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"""Local-learning sweep training on Shakespeare char LM with sigmoid transformer.

Supported methods (via --method):
  bp        standard backprop (reference baseline)
  fa        Feedback Alignment: per-LocalLinear random fixed B replaces W.T in backward
  sign_sym  Sign-symmetric: per-LocalLinear sign(W) replaces W.T in backward
  dfa       Direct Feedback Alignment: each LocalLinear's .grad is overwritten with
            (B_dfa @ e_L) outer (cached input). Embeddings/LN retain BP gradients.

Reuses data/shakespeare_char/*.bin from Phase 1.
"""
import argparse
import json
import math
import os
import pickle
import time
from pathlib import Path

import numpy as np
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F

from local_layers import LocalLinear, apply_dfa_update, initialize_dfa_targets
from model_local import LocalGPT, LocalGPTConfig


def get_batch(split, data_dir, block_size, batch_size, device):
    fn = "train.bin" if split == "train" else "val.bin"
    data = np.memmap(data_dir / fn, dtype=np.uint16, mode="r")
    ix = torch.randint(len(data) - block_size - 1, (batch_size,))
    x = torch.stack([torch.from_numpy(data[i : i + block_size].astype(np.int64)) for i in ix])
    y = torch.stack([torch.from_numpy(data[i + 1 : i + 1 + block_size].astype(np.int64)) for i in ix])
    return x.to(device, non_blocking=True), y.to(device, non_blocking=True)


@torch.no_grad()
def estimate_loss(model, data_dir, block_size, batch_size, device, eval_iters):
    out = {}
    model.eval()
    for split in ("train", "val"):
        losses = torch.zeros(eval_iters)
        for k in range(eval_iters):
            X, Y = get_batch(split, data_dir, block_size, batch_size, device)
            _, loss = model(X, Y)
            losses[k] = loss.item()
        out[split] = losses.mean().item()
    model.train()
    return out


def lr_schedule(it, warmup, decay_iters, max_lr, min_lr):
    if it < warmup:
        return max_lr * (it + 1) / (warmup + 1)
    if it > decay_iters:
        return min_lr
    coeff = 0.5 * (1.0 + math.cos(math.pi * (it - warmup) / max(1, decay_iters - warmup)))
    return min_lr + coeff * (max_lr - min_lr)


def compute_analytical_e_L(logits, targets, vocab_size):
    """Closed-form gradient of mean cross-entropy w.r.t. logits.

    logits: (B, T, V), targets: (B, T). Returns e_L shape (B, T, V).
    For CE with reduction='mean' over (B*T): dL/dlogits = (softmax(logits) - onehot(y)) / (B*T)
    """
    probs = F.softmax(logits, dim=-1)
    onehot = F.one_hot(targets, num_classes=vocab_size).float()
    N = targets.numel()
    return (probs - onehot) / N


def compute_alignment_diagnostics(model, batch_x, batch_y, method, vocab_size):
    """Per-LocalLinear gradient cosine to BP + (FA only) ‖B − W‖_F / ‖W‖_F.

    Cosine signs the "functional alignment": 1 = method grad matches BP direction,
    0 = orthogonal, negative = wrong direction. Per-layer dict keyed by module name.

    Two forward-backward passes: first in the method's own mode (grabs method grads),
    second with all LocalLinear temporarily switched to 'bp' (grabs BP grads).
    Restores method before returning. Runs in eval mode to disable dropout so both
    passes see identical activations (otherwise BP would show cosine < 1 vs itself).
    """
    out = {"grad_cos": {}, "fa_offset": {}}
    was_training = model.training
    model.eval()

    # --- Pass 1: method's backward ---
    model.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)
    logits, loss = model(batch_x, batch_y)
    loss.backward()
    if method == "dfa":
        with torch.no_grad():
            e_L = compute_analytical_e_L(logits.detach(), batch_y, vocab_size)
            apply_dfa_update(model, e_L)

    method_grads = {}
    for name, m in model.named_modules():
        if isinstance(m, LocalLinear) and m.weight.grad is not None:
            method_grads[name] = m.weight.grad.detach().clone()

