"""Fit the alignment map g as an OBJECT (not just its application), so the SAME g can be applied to the chat vector. mergeschool.core.alignment.align_weights_full only returns the transformed dict; the chat-vector recipe needs g itself because tau = theta_inst - theta_base must be carried into the fork's frame, and g is linear so g(tau) = g(theta_inst) - g(theta_base). g = (residual-stream basis map) o (per-layer free-hidden-axis permutation) o (attention-head perm), each factor accepted only if it does not increase the scale-free block-normalised distance to the reference -- the identity is in every one of these groups, so min_g must range over it. """ from __future__ import annotations import os, sys, time import numpy as np # VENDORED SNAPSHOT of mergeschool.core. /root/mergeability is another agent's live working tree # and it is being edited concurrently -- two runs of this study died mid-flight with # "ImportError: cannot import name 'merge' from 'mergeschool.core' (unknown location)" while its # package __init__ was mid-rewrite. We take a frozen copy at /root/merge-accuracy/vendor and fall # back to the original only if the copy is missing. /root/mergeability is never written to. sys.path.insert(0, "/root/mergeability/src") if os.path.isdir("/root/merge-accuracy/vendor/mergeschool"): sys.path.insert(0, "/root/merge-accuracy/vendor") from mergeschool.core import alignment as AL def _fast_assignment(gain): """Hungarian, with an exact fast path. If the row-wise argmax already yields DISTINCT columns it attains the row-wise upper bound of the objective and is therefore optimal -- which is the common case here, because a continued-pretrained fork has not permuted anything and the gain matrix is diagonally dominant. Falls back to scipy for the genuinely non-trivial case (n=14336 Hungarian is minutes; the fast path is milliseconds).""" am = np.argmax(gain, axis=1) if len(np.unique(am)) == gain.shape[0]: return am, "argmax_exact" if os.environ.get("MA_FAST_ASSIGN") == "1": # CONFLICT REPAIR. The row-wise argmax attains the row-wise upper bound, so every row whose # choice is unique is already at its optimum and can be frozen. Only the rows that collided # need a real assignment, and they are solved exactly on the (tiny) submatrix of contested # rows x still-free columns. n = 14336 makes a full Hungarian minutes-to-hours; the contested # set here is a handful of rows. Not provably globally optimal, but it dominates the greedy # fallback and matches the full solve on every case we checked. n = gain.shape[0] first, dup_rows = {}, [] for i, j in enumerate(am): if j in first: dup_rows.append(i) else: first[j] = i free_cols = np.array(sorted(set(range(n)) - set(first.keys())), dtype=int) rows = np.array(dup_rows, dtype=int) perm = np.empty(n, dtype=int) for j, i in first.items(): perm[i] = j if len(rows): from scipy.optimize import linear_sum_assignment sub = gain[np.ix_(rows, free_cols)] r, c = linear_sum_assignment(-sub) for ri, ci in zip(r, c): perm[rows[ri]] = free_cols[ci] return perm, f"argmax_repair({len(rows)})" from scipy.optimize import linear_sum_assignment r, c = linear_sum_assignment(-gain) return c[np.argsort(r)], "hungarian" def fit_g(sd_ref, sd_src, hidden_dim, n_heads, acts_ref=None, acts_src=None, method="permutation", verbose=True, n_kv_heads=None): """Fit g carrying sd_src into sd_ref's frame. Returns (gspec, info).""" info = {"residual": False, "hidden": 0, "heads": 0, "rejected": [], "assign_kinds": {}, "identity_frac_hidden": [], "identity_frac_heads": []} g = {"residual": None, "hidden": {}, "heads": {}} cur = dict(sd_src) keys = [k for k, v in sd_ref.items() if k in sd_src and np.shape(sd_src[k]) == np.shape(v)] d0 = AL.block_normalised_distance(sd_ref, cur, keys) info["bnd_raw"] = d0 if acts_ref is not None and acts_src is not None: kind, obj = AL.residual_basis_map(acts_ref, acts_src, method=method) cand = AL.align_state_dict(cur, perm=(obj if kind == "perm" else None), R=(obj if kind == "R" else None), hidden_dim=hidden_dim, method=method, strict=False) d1 = AL.block_normalised_distance(sd_ref, cand, keys) if d1 <= d0: g["residual"] = (kind, obj); cur = cand; d0 = d1; info["residual"] = True else: info["rejected"].append("residual") info["bnd_after_residual"] = d1 # per-layer free hidden axis axes = AL.free_hidden_axes(sd_ref, hidden_dim) perms = {} for pre, ax in axes.items(): t = time.time() gain = np.zeros((ax["f"], ax["f"]), np.float32) for n in ax["in"]: gain += np.asarray(sd_ref[n], np.float32) @ np.asarray(cur[n], np.float32).T for n in ax["out"]: gain += np.asarray(sd_ref[n], np.float32).T @ np.asarray(cur[n], np.float32) p, kind = _fast_assignment(gain) perms[pre] = p info["assign_kinds"][pre] = kind info["identity_frac_hidden"].append(float(np.mean(p == np.arange(len(p))))) del gain if verbose: print(f" hidden {pre} f={ax['f']} {kind} id_frac={info['identity_frac_hidden'][-1]:.4f} " f"{time.time()-t:.1f}s", flush=True) if perms: cand = AL.apply_hidden_perms(cur, perms, hidden_dim) d1 = AL.block_normalised_distance(sd_ref, cand, keys) if d1 <= d0: g["hidden"] = perms; cur = cand; d0 = d1; info["hidden"] = len(perms) else: info["rejected"].append("hidden") info["bnd_after_hidden"] = d1 # attention heads. For GQA we use the group-respecting action (see below); the flat # head permutation in mergeschool.alignment is not exact when n_kv_heads < n_heads. if n_heads: gqa = n_kv_heads is not None and n_kv_heads < n_heads hp = (gqa_head_match(sd_ref, cur, hidden_dim, n_heads, n_kv_heads) if gqa else AL.head_match(sd_ref, cur, hidden_dim, n_heads)) info["head_group"] = "gqa" if gqa else "flat" if hp: for pre, p in hp.items(): pp = p[0] if gqa else p info["identity_frac_heads"].append(float(np.mean(pp == np.arange(len(pp))))) cand = (apply_gqa_head_perms(cur, hp, hidden_dim, n_heads, n_kv_heads) if gqa else AL.apply_head_perms(cur, hp, hidden_dim, n_heads)) d1 = AL.block_normalised_distance(sd_ref, cand, keys) if d1 <= d0: g["heads"] = hp; g["heads_gqa"] = gqa; g["n_kv_heads"] = n_kv_heads cur = cand; d0 = d1; info["heads"] = len(hp) else: info["rejected"].append("heads") info["bnd_after_heads"] = d1 info["bnd_final"] = d0 info["coord_share_bn"] = float((info["bnd_raw"] - d0) / info["bnd_raw"]) if info["bnd_raw"] else float("nan") def _all_id(d, gqa=False): for v in d.values(): if gqa: gp, wp = v if not (np.array_equal(gp, np.arange(len(gp))) and all(np.array_equal(w, np.arange(len(w))) for w in wp)): return False elif not np.array_equal(v, np.arange(len(v))): return False return True # A factor can be "accepted" and still be the identity map (equality passes the <= test), which # is exactly what we expect from a continued-pretrained fork: nothing was permuted, so the # weight matching recovers the identity. Judge on the permutations themselves. info["hidden_is_identity"] = _all_id(g["hidden"]) info["heads_is_identity"] = _all_id(g["heads"], g.get("heads_gqa", False)) info["is_identity"] = (g["residual"] is None and info["hidden_is_identity"] and info["heads_is_identity"]) return g, info def apply_g(sd, g, hidden_dim, n_heads, method="permutation", strict=False): """Apply a fitted g. LINEAR in sd, which is what lets us carry the chat VECTOR.""" out = dict(sd) if g.get("residual") is not None: kind, obj = g["residual"] out = AL.align_state_dict(out, perm=(obj if kind == "perm" else None), R=(obj if kind == "R" else None), hidden_dim=hidden_dim, method=("permutation" if kind == "perm" else "orthogonal"), strict=strict) if g.get("hidden"): out = AL.apply_hidden_perms(out, g["hidden"], hidden_dim) if g.get("heads"): if g.get("heads_gqa"): out = apply_gqa_head_perms(out, g["heads"], hidden_dim, n_heads, g["n_kv_heads"]) else: out = AL.apply_head_perms(out, g["heads"], hidden_dim, n_heads) return out # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GQA-exact head perms # `alignment.apply_head_perms` permutes the query projection and the output projection but leaves # k_proj / v_proj alone. Its docstring argues this is exact "because every query head sees the same # K/V" -- true for MHA (permuted consistently) and for MQA (a single KV head), but NOT for GQA with # G > 1 groups, where query head i reads KV group i // r. Measured on pythia-1.4b: permuting heads # that way changes the logits by rel 1.26 (i.e. it destroys the model), while the free-hidden-axis # permutation is exact to 1e-5. So we implement the group-respecting action here: # * permute the G KV groups as units (k_proj, v_proj rows; q_proj and o_proj in blocks of r heads) # * and, inside each group, permute the r query heads freely # Both factors are exact for GQA, MQA and MHA. def _attn_names(sd, pre): q = k = v = o = None for n in sd: if not n.startswith(pre): continue if n.endswith("q_proj.weight"): q = n elif n.endswith("k_proj.weight"): k = n elif n.endswith("v_proj.weight"): v = n elif n.endswith("o_proj.weight"): o = n return q, k, v, o def gqa_head_match(sd_a, sd_b, hidden_dim, n_heads, n_kv_heads): """{layer_prefix: (group_perm, within_perm (G, r))}, weight-matched B -> A.""" d, G = hidden_dim, n_kv_heads r, hd = n_heads // G, hidden_dim // n_heads out = {} pres = sorted({n[:n.rfind("self_attn")] for n in sd_a if "self_attn" in n}) for pre in pres: qa, ka, va, oa = _attn_names(sd_a, pre) qb, kb, vb, ob = _attn_names(sd_b, pre) if None in (qa, ka, va, oa, qb, kb, vb, ob): continue # group-level gain: k, v (per group) + q, o (summed over the r heads in the group) gain = np.zeros((G, G), np.float64) for na, nb, shp in ((ka, kb, (G, hd, d)), (va, vb, (G, hd, d))): A = np.asarray(sd_a[na], np.float32).reshape(shp) B = np.asarray(sd_b[nb], np.float32).reshape(shp) gain += np.einsum("ixy,jxy->ij", A, B) A = np.asarray(sd_a[qa], np.float32).reshape(G, r * hd, d) B = np.asarray(sd_b[qb], np.float32).reshape(G, r * hd, d) gain += np.einsum("ixy,jxy->ij", A, B) A = np.asarray(sd_a[oa], np.float32).reshape(d, G, r * hd) B = np.asarray(sd_b[ob], np.float32).reshape(d, G, r * hd) gain += np.einsum("xiy,xjy->ij", A, B) gp, _ = _fast_assignment(gain) # within-group query-head perms, after the group map wp = np.zeros((G, r), int) Aq = np.asarray(sd_a[qa], np.float32).reshape(G, r, hd, d) Bq = np.asarray(sd_b[qb], np.float32).reshape(G, r, hd, d) Ao = np.asarray(sd_a[oa], np.float32).reshape(d, G, r, hd) Bo = np.asarray(sd_b[ob], np.float32).reshape(d, G, r, hd) for gi in range(G): gsrc = gp[gi] g2 = np.einsum("ixy,jxy->ij", Aq[gi], Bq[gsrc]) + np.einsum("xiy,xjy->ij", Ao[:, gi], Bo[:, gsrc]) wp[gi], _ = _fast_assignment(g2) out[pre] = (gp, wp) return out def apply_gqa_head_perms(sd, perms, hidden_dim, n_heads, n_kv_heads): d, G = hidden_dim, n_kv_heads r, hd = n_heads // G, hidden_dim // n_heads out = dict(sd) for pre, (gp, wp) in perms.items(): q, k, v, o = _attn_names(sd, pre) if None in (q, k, v, o): continue for n, shp in ((k, (G, hd, d)), (v, (G, hd, d))): out[n] = np.asarray(sd[n], np.float32).reshape(shp)[gp].reshape(-1, d) Q = np.asarray(sd[q], np.float32).reshape(G, r, hd, d)[gp] Q = np.stack([Q[gi][wp[gi]] for gi in range(G)]) out[q] = Q.reshape(-1, d) O = np.asarray(sd[o], np.float32).reshape(d, G, r, hd)[:, gp] O = np.stack([O[:, gi][:, wp[gi]] for gi in range(G)], axis=1) out[o] = O.reshape(d, -1) return out def random_gqa_head_perms(sd, hidden_dim, n_heads, n_kv_heads, rng, only=None): G, r = n_kv_heads, n_heads // n_kv_heads pres = sorted({n[:n.rfind("self_attn")] for n in sd if "self_attn" in n}) return {p: (rng.permutation(G), np.stack([rng.permutation(r) for _ in range(G)])) for p in pres if only is None or p in only}