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//! Local meta-training harness for the projection matrices.
//!
//! Phase 4 of the active-compression architecture: train W_q, W_k, W_v
//! (and the surrounding LayerNorm + LM head) on raw text drawn from the
//! current repository, with cross-entropy next-token prediction as the
//! supervisory signal.
//!
//! The objective is **not** to teach the model grammar from scratch.
//! It is to produce projection matrices that make the inner-loop TTT
//! gradient update (`forward_native` in `ttt_block.rs`) numerically
//! well-conditioned, so that:
//!
//! * the associative-recall pass used by the context compressor
//! produces stable, non-degenerate logits, and
//! * downstream callers of the local pipeline see meaningful changes
//! in W̃ as new context is absorbed.
//!
//! Usage:
//!
//! ```bash
//! cargo run --release -- --mode meta-train \
//! --epochs 1 --steps-per-epoch 200 \
//! --checkpoint axiom_kernel_v1.safetensors
//! ```
//!
//! The trainer reads a multi-paradigm set of source extensions —
//! `.rs`, `.py`, `.go`, `.ts`, `.tsx`, `.js`, `.jsx`, `.mjs`, `.cjs`, plus
//! `.md`, `.toml`, `.yaml`, `.yml`, `.json`, `.txt` — under the given roots
//! (excluding common build/cache dirs) and slices them into fixed-length
//! sequences. Tokens are hashed into a fixed `vocab_size` (256) bucket space,
//! so a wider corpus increases token-space *coverage*, not dimensionality.
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
use candle_core::{DType, Device, Result, Tensor};
use candle_nn::{AdamW, Optimizer, ParamsAdamW, VarBuilder, VarMap};
use indicatif::{ProgressBar, ProgressStyle};
use rand::seq::SliceRandom;
use rand::SeedableRng;
use sha2::Digest;
use walkdir::WalkDir;
use crate::config::AxiomConfig;
use crate::model::AxiomTTTLM;
const DEFAULT_INCLUDED_EXTENSIONS: &[&str] = &[
// Systems / backend
"rs", "py", "go", // TypeScript / JavaScript family
"ts", "tsx", "js", "jsx", "mjs", "cjs", // Docs / config (structural priors)
"md", "toml", "yaml", "yml", "json", "txt",
];
const DEFAULT_EXCLUDED_DIRS: &[&str] = &[
"target",
".git",
"__pycache__",
"node_modules",
"dist",
"build",
".pytest_cache",
".cache",
".venv",
"venv",
];
/// Dataset of token-id sequences sliced from on-disk source files.
///
/// The dataset is built once at trainer construction so subsequent
/// `next_batch` calls are O(1) memory churn.
pub struct RepoFileDataset {
/// Each entry is a contiguous slice of `seq_len + 1` token ids
/// (one extra so the supervised target is one-token-shifted).
sequences: Vec<Vec<u32>>,
vocab_size: u32,
rng: rand::rngs::StdRng,
}
impl RepoFileDataset {
/// Construct a dataset by walking `root`, tokenising every file
/// matching the include filter, and slicing into `seq_len + 1`
/// windows. Uses the same SHA-256-hash tokenizer the engine falls
/// back to when no HF tokenizer is loaded — keeps the meta-training
/// objective consistent with what the inference path sees.
#[allow(dead_code)] // single-root convenience used by lib callers + tests
pub fn build(
root: impl AsRef<Path>,
vocab_size: u32,
seq_len: usize,
max_files: usize,
max_sequences: usize,
seed: u64,
) -> std::io::Result<Self> {
Self::build_multi(
&[root.as_ref().to_path_buf()],
vocab_size,
seq_len,
max_files,
max_sequences,
seed,
)
}
/// Like [`build`](Self::build) but crawls several source trees,
/// aggregating their files into one corpus. Used by the production
/// data harvester to pull from the repo, vendored dependencies, and
/// any extra code directories at once.