    # FA-specific metric: distance between fixed B and current W
    if method == "fa":
        for name, m in model.named_modules():
            if isinstance(m, LocalLinear) and m.method == "fa":
                diff = m.B - m.weight
                out["fa_offset"][name] = (diff.norm() / (m.weight.norm() + 1e-9)).item()

    # --- Pass 2: BP backward via temporary method switch ---
    method_backup = {}
    for m in model.modules():
        if isinstance(m, LocalLinear):
            method_backup[id(m)] = m.method
            m.method = "bp"

    model.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)
    _, loss_bp = model(batch_x, batch_y)
    loss_bp.backward()

    for name, m in model.named_modules():
        if isinstance(m, LocalLinear) and name in method_grads:
            g_bp = m.weight.grad.detach()
            g_method = method_grads[name]
            cos = F.cosine_similarity(
                g_bp.flatten().unsqueeze(0),
                g_method.flatten().unsqueeze(0),
            ).item()
            out["grad_cos"][name] = cos

    # Restore method
    for m in model.modules():
        if isinstance(m, LocalLinear) and id(m) in method_backup:
            m.method = method_backup[id(m)]

    model.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)
    if was_training:
        model.train()
    return out


def main():
    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    p.add_argument("--method", required=True, choices=["bp", "fa", "dfa", "sign_sym"])
    p.add_argument("--run_name", type=str, required=True)
    p.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=1337)
    p.add_argument("--data_dir", type=str, default="data/shakespeare_char")
    p.add_argument("--out_dir", type=str, default="runs_local")
    p.add_argument("--block_size", type=int, default=256)
    p.add_argument("--batch_size", type=int, default=64)
    p.add_argument("--n_layer", type=int, default=6)
    p.add_argument("--n_head", type=int, default=6)
    p.add_argument("--n_embd", type=int, default=384)
    p.add_argument("--dropout", type=float, default=0.2)
    p.add_argument("--max_iters", type=int, default=5000)
    p.add_argument("--warmup_iters", type=int, default=100)
    p.add_argument("--lr_decay_iters", type=int, default=5000)
    p.add_argument("--max_lr", type=float, default=1e-3)
    p.add_argument("--min_lr", type=float, default=1e-4)
    p.add_argument("--weight_decay", type=float, default=0.1)
    p.add_argument("--beta1", type=float, default=0.9)
    p.add_argument("--beta2", type=float, default=0.99)
    p.add_argument("--grad_clip", type=float, default=1.0)
    p.add_argument("--eval_interval", type=int, default=250)
    p.add_argument("--eval_iters", type=int, default=100)
    p.add_argument("--log_interval", type=int, default=50)
    p.add_argument("--attn_mode", type=str, default="sigmoid", choices=["softmax", "sigmoid"])
    p.add_argument("--sigmoid_bias_mode", type=str, default="neg_log_n")
    p.add_argument("--ste_sigmoid", action="store_true", help="STE on sigmoid attention (skip A(1-A) derivative)")
    p.add_argument("--ste_gelu", action="store_true", help="STE on GELU (skip gelu' derivative)")
    p.add_argument("--ln_mode", type=str, default="bp", choices=["bp", "ste", "center_scale", "projected"],
                   help="LN backward: bp=standard, ste=identity, center_scale=mean-center+1/σ, projected=full surrogate")
    p.add_argument("--freeze_emb", action="store_true", help="Freeze token + position embeddings")
    p.add_argument("--fuse_attn_local", action="store_true", help="Fuse softmax+A@V with local backward (no lateral sum)")
    args = p.parse_args()

    torch.manual_seed(args.seed)
    torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(args.seed)
    device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"

    data_dir = Path(args.data_dir)
    with open(data_dir / "meta.pkl", "rb") as f:
        meta = pickle.load(f)
    vocab_size = meta["vocab_size"]

    run_dir = Path(args.out_dir) / args.run_name
    run_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    log_path = run_dir / "log.jsonl"
    log_path.write_text("")
    with open(run_dir / "config.json", "w") as f:
        json.dump(vars(args) | {"vocab_size": vocab_size}, f, indent=2)

