# AetherMind — modeling_aethermind.py # Copyright 2026 AetherMind Project. Apache License 2.0. """PyTorch AetherMind model: a modern decoder-only Transformer. Components implemented from scratch (no third-party LLM code): * ``AetherMindRMSNorm`` — RMSNorm with fp32 statistics * ``AetherMindRotaryEmbedding`` — RoPE with optional linear scaling * ``AetherMindAttention`` — Grouped-Query Attention + KV cache * ``AetherMindMLP`` — SwiGLU feed-forward * ``AetherMindSparseMoE`` — top-k Mixture-of-Experts + aux loss * ``AetherMindDecoderLayer`` — pre-norm Transformer block * ``AetherMindModel`` — embedding + blocks + final norm * ``AetherMindForCausalLM`` — LM head + loss + generation Attention runs through ``torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention``: on CUDA this dispatches to FlashAttention kernels when no explicit mask is needed (no padding), and to the memory-efficient backend otherwise. """ from __future__ import annotations import math import warnings from typing import List, Optional, Tuple, Union import torch import torch.nn as nn import torch.nn.functional as F from transformers import GenerationMixin from transformers.cache_utils import DynamicCache from transformers.modeling_outputs import ( BaseModelOutputWithPast, CausalLMOutputWithPast, ) from transformers.modeling_utils import PreTrainedModel from transformers.utils import logging from .configuration_aethermind import AetherMindConfig logger = logging.get_logger(__name__) _CONFIG_FOR_DOC = "AetherMindConfig" # ====================================================================== # Building blocks # ====================================================================== class AetherMindRMSNorm(nn.Module): """Root-mean-square layer normalization (as in the Llama/RWKV family).""" def __init__(self, hidden_size: int, eps: float = 1e-6) -> None: super().__init__() self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(hidden_size)) self.variance_epsilon = eps def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: input_dtype = hidden_states.dtype hidden_states = hidden_states.to(torch.float32) variance = hidden_states.pow(2).mean(-1, keepdim=True) hidden_states = hidden_states * torch.rsqrt(variance + self.variance_epsilon) return self.weight * hidden_states.to(input_dtype) class AetherMindRotaryEmbedding(nn.Module): """Rotary position embeddings with optional linear interpolation scaling.""" def __init__( self, head_dim: int, max_position_embeddings: int = 4096, base: float = 10000.0, rope_scaling: Optional[dict] = None, ) -> None: super().__init__() self.head_dim = head_dim self.max_position_embeddings = max_position_embeddings self.base = base factor = 1.0 if rope_scaling is not None: rtype = rope_scaling.get("rope_type", rope_scaling.get("type", "linear")) if rtype == "linear": factor = float(rope_scaling.get("factor", 1.0)) self.scaling_factor = factor # inv_freq is kept as a plain attribute (NOT a registered buffer): # it is deterministic from (head_dim, base, scaling_factor), so saving it # is redundant; keeping it out of the state dict avoids meta-device # materialization bugs and accidental dtype casts (e.g. model.to(bf16)). self._inv_freq: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None def _get_inv_freq(self, device: torch.device) -> torch.Tensor: if ( self._inv_freq is None or self._inv_freq.device != device or self._inv_freq.dtype != torch.float32 ): inv_freq = 1.0 / ( self.base ** (torch.arange(0, self.head_dim, 2, dtype=torch.float32, device=device) / self.head_dim) ) self._inv_freq = inv_freq / self.scaling_factor return self._inv_freq @torch.no_grad() def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, position_ids: torch.Tensor): """Return cos/sin of shape ``(batch, seq_len, head_dim)`` in float32.""" inv_freq = self._get_inv_freq(x.device)[None, None, :] # (1, 1, hd/2) pos = position_ids[:, :, None].to(torch.float32) # (b, s, 1) freqs = pos * inv_freq # (b, s, hd/2) emb = torch.cat((freqs, freqs), dim=-1) # (b, s, hd) if position_ids.max() >= self.max_position_embeddings: warnings.warn( "Sequence length exceeds max_position_embeddings; RoPE positions " "beyond the trained window degrade quality. Consider context extension." ) return