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AsteriskForCausalLM.py

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+"""
+Hybrid ASPP-Attention Architecture (Asterisk Model)
+Combines Adjacency-Structured Parallel Propagation (ASPP) with standard attention mechanisms
+to enhance model expressiveness while maintaining efficiency.
+
+Architecture Design:
+- Hybrid layers: Standard attention + ASPP operator in parallel
+- Gate mechanism for dynamic fusion
+- Knowledge distillation from SmolLM2-135M base model
+"""
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+from transformers import LlamaConfig, LlamaForCausalLM, LlamaModel
+from transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama import (
+    LlamaAttention,
+    LlamaDecoderLayer,
+    LlamaRMSNorm,
+    LlamaMLP,
+)
+from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoModelForCausalLM
+from typing import Optional, Tuple, List
+
+
+class AsteriskConfig(LlamaConfig):
+    """
+    Configuration class for Asterisk model.
+    Inherits from LlamaConfig with custom model_type.
+    """
+    model_type = "asterisk"
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        hybrid_layer_indices: Optional[List[int]] = None,
+        aspp_hidden_dim: Optional[int] = None,
+        aspp_num_steps: int = 2,
+        aspp_dropout: float = 0.1,
+        # π-flow parameters
+        pi_flow: bool = False,
+        pi_flow_steps: int = 1,
+        pi_flow_scale: float = 0.2,
+        pi_flow_use_gate: bool = True,
+        **kwargs
+    ):
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        self.hybrid_layer_indices = hybrid_layer_indices
+        self.aspp_hidden_dim = aspp_hidden_dim
+        self.aspp_num_steps = aspp_num_steps
+        self.aspp_dropout = aspp_dropout
+        # π-flow config
+        self.pi_flow = pi_flow
+        self.pi_flow_steps = pi_flow_steps
+        self.pi_flow_scale = pi_flow_scale
+        self.pi_flow_use_gate = pi_flow_use_gate
+
+
+class ASPPOperator(nn.Module):
+    """
+    Asterisk Operator (ASPP) - Point-wise Parallel Propagation
+
+    Simplified version WITHOUT neighbor gathering to reduce overfitting:
+    - Optional dimensionality reduction for efficiency
+    - Point-wise evolution: h_i^(t+1) = φ(h_i^(t))  [NO neighbors]
+    - Multi-step evolution for depth without added complexity
+    - Dropout for regularization
+
+    Args:
+        hidden_size: Dimension of hidden states (input/output)
+        aspp_hidden_dim: Internal dimension for ASPP (default: None, use hidden_size)
+        num_steps: Number of evolution steps K (default: 2)
+        dropout: Dropout rate for regularization (default: 0.1)
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, hidden_size: int, aspp_hidden_dim: Optional[int] = None, num_steps: int = 2, dropout: float = 0.1):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.hidden_size = hidden_size
+        self.aspp_hidden_dim = aspp_hidden_dim or hidden_size
+        self.num_steps = num_steps
+
+        # Projection to lower dimension (if specified)
+        self.use_projection = (self.aspp_hidden_dim != hidden_size)
+        if self.use_projection:
+            self.down_proj = nn.Linear(hidden_size, self.aspp_hidden_dim)
+            self.up_proj = nn.Linear(self.aspp_hidden_dim, hidden_size)
+            self.proj_dropout = nn.Dropout(dropout)
+
+        # Point-wise update function φ - NO neighbor gathering
+        # Much smaller: only processes current position
+        self.update_net = nn.Sequential(
+            nn.Linear(self.aspp_hidden_dim, self.aspp_hidden_dim * 2),
+            nn.SiLU(),
+            nn.Dropout(dropout),
+            nn.Linear(self.aspp_hidden_dim * 2, self.aspp_hidden_dim),
+            nn.Dropout(dropout),
+        )
+
+        # Learnable K-step parameter
+        # sigmoid(1.0) ≈ 0.73, giving k_steps ≈ 1.5 → 2 steps initially
+        self.k_logit = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(1.0))
+
+        # Learnable residual scale
+        self.residual_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(0.1))
+
+        # Layer norm for stability
+        self.norm = nn.LayerNorm(self.aspp_hidden_dim, eps=1e-5)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Args:
+            hidden_states: [batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size]
+        Returns:
+            evolved_states: [batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size]
+        """
+        # Project to lower dimension if needed
+        if self.use_projection:
+            h_t = self.down_proj(hidden_states)
+            h_t = self.proj_dropout(h_t)
+        else:
+            h_t = hidden_states
+
+        # Learnable number of steps
+        k_steps = max(1, int(torch.sigmoid(self.k_logit) * self.num_steps))
+
+        # K-step point-wise evolution (NO neighbor gathering)
+        for t in range(k_steps):
+            # Apply point-wise update rule φ
+            h_t_next = self.update_net(h_t)
+
+            # Scaled residual connection for stability
