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spec(ml): train_hslm speed=4 -- int8 trit forward, error bounded against speed=2 (Closes #10875) - #10908
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… error bounded against speed=2 (Closes #10875) speed=4 is speed 3's window with every forward ternary matmul in integers: activations rounded to int8 with one scale per row, trits transposed once per call, sixteen independent i32 accumulators, output = acc * scale. The backward stays speed 3's f64 code. Tests bound the kernel error (proved per-output bound), logits, k-position loss and gradients against speed 2, and re-derive the lab loss-curve gap and tok/s from recorded constants. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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) (#10913) * ledger(t27b): rows for six specs master carries unlisted, max_not_pass 129 -> 130 (Closes #10912) As the steward applies UNLISTED (specs/tri/t27b/ledger_steward.t27): four pass rows (mos_psp103_50c_data, sar_adc, sar_comparator_psp, tri/worktrees/reap) and two blocked rows, ExprCall(undeclared fn), reason unimplemented (eval_hslm, ngram_hslm -- the same blocker hslm_corpus already carries). Verdicts are the UNLISTED lines of the t27b runs of #10908, #10855, #10907 and #10836 on current master. Not-pass rows become 129 blocked + 1 codegen = 130, so the cap rises by one, within the two new non-pass rows. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ledger(t27b): drop the eval_hslm row, max_not_pass back to 129 (Closes #10912) The PR's own t27b run reported eval_hslm.t27 STALE: on current master the reference no longer compiles it (undeclared identifier 'b3_q' after a train_hslm change), and the steward lists only what the reference passes. Five rows remain (four pass, ngram_hslm blocked); not-pass rows are 128 blocked + 1 codegen = 129, the cap master had. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude <claude@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…flict-free (#10875) The seal is regenerated on the lab in the next commit, after the merge. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…identical at 1 and 3 threads (#10875) Master's thread primitive (#10896) makes window scratch threadlocal; the speed-4 buffers b4_q, b4_s and b4_wt follow. New test checks the step digest at 1 and 3 threads at speed 4, and that it differs from speed 2. Re-sealed on the lab (37 tests, 0 vacuous, all hashes MATCH). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #10875
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specs/ml/train_hslm.t27getsspeed=4: speed 3's window with every forward ternary matmul done in integers.tr4_matmul: each activation row gets one scale, s = max |x| / 127, and is rounded (half away from zero, clamped to +-127) to int8. A NaN or inf row maps to 0. The trits are transposed once per call (tiles of 81) into an i16 buffer so each output's dot runs along contiguous memory. The products add into sixteen independent i32 accumulators (one per j mod 16), then the output isfloat(acc) * s. |sum| <= 127 * 729 < 2^17, so the integer sum is exact in any order.ternary_matmulandtr3_matmulroute speed 4 totr4_matmul; the window functions usespeed_level >= 3;cfg_speed % 4becomes% 5. The default stays 2; speeds 0 to 3 are untouched.Edits are in section 1 (kernels), the window functions and the tests.
Evidence (Railway lab)
t27c test-report specs/ml/train_hslm.t27: 37 tests, 37 pass, 0 vacuous, after merging master (thread primitive, #10896). New tests:speed_four_keeps_every_int8_matmul_output_within_its_proven_bound(block 0 K, block 1 down, head; every output)speed_four_logits_stay_within_two_percent_of_speed_twospeed_four_k_position_loss_stays_within_a_thousandth_of_speed_twospeed_four_gradients_stay_within_five_percent_of_speed_twospeed_four_lab_loss_curves_stay_within_a_thousandth_of_speed_two_over_300_stepsspeed_four_lab_tok_s_and_its_speed_ups_follow_from_the_measured_timesLoss curves: 300 steps, same seed, 13 samples each, recorded as constants (
TR4_CURVE_*). Valid loss ends at 6.3336 (speed 4) vs 6.3340 (speed 2).Throughput: ReleaseFast,
loss_positions=27 steps=10 seed=1729, speeds 2, 3 and 4 started together on the 48-core lab (Xeon 6975P-C, load average 47-66 from other sessions).Speed 4 is 2.021x speed 2 and 1.299x speed 3. A second run gave 66.46 / 44.94 / 34.15 s, speed-ups of the same size (the test checks it).
Negative controls: scaling the activations by m / 100 instead of m / 127 fails exactly the four numeric speed_four tests (bound, logits, loss, gradients) and nothing else. Moving one curve constant fails only the curve test.
Finding: with one i32 accumulator the Zig codegen reduces lanes every 8 products and gains nothing. Sixteen independent accumulators vectorize to
vpmulldon zmm and give the speed-up above.Seal:
t27c seal specs/ml/train_hslm.t27 --save, then--verify, all hashes MATCH.Threads
Master's thread primitive (#10896) made window scratch
threadlocal; the speed-4 buffers (b4_q,b4_s,b4_wt) arethreadlocaltoo. New testone_and_three_threads_give_one_step_the_same_bits_at_speed_4: the step digest at 1 and 3 threads is equal, nonzero and differs from speed 2's.Merge note
Master was merged server-side (update-branch) because the pre-commit foreign-budget hook diffs the staged merge result against HEAD and so counts other authors' files from master; a local merge commit cannot pass it. The seal was restored to master's version first, then re-sealed on the lab after the merge (all hashes MATCH).
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