"""Build notebooks/recursive_reasoning_chaos.ipynb via nbformat. Self-contained playground: (1) analytically-tractable transient-chaos toy (no GPU), (2) load a trained TRM/HRM from HuggingFace, (3) extended rollout showing TRM=escapable transient chaos vs HRM=trapped chaotic attractor. HF_REPO is filled in after the upload step. """ import nbformat as nbf from pathlib import Path HF_REPO = "YurenHao0426/recursive-reasoning-chaos" # filled after upload_to_hf.py nb = nbf.v4.new_notebook() C = [] def md(t): C.append(nbf.v4.new_markdown_cell(t)) def code(t): C.append(nbf.v4.new_code_cell(t)) md(f"""# Recursive Reasoning Failures are Chaotic — and it's *transient chaos* Small recursive reasoners (HRM, TRM) iterate a latent state to solve puzzles (Sudoku, Maze). Measured along the inference trajectory, **failed examples are more chaotic** (higher finite-time Lyapunov exponent / latent drift) than successful ones, in the *same* trained network. This notebook lets you reproduce and play with the mechanism: 1. **Toy model** (pure numpy, no GPU) — *transient chaos*: chaotic search of latent space until the trajectory escapes into the solution basin. Failures = not-yet-escaped trajectories. 2. **Real trained model** loaded from HuggingFace (`{HF_REPO}`). 3. **Extended rollout** — run the recurrence far beyond its training budget. **TRM** failures escape (transient chaotic saddle → the model solves 96%+ given enough compute); **HRM** failures stay trapped (a chaotic *attractor*). Neither settles to a wrong *fixed point*. Companion analysis repo: `github.com/YurenHao0426/recursive-reasoning-dynamics`.""") md("## 0. Setup") code("""# minimal deps; torch+einops+pydantic are enough to load these models (TRM-Sudoku is MLP-mixer, # no FlashAttention needed -> runs on any GPU, even CPU). %pip install -q torch einops pydantic huggingface_hub numpy matplotlib import numpy as np, matplotlib.pyplot as plt, torch print("torch", torch.__version__, "| cuda", torch.cuda.is_available())""") md("""## 1. The toy model — transient chaos (no GPU, runs in seconds) A trajectory chaotically *searches* `[0,1]` (logistic map, λ=ln2≈+0.69) until it lands within `eps` of the solution `s` (the "puzzle"), then it converges (λ=ln0.5<0). At a fixed readout time `T`: **captured = success** (FTLE low), **still searching = failure** (FTLE high). The escape time is ~geometric (chaotic-saddle signature) and the FTLE separation is purely a *finite-time* effect — it vanishes as `T→∞` because everyone eventually escapes.""") code("""def run_toy(n=20000, T=16, eps=0.04, seed=0): rg = np.random.default_rng(seed) s = rg.uniform(0.15, 0.85, n); x = rg.uniform(0, 1, n) captured = np.zeros(n, bool); logd = np.zeros(n) for t in range(T): search = ~captured ld = np.where(search, np.log(np.abs(4*(1-2*x))+1e-12), np.log(0.5)) xn = np.where(search, 4*x*(1-x), s + 0.5*(x-s)) captured |= search & (np.abs(xn-s) < eps); x = xn; logd += ld ftle = logd / T success = captured & (np.abs(x-s) < 0.05) return ftle, success def auc(score, y): p, n = score[y==1], score[y==0]; a=np.concatenate([p,n]); o=np.argsort(a) r=np.empty(len(a)); r[o]=np.arange(1,len(a)+1) return (r[:len(p)].sum()-len(p)*(len(p)+1)/2)/(len(p)*len(n)) ftle, succ = run_toy(T=16) print(f"success rate {succ.mean():.2f} | FTLE success {np.median(ftle[succ]):+.3f} vs failure {np.median(ftle[~succ]):+.3f}") print(f"AUC(-FTLE -> success) = {auc(-ftle, succ.astype(int)):.3f} (failure more chaotic)") fig,ax=plt.subplots(1,2,figsize=(11,4)) b=np.linspace(-0.5,0.75,50) ax[0].hist(ftle[succ],b,alpha=.6,color='g',density=True,label='success'); ax[0].hist(ftle[~succ],b,alpha=.6,color='r',density=True,label='failure') ax[0].set_title('toy: failure more chaotic'); ax[0].set_xlabel('finite-time Lyapunov exp'); ax[0].legend() Ts=[4,8,16,32,64,128,256]; A=[auc(-run_toy(T=T)[0],run_toy(T=T)[1].astype(int)) for T in Ts]; R=[run_toy(T=T)[1].mean() for T in Ts] ax[1].plot(Ts,A,'o-',label='AUC(-FTLE->success)'); ax[1].plot(Ts,R,'s--',label='success rate'); ax[1].set_xscale('log') ax[1].set_xlabel('readout time T'); ax[1].set_title('finite-time: separation vanishes as T->inf'); ax[1].legend(); plt.tight_layout(); plt.show()""") md(f"""## 2. Load a trained model from HuggingFace Downloads the model code + checkpoint + config from `{HF_REPO}`. `MODEL` ∈ {{`trm_sudoku`, `hrm_sudoku`}}.""") code(f"""import sys, yaml, json from pathlib import Path from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download HF_REPO = "{HF_REPO}" MODEL = "trm_sudoku" # or "hrm_sudoku" root = Path(snapshot_download(HF_REPO)) # TRM and HRM ship separate `models/` packages -> put the right one on