+            h_t = h_t + self.residual_scale * h_t_next
+            h_t = self.norm(h_t)
+
+        # Project back to original dimension if needed
+        if self.use_projection:
+            h_t = self.up_proj(h_t)
+            h_t = self.proj_dropout(h_t)
+
+        return h_t
+
+
+class HybridASPPAttentionLayer(LlamaDecoderLayer):
+    """
+    Hybrid layer combining ASPP operator and standard attention
+    Inherits from LlamaDecoderLayer to maintain compatibility
+
+    Architecture:
+    1. Parallel branches:
+       - ASPP operator for local structured reasoning
+       - Standard LlamaAttention for global context
+    2. Gated fusion of both outputs
+    3. π-flow refinement (optional, per-layer)
+    4. Feed-forward network
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, config: LlamaConfig, layer_idx: int, aspp_hidden_dim: Optional[int] = None, aspp_num_steps: int = 2, aspp_dropout: float = 0.1):
+        # Initialize parent LlamaDecoderLayer
+        super().__init__(config, layer_idx)
+
+        # Add ASPP branch
+        self.aspp_operator = ASPPOperator(
+            hidden_size=config.hidden_size,
+            aspp_hidden_dim=aspp_hidden_dim,
+            num_steps=aspp_num_steps,
+            dropout=aspp_dropout
+        )
+
+        # Gated fusion mechanism with dropout
+        self.fusion_gate = nn.Sequential(
+            nn.Linear(config.hidden_size * 2, config.hidden_size),
+            nn.Dropout(aspp_dropout),
+            nn.Sigmoid()
+        )
+
+        # Initialize gate to be balanced (output 0.5 initially)
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            self.fusion_gate[0].bias.fill_(0.0)  # sigmoid(0) = 0.5
+
+        # π-flow: Per-layer refinement ASPP
+        if getattr(config, 'pi_flow', False):
+            self.pi_flow_aspp = ASPPOperator(
+                hidden_size=config.hidden_size,
+                aspp_hidden_dim=aspp_hidden_dim,
+                num_steps=aspp_num_steps,
+                dropout=aspp_dropout
+            )
+
+            # Learnable flow scale (per-layer)
+            self.pi_flow_scale = nn.Parameter(
+                torch.tensor(getattr(config, 'pi_flow_scale', 0.2))
+            )
+
+            # Token-wise adaptive gating (optional)
+            if getattr(config, 'pi_flow_use_gate', True):
+                self.pi_flow_gate = nn.Sequential(
+                    nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.hidden_size // 4),
+                    nn.SiLU(),
+                    nn.Dropout(aspp_dropout),
+                    nn.Linear(config.hidden_size // 4, 1),
+                    nn.Sigmoid()
+                )
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
+        past_key_values = None,
+        use_cache: Optional[bool] = False,
+        cache_position: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
+        position_embeddings: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]] = None,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Override LlamaDecoderLayer.forward to add ASPP branch and π-flow
+        Returns single tensor like LlamaDecoderLayer
+        """
+        residual = hidden_states
+        hidden_states = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states)
+
+        # ASPP branch
+        aspp_output = self.aspp_operator(hidden_states)
+
+        # Attention branch - use parent's self_attn (returns tuple, discard cache with _)
+        attn_output, _ = self.self_attn(
+            hidden_states=hidden_states,
+            attention_mask=attention_mask,
+            position_ids=position_ids,
+            past_key_values=past_key_values,
+            cache_position=cache_position,
+            position_embeddings=position_embeddings,
+        )
+
+        # Gated fusion
+        fusion_input = torch.cat([aspp_output, attn_output], dim=-1)
+        gate = self.fusion_gate(fusion_input)
+
+        # Combine with gating: gate * ASPP + (1-gate) * Attention
+        fused_output = gate * aspp_output + (1 - gate) * attn_output
+
+        # Residual connection
+        hidden_states = residual + fused_output
+
+        # π-flow: Multi-step refinement in probability space (per-layer)
+        if hasattr(self, 'pi_flow_aspp'):
+            pi_flow_steps = getattr(self.config if hasattr(self, 'config') else kwargs.get('config'), 'pi_flow_steps', 1)
+
+            for step in range(pi_flow_steps):
+                # Compute velocity field v(h) using ASPP
+                v = self.pi_flow_aspp(hidden_states)
+
+                # Compute adaptive gate (per-token flow strength)
+                if hasattr(self, 'pi_flow_gate'):
+                    gate = self.pi_flow_gate(hidden_states)  # [B, L, 1]
+                    alpha = self.pi_flow_scale * gate
+                else:
+                    alpha = self.pi_flow_scale
+
+                # Euler step: h' = h + α * v(h)
+                hidden_states = hidden_states + alpha * v
+
+        # MLP block (use parent's mlp)
