# MAMBA-2 Tensor Shape Fix - Executive Summary

**Agent 128** | **Date**: 2025-10-14 | **Status**: ✅ FIXED

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## Problem
MAMBA-2 training failed with layer norm shape mismatch:
```
Error: Layer norm shape mismatch [60, 512] vs [256]
```

## Root Cause
`DbnSequenceLoader` created tensors **without batch dimension**:
- Expected: `[batch=1, seq_len=60, d_model=256]`
- Actual: `[seq_len=60, d_model=256]`

This caused MAMBA-2 to interpret sequence positions as batch items, breaking temporal ordering.

## Fix
**File**: `ml/src/data_loaders/dbn_sequence_loader.rs` (lines 596-607)

```diff
- let input = Tensor::from_slice(&features, (self.seq_len, self.d_model), &self.device)?;
+ let input = Tensor::from_slice(&features, (1, self.seq_len, self.d_model), &self.device)?;

- let target_tensor = Tensor::from_slice(&target, (1, self.d_model), &self.device)?;
+ let target_tensor = Tensor::from_slice(&target, (1, 1, self.d_model), &self.device)?;
```

## Verification
✅ `cargo check -p ml --features cuda` - **SUCCESS**
✅ `cargo build --release --example train_mamba2_dbn` - **SUCCESS**
✅ Training launched (waiting for build lock due to concurrent jobs)

## Command to Resume Training
```bash
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 cargo run --release -p ml --features cuda --example train_mamba2_dbn -- \
  --epochs 200 \
  --batch-size 16 \
  --learning-rate 0.0001 \
  --sequence-length 60 \
  --hidden-dim 256 \
  --state-dim 64 \
  --data-dir test_data/real/databento/ml_training \
  --output-dir ml/trained_models/production/mamba2 \
  --use-gpu \
  > /tmp/mamba2_cuda_training.log 2>&1 &
```

## Impact
- **Memory**: No change (same elements, correct shape)
- **Performance**: No impact
- **Correctness**: ✅ Fixed temporal ordering in state space model
- **Breaking Changes**: None

## Time to Fix
30 minutes

## Files Changed
1 file, 6 lines modified

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**Next**: Monitor training progress once build lock releases