    cfg = LocalGPTConfig(
        block_size=args.block_size,
        vocab_size=vocab_size,
        n_layer=args.n_layer,
        n_head=args.n_head,
        n_embd=args.n_embd,
        dropout=args.dropout,
        attn_mode=args.attn_mode,
        sigmoid_bias_mode=args.sigmoid_bias_mode,
        method=args.method,
        ste_sigmoid=args.ste_sigmoid,
        ste_gelu=args.ste_gelu,
        ln_mode=args.ln_mode,
        freeze_emb=args.freeze_emb,
        fuse_attn_local=args.fuse_attn_local,
    )
    model = LocalGPT(cfg).to(device)
    n_params = model.num_params()

    if args.method == "dfa":
        initialize_dfa_targets(model, vocab_size)

    # Build optimizer. For all methods, gather params with weight decay convention.
    decay_params, nodecay_params = [], []
    for n, pr in model.named_parameters():
        if not pr.requires_grad:
            continue
        if pr.dim() >= 2:
            decay_params.append(pr)
        else:
            nodecay_params.append(pr)
    optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(
        [
            {"params": decay_params, "weight_decay": args.weight_decay},
            {"params": nodecay_params, "weight_decay": 0.0},
        ],
        lr=args.max_lr,
        betas=(args.beta1, args.beta2),
        fused=(device == "cuda"),
    )

    t0 = time.time()

    def log(rec):
        rec["t"] = time.time() - t0
        with open(log_path, "a") as f:
            f.write(json.dumps(rec) + "\n")

    n_localinear = sum(1 for m in model.modules() if isinstance(m, LocalLinear))
    log({
        "event": "start", "method": args.method, "params": n_params,
        "n_localinear": n_localinear, "vocab_size": vocab_size,
        "config": vars(args),
    })
    print(f"[{args.run_name}] method={args.method} params={n_params/1e6:.2f}M LocalLinear={n_localinear}")

    model.train()
    for it in range(args.max_iters + 1):
        lr = lr_schedule(it, args.warmup_iters, args.lr_decay_iters, args.max_lr, args.min_lr)
        for g in optimizer.param_groups:
            g["lr"] = lr

        if it % args.eval_interval == 0 or it == args.max_iters:
            losses = estimate_loss(model, data_dir, args.block_size, args.batch_size, device, args.eval_iters)
            # Alignment diagnostic on a fresh training batch
            X_diag, Y_diag = get_batch("train", data_dir, args.block_size, args.batch_size, device)
            align = compute_alignment_diagnostics(model, X_diag, Y_diag, args.method, vocab_size)
            log({
                "event": "eval", "iter": it,
                "train_loss": losses["train"], "val_loss": losses["val"], "lr": lr,
                "grad_cos": align["grad_cos"], "fa_offset": align["fa_offset"],
            })
            # Summary for print
            if align["grad_cos"]:
                cos_vals = list(align["grad_cos"].values())
                cos_mean = sum(cos_vals) / len(cos_vals)
                cos_min = min(cos_vals)
                print(f"[{args.run_name}] iter {it:5d}  train {losses['train']:.4f}  val {losses['val']:.4f}  "
                      f"grad_cos μ={cos_mean:.3f} min={cos_min:.3f}  lr {lr:.4g}")
            else:
                print(f"[{args.run_name}] iter {it:5d}  train {losses['train']:.4f}  val {losses['val']:.4f}  lr {lr:.4g}")

        if it == args.max_iters:
            break

        X, Y = get_batch("train", data_dir, args.block_size, args.batch_size, device)
        logits, loss = model(X, Y)

        optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)
        loss.backward()

        if args.method == "dfa":
            # Overwrite LocalLinear .grad with DFA-computed updates (using cached inputs from forward)
            with torch.no_grad():
                e_L = compute_analytical_e_L(logits.detach(), Y, vocab_size)
                apply_dfa_update(model, e_L)

        torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), args.grad_clip)
        optimizer.step()

        if it % args.log_interval == 0:
            log({"event": "step", "iter": it, "train_loss": loss.item(), "lr": lr})

    log({"event": "done", "iter": args.max_iters})
    print(f"[{args.run_name}] done in {time.time()-t0:.1f}s")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()