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jgrusewski
deed15b34e feat(ml-alpha): cfc_step_backward emits grad_x for upstream chain
Adds grad_x[k] = sum_i d_pre[i] * W_in[i,k] computed by thread 0 of
the cfc_step_backward kernel (after the existing __syncthreads in
the shared-mem sd_pre relay). Required by the stacked Mamba2 -> CfC
design: Mamba2.backward_from_h_enriched needs grad on h_enriched,
which is the CfC's "x" input in the stacked topology.

For the existing CfC-only PerceptionTrainer (x = snap_features, no
upstream learnable layer), grad_x is computed but discarded into a
preallocated buffer.

backward_finite_diff tests still pass (4/4) — the new arg is the
14th positional kernel arg; existing callers updated. perception_
overfit smoke still passes (loss 0.5669 -> 0.0665 in 200 steps).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-16 22:59:36 +02:00
jgrusewski
753284f2ae feat(ml-alpha): backward kernels — heads + cfc_step (K=1 BPTT)
multi_horizon_heads_backward: sigmoid + linear chain rule. One block,
HIDDEN_DIM=128 threads. Computes grad_w, grad_b, grad_h_in. No
atomicAdd; per-thread accumulation only.

cfc_step_backward: truncated K=1 BPTT through one CfC time step.
Forward pre/decay/tanh recomputed inside the kernel; emits grad_w_in,
grad_w_rec, grad_b, grad_h_old. tau is held frozen (structural
log-uniform init per Hasani 2022; backprop through tau deferred to
Phase A v2 if the gate needs it). Uses dynamic shared memory for the
d_pre relay between threads (size = 2 * n_hid * 4 bytes).

Tests (4/4 on sm_86) validate via on-GPU finite-difference:
  - heads grad_h vs forward(h±eps) → matches at eps=1e-3, rel<=1%
  - heads grad_b vs forward(b±eps) → matches at eps=1e-3, rel<=1%
  - cfc grad_b vs forward(b±eps) → matches at eps=1e-3, rel<=5%
  - cfc grad_h_old vs forward(h_old±eps) → matches at eps=1e-3, rel<=5%

CPU is not the reference (per feedback_no_cpu_test_fallbacks.md). The
kernel is the truth; numerical perturbation validates the analytic
gradient against the kernel's own forward.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-16 22:20:54 +02:00