pub fn build_multi(
roots: &[PathBuf],
vocab_size: u32,
seq_len: usize,
max_files: usize,
max_sequences: usize,
seed: u64,
) -> std::io::Result<Self> {
// Fail fast on degenerate inputs that would otherwise panic later:
// `step_by(seq_len)` panics on 0, and `hash_tokenize` divides by
// `vocab_size`.
if seq_len == 0 {
return Err(std::io::Error::new(
std::io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
"seq_len must be greater than 0",
));
}
if vocab_size == 0 {
return Err(std::io::Error::new(
std::io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
"vocab_size must be greater than 0",
));
}
let mut files: Vec<PathBuf> = Vec::new();
'roots: for root in roots {
for entry in WalkDir::new(root)
.follow_links(false)
.into_iter()
.filter_entry(|e| !is_excluded_dir(e.path()))
.flatten()
{
if !entry.file_type().is_file() {
continue;
}
let ext = entry
.path()
.extension()
.and_then(|e| e.to_str())
.unwrap_or("")
.to_lowercase();
if !DEFAULT_INCLUDED_EXTENSIONS
.iter()
.any(|allowed| *allowed == ext)
{
continue;
}
files.push(entry.path().to_path_buf());
if files.len() >= max_files {
break 'roots;
}
}
}
files.sort();
files.dedup();
let mut sequences: Vec<Vec<u32>> = Vec::new();
for path in &files {
let bytes = match std::fs::read(path) {
Ok(b) => b,
Err(_) => continue,
};
let text = match String::from_utf8(bytes) {
Ok(s) => s,
Err(_) => continue,
};
let tokens = hash_tokenize(&text, vocab_size);
// Chop the token stream into non-overlapping (stride = seq_len)
// windows of length seq_len+1 (inputs + shifted target).
if tokens.len() < seq_len + 1 {
continue;
}
for start in (0..tokens.len() - seq_len).step_by(seq_len) {
let window = tokens[start..start + seq_len + 1].to_vec();
sequences.push(window);
if sequences.len() >= max_sequences {
break;
}
}
if sequences.len() >= max_sequences {
break;
}
}
let mut rng = rand::rngs::StdRng::seed_from_u64(seed);
sequences.shuffle(&mut rng);
Ok(Self {
sequences,
vocab_size,
rng,
})
}
pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
self.sequences.len()
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
self.sequences.is_empty()
}
/// Sample a batch: returns `(inputs [B, T], targets [B, T])` where
/// targets are inputs shifted by one position.
pub fn next_batch(&mut self, batch_size: usize, device: &Device) -> Result<(Tensor, Tensor)> {
if self.sequences.is_empty() {
candle_core::bail!("meta-train dataset is empty; widen --max-files or --max-sequences");
}
let mut inputs_flat: Vec<u32> =
Vec::with_capacity(batch_size * (self.sequences[0].len() - 1));
let mut targets_flat: Vec<u32> =
Vec::with_capacity(batch_size * (self.sequences[0].len() - 1));
let seq_len = self.sequences[0].len() - 1;
let vocab = self.vocab_size;
for _ in 0..batch_size {
let idx = (self.rng_u64() as usize) % self.sequences.len();
let window = &self.sequences[idx];
// Hard guard against tokenizer/vocab drift: clamp into-range.