emb.cos().to(torch.float32), emb.sin().to(torch.float32) def rotate_half(x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: x1, x2 = x.chunk(2, dim=-1) return torch.cat((-x2, x1), dim=-1) def apply_rotary_pos_emb(q, k, cos, sin, unsqueeze_dim: int = 1): cos = cos.unsqueeze(unsqueeze_dim) # (b, 1, s, d) sin = sin.unsqueeze(unsqueeze_dim) q_embed = (q * cos) + (rotate_half(q) * sin) k_embed = (k * cos) + (rotate_half(k) * sin) return q_embed, k_embed def repeat_kv(hidden_states: torch.Tensor, n_rep: int) -> torch.Tensor: """Expand KV heads to match the number of query heads (GQA).""" if n_rep == 1: return hidden_states batch, num_kv_heads, slen, head_dim = hidden_states.shape hidden_states = hidden_states[:, :, None, :, :].expand( batch, num_kv_heads, n_rep, slen, head_dim ) return hidden_states.reshape(batch, num_kv_heads * n_rep, slen, head_dim) # ====================================================================== # Attention # ====================================================================== class AetherMindAttention(nn.Module): """Grouped-Query Attention with RoPE and a dynamic KV cache.""" def __init__(self, config: AetherMindConfig, layer_idx: int) -> None: super().__init__() self.config = config self.layer_idx = layer_idx self.hidden_size = config.hidden_size self.num_heads = config.num_attention_heads self.head_dim = config.head_dim or config.hidden_size // config.num_attention_heads self.num_key_value_heads = config.num_key_value_heads if self.num_heads % self.num_key_value_heads != 0: raise ValueError( f"num_attention_heads ({self.num_heads}) must be divisible by " f"num_key_value_heads ({self.num_key_value_heads})" ) self.num_key_value_groups = self.num_heads // self.num_key_value_heads self.scaling = self.head_dim ** -0.5 self.attention_dropout = config.attention_dropout self.is_causal = True op_size = self.num_heads * self.head_dim self.q_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, op_size, bias=config.attention_bias) self.k_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.num_key_value_heads * self.head_dim, bias=config.attention_bias) self.v_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.num_key_value_heads * self.head_dim, bias=config.attention_bias) self.o_proj = nn.Linear(op_size, self.hidden_size, bias=config.attention_bias) self.rotary_emb = AetherMindRotaryEmbedding( self.head_dim, config.max_position_embeddings, config.rope_theta, config.rope_scaling, ) def forward( self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor, attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, position_ids: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, past_key_values: Optional[DynamicCache] = None, use_cache: bool = False, cache_position: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, output_attentions: bool = False, **kwargs, ) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, Optional[torch.Tensor]]: bsz, q_len, _ = hidden_states.shape query_states = self.q_proj(hidden_states).view(bsz, q_len, self.num_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) key_states = self.k_proj(hidden_states).view(bsz, q_len, self.num_key_value_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) value_states = self.v_proj(hidden_states).view(bsz, q_len, self.num_key_value_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2) cos, sin = self.rotary_emb(value_states, position_ids) query_states, key_states = apply_rotary_pos_emb(query_states, key_states, cos, sin) if past_key_values is not None: cache_kwargs = {"sin": sin, "cos": cos, "cache_position": cache_position} key_states, value_states = past_key_values.update( key_states, value_states, self.layer_idx, cache_kwargs ) key_states = repeat_kv(key_states, self.num_key_value_groups) value_states = repeat_kv(value_states, self.num_key_value_groups) if output_attentions: # Explicit path (returns attention probabilities, CPU-friendly) attn_weights = torch.matmul(query_states, key_states.transpose(2, 3)) * self.scaling if attention_mask is not None: attn_weights = attn_weights + attention_mask attn_weights = F.softmax(attn_weights, dim=-1, dtype=torch.float32).to(query_states.dtype) attn_output = torch.matmul(attn_weights, value_states) attn_weights_out = attn_weights else: full_prefill = attention_mask is None and q_len == key_states.shape[-2] and q_len > 1 attn_output = F.scaled_dot_product_attention( query_states, key_states, value_states, attn_mask=None if full_prefill else attention_mask, dropout_p=self.attention_dropout if self.training else 0.0, is_causal=full_prefill, scale=self.scaling, ) attn_weights_out = None attn_output = attn_output.