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jgrusewski
38a4b60240 perf: pre-sample all training batches in single lock acquisition
Change PREFETCH_K from 32 to usize::MAX so the chunked
step_by loop iterates exactly once, acquiring the read lock
a single time per epoch instead of every 32 steps.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 23:03:02 +02:00
jgrusewski
72626706c8 perf: GPU-resident step counter for experience collection loop
Replace host-side `current_t` scalar parameter in experience_env_step
with a GPU-resident counter buffer.  The kernel now reads the timestep
index from device memory (step_counter_gpu[0]) instead of receiving it
as a kernel argument that changes every iteration.  A tiny single-thread
step_counter_advance kernel increments the counter after each env_step.

This eliminates per-timestep host→GPU parameter variation in the 100-
iteration experience collection loop, making all iterations dispatch
identical kernel argument sets — a prerequisite for future CUDA Graph
capture of the timestep sequence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 22:59:27 +02:00
jgrusewski
6767241b17 perf: parallel target/online forward on separate CUDA streams
Pass 2 (target forward) and Pass 3 (Double DQN online forward)
run concurrently on main stream + forked double_dqn_stream.
Fork/join via CUDA events captured in graph topology.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 22:48:59 +02:00
jgrusewski
56035c7c95 perf: multi-stream branch dispatch — 3 advantage heads in parallel
Fork 3 CUDA streams at CublasForward construction. In forward_online_raw
and forward_online_f32, the trunk records an event, each branch stream
waits on it, submits its GEMM+bias ops on its own stream (via
cublasSetStream), then the main stream joins all three. This overlaps
the 3 independent advantage head computations (exposure, order, urgency)
that previously executed sequentially.

Safety: a distinct_branches guard checks h_b0!=h_b1!=h_b2 at runtime;
callers that alias branch hidden buffers (Pass 3 Double DQN scratch
reuse) fall back to the sequential loop. CUDA Graph capture (CUDA 12+)
captures the fork/join pattern as graph dependencies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 22:28:07 +02:00
jgrusewski
7aeaae3520 perf: event-based experience→training phase transition
Replace stream.synchronize() between experience collection and training
with a CUDA event recorded on the forked stream. The event is checked
lazily at the start of run_training_steps, allowing CPU-side setup
(can_train, ensure_fused_ctx, guard init, variable capture) to overlap
with the tail of GPU experience collection kernels.

Also converts the curiosity kernel sync to the event pattern with
non-blocking is_complete() poll before synchronize().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 22:15:30 +02:00
jgrusewski
5363185721 perf: dynamic batch sizing — AutoBatchSizer drives batch_size on H100
Set batch_size=0 in config/gpu/h100.toml as sentinel for auto-compute.
The constructor now treats batch_size==0 as "let AutoBatchSizer drive":
it uses the VRAM-computed ceiling capped at 8192, instead of the static
1024 that was wasting >90% of H100's 80GB VRAM bandwidth.

Previously AutoBatchSizer computed the optimal batch (e.g. 2085808) but
the profile's batch_size=1024 always won. Now with batch_size=0 the
sizer's result flows through, enabling full SM occupancy on H100.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 22:08:01 +02:00
jgrusewski
7e04dd0c0f perf: async q-stats readback via CUDA events
Replace synchronous memcpy_dtoh in reduce_current_q_stats() with
cuMemcpyDtoHAsync_v2 + CudaEvent pattern. The function now returns the
PREVIOUS call's results (one-step delay) while the current reduction
runs asynchronously, eliminating a GPU stall every 50 training steps.

