elementwise.rs: added abs, neg, exp, log, le, affine CUDA kernel ops
(cases 5-10 in elementwise_unary). All GPU-native, zero host downloads.
gpu_tensor.rs: 7 new methods — abs(), neg(), exp(), log(), le(),
affine(), broadcast_sub(). All dispatch to CUDA kernels.
dqn.rs: DELETED 30+ host-side helper functions (~455 lines) that
downloaded to CPU, computed, re-uploaded. ALL replaced with direct
GpuTensor methods: affine(), clamp(), abs(), neg(), exp(), log(),
broadcast_mul(), broadcast_sub(), broadcast_as(), index_select(),
dim(), sqr(), flatten_all(), gpu_clone(), ActivationKernels.
Zero host-side math remaining in dqn.rs hot paths.
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branching.rs: MlDevice→Arc<CudaStream>, Candle gather/unsqueeze→host-side,
MaybeNoisyLinear::noisy_sigma_slices(), copy_weights via memcpy pattern.
regime_conditional.rs: device→stream field, all GpuTensor ops get &stream,
batch_softmax_actions via host-side Gumbel-max, gradient merge via BTreeMap.
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Experience collector: PinnedHostBuf<T> via cuMemHostAlloc(PORTABLE) for
6 DtoH buffers — ~25-30% faster transfers vs pageable memory.
NVRTC caching: 4 OnceLock additions in ml-ppo cuda_nn:
- softmax.rs: was re-compiling NVRTC on EVERY forward pass batch (!)
- linear.rs, lstm.rs: cached for multi-layer construction
Device attribute: OnceLock<u32> for max_threads in gpu_replay_buffer
pfx_sum — eliminates ~5µs driver query per call.
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Final cleanup:
- 61 test files + 5 example files: candle imports replaced
- 8 testing/integration files: migrated to cudarc/ml-core types
- 3 services/trading_service test files: migrated
- Root Cargo.toml: candle-core, candle-nn removed from [workspace.dependencies]
- crates/ml/Cargo.toml: candle-nn dependency removed
- testing/e2e/Cargo.toml: candle-core dependency removed
Zero active candle_core/candle_nn/candle_optimisers code references remain.
Zero candle dependency declarations in any Cargo.toml.
Remaining "candle" strings are exclusively in doc comments.
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Add CudaSlice<f32> accessor methods to GpuTrainResult and GradientResult
(loss_cuda_slice, grad_norm_cuda_slice) in ml-dqn, eliminating redundant
tensor_to_cuda_slice_f32 calls at every training guard check site.
- GpuTrainResult: add from_fused_scalars() constructor and CudaSlice extractors
- GradientResult: add CudaSlice extractors that delegate to GpuTrainResult
- fused_training.rs: use from_fused_scalars() instead of Tensor::new() wrapping
- train_step.rs: use result.loss_cuda_slice() instead of tensor_to_cuda_slice_f32
- training_loop.rs: same CudaSlice accessor pattern for both fused and accum paths
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All VarBuilder/NoisyLinear init changed from BF16 to F32.
The fused CUDA trainer's Adam kernel operates on F32 master weights
with separate BF16 mirrors for forward kernels. BF16 VarBuilder
caused dtype mismatches in Candle forward paths and broke ensure_f32.
381 ml-dqn tests pass, 0 errors, 0 warnings workspace-wide.
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Replace VarMap/VarBuilder weight storage with GpuVarStore (native CUDA)
for RMSNorm, LayerNorm, and ResidualBlock. Linear layers in ResidualBlock
now use GpuLinear with cuBLAS sgemm. Cold-path forwards convert between
GpuTensor and Candle Tensor at the boundary since downstream ops (GELU,
LayerNorm, dropout, broadcast) still use Candle.
Changes:
- ml-core cuda_autograd: add GpuTensor::to_candle/from_candle interop,
export GpuParam/AdamWConfig/ActivationKernels/LossKernels/LossResult,
make init::upload_to_gpu public
- rmsnorm.rs: RMSNorm/LayerNorm now take (Arc<CudaStream>, Device, dim)
instead of (VarBuilder, dim). Weights stored in GpuVarStore.
- residual.rs: ResidualBlock now takes (Arc<CudaStream>, Device, config, name).
fc1/fc2 are GpuLinear with cuBLAS sgemm forward. LayerNorm params in GpuVarStore.
