#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ Review Residuals --- training and evaluation for the paper "An Update-Conditioned Residual Gate Whose Advantage Emerges at Scale" (Kramer, 2026). Trains, from scratch on TinyStories, three identity-preserving (additive) residual variants: - review_neutral : update scaled by a gate conditioned on BOTH state and proposed update (ours) - highway : update scaled by a gate conditioned on the state only (param-matched up) - standard : plain residual, update added with coefficient 1 (param-matched up) across five model sizes (60M-1B). Resumable; writes per-run validation losses to scaling_v8.csv. Requires a CUDA GPU (80GB for the 590M/1B sizes). See README.md to reproduce. """ #!/usr/bin/env python3 # Review Residuals scaling sweep — RESILIENT, RESUMABLE, disconnect-proof. # Run on the pod: nohup python run_scaling.py > scaling.log 2>&1 & # Watch progress: tail -f scaling.log # It resumes automatically: any run already in scaling_partial.csv is skipped. # Each run is launched in its OWN subprocess, so even a hard crash on one model # only loses that one model — the sweep keeps going. import os, sys, csv, time, math, subprocess os.environ["PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF"]="expandable_segments:True" CSV="scaling_v8.csv" # ---- the scaling ladder (identical to the notebook) ---- SIZES=[ dict(name="1B", d=1536, L=24, h=16, steps=6000, seeds=[0,1,2]), dict(name="590M", d=1280, L=20, h=20, steps=7000, seeds=[0,1,2]), dict(name="320M", d=1024, L=16, h=16, steps=8000, seeds=[0,1]), dict(name="150M", d=768, L=12, h=12, steps=8000, seeds=[0,1,2]), dict(name="60M", d=512, L=8, h=8, steps=8000, seeds=[0,1,2]), ] VARIANTS=["review_neutral","highway","standard"] # AttnRes is ~8x slower than the others; only run it at the small sizes as anchors. ATTNRES_SIZES=[] # no attnres in the recipe-fixed sweep BLOCK=256; BATCH=64; LR=2e-4; WARMUP=500; N_TEXT=400000 # lower LR + warmup (fixes large-scale divergence) FIELDS=["size","variant","seed","params_M","steps","val_loss","ece","minutes"] def done_set(): s=set() if os.path.exists(CSV): with open(CSV) as f: for r in csv.DictReader(f): s.add((r["size"],r["variant"],int(r["seed"]))) return s def append_row(row): new = not os.path.exists(CSV) with open(CSV,"a",newline="") as f: w=csv.DictWriter(f,fieldnames=FIELDS) if new: w.writeheader() w.writerow(row) # ============================================================ ORCHESTRATOR def orchestrate(): print("[orch] installing deps...",flush=True) subprocess.run([sys.executable,"-m","pip","install","-q","datasets","transformers","accelerate","matplotlib","pandas"]) done=done_set() plan=[] for SZ in SIZES: for v in VARIANTS: if v=="attnres_plus": if SZ["name"] not in ATTNRES_SIZES: continue seeds = SZ["seeds"] if SZ["name"]=="60M" else [0] else: seeds = SZ["seeds"] for sd in seeds: plan.append((SZ,v,sd)) todo=[(SZ,v,sd) for (SZ,v,sd) in plan if (SZ["name"],v,sd) not in done] print(f"[orch] {len(done)} runs already done, {len(todo)} to go",flush=True) t0=time.time() for SZ,v,sd in todo: tag=f"{SZ['name']}/{v}/seed{sd}" print(f"\n[orch] === launching {tag} (elapsed {(time.time()-t0)/3600:.2f}h) ===",flush=True) # isolate each run in a fresh process: a hard crash here cannot kill the sweep rc=subprocess.call([sys.executable, os.path.abspath(__file__), "--worker", SZ["name"], v, str(sd)]) if rc!