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jgrusewski
eaaab152fc feat(sp20): Phase 2 Task 2.1 — sp20_compute_event_reward + 8 GPU oracle tests
Lands the SP20 Component 1 reward math as a header-only `__device__
__forceinline__` function in a new `sp20_reward.cuh` header, plus the
GPU oracle test scaffold for the 4-quadrant truth table per spec §4.1.

* `sp20_reward.cuh` — `sp20_compute_event_reward(close_pnl,
  label_at_open_sign, loss_cap)` function. Returns bounded scalar
  `R_event ∈ [loss_cap, +1.0]`. 4-quadrant table:
    +1, +1 →  +1.0  (right reason, right outcome)
    +1, -1 →  +0.5  (wrong reason, right outcome)
    -1, -1 →  -0.5  (right reason, wrong outcome)
    -1, +1 →  loss_cap  (wrong reason, wrong outcome — ISV-driven)
     0, *  →   0.0  (no information — close_pnl == 0)

  Sentinel `label_at_open_sign == 0` (Task 2.0 contract) maps to
  dir_match=false ⇒ wrong-reason quadrant. Documented as the safer
  default in the header comment.

* `sp20_event_reward_test_kernel.cu` — standalone single-thread test
  wrapper, mirrors the `sp12_reward_math_test_kernel.cu` /
  `thompson_test_kernel.cu` pattern. Outputs to a mapped-pinned [1]
  f32 with `__threadfence_system()` for PCIe-visible coherence.

* `tests/sp20_event_reward_test.rs` — 8 GPU oracle tests
  (`#[ignore = "requires GPU"]`-gated):
    1. quadrant_right_reason_right_outcome
    2. quadrant_wrong_reason_right_outcome
    3. quadrant_right_reason_wrong_outcome
    4. quadrant_wrong_reason_wrong_outcome_loss_cap_at_minus_1
    5. quadrant_wrong_reason_wrong_outcome_loss_cap_at_minus_2
    6. zero_pnl_returns_zero
    7. sentinel_label_winning_trade_lands_shoulder (Task 2.0 contract)
    8. sentinel_label_losing_trade_lands_loss_cap (Task 2.0 contract)

* `experience_kernels.cu` — `#include "sp20_reward.cuh"` so Task 2.2's
  trade-close site replacement has the function in scope.

* `build.rs` — `sp20_event_reward_test_kernel.cu` cubin entry.

No production callers in this commit. Task 2.2 atomically:
  - replaces the SP12 v3 reward block at experience_kernels.cu:3216-3380
    with the SP20 4-quadrant reward;
  - adds the `is_close` consumer of `label_at_open_per_env[i]` (Task
    2.0's per-env scratch);
  - threads per-env alpha through the SP20 aggregation kernel,
    making `alpha_ema` non-zero post-trade-close (replacing the
    Phase 1.4 0.0 forward-reference placeholder).

Per `feedback_no_partial_refactor.md` the device function ships
BEFORE the production caller so Task 2.1's GPU oracle tests can
exercise the math in isolation; the partial refactor that breaks
the no-partial-refactor rule is "feature behind the function with
no caller", which this commit's tests resolve in scope.

Per `feedback_no_cpu_test_fallbacks.md` GPU oracle only — no CPU
reference impl. Per `feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned.md`
all CPU↔GPU buffers are mapped-pinned (`MappedF32Buffer`).

Verification:
  SQLX_OFFLINE=true cargo check -p ml --tests --features cuda  # clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 23:59:49 +02:00
jgrusewski
235e838422 feat(sp20): Phase 1.4 (Path C) — kernel-arg refactor + aggregation kernel + wire-up
Atomic Phase 1.4 commit per `feedback_no_partial_refactor`. Wires the
SP20 fused-producer chain (Stats → Aggregate → EMAs → Controllers) into
GpuExperienceCollector's per-rollout-step path with one new aggregation
kernel + Phase 1.2 EMA kernel-signature refactor + production wire-up
+ tests + audit/spec/plan amendments, all in one commit.

## Path C decision rationale

The Phase 1.2 EMA kernel originally took 9 scalar value-args. The Phase
1.4 wire-up site (per-rollout-step in GpuExperienceCollector) needs to
feed per-env GPU-resident trade signals (trade_close_per_sample,
step_ret_per_sample, hold_at_exit_per_sample, packed factored
actions_out) into the kernel — forbidden via host sync
(`feedback_cpu_is_read_only`) and via memcpy_dtoh/htod
(`feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned`). Path C refactors the EMA
kernel to take a device struct pointer (`SP20EmaInputs* ema_inputs`) +
adds an aggregation kernel that writes the struct on the GPU. Phase 1.2
had zero production consumers yet, so the sig change + Phase 1.4 wire-up
land atomically.

## What this commit contains

1. **EMA kernel signature refactor** (Phase 1.2 → Path C):
   `sp20_emas_compute_kernel.cu` swaps 9 scalar args for a single
   `const SP20EmaInputs* __restrict__ ema_inputs` device pointer.
   Math semantics bit-identical. Rust `EmaInputs` mirrored as
   `#[repr(C)]` byte-for-byte; new `pack_inputs_into_f32_view` helper
   for tests + collectors that fill the struct via a mapped-pinned
   f32-aliased buffer.

2. **New aggregation kernel** (`sp20_aggregate_inputs_kernel.cu`):
   Per-env arrays (sliced to current rollout step) + sp20_stats outputs
   (p50/std) + aux_dir_acc_reduce_kernel output [0] → SP20EmaInputs
   struct. Block tree-reduce (4 stripes × bdim × 4 bytes shmem); no
   atomicAdd. Aggregation rules per spec §4.5:
   - is_close = OR over envs
   - is_win = (≥ 0.5 of closed envs were wins)
   - trade_duration = round(mean(hold_at_exit) over closed envs)
   - action_is_hold = strict majority (count*2 > n_envs) HOLD
   - alpha = 0.0  (Phase 2 forward ref — reward kernel)
   - per_bar_hold_reward = 0.0  (Phase 3.2 forward ref — Hold-cost dual)
   - aux_logits_p50/std/dir_acc forwarded from upstream

3. **Production wire-up in GpuExperienceCollector**:
   4 kernel handles + 4 mapped-pinned buffers (struct fields, alloc,
   init); per-rollout-step launch sequence after env_step (step 5c):
   `Stats → Aggregate → EMAs → Controllers`. All on the same stream;
   stream-implicit producer→consumer ordering. Gated on
   `isv_signals_dev_ptr != 0 && trainer_params_ptr != 0` (matches the
   existing SP14-β EGF chain pattern).

4. **Fold-boundary reset**:
   3 new RegistryEntry records (sp20_ema_inputs_buf,
   sp20_emas_internal_buf, sp20_emas_obs_count_buf) + 13 new dispatch
   arms in training_loop.rs (10 SP20 ISV slot resets + 3 buffer resets).
   Closes the pre-existing `every_fold_and_soft_reset_entry_has_dispatch_arm`
   regression (was failing on fresh check after the SP20 ISV slot
   registrations landed in commit 4249ebc96).

5. **HEALTH_DIAG emit**:
   Per-epoch `HEALTH_DIAG[N]: sp20_isv [loss_cap=… alpha_ema=…
   wr_ema=… hold_cost_scale=… target_hold_pct=… hold_pct_ema=…
   hold_reward_ema=… n_step=… aux_conf_threshold=… aux_gate_temp=…]`
   right after the existing q_disagreement_diag emit.

6. **Tests** (5 test files, all green on RTX 3050 Ti sm_86):
   - sp20_emas_compute_test.rs (4 GPU oracle): updated to use the
     post-Path-C buffer-arg API (mapped-pinned f32-aliased struct).
   - sp20_aggregate_inputs_test.rs (NEW, 6 GPU oracle): aggregation
     rule coverage including the Phase 2 / Phase 3.2 placeholder
     contract.
   - sp20_phase1_4_wireup_test.rs (NEW, 2 GPU oracle): end-to-end
     4-kernel chain integration test.
   - sp20_stats_compute_test.rs (4 GPU oracle): unchanged, regression.
   - sp20_controllers_compute_test.rs (7 GPU oracle): unchanged,
     regression.
   - 18 lib unit tests across the SP20 launchers.

7. **Phase 2 / Phase 3.2 forward references**:
   The `alpha` (Phase 2) and `per_bar_hold_reward` (Phase 3.2) fields
   are emitted as 0.0 placeholders and documented at:
   - `sp20_aggregate_inputs_kernel.cu:46-52` (in-kernel docstring)
   - `sp20_aggregate_inputs.rs:46-49` (launcher docstring)
   - `dqn-wire-up-audit.md` "Phase 2 / Phase 3.2 forward references"
   These are NOT stubs — Phase 2 / 3.2 will replace the kernel's 0.0
   writes with real signals atomically with their respective producers.
   The original Task 2.3 (host-side aggregation) is **subsumed** by
   the GPU-side aggregation kernel.

## Hard rules

- `feedback_no_partial_refactor` — kernel sig change + aggregation
  kernel + production wire-up + tests + audit/spec/plan amendments
  in one atomic commit
- `feedback_no_atomicadd` — aggregation kernel uses block tree-reduce
- `feedback_no_cpu_compute_strict` — every aggregation lives on GPU
- `feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned` — every Phase 1.4 buffer
  is mapped-pinned with `cuMemHostAlloc(DEVICEMAP)` reachable via
  `dev_ptr`; no memcpy_dtoh/htod
- `pearl_first_observation_bootstrap` — counter-based bootstrap
  preserved; placeholder writes (0.0) keep the ALPHA / HOLD_REWARD
  EMAs at 0.0 sentinel until Phase 2 / 3.2 wire real producers
- `pearl_no_host_branches_in_captured_graph` — every kernel is single-
  block; no host branches; safe to capture in the per-step CUDA Graph
- `pearl_tests_must_prove_not_lock_observations` — integration test
  asserts invariants (slots populate, bounds respected) rather than
  locked observed values

## Verification

- `cargo check -p ml --features cuda` clean
- 18 lib unit tests for SP20 launchers pass
- 23 GPU oracle tests across 5 test files pass on RTX 3050 Ti (sm_86)
- `every_fold_and_soft_reset_entry_has_dispatch_arm` regression test
  now passes (was failing pre-change)
- 14 baseline lib test failures unchanged (none introduced by this
  commit)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 20:49:07 +02:00
jgrusewski
e96f7fcdd1 fix(sp20): replay buffer records magnitude INTENT (Bellman consistency)
Parallel to the 2026-05-08 Class C direction fix but on the **magnitude axis**.
Class C correctly chose REALIZED for direction because env-gated trades (capital
floor / trail / broker cap → Flat) mean no trade happens — recording as Flat is
honest. For magnitude, Kelly cap clamping does NOT gate the trade — the trade
still happens, just at a smaller size. `actual_mag_core` is the bucketed
magnitude derived in trade_physics.cuh:1099-1117 from |position|/max_position;
when the policy intends Full and Kelly clamps to 0.35× max (bucket → Quarter),
recording Quarter loses the policy's intent. Q(s, mag=Full) never receives the
reward gradient from Full-intent trades that actually executed.

One-line swap inside the Class C encoding block at experience_kernels.cu:2689-
2697: `actual_mag_core * b2_size * b3_size` → `mag_idx * b2_size * b3_size`.
`mag_idx` is the local intent magnitude already decoded at line ~2460 from the
original action_idx BEFORE any Kelly/CVaR/Q-gap clamping. Direction axis keeps
Class C semantics (`actual_dir_core` → gated trades record as Flat). Order/
urgency remain intent passthrough.

`actual_mag_core` remains consumed downstream by Task 2.X per-magnitude trade-
lifecycle instrumentation at the seg_mag_bin site below — direction-branch Q
learns from realized; magnitude-branch Q learns from intent. The two axes have
different env-enforcement semantics so they take different actions at the
replay-write site.

Verification: new CPU oracle test crates/ml/tests/sp20_magnitude_intent_record_
test.rs pins the encoding contract with 4 invariants (Full→Quarter scenario,
all-pairs sweep, order/urgency passthrough, direction Class C unchanged). Per
pearl_tests_must_prove_not_lock_observations the test asserts invariants
("recorded mag == intent mag, regardless of realized") not observed values, so
it cannot become a bug-lock if the kernel's compute path changes — only if the
encoding contract itself is broken. All 4 tests pass; cargo check clean.

Audit-doc entry added to docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md as the SP20 magnitude intent
fix, parallel to the Class C direction fix above with the asymmetry between
the two axes spelled out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 20:37:05 +02:00
jgrusewski
4e21c38b85 fixup(sp20): Phase 1.1 K=3 → K=2 retarget (production aux head is K=2)
The Phase 1.1 sp20_stats_compute kernel (de922c6a4) assumed the SP14-C aux
head emits 3-class logits {short, hold, long} with baseline 1/3. This was
an error in the SP19+20 spec — production aux head emits K=2 logits
{down, up} per gpu_aux_heads.rs:61 (AUX_NEXT_BAR_K = 2, established by
SP13 B1.1a). Wiring K=2 production aux into the K=3 kernel = OOB reads +
corrupt stats.

Retargets the kernel + launcher + tests to K=2 atomically per
feedback_no_partial_refactor:

- Kernel: SP20_K_CLASSES 3→2; SP20_UNIFORM_K3 0.333…→SP20_UNIFORM_K2 0.5f;
  Pass A reads 2 logits (was 3); aux_conf range [0, 1/2] (was [0, 2/3]).
- Launcher: AUX_K_CLASSES 3→2; renamed unit test
  aux_k_classes_is_three → aux_k_classes_matches_production_aux_head.
- Tests: rewrote CPU oracle for K=2 input shape and 0.5 baseline; updated
  expected p50/std ranges; redesigned heterogeneous-distribution test to
  use ramped (not lockstep) clusters — K=2's saturated softmax in the hot
  half collapses every row to bin 255, triggering the
  pearl_sp4_histogram_warp_tile_undercount trap; ramped clusters distribute
  bin indices across each warp's 32 lanes so the histogram path matches
  the CPU oracle within bin_width tolerance.

Phase 1.2 (sp20_emas_compute) and Phase 1.3 (sp20_controllers_compute)
consume the scalar [p50, std] outputs and do NOT carry the K dimension.
Both regression suites verified passing unmodified:
- sp20_emas_compute_test: 4 GPU + 1 unit, all pass.
- sp20_controllers_compute_test: 7 GPU, all pass.

Verification (RTX 3050 Ti, sm_86):
- sp20_stats_compute_test: 4 GPU oracle + 4 launcher unit, all pass.
- cargo check -p ml --features cuda: clean (pre-existing warnings only).

Spec + plan amended at top with "AMENDED 2026-05-09" notes; audit doc
Phase 1.1 entry has a "K=2 fixup" subsection documenting the change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 19:46:17 +02:00
jgrusewski
5ded1cb4b9 feat(sp20): Phase 1.3 sp20_controllers_compute kernel
Component 5 / Kernel 2 of the SP20 fused-producer chain — the
deterministic derivation step. Reads the EMAs Phase 1.2's
sp20_emas_compute wrote (4 ISV + 4 internal scratch slots) and
derives 6 controller outputs into ISV slots:

  - LOSS_CAP (510)            = -1 - clamp((wr-0.50)/0.05, 0, 1)
  - HOLD_COST_SCALE (513)     two-sided ramp around TARGET_HOLD_PCT ±0.05
  - TARGET_HOLD_PCT (514)     = clamp(0.8 - aux_p50_ema*1.5, 0.1, 0.8)
  - N_STEP (517)              = clamp(round(trade_dur_ema), 1, 30) (f32)
  - AUX_CONF_THRESHOLD (518)  = clamp(aux_dir_acc_ema-0.50, 0.01, 0.20)
  - AUX_GATE_TEMP (519)       = max(aux_conf_std_ema, 0.01)

TARGET_HOLD_PCT computed before HOLD_COST_SCALE because the
HOLD_COST_SCALE controller reads tgt; implemented as a local f32
written to ISV then re-used for the controller (no redundant ISV
read-back). HOLD_COST_SCALE is the only output that READS its own
previous ISV value (in-place update); deadband path writes the
unchanged previous value verbatim per feedback_no_stubs.