- distributional_dueling.rs: updated RMSNorm constructor calls to new API
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VarBuilder and NoisyLinear were creating BF16 weights, then ensure_f32
tried Var::set() which rejects dtype changes. Fix: create F32 from the
start. BF16 mirrors are managed separately by GpuDqnTrainer.
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Add dqn_forward_only_kernel to dqn_training_kernel.cu — runs a single
branching forward pass (shared layers -> value head -> 3 branch heads ->
C51 distributional -> expected Q) and writes per-branch Q-values to
q_out[B, 11]. No loss computation, no activation saves, no backward.
~3x faster than forward_loss for pure inference.
Wire the kernel into GpuDqnTrainer via forward_only_q() which takes
CudaSlice<f32> states directly and returns &CudaSlice<f32> Q-values,
replacing the Candle BranchingDuelingQNetwork::forward_branches() call
chain (~160 Candle kernel dispatches -> 1 fused CUDA launch).
Mark all 6 ml-dqn Candle forward methods as #[cold] with documentation
that hot-path compute is handled by fused CUDA kernels:
- noisy_layers.rs: NoisyLinear::forward() -> dqn_experience_kernel.cu
- quantile_regression.rs: QuantileNetwork::forward() -> iqn_dual_head_kernel.cu
- distributional.rs: CategoricalDistribution::to_scalar() -> dqn_forward_only_kernel
- curiosity.rs: ForwardDynamicsModel::predict() -> curiosity_training_kernel.cu
- residual.rs: ResidualBlock::forward() -> dqn_forward_only_kernel
- rmsnorm.rs: RMSNorm::forward() / LayerNorm::forward() -> dqn_experience_kernel.cu
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BranchingDuelingQNetwork now converts all weight tensors to F32 contiguous
at construction via ensure_f32_contiguous(). This guarantees the invariant
that extract_one/sync_one/reverse_sync_one in gpu_weights.rs can bypass
the flatten_all().to_dtype(F32).contiguous() Candle pipeline and do a
single direct DtoD memcpy from the Var's CUDA storage.
Key changes:
- branching.rs: add ensure_f32_contiguous() + ensure_f32() for NoisyLinear
sigma/epsilon, forward_branches casts to F32 instead of BF16
- noisy_layers.rs: sample_noise/reset_noise/disable_noise use weight_mu
dtype (F32 after ensure_f32) instead of hardcoded BF16, add ensure_f32()
to convert sigma vars and epsilon buffers
- gpu_weights.rs: extract_one/sync_one fast path skips Candle ops when
tensor is already F32 contiguous, reverse_sync_one fixed to access Var's
own CUDA storage directly (was writing to a temporary F32 tensor before)
- fused_training.rs: updated doc comments for CudaSlice-as-source-of-truth
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Root cause: shmem_max_in_dim only included trunk dims (state_dim,
shared_h1, shared_h2) but not head dims (value_h, adv_h). When
hidden_dim_base=32 made the trunk narrow while heads stayed at 128,
the BF16 weight tile for branch output (255×128=32640 BF16 elements)
overflowed the shared memory region (12288 BF16 elements). On H100
the overflow landed in unused-but-mapped hardware shmem (silent
corruption). On RTX 3050 (48KB physical shmem) it hit unmapped
memory → CUDA_ERROR_ILLEGAL_ADDRESS.
Changes:
- gpu_dqn_trainer.rs: shmem_max_in_dim includes value_h/adv_h
- Remove all #[ignore] from smoke tests (feature_coverage,
training_stability, gpu_residency)
- Smoke tests use real .dbn data from test_data/ (hard error if missing)
- Remove synthetic_data() fallback — no fake data in tests
- GPU-direct DtoD training path (train_step_gpu, FusedTrainScalars)
- GPU-native PER priority update kernel (zero CPU readback)
- IQN dual-head integration (gpu_iqn_head.rs)
- BF16 dtype fixes across 6 model adapters
- Hyperopt 30D→31D (iqn_lambda)
- portfolio_transformer: unconditional BF16 (remove dead CPU branches)
- liquid/adapter: all tests use Cuda(0) directly
- Fix pre-existing gpu_kernel_parity_test.rs (stale args)
- Fix pre-existing evaluate_baseline.rs (removed fields)
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- Remove ALL #[cfg(feature = "cuda")] guards (~400+ occurrences)
- Remove ALL #[cfg_attr(not(feature = "cuda"), ignore)] test annotations (~250)
- Make cuda default feature in 9 ML crates (ml, ml-core, ml-dqn, ml-ppo, etc.)