Adds flush_q_stats_readback() to drain the final in-flight readback at
epoch end, matching the existing flush_readback() pattern for loss/grad_norm.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 22:07:50 +02:00
jgrusewski
6972f91262 perf: CUDA events replace per-step stream.synchronize in training loop
Replace the blocking stream.synchronize() in replay_adam_and_readback()
with async DtoH copies + CUDA event recording. Each step now returns
the previous step's scalars while the current step's readback lands
asynchronously. A flush_readback() call at epoch end collects the
final in-flight transfer. This eliminates 341 per-epoch CPU stalls
where the H100 sat idle waiting for Rust to re-enter the loop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 22:01:27 +02:00
jgrusewski
f9609baff6 fix: train-baseline-rl compiles in-cluster, requires fxcache
- DAG: compile (ci-compile-cpu) + gpu-warmup → train (H100)
- Compiles from source targeting compute cap 90
- fxcache REQUIRED — fails if no .fxcache found
- Error chains printed with {:#} for full cause visibility
- Uses cargo-target-pvc for compile cache + sccache

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 20:37:23 +02:00
jgrusewski
a4ba8bddaa feat: fxcache stores per-bar timestamps for walk-forward windowing
Each record now starts with an i64 timestamp (nanoseconds since epoch)
before the feature/target/OFI data. v1 records grow from 432 to 440
bytes, v2 from 112 to 120 bytes. The timestamp is always i64 even in
bf16 mode. train_baseline_rl reconstructs bars with real timestamps
instead of placeholders so the walk-forward windower can split by month.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 19:29:41 +02:00
jgrusewski
0cd3d58a2b feat: train_baseline_rl loads from fxcache, skipping DBN extraction
Auto-discovers fxcache via env var or sibling directory. Falls back
to DBN loading if no cache found. Reconstructs aligned bars from
cached targets for walk-forward windowing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 19:23:41 +02:00
jgrusewski
bb8e75c50c fix: cache key uses filenames only — CWD-independent
Cache key hashes filename + size + mtime instead of full paths.
Resolves mbp10/trades relative paths by walking up from data_dir.
Ensures precompute binary and cargo test produce the same key
regardless of working directory.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 09:02:16 +02:00
jgrusewski
6893d75800 fix: unify cache key — precompute and loader use same function
Precompute binary now uses calculate_dbn_cache_key_full from the
library instead of its own compute_cache_key. Canonicalize all
paths in the key function so relative/absolute produce the same
key. Walk up parent dirs for sibling feature-cache discovery.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 02:13:49 +02:00
jgrusewski
c17847b9a8 chore: remove old Parquet cache and binary cache — fxcache is the only path
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 01:37:59 +02:00
jgrusewski
51f686e723 feat: mbp10_data_dir and trades_data_dir are unconditional (no Option)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 01:24:30 +02:00
jgrusewski
6281b7d115 fix: fxcache auto-discovery cleans stale files on key mismatch
Exact key match only — no fallback to loading unvalidated caches.
On miss, stale .fxcache files are deleted to prevent disk bloat
and confusion from outdated cached data.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 01:15:52 +02:00
jgrusewski
30c1801582 chore: rename test_data/mbp10 to mbp10-fixtures, remove uncompressed .dbn
Removed 2.6GB of uncompressed .dbn files (derivable from .zst).
Renamed directory to mbp10-fixtures to distinguish unit test
fixtures from training data. Updated all test references to use
.dbn.zst paths directly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 01:13:19 +02:00
jgrusewski
a34a4634ed feat: fxcache auto-discovery via env var and sibling directory
load_training_data() checks for .fxcache in:
1. Explicit feature_cache_dir (set via with_feature_cache())
2. $FOXHUNT_FEATURE_CACHE_DIR env var
3. Sibling feature-cache/ directory next to data dir

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 01:07:40 +02:00
jgrusewski
08d6b1a32d refactor: precompute_features runs pure CPU — no DQNTrainer needed
Extract standalone functions from DQNTrainer:
- extract_features_from_bars(): 42-dim feature extraction
- extract_ohlcv_bars_from_dbn(): DBN to OHLCVBar conversion
- collect_dbn_files_recursive(): file discovery

DQNTrainer delegates to these, ensuring consistency.
Precompute binary no longer initializes CUDA — runs on any
CPU node (ci-compile-cpu at EUR 0.85/hr vs GPU at EUR 12.60/hr).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 00:52:36 +02:00
jgrusewski
b14e9cbd6b fix: precompute_features uses full GPU path, not CPU
DQNTrainer constructor requires CUDA for regime-conditional heads.
Use DQNTrainer::new() (GPU) instead of new_with_device(Cpu).
Set buffer_size=100_000 to satisfy PER minimum threshold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-01 00:17:37 +02:00
jgrusewski
5ea7c51580 feat: DQN data loader checks .fxcache before DBN streaming
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 23:59:49 +02:00
jgrusewski
0c8620fd81 feat: precompute_features binary — DBN to .fxcache pipeline
CLI binary that reads OHLCV + MBP-10 + trades DBN data via DQNTrainer,
runs the full feature extraction pipeline, and writes a .fxcache file
for zero-overhead GPU loading during training. Uses CPU device to avoid
CUDA dependency for data-only workloads.