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().reshape(bsz, q_len, -1) attn_output = self.o_proj(attn_output) return attn_output, attn_weights_out # ====================================================================== # Feed-forward blocks # ====================================================================== ACT2FN = {"silu": F.silu, "gelu": F.gelu, "relu": F.relu} class AetherMindMLP(nn.Module): """SwiGLU feed-forward: down( act(gate(x)) * up(x) ).""" def __init__(self, config: AetherMindConfig, intermediate_size: Optional[int] = None) -> None: super().__init__() inter = intermediate_size or config.intermediate_size self.gate_proj = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, inter, bias=False) self.up_proj = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, inter, bias=False) self.down_proj = nn.Linear(inter, config.hidden_size, bias=False) self.act_fn = ACT2FN[config.hidden_act] def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: return self.down_proj(self.act_fn(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x)) class AetherMindSparseMoE(nn.Module): """Top-k Mixture-of-Experts feed-forward with a load-balancing aux loss. The router picks ``num_experts_per_tok`` experts per token; outputs are the probability-weighted sum of the selected experts. A switch-transformer style auxiliary loss (importance x load) encourages balanced routing and is accumulated in ``AetherMindModel.moe_aux_loss`` during training. """ def __init__(self, config: AetherMindConfig) -> None: super().__init__() self.num_experts = config.num_experts self.top_k = config.num_experts_per_tok self.gate = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, self.num_experts, bias=False) self.experts = nn.ModuleList( [AetherMindMLP(config, intermediate_size=config.moe_intermediate_size) for _ in range(self.num_experts)] ) def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]: bsz, seq_len, hidden = x.shape flat = x.reshape(-1, hidden) router_logits = self.gate(flat) # (N, E) routing_probs = F.softmax(router_logits, dim=-1, dtype=torch.float32) topk_weights, topk_ids = torch.topk(routing_probs, self.top_k, dim=-1) topk_weights = topk_weights / topk_weights.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True) out = torch.zeros_like(flat) for e_idx, expert in enumerate(self.experts): mask = topk_ids == e_idx # (N, k) token_mask = mask.any(dim=-1) if token_mask.any(): weights = (topk_weights * mask).sum(dim=-1)[token_mask].to(flat.dtype) out[token_mask] += expert(flat[token_mask]) * weights.unsqueeze(-1) # Auxiliary load-balancing loss (importance x load), switch-transformer style importance = routing_probs.mean(dim=0) # (E,) load = topk_ids.new_zeros(self.num_experts, dtype=torch.float32) for k in range(self.top_k): load += torch.bincount(topk_ids[:, k], minlength=self.num_experts).to(torch.float32) load = load / (flat.shape[0] * self.top_k) aux_loss = self.num_experts * torch.sum(importance * load) return out.reshape(bsz, seq_len, hidden), aux_loss # ====================================================================== # Decoder layer # ====================================================================== class AetherMindDecoderLayer(nn.Module): """Pre-norm block: x + Attn(RMSNorm(x)); x + FFN(RMSNorm(x)).""" def __init__(self, config: AetherMindConfig, layer_idx: int) -> None: super().