for &t in &window[..seq_len] {
inputs_flat.push(if t < vocab { t } else { t % vocab.max(1) });
}
for &t in &window[1..seq_len + 1] {
targets_flat.push(if t < vocab { t } else { t % vocab.max(1) });
}
}
let inputs = Tensor::from_vec(inputs_flat, (batch_size, seq_len), device)?;
let targets = Tensor::from_vec(targets_flat, (batch_size, seq_len), device)?;
Ok((inputs, targets))
}
fn rng_u64(&mut self) -> u64 {
use rand::RngCore;
self.rng.next_u64()
}
}
fn is_excluded_dir(path: &Path) -> bool {
if let Some(name) = path.file_name().and_then(|s| s.to_str()) {
if DEFAULT_EXCLUDED_DIRS.contains(&name) {
return true;
}
}
false
}
fn hash_tokenize(text: &str, vocab_size: u32) -> Vec<u32> {
let mut ids: Vec<u32> = Vec::new();
for tok in text.split_whitespace() {
let digest = sha2::Sha256::digest(tok.as_bytes());
let id = u64::from_le_bytes([
digest[0], digest[1], digest[2], digest[3], digest[4], digest[5], digest[6], digest[7],
]) % vocab_size as u64;
ids.push(id as u32);
}
ids
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Trainer
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// Cosine learning-rate schedule for a meta-training run.
///
/// Both the outer meta-learning rate α (the AdamW step on the projection
/// matrices / LM head) and the inner test-time learning rate η (the
/// per-token W̃ update inside `forward_native`) are annealed from a start
/// value to a floor following a half-cosine over the full step budget.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
pub struct LrSchedule {
/// Outer AdamW learning rate at step 0.
pub alpha_start: f64,
/// Outer AdamW learning-rate floor at the final step.
pub alpha_end: f64,
/// Inner TTT learning rate η at step 0.
pub eta_start: f32,
/// Inner TTT learning-rate floor η at the final step.
pub eta_end: f32,
}
impl LrSchedule {
/// Cosine-annealed value at fractional progress `p` in `[0, 1]`.
fn cosine(start: f64, end: f64, p: f64) -> f64 {
let p = p.clamp(0.0, 1.0);
end + 0.5 * (start - end) * (1.0 + (std::f64::consts::PI * p).cos())
}
fn alpha_at(&self, p: f64) -> f64 {
Self::cosine(self.alpha_start, self.alpha_end, p)
}
fn eta_at(&self, p: f64) -> f32 {
Self::cosine(self.eta_start as f64, self.eta_end as f64, p) as f32
}
}
/// Meta-trainer for projection matrices on a repo-derived corpus.
pub struct MetaTrainer {
config: AxiomConfig,
device: Device,
varmap: VarMap,
model: AxiomTTTLM,
dataset: RepoFileDataset,
checkpoint_path: String,
batch_size: usize,
}
impl MetaTrainer {
#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
pub fn build(
config: AxiomConfig,
device: Device,
repo_root: impl AsRef<Path>,
checkpoint_path: impl Into<String>,
batch_size: usize,
seq_len: usize,
max_files: usize,
max_sequences: usize,
seed: u64,
) -> Result<Self> {
Self::build_multi(
config,
device,
vec![repo_root.as_ref().to_path_buf()],
checkpoint_path,
batch_size,
seq_len,
max_files,
max_sequences,
seed,
)
}
/// Build a trainer whose dataset is harvested from several source trees.
#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
pub fn build_multi(
config: AxiomConfig,
device: Device,
roots: Vec<PathBuf>,
checkpoint_path: impl Into<String>,
batch_size: usize,
seq_len: usize,
max_files: usize,
max_sequences: usize,
seed: u64,
) -> Result<Self> {
let varmap = VarMap::new();
let vb = VarBuilder::from_varmap(&varmap, DType::F32, &device);
let model = AxiomTTTLM::new(vb, config.clone())?;
let dataset = RepoFileDataset::build_multi(
&roots,
config.vocab_size as u32,
seq_len,
max_files,
max_sequences,
seed,
)
.map_err(|e| candle_core::Error::Msg(format!("dataset build failed: {e}")))?;
if dataset.is_empty() {
candle_core::bail!(
"meta-train dataset is empty after scanning source files; \
try --max-files higher or point at directories with code"
);
}
Ok(Self {
config,
device,
varmap,
model,
dataset,
checkpoint_path: checkpoint_path.into(),
batch_size: batch_size.max(1),
})
}
/// Number of token-windows the dataset was sliced into.