Single-block, single-thread kernel — captureable in the per-step
CUDA Graph per pearl_no_host_branches_in_captured_graph. ISV +
internal pointers are mapped-pinned device pointers (existing
buffers from Phase 1.2); kernel emits __threadfence_system() for
PCIe-visible coherence.

Pearls + invariants honoured:
  - pearl_controller_anchors_isv_driven: every output's anchor /
    target / cap derives from EMAs; only spec-frozen ramp / clamp
    parameters are compile-time constants.
  - feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds: these 6 outputs ARE the
    adaptive bounds.
  - feedback_no_atomicadd, feedback_no_cpu_compute_strict,
    feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned, feedback_no_stubs.
  - feedback_no_partial_refactor: kernel + launcher + tests + build
    entry land atomically; production wire-up lands in Phase 1.4.
  - pearl_tests_must_prove_not_lock_observations: 7 GPU oracle
    tests assert clamp boundaries, formula correctness, and
    bidirectional ramp behavior — NOT specific observed values.

Tests (all #[ignore = "requires GPU"], pass on RTX 3050 Ti sm_86):
  1. loss_cap_ramp_boundaries — 4 wr_ema sweeps incl. clamps.
  2. n_step_bounds — round + clamp [1, 30].
  3. aux_conf_threshold_bounds — clamp [0.01, 0.20].
  4. aux_gate_temp_floor — max(std, 0.01).
  5. target_hold_pct_inverse_relation — 0.8 − p50*1.5 with clamps.
  6. hold_cost_scale_two_sided_ramp — up/down/deadband + clamps.
  7. all_six_outputs_written_in_one_launch — guards missed writes.

Plus 3 launcher unit tests (slot range, slot uniqueness, ISV input
slot range).

Verification:
  SQLX_OFFLINE=true CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP=86 cargo check -p ml --features cuda
  SQLX_OFFLINE=true CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP=86 cargo test -p ml \
    --test sp20_controllers_compute_test --features cuda \
    -- --ignored --nocapture
  → 7/7 GPU oracle tests pass; 3/3 launcher unit tests pass.

Phase 1.4 will land the production caller atomically alongside
Kernel 1 + Kernel 3 launches on the same stream in order
Stats → EMAs → Controllers per the SP20 design.
2026-05-09 19:09:06 +02:00
jgrusewski
71aade18cf feat(sp20): Phase 1.2 sp20_emas_compute kernel
Component 5 / Kernel 1 of the SP20 design — central state-tracker
that updates 8 Wiener-α EMAs per training step:

  - 4 ISV slots:    ALPHA_EMA (511), WR_EMA (512),
                    HOLD_PCT_EMA (515), HOLD_REWARD_EMA (516)
  - 4 internal:     trade_duration_ema, aux_conf_p50_ema,
                    aux_conf_std_ema, aux_dir_acc_ema (private
                    scratch consumed by Phase 1.3 controllers)

Per-EMA i32 observation counters (mapped-pinned obs_count[8])
handle the pearl_first_observation_bootstrap sentinel transition
correctly even when 0.0 is a legitimate observation (e.g.,
first-loss WR=0). count==0 ⇒ replace, count>0 ⇒ Wiener-blend at
α = 0.4 (WIENER_ALPHA_FLOOR per
pearl_wiener_alpha_floor_for_nonstationary).

Phase 1.2 lands kernel + launcher + 5 tests (4 GPU oracle, 1
floor lock) + build entry + audit doc atomically per
feedback_no_partial_refactor. Production wire-up (Phase 1.4)
deferred — kernel is dead code until then.

Verified on RTX 3050 Ti (sm_86):
  - 4 GPU oracle tests pass: first_observation_replaces_sentinel,
    wiener_alpha_converges_to_long_run_mean,
    hold_reward_ema_gated_on_hold_bars,
    per_step_emas_fire_unconditionally
  - 4 launcher unit tests pass (constants + struct sanity)
  - 1 floor-lock test pass (WIENER_ALPHA_FLOOR == 0.4)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 18:57:30 +02:00
jgrusewski
de922c6a4a feat(sp20): Phase 1.1 sp20_stats_compute kernel
Component 5 / Kernel 3 of the SP20 fused-producer chain. Single-block
BLOCK=256 kernel reads `aux_logits [B, 3]` (the SP14-C aux head's
3-class direction logits) and emits `[aux_conf_p50, aux_conf_std]`
into a `MappedF32Buffer<2>`, where the per-row signal is
`aux_conf[i] = max_c softmax(logits[i, *])[c] - 1/3`.

p50 uses the inlined `sp4_histogram_p99` pattern (per-warp tile
binning + cumulative-from-bottom, no atomicAdd per
`feedback_no_atomicadd`); std uses two block tree-reductions sharing
one shmem tile sequentially. One fused kernel streams `aux_logits`
once for both stats per `pearl_fused_per_group_statistics_oracle`.

Phase 1.4 wires the production launch site atomically with the rest
of the SP20 reward chain per `feedback_no_partial_refactor`. This
commit lands kernel + Rust launcher + GPU oracle tests + build entry
+ audit-doc entry together so the kernel is independently verifiable
on RTX 3050 Ti (sm_86) and L40S (sm_89) before the EMA + controller
producers (Phase 1.2 + 1.3) reference its outputs.

Tests verify:
  - uniform logits → aux_conf = 0 → [p50, std] = [0, 0]
  - varied confidence (logit ramp 0 → 3) → matches CPU oracle
  - heterogeneous half-hot half-uniform → matches CPU oracle
  - empty batch → degenerate-guard writes [0, 0]

All 4 GPU oracle tests + 4 launcher unit tests pass on RTX 3050 Ti.
Test data uses per-row variance to avoid the
`pearl_sp4_histogram_warp_tile_undercount` lockstep-uniform trap
(concentrated values within one bin_width race the per-warp
non-atomic increments).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 18:43:11 +02:00
jgrusewski
ef5e745a13 feat(sp20): scaffold 7 behavioral test stubs (Phase 0)
All 7 tests marked #[ignore] until corresponding Phase 6 task implements.
Tests gate L40S deployment per spec §4.6.

- sp20_pure_trend (Phase 6.1)
- sp20_pure_noise (Phase 6.2)
- sp20_confidence_correlation (Phase 6.3)
- sp20_asymmetry_no_game (Phase 6.4)
- sp20_n_step_distribution (Phase 6.5)
- sp20_per_regime_wr (Phase 6.6)
- sp20_regime_transition (Phase 6.7)
2026-05-09 18:25:08 +02:00
jgrusewski
d39005c6f4 feat(sp19 commit b): producer-side multi-horizon reward blend at fxcache write time
Path (B) Commit B — load-bearing semantic change for the SP19 multi-
horizon reward augmentation. At fxcache-write time, blend 1-bar / 5-bar
/ 30-bar log-returns into `tgt[1]` (`preproc_next`) using equal-thirds
weights with `1/sqrt(N)` vol-scale correction:

    blended = (1/3) * r_1
            + (1/3) * r_5  / sqrt(5)
            + (1/3) * r_30 / sqrt(30)

The vol-scale correction applies INSIDE the blend (before weighting) so
each horizon's log-return is at unit-volatility-equivalent under
random-walk assumption — drops naturally into the existing `tgt[1]`
preprocessing pipeline (consumed in `experience_kernels.cu:1556` and
`cuda_pipeline/mod.rs:508`) without double-scaling.

Producer trim: valid range shrinks by `LOOKAHEAD_HORIZON_MAX = 30`
bars since `r_30` needs `close[i + WARMUP + 30]`. Walk-forward fold
construction is dataset-relative, so trimming at producer time shifts
every fold's tail by 30 bars — one-time cost per fxcache regen.

Both producer call sites (`precompute_features.rs` for the
feature-precompute binary, `data_loading.rs` for the DBN-fallback
in-process path) change atomically per `feedback_no_partial_refactor`.
Kernel consumers are unchanged — only `tgt[1]`'s value composition
differs from the consumer's perspective.

ISV slots [507..510) (allocated in Commit A) are NOT consumed at
producer time — `precompute_features` runs BEFORE training so the
ISV bus isn't initialised when the blend happens. Producer hardcodes
1/3 each via `SP19_HORIZON_BLEND_WEIGHTS`. Future Path (A) refactor
would bump TARGET_DIM to carry per-horizon log-returns and read
ISV at training-step time; for the empirical hypothesis test
("does multi-horizon blend lift WR?") equal-thirds is sufficient.

fxcache schema invalidation: `FXCACHE_VERSION` 8 → 9. Existing
`.fxcache` files (1-bar-only `preproc_next`) fail validation at load
and trigger Argo's ensure-fxcache regen step. First L40S run after
this commit takes ~10-15 min longer for the regen — one-time cost,
expected.

Touches:
- crates/ml/examples/precompute_features.rs: SP19_HORIZON_BLEND_WEIGHTS
  constant + LOOKAHEAD_HORIZON_MAX trim + blend in tgt[] writer +
  early-bail-out check on minimum dataset size.
- crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/data_loading.rs: same blend +
  trim in DBN-fallback path; `last sample targets itself` block
  removed (the trimmed range guarantees feature-vector and target
  lengths match without a sentinel last row).
- crates/ml/src/fxcache.rs: FXCACHE_VERSION 8 → 9 + v9 docstring entry.
- crates/ml/tests/multi_horizon_reward_blend_test.rs (NEW): CPU-only
  oracle behavioural test — 4 cases including known returns, trim
  contract, zero-close short-circuit, constant-price blend.
- docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md: Concerns subsection appended to the
  SP19 Commit B entry already drafted in Commit A (pre-existing
  test_fxcache_empty + test_dqn_checkpoint_round_trip flakiness
  documented for Invariant 7).

Verification:
SQLX_OFFLINE=true CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP=86 cargo check --workspace        clean
cargo test -p ml --test multi_horizon_reward_blend_test              4/4 pass
cargo test -p ml --test fxcache_roundtrip_test test_fxcache_f32_roundtrip  passes (TARGET_DIM unchanged)
cargo test -p ml --lib ...                                           13 baseline failures (pre-existing); zero new regressions
bash scripts/audit_sp18_consumers.sh --check                         exit 0

Pre-existing test_fxcache_empty failure: hand-crafts a 64-byte header
but the actual header is 72 bytes; reader bails early on
"failed to fill whole buffer" instead of "bar_count=0". Test setup
bug, NOT a regression. Pre-Commit B failure count: 13. Post-Commit B
failure count: 13 (the test_dqn_checkpoint_round_trip test is flaky
and toggles independently of this change — verified by stashing and
re-running 3× pre-Commit B).

Atomic-refactor invariant satisfied: Commit A (slot reservations) +
Commit B (producer-side blend) land on the same branch with no L40S
dispatch between. Per task instruction the branch stays unpushed
pending user review.

DBN-fallback path: applied identically in `data_loading.rs:497-528`.
Both producers use the same `SP19_HORIZON_BLEND_WEIGHTS` constant and
the same `LOOKAHEAD_HORIZON_MAX = 30` trim.

Vol-scale correction site: applied inside the blend (before weighting)
in BOTH producers. The existing `tgt[1]` preprocessing pipeline does
NOT double-scale — `experience_kernels.cu:1556` and
`cuda_pipeline/mod.rs:508` consume `tgt[1]` as a unit-scale log-return
exactly as before the blend was added; the blended value drops in
without further scaling.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 14:45:20 +02:00
jgrusewski
e140392f86 feat(audit): per-regime val WR instrumentation (T/R/V buckets)
Adds 6 output slots to compute_backtest_metrics_kernel — per-bucket
(win_rate, trade_count) for the {Trending, Ranging, Volatile} regime
split — so the val backtest surfaces whether the long-running ~46%
aggregate WR hides regime-conditional edge. Trades are bucketed at
trade-OPEN by feature[40] (ADX-norm) per the structural thresholds
(T:ADX>0.4, R:ADX<0.2, V:otherwise), mirroring
gpu_walk_forward.rs::classify_regime_from_features. Block tree-reduce
only per feedback_no_atomicadd. Observability-only emission via new
HEALTH_DIAG[N]: val_regime [wr_T=... n_T=... wr_R=... n_R=... wr_V=...
n_V=...] line; thresholds remain kernel constants per
feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds (no controller consumer yet).

Implementation atomic (kernel + launcher + WindowMetrics + HEALTH_DIAG
emit + 3 GPU oracle tests + audit doc):
- backtest_metrics_kernel.cu: per-thread per-regime trade counters,
  2-slot boundary buffer extension carrying open-bar regime through
  block stitch, output stride 13 → 19, shmem 5 → 11 reduction tiles
- gpu_backtest_evaluator.rs: WindowMetrics +6 fields, metrics_buf
  size 13 → 19, launcher passes features_buf + feature_dim, consume
  populates per-regime fields
- metrics.rs: val_regime HEALTH_DIAG line in consume_validation_loss
- regime_wr_oracle_tests.rs (NEW): 1 CPU sanity + 3 GPU oracle tests
  (bit-exact match ε=1e-5 vs CPU oracle on stratified 30/40/30 batch)

Validation: cargo check --workspace clean; 17/17 gpu_backtest_evaluator
unit tests pass; 1+3/4 regime WR tests pass on local RTX 3050 Ti
(1.89s); audit_sp18_consumers.sh --check exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 13:38:48 +02:00
jgrusewski
834eaec4bd feat(sp18 v2 P4.T1+T2): B-leg next_states hoist + compute_q_next_target_bootstrap skeleton (additive dead code)
Phase 4 lands the additive infrastructure for the B-leg target-Q DDQN
bootstrap that Phase 5 will swap into td_lambda_kernel's q_next argument
at gpu_experience_collector.rs:~4313 (post-Task-4.1 hoist).

Tasks landed:
  - **Task 4.1**: build_next_states_f32 invocation hoisted to BEFORE
    the TD(λ) launch block. Pure ordering change — verified via the
    SP18 audit grep flagging 0 post-TD(λ) consumers of next_states.
  - **Task 4.2**: compute_q_next_target_bootstrap skeleton method on
    GpuExperienceCollector with full plan-aligned signature
    (next_states, target_params_ptr, online_params_ptr, batch_size →
    Result<CudaSlice<f32>, MLError>). Body is a hard-error early-return
    per feedback_no_stubs — no production caller in Phase 4 (the
    caller is wired by Phase 5 Task 5.1, replacing the self-bootstrap
    clone). Returning Err satisfies Invariant 9 (no deferred-work
    markers); any accidental pre-Phase-5 call hard-errors with a
    clear pointer to the open sub-tasks.

Tasks 4.3 (online forward + DDQN per-branch argmax), 4.4 (target
forward + compute_expected_q gather), 4.5 (replace error early-return
with full implementation + GPU oracle test gates) are deferred to a
follow-up subagent dispatch per their plan-defined per-task TDD cycle
scope. Each requires substantial new infrastructure on the collector
(target-net trunk forward chain duplicating gpu_dqn_trainer.rs Pass 2's
VSN+BN+OFI+trunk+branch-head sequence).

Tests:
  - crates/ml/tests/sp18_td_lambda_q_next_oracle_tests.rs (NEW):
    3 introspection tests (no GPU required):
      * compute_q_next_target_bootstrap_method_exists
      * next_states_built_before_td_lambda (Task 4.1 ordering invariant)
      * td_lambda_still_consumes_self_bootstrap_q_next_in_phase4
        (Phase 4→Phase 5 atomic-refactor guard)

Atomic-refactor invariant (HARD — feedback_no_partial_refactor):
  NO L40S DISPATCH between this Phase 4 close-out commit and the
  Phase 5 Task 5.1 commit that replaces the q_next clone with
  self.compute_q_next_target_bootstrap(&next_states, ...).

