"""Primer figure 1: stock architecture + two-phase gradient measurement + PC contrast. Vector PDF + PNG preview to ../assets/. Restrained style, no glow.""" import matplotlib matplotlib.use('Agg') import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.rcParams['svg.fonttype'] = 'none' # keep text editable in PPT from matplotlib.patches import FancyBboxPatch INK = '#3a3a3a' GRAY = '#8a8a8a' BOXF = '#f4f4f4' BOXE = '#9a9a9a' BLUE = '#2c6fbb' BLUEF = '#eaf1fa' ORAN = '#d95f02' RED = '#b03a2e' CREAM = '#faf6ee' CREME = '#c9b895' fig = plt.figure(figsize=(13.2, 10.0)) ax = fig.add_axes([0, 0, 1, 1]); ax.set_xlim(0, 100); ax.set_ylim(0, 105); ax.axis('off') def box(x, y, w, h, fc=BOXF, ec=BOXE, lw=1.0, r=0.6): b = FancyBboxPatch((x, y), w, h, boxstyle=f'round,pad=0.25,rounding_size={r}', fc=fc, ec=ec, lw=lw) ax.add_patch(b); return b def txt(x, y, s, size=8.5, color=INK, ha='center', va='center', w='normal', style='normal'): ax.text(x, y, s, fontsize=size, color=color, ha=ha, va=va, fontweight=w, fontstyle=style) def arrow(x0, y0, x1, y1, color=INK, lw=1.2, style='-|>', ms=11): ax.annotate('', xy=(x1, y1), xytext=(x0, y0), arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle=style, color=color, lw=lw, mutation_scale=ms, shrinkA=0.5, shrinkB=0.5)) # ============================= (A) the model ============================= txt(16, 102.3, '(A) The model — a stock OLMo2-style decoder', 10.5, w='bold', ha='center') txt(16, 99.6, 'Inference is one ordinary forward pass.', 8.5, GRAY) cx = 14 txt(cx, 93.5, 'logits', 9.5, w='bold') arrow(cx, 88.6, cx, 91.8) box(cx - 10, 84.6, 20, 4.0); txt(cx, 86.6, r'linear readout $W_{\mathrm{out}}$ (untied)', 8.5) arrow(cx, 81.0, cx, 84.2) box(cx - 10, 77.0, 20, 4.0); txt(cx, 79.0, 'final RMSNorm', 8.5) arrow(cx, 71.6, cx, 76.6) box(cx - 12.5, 53.0, 25, 18.6, fc='#eeeeee', ec='#777777', lw=1.3) txt(cx, 68.4, r'transformer block ($=f_l$) $\times\,12$', 9, w='bold') txt(cx, 63.9, r'$h\ =\ z + \mathrm{RMSNorm}(\,\mathrm{Attn}(z)\,)$', 9) txt(cx, 59.4, r"$z'\ =\ h + \mathrm{RMSNorm}(\,\mathrm{SwiGLU}(h)\,)$", 9) txt(cx, 55.3, 'causal SDPA · QK-RMSNorm · RoPE', 7.5, GRAY) arrow(cx, 48.0, cx, 52.6) box(cx - 10, 44.0, 20, 4.0); txt(cx, 46.0, 'token embedding', 8.5) txt(16, 40.0, '42.75M (TinyStories 4k BPE) / 72.11M (FineWeb-Edu 32k BPE)', 7.8, GRAY) txt(16, 36.6, 'Nothing in this graph is modified for training: the trained checkpoint\n' 'is indistinguishable in form from a conventionally trained model.', 8.2) # ======================== (B) free phase ======================== bx = 47 txt(bx, 102.3, '(B) Free phase (= inference)', 10.5, w='bold') txt(bx, 99.6, 'give each layer a state $z_l$ (3 of $L$ drawn); settle the disagreement energy', 8.5, GRAY) txt(bx, 95.9, r'$E(z)\ =\ \sum_l\ \frac{1}{2}\,\|\,z_l - f_l(z_{l-1})\,\|^2$', 10.5) def state_col(x0, ys, labels, notes, fc=BLUEF, ec=BLUE, note_c=GRAY): for y, lab, note in zip(ys, labels, notes): box(x0 - 9.5, y - 2.0, 19, 4.0, fc=fc, ec=ec, lw=1.1) txt(x0, y, lab, 9, color=INK) if note: txt(x0 + 11.0, y, note, 7.8, note_c, ha='left') for ya, yb in zip(ys[1:], ys[:-1]): arrow(x0, ya + 2.5, x0, yb - 2.6, lw=1.1) ys = [86, 74, 62] state_col(bx - 6, ys, [r'$z_3 = f_3(z_2)$', r'$z_2 = f_2(z_1)$', r'$z_1 = f_1(\mathrm{emb})$'], ['term = 0', 'term = 0', 'term = 0']) arrow(bx - 6, 53.6, bx - 6, 59.0, lw=1.1) txt(bx - 6, 51.5, r'$\mathrm{emb}(x)$', 9) txt(bx, 44.6, 'The minimum is exact: $E=0$, states $\\equiv$ forward activations,', 8.4) txt(bx, 41.6, 'and one bottom-up pass reaches it.', 