"""Cascade-EP gradient gate: L distinct standard transformer blocks, layered energy E = sum_l 0.5||z_l - f_l(z_{l-1})||^2. Free equilibrium == the standard forward pass (inference = plain LLM). Training = two-phase (±beta nudge) relaxation of z, weight grad = (1/2beta)[dE/dtheta|+ - dE/dtheta|-]. Gate: cosine vs true BP gradient.""" import argparse, math, pickle import numpy as np, torch, torch.nn as nn, torch.nn.functional as F from pathlib import Path ap = argparse.ArgumentParser() ap.add_argument('--L', type=int, default=3); ap.add_argument('--C', type=int, default=128) ap.add_argument('--H', type=int, default=4); ap.add_argument('--T', type=int, default=32) ap.add_argument('--B', type=int, default=4); ap.add_argument('--beta', type=float, default=0.03) ap.add_argument('--K', type=int, default=400); ap.add_argument('--eta', type=float, default=0.3) ap.add_argument('--seed', type=int, default=0); ap.add_argument('--trained_warp', type=float, default=1.0) args = ap.parse_args() torch.manual_seed(args.seed) dev = 'cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu' torch.set_float32_matmul_precision('highest') DD = Path('/home/yurenh2/ept/ep_run/data/tinystories_bpe') vocab = pickle.load(open(DD / 'meta.pkl', 'rb'))['vocab_size'] data = np.memmap(DD / '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]).to(dev) y = torch.stack([torch.from_numpy(data[i + 1:i + 1 + args.T].astype(np.int64)) for i in ix]).to(dev) class Block(nn.Module): """Standard pre-LN transformer block (distinct weights per layer, no recurrence).""" 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) blocks = nn.ModuleList([Block(args.C, args.H) for _ in range(args.L)]).to(dev) if args.trained_warp != 1.0: # crude "not-at-init" landscape with torch.no_grad(): for p in blocks.parameters(): p.mul_(args.trained_warp) mask = torch.triu(torch.full((args.T, args.T), float('-inf'), device=dev), 1) readout = lambda z: z @ tok.weight.t() def fwd_states(z0): zs = [z0] for b in blocks: zs.append(b(zs[-1], mask)) return zs z0 = (tok(x) + pos(torch.arange(args.T, device=dev))[None]).detach() # ---------------- true BP reference ---------------- for p in blocks.parameters(): p.requires_grad_(True) zs = fwd_states(z0) ce = F.cross_entropy(readout(zs[-1]).reshape(-1, vocab), y.reshape(-1)) gbp = torch.autograd.grad(ce, list(blocks.parameters()), allow_unused=True) gbp = [g if g is not None else torch.zeros(1, device=dev) for g in gbp] print(f'BP ref: CE {ce.item():.4f}') # ---------------- two-phase cascade EP ---------------- def relax(beta): """minimize E + beta*CE over free states z_1..z_L by GD (free init = forward pass).""" with torch.no_grad(): zs = [z.detach().clone() for z in fwd_states(z0)[1:]] for z in zs: z.requires_grad_(True) opt = torch.optim.SGD(zs, lr=args.eta, momentum=0.9) for k in range(args.K): opt.zero_grad() E = 0.0; prev = z0 for z, b in zip(zs, blocks): E = E + 0.5 * ((z - b(prev, mask)) ** 2).sum(); prev = z Fobj = E / (args.B * args.T) + beta * F.cross_entropy(readout(zs[-1]).reshape(-1, vocab), y.reshape(-1)) Fobj.backward() opt.step() return [z.detach() for z in zs], (E / (args.B * args.T)).item() def dEdtheta(zs): """dE/dtheta at fixed states (the local EP readout).""" for p in blocks.parameters(): if p.grad is not None: p.grad = None E = 0.0; prev = z0 for z, b in zip(zs, blocks): E = E + 0.5 * ((z - b(prev, mask)) ** 2).sum(); prev = z (E / (args.B * args.T)).backward() return [(p.grad.clone() if p.grad is not None else torch.zeros(1, device=dev)) for p in blocks.parameters()] zp, Ep = relax(+args.beta) zm, Em = relax(-args.beta) gp, gm = dEdtheta(zp), dEdtheta(zm) gep = [(a - b) / (2 * args.beta) for a, b in zip(gp, gm)] print(f'nudged relax E+: {Ep:.3e} E-: {Em:.3e} (K={args.K}, eta={args.eta}, beta={args.beta})') # ---------------- gate ---------------- names = [n for n, _ in blocks.named_parameters()] flat = lambda gs: torch.cat([g.reshape(-1) for g in gs]) cos_all = F.cosine_similarity(flat(gep), flat(gbp), dim=0).item() print(f'\nGATE cos(cascadeEP, BP) overall: {cos_all:.4f}') for l in range(args.L): idx = [i for i, n in enumerate(names) if n.startswith(f'{l}.')] c = F.cosine_similarity(flat([gep[i] for i in idx]), flat([gbp[i] for i in idx]), dim=0).item() r = (flat([gep[i] for i in idx]).norm() / flat([gbp[i] for i in idx]).norm()).item() print(f' block {l}: cos {c:.4f} |EP|/|BP| {r:.3f}')