jgrusewski 2b14d9dc8b diag+gate: TD-propagation smoke test + entropy→plasticity gate + tx_cost doc
A) TD-propagation diagnostic smoke test (sparse rewards)
- New smoke_tests/td_propagation.rs captures training_sharpe_ema across
  20 epochs with micro_reward_scale=0 to answer: "can sparse-reward
  Q-learning extract policy from trade-completion P&L alone?"
- Asserts: finite sharpe_ema, no monotonic degradation (tolerance 0.1
  over first-3 vs last-3 epoch avg), q_gap > 0.05
- First run answered YES: val Sharpe peaks at +12.49 at epoch 8 with
  pure sparse rewards, confirming the objective is learnable. The
  remaining issue is stability/overfitting, not TD propagation.

B) Entropy → plasticity gate in training_loop
- D3/N3 shrink_perturb trigger now fires on `last_action_entropy < 0.3`
  OR `health_value < 0.3` (OR semantics, 3 consecutive epochs).
- Catches action-collapse cases the generic health metric misses: Q-values
  separate cleanly but argmax stays pinned to a single branch.
- tracing::info now logs both signals.

C) commitment_lambda coverage verified
- Almgren-Chriss sqrt market-impact already in compute_tx_cost
  (trade_physics.cuh:168-171). commitment_lambda was pure duplication.
- Inventory doc updated: P2 marked satisfied, table row status updated.

Files touched:
- crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/smoke_tests/mod.rs             (+2)
- crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/smoke_tests/td_propagation.rs  (new)
- crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn/trainer/training_loop.rs       (+15/-3)
- docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-21-phase1-reward-inventory.md (+6/-3)

Smoke test PASSED locally (RTX 3050 Ti, 30.99s end-to-end).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-21 02:05:28 +02:00

Foxhunt

Production HFT trading system in Rust.

Architecture

The workspace contains 32 crates organized as follows:

Core Libraries (16)

Crate Purpose
trading_engine Order processing, FIX 4.4, IB TWS, SIMD, RDTSC timing
risk VaR, Kelly, circuit breakers, kill switches, compliance
risk-data Risk data types and shared structures
trading-data Trading data types
ml DQN Rainbow, PPO, TFT, Mamba2, ensemble inference
ml-data ML data types and feature definitions
data Market data ingestion and storage
backtesting Replay engine, strategy tester
adaptive-strategy Ensemble execution, microstructure analysis
common Shared types, resilience, error handling
storage S3 and local model storage
model_loader Model serialization and loading
market-data Market data feed handlers
database PostgreSQL access layer (SQLx)
config Configuration management
tli CLI commands and tooling

Services (8)

Service Purpose
backtesting_service gRPC backtesting service
broker_gateway_service FIX routing, broker connectivity
trading_service Core trading operations
ml_training_service Model training orchestration
data_acquisition_service Market data acquisition
trading_agent_service Autonomous trading agents
api_gateway gRPC API gateway with auth
web-gateway Axum REST + WebSocket gateway

Frontend

web-dashboard/ -- React 19 + TypeScript + Vite + TradingView charts.

Building

# Check compilation (no PostgreSQL required)
SQLX_OFFLINE=true cargo check --workspace

# Run tests for a specific crate
SQLX_OFFLINE=true cargo test -p <crate> --lib

# Clippy
SQLX_OFFLINE=true cargo clippy --workspace

ML Models

Four production model architectures on Candle v0.9.1 with CUDA:

  • DQN Rainbow -- Deep Q-Network with prioritized replay, dueling heads, noisy nets
  • PPO -- Proximal Policy Optimization with GAE and LSTM policies
  • TFT -- Temporal Fusion Transformer for multi-horizon forecasting
  • Mamba2 -- State space model for sequence prediction

Each model has a standalone trainer and a UnifiedTrainable adapter for the hyperopt pipeline.

Infrastructure

  • Git: Gitea at git.fxhnt.ai (Tailscale-only), Scaleway DEV1-S
  • Observability: OpenTelemetry OTLP (env OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT)
  • Database: PostgreSQL with SQLx offline mode for CI

License

Proprietary. All rights reserved.

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