Verification:
  SQLX_OFFLINE=true CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP=86 cargo check --workspace  → clean
  SQLX_OFFLINE=true CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP=86 \
    cargo test -p ml --test sp18_td_lambda_q_next_oracle_tests
                                                                → 3/3 pass
  bash scripts/audit_sp18_consumers.sh --check                  → exit 0

Files:
  crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/gpu_experience_collector.rs (Task 4.1+4.2)
  crates/ml/tests/sp18_td_lambda_q_next_oracle_tests.rs (NEW; 3 tests)
  docs/sp18-wireup-audit.md (Phase 4 close-out section + fingerprint)
  docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md (Invariant 7 entry)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 11:25:50 +02:00
jgrusewski
5ea5aa9b8e feat(sp18 v2 P3.T1-T5): adaptive HOLD_REWARD_POS/NEG_CAP producer kernel
Lifts the Phase 2 caps from sentinel-driven cold-start (5.0/-10.0
fixed) to p99(|step_ret|) over Long/Short trade closes × 1.5 safety
factor with Wiener-optimal alpha blend. The Phase 2 consumer
(compute_sp18_hold_opportunity_cost) sees producer-driven slots
[483]/[484] from epoch 1 onward; sentinel branch in the consumer
remains as the cold-start fallback path (zero-trade-close epoch ⇒
producer early-returns ⇒ slots stay at sentinel ⇒ consumer falls
through to the +5/-10 macro defaults — bit-identical to pre-Phase-3).

Mirrors SP14 P0-A reward_cap_update_kernel structural template with
three differences: (1) filter (is_close && step_ret != 0) — both
winners AND losers (the consumer needs the magnitude scale of *all*
Long/Short closes); (2) Welford-derived Wiener-α (slots [487..493))
replaces fixed α=0.01, with floor at WELFORD_ALPHA_MIN=0.4 per
pearl_wiener_alpha_floor_for_nonstationary (the policy-realised
distribution is intrinsically non-stationary as the policy adapts);
(3) bounds [0.5, 50.0] (vs. position-side [1.0, 50.0]).

Atomic single-commit per feedback_no_partial_refactor:
- crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/hold_reward_cap_update_kernel.cu (NEW)
- crates/ml/build.rs cubin manifest entry
- HoldRewardCapUpdateOps in gpu_aux_trunk.rs (new struct + impl)
- HOLD_REWARD_CAP_UPDATE_CUBIN static + struct field +
  launch_hold_reward_cap_update method + constructor instantiation +
  field-init in gpu_dqn_trainer.rs (5 sites)
- Per-epoch boundary launch in training_loop.rs right AFTER
  launch_reward_cap_update (shared step_ret/trade_close source buffers,
  independent ISV slot pairs)
- HEALTH_DIAG[N]: hold_reward_cap [pos={:.4} neg={:.4} fire_rate={:.4}]
- 3 GPU oracle tests (T5 producer-drives-slots, Pearl-A REPLACE,
  no-closes preserves-isv) — all pass on local RTX 3050 Ti
- Phase 3 close-out sections in docs/sp18-wireup-audit.md and
  docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md

Pearls applied: feedback_no_atomicadd, pearl_first_observation_bootstrap,
pearl_wiener_optimal_adaptive_alpha, pearl_wiener_alpha_floor_for_nonstationary,
pearl_no_host_branches_in_captured_graph, pearl_symmetric_clamp_audit,
pearl_audit_unboundedness_for_implicit_asymmetry (NEG = -2 × POS at
producer time, single source of truth), feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds,
pearl_fused_per_group_statistics_oracle.

Validation: cargo check --workspace clean; 3 GPU oracle tests pass on
local RTX 3050 Ti; scripts/audit_sp18_consumers.sh --check exits 0
(no fingerprint drift in tracked sections).

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp18-reward-shape-hold-attractor.md
Phase 4-5 (B-leg target-net forward + q_next replacement) follows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 11:05:03 +02:00
jgrusewski
e877e8aefe chore(sp18): archaeology cleanup — strip post-deletion markers + ISV_TOTAL_DIM giant docstring
Pure-comment follow-up to SP18 Phase 1 atomic deletion (3c318953a) and
Phase 2 device-fn introduction (8da8e2e58). Strips the "DELETED by SP18
Phase 1" markers + "RETIRED" docstrings + per-slot SP3→SP18 archaeology
that survived the focused deletion diff. Per feedback_no_legacy_aliases
("avoid backwards-compatibility hacks like removed-comment markers")
and CLAUDE.md ("don't add comments that explain what the code does"),
git history is the historical record — code shouldn't narrate its own
deletion.

Three categories cleaned:

1. ISV_TOTAL_DIM giant docstring in gpu_dqn_trainer.rs (Category 1):
   collapsed ~5000-char slot-by-slot SP3→SP18 history block into a
   13-line conceptual definition pointing readers at sp14_isv_slots.rs
   for the actual range definitions. Layout fingerprint seed
   (RESERVED_GAP_461_TO_468=SP18_P1_RETIRED;) is load-bearing and
   preserved.

2. RETIRED markers in sp14_isv_slots.rs + state_layout.cuh
   (Category 2): deleted "SP16 Phase 2 RETIRED 2026-05-09" header
   blocks, "HCS_* slots [462..468) RETIRED" markers, "SP13 [380..383)/
   SP16 [461..474) ALLOCATED but RETIRED per PP.4" prose, and the
   test-removal note before the surviving MHT block lock test.
   Tightened the SP16 T3 Wiener-α comment block to describe only the
   surviving MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE producer.

3. Stale doc-refs across the SP18 audit consumer set (Category 3):
   updated gpu_experience_collector.rs prose, sp5_isv_slots.rs SP13 v3
   description, gpu_dqn_trainer.rs slot-380 constructor block,
   state_reset_registry.rs HRC_*/MHT_*/TDB_* "mirrors slot N" refs +
   the registry-block introduction comment + the deleted-test marker
   at end of file, training_loop.rs launcher-call/diag-emit/
   dispatch-arms "DELETED" markers, build.rs cubin manifest "DELETED"
   marker, gpu_aux_trunk.rs trailing "HoldCostScaleUpdateOps DELETED"
   block, and tests/sp14_oracle_tests.rs leading "tests DELETED" marker.

Production-source grep verification (post-cleanup): zero matches for
HOLD_COST_SCALE_INDEX | HCS_TARGET | HCS_DIFF | HCS_PREV | HCS_SAMPLE
| HOLD_COST_CONTROLLER_GAIN | HOLD_COST_FLOOR_RATIO |
HOLD_COST_CEIL_RATIO | hold_cost_scale_update across crates/ml/src/
*.rs/*.cu/*.cuh.

Audit doc + script preserved per design:
- scripts/audit_sp18_consumers.sh grep patterns retain HOLD_COST_SCALE
  / HCS_* — those are the diagnostic tool.
- docs/sp18-wireup-audit.md historical sections retain references
  (audit doc IS the design-history record); fingerprint section
  regenerated to reflect post-cleanup hit counts (audit --check passes).
- docs/superpowers/specs/* + docs/superpowers/plans/* unchanged
  (spec/plan files retain HOLD_COST_SCALE references unchanged per
  feedback_trust_code_not_docs corollary — those are the past
  design-decision record).
- docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md current-state header section gains a
  2026-05-09 archaeology-cleanup-pass entry citing the affected
  files + verification (per Pre-commit Invariant 7).

Verification:
- cargo check --workspace: clean (warnings only — pre-existing).
- cargo test -p ml --lib --no-run: compiles clean.
- cargo test --doc -p ml: 21 failures pre-existing (verified via stash;
  identical 21 failures on parent commit 8da8e2e58 — unrelated to
  this cleanup).
- bash scripts/audit_sp18_consumers.sh --check: passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 10:43:11 +02:00
jgrusewski
8da8e2e584 feat(sp18 v2 P2.T1-T5): structural Hold opportunity-cost device fn + 3-site migration (INTERIM STATE LIFTED)
Atomic introduction of `compute_sp18_hold_opportunity_cost` device function
in `trade_physics.cuh` + migration of the 3 placeholder-commented per-bar
Hold sites in `experience_kernels.cu` + CPU/GPU oracle tests + test-wrapper
cubin manifest entry — single atomic commit per `feedback_no_partial_refactor`.

Closes the SP18 INTERIM STATE introduced by Phase 1 (3c318953a). The reward
function is now structurally complete: no placeholder sites, no orphaned
consumers. Wire-up audit fingerprint stable; production-call count for the
new device fn = 3 (segment_complete + per-bar positioned-Hold + per-bar
flat-Hold), test-wrapper count = 1, definition count = 1.

Sites:
- trade_physics.cuh: new device fn after `compute_lump_sum_opp_cost`.
  Returns 0 for `dir_idx != DIR_HOLD`. Sign convention DD5(b) MIRRORED:
  positive next_log_return → negative Hold reward (opp cost paid for
  sitting out a winner); negative next_log_return → positive Hold reward
  (correctly avoided a loser). Asymmetric-capped via the existing
  `compute_asymmetric_capped_pnl` primitive against ISV[483]/[484]; output
  multiplied by `shaping_scale` (validation = 0 → returns 0). No new
  infrastructure beyond existing primitives.
- experience_kernels.cu Site 1 (segment_complete ~3143): unconditional
  add into `base_reward` BEFORE the SP12 asymmetric cap; preserves SP12
  cap interaction.
- experience_kernels.cu Site 2 (per-bar positioned-Hold ~3641):
  unconditional add into `r_micro` (rc[3]) — same component the deleted
  SP13/SP16 subtraction wrote to, preserving SP11 reward-subsystem
  controller signal attribution. `vol_proxy` recomputed locally from
  `features[bar_idx * market_dim + 9]` (per-bar branches are outside
  the segment_complete `vol_proxy` scope).
- experience_kernels.cu Site 3 (per-bar flat-Hold ~3760): unconditional
  add into `r_opp_cost` (rc[4]) — same component the deleted subtraction
  wrote to. `vol_proxy` recomputed locally with the same pattern.

Each site reads ISV[HOLD_REWARD_POS_CAP_INDEX=483] /
ISV[HOLD_REWARD_NEG_CAP_INDEX=484] with sentinel-or-out-of-bounds guard
falling through to SENTINEL_HOLD_REWARD_POS/NEG_CAP=+5/-10 macros. Bit-
identical to a fixed +5/-10 cap during cold-start and Pre-Phase-3 (Phase 3
lands the producer kernel `hold_reward_cap_update_kernel`).

Tests:
- T1 CPU oracle (sp18_hold_reward_oracle_tests.rs): 6 cases covering
  positive/negative log-return, dir-gate (early-exit for non-HOLD),
  positive saturation (clamps at +pos_cap), negative saturation (clamps
  at -neg_cap), shaping_scale=0 validation mode (returns 0).
- T2 GPU oracle (sp18_hold_reward_oracle_tests.rs::gpu): same 6 cases via
  `sp18_hold_opp_test_kernel.cu` wrapper; bit-equality to CPU at ε=1e-5.
- sp18_hold_opp_test_kernel.cu: single-thread single-block test wrapper
  mirroring `sp12_reward_math_test_kernel.cu` structure. Mapped-pinned
  f32 input/output per `feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned`;
  __threadfence_system() for PCIe visibility before host read.
- build.rs: cubin manifest entry for sp18_hold_opp_test_kernel.cu.

Validation:
- SQLX_OFFLINE=true CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP=86 cargo check --workspace clean.
- cargo test -p ml --lib sp18: 4 SP18 lib tests pass (slot layouts,
  fold-reset entries-present).
- cargo test -p ml --lib state_reset_registry: 5 tests pass (including
  every_fold_and_soft_reset_entry_has_dispatch_arm).
- cargo test -p ml --test sp18_hold_reward_oracle_tests --features cuda
  -- --include-ignored: 7 tests pass (2 CPU + 5 GPU on local RTX 3050 Ti),
  including the new compute_sp18_hold_opportunity_cost_cpu_oracle and
  compute_sp18_hold_opportunity_cost_gpu_oracle.
- bash scripts/audit_sp18_consumers.sh --check: exit 0 (post-Phase-2
  fingerprint snapshotted in docs/sp18-wireup-audit.md).
- Wire-up audit: `grep -rn "compute_sp18_hold_opportunity_cost" crates/ml/`
  shows 1 device-fn definition + 3 production call sites + 1 test-wrapper
  kernel + CPU/GPU oracle tests. No orphans.

Audit fingerprint diff (Phase 1 → Phase 2):
- `Slot 380 (HOLD_COST_INDEX) consumers`: experience_kernels.cu hit count
  1 → 0 (placeholder-comment reference to HOLD_COST_INDEX removed; new
  Phase 2 calls reference HOLD_REWARD_POS/NEG_CAP_INDEX=483/484 instead);
  doc references in dqn-wire-up-audit.md grew by 2 lines (Phase 2
  close-out narrative). Total section count 42 → 43.
- All other sections unchanged — Phase 2 introduces forward-tracking
  references on the SP18-bound side (slots 483/484, new device fn), not
  the deleted-chain side.

Discipline:
- feedback_no_partial_refactor: device fn + 3 call sites + tests + cubin
  manifest in same commit; INTERIM STATE LIFTED in same commit.
- feedback_no_atomicadd: device fn is per-thread sample-local register
  arithmetic; test wrapper is single-thread single-block, no shared mem.
- feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned: GPU oracle test uses
  MappedF32Buffer.
- feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds: pos/neg caps read from ISV[483]/[484]
  with sentinel fallback; Phase 3 producer `hold_reward_cap_update_kernel`
  drives them adaptively.
- feedback_wire_everything_up: device fn + 3 call sites + test wrapper +
  CPU/GPU oracle tests + cubin manifest all in same commit.
- pearl_one_unbounded_signal_per_reward: only `vol_normalized_return` is
  unbounded; everything else in [neg_cap, pos_cap] × shaping_scale.
- pearl_first_observation_bootstrap: sentinels (5.0/-10.0) match SP14
  P0-A REWARD_POS/NEG_CAP_ADAPTIVE for bit-identical cold-start.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp18-reward-shape-hold-attractor.md
Phase 2 Tasks 2.1-2.5.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 10:16:49 +02:00
jgrusewski
3c318953a7 feat(sp18 v2 P1.T3-T6): atomic delete SP13/SP16 hold_cost_scale chain
Deletes the entire reactive Hold-cost controller chain from SP13 P0a / SP16
P2 / SP16 T3 atomically — replaced by the SP18 D-leg structural opportunity-
cost reward landing in Phase 2.

Per DD7(c): observation chain preserved (slots 380, 382). Slot 380 becomes
constructor-init-only diagnostic at HOLD_COST_BASE=0.005, never updated.

18 consumer sites deleted (8 from plan checklist + 10 from A1-A10 audit
expansion):

Production code:
  - 3 reward subtraction sites (replaced with Phase 2 placeholder comments)
  - hold_cost_scale_update_kernel.cu (file deleted)
  - HoldCostScaleUpdateOps struct in gpu_aux_trunk.rs (~120 lines)
  - launch_hold_cost_scale_update in gpu_dqn_trainer.rs (forwarder)
  - Host controller block in training_loop.rs (~60 lines)
  - Slot constants [461..468) in sp14_isv_slots.rs
  - HOLD_COST_CONTROLLER_GAIN/FLOOR/CEIL constants in sp13_isv_slots.rs
  - state_layout.cuh mirror constants for [461..468)
  - build.rs cubin manifest entry
  - 7 fold-reset registry entries + 7 dispatch arms

Tests:
  - sp14_oracle_tests.rs lines 2173-2926 (11 tests + helpers, ~750 lines)
    — these include_bytes! the deleted cubin and cannot survive
  - lock_sp18_v2_pp4_retired_chain test (deleted, no inverse-contract
    replacement — locking a deletion is pointless ceremony per user call)

Layout fingerprint: range [461..468) is RESERVED gap (SP14-C.1 pattern;
ISV_TOTAL_DIM stays at 507 for checkpoint compatibility). Layout fingerprint
seed updated atomically: HOLD_COST_SCALE + HCS_* slots replaced with
RESERVED_GAP_461_TO_468=SP18_P1_RETIRED marker.

INTERIM STATE: 3 reward sites are now missing the per-bar Hold cost. This
is forbidden to L40S-dispatch until Phase 2 lands the
compute_sp18_hold_opportunity_cost device fn that replaces the deleted
subtraction. The audit doc records this hold.

