybrid opt, sched = build_hybrid(blocks, params, args.lr, args.muon_lr, args.warmup) else: opt = torch.optim.AdamW(params, lr=args.lr, weight_decay=1e-4) if args.cosine: def _lrlam(s): if s < args.warmup: return (s + 1) / max(args.warmup, 1) p = min(1.0, (s - args.warmup) / max(1, args.steps - args.warmup)) return args.lr_min_ratio + 0.5 * (1 - args.lr_min_ratio) * (1 + math.cos(math.pi * p)) sched = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LambdaLR(opt, _lrlam) else: sched = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LambdaLR(opt, lambda s: min(1.0, (s + 1) / max(args.warmup, 1))) def fwd(x): z = tok(x) + pos(torch.arange(args.T, device=dev))[None] for b in blocks: z = b(z, mask) return z @ tok.weight.t() @torch.no_grad() def evaluate(nb=6): tot = 0.0 for _ in range(nb): x, y = get_batch('val') tot += F.cross_entropy(fwd(x).reshape(-1, vocab), y.reshape(-1)).item() return tot / nb wb = None if args.wandb: try: import wandb as _w wb = _w.init(project=args.wandb, name=args.wandb_run or args.tag, id=args.wandb_run or args.tag, resume='allow', config=vars(args)) except Exception as e: print(f'[wandb] disabled ({e})', flush=True) n = sum(p.numel() for p in params) print(f'[{args.tag}] cascade-BP L{args.L} C{args.C} H{args.H} T{args.T} | {n/1e6:.2f}M params | {dev}', flush=True) best, t0 = 1e9, time.time() outdir = Path('runs'); outdir.mkdir(exist_ok=True) for step in range(args.steps + 1): x, y = get_batch('train') loss = F.cross_entropy(fwd(x).reshape(-1, vocab), y.reshape(-1)) opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True); loss.backward() torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(params, 1.0) opt.step(); sched.step() if step % args.log == 0: val = evaluate(); best = min(best, val) print(f'step {step:5d}/{args.steps} | train {loss.item():.4f} val {val:.4f} (best {best:.4f}) ' f'| {step/max(time.time()-t0,1e-9):.2f} it/s', flush=True) if wb is not None: try: wb.log({'train_ce': loss.item(), 'val_ce': val, 'best': best}, step=step) except Exception: pass if step % args.save_every == 0: torch.save({'tok': tok.state_dict(), 'pos': pos.state_dict(), 'blocks': blocks.state_dict(), 'step': step, 'val': best, 'config': vars(args)}, outdir / f'{args.tag}_s{step}.pt') print(f'[{args.tag}] DONE best val CE {best:.4f} (random ln({vocab})={math.log(vocab):.3f})', flush=True) if wb is not None: try: wb.summary['best_val_ce'] = best; wb.finish() except Exception: pass