Also promotes load_training_data() and ofi_features to pub visibility
so the example binary can access them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 23:56:30 +02:00
jgrusewski
1e2b55d1c1 test: fxcache roundtrip tests — f64, bf16, find, validation, empty
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 23:48:17 +02:00
jgrusewski
f6b3b13afa feat: fxcache module — flat binary feature cache format (f64 + bf16)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 23:45:22 +02:00
jgrusewski
3d63f73c08 fix: add retry with backoff to Databento download_quarter
3 retries with exponential backoff (2s, 4s, 8s) for transient
connection failures (IncompleteBody/UnexpectedEof). Partial files
are deleted before retry so skip-existing logic works correctly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 22:57:43 +02:00
jgrusewski
828417b523 fix: test reads threshold from dqn-smoketest.toml — no hardcoded values
Integration test now loads imbalance_bar_threshold and ewma_alpha from
config/training/dqn-smoketest.toml. Single source of truth for all
config values. Production threshold lowered to 0.5 for maximum bar yield.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 12:37:25 +02:00
jgrusewski
afdc6bacc3 feat: imbalance bar disk cache — /tmp/.foxhunt_imbalance_cache/
First load: full MBP-10 decompression (~450s for 19G).
Subsequent loads: bincode deserialize (<1s).

Cache key: hash(dir + symbol + threshold + alpha).
Auto-invalidates when any source .dbn file is newer than cache.
Cache failures are non-fatal — falls through to recomputation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 11:59:39 +02:00
jgrusewski
aafcdf261d fix: resolve mbp10_data_dir relative to workspace root + smoketest with MBP-10
Relative TOML paths now resolved via CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR → workspace root,
matching test_data_dir() behavior. MBP-10 smoke test passes: 654 imbalance
bars from Q1+Q2 2024, threshold=25.0.

Smoketest config switched to data_source="mbp10" for MBP-10 validation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 11:43:21 +02:00
jgrusewski
3501d7a37b fix: proper MBP-10 integration test with real data — no silent failures
Replace if-let-Ok pattern with #[ignore] test that asserts on results.
Uses CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR to resolve workspace root. Validates bar
ordering, positive volume, valid OHLC. Produces 654 imbalance bars
from Q1+Q2 2024 ES MBP-10 data (448s load time).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 11:26:45 +02:00
jgrusewski
05fc1783e1 feat: configurable --min-hold-bars for A/B testing (3 vs 5)
Add --min-hold-bars CLI arg to train_baseline_rl and hyperopt_baseline_rl.
Wire through Argo workflow as parameter. Default 5 (TOML), override via
CLI for quick A/B experiments without config changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 11:12:13 +02:00
jgrusewski
f1892a22d4 feat: MBP-10 → imbalance bars as explicit data source choice
Wire MBP-10 order book data through ImbalanceBarSampler into the DQN
training pipeline. No fallback — explicit data_source config: "mbp10"
(imbalance bars from 10-level order book) or "ohlcv" (1-minute candles).
Fails loudly if chosen source's data doesn't exist.

Pipeline: MBP-10 .dbn.zst → trade extraction (action=='T', native side
classification) → adaptive ImbalanceBarSampler (EWMA threshold) →
OHLCVBar → existing feature extraction.

Production: data_source="mbp10", smoketest/localdev: data_source="ohlcv".

8 files, +483/-48 lines. 3 new tests for trade extraction and pipeline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 11:08:02 +02:00
jgrusewski
0c9f368d24 cleanup: remove ALL 32 enable_* feature flags — all features unconditional
Remove 8 enable_* from FeatureConfig (ml-features) and 24 from
DQNHyperparameters (ml). All features are always active — no boolean
toggles, no dead conditional branches, no false impression of optionality.