Validation: cargo check --workspace clean; cargo test -p ml --lib passes
(state_reset_registry::every_fold_and_soft_reset_entry_has_dispatch_arm,
sp16_t3_wiener_welford_slot_layout_locked, sp18_combined_slot_layout_locked,
sp18_shrink_perturb_slot_layout_locked, sp18_fold_reset_entries_present —
all OK). Audit fingerprint: per-bar Hold-cost subtraction sites count
13 → 0 (smoking gun for complete deletion).

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp18-reward-shape-hold-attractor.md
Audit: docs/sp18-wireup-audit.md (full A1-A10 expansion + post-deletion
       fingerprint)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 09:51:03 +02:00
jgrusewski
0b737ec30a feat(sp18-v2): ISV-adaptive shrink-and-perturb at fold transition
Replaces the hardcoded `α=0.8 / σ=0.01` constants in `reset_for_fold`'s
`shrink_and_perturb` call with ISV-driven adaptive bounds per
`feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds` and `feedback_adaptive_not_tuned`.

The driving signal is the relative weight drift `||current - best||₂ /
||best||₂` already computed each epoch by the SP18 v2 weight-drift
diagnostic kernel (commit aab13a83f). Extended that kernel atomically
to also write α / σ into ISV[505] / ISV[506] from the same two block-
tree-reductions — single producer, single launch, single source of
truth. No new kernel; reuses `||best||₂` + `relative_drift` already
computed.

Added 2 ISV slots [505..507):

  [505] SHRINK_ALPHA_ADAPTIVE — drift-driven preservation factor.
        α = 1 - clamp(rel_drift, 1-MAX, 1-MIN). Small drift → α near
        MAX (preserve hard); large drift → α near MIN (shrink hard).

  [506] SHRINK_SIGMA_ADAPTIVE — scale-aware noise. σ tracks
        ||best||_RMS / RMS_REFERENCE so noise stays scale-relative as
        weight magnitudes evolve across folds.

Pearl-A first-observation bootstrap: sentinels 0.8 / 0.01 match prior
hardcoded values exactly. Cold-start path (first fold, no
`best_params_snapshot`) leaves slots at sentinels — bit-identical to
pre-fix behavior.

Bounds [SHRINK_ALPHA_MIN=0.5, SHRINK_ALPHA_MAX=0.95] +
[SHRINK_SIGMA_MIN=1e-4, SHRINK_SIGMA_MAX=0.1] are Category-1
dimensional safety floors per `feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds`.
Bilateral clamp per `pearl_symmetric_clamp_audit`.

Atomic in same commit per `feedback_no_partial_refactor` and
`feedback_wire_everything_up`:

  * 2 ISV slot constants + sentinels + bounds + lock test in
    `sp14_isv_slots.rs`.
  * `ISV_TOTAL_DIM` 505 → 507 + layout fingerprint seed bump in
    `gpu_dqn_trainer.rs`.
  * `state_layout.cuh` mirror for kernel-side reads.
  * `weight_drift_diag_kernel.cu` extended: 4-element output buffer
    `[l2_diff, rel, α_target, σ_target]` + ISV writes via
    `__threadfence_system()`.
  * `launch_weight_drift_diag` + `read_shrink_perturb_adaptive`
    plumbing; mapped-pinned 4-float buffer.
  * `reset_for_fold` reads ISV[505]/ISV[506] via `read_isv_signal_at`
    + defensive host-side clamp; replaces former hardcoded constants.
  * 2 fold-reset registry entries with dispatch arms (sentinel 0.8 /
    0.01 — Pearl-A bootstrap matches prior hardcoded for bit-
    identical cold-start).
  * Per-epoch HEALTH_DIAG `weight_drift` line extended with
    `alpha_adaptive` / `sigma_adaptive` for observability.
  * 8 behavioral tests (CPU-only oracle pinning the math contract).
  * `docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md` — Invariant 7 audit entry.

`shrink_and_perturb` signature unchanged — kept as 2-arg
`(alpha, sigma)` so the 4 existing call sites compile without ripple
(3 in `training_loop.rs`, 1 in `fused_training.rs`). Only the
fold-transition site at `fused_training.rs::reset_for_fold` is
migrated to ISV reads in this commit; the 3 health-driven /
backtracking sites in `training_loop.rs` continue to use
`hyperparams.shrink_perturb_alpha/sigma` (different driving signal —
those are unhealthy-streak rescue interventions, not fold-transition
plasticity refresh; surfaced as a follow-up concern in
DONE_WITH_CONCERNS report).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 02:09:25 +02:00
jgrusewski
aab13a83f2 feat(sp18-v2): weight-drift HEALTH_DIAG diagnostic
Add per-epoch HEALTH_DIAG line measuring how far current online params
have drifted from the best-Sharpe checkpoint. The fold-transition
restore-best fix preserves peak weights across folds, but within-fold
edge-decay still happens (Adam keeps stepping after peak Sharpe). The
drift diagnostic surfaces the trajectory so operators can correlate
Sharpe-peak decay with parameter movement.

HEALTH_DIAG line:
  HEALTH_DIAG[N]: weight_drift [norm_l2={:.6} relative={:.6} branch_max={:.6}]

Where:
- norm_l2  = ||params_flat - best_params||₂            (absolute L2)
- relative = norm_l2 / max(||best_params||₂, EPS)      (relative drift)
- branch_max — currently mirrors `relative` (single-scalar form per spec).
  Per-branch breakdown is a deferred follow-up: branch heads are
  protected from S&P (skip_start..skip_end), so trunk drift dominates
  the L2 in any case.

Cold-start: when best_params_snapshot is None (first fold or any fold
without a Sharpe improvement yet), launcher emits [0.0, 0.0] directly
(kernel skipped, mapped-pinned host slice written from CPU).
Distinguishable from "snapshot matches current" via best_epoch elsewhere.

Kernel (weight_drift_diag_kernel.cu): single block × 256 threads. Two
block tree-reductions sharing one shmem tile sequentially:
  Pass 1: ||params - best||₂² over (params - best)
  Pass 2: ||best||₂²         over best
Thread 0 finalizes sqrt + EPS-floored ratio + writes via
__threadfence_system() for PCIe-visible coherence.

Per feedback_no_atomicadd — block tree-reduce only.
Per feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned — output is
MappedF32Buffer<2>; cold-start bypass uses host_slice_mut.

Wire-up (atomic):
- crates/ml/build.rs: cubin manifest entry
- crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/weight_drift_diag_kernel.cu (NEW)
- crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/fused_training.rs: field + constructor
  + launch_weight_drift_diag() + read_weight_drift_diag()
- crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/trainer/mod.rs:
  DQNTrainer::read_weight_drift_diag() public wrapper (CPU-only path
  emits zeros)
- crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/trainer/training_loop.rs: per-epoch
  HEALTH_DIAG emit adjacent to SP17 dueling block

GPU oracle test (crates/ml/tests/sp18_weight_drift_test.rs, NEW):
4 cases, all #[ignore = "requires GPU"]:
  1. weight_drift_matches_cpu_oracle_4096 — N=4096, ε=1e-5
  2. weight_drift_is_zero_when_params_equals_best
  3. weight_drift_eps_floor_when_best_is_zero (catches NaN/Inf edge)
  4. weight_drift_n_zero_emits_zeros (degenerate guard)
All 4 pass on local RTX 3050 Ti.

Pre-commit Invariant 7: docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md updated with kernel
algorithm, wire-up table, cross-pearl invariants, and oracle-test
inventory.

Per:
- feedback_no_atomicadd (block tree-reduce in drift kernel)
- feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned (MappedF32Buffer<2>)
- feedback_wire_everything_up (kernel + launcher + emit + test atomic)
- pearl_no_host_branches_in_captured_graph (cold-path, outside graph)
- feedback_no_partial_refactor (single atomic commit)
2026-05-09 01:47:48 +02:00
jgrusewski
3e9cefdbd9 fix(sp18-v2): restore-best precedes shrink-and-perturb at fold transition
`train_walk_forward` called `reset_for_fold().await?` directly at the
fold boundary, which applies `shrink_and_perturb(α=0.8, σ=0.01)` to
whatever `params_flat` holds. At end-of-fold, `params_flat` carries the
LATEST-EPOCH decayed weights, NOT the best-Sharpe snapshot saved
mid-fold. Fold N+1 then started from `0.8 × decayed + noise` and
carried the within-fold edge-decay forward.

Insert `restore_best_gpu_params()` BEFORE `reset_for_fold` so S&P
operates on the best-Sharpe snapshot. Cold-start guard swallows the
"no snapshot saved" error on the first fold (or any fold without a
Sharpe improvement) — matches pre-fix behavior on cold start, no
regression.

State interaction with `reset_for_fold`: restore-best writes
`params_flat` ONLY (online weights); reset_for_fold then runs S&P on
the restored online, hard-syncs target ← restored online, and resets
Adam state on every optimizer. Non-conflicting.

`best_params_snapshot` is constructor-init `None` on FusedTrainingCtx
and is NEVER cleared at fold boundary. The trainer's `self.best_sharpe`
IS reset to NEG_INFINITY in `reset_for_fold` so the first improvement
in fold N+1 will overwrite the snapshot. Until then, the snapshot holds
whichever fold most recently saved a peak — intended training-scoped
behavior. Strict within-fold semantics flagged as a follow-up
consideration.

Behavioral test (CPU oracle) pins the math contract:
  - shrink_and_perturb(α, σ) on X = α × X + (1−α) × N(0, σ)
  - with-fix vs without-fix differ by α × (W_best − W_curr)
  - cold-start (best == current) is bit-identical between orderings

GPU-level kernel coverage stays in compile_training_kernels smoke and
the L40S 30-epoch validation gating SP18 Phase 1.

Pre-commit Invariant 7: docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md updated with full
rationale, state-interaction analysis, lifecycle notes, and the
preserved cross-pearl invariants.

Per:
- feedback_no_partial_refactor (call-ordering + test + audit-doc atomic)
- feedback_no_legacy_aliases (reuses existing API unchanged)
- feedback_wire_everything_up (restore_best_gpu_params gains second
  cold-path consumer)
- pearl_no_host_branches_in_captured_graph (runs outside graph capture)
2026-05-09 01:36:52 +02:00
jgrusewski
27f8e332da plan(sp18 v2): Phase 0 Task 0.2 — B-leg V_SHARE trajectory + TD-error magnitude diagnostic
Adds the SP18 v2 Phase 0 B-leg observability scaffold per the plan's
Task 0.2 spec:

- New kernel `td_error_mag_ema_kernel.cu` (single-block × 256 threads):
  reads `td_errors_buf [B]` (already populated by C51/MSE loss for PER
  priority recomputation, post-train-step), block tree-reduces
  `mean(|td_errors[b]|)` (no atomicAdd), and EMA-blends into
  `ISV[TD_ERROR_MAG_EMA_INDEX=493]` via Pearl-A first-observation
  bootstrap (sentinel 0.0 → REPLACE) + fixed α=`WELFORD_ALPHA_MIN=0.4`
  per `pearl_wiener_alpha_floor_for_nonstationary`. The TDB_* Welford
  accumulators in slots [498..504) are RESERVED for the Phase 4
  q_next_target Wiener-α chain — not used in Phase 0.

- Cubin manifest entry in `crates/ml/build.rs` + `TD_ERROR_MAG_EMA_
  CUBIN` re-export in `gpu_dqn_trainer.rs`.

- `sp18_td_error_mag_ema_kernel` field on `GpuDqnTrainer` + cubin load
  on the trainer's stream + `launch_sp18_td_error_mag_ema_update()`
  cold-path launcher + `read_sp18_td_error_mag_ema()` convenience
  wrapper.

- New `sp18_v_share_history: [[f32; 4]; 5]` field on `DQNTrainer` —
  fixed-size ring buffer of the last 5 epochs of per-branch V_SHARE
  EMA readings (slots [478..482) per SP17 Phase 3.2). Initialised to
  `[[NaN; 4]; 5]`; epochs 0–3 emit `nan` as the slope and skip the
  ISV write; epoch 4 onward computes `(EMA[now] - EMA[now-4]) / 4`
  per branch and writes the dir-branch slope to
  `ISV[V_SHARE_TREND_DIAG_INDEX=496]`.

- Two new HEALTH_DIAG lines in `training_loop.rs` at the per-epoch
  boundary (right after the SP18 reward_decomp line):

    HEALTH_DIAG[N]: v_share_traj [dir_slope=X mag_slope=Y ord_slope=Z urg_slope=W]
    HEALTH_DIAG[N]: td_error_pre [magnitude_ema=X]

  V_SHARE slope is host-side computation against the ring buffer
  (`(now - now_m4) / 4` per branch). TD-error magnitude is post-blend
  ISV slot 493 read (producer fires inside `read_sp18_td_error_mag_
  ema()`). Pre-fix baseline for the B-DD9 ratio gate
  (`avg(|TD-error|) ratio post-fix / pre-fix ∈ [0.5, 5.0]`).

- New GPU oracle tests in `crates/ml/tests/sp18_hold_reward_oracle_
  tests.rs`:
  * `td_error_mag_ema_pearl_a_bootstrap` — synthetic td_errors with
    closed-form mean(|td|)=1.125; pre-populate slot at sentinel;
    assert post-launch slot equals the mean (Pearl-A direct-replace).
  * `td_error_mag_ema_blend_post_bootstrap` — synthetic td_errors
    with mean(|td|)=0.5; pre-populate slot at non-sentinel 1.0;
    assert blend equals `(1 - 0.4) × 1.0 + 0.4 × 0.5 = 0.8`.

Pure observability — no production-path consumer in this commit. No
reward changes, no Bellman target changes, no kernel modifications to
the action-selection or training paths. Per `feedback_no_partial_
refactor` the kernel + cubin manifest + buffer + launcher + ring
buffer + HEALTH_DIAG emit + GPU oracle tests all land atomically.

Verification:
  SQLX_OFFLINE=true CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP=86 cargo check --workspace clean.
  All 4 GPU oracle tests pass on RTX 3050 Ti (2.09s):
    reward_decomp_per_action_gpu_oracle, reward_decomp_empty_bin,
    td_error_mag_ema_pearl_a_bootstrap, td_error_mag_ema_blend_post_bootstrap.
  Existing slot lock + state_reset_registry tests still pass.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp18-reward-shape-hold-attractor.md
      § Phase 0 Task 0.2.
Audit: docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md § "SP18 v2 Phase 0 Task 0.2".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 01:18:15 +02:00
jgrusewski
15b50ac38f plan(sp18 v2): Phase 0 Task 0.1 — D-leg per-action reward decomposition diagnostic
Adds the SP18 v2 Phase 0 D-leg observability scaffold per the plan's
"Phase 0 — diagnostic emit (NO functional change)" task:

- New kernel `reward_decomp_diag_kernel.cu`: block tree-reduce
  (4 blocks × 256 threads, one block per direction-axis bin) reading
  `reward_components_per_sample [N×6]` + `actions_out [N]` and emitting
  5 per-bin stats (mean r_micro / mean r_opp_cost / mean r_popart /
  mean |reward| / fire_rate) into a 20-float row-major output. Bin
  order: Hold(0)→Long(1)→Short(2)→Flat(3); col order: micro→opp→
  popart→abs→fire. Empty-bin guard emits 0.0 (NOT NaN) per the
  consumer-side KILL CRITERION arithmetic contract.

- Cubin manifest entry in `crates/ml/build.rs` + `REWARD_DECOMP_DIAG_
  CUBIN` re-export in `gpu_dqn_trainer.rs`.

- 20-float `MappedF32Buffer sp18_reward_decomp_diag_buf` field on
  `GpuDqnTrainer` + accessor pair (`sp18_reward_decomp_diag_dev_ptr`
  for the writer-side launcher; `read_sp18_reward_decomp_diag` for the
  HEALTH_DIAG reader). Buffer is constructor-zeroed so cold-start
  HEALTH_DIAG emits a deterministic zero block.

- `sp18_reward_decomp_diag_kernel` field on `GpuExperienceCollector` +
  cubin load on the collector's stream + `launch_sp18_reward_decomp_
  diag(n, b1, b2, b3, out_dev_ptr)` launcher. Wired in
  `training_loop.rs` at the per-step boundary, BEFORE
  `launch_reward_component_ema_inplace` (which `memset_zeros` the
  source buffer after consuming it) per `pearl_canary_input_freshness_
  launch_order`.