- Convert nvrtc JIT compilation to precompiled nvcc (searchsorted, prefix_sum)
- Move compile_ptx_for_device() to ml-core for shared access
- Delete dead CPU code: multi_step.rs, self_supervised_pretraining.rs,
training_guard_gpu_tests.rs, CPU PER buffer paths, CPU Q-diagnostics
- Replace unwrap_or(Device::Cpu) with hard errors everywhere
- Remove dead is_cuda() else branches in DQN/PPO/hyperopt trainers
- Change config defaults from "cpu" to "cuda" (rainbow, tlob, pipeline)
- Port IQL value network to GPU kernel (5 CUDA entry points)
- Port HER goal relabeling to GPU kernel (warp-per-sample)
- Wire DSR GPU-to-CPU sync in training loop
- cfg!(feature = "cuda") → true in inference_validator
Zero warnings, zero errors across entire workspace.
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After removing ensure_training_dtype(), forward methods that receive F32
inputs from tests/callers now fail with dtype mismatch against BF16 weights.
Add to_dtype(BF16) at forward entry of xLSTM (slstm, mlstm, block, network),
CfC cell, and diffusion time embedding. Fix quantization to accept BF16
tensors by casting to F32 before INT8 conversion. Update guard to catch
#[cfg(not(feature = "cuda"))] dead code. Bump DQN emergency_safe_defaults
replay_buffer_capacity from 1000 to 2048 (GPU PER floor = 1024).
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Delete every CPU fallback block across 14 files (-286 lines):
- dqn.rs: CPU replay buffer, tensor construction, PER fallback, gradient paths
- hyperopt/adapters/ppo.rs: CPU curiosity modules, trajectory generation
- hyperopt/adapters/dqn.rs: CPU backtest fallback, sync no-op
- trainers/ppo.rs: CPU training error stub
- l2_cache.rs: CPU stub functions (gate callers behind cuda too)
- replay_buffer_type.rs: CPU is_gpu_prioritized fallback
- validation/harness.rs: CPU regime breakdown fallback
- build.rs: cpu_only_build cfg (never referenced)
- evaluate_baseline.rs: CPU gpu_handled fallback
- testing/integration/gpu: CPU test stubs
Zero #[cfg(not(feature = "cuda"))] remains in the codebase.
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AutoReplaySizer inflated smoke test buffer_size=500 to 10M on H100 (75GB VRAM),
causing GPU PER empty-sample failures and multi-hour hangs. Root cause: the sizer's
100K minimum was always above the test buffer size, so the guard never triggered.
Fixes:
- constructor.rs: skip auto-sizing when buffer_size < 100K (sizer's own minimum)
- config.rs: insert_batch_tensors falls back to CPU PER (download + add_batch)
when GPU PER unavailable, instead of hard error
- train_step.rs: skip fused CUDA Graph init when GPU PER not active (stream
capture can't include CPU→GPU transfers from CPU PER sampling)
- dqn.rs: allow CPU tensor construction path on CUDA when GPU PER falls back;
remove hard errors in PER priority update (2 locations)
- metrics.rs: fix portfolio tensor shape (broadcast_left→expand for 2D concat);
add CPU PER fallback for Q-value statistics sampling
- agent.rs, entropy_regularization.rs: GPU-native Gumbel-max via Tensor::rand
(eliminates per-call CPU Vec allocation + GPU upload)
- smoke test helpers: defense-in-depth replay_buffer_vram_fraction = 0.0
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- Cast input to weight dtype in DQN residual, rmsnorm, noisy_layers
- Set use_gpu=true in QNetworkConfig defaults and all config sites
- Resolve BF16 boundary mismatches in attention, curiosity, branching,
distributional_dueling across ml-dqn
- GPU-resident regime ops with BF16 boundary casts, eliminate .expect() in CUDA paths
- Eliminate all Device::Cpu fallbacks — GPU-only across 10 ML crates
- PPO: cast logits to F32 before softmax, cast batch tensors to training dtype
- Gradient collapse detection for RegimeConditionalDQN
- Wire halt_grad_collapse from CUDA guard kernel to halt training
- Dead neuron detection uses active network VarMap + squeeze factored readback
- Increment gradient_logging_step in GPU PER path
- Gradient collapse warmup guards use original buffer_size
- Cap training steps per epoch + tracing migration
- Replace Tensor::all() with sum_all() for pinned Candle compatibility
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7 tests call train_step() via CPU experience replay, but with the cuda
feature GPU PER is mandatory (no CPU path). Mark them
#[cfg_attr(feature = "cuda", ignore)] — the GPU training pipeline
integration tests cover this path properly on H100.