=0: print(f"[orch] !! {tag} exited with code {rc} (logged as failure, continuing)",flush=True) else: print(f"[orch] ok {tag}",flush=True) print(f"\n[orch] SWEEP COMPLETE in {(time.time()-t0)/3600:.2f}h. Results in {CSV}.",flush=True) try: make_plot() except Exception as e: print("[orch] plot skipped:",e,flush=True) # ============================================================ WORKER (one run) def worker(size_name,variant,seed): import math, numpy as np, torch, torch.nn as nn, torch.nn.functional as F from datasets import load_dataset; from transformers import GPT2TokenizerFast torch.set_float32_matmul_precision("high"); torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32=True; torch.backends.cudnn.allow_tf32=True device="cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"; assert device=="cuda","need GPU" SZ=[s for s in SIZES if s["name"]==size_name][0] tok=GPT2TokenizerFast.from_pretrained("gpt2"); VOCAB=tok.vocab_size class RMSNorm(nn.Module): def __init__(s,d): super().__init__(); s.g=nn.Parameter(torch.ones(d)) def forward(s,x): return x*torch.rsqrt(x.pow(2).mean(-1,keepdim=True)+1e-5)*s.g class Attn(nn.Module): def __init__(s,d,h,block): super().__init__(); s.h=h; s.qkv=nn.Linear(d,3*d); s.proj=nn.Linear(d,d) def forward(s,x): B,T,d=x.shape; q,k,v=s.qkv(x).split(d,2) q=q.view(B,T,s.h,d//s.h).transpose(1,2); k=k.view(B,T,s.h,d//s.h).transpose(1,2); v=v.view(B,T,s.h,d//s.h).transpose(1,2) return s.proj(F.scaled_dot_product_attention(q,k,v,is_causal=True).transpose(1,2).reshape(B,T,d)) class MLP(nn.Module): def __init__(s,d): super().__init__(); s.f1=nn.Linear(d,4*d); s.f2=nn.Linear(4*d,d) def forward(s,x): return s.f2(F.gelu(s.f1(x))) def is_attnres(v): return v in ("attnres","attnres_plus") class GPT(nn.Module): def __init__(s,variant,d,n_layer,n_head,block,vocab): super().__init__(); s.variant=variant s.tok=nn.Embedding(vocab,d); s.pos=nn.Embedding(block,d); s.norms=nn.ModuleList(); s.subs=nn.ModuleList() for i in range(2*n_layer): s.norms.append(RMSNorm(d)); s.subs.append(Attn(d,n_head,block) if i%2==0 else MLP(d)) nS=2*n_layer if variant=="highway": s.gate=nn.ModuleList([nn.Linear(d,d) for _ in range(nS)]) if variant=="review_neutral": s.rgate=nn.ModuleList([nn.Linear(2*d,d) for _ in range(nS)]) for g in s.rgate: nn.init.zeros_(g.weight); nn.init.zeros_(g.bias) if variant=="layerscale": s.ls=nn.ParameterList([nn.Parameter(torch.ones(d)*0.1) for _ in range(nS)]) if variant=="rezero": s.rez=nn.ParameterList([nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1)) for _ in range(nS)]) if is_attnres(variant): s.dq=nn.Parameter(torch.randn(nS+1,d)*0.02); s.dk=nn.Linear(d,d,bias=False) s.lnf=RMSNorm(d); s.head=nn.Linear(d,vocab,bias=False); s.head.weight=s.tok.weight # --- GPT-2 / nanoGPT initialization (stable deep training) --- def _gpt2(mod): if isinstance(mod,nn.Linear): nn.init.normal_(mod.weight,mean=0.0,std=0.02) if mod.bias is not None: nn.init.zeros_(mod.bias) elif isinstance(mod,nn.Embedding): nn.init.normal_(mod.weight,mean=0.0,std=0.02) s.apply(_gpt2) # scale residual-projection outputs by 1/sqrt(2*n_layer) <-- the key deep-stability fix for _n,_p in s.named_parameters(): if _n.endswith("proj.weight") or _n.endswith("f2.weight"): nn.init.normal_(_p,mean=0.0,std=0.02/math.sqrt(2*n_layer)) # keep the review gate neutral (must stay zero for r=0.5 start) if variant=="review_neutral": for g in s.rgate: nn.init.zeros_(g.weight); nn.init.zeros_(g.bias) def _rms(s,x): return x*torch.rsqrt(x.pow(2).mean(-1,keepdim=True)+1e-5) def _depth_attn(s,M,qi): K=s._rms(s.dk(M)); a=(K*qi.view(1,1,1,-1)).sum(-1).softmax(-1).unsqueeze(-1); return (a*M).sum(2) def forward(s,idx,targets=None): B,T=idx.shape; x0=s.tok(idx)+s.pos(torch.arange(T,device=idx.device))[None] if is_attnres(s.variant): mem=[x0] for i,(nrm,sub) in enumerate(zip(s.norms,s.subs)): mem.append(sub(nrm(s._depth_attn(torch.stack(mem,2),s.dq[i])))) h=s._depth_attn(torch.stack(mem,2),s.dq[-1]) else: h=x0 for i,(nrm,sub) in enumerate(zip(s.norms,s.subs)): u=sub(nrm(h)) if s.variant=="highway": g=torch.sigmoid(s.gate[i](h)); h=h+g*u # additive (identity preserved) elif