8.4) txt(bx, 37.6, 'The free phase adds nothing and changes nothing at inference.', 8.2, GRAY) # ======================== (C) nudged phase ======================== nx = 81 txt(nx, 102.3, '(C) Nudged phase (training only)', 10.5, w='bold') txt(nx, 99.6, r'add the loss at strength $\beta \ll 1$ and settle again:', 8.5, GRAY) txt(nx, 95.9, r'$E(z)\ +\ \beta\cdot\mathrm{CE}(\mathrm{logits}(z_3),\,y)$', 10.5) txt(nx + 2.0, 92.3, r'pull $-\beta\,\nabla\mathrm{CE}$', 8.6, RED, ha='left') txt(nx + 2.0, 90.0, '(the only place the label enters)', 7.3, RED, ha='left') arrow(nx + 1.0, 91.4, nx - 4.0, 88.6, color=RED, lw=1.5) nys = [86, 74, 62] state_col(nx - 6, nys, [r'$z_3^{\beta} = z_3 + d_3$', r'$z_2^{\beta} = z_2 + d_2$', r'$z_1^{\beta} = z_1 + d_1$'], [None, None, None], fc='#fdeee2', ec=ORAN) arrow(nx - 6, 53.6, nx - 6, 59.0, lw=1.1) txt(nx - 6, 51.5, r'$\mathrm{emb}(x)$', 9) for (ya, yb, lab) in [(84.0, 76.6, r'$d_2 = J_3^{\top} d_3$'), (72.0, 64.6, r'$d_1 = J_2^{\top} d_2$')]: arrow(nx + 5.4, ya, nx + 5.4, yb, color=ORAN, lw=1.5) txt(nx + 7.0, (ya + yb) / 2, lab, 8.6, ORAN, ha='left') txt(nx, 44.6, 'The top state is pulled toward lower loss; each layer\'s mismatch $d_l$', 8.4) txt(nx, 41.6, 'transmits DOWN through the same weights, and the stack re-settles.', 8.4) txt(nx, 37.6, r'($J^{\top}$ = the transpose read a bidirectional physical device provides)', 8.2, GRAY) # ======================== (D) the update ======================== box(2, 20.5, 96, 13.5, fc=CREAM, ec=CREME, lw=1.2) txt(4, 31.6, '(D) The update — a difference measurement between the two settled states', 10, w='bold', ha='left') txt(50, 27.9, r'$\hat{g}\ =\ \left[\ \partial_\theta E(z^{\beta})\ -\ \partial_\theta E(z^{0})\ \right]\,/\,\beta$' r'$\qquad\qquad(\partial_\theta E(z^0)\equiv 0\ \mathrm{here,\ since}\ E=0)$', 10.5) txt(50, 24.5, r'per layer: $\Delta\theta_l\ \propto\ \langle\ d_l\ ,\ \partial f_l(z_{l-1})/\partial\theta_l\ \rangle\ /\ \beta$', 9.5) txt(50, 21.9, r'Each layer updates from its own boundary mismatch — no global backward graph, no global tape, no loss' '\n' r'derivatives except the top nudge. $\beta\to 0$ gives the exact gradient; bias is $O(\beta)$; a $\pm\beta$ two-sided read cancels it to $O(\beta^2)$.', 8.2) # ======================== (E) not PC ======================== box(2, 2.0, 96, 16.2, fc='#f7f7f7', ec=BOXE, lw=1.1) txt(4, 15.7, '(E) This is not predictive coding — same energy family, different measurement', 10, w='bold', ha='left') txt(4.5, 12.4, '· PC (as typically run): ONE settled phase with the target clamped hard; the update uses the raw errors of that single state → finite-clamp', 8.2, ha='left') txt(4.5, 10.1, ' bias. Its "exact-BP" results require freezing predictions during error transport (fixed-prediction) — backprop re-expressed in local variables.', 8.2, ha='left') txt(4.5, 7.5, '· EP (here): TWO phases and an infinitesimal nudge; the update is a difference quotient in β → bias is measured and controllable, and the', 8.2, ha='left') txt(4.5, 5.2, ' settle stays fully self-consistent — which is what physical hardware actually does.', 8.2, ha='left') txt(4.5, 3.0, '· The free phase is the zero-reference of the measurement: on analog hardware the subtraction cancels state-independent device offsets.', 8.2, ha='left') fig.savefig('/home/yurenh2/ept/assets/figs/fig_primer_arch.pdf') fig.savefig('/home/yurenh2/ept/assets/figs/fig_primer_arch.png', dpi=190) fig.savefig('/home/yurenh2/ept/assets/figs/fig_primer_arch.svg') print('saved fig_primer_arch.{pdf,png,svg}')