+        residual = hidden_states
+        hidden_states = self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = self.mlp(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
+
+        # Return only hidden_states tensor, like LlamaDecoderLayer
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+class AsteriskLlamaModel(LlamaModel):
+    """
+    Asterisk-Llama model with full hybrid ASPP-Attention architecture
+
+    All layers use hybrid ASPP+Attention by default for maximum expressiveness.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, config: LlamaConfig, hybrid_layer_indices: Optional[List[int]] = None, aspp_hidden_dim: Optional[int] = None, aspp_num_steps: int = 2, aspp_dropout: float = 0.1):
+        super().__init__(config)
+
+        # Determine which layers to make hybrid (default: ALL layers)
+        if hybrid_layer_indices is None:
+            # Use ALL layers as hybrid (full hybrid architecture)
+            num_layers = config.num_hidden_layers
+            hybrid_layer_indices = list(range(num_layers))
+
+        self.hybrid_layer_indices = hybrid_layer_indices
+
+        # Replace specified layers with hybrid layers (with per-layer π-flow if enabled)
+        for idx in hybrid_layer_indices:
+            if idx < len(self.layers):
+                self.layers[idx] = HybridASPPAttentionLayer(
+                    config,
+                    layer_idx=idx,
+                    aspp_hidden_dim=aspp_hidden_dim,
+                    aspp_num_steps=aspp_num_steps,
+                    aspp_dropout=aspp_dropout
+                )
+
+        # Initialize weights
+        self.post_init()
+
+
+class AsteriskForCausalLM(LlamaForCausalLM):
+    """
+    Asterisk Causal LM with Hybrid ASPP-Attention architecture
+
+    Registered as: AsteriskForCausalLM
+    """
+
+    config_class = AsteriskConfig
+
+    def __init__(self, config: AsteriskConfig, hybrid_layer_indices: Optional[List[int]] = None, aspp_hidden_dim: Optional[int] = None, aspp_num_steps: int = 2, aspp_dropout: float = 0.1):
+        # Read all ASPP parameters from config if not explicitly provided
+        if hybrid_layer_indices is None and hasattr(config, 'hybrid_layer_indices'):
+            hybrid_layer_indices = config.hybrid_layer_indices
+        if aspp_hidden_dim is None and hasattr(config, 'aspp_hidden_dim'):
+            aspp_hidden_dim = config.aspp_hidden_dim
+        if hasattr(config, 'aspp_num_steps'):
+            aspp_num_steps = config.aspp_num_steps
+        if hasattr(config, 'aspp_dropout'):
+            aspp_dropout = config.aspp_dropout
+
+        super().__init__(config)
+
+        # Replace model with Asterisk version
+        self.model = AsteriskLlamaModel(config, hybrid_layer_indices, aspp_hidden_dim, aspp_num_steps, aspp_dropout)
+
+        # Store hybrid layer info in config for serialization
+        self.config.hybrid_layer_indices = hybrid_layer_indices
+
+        # Initialize weights
+        self.post_init()
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained_base(
+        cls,
+        base_model_path: str,
+        hybrid_layer_indices: Optional[List[int]] = None,
+        aspp_hidden_dim: Optional[int] = None,
+        aspp_num_steps: int = 2,
+        aspp_dropout: float = 0.1,
+        # π-flow parameters
+        pi_flow: bool = False,
+        pi_flow_steps: int = 1,
+        pi_flow_scale: float = 0.2,
+        pi_flow_use_gate: bool = True,
+        **kwargs
+    ):
+        """
+        Load base model and convert to Asterisk architecture
+
+        Args:
+            base_model_path: Path to base SmolLM2 model
+            hybrid_layer_indices: Which layers to make hybrid (None for all)
+            aspp_hidden_dim: Internal dimension for ASPP (None = use model hidden_size)
+            aspp_num_steps: Number of evolution steps K for ASPP (default: 2)
+            aspp_dropout: Dropout rate for ASPP regularization (default: 0.1)
+            pi_flow: Enable π-flow refinement step (default: False)
+            pi_flow_steps: Number of flow refinement steps (default: 1)
+            pi_flow_scale: Initial flow scale parameter (default: 0.2)
+            pi_flow_use_gate: Use token-wise adaptive gating (default: True)
+        """
+        # Load base model
+        base_model = LlamaForCausalLM.from_pretrained(base_model_path, **kwargs)
+        base_config = base_model.config
+
+        # Create Asterisk config from base config with ASPP + π-flow params
+        asterisk_config = AsteriskConfig(
+            **base_config.to_dict(),
+            hybrid_layer_indices=hybrid_layer_indices,
+            aspp_hidden_dim=aspp_hidden_dim,
+            aspp_num_steps=aspp_num_steps,
+            aspp_dropout=aspp_dropout,
+            pi_flow=pi_flow,
+            pi_flow_steps=pi_flow_steps,
+            pi_flow_scale=pi_flow_scale,
+            pi_flow_use_gate=pi_flow_use_gate,
+        )
+
+        # Create Asterisk model
+        asterisk_model = cls(asterisk_config, hybrid_layer_indices, aspp_hidden_dim, aspp_num_steps, aspp_dropout)
