{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "6c32c5e8", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Recursive Reasoning Failures are Chaotic — and it's *transient chaos*\n", "\n", "Small recursive reasoners (HRM, TRM) iterate a latent state to solve puzzles (Sudoku, Maze).\n", "Measured along the inference trajectory, **failed examples are more chaotic** (higher finite-time\n", "Lyapunov exponent / latent drift) than successful ones, in the *same* trained network.\n", "\n", "This notebook lets you reproduce and play with the mechanism:\n", "1. **Toy model** (pure numpy, no GPU) — *transient chaos*: chaotic search of latent space until the\n", " trajectory escapes into the solution basin. Failures = not-yet-escaped trajectories.\n", "2. **Real trained model** loaded from HuggingFace (`blackhao0426/recursive-reasoning-chaos`).\n", "3. **Extended rollout** — run the recurrence far beyond its training budget. Both architectures'\n", " failures sit on a chaotic *saddle* (transient chaos), not a wrong fixed point — they just escape\n", " at very different rates: **TRM** failures mostly escape and self-correct given enough compute;\n", " **HRM** failures are far more strongly trapped (most keep churning).\n", "4. **Basin accessibility** — restart a trapped puzzle from perturbed initial latent states. A small\n", " kick frees most of TRM's (IC-determined, large basin); a hard core of HRM's never escapes any\n", " nearby initial condition (input-determined).\n", "\n", "Companion analysis repo: `github.com/YurenHao0426/recursive-reasoning-dynamics`." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "9161f5cf", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## 0. Setup" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "2034b179", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# minimal deps; torch+einops+pydantic are enough to load these models (TRM-Sudoku is MLP-mixer,\n", "# no FlashAttention needed -> runs on any GPU, even CPU).\n", "%pip install -q torch einops pydantic huggingface_hub numpy matplotlib\n", "import numpy as np, matplotlib.pyplot as plt, torch\n", "print(\"torch\", torch.__version__, \"| cuda\", torch.cuda.is_available())" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "fe43cb07", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## 1. The toy model — transient chaos (no GPU, runs in seconds)\n", "\n", "A trajectory chaotically *searches* `[0,1]` (logistic map, λ=ln2≈+0.69) until it lands within `eps`\n", "of the solution `s` (the \"puzzle\"), then it converges (λ=ln0.5<0). At a fixed readout time `T`:\n", "**captured = success** (FTLE low), **still searching = failure** (FTLE high). The escape time is\n", "~geometric (chaotic-saddle signature) and the FTLE separation is purely a *finite-time* effect —\n", "it vanishes as `T→∞` because everyone eventually escapes." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "6593c881", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "def run_toy(n=20000, T=16, eps=0.04, seed=0):\n", " rg = np.random.default_rng(seed)\n", " s = rg.uniform(0.15, 0.85, n); x = rg.uniform(0, 1, n)\n", " captured = np.zeros(n, bool); logd = np.zeros(n)\n", " for t in range(T):\n", " search = ~captured\n", " ld = np.where(search, np.log(np.abs(4*(1-2*x))+1e-12), np.log(0.5))\n", " xn = np.where(search, 4*x*(1-x), s + 0.5*(x-s))\n", " captured |= search & (np.abs(xn-s) < eps); x = xn; logd += ld\n", " ftle = logd / T\n", " success = captured & (np.abs(x-s) < 0.05)\n", " return ftle, success\n", "\n", "def auc(score, y):\n", " p, n = score[y==1], score[y==0]; a=np.concatenate([p,n]); o=np.argsort(a)\n", " r=np.empty(len(a)); r[o]=np.arange(1,len(a)+1)\n", " return (r[:len(p)].sum()-len(p)*(len(p)+1)/2)/(len(p)*len(n))\n", "\n", "ftle, succ = run_toy(T=16)\n", "print(f\"success rate {succ.mean():.2f} | FTLE success {np.median(ftle[succ]):+.3f} vs failure {np.median(ftle[~succ]):+.3f}\")\n", "print(f\"AUC(-FTLE -> success) = {auc(-ftle, succ.astype(int)):.3f} (failure more chaotic)\")\n", "fig,ax=plt.subplots(1,2,figsize=(11,4))\n", "b=np.linspace(-0.5,0.75,50)\n", "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')\n", "ax[0].set_title('toy: failure more chaotic'); ax[0].set_xlabel('finite-time Lyapunov exp'); ax[0].legend()\n", "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]\n", "ax[1].plot(Ts,A,'o-',label='AUC(-FTLE->success)'); ax[1].plot(Ts,R,'s--',label='success rate'); ax[1].set_xscale('log')\n", "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()" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "aee64679", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## 2. Load a trained model from HuggingFace\n", "\n", "Downloads the model code + checkpoint + config from `blackhao0426/recursive-reasoning-chaos`. `MODEL` ∈ {`trm_sudoku`, `hrm_sudoku`}." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "5f5f69ff", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "import sys, yaml, json\n", "from pathlib import Path\n", "from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download\n", "\n", "HF_REPO = \"blackhao0426/recursive-reasoning-chaos\"\n", "MODEL = \"trm_sudoku\" # or \"hrm_sudoku\"\n", "root = Path(snapshot_download(HF_REPO))\n", "# TRM and HRM ship separate `models/` packages -> put the right one on the path.\n", "# (To switch MODEL, restart the kernel: Python caches the `models` package name.)\n", "sys.path.insert(0, str(root / (\"code_trm\" if MODEL.startswith(\"trm\") else \"code_hrm\")))\n", "\n", "cfg = yaml.safe_load((root / MODEL / \"all_config.yaml\").read_text())\n", "meta = json.loads((root / \"data\" / \"sudoku_meta.json\").read_text())\n", "arch = dict(cfg[\"arch\"]); arch.update(batch_size=64, seq_len=meta[\"seq_len\"], vocab_size=meta[\"vocab_size\"],\n", " num_puzzle_identifiers=meta[\"num_puzzle_identifiers\"], causal=False)\n", "if MODEL.startswith(\"trm\"):\n", " from models.recursive_reasoning.trm import TinyRecursiveReasoningModel_ACTV1 as M\n", "else:\n", " from models.hrm.hrm_act_v1 import HierarchicalReasoningModel_ACTV1 as M\n", "model = M(arch)\n", "sd = torch.load(root / MODEL / \"weights.pt\", map_location=\"cpu\", weights_only=True)\n", "model.load_state_dict({k.replace(\"_orig_mod.\",\"\").replace(\"model.\",\"\"): v for k,v in sd.items()}, strict=False)\n", "dev = \"cuda\" if torch.cuda.is_available() else \"cpu\"; model.to(dev).eval()\n", "inner = model.inner\n", "inp = np.load(root/\"data\"/\"sudoku_test_inputs.npy\"); lab = np.load(root/\"data\"/\"sudoku_test_labels.npy\")\n", "pid = np.load(root/\"data\"/\"sudoku_test_pid.npy\")\n", "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)}\")" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "cea384ce", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## 3. Extended rollout — the mechanism\n", "\n", "Run the recurrence `N_SEG` segments (far past the 16-segment training budget) and watch the fate of\n", "trajectories that fail at segment 16. Re-run cell 2 with `MODEL=\"hrm_sudoku\"` to see the contrast." