jgrusewski 43e10c8887 feat(cuda): add forward-only CUDA kernel for DQN inference, mark Candle forward paths as cold
Add dqn_forward_only_kernel to dqn_training_kernel.cu — runs a single
branching forward pass (shared layers -> value head -> 3 branch heads ->
C51 distributional -> expected Q) and writes per-branch Q-values to
q_out[B, 11]. No loss computation, no activation saves, no backward.
~3x faster than forward_loss for pure inference.

Wire the kernel into GpuDqnTrainer via forward_only_q() which takes
CudaSlice<f32> states directly and returns &CudaSlice<f32> Q-values,
replacing the Candle BranchingDuelingQNetwork::forward_branches() call
chain (~160 Candle kernel dispatches -> 1 fused CUDA launch).

Mark all 6 ml-dqn Candle forward methods as #[cold] with documentation
that hot-path compute is handled by fused CUDA kernels:
- noisy_layers.rs: NoisyLinear::forward() -> dqn_experience_kernel.cu
- quantile_regression.rs: QuantileNetwork::forward() -> iqn_dual_head_kernel.cu
- distributional.rs: CategoricalDistribution::to_scalar() -> dqn_forward_only_kernel
- curiosity.rs: ForwardDynamicsModel::predict() -> curiosity_training_kernel.cu
- residual.rs: ResidualBlock::forward() -> dqn_forward_only_kernel
- rmsnorm.rs: RMSNorm::forward() / LayerNorm::forward() -> dqn_experience_kernel.cu

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-17 14:36:40 +01:00

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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