+
+        # Transfer weights from base model (non-hybrid layers and embeddings)
+        asterisk_model.load_state_dict(base_model.state_dict(), strict=False)
+
+        print(f"✓ Converted base model to Asterisk architecture")
+        print(f"  Hybrid layers: {asterisk_model.model.hybrid_layer_indices}")
+        aspp_dim_str = f"{aspp_hidden_dim}" if aspp_hidden_dim else f"{base_config.hidden_size} (full)"
+        print(f"  ASPP config: dim={aspp_dim_str}, steps={aspp_num_steps}, dropout={aspp_dropout}")
+        if pi_flow:
+            print(f"  π-flow enabled: steps={pi_flow_steps}, scale={pi_flow_scale}, gate={pi_flow_use_gate}")
+
+        return asterisk_model, base_model
+
+
+# Register the model for AutoModel
+AutoConfig.register("asterisk", AsteriskConfig)
+AutoModelForCausalLM.register(AsteriskConfig, AsteriskForCausalLM)
+
+
+def get_model_info(model):
+    """Print model architecture information"""
+    total_params = sum(p.numel() for p in model.parameters())
+    trainable_params = sum(p.numel() for p in model.parameters() if p.requires_grad)
+
+    print(f"  • Total parameters: {total_params:,}")
+    print(f"  • Trainable parameters: {trainable_params:,}")
+    print(f"  • Model size: {total_params * 4 / 1024**2:.2f} MB (fp32)")
+
+    if isinstance(model, AsteriskForCausalLM):
+        print(f"  • Hybrid layer indices: {model.model.hybrid_layer_indices}")
+        print(f"  • Number of hybrid layers: {len(model.model.hybrid_layer_indices)}")

README.md

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----
-license: apache-2.0
----
+---
+library_name: transformers
+model_name: Asterisk-Pi
+base_model: NoesisLab/Asterisk
+tags:
+- aspp
+- pi-flow
+- hybrid-architecture
+- graph-reasoning
+- probability-flow
+- sft
+- trl
+license: apache-2.0
+language:
+- en
+---
+
+# Asterisk-Pi: ASPP-Attention with π-Flow Refinement
+
+**Asterisk-Pi** is an enhanced version of the Asterisk model that adds **π-flow (probability flow)** refinement to the hybrid ASPP-Attention architecture. Building on the SmolLM2-135M base, Asterisk-Pi implements per-layer iterative refinement inspired by probability flow ODEs from diffusion models, enabling multi-step reasoning through continuous state evolution.
+
+## Model Description
+
+- **Base Model**: [Asterisk](https://huggingface.co/NoesisLab/Asterisk) (SmolLM2-135M-Instruct with ASPP)
+- **Architecture**: Hybrid ASPP-Attention + Per-Layer π-Flow (30 hybrid layers)
+- **Parameters**: 173.7M (37.5M ASPP + 2.5M π-flow parameters)
+- **Training**: Supervised Fine-Tuning on Mixed Benchmark Dataset
+- **Framework**: Transformers 4.57.6, TRL 0.27.0
+
+## Key Innovation: π-Flow Refinement
+
+**π-Flow** (Probability Flow) adds iterative refinement to each hybrid layer, inspired by continuous-time probability flow ODEs:
+
+```
+h' = h + α * v(h)  [Euler discretization]
+```
+
+Where:
+- `v(h)` is the velocity field computed by a dedicated ASPP operator
+- `α` is a learnable per-token scaling factor (adaptive gating)
+- Applied after ASPP-Attention fusion in each layer
+
+This enables **60 total refinement steps** (30 layers × 2 steps each) throughout the model, allowing gradual convergence to more refined representations.
+
+## Evaluation Results
+
+Evaluated on LM-Evaluation-Harness:
+
+| Task | Metric | Asterisk-Pi | Asterisk (Base) | Δ |
+|------|--------|-------------|-----------------|---|
+| **ARC-Challenge** | acc_norm | **0.3038** | 0.2884 | +0.0154 |
+| **ARC-Easy** | acc_norm | **0.5412** | 0.5450 | -0.0038 |
+| **HellaSwag** | acc_norm | **0.4207** | 0.4430 | -0.0223 |
+| **PIQA** | acc_norm | **0.6703** | 0.6770 | -0.0067 |
+| **WinoGrande** | acc | **0.5391** | 0.5210 | +0.0181 |
+
+### Analysis
+
+π-Flow shows improvements on:
+- **ARC-Challenge** (+1.54%): More challenging reasoning benefits from iterative refinement
+- **WinoGrande** (+1.81%): Multi-step resolution helps with pronoun disambiguation
+
+Mixed results on simpler tasks suggest π-flow adds reasoning depth that's most beneficial for complex multi-step problems.
+
+## Architecture
+
+### Overview
+
+![Asterisk-Pi Architecture](./Gemini_Generated_Image_jvekprjvekprjvek.png)
+
+*Figure: Asterisk-Pi architecture showing the hybrid ASPP-Attention structure with π-flow refinement. Each of the 30 layers contains parallel ASPP and Attention branches, gated fusion, and iterative π-flow refinement using probability flow ODE.*
+
+```
+Input → [30 Hybrid Layers with π-Flow] → Output
+
+Each Hybrid Layer:
+1. ASPP-Attention Fusion (from base Asterisk)
+2. π-Flow Refinement (NEW)
+3. Feed-Forward Network
+```
+
+### 1. Hybrid ASPP-Attention Layer (Base Asterisk)
+
+```python
+class HybridASPPAttentionLayer:
+    """
+    Combines ASPP operator with standard attention
+
+    Components:
+    - ASPP operator: Local structured reasoning
+    - Standard attention: Global context
+    - Gated fusion: Dynamic balancing
+    """
+```
+
+**Fusion mechanism:**
+```
+aspp_out = ASPP(hidden_states)
+attn_out = Attention(hidden_states, mask, ...)
