jgrusewski ebae67cb6b perf(ml-alpha): pre-allocate Mamba2 backward scratch (#2)
The four biggest per-call scratch buffers in
Mamba2Block::backward_from_h_enriched_seq were allocated fresh on
every training step:

  d_a_per_channel  [N, sh2, K, state_d]  ~6 MB at B=8, K=96
  d_b_per_channel  [N, sh2, K, state_d]  ~6 MB
  d_w_c_per_sample [N, sh2, state_d]     ~64 KB
  d_h_s2           [N, sh2]              ~4 KB

For 2000 optimizer steps/epoch × 15 epochs = 30 000 alloc_zeros
calls per training run, all on the hot path.

New `Mamba2BackwardScratch` struct holds these as device-resident
buffers, constructed once per (n_batch, seq_len, hidden_dim,
state_dim) at trainer init. New `backward_from_h_enriched_seq_into`
method takes the scratch by &mut and reuses the buffers each call.

The smaller per-call buffers (d_a_proj_flat, d_b_proj_flat, dw_c)
still allocate per call — they feed into ownership-transferring
LinearGrads outputs, where pre-allocation would require refactoring
ml-core's cuBLAS wrappers without proportional gain.

The original `backward_from_h_enriched_seq` is preserved (Phase E.3
callers still use it). Trainer switches to the `_into` variant.

Expected per-step savings: ~10-20 ms on L40S (4 cudaMalloc latencies
per call × 2.5-5 μs each + cache pressure reduction). Over 2000
steps/epoch that's 20-40 sec/epoch.

77 ml-alpha tests pass. Synthetic overfit unchanged (0.27 → 0.0006).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-17 13:00:42 +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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