- New per-epoch HEALTH_DIAG line emit at the existing per-epoch
  boundary (after the SP17 dueling line):

    HEALTH_DIAG[N]: reward_decomp [hold(micro=X opp=Y popart=Z abs=W
                    fire=F) long(...) short(...) flat(...)]

  Reads the mapped-pinned 20-float diag buffer directly via the
  collector→trainer host_ptr — no DtoH copy.

- New `crates/ml/tests/sp18_hold_reward_oracle_tests.rs`:
  * `reward_decomp_per_action_cpu_oracle` (CPU oracle pinning the
    per-bin reduction math against a 4-sample synthetic batch).
  * `reward_decomp_per_action_gpu_oracle` (GPU oracle, ignored unless
    `--ignored`; asserts kernel matches CPU oracle bit-for-bit within
    1e-6 f32 budget).
  * `reward_decomp_empty_bin_emits_zero_not_nan` (empty-bin contract
    guard).

Pure observability — no production-path consumer in this commit. No
reward changes, no Bellman target changes, no kernel modifications to
the action-selection or training paths. Per
`feedback_no_partial_refactor` the kernel + cubin manifest + buffer +
launcher + production wire-up + HEALTH_DIAG emit + GPU oracle test all
land atomically.

Verification:
  SQLX_OFFLINE=true CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP=86 cargo check --workspace clean.
  CPU oracle test passes; GPU oracle + empty-bin guard both pass on
  RTX 3050 Ti (2.13s).

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp18-reward-shape-hold-attractor.md
      § Phase 0 Task 0.1.
Audit: docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md § "SP18 v2 Phase 0 Task 0.1".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 01:06:48 +02:00
jgrusewski
b6b17d46bb feat(sp17-3.2): V_share + advantage_clip_bound producers + extended emit
Phase 3.2 lands the remaining two SP17 dueling-Q diagnostic producers
atomically with kernel + launcher + Rust wrapper + extended HEALTH_DIAG
emit + GPU oracle tests per `feedback_wire_everything_up`.

V_share[d] = |E[V]| / (|E[V]| + |E[A_centered, picked]|)
  where picked = argmax_a Σ_z A_raw[i, a, z] (max-Q semantic — tractable
  per-batch without depending on actions_history_buf which is collector-
  time state stale relative to the cuBLAS forward at HEALTH_DIAG cadence).
  Pearl-A bootstrap (sentinel 0.5) + α=WELFORD_ALPHA_MIN=0.4 + bilateral
  [0, 1] clamp per `pearl_symmetric_clamp_audit`. 4 blocks × 256 threads.

advantage_clip_bound = p99(|A_centered|) × ADVANTAGE_CLIP_SAFETY_FACTOR=1.5
  via sp4_histogram_p99 (block tree-reduce + per-warp tile binning, NO
  atomicAdd per `pearl_fused_per_group_statistics_oracle`). EMA α=0.01
  slow per-fold + bilateral clamp [0.1, 100.0] per
  `pearl_symmetric_clamp_audit`. Pearl-A bootstrap (sentinel 1.0).
  Single block × 256 threads + flat |A_centered| scratch buffer
  (mapped-pinned, sized to B × Σ_d b_d × NA).

Observability-only — the actual clipping wire-up is Phase 5 follow-up.
The Phase 1 mean-zero contract (commits eabcf8d52..6f53d676f) makes
A_centered a meaningful signal; this commit observes it.

Extended HEALTH_DIAG line:

  HEALTH_DIAG[N]: dueling [v_share=(d=X m=Y o=Z u=W)]
                          [a_var=(d=A m=B o=C u=D)] [clip=K]

GPU oracle tests on RTX 3050 Ti (all pass, 13/13 SP17 tests):
- v_share_per_branch_matches_closed_form: synthetic V=2.0 + linear A
  per branch; closed-form V_share = 2/(2 + |K_d × (n_d-1)/2|);
  ε=1e-4. Pearl-A bootstrap REPLACES on first launch.
- advantage_clip_bound_tracks_p99_safety: synthetic A with action-
  dominant + per-(i,z) jitter (the jitter is REQUIRED — pathologically
  lockstep values undercount in sp4_histogram_p99's non-atomic warp
  tile binning per the kernel's documented "1/(256×32) loss for
  uniformly distributed signals" qualifier; concentrated values violate
  the assumption. Real |A_centered| in production is continuous, so
  this is a test-data-only effect.) ε=0.20 (jitter + linear histogram
  quantization).

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md
      Phase 3.2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 23:02:35 +02:00
jgrusewski
1e70cd5e59 feat(sp17-3.1): A_var_ema per-branch producer + HEALTH_DIAG emit
Phase 3 of SP17 dueling-Q identifiability — first of three diagnostic
producers landed atomically with kernel + launcher + Rust wrapper +
HEALTH_DIAG emit + GPU oracle test per `feedback_wire_everything_up`.

Per branch d ∈ {dir, mag, ord, urg}:
  Var_d = (1/(B × n_d × NA)) Σ_{i, a, z} (A[i, a, z] − mean_a A[*, z])²

Block tree-reduce (no atomicAdd, `feedback_no_atomicadd`); 4 blocks ×
256 threads. Pearl-A first-observation bootstrap (sentinel 0.0 →
REPLACE on first launch); steady-state α = WELFORD_ALPHA_MIN=0.4 per
`pearl_wiener_alpha_floor_for_nonstationary` — the structural-control
floor preserves catch-up bandwidth without storing 24 Welford
accumulator slots for a cold-path-cadence diagnostic.

Cold-path emit: single launch per HEALTH_DIAG cadence (epoch boundary)
right after `v_a_means`. New line:

  HEALTH_DIAG[N]: dueling [a_var=(d=X m=Y o=Z u=W)]

The line will be extended with V_share + advantage_clip_bound in
Phase 3.2, then finalised in Phase 3.3.

GPU oracle test on RTX 3050 Ti: synthetic A constructed so each branch
d has a closed-form Var(A_centered); kernel readback matches expected
value within ε=1e-4 (f32 rounding budget for ~8×n×51 accumulator
length).

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md
      Phase 3.1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 22:45:40 +02:00
jgrusewski
079a06e485 test(sp17): asymmetric A → deterministic argmax under MIN_TEMP=0.5
Verifies that when one direction's centered advantage dominates
strongly enough, action selection picks it deterministically across
all N=1000 Philox-keyed runs.

Plan specifies "Thompson temp = 0.0 → pure argmax E[Q]", but the
kernel floors thompson_temp at MIN_TEMP=0.5 per
pearl_blend_formulas_must_have_permanent_floor — pure τ=0 isn't
ISV-accessible. With τ=0.5 the blend is q_eff = 0.5·E[Q] +
0.5·q_sample; deterministic argmax across all τ=0.5 draws requires
the E[Q] gap to exceed atom_span/2.

Construction: NA=3 atoms [-0.1, 0, +0.1] (atom_span=0.2). A_dir
puts +300 at z=2 for Long, -100 at z=2 for others (per-atom mean
zero ⇒ centering preserves shape). Long centered E[Q] ≈ +0.1, others
≈ -0.05 (gap 0.15 > 0.1). q_sample[Long] = +0.1 with prob ≈ 1
(softmax(300) ≈ delta at z=2); q_sample[other] ∈ {-0.1, 0} (zero
prob for +0.1). q_eff[Long] = 0.1; q_eff[other] ≤ -0.025. Long
strictly wins all draws.

If the centering breaks (Long no longer dominant under centered E[Q])
or τ blends a non-Long sample over Long, this test fires.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 22:25:51 +02:00
jgrusewski
f31a6b7ff0 test(sp17): symmetric A ⇒ identical per-direction E[Q]
Verifies that under uniform A (== 0 across all action × atom slots),
every direction has identical centered E[Q] regardless of V.

The plan's original wording probes this through Thompson selector
("uniform action distribution"), but the kernel's first-wins-strict-
`>` argmax over four i.i.d. Thompson samples produces a structurally
non-uniform distribution under symmetric A even with correct centering
(closed-form earlier-bias predicts ≈[44%, 26%, 18%, 11%] across
Short/Hold/Long/Flat from the tie statistics). The Thompson distribution
is V-dependent through tie statistics — NOT a centering regression.

Restated as the structural pre-Thompson property: with A=0 and
V arbitrary, centered logit = V + 0 is identical across all directions
⇒ per-direction E[Q] identical to ε=1e-5. The Thompson selector reads
these centered logits; if A=0 produced non-zero per-direction E[Q]
spread, *that* would be the centering regression — exactly what this
test catches.

Probed via compute_expected_q (reads back per-action E[Q] directly,
no Thompson noise as red herring). V-non-uniform sanity check confirms
the kernel reads V (non-zero E[Q] when V ≠ 0).

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 22:23:19 +02:00
jgrusewski
c2dd6917e0 test(sp17): A-centered invariance under V shift
Verifies the architectural contract: a uniform additive shift to V
across atoms cannot leak into the post-centering distribution. The
plan specifies reading A_centered directly, but A_centered is a
register-local quantity inside compute_expected_q; this test
restates the property as the equivalent behavioral assertion that
adding a uniform constant to V leaves every per-action E[Q]
identical (softmax translation invariance).

A regression that accidentally reduced over (V + A) instead of A
alone would shift the per-atom mean by V_SHIFT and corrupt the
centered logits; the per-action E[Q] would diverge by O(1), failing
the ε=1e-4 assertion.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 22:16:16 +02:00
jgrusewski
10fafe8e60 test(sp17): V-invariance behavioral test
Verifies the architectural contract: V depends only on state, not on
the specific advantage tensor. Two A tensors with same per-atom mean
produce different post-centering shapes ⇒ different per-action E[Q]
(centering is shape-sensitive), but the V-only diagnostic readout is
identical across the two runs (V cannot leak in via the per-atom mean
reduction).

This is the structural property that makes dueling work — without it,
the model conflates "state value" with "action value" and gradient
updates corrupt V via raw-A noise.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 22:15:08 +02:00
jgrusewski
ffa6fda868 feat(sp17): centered A in barrier/ib_gradient_direction (Commit D)
User design call DD11: migrate the two aux-CQL gradient kernels in
c51_loss_kernel.cu to the SP17 mean-zero advantage contract. The
pre-SP17 comment "skip advantage-mean centering — small epsilon vs
correctness simplicity" at barrier_gradient_direction:1212 is REMOVED;
its empirical-without-verification rationale doesn't hold under the
SP17 contract that compute_expected_q + c51_loss + c51_grad +
mag_concat_qdir + Thompson + quantile_q_select already enforce.

barrier_gradient_direction:
- Per-thread `a_mean_per_atom[NUM_ATOMS_MAX]` reduction over b0_size
  direction actions.
- Forward Q-value computation reads `v_row[z] + (adv_a[z] - mean[z])`.
- Backward gradient recompute uses the same centered logits in the
  per-action softmax probability accumulation. The Jacobian's symmetric
  -1/b0_size per-atom offset cancels in the barrier's relative-push
  gradient direction (max up, 2nd down — both targets see same offset).
- Stale "skip centering" comment deleted; replaced with SP17 explanation.

ib_gradient_direction:
- Same per-atom mean reduction at function entry.
- Forward Q computation + backward dq_dlogit recompute both flow through
  centered probabilities. Variance var_q is invariant under common
  per-atom shifts (math: shift cancels in (Q(a) - mean_q)^2), so var_q
  numerics are bit-equivalent — but the gradient flows through the
  centered probability `p(z|a)` for consistency with c51_grad backward.

NUM_ATOMS_MAX=128 ceiling guard added to both kernels (mirror of
experience_kernels.cu); early-exit `if (num_atoms > NUM_ATOMS_MAX) return`
matches the pattern already used by these kernels for unrelated
zero-op guards.

GPU oracle test (RTX 3050 Ti, 6/6 PASS):
  barrier_gradient_direction_uses_centered_advantage — A=0, V=0 ⇒
  centered logits all zero ⇒ uniform softmax ⇒ E[Q]=0 across actions ⇒
  q_gap=0 ⇒ barrier fires at min_req=0.05 ⇒ asserts total |grad| > 1e-6.
  Regression detector: any centering breakage produces non-finite or
  zero gradients ⇒ test fails loudly. ib_gradient_direction shares the
  identical per-atom mean reduction pattern so the same test covers
  both kernels structurally.

Verification:
  cargo check --workspace                                          → clean
  cargo test sp17_dueling_oracle_tests --features cuda
    -- --ignored                                                    → 6/6 PASS

⚠ INTERIM STATE: c51_loss_batched + c51_grad_kernel already-centered
sites still need Commit E annotation pass to mark the existing Jacobian
+ per-d=1 magnitude-std as SP17-compliant.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 22:00:07 +02:00
jgrusewski
3107edb8f7 feat(sp17): Thompson V-wire-in (Commit C)
User design call DD10 option (b): Thompson direction selector now reads
softmax(V[z] + (A[a, z] - mean_a A[*, z])) instead of pre-SP17
softmax(A[a, z]). Without V wired in, action selection responded to a
DIFFERENT distribution than compute_expected_q's E[Q] (the Bellman-target
ranking) — the very pathology SP17 is fixing at the action layer.

Architectural change closes the contract gap atomically across:

Kernel signature (`experience_action_select`):
- Added `const float* __restrict__ v_logits_dir` after `b_logits_dir`.
  NULL is invalid (no fallback) — kernel hard-requires V.
- New per-thread `a_mean_per_atom_dir[THOMPSON_MAX_ATOMS]` reduction
  computes mean A across the 4 direction actions per atom z (sample-local
  register, no atomicAdd).
- Pass 1 (E[Q] for temperature blend + conviction): builds per-action
  `combined_logits_d[z] = V[z] + (A[a,z] - mean_a A[*,z])` and feeds
  `softmax_c51_inline` instead of raw `b_logits_dir + d * n_atoms`.
- Pass 2 (Thompson sample): same combined-logits rebuild per direction.
- `softmax_c51_inline` device helper UNCHANGED — keeping centering at
  caller maintains a narrower contract; thompson_test_kernel and other
  potential callers stay unaffected.
- THOMPSON_MAX_ATOMS=128 ceiling preserved; __trap() on overflow.

QValueProvider trait extension:
- `compute_q_and_b_logits_to` now takes `v_logits_out_ptr: u64` and
  DtoD-copies `on_v_logits_buf` per sub-iteration (atomic per
  feedback_no_partial_refactor — every consumer migrates in lockstep).

Trainer + evaluator wire-up:
- `gpu_dqn_trainer.rs::on_v_logits_buf_ptr() -> u64` (new pub fn, mirror
  of existing `on_b_logits_buf_ptr`).
- `gpu_backtest_evaluator.rs::chunked_v_logits_buf` field allocated
  [chunk_n * NA + 32*3] (cuBLAS tail-safety pad).
- Both call sites (collector + evaluator) pass v_logits arg in launch.

GPU oracle test (RTX 3050 Ti, 5/5 PASS):
  thompson_direction_select_reads_v_logits — runs production cubin
  twice on identical A logits with V=[0,0,0] vs V=[10,0,0]; asserts
  q_gap_v_dominant < 50% of q_gap_v_zero. If V is being IGNORED
  (regression), both runs produce IDENTICAL q_gaps and the test fails
  with a clear message. Uses MappedF32Buffer / MappedI32Buffer per
  feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned.

Note on the plan's "raw argmax = Hold but centered argmax = Long" test:
  Mathematical analysis shows softmax-with-constant-shift preserves
  action ordering (mean subtraction adds the same per-atom constant to
  every action's logits), so the plan's specific assertion isn't
  algebraically constructable with simple A/V. The replacement test
  (V-dependence of q_gap) is more sensitive — it fails on the actual
  regression case (V ignored ⇒ identical q_gaps) the plan was trying
  to detect.