the path. # (To switch MODEL, restart the kernel: Python caches the `models` package name.) sys.path.insert(0, str(root / ("code_trm" if MODEL.startswith("trm") else "code_hrm"))) cfg = yaml.safe_load((root / MODEL / "all_config.yaml").read_text()) meta = json.loads((root / "data" / "sudoku_meta.json").read_text()) arch = dict(cfg["arch"]); arch.update(batch_size=64, seq_len=meta["seq_len"], vocab_size=meta["vocab_size"], num_puzzle_identifiers=meta["num_puzzle_identifiers"], causal=False) if MODEL.startswith("trm"): from models.recursive_reasoning.trm import TinyRecursiveReasoningModel_ACTV1 as M else: from models.hrm.hrm_act_v1 import HierarchicalReasoningModel_ACTV1 as M model = M(arch) sd = torch.load(root / MODEL / "weights.pt", map_location="cpu", weights_only=True) model.load_state_dict({{k.replace("_orig_mod.","").replace("model.",""): v for k,v in sd.items()}}, strict=False) dev = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"; model.to(dev).eval() inner = model.inner inp = np.load(root/"data"/"sudoku_test_inputs.npy"); lab = np.load(root/"data"/"sudoku_test_labels.npy") pid = np.load(root/"data"/"sudoku_test_pid.npy") print(f"loaded {{MODEL}}: hidden={{inner.config.hidden_size}}, H_cycles={{inner.config.H_cycles}}, L_cycles={{inner.config.L_cycles}}, test puzzles={{len(inp)}}")""") md("""## 3. Extended rollout — the mechanism Run the recurrence `N_SEG` segments (far past the 16-segment training budget) and watch the fate of trajectories that fail at segment 16. Re-run cell 2 with `MODEL="hrm_sudoku"` to see the contrast.""") code("""def extended_rollout(inp, lab, pid, n=256, n_seg=128, seed=0): rng=np.random.default_rng(seed); idx=rng.choice(len(inp), n, replace=False) pe=inner.puzzle_emb_len; sf=inner.config.seq_len+pe; hid=inner.config.hidden_size is_hrm = hasattr(inner, "H_level") X=torch.tensor(inp[idx].astype(np.int32),device=dev); Y=torch.tensor(lab[idx].astype(np.int32),device=dev) P=torch.tensor(pid[idx].astype(np.int32),device=dev) EX=[]; DR=[] with torch.no_grad(): zH=inner.H_init.unsqueeze(0).expand(n,sf,hid).clone().to(inner.forward_dtype) zL=inner.L_init.unsqueeze(0).expand(n,sf,hid).clone().to(inner.forward_dtype) si=dict(cos_sin=inner.rotary_emb() if hasattr(inner,"rotary_emb") else None) emb=inner._input_embeddings(X,P); m=Y>0; prev=None for _ in range(n_seg): for _h in range(inner.config.H_cycles): for _l in range(inner.config.L_cycles): zL=inner.L_level(zL, zH+emb, **si) zH=(inner.H_level if is_hrm else inner.L_level)(zH, zL, **si) p=inner.lm_head(zH)[:,pe:].float().argmax(-1) EX.append(((p==Y)|~m).all(-1).float().cpu().numpy()) DR.append((torch.zeros(n) if prev is None else (zH-prev).float().flatten(1).norm(1).cpu()).numpy()) prev=zH.detach() return np.stack(EX,1), np.stack(DR,1) ex, dr = extended_rollout(inp, lab, pid, n=256, n_seg=128) T=ex.shape[1]; fail=ex[:,15]==0; nf=fail.sum() print(f"accuracy @16={ex[:,15].mean():.3f} @{T}={ex[:,-1].mean():.3f}") print(f"of {nf} step-16 failures: self-resolve to CORRECT by seg{T}: {(fail&(ex[:,-1]==1)).sum()/nf*100:.0f}%") ld=dr[:,-4:].mean(1) print(f"median latent drift -- failures {np.median(ld[fail]):.1f} vs successes {np.median(ld[ex[:,15]==1]):.1f}") fig,ax=plt.subplots(1,2,figsize=(11,4)) ax[0].plot(range(1,T+1), ex.mean(0)); ax[0].axvline(16,ls='--',c='gray'); ax[0].set_xscale('log') ax[0].set_xlabel('inference segments'); ax[0].set_ylabel('accuracy'); ax[0].set_title('accuracy vs compute') S=[(fail&(ex[:,:s].max(1)==0)).sum()/nf for s in range(16,T+1)] ax[1].plot(range(16,T+1),S); ax[1].set_yscale('log'); ax[1].set_xlabel('segments'); ax[1].set_ylabel('frac failures still unsolved') ax[1].set_title('escape from chaotic set (straight=transient, plateau=attractor)'); plt.tight_layout(); plt.show()""") md("""## What this shows - **TRM**: accuracy keeps climbing with compute; step-16 failures *escape* the chaotic transient and resolve to the correct answer (≈0 settle to a wrong answer). → a chaotic **saddle** + one solution fixed point. *More inference compute solves more puzzles.* - **HRM**: accuracy plateaus; failures stay **trapped** (latent keeps churning, never escapes). → bistability between a stable fixed point (success) and a chaotic **attractor** (failure). - Neither settles to a *wrong fixed point* — the "spurious fixed point" reading from 2D PCA is an artifact of projecting high-dimensional chaotic wandering. Try: change `MODEL`, `N_SEG`, `eps` (toy); compare TRM vs HRM escape curves.""") nb["cells"] = C out = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "recursive_reasoning_chaos.ipynb" nbf.write(nb, str(out)) print("wrote", out, f"({len(C)} cells)")