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "5d7ec0ce", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "def extended_rollout(inp, lab, pid, n=256, n_seg=128, seed=0):\n", " rng=np.random.default_rng(seed); idx=rng.choice(len(inp), n, replace=False)\n", " pe=inner.puzzle_emb_len; sf=inner.config.seq_len+pe; hid=inner.config.hidden_size\n", " is_hrm = hasattr(inner, \"H_level\")\n", " X=torch.tensor(inp[idx].astype(np.int32),device=dev); Y=torch.tensor(lab[idx].astype(np.int32),device=dev)\n", " P=torch.tensor(pid[idx].astype(np.int32),device=dev)\n", " EX=[]; DR=[]\n", " with torch.no_grad():\n", " zH=inner.H_init.unsqueeze(0).expand(n,sf,hid).clone().to(inner.forward_dtype)\n", " zL=inner.L_init.unsqueeze(0).expand(n,sf,hid).clone().to(inner.forward_dtype)\n", " si=dict(cos_sin=inner.rotary_emb() if hasattr(inner,\"rotary_emb\") else None)\n", " emb=inner._input_embeddings(X,P); m=Y>0; prev=None\n", " for _ in range(n_seg):\n", " for _h in range(inner.config.H_cycles):\n", " for _l in range(inner.config.L_cycles):\n", " zL=inner.L_level(zL, zH+emb, **si)\n", " zH=(inner.H_level if is_hrm else inner.L_level)(zH, zL, **si)\n", " p=inner.lm_head(zH)[:,pe:].float().argmax(-1)\n", " EX.append(((p==Y)|~m).all(-1).float().cpu().numpy())\n", " DR.append((torch.zeros(n) if prev is None else (zH-prev).float().flatten(1).norm(1).cpu()).numpy())\n", " prev=zH.detach()\n", " return np.stack(EX,1), np.stack(DR,1)\n", "\n", "ex, dr = extended_rollout(inp, lab, pid, n=256, n_seg=128)\n", "T=ex.shape[1]; fail=ex[:,15]==0; nf=fail.sum()\n", "print(f\"accuracy @16={ex[:,15].mean():.3f} @{T}={ex[:,-1].mean():.3f}\")\n", "print(f\"of {nf} step-16 failures: self-resolve to CORRECT by seg{T}: {(fail&(ex[:,-1]==1)).sum()/nf*100:.0f}%\")\n", "ld=dr[:,-4:].mean(1)\n", "print(f\"median latent drift -- failures {np.median(ld[fail]):.1f} vs successes {np.median(ld[ex[:,15]==1]):.1f}\")\n", "fig,ax=plt.subplots(1,2,figsize=(11,4))\n", "ax[0].plot(range(1,T+1), ex.mean(0)); ax[0].axvline(16,ls='--',c='gray'); ax[0].set_xscale('log')\n", "ax[0].set_xlabel('inference segments'); ax[0].set_ylabel('accuracy'); ax[0].set_title('accuracy vs compute')\n", "S=[(fail&(ex[:,:s].max(1)==0)).sum()/nf for s in range(16,T+1)]\n", "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')\n", "ax[1].set_title('escape from chaotic set (straight line on log-y = exponential escape)'); plt.tight_layout(); plt.show()" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "912eefb8", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## 4. Basin accessibility — input-determined or initial-condition-determined?\n", "\n", "The puzzle is re-injected at *every* segment (`z_H + input_embeddings`), so perturbing only the\n", "**initial** latent state `z0` is a clean initial-condition change that leaves the input intact.\n", "Restart each step-16 failure `K` times from `z0 + sigma*noise`: if a small kick frees it (some\n", "restart solves), the solution basin is large and accessible — *initial-condition-determined*; if no\n", "nearby IC escapes, the trapping is *input-determined*. TRM: a small kick frees most. HRM: a hard\n", "core escapes no nearby IC. (GPU: seconds. Laptop/CPU with TRM: a couple of minutes — lower `n`/`K`.)