Verification:
  cargo check --workspace                                          → clean
  cargo test sp17_dueling_oracle_tests --features cuda
    -- --ignored                                                    → 5/5 PASS

⚠ INTERIM STATE: aux-CQL barrier_gradient_direction +
ib_gradient_direction still read raw advantage. Commit D closes them;
Commit E annotates the pre-SP17 c51_loss/c51_grad already-centered sites.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 21:52:36 +02:00
jgrusewski
4802879494 feat(sp17): centered A in mag_concat_qdir (Commit B)
Migrates the magnitude-branch's direction-Q conditioning input to the
SP17 mean-zero contract. mag_concat_qdir builds a per-(sample, action)
softmax over V[z] + A_dir[a, z] across THREE inner passes (max,
sum_exp, E[Q]); all three now read `dir_logits_b[..] - a_mean_per_atom[z]`.

Without this migration the magnitude trunk-input would see raw E[Q_dir]
while c51_loss/c51_grad backward consumes centered A — mixed contract
ruled out by `feedback_no_partial_refactor`.

The Plan-4 q_rms adaptive scale (ISV[96]) is preserved unchanged;
centering changes the per-action E[Q_dir] values that feed it but the
scale formula itself is structurally orthogonal. Backward into the
direction logits flows through c51_grad (already mean-zero) so no bw
change is needed in this kernel.

GPU oracle test: B=1, SH2=2, NA=3, B0=4 with the same synthetic where
mean_a = [0.75, 0, 0.75] is non-zero. Asserts:
  (a) h_s2[0..SH2] copied verbatim into concat prefix
  (b) tail slots = centered_E[Q_dir] × (1.0 / q_rms) to ε=1e-5
  (c) tail[0] < 0 / tail[3] > 0 sign asymmetry (regression detector)

Verification (RTX 3050 Ti):
  cargo check --workspace                                          → clean
  cargo test sp17_dueling_oracle_tests --features cuda
    -- --ignored                                                    → 4/4 PASS

⚠ INTERIM STATE: Thompson direction-select + aux-CQL barrier/ib still
read raw advantage. Commits C-D close them; Commit E annotates the two
already-centered c51_loss/c51_grad pre-SP17 sites.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 21:38:03 +02:00
jgrusewski
9b6e94854f feat(sp17): centered A in quantile_q_select (Commit A)
Migrates `quantile_q_select` (uncertainty-driven action selection from
C51 atom CDFs) to the SP17 mean-zero advantage contract. The kernel
builds a per-(sample, branch, action) softmax over `V[z] + A[a, z]`
across THREE inner passes (max, sum_exp, CDF); all three now read
`adv_a[z] - a_mean_per_atom[z]`.

Plan flagged this as a hidden 6th consumer. Task 1.4/1.5 as authored
covered only c51_loss + c51_grad + mag_concat_qdir + Thompson; the
post-Task-1.2 audit found `quantile_q_select` reads raw advantage at
lines 5704/5709/5720 across all 4 branches and was missed entirely.

Sample-local register reduction (`float a_mean_per_atom[NUM_ATOMS_MAX]`,
NA_MAX=128 mirroring compute_expected_q); no atomicAdd, no shared mem,
no cross-thread sync per `feedback_no_atomicadd`. Device-side __trap()
on num_atoms overflow per `feedback_no_quickfixes`.

GPU oracle test: N=1, NA=3, B0=4 with V=[0,0,0] and A_raw chosen so the
per-atom mean is [0.75, 0, 0.75]. Test runs the production cubin with
iqn_readiness=0 and util_ema=1.0 and asserts each per-action q90 matches
the CPU oracle to ε=1e-5. Two structural-asymmetry assertions fail
loudly if centering regresses (action 0 q90 ≤ 0, action 3 q90 ≥ 0).
Mapped-pinned per `feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned`.

Verification (RTX 3050 Ti):
  cargo check --workspace                                          → clean
  cargo test -p ml --test sp17_dueling_oracle_tests --features cuda
    -- --ignored                                                    → 3/3 PASS

⚠ INTERIM STATE: mag_concat_qdir + Thompson + aux-CQL barrier/ib still
read raw advantage. Commits B-D close them; Commit E annotates the two
already-centered c51_loss/c51_grad pre-SP17 sites. No L40S dispatch
escapes feat/sp17-dueling until every consumer is migrated per
`feedback_no_partial_refactor`.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 21:33:06 +02:00
jgrusewski
eabcf8d529 feat(sp17): mean-zero identifiability in compute_expected_q
Inserts per-atom mean-A reduction inside the per-branch outer loop:
Q[a, z] = V[z] + (A[a, z] - mean_a A[*, z])
The post-centering atom-level identifiability holds: Σ_a A_centered[a, z] = 0
for every (sample, branch, atom).

Per Wang et al. 2016 Dueling Networks: mean-zero is smoother and more
stable than max-zero. Atom-level subtraction (not expectation-level)
preserves distributional shape per action.

Sample-local register reduction; no atomicAdd, no shared memory, no
cross-thread sync. NUM_ATOMS_MAX=128 mirrors existing THOMPSON_MAX_ATOMS;
device __trap() on overflow.

⚠ INTERIM STATE: c51_loss_kernel + c51_grad_kernel + mag_concat_qdir
still read RAW (un-centered) advantage logits. Phase 1 Tasks 1.3-1.5
migrate them in lockstep within this branch BEFORE any L40S dispatch.
A partially-migrated state is forbidden per feedback_no_partial_refactor.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 21:13:16 +02:00
jgrusewski
7b13324bcb test(sp17): CPU oracle for mean-zero centered Q computation
Locks the mean-zero identifiability math contract independent of GPU
implementation. Subsequent Phase 1 GPU oracle tests compare kernel
output against this contract bit-for-bit.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 21:07:24 +02:00
jgrusewski
cc4746b48d plan(sp17): HEALTH_DIAG v_a_means baseline (PRE-CENTERING)
Adds per-epoch readout of the V/A breakdown so we can observe the
pre-SP17 baseline distribution before the identifiability projection
lands. Also instruments the kill criterion for Phase 0:

  HEALTH_DIAG[N]: v_a_means [v=X a_dir=Y a_mag=... a_ord=... a_urg=...]

If train-multi-seed-b5gmp's Q(Flat) over-attribution is V-driven, V
should be elevated (~0.4+) while a_dir is small. If V is balanced and
A is doing the work, dueling cannot help and we abort SP17.

Block-tree-reduce kernel \`v_a_means_diag_kernel\` (no atomicAdd per
\`feedback_no_atomicadd\`); MappedF32Buffer per
\`feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned\`.

Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-08-sp17-dueling-q-network.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 20:52:35 +02:00
jgrusewski
25ff1d4195 fix(sp16): floor Wiener-α at 0.4 for non-stationary control loops
Wiener-optimal α minimizes MSE for stationary stochastic signals.
The min_hold_temp / hold_cost_scale loops track a target driven by
the adapting policy itself — non-stationary by construction.

Empirical evidence: train-multi-seed-b5gmp sha 641aa0dfd, Fold 1
collapse Sharpe 88.65 → 55.55 because α decayed to 0.248 by HD4
and could no longer track the climbing overrun signal.

Pearl: pearl_wiener_alpha_floor_for_nonstationary (memory).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 20:14:18 +02:00
jgrusewski
641aa0dfde fix(sp16-t3): Wiener-optimal adaptive α per pearl — hold_cost_scale + min_hold_temperature
Per train-multi-seed-hjzss validation: SP16 T1+T2 chain was structurally
landed but BEHAVIORALLY INERT in 5-epoch smoke (bit-identical to pfh9n
baseline through epoch 3). Root cause: hardcoded `alpha = 0.05f` in both
producer kernels violates feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds AND prevents
convergence in short runs (~60 epochs needed from cold start).

Fix per pearl_wiener_optimal_adaptive_alpha:
  α = diff_var / (diff_var + sample_var + ε)

Where sample_var = running variance of target signal (Welford accumulator)
and diff_var = running variance of consecutive one-step differences.

Cold-start: target jumps 1.0 → 6.4 → 7.0 → high diff_var → α ≈ 0.6+
            → near-bootstrap responsiveness in epochs 1-3
Steady-state: signal stabilizes → diff_var drops → α decays naturally
              → smoothing emerges without hardcoded constant

Adds 12 new ISV slots (6 per producer):
- HCS_TARGET_MEAN/M2, HCS_DIFF_MEAN/M2, HCS_PREV_TARGET, HCS_SAMPLE_COUNT
- MHT_TARGET_MEAN/M2, MHT_DIFF_MEAN/M2, MHT_PREV_TARGET, MHT_SAMPLE_COUNT

ISV_TOTAL_DIM 462 → 474.

Both kernels migrated atomically. Pearl-A bootstrap preserved (sentinel
on prev_blended triggers REPLACE; cold-start α=1.0 when N<3 samples).
Defensive bounds [WELFORD_ALPHA_MIN=0.01, WELFORD_ALPHA_MAX=0.95] on the
Wiener-derived α to guard against denormal/underflow corner cases.

HEALTH_DIAG[N] emit extended with `alpha=...` and `sample_count=...` for
direct trajectory observation in validation smoke.

Behavioral tests verify:
- α high during signal jumps (>0.3 at epoch 3 post-cold-start)
- α low in steady state (mean tail α<0.4 under converging signal)
- Pearl-A bootstrap fires on first observation (Welford state advances
  regardless of REPLACE branch)
- α stays within [WELFORD_ALPHA_MIN, WELFORD_ALPHA_MAX] over 50 epochs
  (post-cold-start; cold-start α=1.0 by design)
- No 0.05f hardcoded literal remains in blend math (regression-locked
  via host-only string scan)

5 GPU + host tests pass: sp16_phase3_alpha_high_during_signal_jump,
alpha_low_in_steady_state, pearl_a_bootstrap_first_obs,
alpha_naturally_bounded, no_hardcoded_alpha. sp14 + sp15 oracle suites
unchanged (34 GPU tests + 4 host tests).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 18:56:58 +02:00
jgrusewski
1a3bcf97b8 feat(sp16-p2): adaptive Hold cost scale via ISV[461]
Per train-multi-seed-pfh9n post-mortem: observed_hold_rate climbed 0.25 → 0.52
across training while cost penalty (~0.006) was 100× smaller than per-bar
reward magnitudes (popart=0.97, cf=0.65). Hold action was effectively free,
allowing Q(Hold) to dominate via structural low-variance bias.

Fix: scale Hold cost adaptively. ISV[HOLD_COST_SCALE_INDEX=461] tracks:
  scale = clamp(1.0 + 24.0 × max(0, observed - target) / max(target, 0.01), 1.0, 25.0)

Effective cost at 100% overrun (observed=2× target): 0.006 × 25 = 0.15,
competitive with per-bar reward magnitudes (~0.01-0.1).
At/below target: scale = 1.0 (no extra penalty).

Pearl-A bootstrap + Welford slow EMA (α=0.05). Mirrors T1's
MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE pattern (same input signals: ISV[382] observed,
ISV[381] target).

Producer: hold_cost_scale_update_kernel.cu — single-thread cold-path,
per-epoch boundary, AFTER MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE in training_loop.rs.

Consumer migration (atomic per feedback_no_partial_refactor):
3 sites in experience_kernels.cu — segment_complete branch (line ~3089),
per-bar positioned-Hold branch (line ~3553), per-bar flat-Hold branch
(line ~3617). Cold-start fallback: scale=1.0 when slot ≤ 0 or
out-of-bounds (bit-identical pre-Phase-2 cost magnitude).

ISV_TOTAL_DIM: 461 → 462.

Behavioral tests (5/5 PASS on RTX 3050):
- sp16_phase2_hold_cost_scale_climbs_with_overrun
- sp16_phase2_hold_cost_scale_at_target_is_one
- sp16_phase2_hold_cost_scale_under_target_is_one
- sp16_phase2_hold_cost_scale_bounds_clamp
- sp16_phase2_hold_cost_scale_pearl_a_bootstrap

Regression: SP14 oracle suite 30/30 PASS, SP15 phase 1 oracle suite
36/36 PASS.

Instrumentation: HEALTH_DIAG[N]: hold_cost_scale_diag obs/tgt/norm/scale.

Per feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds + feedback_no_partial_refactor.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 15:56:46 +02:00
jgrusewski
2c469af2f7 fixup(sp16-p1): correct stale build.rs comment + remove tautological test assertion
Code-quality review of 0426ce888 flagged two Important doc/test items:

1. crates/ml/build.rs lines 859-882 — comment described OLD slot-373
   dir-acc-skill mapping; replaced with short description of new
   slot-382/381 hold-rate-overrun mapping.

2. crates/ml/tests/sp14_oracle_tests.rs lines 1898-1903 — tautological
   `(A || ¬A)` assertion (dead test code); deleted. Preceding assert at
   1892-1897 already covers the real check.

No runtime impact — doc + test cleanup only.

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2026-05-08 15:34:01 +02:00
jgrusewski
0426ce8887 fix(sp16-p1): MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE signal swap to hold-rate overrun + slot 330 non-bug closure
Per train-multi-seed-pfh9n post-mortem follow-up: slot 460 stuck at 50
in Fold 1 was NOT a launch-lifecycle bug. Producer fires per-epoch but
kernel had early-return guard on AUX_DIR_ACC_SHORT_EMA (slot 373) at
sentinel 0.5. Slot 373 reset on fold boundary; aux dir-acc EMA either
didn't fire or settled within ε of 0.5 → kernel kept early-returning.

Fix: drop slot 373 dependency entirely. Drive temperature from observed
hold-rate vs target overrun:

  overrun = max(0, observed_hold_rate - target_hold_rate)
  overrun_norm = clamp(overrun / max(target, 0.01), 0, 1)
  new_temp = TEMP_MIN + (TEMP_MAX - TEMP_MIN) × overrun_norm
  blended_temp = Welford EMA α=0.05 with Pearl-A bootstrap

When over-holding: temp HIGH → exit ramp permissive (matches design intent).
When at/under target: temp LOW → exit penalty strict.

Survives fold reset: hold-rate measurement starts fresh with real data
immediately, no chained-input-sentinel masking.

Slot 330 (KELLY_WARMUP_FLOOR) investigated and confirmed NON-BUG: producer
behaves correctly per pearl_kelly_cap_signal_driven_floors cross-fold-
persistence. floor=0 post-warmup is correct steady state.

Behavioral tests:
- sp16_phase1_min_hold_temp_climbs_with_hold_overrun
- sp16_phase1_min_hold_temp_strict_when_at_target
- sp16_phase1_min_hold_temp_strict_when_under_target
- sp16_phase1_min_hold_temp_no_longer_reads_slot_373

Instrumentation: HEALTH_DIAG[N]: min_hold_temp_diag obs/target/overrun/temp.

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2026-05-08 15:24:12 +02:00
jgrusewski
fb24614f07 feat(sp16-p0): Q-by-action HEALTH_DIAG diagnostic for Hold-bias observation
Per train-multi-seed-pfh9n post-mortem: structural-Q-bias hypothesis
(Adam's m/sqrt(v) prefers low-variance Hold over noisy direction
Q-targets) needs direct per-action Q observations to verify or refute.
WR plateaued at ~0.46 across both folds while Hold% climbed 15% → 52%
and Q-mean climbed 0.19 → 0.41 — but per-action Q was unobservable.

Adds HEALTH_DIAG emit each epoch:

  HEALTH_DIAG[N]: q_by_action [hold=X long=Y short=Z flat=W]

Reads via host-side averaging of `q_out_buf [B, total_actions]`
direction-branch columns [0..b0=4]. No new kernel needed — q_out_buf
is already populated row-major by compute_expected_q. Modeled directly
on the existing Task 0.3 magnitude-bucket diagnostic (same dtoh-and-
average cold path).

Action-index ordering canonical, see state_layout.cuh:123-126:
  DIR_SHORT=0, DIR_HOLD=1, DIR_LONG=2, DIR_FLAT=3.
Emit slot order is [hold, long, short, flat] (Hold first because the
hypothesis is about Hold's ascent dominating direction Q-magnitudes).

New surface:
- gpu_dqn_trainer.rs: q_dir_means_cached field + update_q_dir_means_cached
  method + q_direction_action_means accessor + free static helper
  compute_q_dir_means_from_host_buf (factored for testability).
- fused_training.rs: FusedTrainingCtx wrappers parallel to q_mag pair.
- training_loop.rs: emit block adjacent to q_var_per_branch.