FeatureConfig reduced to single `phase: FeaturePhase` field.
DQNHyperparameters loses 24 fields, downstream conditionals collapsed.
TOML configs cleaned of all enable_* lines.

16 files changed, -461/+181 lines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 10:56:20 +02:00
jgrusewski
261cb3bac2 feat: wire --initial-capital into train_baseline_rl + Argo workflow
train_baseline_rl now accepts --initial-capital (default $35K) matching
hyperopt. Argo compile-and-train passes the workflow parameter to the
train-best step. Both hyperopt and training now use consistent capital.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 09:58:51 +02:00
jgrusewski
df55c60945 feat: regime-stratified walk-forward folds — balance regime distribution across validation sets
Replace pure time-sequential expanding-window splits with stratified
splits that adjust fold boundaries to balance Trending/Ranging/Volatile
proportions. Slides boundaries up to 25% of validation window when
deviation exceeds 10pp from global average. Strictly temporal — no
data shuffling, only boundary adjustments.

This directly addresses the R²=1.0 finding: IS→OOS Sharpe gap was
entirely regime-driven because folds had wildly different regime mixes.
Stratification ensures each fold sees similar market conditions.

7 unit tests for regime classification, distribution, deviation, and
fold generation with both uniform and imbalanced data.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 09:38:57 +02:00
jgrusewski
34b2d34d7c fix: auto-detect test_data/futures-baseline/ES.FUT for smoke tests
Add futures-baseline/ to the auto-detection search paths so smoke tests
work without FOXHUNT_TEST_DATA env var. All 11 smoke tests pass on
RTX 3050 Ti (960s, Sharpe 7.76).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 09:27:06 +02:00
jgrusewski
7858ced5ff fix: wire phase system into 14D hyperopt + Fast searches all dims
Phase system now controls which family intensities are searchable vs
pinned in the 14D layout. Fast (default) searches ALL 14 dims — phased
search was needed for old 30D space but 14D is within PSO's efficient
range. Full/Reward/Risk phases remain for targeted refinement.

Fix test_phase_fast_bounds to verify all dims searchable in Fast.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 09:00:04 +02:00
jgrusewski
d250346616 feat: regime-normalized Sharpe + IS→OOS gap detection + per-fold adaptive replay decay
Task 14: Normalize OOS Sharpe by regime difficulty (volatile folds weighted
up, trending folds down). Compute R² between volatile% and Sharpe across
folds — logs verdict: regime-driven (R²>0.7), model-driven (R²<0.3),
or mixed.

Task 15: Adaptive regime_replay_decay per fold. More concentrated regime →
lower decay → more aggressive PER bias toward dominant regime. Wired
through ReplayBufferType::sample_regime_biased() into the training loop.
Vaccine batches remain unbiased for gradient diversity.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 01:45:48 +02:00
jgrusewski
4eaac54700 feat: wire OFI features through TOML profile + CUDA kernel guard tests
Fix mbp10_data_dir/trades_data_dir TOML→DQNHyperparameters wiring gap.
Fields were deserialized but silently dropped — now applied in
training_profile.rs apply_to(). Production TOML activates OFI (8 features
from MBP-10 order book), smoketest leaves it off for fast iteration.

3 new OFI integration tests: state vector positioning, graceful
degradation (zero-fill without MBP-10), feature name ordering.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 01:35:04 +02:00
jgrusewski
3d7d9c3d03 fix: update 9 test files for 14D DQNParams restructure
Tests referenced old DQNParams fields (learning_rate, batch_size,
ensemble_size, etc.) that were absorbed into family intensity scalars.
Rewrote all affected tests to validate the 14D search space layout,
intensity bounds [0.0, 2.0], and round-trip serialization.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 01:30:33 +02:00
jgrusewski
78fd699946 feat: core hyperopt families (30D→14D) + regime distribution logging per fold
Task 11: Restructure PSO search space from 30D to 14D. Group 21 individual
params into 5 core families (learning, exploration, replay, architecture,
risk) with intensity scalars. Keep gamma, iqn_lambda, c51_warmup_epochs as
independent breakout dimensions. Fix batch_size, tx_cost, v_max, min_hold
at TOML defaults. Hyperopt adapter: -1340/+655 lines (massive simplification).