pub fn dataset_len(&self) -> usize {
self.dataset.len()
}
/// Run `epochs * steps_per_epoch` optimiser steps at a fixed outer
/// learning rate (η left at the configured default) and save the
/// checkpoint at the end. Kept for callers that don't need scheduling.
pub fn run(&mut self, epochs: usize, steps_per_epoch: usize, lr: f64) -> Result<f32> {
let eta = self.model.inner_lr();
let schedule = LrSchedule {
alpha_start: lr,
alpha_end: lr,
eta_start: eta,
eta_end: eta,
};
self.run_with_schedule(epochs, steps_per_epoch, schedule)
}
/// Run the full multi-epoch schedule with cosine decay on both the
/// outer meta-learning rate α and the inner test-time rate η.
///
/// Prints a rolling meta-loss (EMA) decay line per epoch plus the live
/// α / η values, then serialises the converged parameters to the
/// configured checkpoint path.
pub fn run_with_schedule(
&mut self,
epochs: usize,
steps_per_epoch: usize,
schedule: LrSchedule,
) -> Result<f32> {
let mut optim = AdamW::new(
self.varmap.all_vars(),
ParamsAdamW {
lr: schedule.alpha_start,
..ParamsAdamW::default()
},
)?;
let total_steps = (epochs * steps_per_epoch).max(1) as u64;
let progress = ProgressBar::new(total_steps);
let style = ProgressStyle::with_template("{bar:40.cyan/blue} {pos:>6}/{len:6} | {msg}")
.unwrap_or_else(|_| ProgressStyle::default_bar());
progress.set_style(style);
// Exponential moving average of the meta-loss for a smooth decay read.
let mut ema_loss: Option<f32> = None;
let ema_beta = 0.9f32;
let mut last_loss = f32::NAN;
let mut global_step: u64 = 0;
for epoch in 0..epochs {
let mut epoch_loss_sum = 0.0f32;
for _step in 0..steps_per_epoch {
// Cosine-annealed learning rates for this step.
let p = global_step as f64 / total_steps as f64;
let alpha = schedule.alpha_at(p);
let eta = schedule.eta_at(p);
optim.set_learning_rate(alpha);
self.model.set_inner_lr(eta);
let (inputs, targets) = self.dataset.next_batch(self.batch_size, &self.device)?;
let mut batch_logits = Vec::with_capacity(self.batch_size);
let mut batch_targets = Vec::with_capacity(self.batch_size);
for batch_idx in 0..self.batch_size {
let input = inputs.narrow(0, batch_idx, 1)?;
let target = targets.narrow(0, batch_idx, 1)?;
let mut states = self.model.init_states(&self.device)?;
let logits = self.model.forward_lm(&input, &mut states[..])?;
batch_logits.push(logits);
batch_targets.push(target);
}
let logit_refs: Vec<&Tensor> = batch_logits.iter().collect();
let target_refs: Vec<&Tensor> = batch_targets.iter().collect();
let logits = Tensor::cat(&logit_refs, 0)?;
let targets = Tensor::cat(&target_refs, 0)?;
let (b, t, v) = logits.dims3()?;
let flat_logits = logits.reshape((b * t, v))?;
let flat_targets = targets.reshape((b * t,))?;
let loss = candle_nn::loss::cross_entropy(&flat_logits, &flat_targets)?;
optim.backward_step(&loss)?;
last_loss = loss.to_scalar::<f32>()?;
epoch_loss_sum += last_loss;
ema_loss = Some(match ema_loss {
Some(prev) => ema_beta * prev + (1.0 - ema_beta) * last_loss,
None => last_loss,
});
progress.set_message(format!(
"epoch {}/{} | loss {:.5} | ema {:.5} | α {:.2e} η {:.2e}",
epoch + 1,
epochs,
last_loss,
ema_loss.unwrap_or(last_loss),
alpha,
eta,
));
progress.inc(1);
global_step += 1;
}
// Rolling meta-loss decay line, visible even when piped (non-TTY).