Behavioral test: sp16_phase0_q_by_action_diagnostic_reads_four_action_means
seeds known per-column constants, asserts canonical-dir-idx → emit-slot
mapping at 1e-3 tolerance, and includes sentinel-leak guard (non-direction
columns at 99.0 fail any wrong index→slot mapping with margin >12).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 14:34:59 +02:00
jgrusewski
9fb980da2b fixup(class-a-audit-batch-4b): invert MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE dir_acc → temp mapping
Post-commit kernel-formula audit of `compute_min_hold_penalty` at
trade_physics.cuh:567-577 showed the original `temp = TEMP_MIN +
(TEMP_MAX - TEMP_MIN) × skill` mapping was BACKWARDS for the
WR-plateau scenario this 8-commit chain targets.

Formula recap:
  soft_factor = deficit / (deficit + T)
  HIGH T → soft_factor → 0 → forgiving (no exit penalty)
  LOW T  → soft_factor → 1 → sharp (max exit penalty)

The deleted schedule's `START=50 → END=5` therefore meant
"permissive early, strict late" (classic explore-then-exploit), not
"permissive when committed, strict when uncertain" as the
substituted mapping assumed.

WR-plateau scenario: dir_acc ≈ 0.46-0.48 (model committed but
wrong) — the model needs a permissive (HIGH T) exit ramp to bail
out of bad committed directions, not maximum exit penalty (LOW T)
locking it into them.

Inverted the mapping using `confusion = 1 - skill`:
  - dir_acc ≈ 0.5 (random / plateau) → confusion=1 → temp=50
    (permissive, plateau exit ramp)
  - dir_acc → 1.0 (saturated skill)  → confusion=0 → temp=5
    (strict, force informed commitment)

This preserves the deleted schedule's epoch-0 anchor (T=50
cold-start) while reacting to actual realized skill instead of an
epoch-time anchor.

Files touched (atomic per `feedback_no_partial_refactor`):
- min_hold_temperature_update_kernel.cu — formula + header doctring.
- sp14_isv_slots.rs — slot-doc comment expanded with new mapping
  + fixup-rationale paragraph.
- gpu_aux_trunk.rs — `MinHoldTemperatureUpdateOps` docstring.
- gpu_dqn_trainer.rs — cubin docstring + ISV_TOTAL_DIM doc-comment.
- tests/sp14_oracle_tests.rs — Tests 3 + 4 flipped (high dir_acc
  now expects temp=TEMP_MIN; low dir_acc now expects TEMP_MAX);
  Tests 1, 2, 5 numerically unchanged (sentinel guard fires before
  the mapping; midpoint dir_acc=0.75 has skill=confusion=0.5 so
  pre/post-fixup numerics match).
- docs/dqn-wire-up-audit.md — Item 4 entry rewritten with the
  fixup rationale + mapping table updated.

Verification:
  cargo check -p ml --tests --all-targets   PASS
  cargo test sp14_audit_4b (lib)            4/4 PASS (slot layout
                                                   locks unchanged)

GPU oracle re-run deferred to next L40S smoke (kernel was rebuilt
in-place so cubin contents change; the 5 oracles encode the new
mapping and will exercise the new cubin).

Per `pearl_first_observation_bootstrap.md` (sentinel→target
replace; sentinel anchors unchanged) +
`pearl_symmetric_clamp_audit.md` (bilateral clamp on target_temp
preserved) + `feedback_no_partial_refactor.md`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 11:28:00 +02:00
jgrusewski
0b9ea77dc4 fix(class-a-audit-batch-4b): plan_threshold floor adaptive + MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE ISV-driven
Per Class A audit-fix Batch 4-B (final 2 of 4 deferred items from
P1-wiring/P1-producer). Completes the 8-commit WR-plateau intervention
chain. Validation deferred to next L40S smoke.

Item 3: plan_threshold adaptive floor (Design Y - inline producer)
  - NEW slot PLAN_THRESHOLD_FLOOR_ADAPTIVE_INDEX=459
  - Writes slow-EMA shadow of `0.5 * readiness_ema` from inside the
    existing update kernel (no new file, no new launch).
  - Pearl-A first-observation bootstrap (sentinel 0.1 matches pre-fix
    hardcoded value for bit-identical cold-start) + Welford alpha=0.005
    slow EMA.
  - Bilateral clamp [0.05, 0.50] (probability units) per
    pearl_symmetric_clamp_audit.
  - Consumer reads isv[459] as the floor in the same launch's final
    fmaxf; cold-start sentinel REPLACES with threshold_target so the
    pre-fix `fmaxf(0.1, 0.5*ema)` semantic is preserved bit-identical
    for any readiness EMA above 0.20.

Item 4: MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE -> ISV-driven (driving signal: dir_acc skill)
  - NEW slot MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE_ADAPTIVE_INDEX=460
  - NEW kernel min_hold_temperature_update_kernel.cu (single-thread
    cold-path, per-epoch boundary launch).
  - Driving signal: dir_acc skill = clamp((short_ema - 0.5)/0.5, 0, 1)
    from ISV[AUX_DIR_ACC_SHORT_EMA_INDEX=373]. When committing skillfully
    (high dir_acc) -> temp HIGH (permissive). When at random baseline
    (~0.5) -> temp LOW (sharp commitment pressure). Substituted for
    the audit-spec's `dir_entropy_deficit` because no dir_entropy ISV
    slot exists - dir_acc skill is the closest semantically-equivalent
    signal that preserves the spec intent.
  - Pearl-A bootstrap (sentinel 50.0 matches the deleted
    MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE_START=50 anchor) + alpha=0.05 mid-cadence EMA.
  - Bounds [5, 50] (matches the deleted schedule range).
  - Decouples temperature from epoch number - the old schedule pinned
    LOW temp (sharp) at end of training, exactly when a WR-plateaued
    model needed forgiveness to escape.
  - DELETED: state_layout.cuh::MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE_{START, END, DECAY}
    #defines + training_loop.rs::min_hold_temperature_for_epoch helper
    function (kept docstring tombstone explaining the deletion). Both
    call sites migrated to the new ISV reader. Per
    feedback_no_legacy_aliases + feedback_no_partial_refactor.

ISV_TOTAL_DIM: 459 -> 461.

Cumulative WR-plateau fix series (final commit, #8):
- 8f218cab2 (Class C bug 1 + P0-B)
- 316db416b (P0-C MIN_HOLD_TARGET)
- 394de7d43 (P0-A REWARD_POS/NEG_CAP)
- c4b6d6ef2 (P1 wiring var_floor)
- 657972a4b (P0-A downstream DD penalty + MIN_HOLD_PENALTY_MAX)
- 87d597d5d (P1 producer Bayesian priors)
- 7e9a8f6ef (Batch 4-A DD saturation floor + legacy DELETE)
- this commit (Batch 4-B plan_threshold floor + MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE)

Verification:
  cargo check -p ml --tests --all-targets   PASS
  cargo test sp14 (lib)                     16/16 PASS (slot layout locks)
  cargo test sp15 (lib)                     2/2   PASS (no regression)
  cargo test state_reset_registry (lib)     4/4   PASS (dispatch coverage)
  cargo test sp14_oracle_tests (GPU)        24/24 PASS (8 new + 16 pre)
  cargo test sp15_phase1_oracle_tests (GPU) 36/36 PASS (no regression)

Per feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds + feedback_no_partial_refactor +
feedback_no_legacy_aliases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 11:13:54 +02:00
jgrusewski
7e9a8f6ef1 fix(class-a-audit-batch-4a): DD saturation floor adaptive + legacy DD path Case A
Per Class A audit-fix Batch 4-A (deferred from P1-wiring/P1-producer due to
audit-doc errors). Fixes 2 of 4 deferred items; Batch 4-B handles plan_threshold
floor + MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE in a separate commit.

Item 1: DD saturation floor (the upper end of the DD ramp at trade_physics.cuh:154
in apply_margin_cap, NOT line 548 as the audit doc claimed — that line is a
magnitude action constant; the actual saturation floor lives in apply_margin_cap)
  - NEW slot DD_SATURATION_FLOOR_ADAPTIVE_INDEX=458
  - Producer dd_saturation_floor_update_kernel.cu — p75(per-env DD_MAX) × 1.5
    via Welford `mean + Z_75 × sigma` estimator with `max(p75, mean)` robustness
    guard, mirrors P0-A REWARD_POS_CAP producer pattern (Pearl-A bootstrap +
    Welford α=0.01)
  - Cold-start fallback: 0.25f (DD_SATURATION_FLOOR_DEFAULT in state_layout.cuh)
  - Bounds: [0.10, 0.50] (Category-1 dimensional safety)
  - Distinct from SP15_DD_THRESHOLD_INDEX=421 (the SP15 quadratic DD-penalty
    *trigger* threshold, a *lower* bound; this slot is the *upper* end of the
    linear position-size scaling ramp dd_scale = max(0.05, 1.0 − dd_frac/floor))
  - Threaded `isv_signals_ptr` into `apply_margin_cap` with NULL-tolerant
    cold-start fallback to DD_SATURATION_FLOOR_DEFAULT
  - 4 oracle tests (Pearl-A bootstrap, no-DD guard, bounds clamp, Welford EMA)

Item 2: Legacy compute_drawdown_penalty path → Case A (DELETED)
  - Decision rationale: SP15's quadratic asymmetric DD penalty
    (compute_sp15_final_reward_kernel.cu:154 via sp15_dd_penalty helper) runs
    unconditionally as a post-modifier on the SP11-composed reward with
    ISV-driven λ_dd (slot 420) and DD threshold (slot 421). Layering the legacy
    linear-ramp penalty inside the SP11 composer on top of the SP15 quadratic
    creates double-counting of DD shaping — exactly the code-smell the Class A
    audit was designed to eliminate. Per `feedback_no_legacy_aliases.md` and
    `feedback_no_partial_refactor.md`.
  - Atomic deletion across:
      - `compute_drawdown_penalty` device function (trade_physics.cuh)
      - Single call site at experience_kernels.cu:3822
      - `dd_threshold` and `w_dd` kernel arguments
      - `w_dd` Rust config field (gpu_experience_collector.rs +
        trainers/dqn/config.rs DQNHyperparameters)
      - `w_dd` profile section + dispatch (training_profile.rs RewardSection,
        OptimizableParameterRanges, FixedRewardParameters, ParamLookup
        dispatch, profile→hyperparam mapping, test assertion)
      - `w_dd *= rki` risk-intensity multiplier (config.rs)
      - `w_dd` TOML keys (dqn-hyperopt.toml × 2, dqn-localdev.toml,
        dqn-production.toml, dqn-smoketest.toml)
      - Stale doc comments on hyperopt/adapters/dqn.rs + config.rs
        risk_intensity field
  - `config.dd_threshold` SURVIVES (still consumed by `launch_sp15_dd_state`
    as the dd_budget for DD_PCT scaling). Documented in field comment.

ISV_TOTAL_DIM: 458 → 459 (Item 1 adds 1 slot; Item 2 is pure deletion)

Cumulative WR-plateau fix series (this is commit 7):
- Class C bug 1 + P0-B (8f218cab2)
- P0-C (316db416b)
- P0-A (394de7d43)
- P1 wiring (c4b6d6ef2) — 1 of 4 wireable
- P0-A downstream (657972a4b)
- P1 producer (87d597d5d)
- audit-fix 4-A (this commit)

Verification: 16 sp14_oracle_tests pass (incl. 4 new), 36 sp15_phase1_oracle_tests
pass, 12 sp14_isv_slots layout tests pass, 4 state_reset_registry tests pass
(every-FoldReset-arm-has-dispatch contract holds), workspace cargo check clean.

Per feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds + feedback_no_partial_refactor +
feedback_no_legacy_aliases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 10:41:07 +02:00
jgrusewski
87d597d5d7 fix(class-a-p1-producer): adaptive Bayesian Kelly priors per-fold-end
Replace 4 hardcoded Bayesian priors in Kelly cap calculations
(prior_wins=2.0, prior_losses=2.0, prior_sum_wins=0.01,
prior_sum_losses=0.01) with ISV-driven slow-EMA values fed by a new
producer kernel that aggregates realized PS_KELLY_* fields across envs
from the same portfolio_state buffer kelly_cap_update_kernel reads
from at the same per-epoch boundary.

Slots [454..458):
- KELLY_PRIOR_WINS, KELLY_PRIOR_LOSSES,
  KELLY_PRIOR_SUM_WINS, KELLY_PRIOR_SUM_LOSSES

ISV_TOTAL_DIM bumps 454 -> 458.

Producer:
- kelly_bayesian_priors_update_kernel.cu (per-fold-end / per-epoch
  boundary, block-tree-reduce in shmem, no atomicAdd). Pearl-A
  first-observation bootstrap (sentinels 2.0/2.0/0.01/0.01 match
  pre-P1-Producer hardcoded values for bit-identical cold-start) +
  alpha=0.005 slow EMA. Bounds counts in [0.5, 100], sums in [0.001,
  1.0] per feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds. Launched RIGHT BEFORE
  launch_kelly_cap_update so that kernel sees the freshly-blended
  priors.

Consumers migrated atomically (same commit):
- kelly_cap_update_kernel.cu:39-42 -> ISV[454..458) with cold-start
  fallback via kelly_prior_or_default helper (range guard).
- trade_physics.cuh::kelly_position_cap:304-307 -> NULL-tolerant
  isv_signals_ptr threaded through apply_kelly_cap (single caller in
  unified_env_step_core line 898 already had the bus pointer; mirrors
  the existing kelly_f_smooth / kelly_warmup_floor_sp9 patterns).

State reset:
- 4 FoldReset registry entries (sp14_p1_kelly_prior_*) +
  4 dispatch arms in training_loop.rs::reset_named_state.

Oracle tests (sp14_oracle_tests.rs, GPU-gated #[ignore]):
- Pearl-A bootstrap (sentinel -> REPLACE with aggregated targets)
- No realized trades -> ISV preserved bit-exactly
- Bounds clamp on extreme aggregates
- Slow EMA blend after bootstrap

CPU tests passing:
- sp14_p1_kelly_prior_slot_layout_locked
- all_sp14_p1_slots_fit_within_isv_total_dim
- every_fold_and_soft_reset_entry_has_dispatch_arm (C.10 lesson)
- layout_fingerprint_bumps_after_sp14_wire

DEFERRED — Item 2 (MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE EMA): the audit-spec said
"MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE = 0.5f hardcoded somewhere" but the actual code
has MIN_HOLD_TEMPERATURE_{START=50.0f, END=5.0f, DECAY=20.0f} as a
PER-EPOCH ANNEALING SCHEDULE driven by min_hold_temperature_for_epoch
in training_loop.rs:68-73. The kernel takes T as a runtime scalar
specifically to enable Phase 2 ISV-driven lift "without recompiling
cubin" per the SP12 v3 design comment. The audit's claim of "0.5f
hardcoded" does not match reality; the right Phase 2 signal is a
separate spec decision and should not be guessed at per
feedback_no_quickfixes. Reporting back per the prompt's hard rule #8.

Per feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds + feedback_no_partial_refactor +
pearl_controller_anchors_isv_driven.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 09:38:51 +02:00
jgrusewski
394de7d434 feat(class-a-p0a): REWARD_POS/NEG_CAP → ISV-driven adaptive caps from realized return distribution
Per Class A audit ranking, the highest-suspected-impact fix for the
months-long WR-stuck-at-46-48% plateau across 11 superprojects.

Hardcoded REWARD_POS_CAP=+5.0f / REWARD_NEG_CAP=-10.0f
(state_layout.cuh:266-267) was structurally clipping the upper tail of
realized alpha. Controller signals (sharpe EMA, var_q, q_gap) all
derive from this CAPPED buffer, so the controller cannot select for
trades it cannot see. Selectivity gradient evaporates — small wins
clip to +5 alongside large wins also clipping to +5.

The state_layout comment lines 261-264 explicitly deferred Phase 2
(ISV-driven) "IF Phase 1 validation reveals adaptive need". Phase 1
has been running 11 SPs without budging WR — adaptive need revealed.