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "b812488b", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "def perturb_z0(inp, lab, pid, n=96, K=8, sigmas=(0.0, 0.1, 0.3, 1.0), n_seg=48, readout=16, seed=0):\n", " rng = np.random.default_rng(seed); idx = rng.choice(len(inp), n, replace=False)\n", " pe = inner.puzzle_emb_len; sf = inner.config.seq_len + pe; hid = inner.config.hidden_size\n", " is_hrm = hasattr(inner, \"H_level\") and getattr(inner, \"H_level\", None) is not None\n", " Hup = inner.H_level if is_hrm else inner.L_level # weight-tied TRM reuses L_level\n", " sc = float(inner.H_init.float().std()); g = torch.Generator(device=dev).manual_seed(seed)\n", " X = torch.tensor(inp[idx].astype(np.int32), device=dev); Y = torch.tensor(lab[idx].astype(np.int32), device=dev)\n", " P = torch.tensor(pid[idx].astype(np.int32), device=dev)\n", " si = dict(cos_sin=inner.rotary_emb() if hasattr(inner, \"rotary_emb\") else None)\n", " solve = np.zeros((n, len(sigmas), K), bool); base = None\n", " with torch.no_grad():\n", " emb0 = inner._input_embeddings(X, P); m0 = Y > 0\n", " for sj, sg in enumerate(sigmas):\n", " emb = emb0.repeat_interleave(K, 0); Yr = Y.repeat_interleave(K, 0); mr = m0.repeat_interleave(K, 0); B = n * K\n", " zH = inner.H_init.unsqueeze(0).expand(B, sf, hid).clone().to(inner.forward_dtype)\n", " zL = inner.L_init.unsqueeze(0).expand(B, sf, hid).clone().to(inner.forward_dtype)\n", " if sg > 0:\n", " zH = (zH.float() + sg*sc*torch.randn(zH.shape, generator=g, device=dev)).to(inner.forward_dtype)\n", " zL = (zL.float() + sg*sc*torch.randn(zL.shape, generator=g, device=dev)).to(inner.forward_dtype)\n", " solved = torch.zeros(B, dtype=torch.bool, device=dev)\n", " for s in range(n_seg):\n", " for _h in range(inner.config.H_cycles):\n", " for _l in range(inner.config.L_cycles): zL = inner.L_level(zL, zH + emb, **si)\n", " zH = Hup(zH, zL, **si)\n", " ok = ((inner.lm_head(zH)[:, pe:].float().argmax(-1) == Yr) | ~mr).all(-1); solved |= ok\n", " if sj == 0 and s == readout - 1: base = ok.view(n, K)[:, 0].cpu().numpy()\n", " solve[:, sj] = solved.view(n, K).cpu().numpy()\n", " return solve, base, np.array(sigmas)\n", "\n", "solve, base, sg = perturb_z0(inp, lab, pid)\n", "fail = ~base; nf = int(fail.sum())\n", "print(f\"{nf} of {len(base)} puzzles fail@{16}; freeing them by restarting from a perturbed IC:\")\n", "for j, s in enumerate(sg):\n", " sub = solve[fail, j]; print(f\" sigma={s:.1f}: single-restart={sub.mean():.2f} best-of-K={sub.any(1).mean():.2f}\")\n", "plt.figure(figsize=(6, 4))\n", "plt.plot(sg, [solve[fail, j].mean() for j in range(len(sg))], 'o--', label='single restart')\n", "plt.plot(sg, [solve[fail, j].any(1).mean() for j in range(len(sg))], 's-', label='best-of-K')\n", "plt.xlabel('relative IC noise sigma'); plt.ylabel('solve rate (failing puzzles)')\n", "plt.title('basin accessibility: does a restart free a trapped puzzle?'); plt.legend(); plt.grid(alpha=.3); plt.show()" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "4e2c8f69", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## What this shows\n", "- **TRM**: step-16 failures *escape* the chaotic transient and resolve to the correct answer\n", " (≈0 settle to a wrong answer) → a chaotic **saddle** + one solution fixed point. More compute\n", " solves more puzzles.\n", "- **HRM**: failures escape too, but *much* more slowly — most are still churning at this horizon.\n", " Out to 4000 segments the never-correct fraction keeps decaying (≈0.87→0.77), so it is a\n", " **strongly-trapping chaotic saddle**, NOT a strict attractor. And the per-segment escape-rate gap\n", " (~5×) is mostly compute-per-segment: TRM evaluates its recurrent module 21×/segment vs HRM 6×, so\n", " per module-evaluation the gap is only ~1.6×.\n", "- **Neither settles to a wrong fixed point** — the \"spurious fixed point\" reading from 2D PCA is an\n", " artifact of projecting high-dimensional chaotic wandering onto two axes.\n", "\n", "Try: change `MODEL`, `N_SEG`, `eps` (toy); compare TRM vs HRM escape curves." ] } ], "metadata": {}, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 5 }