let steps_f = steps_per_epoch.max(1) as f32;
let p_end = global_step as f64 / total_steps as f64;
let d_model = self.config.d_model;
let n_layers = self.config.n_layers;
progress.suspend(|| {
println!(
"[meta] epoch {}/{} | L_meta(avg)={:.5} | L_meta(ema)={:.5} | α={:.3e} η={:.3e} | d_model={} layers={}",
epoch + 1,
epochs,
epoch_loss_sum / steps_f,
ema_loss.unwrap_or(last_loss),
schedule.alpha_at(p_end),
schedule.eta_at(p_end),
d_model,
n_layers,
);
});
}
progress.finish_with_message("meta-training complete");
self.save_checkpoint_verified(last_loss)?;
Ok(last_loss)
}
/// Create the parent dir if needed, serialise the varmap, and verify
/// the bytes actually landed on disk.
fn save_checkpoint_verified(&self, last_loss: f32) -> Result<()> {
if let Some(parent) = std::path::Path::new(&self.checkpoint_path).parent() {
if !parent.as_os_str().is_empty() {
std::fs::create_dir_all(parent).map_err(|e| {
candle_core::Error::Msg(format!(
"could not create checkpoint dir {}: {e}",
parent.display()
))
})?;
}
}
self.varmap.save(&self.checkpoint_path)?;
match std::fs::metadata(&self.checkpoint_path) {
Ok(meta) => println!(
"[+] Meta-train checkpoint written and verified: {} ({} bytes, final loss {:.5})",
self.checkpoint_path,
meta.len(),
last_loss
),
Err(e) => {
return Err(candle_core::Error::Msg(format!(
"checkpoint save reported success but file is missing at {}: {e}",
self.checkpoint_path
)))
}
}
Ok(())
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
use std::fs;
fn write(path: &Path, content: &str) {
if let Some(parent) = path.parent() {
fs::create_dir_all(parent).unwrap();
}
fs::write(path, content).unwrap();
}
#[test]
fn dataset_slices_files_into_windows() {
let temp = tempdir_path("meta_train_dataset");
write(
&temp.join("a.rs"),
&(0..200)
.map(|i| format!("tok{i}"))
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
.join(" "),
);
write(
&temp.join("nested/b.md"),
&(0..200)
.map(|i| format!("word{i}"))
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
.join(" "),
);
write(&temp.join("ignored.exe"), "binary contents");
write(&temp.join("target/junk.rs"), "should not be read");
let ds = RepoFileDataset::build(&temp, 64, 16, 50, 100, 7).unwrap();
assert!(!ds.is_empty());
// No window should include the excluded `target/` file or the `.exe`.
// We can't introspect easily, but len > 0 with seq_len=16 is enough.
assert!(ds.len() >= 2);
cleanup(&temp);
}
#[test]
fn dataset_yields_inputs_and_shifted_targets() {
let temp = tempdir_path("meta_train_batch");
write(
&temp.join("z.txt"),
&(0..400)
.map(|i| format!("t{i}"))
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
.join(" "),
);
let mut ds = RepoFileDataset::build(&temp, 64, 8, 5, 50, 11).unwrap();
let (inputs, targets) = ds.next_batch(4, &Device::Cpu).unwrap();
assert_eq!(inputs.dims(), &[4, 8]);
assert_eq!(targets.dims(), &[4, 8]);
cleanup(&temp);
}
fn tempdir_path(label: &str) -> PathBuf {
let dir =
std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("axiom-meta-train-{label}-{}", std::process::id()));
let _ = fs::remove_dir_all(&dir);
fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
dir
}
fn cleanup(p: &Path) {
let _ = fs::remove_dir_all(p);
}
}