__init__() self.layer_idx = layer_idx self.self_attn = AetherMindAttention(config, layer_idx=layer_idx) use_moe = config.use_moe and (layer_idx % max(1, config.moe_layers_freq) == 0) self.mlp = AetherMindSparseMoE(config) if use_moe else AetherMindMLP(config) self.input_layernorm = AetherMindRMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps) self.post_attention_layernorm = AetherMindRMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps) def forward( self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor, attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, position_ids: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, past_key_values: Optional[DynamicCache] = None, use_cache: bool = False, cache_position: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, output_attentions: bool = False, **kwargs, ): residual = hidden_states hidden_states = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states) attn_out, attn_weights = self.self_attn( hidden_states=hidden_states, attention_mask=attention_mask, position_ids=position_ids, past_key_values=past_key_values, use_cache=use_cache, cache_position=cache_position, output_attentions=output_attentions, ) hidden_states = residual + attn_out residual = hidden_states hidden_states = self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states) aux_loss = None if isinstance(self.mlp, AetherMindSparseMoE): hidden_states, aux_loss = self.mlp(hidden_states) else: hidden_states = self.mlp(hidden_states) hidden_states = residual + hidden_states outputs = (hidden_states, attn_weights, aux_loss) return outputs # ====================================================================== # Base model # ====================================================================== class AetherMindPreTrainedModel(PreTrainedModel): config_class = AetherMindConfig base_model_prefix = "model" supports_gradient_checkpointing = True _no_split_modules = ["AetherMindDecoderLayer"] _supports_flash_attn_2 = False _supports_sdpa = True _supports_cache_class = True def _init_weights(self, module: nn.Module) -> None: std = self.config.initializer_range if isinstance(module, nn.Linear): module.weight.data.normal_(mean=0.0, std=std) if module.bias is not None: module.bias.data.zero_() elif isinstance(module, nn.Embedding): module.weight.data.normal_(mean=0.0, std=std) if module.padding_idx is not None: module.weight.data[module.padding_idx].zero_() class AetherMindModel(AetherMindPreTrainedModel): """Transformer backbone without the LM head.""" def __init__(self, config: AetherMindConfig) -> None: super().__init__(config) self.padding_idx = config.pad_token_id self.vocab_size = config.vocab_size self.embed_tokens = nn.Embedding(config.vocab_size, config.hidden_size, self.padding_idx) self.layers = nn.ModuleList( [AetherMindDecoderLayer(config, layer_idx=i) for i in range(config.num_hidden_layers)] ) self.norm = AetherMindRMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps) self.gradient_checkpointing = False self.moe_aux_loss: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None self.post_init() def get_input_embeddings(self) -> nn.Embedding: return self.embed_tokens def set_input_embeddings(self, value: nn.Embedding) -> None: self.embed_tokens = value # ------------------------------------------------------------------ def _create_causal_mask( self, bsz: int, q_len: int, kv_len: int, device: torch.device, dtype: torch.dtype, attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor], ) -> torch.Tensor: """Additive (min-val) mask combining causality and padding.""" min_val = torch.finfo(dtype).min q_pos = torch.arange(kv_len - q_len, kv_len, device=device).unsqueeze(-1) # (q, 1) k_pos = torch.arange(0, kv_len, device=device).unsqueeze(0) # (1, kv) causal = (k_pos > q_pos).unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(0) # (1, 1, q, kv) mask = torch.zeros((bsz, 1, q_len, kv_len), dtype=dtype, device=device) mask = mask.masked_fill(causal, min_val) if attention_mask is not None: pad = (attention_mask[:, None, None, :kv_len] == 0) mask = mask.masked_fill(pad, min_val) return mask # ------------------------------------------------------------------ def forward( self, input_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None, attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None, past_key_values: Optional[Union[DynamicCache, List[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]]]] = None, inputs_embeds: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None, use_cache: Optional[bool] = None, output_attentions: Optional[bool] = None, output_hidden_states: Optional[bool] = None, return_dict: Optional[bool] = None, cache_position: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None, **kwargs, ) -> Union[Tuple, BaseModelOutputWithPast]: output_attentions = output_attentions if output_attentions is not None else False output_hidden_states = output_hidden_states if output_hidden_states is not None else False use_cache = use_cache if use_cache is not None else self.config.use_cache return_dict = return_dict if return_dict is not None else True if self.gradient_checkpointing and self.training: use_cache = False # the cache is mutated in-place and breaks recomputation if (input_ids is None) == (inputs_embeds is None): raise ValueError("Pass exactly one of input_ids or inputs_embeds.") if inputs_embeds is None: inputs_embeds = self.embed_tokens(input_ids) bsz, seq_len, _ = inputs_embeds.shape device = inputs_embeds.device # ---- cache handling (accepts DynamicCache or legacy tuple list) ---- if past_key_values is not None and not hasattr(past_key_values, "update"): legacy = past_key_values past_key_values = DynamicCache() for layer_idx, (k, v) in enumerate(legacy): past_key_values.update(k.to(device), v.to(device), layer_idx) if use_cache and past_key_values is None: past_key_values = DynamicCache() past_seen = past_key_values.get_seq_length() if past_key_values is not None else 0 if cache_position is None: cache_position = torch.arange(past_seen, past_seen + seq_len, device=device) if position_ids is None: position_ids = cache_position.unsqueeze(0) # Explicit mask is required for padding, or for chunked prefill where the # fast is_causal=True kernel cannot express the offset (kv_len > q_len > 1). kv_len = past_seen + seq_len need_explicit_mask = attention_mask is not None or (seq_len > 1 and kv_len > seq_len) causal_mask = ( self._create_causal_mask(bsz, seq_len, kv_len, device, inputs_embeds.dtype, attention_mask) if need_explicit_mask else None ) hidden_states = inputs_embeds all_hidden_states: Tuple = () all_self_attns: Tuple = () aux_total: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None for decoder_layer in self.layers: if output_hidden_states: all_hidden_states += (hidden_states,) if self.gradient_checkpointing and self.training: layer_outputs = self._gradient_checkpointing_func( decoder_layer.__call__, hidden_states, causal_mask, position_ids, past_key_values if use_cache else None, use_cache, cache_position, output_attentions, ) else: layer_outputs = decoder_layer( hidden_states, attention_mask=causal_mask, position_ids=position_ids, past_key_values=past_key_values if use_cache else None, use_cache=use_cache, cache_position=cache_position, output_attentions=output_attentions, ) hidden_states = layer_outputs[0] if output_attentions: all_self_attns += (layer_outputs[1],) if layer_outputs[2] is not None: aux_total = layer_outputs[2] if aux_total is None else aux_total + layer_outputs[2] hidden_states = self.norm(hidden_states) if output_hidden_states: all_hidden_states += (hidden_states,) self.moe_aux_loss = aux_total if not return_dict: return tuple( v for v in (hidden_states, past_key_values, all_hidden_states, all_self_attns) if v is not None ) return BaseModelOutputWithPast( last_hidden_state=hidden_states, past_key_values=past_key_values if use_cache else None, hidden_states=all_hidden_states if output_hidden_states else None, attentions=all_self_attns if output_attentions else None, ) # ====================================================================== # Causal LM # ====================================================================== class AetherMindForCausalLM(AetherMindPreTrainedModel, GenerationMixin): """AetherMind with a tied/untied LM head for causal language modeling.""" _tied_weights_keys = {"lm_head.weight": "model.embed_tokens.weight"} def __init__(self, config: AetherMindConfig) -> None: super().