Architecture:
- 2 new ISV slots [452..454): REWARD_POS_CAP_ADAPTIVE,
  REWARD_NEG_CAP_ADAPTIVE.
- Producer kernel reward_cap_update_kernel.cu: block-tree-reduce
  Welford `mean + Z_99 × sigma` p99 estimator over winning realized
  returns + conservative `max(p99, max_win)` takeover, × 1.5 safety
  factor → POS cap. NEG cap = -2 × POS cap (preserves Kahneman 2:1
  asymmetry per pearl_audit_unboundedness_for_implicit_asymmetry —
  asymmetry stays, but moved from hardcoded scalar to producer-time
  multiplier; single source of truth, no consumer applies the 2× ratio
  itself).
- Pearl-A first-observation bootstrap from sentinel (5.0 / -10.0,
  matching pre-P0-A hardcoded values for bit-identical cold-start).
  Welford EMA α=0.01 thereafter (slow blend — reward distribution is
  the foundation of training and shouldn't move fast).
- Bounds: POS in [1, 50], NEG in [-100, -2] (Category-1 dimensional
  safety per feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds, NOT tuning).
- 3 consumer sites migrated atomically per
  feedback_no_partial_refactor: experience_kernels.cu:3112-3114
  (segment_complete cap), compute_sp15_final_reward_kernel.cu:163
  (Stage 4 helper invocation), sp15_reward_axis_helpers.cuh:211
  (sp15_apply_sp12_cap device fn signature change to take isv ptr).
- Cold-start fallback: when ISV slot at sentinel OR outside
  [REWARD_POS_CAP_MIN_BOUND=1, REWARD_POS_CAP_MAX_BOUND=50],
  consumers fall back to original macros (still defined in
  state_layout.cuh).
- 2 new device-ptr accessors on the experience collector
  (step_ret_per_sample_dev_ptr, trade_close_per_sample_dev_ptr) —
  reuses existing per-sample buffers; no new buffer allocated.
- Per-epoch boundary launch (cold path) in training_loop.rs alongside
  launch_aux_horizon_chain.
- Reset registry entries + dispatch arms in reset_named_state per the
  C.10 lesson (missing dispatch causes runtime crash).
- Layout fingerprint seed updated: ISV_TOTAL_DIM 452→454 +
  AUX_PRED_HORIZON_BARS=450 + AVG_WIN_HOLD_TIME_BARS=451 (previously
  missing from seed) + REWARD_POS_CAP_ADAPTIVE=452 +
  REWARD_NEG_CAP_ADAPTIVE=453.

Per feedback_isv_for_adaptive_bounds: every adaptive bound in ISV.

Verification:
- cargo check -p ml --tests --all-targets: clean (19 pre-existing
  warnings, 0 new).
- sp14_isv_slots tests: 8/8 pass (4 layout + 4 fits-within).
- sp14_oracle_tests with --features cuda --ignored: 8/8 pass (4
  existing q_disagreement/dir_concat + 4 new P0-A tests covering
  Pearl-A bootstrap, no-winning-trades preservation, bounds clamping
  to [1,50], Welford α=0.01 EMA blend).
- sp15_phase1_oracle_tests with --features cuda --ignored: 36/36 pass
  (no regression from sp15_apply_sp12_cap signature change).

Cumulative WR-plateau fix series:
- Class C bug 1 (8f218cab2): replay buffer intent→realized.
- Class A P0-B (8f218cab2): Kelly warmup floor wiring.
- Class A P0-C (316db416b): MIN_HOLD_TARGET adaptive.
- Class A P0-A (this commit): REWARD_POS/NEG_CAP adaptive — restores
  upper-tail alpha to the controller's view.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 08:45:43 +02:00
jgrusewski
10e647c141 test(sp14-c9): synthetic smoke for aux trunk gradient chain + C.8/C.9 audit close-out
C.8 (ISV-driven aux trunk Adam β1/β2/ε/LR/grad-clip) was already complete in C.5a
commit c90de9859 — all 5 ISV reads and fold-boundary StateResetRegistry defaults were
wired atomically with the Adam launcher. No new code required; noted in audit doc.

C.9 adds `aux_trunk_learns_synthetic_uptrend` to aux_trunk_oracle_tests.rs:
- B=16, ENC=32, H1=32, H2=16, SH2=32, H_HEAD=32, K=2, 100 steps
- Backward kernel invocations corrected to match actual signatures:
  - aux_trunk_bwd_dh_pre(d_logits, w3, w2, h_aux1, h_aux2, dh_pre2, dh_pre1, B, H1, H2, SH2)
    shmem = H2 floats (sh_dh2_pre cache), NOT (H1+H2+SH2)
  - aux_trunk_bwd_dW_reduce called 3×: dW3/dW2/dW1 each with (A, B_grad, dW_out, B, Krows, Jcols)
  - aux_trunk_bwd_db_reduce called 3×: db3/db2/db1 each with (B_grad, db_out, B, Jcols)
- Head params trained via host-side SGD (test orchestration only; reads mapped-pinned partials)
- Trunk params trained via dqn_adam_update_kernel (GPU Adam)
- Pass gate: CE loss < 0.1 AND dir_acc > 0.95 after 100 steps
  Near-random baseline (ln(2)≈0.693) = broken gradient chain, L40S dispatch blocked

Memory pearl pearl_separate_aux_trunk_when_shared_starves.md added and indexed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 03:30:44 +02:00
jgrusewski
0e61de408f feat(sp14-c6): h_s2_aux_rms_ema producer — ISV[449] per-collector-step
Single-block 256-thread CUDA kernel computing RMS(h_s2_aux [B, SH2])
and EMA-blending the step observation into ISV[H_S2_AUX_RMS_EMA_INDEX=449]
directly. Pearl-A first-observation bootstrap embedded in kernel body
(sentinel 0.0 → replace); fixed α=0.05 EMA blend thereafter.

ISV slot 449 is outside the SP4/SP5 wiener buffer linear span so the
scratch+apply_pearls_ad_kernel path is not available — self-contained
Pearl-A logic mirrors the avg_win_hold_time_update_kernel precedent
(slot 451). No atomicAdd; shmem block-tree-reduce only. Launched after
aux_trunk_forward in the collector per-step hot path.

- h_s2_aux_rms_ema_kernel.cu — new CUDA kernel (81 lines)
- build.rs — cubin manifest entry
- gpu_dqn_trainer.rs — H_S2_AUX_RMS_EMA_CUBIN static
- gpu_aux_trunk.rs — HS2AuxRmsEmaOps struct + launch()
- gpu_experience_collector.rs — field + constructor + hot-path launch
- aux_trunk_oracle_tests.rs — h_s2_aux_rms_ema_pearl_a_bootstrap test
- dqn-wire-up-audit.md — Phase C.6 audit entry

cargo check -p ml --tests: clean (only pre-existing warnings)
Oracle test: 1 new test added (requires GPU to run)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 03:17:30 +02:00
jgrusewski
3b71d21834 feat(sp14-c): aux prediction horizon ISV-driven (multi-bar pivot)
Aux's original label was (p_{t+1} > p_t) — pure HFT-scale microstructure
noise that's unlearnable at our HFT-MFT trading frequency. Migrated to
(p_{t+H} > p_t) where H is read from ISV[AUX_PRED_HORIZON_BARS_INDEX=450].

Adaptive producer drives H from observed avg winning hold time:
- Pearl-A first-observation bootstrap: replace sentinel H=60 directly
  on first valid observation
- Steady-state Wiener-α EMA blend, slow (α=0.01) for stable horizon
  (no target-variance EMA available, fallback per
  pearl_wiener_optimal_adaptive_alpha)
- "No winning trades yet" guard keeps sentinel until first valid observation

Lookahead truncation: labels at t where t+H >= total_bars are masked
(sentinel -1, loss-reduce skips). The existing aux_next_bar_loss_reduce
in aux_heads_kernel.cu already supports the -1 mask convention via the
B_valid count — no new valid_mask parameter needed.

Step 5b finding: Case B — existing per-sample buffers
(hold_at_exit_per_sample, trade_profitable_per_sample) populated by
unified_env_step_core, but no aggregate ISV slot. Added new aggregator
slot AVG_WIN_HOLD_TIME_BARS_INDEX=451 + new producer kernel
avg_win_hold_time_update_kernel.cu (block-tree-reduce, no atomicAdd).
ISV_TOTAL_DIM bumped 450 → 452.

ATOMIC migration per feedback_no_partial_refactor: both label kernels
(aux_sign_label_kernel.cu trajectory + aux_sign_label_per_step_kernel.cu
per-rollout-step) migrated together to the new
(targets, bar_indices, isv, isv_h_idx, out_labels, total, total_bars)
signature. The lookahead host-passed scalar argument is removed; H is
read from ISV inside the kernel (broadcast value, single read per
thread, on-device clamp [1, 240]).

Producer chain (per-epoch boundary): new
GpuDqnTrainer::launch_aux_horizon_chain orchestrates
avg_win_hold_time_update → aux_horizon_update sequentially alongside
launch_kelly_cap_update at the existing epoch-boundary slot in
training_loop.rs.

Trunk math (C.2/C.3/C.4) unchanged — separate aux trunk is label-
agnostic. Validation in C.10 will use H=60 cold-start; the adaptive
producer drives H from real winning-trade observations.

Tests (8 oracle, 5 new + 3 preserved):
- aux_trunk_forward_matches_numpy_reference (C.3) ✓
- aux_trunk_backward_gradient_check (C.4) ✓
- aux_trunk_backward_does_not_write_dx (C.4) ✓
- aux_sign_label_h_bar_horizon (NEW) ✓
- aux_sign_label_lookahead_mask (NEW) ✓
- aux_horizon_pearl_a_bootstrap (NEW) ✓
- aux_horizon_converges_to_steady_target (NEW) ✓
- aux_horizon_holds_sentinel_with_no_winning_trades (NEW) ✓

8/8 pass on RTX 3050 Ti.

Phase C.4b of SP14 Layer C separate-aux-trunk refactor.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 01:37:39 +02:00
jgrusewski
5d584dc751 feat(sp14-c): aux trunk backward kernel + gradient check + stop-grad invariant test
Backward propagates dh_s2_aux through w3/w2/w1 with block-tree-reduce
(no atomicAdd per feedback_no_atomicadd). Critical: kernel set does NOT
write dx_in — encoder gradient remains Q-shaped only. Stop-grad
invariant verified via parameter-list structural enforcement (kernels
literally cannot reference an `dx_in_out` pointer they don't accept) +
kernel source inspection that strips comments and asserts no `dx_in`
write pattern.

Three kernels in aux_trunk_backward_kernel.cu:
  - aux_trunk_bwd_dh_pre: per-sample, computes dh_aux2_pre [B, H2] +
    dh_aux1_pre [B, H1] using ELU' from POST-activation form
    (`(y > 0) ? 1 : (1 + y)` mirrors aux_elu_bwd_from_post in
    aux_heads_kernel.cu).
  - aux_trunk_bwd_dW_reduce: generic outer-product reduce
    `dW[k, j] = sum_b A[b, k] * B[b, j]`. One block per output
    element, shmem-tree reduce over batch. Used 3× (dW3, dW2, dW1).
  - aux_trunk_bwd_db_reduce: generic batch-reduce `db[j] = sum_b
    B[b, j]`. One block per output element. Used 3× (db3, db2, db1).

Memory-efficient: no per-sample partials (avoids B×163,072 floats for
production topology). Per-element reduction means O(P) blocks each
doing O(B) work in shmem.

Rust wrapper AuxTrunkBackwardOps in gpu_aux_trunk.rs orchestrates seven
launches in fixed sequence (capture-friendly, no host branches per
pearl_no_host_branches_in_captured_graph). All three CudaFunction
handles pre-loaded once at construction. Field added to GpuDqnTrainer
alongside aux_trunk_forward_ops; constructor mirrors C.3 pattern.

Tests (all pass on RTX 3050 Ti, sub-ULP forward, 1.33e-2 max rel-err
backward gradient at smallest sampled gradient):
  - aux_trunk_forward_matches_numpy_reference (C.3 — preserved).
  - aux_trunk_backward_gradient_check (NEW): central-difference
    numerical gradient at 16 sampled dW3 indices vs analytic from
    backward kernel. Loss = 0.5 * ||h_s2_aux||^2 so dh_s2_aux =
    h_s2_aux. EPS=1e-3, B=4, ENC=H1=H2=AUX=32 (33 forwards in ~2s).
    REL_TOL = 2e-2 (f32 finite-difference noise floor for
    small-gradient tail; production topology is dimension-independent
    given runtime args).
  - aux_trunk_backward_does_not_write_dx (NEW): reads kernel source,
    strips C-style comments (so design-discussion text mentioning
    `dx_in` doesn't false-positive), asserts no `dx_in` / `dx_in_out`
    symbol survives in code. Complements the structural enforcement
    (kernel signatures don't accept `dx_in_out` pointer).

Phase C.4 of SP14 Layer C separate-aux-trunk refactor. Module is
additive — wire-up into collector backward chain + Adam updates lands
in Phase C.5 (atomic).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 01:16:37 +02:00
jgrusewski
cb6bca4629 feat(sp14-c): aux trunk forward kernel + Rust wrapper + oracle test
3-layer MLP forward (Linear→ELU→Linear→ELU→Linear). Pre-loaded
CudaFunction for graph-capture safety per pearl_no_host_branches_in_captured_graph.
Oracle test verifies bit-for-bit match against numpy reference within
1e-4 tol. Saves h_aux1 and h_aux2 to global memory for backward.

Phase C.3 of SP14 Layer C separate-aux-trunk refactor (plan:
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-05-07-sp14-layer-c-separate-aux-trunk.md).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 00:56:23 +02:00
jgrusewski
4f372a49a8 refactor(sp14-c): atomic α machinery deletion + aux trunk ISV slot allocation
Phase C.1 of SP14 Layer C separate-aux-trunk refactor. Single atomic
commit per feedback_no_partial_refactor and feedback_no_legacy_aliases —
no DEPRECATED stage.

Deleted (per C.0 audit a7a162d1f):
- alpha_grad_compute_kernel.cu
- sp14_scale_wire_col_kernel.cu
- gradient_hack_detect_kernel.cu (EGF circuit breaker — α-coupled)
- 10 ISV slot constants (K_AUX_ADAPTIVE, K_Q_ADAPTIVE,
  BETA_RATE_LIMITER_ADAPTIVE, AUX_DIR_ACC_VARIANCE_EMA,
  ALPHA_GRAD_RAW_VARIANCE_EMA, GATE1_OPEN_STATE, ALPHA_GRAD_RAW,
  ALPHA_GRAD_SMOOTHED, AUX_DIR_ACC_POST_OPEN_MIN,
  GRADIENT_HACK_LOCKOUT_REMAINING) plus 16 supporting sentinels and
  structural-anchor constants
- 31 reference sites across 7 files (collector, trainer, training_loop,
  fused_training, batched_backward, build.rs cubin manifest,
  state_reset_registry)
- 3 oracle tests (alpha_grad_adaptive_beta, alpha_grad_schmitt_hysteresis,
  gradient_hack_circuit_breaker_fires)

Added:
- 6 aux trunk control plane ISV slots [444..450):
  AUX_TRUNK_LR (444), AUX_TRUNK_BETA1 (445), AUX_TRUNK_BETA2 (446),
  AUX_TRUNK_EPS (447), AUX_TRUNK_GRAD_CLIP (448), H_S2_AUX_RMS_EMA (449)
- 6 reset registry entries (5 Invariant-1 anchors + Pearl-A first-
  observation EMA)
- 6 reset_named_state dispatch arms (mirrors SP5 Layer A pattern)
- ISV_TOTAL_DIM bumped 444 → 450

Preserved:
- dir_concat_qaux_kernel.cu (Coupling A: forward feature wire)
- q_disagreement_update_kernel.cu (diagnostic-only)
- q_disagreement_* ISV slots (383, 384, 389) — HEALTH_DIAG consumer

Build clean (cargo check -p ml --tests --all-targets, RTX 3050 Ti);
4 surviving oracle tests pass (dir_concat_qaux_correct + 3 q_disagreement_*).
ISV layout: deleted α slots left as RESERVED gap (NOT compacted) for
checkpoint fingerprint compatibility.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 00:32:40 +02:00