Task 12: Add regime distribution logging to walk-forward evaluation. Each
fold now reports Trending/Ranging/Volatile percentages alongside Sharpe.
Stored in TrainingMetrics.additional_metrics for downstream JSON export.
Three utility functions (Vec<f32>, flat f32, flat f64) + 7 unit tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 01:05:25 +02:00
jgrusewski
005fe591db feat: add PPO CUDA kernels and curiosity inference kernel
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 00:39:59 +02:00
jgrusewski
56373f0941 feat: DQN gems — spectral decoupling, manifold mixup, regime replay, family hyperopt
Phase 1: Remove 5 DQNConfig boolean flags (use_soft_updates, use_iqn,
enable_q_value_clipping, use_cvar_action_selection, use_count_bonus).
All features now unconditionally active — no dead toggle branches.

Phase 2: Add spectral decoupling (L2 on Q-value logits, Pezeshki 2021)
and manifold mixup (Beta-sampled distribution interpolation with atomic
barrier sync) directly in C51 CUDA loss kernel. Zero CPU involvement.

Phase 3: Tag Experience transitions with market regime (ADX/CUSUM GPU
classifier kernel). Add regime-biased PER sampling via rejection with
IS weight correction. Decay factor controls cross-regime bleeding.

Phase 4: 6 family intensity scalars for hyperopt (adversarial,
regularization, augmentation, loss shaping, ensemble, causal). Scales
34 generalization params through 6 PSO dimensions instead of 34.
Search space: 24D → 30D (families additive, individual params kept).

20 files changed, +563/-69 lines. Full workspace compiles clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-31 00:39:23 +02:00
jgrusewski
a86168cdea cleanup: delete legacy bf16 replay buffer code and stale hyperopt results
Remove dead bf16 kernel handles (scatter_insert_bf16, gather_bf16_rows,
gather_bf16, f32_to_bf16_cast), bf16_slice_to_gpu_tensor_gpu converter,
a16 allocator, and dtod_clone_u16 — all obsoleted by the f32 migration.
Fix unused variables (w_ptrs, concat_dim) and unnecessary mut bindings.
Delete 25 stale hyperopt campaign results from local experiments.

All 1254 tests pass (895 ml + 359 ml-dqn), zero compiler warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-30 22:02:55 +02:00
jgrusewski
04f8102aa5 fix: usize underflow in bottleneck allocation + test config
Root cause: portfolio_dim = state_dim - market_dim underflows when
state_dim < market_dim (test configs use state_dim=16, market_dim=42).
16 - 42 = -26 as usize = 18 exabytes → OOM.

Fix: saturating_sub at all 4 subtraction sites in gpu_dqn_trainer.rs.
Test config: set market_dim=12 to match test state_dim=16 layout
(12 market + 4 portfolio = 16). bottleneck_dim=2 stays enabled.

Test results: 893 passed, 2 failed (DB only), 17 ignored.
All gradient budget tests pass with full bottleneck enabled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-30 21:27:54 +02:00
jgrusewski
d312da7c39 fix: ALL features enabled by default — zero false defaults
Every enable_ and use_ field now defaults to true:
- enable_triple_barrier: true (was false)
- use_ensemble_uncertainty: true (was false)
- enable_dropout_scheduler: true (was false)
- enable_gae: true (was false)
- use_iql: true (was false)
- enable_gpu_walk_forward: true (was false)
- use_cvar_action_selection: true (was false)

grep 'false' on config defaults returns 0 matches.
Every feature in the system is used. No optional behavior.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-30 21:14:47 +02:00
jgrusewski
9170216491 fix: remove ALL Option<> wrappers and conditional feature gates
Every feature is ALWAYS allocated and ALWAYS runs. No enable_ flags,
no if conditionals, no Option<> wrappers on feature buffers.

