""" Shallow baseline for ViT-Mini: train BP and DFA on a 0-block ViT (just patch_embed + cls + pos + out_ln + out_head), to test whether the DFA accuracy on the full ViT is just exploiting the patch embedder + head. This is the codex-round-5 control for the "DFA actually trains the transformer blocks" claim. If shallow DFA acc ≈ 24% (matching the 4-block ViT-Mini DFA acc), then the blocks are passengers and the claim is too strong. If shallow DFA acc is much lower, then the blocks are doing real work. Usage: CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=2 python experiments/vit_shallow_baseline.py """ import sys, os sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))) import torch import torch.nn as nn import torch.nn.functional as F import torch.optim as optim from torch.utils.data import DataLoader import torchvision import torchvision.transforms as transforms import numpy as np from models.vit_mini import ViTMini def get_loaders(batch_size=128): tv_train = transforms.Compose([ transforms.RandomCrop(32, padding=4), transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(), transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.4914, 0.4822, 0.4465), (0.2470, 0.2435, 0.2616)), ]) tv = transforms.Compose([ transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.4914, 0.4822, 0.4465), (0.2470, 0.2435, 0.2616)), ]) tr = torchvision.datasets.CIFAR10('./data', True, download=True, transform=tv_train) te = torchvision.datasets.CIFAR10('./data', False, download=True, transform=tv) return ( DataLoader(tr, batch_size=batch_size, shuffle=True, num_workers=2), DataLoader(te, batch_size=batch_size, shuffle=False, num_workers=2), ) def evaluate(model, loader, dev): model.eval() n = c = 0 with torch.no_grad(): for x, y in loader: x, y = x.to(dev), y.to(dev) preds = model(x).argmax(-1) c += (preds == y).sum().item() n += x.size(0) return c / n def train_bp_shallow(train_loader, test_loader, dev, epochs=30, seed=42, lr=1e-3, wd=0.05): torch.manual_seed(seed); np.random.seed(seed); torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(seed) m = ViTMini(num_blocks=0, d_model=128, n_heads=4).to(dev) print(f"BP-shallow: n_params={sum(p.numel() for p in m.parameters())}", flush=True) opt = optim.AdamW(m.parameters(), lr=lr, weight_decay=wd) sch = optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(opt, T_max=epochs) for ep in range(1, epochs + 1): m.train() for x, y in train_loader: x = x.to(dev); y = y.to(dev) loss = F.cross_entropy(m(x), y) opt.zero_grad(); loss.backward(); opt.step() sch.step() if ep % 5 == 0 or ep == 1 or ep == epochs: acc = evaluate(m, test_loader, dev) print(f" BP-shallow ep {ep}: test_acc={acc:.4f}", flush=True) return m def train_dfa_shallow(train_loader, test_loader, dev, epochs=30, seed=42, lr=1e-3, wd=0.05): """0-block ViT trained DFA-style: head with true CE on cls token, embed (patch_embed + cls + pos) with random feedback `e_T @ B^T` from the head.""" torch.manual_seed(seed); np.random.seed(seed); torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(seed) m = ViTMini(num_blocks=0, d_model=128, n_heads=4).to(dev) print(f"DFA-shallow: n_params={sum(p.numel() for p in m.parameters())}", flush=True) d_model, C = 128, 10 B0 = torch.randn(d_model, C, device=dev) / np.sqrt(C) embed_opt = optim.AdamW( list(m.patch_embed.parameters()) + [m.cls_token, m.pos_embed], lr=lr, weight_decay=wd ) head_opt = optim.AdamW( list(m.out_head.parameters()) + list(m.out_ln.parameters()), lr=lr, weight_decay=wd ) sch1 = optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(embed_opt, T_max=epochs) sch2 = optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(head_opt, T_max=epochs) for ep in range(1, epochs + 1): m.train() for x, y in train_loader: x = x.to(dev); y = y.to(dev) with torch.no_grad(): logits, hi = m(x, return_hidden=True) e_T = logits.softmax(-1); e_T[torch.arange(x.size(0)), y] -= 1 hL_det = hi[-1].detach() # Head update via true CE on cls token h_cls = m.out_ln(hL_det[:, 0]) head_opt.zero_grad() F.cross_entropy(m.out_head(h_cls), y).backward() head_opt.step() # Embed update via DFA-style local loss a0 = (e_T @ B0.T).detach() rms = (a0 ** 2).mean(-1, keepdim=True).sqrt() + 1e-6 h0 = m.embed(x) # (B, 65, d_model) a0_b = a0.unsqueeze(1).expand_as(h0) embed_loss = (h0 * (a0_b / rms.unsqueeze(1))).sum(-1).mean() embed_opt.zero_grad() embed_loss.backward() embed_opt.step() sch1.step(); sch2.step() if ep % 5 == 0 or ep == 1 or ep == epochs: acc = evaluate(m, test_loader, dev) print(f" DFA-shallow ep {ep}: test_acc={acc:.4f}", flush=True) return m def main(): dev = torch.device('cuda:0') print(f"Device: {dev}", flush=True) train_loader, test_loader = get_loaders(batch_size=128) print("\n=== BP shallow baseline (ViT-Mini num_blocks=0) ===", flush=True) mb = train_bp_shallow(train_loader, test_loader, dev, epochs=30, seed=42) bp_acc = evaluate(mb, test_loader, dev) print(f"FINAL BP-shallow acc: {bp_acc:.4f}", flush=True) print("\n=== DFA shallow baseline (ViT-Mini num_blocks=0) ===", flush=True) md = train_dfa_shallow(train_loader, test_loader, dev, epochs=30, seed=42) dfa_acc = evaluate(md, test_loader, dev) print(f"FINAL DFA-shallow acc: {dfa_acc:.4f}", flush=True) print(f"\n=== Summary ===") print(f"BP-shallow: {bp_acc:.4f} (chance=0.10)") print(f"DFA-shallow: {dfa_acc:.4f}") print(f"Compare to ViT-Mini 4-block (3-seed avg): BP=0.792, DFA=0.237") if __name__ == '__main__': main()