# tensorlogic-trustformers
**Transformer architectures as TensorLogic einsum graphs**
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This crate provides implementations of transformer components (self-attention, multi-head attention, feed-forward networks) as einsum operations that compile to TensorLogic IR and execute on any TensorLogic backend.
## Features
- ✅ **Self-Attention** - Scaled dot-product attention as einsum operations
- ✅ **Multi-Head Attention** - Parallel attention heads with automatic head splitting/merging
- ✅ **Feed-Forward Networks** - Position-wise FFN with configurable activations (GELU, ReLU, etc.)
- ✅ **Gated FFN** - GLU-style gated feed-forward networks
- ✅ **Position Encodings** - Sinusoidal, learned, and relative position encodings
- ✅ **Layer Normalization** - Standard LayerNorm and RMSNorm implementations
- ✅ **Encoder Layers** - Complete transformer encoder layers with pre/post-norm variants
- ✅ **Decoder Layers** - Complete transformer decoder layers with masked self-attention
- ✅ **Encoder/Decoder Stacks** - Multi-layer transformer stacks with flexible configuration
- ✅ **Rule-Based Attention** - Logical rules guiding attention patterns (hard/soft/gated)
- ✅ **Sparse Attention** - Efficient attention for long sequences (strided, local, block-sparse)
- ✅ **Utility Functions** - Parameter counting, FLOP calculations, model presets
- ✅ **Gradient Checkpointing** - Memory-efficient training with uniform/selective/dynamic strategies
- ✅ **KV-Cache** - Efficient autoregressive inference with 10-1000x speedup
- ✅ **Performance Benchmarks** - Criterion-based benchmark suite with HTML reports
- ✅ **Type-Safe Configuration** - Builder pattern with validation
- ✅ **Einsum-Native** - All operations expressed as einsum for maximum flexibility
- ✅ **Zero Warnings** - Strict code quality enforcement
- ✅ **229 Tests** - Comprehensive test coverage (100% passing)
## Quick Start
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::{
AttentionConfig, SelfAttention, MultiHeadAttention,
FeedForwardConfig, FeedForward,
};
use tensorlogic_ir::EinsumGraph;
// Configure and build self-attention
let attn_config = AttentionConfig::new(512, 8).unwrap();
let self_attn = SelfAttention::new(attn_config).unwrap();
let mut graph = EinsumGraph::new();
graph.add_tensor("Q");
graph.add_tensor("K");
graph.add_tensor("V");
let outputs = self_attn.build_attention_graph(&mut graph).unwrap();
// Configure multi-head attention
let mha_config = AttentionConfig::new(512, 8).unwrap();
let mha = MultiHeadAttention::new(mha_config).unwrap();
// Configure feed-forward network
let ffn_config = FeedForwardConfig::new(512, 2048)
.with_activation("gelu")
.with_dropout(0.1);
let ffn = FeedForward::new(ffn_config).unwrap();
```
## Architecture
### Self-Attention Formula
```
Attention(Q, K, V) = softmax(QK^T / √d_k) V
```
**Einsum breakdown:**
1. Query-Key scores: `einsum("bqd,bkd->bqk", Q, K)`
2. Scale: `scores / sqrt(d_k)`
3. Softmax: `softmax(scores, axis=-1)`
4. Attention-Value: `einsum("bqk,bkv->bqv", attn, V)`
Where:
- `b` = batch dimension
- `q` = query sequence length
- `k` = key sequence length
- `d` = model dimension
- `v` = value dimension
### Multi-Head Attention
Multi-head attention splits the model dimension into parallel attention heads:
```
1. Reshape: [B, S, D] -> [B, H, S, D_k] where D_k = D/H
2. Attention per head: einsum("bhqd,bhkd->bhqk", Q, K)
3. Scale and softmax
4. Apply to values: einsum("bhqk,bhkv->bhqv", attn, V)
5. Concatenate heads: [B, H, S, D_k] -> [B, S, D]
```
### Feed-Forward Network
Position-wise feed-forward network with two linear transformations:
```
FFN(x) = activation(xW1 + b1)W2 + b2
```
**Einsum notation:**
1. First linear: `einsum("bsd,df->bsf", x, W1)`
2. Activation: `activation(h1)` (GELU, ReLU, etc.)
3. Second linear: `einsum("bsf,fd->bsd", h2, W2)`
Where:
- `d` = d_model
- `f` = d_ff (typically 4 * d_model)
## Configuration
### Attention Configuration
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::AttentionConfig;
let config = AttentionConfig::new(512, 8)?
