""" ScratchpadLayer Module Persistent state tracking layer for multi-turn confessional reasoning. Maintains a learnable scratchpad state that accumulates across reasoning steps. """ import torch import torch.nn as nn class ScratchpadLayer(nn.Module): """ Scratchpad layer for maintaining persistent state across confessional reasoning cycles. """ def __init__(self, d_model): super().__init__() self.pad_proj = nn.Linear(d_model, d_model) self.reset = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1, d_model)) def forward(self, x, prev_z=None): """ Update scratchpad state with new input. Args: x: Input tensor (batch_size, sequence_length, d_model) prev_z: Previous scratchpad state (batch_size, d_model), None for reset Returns: Updated scratchpad state (batch_size, d_model) """ if prev_z is None: prev_z = self.reset.expand(x.size(0), -1) x_pooled = x.mean(dim=1) z = self.pad_proj(x_pooled) + 0.7 * prev_z return z