jgrusewski d243a6f080 docs(sp14): spec v2 — critical review corrections
8 corrections from code-anchored critical review at HEAD eaf4adcb9:

1. Direction Q-head emits K=3 (Short/Flat/Long), not K=4. Aux head
   emits K=2 (down/up). Gate 2 q_disagreement now uses K=3↔K=2 mapping
   with Flat masking. Verified against gpu_dqn_trainer.rs:2438.

2. Forward launch order constraint added: aux forward must complete
   before direction Q-head forward (new serial dep). Cited
   pearl_canary_input_freshness_launch_order.

3. Adaptive sigmoid k formula fixed: v1 had unreachable k_max=50
   because formula caps k ≤ k_base. v2 uses max(..., k_min) with
   k_max = k_base implicit.

4. α_grad rate limiter promoted from nice-to-have to v1. Schmitt
   state-flip introduces sigmoid discontinuity. β=0.9 EMA smoothing
   added; new ALPHA_GRAD_SMOOTHED_INDEX slot.

5. q_disagreement_baseline drop: v1 had adaptive baseline as long-EMA
   (feedback loop risk). v2 uses structural 0.5 (analytic K=3-with-
   Flat-masked random alignment). Drop BASELINE_INDEX slot.

6. Backward gradient scaling clarified: α_grad scales dL/dx (input
   gradient flowing back to aux), NOT dL/dW (Q-head's weight grad).
   Q-head learns to use the wire freely; gate only controls upstream
   flow.

7. 4 hard rules added: feedback_no_hiding,
   feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned,
   feedback_kill_runs_on_anomaly_quickly,
   pearl_canary_input_freshness_launch_order.

8. Smoke A2 explicit kill criteria table added (8 triggers).

Net ISV slot count unchanged (11), composition shifted: dropped
BASELINE, added SMOOTHED. Total impl cost ~1150 LOC (was ~1060).

Verified against current code:
  - TARGET_DIR_ACC_INDEX=372, AUX_DIR_ACC_SHORT_EMA_INDEX=373,
    AUX_DIR_PREDICTION_INDEX=375 (sp13_isv_slots.rs)
  - set_aux_weight clamp(0.05, 0.3) at gpu_dqn_trainer.rs:14722
    (confirms Bug 3 from Smoke A diagnostic)
  - mag_concat_qdir precedent at experience_kernels.cu:4560
    (direction-conditioning pattern; SP14's wire is the analog)
  - state_reset_registry pattern at lines 913-922 (canonical
    template for new EMA fold-reset entries)
  - branch_0_size = 3 in production config (the K=3 finding)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-05 17:11:04 +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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