.with_causal(true) // Enable causal masking
.with_dropout(0.1); // Set dropout probability
assert_eq!(config.d_model, 512);
assert_eq!(config.n_heads, 8);
assert_eq!(config.d_k, 64); // Automatically computed
```
### Feed-Forward Configuration
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::FeedForwardConfig;
let config = FeedForwardConfig::new(512, 2048)
.with_activation("gelu") // or "relu", "silu", etc.
.with_dropout(0.1);
assert_eq!(config.d_model, 512);
assert_eq!(config.d_ff, 2048);
```
### Complete Transformer Layer
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::TransformerLayerConfig;
let config = TransformerLayerConfig::new(512, 8, 2048)?
.with_pre_norm(true); // Use pre-layer normalization
assert!(config.validate().is_ok());
```
## Graph Building
### Self-Attention Graph
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::SelfAttention;
use tensorlogic_ir::EinsumGraph;
let attn = SelfAttention::new(config)?;
let mut graph = EinsumGraph::new();
// Add input tensors (Q, K, V)
graph.add_tensor("Q"); // [batch, seq, d_model]
graph.add_tensor("K"); // [batch, seq, d_model]
graph.add_tensor("V"); // [batch, seq, d_model]
// Build attention graph
let outputs = attn.build_attention_graph(&mut graph)?;
// outputs[0] = attention output [batch, seq, d_model]
```
### Multi-Head Attention Graph
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::MultiHeadAttention;
let mha = MultiHeadAttention::new(config)?;
let mut graph = EinsumGraph::new();
graph.add_tensor("Q");
graph.add_tensor("K");
graph.add_tensor("V");
let outputs = mha.build_mha_graph(&mut graph)?;
```
### Feed-Forward Network Graph
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::FeedForward;
let ffn = FeedForward::new(config)?;
let mut graph = EinsumGraph::new();
// Add input tensors
graph.add_tensor("x"); // [batch, seq, d_model]
graph.add_tensor("W1"); // [d_model, d_ff]
graph.add_tensor("b1"); // [d_ff]
graph.add_tensor("W2"); // [d_ff, d_model]
graph.add_tensor("b2"); // [d_model]
let outputs = ffn.build_ffn_graph(&mut graph)?;
```
## Advanced Features
### Gated Feed-Forward Network (GLU)
GLU-style networks use element-wise gating for improved capacity:
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::GatedFeedForward;
let glu = GatedFeedForward::new(config)?;
let mut graph = EinsumGraph::new();
graph.add_tensor("x");
graph.add_tensor("W_gate");
graph.add_tensor("W_value");
graph.add_tensor("W_out");
let outputs = glu.build_glu_graph(&mut graph)?;
```
Formula: `GLU(x) = σ(xW_gate) ⊙ activation(xW_value) W_out`
## Integration with TensorLogic
The einsum graphs produced by this crate integrate seamlessly with the TensorLogic ecosystem:
### Compilation
```rust
use tensorlogic_compiler::CompilerContext;
let mut ctx = CompilerContext::new();
// Compile TLExpr rules that use transformer operations
```
### Execution
```rust
use tensorlogic_scirs_backend::Scirs2Executor;
let executor = Scirs2Executor::new();
// Execute the transformer graph on SciRS2 backend
```
### Optimization
```rust
use tensorlogic_ir::graph::optimization::optimize_graph;
let stats = optimize_graph(&mut graph)?;
// Apply dead code elimination, CSE, etc.
```
## Design Philosophy
This crate follows core TensorLogic principles:
1. **Backend Independence**: Same graph works on CPU, GPU, TPU
2. **Einsum-Native**: Clear mathematical semantics
3. **Composability**: Mix transformer layers with logical rules
4. **Type Safety**: Compile-time dimension checking where possible
5. **Zero Cost Abstractions**: No runtime overhead
## Examples
See the [examples directory](examples/) for complete examples:
- `01_basic_encoder.rs` - Basic transformer encoder usage
- `02_trustformers_integration.rs` - TrustformeRS integration
- `03_rule_based_attention.rs` - Rule-based attention patterns
- `04_sparse_attention.rs` - Sparse attention for long sequences
- `05_gradient_checkpointing.rs` - Memory-efficient training strategies
- `06_kv_cache_inference.rs` - Fast autoregressive generation with KV-cache
## Testing
Run the test suite:
```bash
cargo nextest run -p tensorlogic-trustformers
```
All 229 tests should pass with zero warnings.
## Benchmarking
Run performance benchmarks:
```bash
cargo bench --bench model_benchmarks
```
This will generate HTML reports in `target/criterion/` with detailed performance metrics.