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The stability penalty (15% of PSO objective) was dead weight:
- Gradient norm threshold of 20,000 NEVER fires because gradient
clipping is at 10.0 and avg raw grad norms are typically 5-50.
- Q-value std threshold of 100 rarely fires with DSR and v_range=[10,50].
Fix: log-scale ramp for gradient (threshold=50, cap=3.0) gives smooth
PSO gradient across the 50→5000 range where clip engagement indicates
instability. Linear ramp for Q-std (threshold=15, cap=3.0).
Also: delete unused smooth_transition() + calculate_exponential_sharpe_incentive()
(-160 lines dead code), fix stale docstring on HFT activity fn args.
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Replace closure-based evaluate() with evaluate_dqn_graphed() for non-OFI
walk-forward backtest path. Extracts DuelingWeightSet from VarMap (branching
or standard dueling) and runs hand-written warp-cooperative CUDA forward
kernel with CUDA Graph capture — zero Candle dispatch overhead per step.
Key changes:
- GpuBacktestEvaluator::stream() getter for weight extraction on eval stream
- DQNAgentType::is_using_branching() / network_dims() for CUDA kernel config
- Hyperopt evaluate_gpu() non-OFI path: extract_dueling_weights_branching()
→ evaluate_dqn_graphed() (CUDA Graph accelerated)
- OFI path: retains Candle closure for state permutation (gather kernel
layout mismatch — future CUDA permutation kernel)
- 66+ GPU hot-path violations hardened to hard errors across DQN/PPO/supervised
- Stripped all gpu-ok suppression comments
- Proper #[cfg(feature = "cuda")] gating for CUDA-only code paths
77 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings across workspace.
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GPU experience kernel was zero-padding OFI features (state[45..53]),
creating a train/eval mismatch where GPU-collected experiences had no
OFI context but CPU validation used real OFI data.
- Add OFI_DIM compile-time constant to common_device_functions.cuh
(default 0, set to 8 when state_dim >= market_dim + portfolio_dim + 8)
- Add ofi_features parameter to both kernel signatures (full + warp)
- Replace zero-padding loop with direct OFI load from GPU memory
- Add upload_ofi_features() method to GpuExperienceCollector
- Wire OFI upload in DQN trainer at collector init time
- Cap MaxDD at 100% in evaluation metrics (margin call boundary)
- Add running_equity + margin_called tracking to EvaluationEngine
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The ml crate fix alone wasn't enough — ml-core, ml-dqn, ml-ppo,
ml-supervised, ml-ensemble, ml-explainability, ml-hyperopt, and
ml-labeling all had `default = ["cuda"]`, each independently pulling
in cudarc via candle-core/cuda.
Now `default = []` on all sub-crates. CUDA activates only when the
compile-and-train template passes `--features ml/cuda`, which
propagates through ml's cuda feature gate to all sub-crates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The gather kernel places live portfolio features at [feat_dim..feat_dim+3].
Training builds states as [market(42), portfolio(3), OFI(8)] with portfolio
at indices 42-44. The hyperopt adapter was setting feat_dim=50 (raw_state_dim
minus 3), which placed live portfolio at indices 50-52 — invisible to the
model. The model saw zeros for position/value/spread during walk-forward,
making random decisions and producing -775% return with 0% win rate.
Fix: Pass only 42 market features (strip portfolio zeros from val_data).
For OFI-enabled models, pad to 50 and shuffle the state tensor before
forward pass to maintain [market, portfolio, OFI, pad] order.
Also fixes pre-existing clippy warnings in ml-dqn (doc_markdown, cognitive_complexity).
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Two changes enabling IQN and Branching DQN to complement each other:
1. Optimizer fix: IQN vars excluded from optimizer when branching is the
primary loss path. Previously, IQN weights would silently decay to
zero via weight_decay with zero gradients.
2. Confidence coexistence in select_action_with_confidence():
When both use_iqn and use_branching are enabled, branching handles
action decomposition (per-branch greedy selection) while IQN provides
distributional risk assessment (CVaR-based confidence scoring).
This is the "complement" design: branching = what to do, IQN = how
risky.
Tests: ml-dqn=416, 0 failures
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Three critical fixes for the 6/45 action diversity collapse and
RegimeConditional regime routing:
1. DQNAgentType::forward() for RegimeConditional now delegates to
batch_q_values() which uses GPU regime classification masks to blend
all 3 heads (trending/ranging/volatile). Previously hard-coded to
trending head only — ranging/volatile heads were trained but never
used during experience collection.