+gate = sigmoid(linear([aspp_out || attn_out]))
+fused = gate * aspp_out + (1 - gate) * attn_out
+```
+
+### 2. π-Flow Refinement (Per-Layer)
+
+```python
+# Added to each hybrid layer
+self.pi_flow_aspp = ASPPOperator(...)        # Velocity field network
+self.pi_flow_scale = Parameter(0.2)          # Learnable flow strength
+self.pi_flow_gate = MLP(hidden_size -> 1)    # Token-wise adaptive gating
+```
+
+**π-Flow forward pass:**
+```
+function π_flow_refinement(hidden_states):
+    for step = 1 to π_flow_steps:
+        # Compute velocity field using dedicated ASPP
+        v = pi_flow_aspp(hidden_states)
+
+        # Adaptive per-token gating
+        gate = sigmoid(pi_flow_gate(hidden_states))  # [B, L, 1]
+        alpha = pi_flow_scale * gate
+
+        # Euler step in probability space
+        hidden_states = hidden_states + alpha * v
+
+    return hidden_states
+```
+
+**Key design choices:**
+1. **Per-layer π-flow**: Each of 30 layers has independent π-flow parameters
+2. **Learnable scale**: `pi_flow_scale` adapts flow strength during training
+3. **Token-wise gating**: Different tokens get different flow magnitudes
+4. **ASPP velocity**: Reuses ASPP architecture for computing v(h)
+
+### 3. Complete Layer Pseudocode
+
+```
+function HybridLayerWithPiFlow(hidden_states, attention_mask, ...):
+    residual = hidden_states
+    hidden_states = input_layernorm(hidden_states)
+
+    # === Hybrid ASPP-Attention (Base Asterisk) ===
+    aspp_output = aspp_operator(hidden_states)
+    attn_output = self_attention(hidden_states, attention_mask, ...)
+
+    # Gated fusion
+    fusion_input = concat([aspp_output, attn_output])
+    gate = sigmoid(linear(dropout(fusion_input)))
+    fused_output = gate * aspp_output + (1 - gate) * attn_output
+
+    # Residual connection
+    hidden_states = residual + fused_output
+
+    # === π-Flow Refinement (NEW) ===
+    for step in [1..pi_flow_steps]:
+        v = pi_flow_aspp(hidden_states)
+        alpha = pi_flow_scale * sigmoid(pi_flow_gate(hidden_states))
+        hidden_states = hidden_states + alpha * v
+
+    # === MLP Block ===
+    residual = hidden_states
+    hidden_states = post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states)
+    hidden_states = mlp(hidden_states)
+    hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
+
+    return hidden_states
+```
+
+## Parameter Breakdown
+
+| Component | Parameters | Notes |
+|-----------|------------|-------|
+| **Base SmolLM2** | 135.6M | Embeddings, attention, MLP |
+| **ASPP Operators** | 35.5M | 30 layers × ~1.2M each |
+| **π-Flow ASPPs** | 2.3M | 30 layers × ~77k each |
+| **π-Flow Gates** | 0.2M | 30 layers × ~7k each |
+| **π-Flow Scales** | 30 | 30 learnable scalars |
+| **Total** | **173.7M** | +28% vs base SmolLM2 |
+
+π-Flow adds only **1.4% more parameters** (2.5M) compared to base Asterisk (171.2M) while providing 60 total refinement steps.
+
+## Quick Start
+
+```python
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+import torch
+
+# Load model and tokenizer
+model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+    "path/to/Asterisk-Pi",
+    trust_remote_code=True,
+    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+    device_map="auto"
+)
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("path/to/Asterisk-Pi")
+
+# Generate text
+messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain the waterfall model in software engineering."}]
+inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
+
+outputs = model.generate(
+    inputs,
+    max_new_tokens=256,
+    temperature=0.7,
+    do_sample=True,
+)
+print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
+```
+
+## Training Details
+
+### Training Dataset
+
+Mixed benchmark dataset for testing true capabilities:
+
+| Dataset | Ratio | Purpose |
+|---------|-------|---------|
+| **GSM8K** | 25% | Math reasoning benchmark |
+| **HellaSwag** | 30% | Commonsense reasoning benchmark |
+| **ARC** | 20% | Science QA (Easy + Challenge) |
+| **OpenHermes** | 10% | High-quality long-form responses |
+| **Capybara** | 15% | Multi-turn conversations |
+
+Total: ~10,148 training samples
+
+### Training Configuration
+
+- **Starting Point**: Asterisk checkpoint (base ASPP-Attention model)
+- **Optimizer**: AdamW (lr=5e-4, weight_decay=0.1)
+- **Batch Size**: 2 per device, gradient accumulation=4 (effective batch=8)
+- **Epochs**: 2
+- **Scheduler**: Linear warmup (10% of steps)
+- **Mixed Precision**: bfloat16
+- **Gradient Checkpointing**: Enabled
+- **Max Grad Norm**: 1.0
+
+### π-Flow Configuration
+
+```python
+pi_flow = True
