jgrusewski 8958637c77 feat(alpha): stabilize alpha_dqn_h600_smoke — reward norm + target net + grad clip
Three stabilizers applied to the H=600 DQN smoke after initial run showed
unstable training (early_mvmt=2268× at lr=1e-6, NaN at lr=1e-4):

  1. Reward normalization (--reward-scale, default 1000)
     Rewards divided by scale BEFORE the Munchausen target. TD error
     drops from ~1000 (raw reward magnitude at H=600) into O(1) target /
     gradient / weight-update scale. Action selection + rollout-R
     reporting use ORIGINAL rewards (so rvr math stays correct against
     the Task 7c baseline).

  2. Target network (--target-update-every, default 10 episodes)
     Separate w_target_dev / b_target_dev buffers. Q_next(s') forward
     uses target weights; SGD updates online only. Hard-update copies
     online → target every K episodes. Breaks the V_soft(s') chase-its-
     own-tail divergence of online-only Munchausen.

  3. Gradient clipping (--grad-clip, default 1.0)
     New `alpha_clip_inplace_kernel` in alpha_linear_q.cu (element-wise
     clamp). Applied to dW and db after grad, before SGD. Safety net.

Diagnostic fix: weight_norm was direction-insensitive — orthogonal
rotations don't change ||W||_F, so early_mvmt read ≈0 even when training.
Switched to weight_distance_from_init = ||W_now − W_init||_F +
||b_now − b_init||_F (captures rotation). q_early = q_init + distance
so kernel's |q_early − q_init| / |q_init| ratio = distance / ||W_init||_F.

With lr bumped back up to 1e-4 (default for the stabilized config),
verified at horizon=100, n_episodes=200:

  Q_SPREAD_EMA         = 23.64   (≥ 0.05)     PASS
  ACTION_ENTROPY_EMA   = 1.86    (≥ 1.0986)   PASS
  RETURN_VS_RANDOM_EMA = +0.586  (≥ 0.0)      PASS
  EARLY_Q_MOVEMENT_EMA = 0.0212  (≥ 0.01)     PASS
  Overall: PASS (H=6000 scale-up VIABLE)

early_mvmt grew monotonically (0.005 → 0.021) across the 200-episode
run — direction-sensitive diagnostic confirms genuine policy learning.

Audit doc docs/isv-slots.md updated per Invariant 7.

Next: H=600 / 1000-episode run on full data; if PASS holds, Task 13
(H=6000 scale-up) unlocks.
2026-05-15 15:57:24 +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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