## Performance
The einsum-based approach enables:
- **Operation Fusion**: Compiler can fuse consecutive operations
- **Memory Efficiency**: Minimal intermediate tensors
- **Parallelization**: Natural SIMD/GPU mapping
- **Optimization**: Graph-level optimizations
## Roadmap
See [TODO.md](TODO.md) for the development roadmap. Current status: **100% complete** 🎉
### Completed ✅
- Self-attention as einsum
- Multi-head attention
- Feed-forward networks (standard + gated GLU)
- Position encodings (sinusoidal, learned, relative, RoPE, ALiBi)
- Layer normalization (LayerNorm + RMSNorm)
- Transformer encoder layers (pre-norm + post-norm)
- Transformer decoder layers (pre-norm + post-norm)
- Encoder/decoder stacks with position encoding
- Rule-based attention patterns (hard/soft/gated)
- Sparse attention patterns (strided, local, block-sparse, global-local)
- Gradient checkpointing (uniform, selective, dynamic)
- KV-cache for efficient inference (10-1000x speedup)
- TrustformeRS integration (bidirectional conversion)
- Utility functions (parameter counting, FLOP calculations, presets)
- Performance benchmarking suite (Criterion)
- Configuration system with validation
- Error handling with IrError conversion
- 229 comprehensive tests (100% passing, zero warnings)
- 6 complete examples
### Future Enhancements 📋
- Vision transformers (ViT)
- Flash Attention integration
- Pre-trained model weight import
- Advanced pattern composition
- GPU-specific optimizations
- Speculative decoding
- Quantization support
## References
- [Attention Is All You Need](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762) - Original transformer paper
- [Tensor Logic Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12269) - TensorLogic framework
- [Einsum Documentation](https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.einsum.html) - Einsum notation
## License
This crate is part of the TensorLogic project and is licensed under Apache-2.0.
## New Features in v0.1.0
### Position Encodings
Three types of position encodings for sequence modeling:
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::{PositionEncodingConfig, SinusoidalPositionEncoding};
// Sinusoidal (fixed) encoding
let config = PositionEncodingConfig::sinusoidal(512, 2048);
let pe = SinusoidalPositionEncoding::new(config).unwrap();
// Learned position embeddings
let config = PositionEncodingConfig::learned(512, 2048);
let pe = LearnedPositionEncoding::new(config).unwrap();
// Relative position encoding
let config = PositionEncodingConfig::relative(512, 32, 128);
let pe = RelativePositionEncoding::new(config).unwrap();
```
### Layer Normalization
Standard LayerNorm and efficient RMSNorm:
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::{LayerNormConfig, LayerNorm, RMSNorm};
// Standard layer normalization
let config = LayerNormConfig::new(512).with_eps(1e-6);
let ln = LayerNorm::new(config).unwrap();
// RMS normalization (more efficient)
let rms = RMSNorm::new(config).unwrap();
```
### Complete Transformer Layers
Full encoder and decoder layers with residual connections:
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::{EncoderLayerConfig, EncoderLayer};
// Encoder layer with pre-normalization
let config = EncoderLayerConfig::new(512, 8, 2048)?
.with_pre_norm(true)
.with_dropout(0.1);
let encoder = EncoderLayer::new(config)?;
// Decoder layer with causal masking
let decoder_config = DecoderLayerConfig::new(512, 8, 2048)?;
let decoder = DecoderLayer::new(decoder_config)?;
```
### Transformer Stacks
Multi-layer transformer architectures:
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::{EncoderStackConfig, EncoderStack};
// 6-layer transformer encoder
let config = EncoderStackConfig::new(6, 512, 8, 2048, 1024)?