s.variant=="review_neutral": r=torch.sigmoid(s.rgate[i](torch.cat([s._rms(h),s._rms(u)],-1))); h=h+r*u # additive (identity preserved) elif s.variant=="layerscale": h=h+s.ls[i]*u elif s.variant=="rezero": h=h+s.rez[i]*u else: h=h+u logits=s.head(s.lnf(h)) loss=F.cross_entropy(logits.view(-1,logits.size(-1)),targets.view(-1)) if targets is not None else None return logits,loss def attnres_width(SZ): def est(var,d,L,h): nS=2*L; p=VOCAB*d+BLOCK*d+nS*d+L*(4*d*d+4*d)+L*(8*d*d+5*d)+d if var=="review_neutral": p+=nS*(2*d*d+d) elif var=="attnres_plus": p+=(nS+1)*d+d*d return p base=est("review_neutral",SZ["d"],SZ["L"],SZ["h"]); d=SZ["d"] while est("attnres_plus",d,SZ["L"],SZ["h"])e[i])&(C<=e[i+1]) if m.sum(): ece+=m.sum()/len(C)*abs(K[m].mean()-C[m].mean()) return float(np.mean(L)),float(ece) print(f"[worker] {size_name} {variant} seed{seed} on {torch.cuda.get_device_name(0)}",flush=True) train_t,val_t=load_data() d = highway_width(SZ) if variant=="highway" else (standard_width(SZ) if variant=="standard" else SZ["d"]) # param-match baselines UP batch=BATCH for attempt in range(4): try: torch.manual_seed(seed); np.random.seed(seed) m=GPT(variant,d,SZ["L"],SZ["h"],BLOCK,VOCAB).to(device) P=sum(p.numel() for p in m.parameters())/1e6 opt=torch.optim.AdamW(m.parameters(),lr=LR,weight_decay=0.1,betas=(0.9,0.95)) def _lrlam(step, T=SZ["steps"], W=WARMUP): if step < W: return (step+1)/W # linear warmup prog=(step-W)/max(1,(T-W)); return 0.1+0.9*0.5*(1+math.cos(math.pi*min(1.0,prog))) # cosine to 10% sch=torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LambdaLR(opt,_lrlam); t0=time.time() for step in range(SZ["steps"]): x,y=get_batch(train_t,batch,BLOCK); _,loss=m(x,y) opt.zero_grad(); loss.backward(); torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(m.parameters(),1.0); opt.step(); sch.step() if step%1000==0: print(f" step {step}/{SZ['steps']} loss {loss.item():.3f}",flush=True) vl,ece=evaluate(m,val_t,batch); mins=(time.time()-t0)/60 append_row(dict(size=size_name,variant=variant,seed=seed,params_M=round(P,2), steps=SZ["steps"],val_loss=round(vl,4),ece=round(ece,4),minutes=round(mins,1))) print(f"[worker] DONE {size_name} {variant} seed{seed} {P:.1f}M val {vl:.4f} ece {ece:.4f} {mins:.1f}min",flush=True) return 0 except RuntimeError as ex: if "out of memory" in str(ex).lower() and batch>8: torch.cuda.empty_cache(); batch//=2 print(f"[worker] OOM -> retry at batch {batch}",flush=True) else: raise return 1 # ============================================================ PLOT def make_plot(): import pandas as pd, matplotlib; matplotlib.use("Agg"); import matplotlib.pyplot as plt df=pd.read_csv(CSV) df=df[df["val_loss"]<4.5] # drop diverged runs from the plot agg=df.groupby(["size","variant"]).agg(params_M=("params_M","mean"),val_loss=("val_loss","mean")).reset_index() order=[s["name"] for s in SIZES]; agg["o"]=agg["size"].map({n:i for i,n in enumerate(order)}); agg=agg.sort_values("o") col={'review_neutral':'#27ae60','attnres_plus':'#8e44ad','highway':'#999'} mk={'review_neutral':'o','attnres_plus':'s','highway':'^'} fig,ax=plt.subplots(figsize=(8,5.4)) for v in VARIANTS: s=agg[agg.variant==v].sort_values("params_M") if len(s): ax.plot(s["params_M"],s["val_loss"],marker=mk[v],color=col[v],lw=2,ms=8,label=v) ax.set_xscale("log"); ax.set_xlabel("parameters (millions, log scale)") ax.set_ylabel("validation loss (lower = better)") ax.set_title("Review Residuals scaling — loss vs parameters (TinyStories)") ax.grid(alpha=.3,which="both"); ax.legend() plt.tight_layout(); plt.savefig("scaling_result.png",dpi=140) print("[plot] wrote scaling_result.png",flush=True) if __name__=="__main__": if len(sys.argv)>1 and sys.argv[1]=="--worker": sys.exit(worker(sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3], int(sys.argv[4]))) else: orchestrate()