__init__(config) self.model = AetherMindModel(config) self.vocab_size = config.vocab_size self.lm_head = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.vocab_size, bias=False) self.post_init() def get_input_embeddings(self) -> nn.Embedding: return self.model.embed_tokens def set_input_embeddings(self, value: nn.Embedding) -> None: self.model.embed_tokens = value def get_output_embeddings(self) -> nn.Linear: return self.lm_head def set_output_embeddings(self, value: nn.Linear) -> None: self.lm_head = value # ------------------------------------------------------------------ def forward( self, input_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None, attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None, past_key_values: Optional[Union[DynamicCache, List[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]]]] = None, inputs_embeds: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None, labels: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None, use_cache: Optional[bool] = None, output_attentions: Optional[bool] = None, output_hidden_states: Optional[bool] = None, return_dict: Optional[bool] = None, cache_position: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None, logits_to_keep: Union[int, torch.Tensor] = 0, **kwargs, ) -> Union[Tuple, CausalLMOutputWithPast]: output_attentions = output_attentions if output_attentions is not None else False output_hidden_states = output_hidden_states if output_hidden_states is not None else False return_dict = return_dict if return_dict is not None else True outputs = self.model( input_ids=input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask, position_ids=position_ids, past_key_values=past_key_values, inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds, use_cache=use_cache, output_attentions=output_attentions, output_hidden_states=output_hidden_states, return_dict=True, cache_position=cache_position, ) hidden_states = outputs.last_hidden_state if isinstance(logits_to_keep, int): slice_indices = slice(None, -logits_to_keep if logits_to_keep > 0 else None) else: slice_indices = logits_to_keep logits = self.lm_head(hidden_states[:, slice_indices, :]).float() loss = None if labels is not None: shift_logits = logits[..., :-1, :].contiguous() shift_labels = labels[..., 1:].contiguous() loss = F.cross_entropy( shift_logits.view(-1, self.vocab_size), shift_labels.view(-1), ignore_index=-100, ) if self.config.use_moe and self.model.moe_aux_loss is not None: loss = loss + self.config.moe_aux_loss_coeff * self.model.moe_aux_loss if not return_dict: output = (logits, outputs.past_key_values) if output_hidden_states: output += (outputs.hidden_states,) if output_attentions: output += (outputs.attentions,) return ((loss,) + output) if loss is not None else output return CausalLMOutputWithPast( loss=loss, logits=logits, past_key_values=outputs.past_key_values, hidden_states=outputs.hidden_states, attentions=outputs.attentions, ) # ------------------------------------------------------------------ def prepare_inputs_for_generation( self, input_ids: torch.LongTensor, past_key_values: Optional[DynamicCache] = None, attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, inputs_embeds: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None, cache_position: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None, use_cache: bool = True, **kwargs, ): past_length = 0 if past_key_values is not None and hasattr(past_key_values, "get_seq_length"): past_length = past_key_values.get_seq_length() model_inputs = {} if inputs_embeds is not None and past_length == 0: model_inputs["inputs_embeds"] = inputs_embeds elif cache_position is not None: model_inputs["input_ids"] = input_ids[:, cache_position].contiguous() else: model_inputs["input_ids"] = input_ids[:, past_length:].contiguous() cache_position = torch.arange( past_length, past_length + model_inputs["input_ids"].shape[1], device=input_ids.device ) input_length = model_inputs["inputs_embeds"].shape[1] if "inputs_embeds" in model_inputs \ else model_inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] position_ids = None if attention_mask is not None: position_ids = attention_mask.long().cumsum(-1) - 1 position_ids.masked_fill_(attention_mask == 0, 1) position_ids = position_ids[:, -input_length:] model_inputs.update( { "past_key_values": past_key_values, "use_cache": use_cache, "attention_mask": attention_mask, "position_ids": position_ids, "cache_position": cache_position, } ) return model_inputs __all__ = [ "AetherMindConfig", "AetherMindModel", "AetherMindForCausalLM", "AetherMindPreTrainedModel", "AetherMindRMSNorm", "AetherMindRotaryEmbedding", "AetherMindAttention", "AetherMindMLP", "AetherMindSparseMoE", "AetherMindDecoderLayer", ]