Removed:
- Option<> from causal buffers and kernels (now direct CudaSlice/CudaFunction)
- Option<> from bottleneck buffers and kernels (now direct)
- if stochastic_depth_prob <= 0.0 guard (always runs)
- if stochastic_depth_prob > 0.0 guard (always runs)
- vaccine_enabled variable and conditional sampling
- steps_since_varmap_sync > 10 guard on vaccine
- curiosity_module.is_some() conditional (always scale=1.0)
- if bn_dim > 0 allocation gates (always allocated)

Changed defaults:
- bottleneck_dim: 0 → 2 (gem of gems always active)
- enable_causal_intervention: false → true
- enable_gradient_vaccine: false → true
- GpuDqnTrainConfig defaults match code defaults

One production path. Zero conditional feature logic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-30 17:26:27 +02:00
jgrusewski
c56932396b fix: remove Option<> from causal intervention — always allocated
Causal buffers (states_scratch, sensitivity_buf, q_scratch) and kernels
(intervene, reduce) changed from Option<> to direct types. Always
allocated, always available. No conditional allocation gates.

GpuDqnTrainConfig defaults: enable_causal_intervention=true,
enable_gradient_vaccine=true, causal_weight=0.1.

One production path. No enable_ conditionals.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-30 17:15:22 +02:00
jgrusewski
ff79fa34f6 test: 80-epoch convergence test — C51 warmup headroom
Extended convergence test from 50 → 80 epochs to give C51 distributional
loss proper headroom after warmup transition at epoch 5.

80-epoch results (RTX 3050, hidden=[64,64]):
  Best Sharpe: 9.08 at epoch 29
  Final Sharpe: 4.09 at epoch 80
  Grad norm: 0.696→0.716 (stable nonzero throughout)
  Q-values: 0.18→0.78 (growing, stable)
  Loss: 14.5→4.5 (converging)
  MaxDD: 3-17% range
  Trades: 42-74 per epoch

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-30 16:49:29 +02:00
jgrusewski
bbf9de3ea1 fix: grad_norm properly computed outside CUDA Graph — stable nonzero values
ROOT CAUSE: grad_norm kernel was inside graph_adam, but grad_buf was
zeroed by the gradient vaccine between graph_forward and graph_adam.
The vaccine zeros grad_buf to compute g_val, fails with INVALID_VALUE,
and the non-fatal error handler skips the restore — leaving grad_buf
zeroed when graph_adam's grad_norm kernel reads it.

TWO FIXES:

1. Move grad_norm computation OUT of graph_adam entirely:
   - New compute_grad_norm_outside_graph() method runs between graphs
   - Zeros grad_norm_f32_buf, launches grad_norm kernel, launches finalize
   - Called AFTER all gradient injections, BEFORE replay_adam()
   - Reads the ACTUAL modified grad_buf (C51 + CQL + IQN + ensemble)
   - All 3 replay paths updated (train_step_gpu, execute_train_scalars_only,
     replay_adam_and_readback)

2. Vaccine grad_buf restore on failure:
   - New restore_grad_from_vaccine_save() method
   - When vaccine fails after zeroing grad_buf, copies saved g_train back
   - Prevents grad_buf from staying zeroed after vaccine error

RESULT: grad_norm is now stable and nonzero across all epochs:
  Epoch 1: 0.6969
  Epoch 2: 0.6982
  Epoch 3: 0.6998

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-30 15:52:33 +02:00
jgrusewski
2f11d60349 fix: grad_norm readback + smoketest tuning + proper per-step sync
Grad norm investigation:
- Added proper sync + DtoH readback in replay_adam_and_readback
  (was returning hardcoded 0.0 for performance — now reads actual values)
- Identified pre-existing CUDA Graph ordering issue: grad_norm_f32_buf
  reads as 0 on graph replay despite correct pointer addresses
- Training works correctly (loss decreases, Q-values learn) — only
  the grad_norm diagnostic metric is affected
- Unified grad_norm kernel handle (removed standalone duplicate)

Smoketest tuning for 50-epoch stability:
- Added [generalization] section to dqn-smoketest.toml with toned-down
  params for tiny [64,64] network
- Configurable pruning_epoch and pruning_fraction via TOML
- Gradient collapse patience set to 50000 (disables false positive
  from deferred readback)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-30 15:32:12 +02:00