+pi_flow_steps = 2           # 2 refinement steps per layer
+pi_flow_scale = 1.0         # Initial flow strength
+pi_flow_use_gate = True     # Token-wise adaptive gating
+```
+
+### ASPP Configuration (Inherited from Base)
+
+```python
+aspp_hidden_dim = 256       # Internal dimension (vs 576 model hidden_size)
+aspp_num_steps = 4          # Evolution steps for ASPP
+aspp_dropout = 0.2          # Regularization
+hybrid_layer_indices = None # All 30 layers
+```
+
+## Model Creation from Base Asterisk
+
+```python
+from AsteriskForCausalLM import AsteriskForCausalLM
+from safetensors.torch import load_file
+import torch
+
+# Load Asterisk config and inject π-flow parameters
+from AsteriskForCausalLM import AsteriskConfig
+config = AsteriskConfig.from_pretrained("path/to/Asterisk", trust_remote_code=True)
+
+# Add π-flow configuration
+config.pi_flow = True
+config.pi_flow_steps = 2
+config.pi_flow_scale = 1.0
+config.pi_flow_use_gate = True
+
+# Create model with π-flow
+model = AsteriskForCausalLM(config)
+
+# Load pretrained Asterisk weights (strict=False ignores new π-flow params)
+state_dict = load_file("path/to/Asterisk/model.safetensors")
+missing_keys, unexpected_keys = model.load_state_dict(state_dict, strict=False)
+
+# π-flow parameters are randomly initialized
+print(f"New π-flow parameters: {len(missing_keys)}")
+
+# Move to device
+model = model.to(dtype=torch.bfloat16, device="cuda")
+```
+
+## Theoretical Background
+
+### π-Flow: Probability Flow ODE
+
+Inspired by diffusion model score-based formulations:
+
+```
+dx/dt = v(x, t)  [Continuous probability flow]
+```
+
+Discretized with Euler method:
+```
+x_{t+1} = x_t + Δt * v(x_t)
+```
+
+In Asterisk-Pi:
+- `x_t` = hidden states at layer output
+- `v(x_t)` = velocity field from dedicated ASPP
+- `Δt` = learnable `pi_flow_scale * gate(x_t)`
+
+### Multi-Scale Refinement
+
+- **Layer-level**: 30 hybrid layers with ASPP-Attention fusion
+- **π-Flow level**: 2 steps per layer = 60 total refinement operations
+- **ASPP-level**: 4 evolution steps within each ASPP = 240 micro-updates
+
+This creates a **hierarchical refinement cascade** enabling gradual convergence to high-quality representations.
+
+### Why π-Flow Helps
+
+1. **Iterative refinement**: Multiple passes allow correcting errors
+2. **Adaptive flow**: Token-wise gating focuses computation where needed
+3. **Gradient flow**: More direct paths for gradient propagation
+4. **Expressiveness**: Increases model capacity with minimal parameters
+
+## Implementation Details
+
+### Return Type Handling
+
+Critical for Transformers compatibility:
+
+```python
+# HybridASPPAttentionLayer.forward() returns tensor only
+def forward(self, hidden_states, ...) -> torch.Tensor:
+    # ... ASPP + Attention + π-flow ...
+    return hidden_states  # ✅ Tensor, not tuple
+
+# This matches LlamaDecoderLayer API: -> torch.Tensor
+```
+
+### Gradient Checkpointing Compatibility
+
+π-Flow is fully compatible with gradient checkpointing:
+- All operations are standard PyTorch ops
+- No custom CUDA kernels
+- Automatic differentiation through flow steps
+
+### Weight Initialization
+
+- **ASPP parameters**: Transferred from base Asterisk
+- **π-Flow ASPP**: Randomly initialized (Xavier uniform)
+- **π-Flow scale**: Initialized to 0.2 (conservative)
+- **π-Flow gate**: Initialized to output ~0.5 (balanced)
+
+## Files in Checkpoint
+
+```
+Asterisk-Pi/
+├── AsteriskForCausalLM.py    # Model implementation (with π-flow)
+├── config.json                # Model configuration
+├── model.safetensors          # Model weights
+├── tokenizer.json             # Tokenizer
+├── generation_config.json     # Generation settings
+└── README.md                  # This file
+```
+
+## Differences from Base Asterisk
+
+| Feature | Asterisk | Asterisk-Pi |
+|---------|----------|-------------|
+| **ASPP-Attention** | ✅ | ✅ |
+| **π-Flow Refinement** | ❌ | ✅ (per-layer) |
+| **Parameters** | 171.2M | 173.7M (+1.4%) |
+| **Refinement Steps** | 30 (layers) | 60 (30 layers × 2) |
+| **Training Dataset** | Capybara | Mixed Benchmarks |
+| **Complexity** | Medium | High |
+
+## Known Issues & Solutions
+
+### 1. Return Type Errors
+
+**Issue**: `AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'dtype'`
+
+**Solution**: `HybridASPPAttentionLayer.forward()` must return `torch.Tensor` only, not tuple. This matches the `LlamaDecoderLayer` API in transformers 4.57.6.
+
+### 2. π-Flow in All Layers vs Final Layer
+
+**Initial approach**: π-flow only in final layer (limited expressiveness)
+
+**Current approach**: π-flow in all 30 hybrid layers for maximum refinement capability.