2. New batch_branching_q_values() on RegimeConditionalDQN: returns
per-branch (exposure/order/urgency) Q-values blended across regime
heads via GPU masks. Enables the GPU action selector's
select_actions_branching() for per-branch epsilon-greedy.
3. select_actions_batch() and select_actions_batch_gpu() now support
branching DQN for both Standard and RegimeConditional agents.
ROOT CAUSE FIX: previously used exposure-only Q-values (0-4) with
deterministic route_action(), limiting diversity to 6/45 actions.
Now uses per-branch Q-values with independent epsilon per branch,
enabling full 45-action exploration.
Tests: ml-dqn=416, ml=915, 0 failures
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CRITICAL BUG: When use_branching=true, the optimizer trains ONLY the
branching network, but q_values_for_batch() (used by walk-forward
evaluator) was reading from dist_dueling_q_network — which was never
trained. Walk-forward was evaluating random/untrained weights.
Fix: q_values_for_batch() now uses the exposure branch Q-values
[batch, 5] from the trained branching network when use_branching=true.
Also adds device/dtype migration to match forward() contract.
Fixed IQN test that implicitly had use_branching=true (default) with
num_actions=3 — incompatible with 5-action branching exposure head.
1331 tests pass (416 ml-dqn + 915 ml), 0 failures.
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The single global epsilon coin flip caused 90% of actions to use greedy
argmax across ALL 3 branches simultaneously, collapsing to 1 composite
action. Only 6/45 factored actions were used (13.3% diversity).
Fix: Each branch (exposure, order, urgency) now flips its own epsilon
coin independently:
- P(all greedy) = (1-ε)³ ≈ 72.9% at ε=0.10
- P(at least one random) ≈ 27.1% vs previous 10%
- Expected unique actions per epoch: significantly higher
Applied to both select_action() and select_action_with_confidence().
The forward pass is skipped when all 3 branches happen to be random
(0.1% chance), preserving the optimization.
1331 tests pass (416 ml-dqn + 915 ml), 0 failures.
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NoisyNets provide learned exploration but their noise magnitude shrinks
during training. When Q-value gaps exceed noise (~0.016 vs ~0.01), the
agent converges to a single action (Short100 only). The 10% epsilon
floor guarantees 2% random selection per exposure level across all
action selection paths (select_action, select_action_with_confidence,
get_effective_epsilon).
Updated 6 test assertions and 5 comments to match the new floor.
1331 tests pass (916 ml + 416 ml-dqn), 0 failures.
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Restore 45-action factored space via Branching DQN (Tavakoli 2018),
outputting 11 Q-values (5+3+3) instead of 45. This was reduced to 5
exposure-only actions during debugging and was never intended as permanent.
- Enable use_branching: true by default in DQNConfig and DQNHyperparameters
- Add branching paths to select_action_with_confidence and select_action_inference
- Update agent.rs select_action_factored for branching-aware selection
- Expand CountBonus to per-branch tracking with bonuses_branched()
- Add order_type + urgency distribution tracking in monitoring
- Add DQN_ORDER_ACTIONS=3, DQN_URGENCY_ACTIONS=3, DQN_TOTAL_ACTIONS=45 to CUDA header
- Fix 7 pre-existing clippy doc_markdown errors in regime_conditional.rs
- Fix pre-existing cognitive_complexity in replay_buffer_type.rs (extract helpers)
- Fix flaky GPU test OOM under parallel execution (CPU fallback + test VRAM safety)
- Delete unused flash_attention submodules (block_sparse, causal_masking, etc.)
- Add GPU hot-path guard scripts and ensemble/hyperopt adapter improvements
Tests: ml-dqn 416/0, ml 905/0, clippy 0 errors on both crates
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Add GPU-accelerated backtest path that runs walk-forward evaluation
entirely on GPU (env step kernel + metrics reduction), falling back
to the existing CPU path if CUDA is unavailable or the GPU path fails.
Changes:
- Make DQN::q_values_for_batch() public for external Q-value access
- Add RegimeConditionalDQN::batch_q_values() for regime-routed Q-values
- Add DQNAgentType::batch_q_values() dispatch method
- Add DQNTrainer::evaluate_gpu() method (#[cfg(feature = "cuda")])
- Wire GPU-first backtest at the decision point with CPU fallback
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