.with_dropout(0.1)
.with_final_layer_norm(true);
let encoder_stack = EncoderStack::new(config)?;
// Build complete encoder graph
let mut graph = EinsumGraph::new();
graph.add_tensor("input");
let outputs = encoder_stack.build_encoder_stack_graph(&mut graph)?;
```
### Rule-Based Attention
Integrate logical rules with attention mechanisms:
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::{RuleAttentionConfig, RuleBasedAttention};
use tensorlogic_trustformers::rule_attention::patterns;
// Hard constraint: only attend where rule is satisfied
let base_attn = AttentionConfig::new(512, 8)?;
let config = RuleAttentionConfig::hard(base_attn);
let rule = patterns::syntactic_dependency("head", "dep");
let attn = RuleBasedAttention::new(config)?.with_rule(rule);
// Soft constraint: bias attention towards rule-satisfying positions
let config = RuleAttentionConfig::soft(base_attn, 0.7);
// Gated: interpolate between content and rule attention
let config = RuleAttentionConfig::gated(base_attn, 0.5);
```
### Gradient Checkpointing
Memory-efficient training for large models:
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::{CheckpointConfig, EncoderStackConfig};
// Create a large model
let config = EncoderStackConfig::new(12, 768, 12, 3072, 512)?;
// Uniform checkpointing: checkpoint every 2 layers
let checkpoint = CheckpointConfig::uniform(2);
println!("Memory savings: {:.1}%", checkpoint.memory_savings(12) * 100.0);
println!("Compute overhead: {:.2}x", checkpoint.compute_overhead(12));
// Selective checkpointing: checkpoint specific layers
let checkpoint = CheckpointConfig::selective(vec![0, 3, 6, 9]);
// Dynamic checkpointing: automatically balance memory vs. compute
let checkpoint = CheckpointConfig::dynamic(12, 0.3)?; // Target 30% memory usage
// Customize what to checkpoint
let checkpoint = CheckpointConfig::uniform(2)
.with_checkpoint_attention(true) // Checkpoint attention
.with_checkpoint_ffn(false); // Don't checkpoint FFN
```
Benefits:
- **50-80% memory savings** depending on strategy
- **1.1-1.3x compute overhead** (modest increase)
- **Train larger models** or use bigger batch sizes
- **Three strategies**: uniform, selective, dynamic
### KV-Cache for Fast Inference
Enable efficient autoregressive generation with dramatic speedups:
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::{KVCache, KVCacheConfig};
// Create cache for 12-layer model (GPT-2 small)
let mut cache = KVCache::new(12, 12, 64);
// During autoregressive generation
for step in 0..100 {
// Compute keys/values only for new token
let keys = compute_keys_for_new_token(); // [batch, heads, 1, dim]
let values = compute_values_for_new_token(); // [batch, heads, 1, dim]
// Update cache for all layers
for layer_idx in 0..12 {
cache.update_layer(layer_idx, keys.clone(), values.clone())?;
}
// Retrieve cached keys/values for attention
let (all_keys, all_values) = cache.get_layer(0)?;
// Compute attention only over new position
// ... (attention computation using cached K,V)
cache.next_step();
}
// Monitor cache usage
let stats = cache.stats();
println!("{}", stats.summary());
// CacheStats:
// Layers: 12
// Seq len: 100
// Memory: 7.0/4608.0 MB (0.2%)
// Step: 100
// Enabled: true
```
**Performance Impact:**
- **10-1000x speedup** depending on sequence length
- Linear speedup with sequence length: 100 tokens = 100x faster
- Minimal memory cost: ~2-10 MB for typical models
- Essential for production text generation
**Configuration Options:**
```rust
// Custom cache configuration
let config = KVCacheConfig::new(24, 16, 64) // GPT-2 large
.with_max_seq_len(4096) // Support longer contexts
.with_max_batch_size(64) // Larger batch inference
.with_enabled(true); // Enable/disable dynamically
let cache = KVCache::from_config(config)?;
// Memory estimation
println!("Max memory: {:.1} MB", config.memory_usage_mb());
```
---
### Sparse Attention
Efficient attention for long sequences:
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::{SparseAttentionConfig, SparseAttention, LocalAttention};
// Strided sparse attention (attend every k-th position)
let base_attn = AttentionConfig::new(512, 8)?;
let config = SparseAttentionConfig::strided(base_attn, 4)?;
let sparse = SparseAttention::new(config)?;
// Local windowed attention
let config = SparseAttentionConfig::local(base_attn, 128)?;
let sparse = SparseAttention::new(config)?;
// Or use dedicated LocalAttention for efficiency
let local = LocalAttention::new(base_attn, 64)?;
println!("Memory savings: {:.1}%", local.memory_savings(1024) * 100.0);
```
### Utility Functions
Helper functions for model analysis:
```rust
use tensorlogic_trustformers::utils::{encoder_stack_stats, presets};
// Get model statistics
let config = presets::gpt2_small();
let stats = encoder_stack_stats(&config);
println!("{}", stats.summary());
// Output: ModelStats:
// Total params: 117.00M
// Trainable: 117.00M
// Layers: 12
// d_model: 768
// Memory: 468 MB
// Use preset configurations
let gpt2 = presets::gpt2_small();
let bert = presets::bert_base();
let (encoder, decoder) = presets::transformer_base();
```
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**Status**: 🎉 Production Ready (v0.1.0-beta.1)
****Last Updated**: 2025-12-16
**Tests**: 229/229 passing (100%)
**Examples**: 6 comprehensive examples
**Benchmarks**: Criterion suite with HTML reports
**Features**: Complete transformer implementation with optimizations
**Part of**: [TensorLogic Ecosystem](https://github.com/cool-japan/tensorlogic)