+
+### 3. Training Stability
+
+π-Flow can cause instability with high learning rates. Use:
+- Lower learning rate (5e-4 vs 2e-5 for base)
+- Gradient clipping (max_norm=1.0)
+- Conservative initial flow scale (0.2-1.0)
+
+## Dependencies
+
+```bash
+pip install torch>=2.0.0
+pip install transformers>=4.40.0
+pip install trl>=0.8.0
+pip install datasets>=2.14.0
+pip install accelerate>=0.25.0
+pip install bitsandbytes
+pip install safetensors
+```
+
+## Citations
+
+If you use this model, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{asteriskpi2026,
+  title={Asterisk-Pi: Probability Flow Refinement for Hybrid ASPP-Attention Models},
+  author={NoesisLab},
+  year={2026},
+  publisher={Huggingface},
+  url={https://huggingface.co/NoesisLab/Asterisk-Pi}
+}
+```
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{asterisk2026,
+  title={Asterisk: Hybrid ASPP-Attention Architecture for Enhanced Language Modeling},
+  author={NoesisLab},
+  year={2026},
+  publisher={Huggingface},
+  url={https://huggingface.co/NoesisLab/Asterisk}
+}
+```
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{vonwerra2022trl,
+  title={{TRL: Transformer Reinforcement Learning}},
+  author={Leandro von Werra and Younes Belkada and Lewis Tunstall and Edward Beeching and Tristan Thrush and Nathan Lambert and Shengyi Huang and Kashif Rasul and Quentin Gallouédec},
+  year={2020},
+  journal={GitHub repository},
+  publisher={GitHub},
+  howpublished={\url{https://github.com/huggingface/trl}}
+}
+```
+
+```bibtex
+@article{allal2024SmolLM2,
+  title={SmolLM2 - with great data, comes great performance},
+  author={Allal, Loubna Ben and Lozhkov, Anton and Penedo, Guilherme and Wolf, Thomas and von Werra, Leandro},
+  year={2024}
+}
+```
+
+## Related Work
+
+- **Diffusion Models**: π-flow inspired by probability flow ODEs in score-based diffusion
+- **Neural ODEs**: Continuous-depth models with adaptive computation
+- **Iterative Refinement**: Multi-pass decoding in sequence models
+
+## Future Directions
+
+1. **Adaptive π-flow steps**: Learn number of refinement steps per layer
+2. **Higher-order ODE solvers**: Replace Euler with RK4 or adaptive schemes
+3. **Stochastic π-flow**: Add noise injection for exploration
+4. **Cross-layer π-flow**: Allow information flow between distant layers
+
+## License
+
+This model inherits the Apache 2.0 license from SmolLM2-135M-Instruct.
+
+## Framework Versions
+
+- **TRL**: 0.27.0
+- **Transformers**: 4.57.6
+- **PyTorch**: 2.8.0+cu128
+- **Datasets**: 4.5.0
+- **Tokenizers**: 0.22.2
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+Built on top of:
+- [Asterisk](https://huggingface.co/NoesisLab/Asterisk) - Base ASPP-Attention architecture
+- [SmolLM2-135M-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct) - Foundation model
+- [TRL](https://github.com/huggingface/trl) - Training framework
+
+Special thanks to the diffusion model community for probability flow ODE insights.

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+{% for message in messages %}{% if loop.first and messages[0]['role'] != 'system' %}{{ '<|im_start|>system
+You are a helpful AI assistant named SmolLM, trained by Hugging Face<|im_end|>
+' }}{% endif %}{{'<|im_start|>' + message['role'] + '
+' + message['content'] + '<|im_end|>' + '
+'}}{% endfor %}{% if add_generation_prompt %}{{ '<|im_start|>assistant
+' }}{% endif %}

config.json

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+{
+  "architectures": [
+    "AsteriskForCausalLM"
+  ],
+  "aspp_dropout": 0.2,
+  "aspp_hidden_dim": 256,
+  "aspp_num_steps": 4,
+  "attention_bias": false,
+  "attention_dropout": 0.0,
+  "auto_map": {
+    "AutoConfig": "AsteriskForCausalLM.AsteriskConfig",
+    "AutoModelForCausalLM": "AsteriskForCausalLM.AsteriskForCausalLM"
+  },
+  "bos_token_id": 1,
+  "dtype": "bfloat16",
+  "eos_token_id": 2,
+  "head_dim": 64,
+  "hidden_act": "silu",
+  "hidden_size": 576,
+  "hybrid_layer_indices": null,
+  "initializer_range": 0.041666666666666664,
+  "intermediate_size": 1536,
+  "is_llama_config": true,
+  "max_position_embeddings": 8192,
+  "mlp_bias": false,
+  "model_type": "asterisk",
+  "num_attention_heads": 9,
+  "num_hidden_layers": 30,
+  "num_key_value_heads": 3,
+  "pad_token_id": 2,
+  "pi_flow": true,
+  "pi_flow_scale": 1.0,
+  "pi_flow_steps": 2,
+  "pi_flow_use_gate": true,
+  "pretraining_tp": 1,
+  "rms_norm_eps": 1e-05,
+  "rope_interleaved": false,
+  "rope_scaling": null,
+  "rope_theta": 100000,
+  "tie_word_embeddings": true,
+  "transformers.js_config": {
+    "kv_cache_dtype": {
+      "fp16": "float16",
+      "q4f16": "float16"
+    }
+  },
+  "transformers_version": "4.57.6",
+  "use_cache": true,
+  "vocab_size": 49152
+}

generation_config.json

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+{
+  "_from_model_config": true,
+  "bos_token_id": 1,
+  "eos_token_id": [
+    2
+  ],
+  "pad_token_id": 2,
+  "transformers_version": "4.57.6"
+}

handler.py

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+# handler.py
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Union
+
+import torch
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+
+
+Json = Dict[str, Any]
+Messages = List[Dict[str, str]]  # [{"role":"user|assistant|system", "content":"..."}]
+
+
+def _is_messages(x: Any) -> bool:
+    return (
+        isinstance(x, list)
+        and len(x) > 0
+        and all(isinstance(m, dict) and "role" in m and "content" in m for m in x)
+    )
+
+
+class EndpointHandler:
+    """
+    Hugging Face Inference Endpoints custom handler.
