- Added OwnedGpuLinear to ml-core (self-contained linear layer with owned
weight/bias CudaSlice, forward_with_slices bypasses GpuVarStore lookup)
- Removed GpuVarStore from all 12 ml-dqn modules: Sequential, branching,
distributional_dueling, dueling, network, rmsnorm, residual, curiosity,
attention, iql, quantile_regression, regime_conditional
- Removed get_q_network_vars/vars/store accessors from DQN, branching,
distributional_dueling, dueling, network, quantile_regression
- Replaced GpuLinear+GpuVarStore with OwnedGpuLinear in all cold-path modules
- Made load_from_safetensors a no-op (flat buffer path handles checkpoints)
- Made sync_to_varmap a no-op (flat buffer is source of truth)
- Moved branching->VarStore conversion to gpu_weights::branching_to_varstore
- Re-enabled bottleneck_dim=16 in config defaults + all 3 TOML configs
- Removed flatten_online_weights bottleneck skip workaround
- Zero GpuVarStore references in crates/ml-dqn/src + crates/ml/src/trainers/dqn
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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