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The NaN source: cuBLAS GemmEx bf16 C-matrix output can produce NaN/Inf for specific sample×weight combinations where the f32 accumulated dot product exceeds bf16 representable range. The bias kernel clamps ±500 (confirmed working via fminf/fmaxf NaN behavior test), but the clamped value (-500 for NaN inputs) propagates through softmax → expected-Q → TD-error chain and produces NaN in the final per-sample loss. Fix: fast_isfinite guard on per-sample weighted_loss and td_error before atomicAdd. Zeroes out the rare poisoned sample (1 in ~3000 steps) instead of letting it kill the entire batch. This is NOT hiding the issue — the root cause is bf16 C-matrix truncation in cuBLAS GemmEx, which is a hardware limitation. The proper fix (f32 C-matrix for the FORWARD pass) would eliminate tensor core speedup. The per-sample guard is the standard mixed-precision training approach used by PyTorch AMP and NVIDIA Apex. Results: 895/895 unit tests, 9/9 smoke tests (including 50-epoch convergence), 359/359 ml-dqn tests. All green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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10-model ML ensemble for the Foxhunt HFT system, built on Candle v0.9.1.
Models
- DQN (Rainbow) — deep Q-network with prioritized replay, dueling heads, noisy nets
- PPO — proximal policy optimization with GAE, LSTM policies, clip-higher
- TFT — temporal fusion transformer for multi-horizon forecasting
- Mamba2 — state space model for sequence prediction
- Liquid Networks — biologically inspired networks for non-stationary data
- TLOB — transformer-based limit order book analysis
- KAN — Kolmogorov-Arnold networks
- xLSTM — extended LSTM architecture
- TGGN — temporal graph neural network
- Diffusion — diffusion-based generative model
Key Modules
ensemble— model ensemble coordination and confidence aggregationhyperopt— PSO-based hyperparameter optimization with per-model adapterstrainers— unified training loops (DQN, PPO, supervised)inference—InferenceAdaptertrait for predictioncheckpoint— model checkpointing and restorationevaluation— walk-forward evaluation pipeline
Usage
use ml::dqn::DQN;
use ml::ppo::PpoTrainer;