+    Expects:
+      - request body is a dict
+      - always contains `inputs`
+      - may contain `parameters` for generation
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, model_dir: str):
+        self.model_dir = model_dir
+
+        # Pick dtype/device
+        self.device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
+        if self.device == "cuda":
+            # bfloat16 is usually safe on A100/H100; if your instance doesn't support bf16, change to float16
+            self.dtype = torch.bfloat16
+        else:
+            self.dtype = torch.float32
+
+        # IMPORTANT: trust_remote_code=True because repo contains AsteriskForCausalLM.py + auto_map
+        self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+            model_dir,
+            trust_remote_code=True,
+            use_fast=True,
+        )
+
+        # Make sure pad token exists (your config uses pad_token_id=2 which equals eos_token_id in many llama-like models)
+        if self.tokenizer.pad_token_id is None and self.tokenizer.eos_token_id is not None:
+            self.tokenizer.pad_token = self.tokenizer.eos_token
+
+        self.model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+            model_dir,
+            trust_remote_code=True,
+            torch_dtype=self.dtype,
+            device_map="auto" if self.device == "cuda" else None,
+        )
+
+        if self.device != "cuda":
+            self.model.to(self.device)
+
+        self.model.eval()
+
+    @torch.inference_mode()
+    def __call__(self, data: Json) -> Union[Json, List[Json]]:
+        inputs = data.get("inputs", "")
+        params = data.get("parameters", {}) or {}
+
+        # Generation defaults (can be overridden via `parameters`)
+        max_new_tokens = int(params.get("max_new_tokens", 256))
+        temperature = float(params.get("temperature", 0.7))
+        top_p = float(params.get("top_p", 0.95))
+        top_k = int(params.get("top_k", 0))
+        repetition_penalty = float(params.get("repetition_penalty", 1.0))
+
+        do_sample = bool(params.get("do_sample", temperature > 0))
+        num_beams = int(params.get("num_beams", 1))
+
+        def _one(item: Any) -> Json:
+            # Accept:
+            # 1) string prompt
+            # 2) messages list: [{"role":"user","content":"..."}]
+            # 3) dict {"messages":[...]} (common chat style)
+            if isinstance(item, dict) and "messages" in item:
+                item = item["messages"]
+
+            if _is_messages(item):
+                # Chat template path exists in repo; tokenizer.apply_chat_template will use it if configured
+                input_ids = self.tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
+                    item,
+                    return_tensors="pt",
+                    add_generation_prompt=True,
+                )
+            else:
+                if not isinstance(item, str):
+                    item = str(item)
+                enc = self.tokenizer(item, return_tensors="pt")
+                input_ids = enc["input_ids"]
+
+            input_ids = input_ids.to(self.model.device)
+            input_len = input_ids.shape[-1]
+
+            gen_ids = self.model.generate(
+                input_ids=input_ids,
+                max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens,
+                do_sample=do_sample,
+                temperature=temperature if do_sample else None,
+                top_p=top_p if do_sample else None,
+                top_k=top_k if do_sample and top_k > 0 else None,
+                num_beams=num_beams,
+                repetition_penalty=repetition_penalty,
+                pad_token_id=self.tokenizer.pad_token_id,
+                eos_token_id=self.tokenizer.eos_token_id,
+            )
+
+            # Only return newly generated tokens
+            new_tokens = gen_ids[0, input_len:]
+            text = self.tokenizer.decode(new_tokens, skip_special_tokens=True)
+            return {"generated_text": text}
+
+        # Batch support
+        if isinstance(inputs, list) and not _is_messages(inputs):
+            return [_one(x) for x in inputs]
+        else:
+            return _one(inputs)

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+    "<|im_start|>",
+    "<|im_end|>"
+  ],
+  "bos_token": {
+    "content": "<|im_start|>",
+    "lstrip": false,
+    "normalized": false,
+    "rstrip": false,
+    "single_word": false
+  },
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+    "lstrip": false,
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+    "rstrip": false,
+    "single_word": false
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+    "lstrip": false,
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+  },
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+    "lstrip": false,
+    "normalized": false,
+    "rstrip": false,
+    "single_word": false
+  }
+}

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+    "<|im_end|>"
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+  "clean_up_tokenization_spaces": false,
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+  "extra_special_tokens": {},
+  "model_max_length": 8192,
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