"""VAS — Value-Attention Similarity (admissible cross-substrate per head). For each head (l, h), two T x T similarity matrices on the tokens are naturally defined: S_att = A_{l,h} (attention-induced) S_val = V_{l,h} V_{l,h}^T / D_h_norm (value-vector Gram) where V_{l,h} = X_l W_V^{l,h} is the per-head value projection of the post-LN hidden state X_l. We approximate V via the head's attention output contribution recorded in the forward cache (cache.head_writes), since A V is what the head actually "writes" into the residual stream. The cross-substrate intuition: a well-functioning head's attention pattern should be consistent with the underlying value-space geometry (tokens attended together should have similar value vectors); a mismatch signals that attention is pointing somewhere uncalibrated with the representation. Per-head scalar: d_{l,h} = || S_att_centered - S_val_centered ||_F / (||S_att||_F * ||S_val||_F) (normalised mismatch) c_{l,h} = CKA(S_att, S_val) (alignment correlation) r_{l,h} = mean_i kl(S_att[i,:] || S_val[i,:]) (row-wise KL) Aggregate per layer (mean, std, max, min across H heads) for each of (d, c, r), then aggregate per scalar across L layers by (mean, std, max, argmax, late, early). Total: 3 quantities x 4 head-stats x 6 layer-stats = 72 → trimmed to 36 scalars. Admissible: pure attention + head-write geometry, no W_cls projection. """ from __future__ import annotations import numpy as np def _columns(): cols = [] for q in ("d", "c", "r"): for hagg in ("mean", "std", "max", "min"): for lstat in ("mean", "std", "max"): # 3 layer-stats only to keep 36 cols.append(f"vas_{q}_{hagg}_{lstat}") return cols[:36] COLUMNS = _columns() DIM = len(COLUMNS) def _center(K): n = K.shape[0] return K - K.mean(axis=0, keepdims=True) - K.mean(axis=1, keepdims=True) + K.mean() def _cka(K1, K2, eps=1e-12): K1c = _center(K1); K2c = _center(K2) num = float(np.sum(K1c * K2c)) d1 = float(np.sum(K1c * K1c)); d2 = float(np.sum(K2c * K2c)) return num / max(np.sqrt(d1 * d2), eps) def _row_kl(P, Q, eps=1e-12): p = P / max(P.sum(axis=-1, keepdims=True).max(), eps) q = Q / max(Q.sum(axis=-1, keepdims=True).max(), eps) p = np.clip(p, eps, None); q = np.clip(q, eps, None) return float((p * np.log(p / q)).sum(axis=-1).mean()) def extract_vas(model, input_ids, attention_mask, cache, pred_label=None): """Return (features (B, DIM), columns). Uses cache.attn_weights and cache.head_writes (per-head write contributions). head_writes[l] has shape (B, H, T, D_head). """ B = input_ids.shape[0] if not getattr(cache, "head_writes", None): return np.zeros((B, DIM), dtype=np.float32), COLUMNS L = len(cache.attn_weights) feats = np.zeros((B, DIM), dtype=np.float32) for b in range(B): T_b = int(attention_mask[b].sum().item()) T_max = cache.attn_weights[0].shape[-1] T = max(min(T_b, T_max), 4) per_layer_d = [] # (L,) head-mean / std / max / min per_layer_c = [] per_layer_r = [] for l in range(L): A_full = cache.attn_weights[l][b].detach().float().cpu().numpy() # (H, T_pad, T_pad) HW = cache.head_writes[l][b].detach().float().cpu().numpy() # (H, T_pad, D_head) A = A_full[:, :T, :T] V = HW[:, :T] # (H, T, D_head) d_h = np.zeros(A.shape[0]) c_h = np.zeros(A.shape[0]) r_h = np.zeros(A.shape[0]) for h in range(A.shape[0]): S_att = A[h] # value Gram (normalised) V_norm = V[h] / np.maximum(np.linalg.norm(V[h], axis=-1, keepdims=True), 1e-9) S_val = V_norm @ V_norm.T S_val = (S_val + 1.0) / 2.0 # map [-1,1] to [0,1] # Frobenius-normalised mismatch Sa_c = _center(S_att); Sv_c = _center(S_val) num = float(np.linalg.norm(Sa_c - Sv_c)) den = max(float(np.linalg.norm(S_att) * np.linalg.norm(S_val)), 1e-9) d_h[h] = num / den c_h[h] = _cka(S_att, S_val) r_h[h] = _row_kl(S_att, S_val) per_layer_d.append([d_h.mean(), d_h.std(), d_h.max(), d_h.min()]) per_layer_c.append([c_h.mean(), c_h.std(), c_h.max(), c_h.min()]) per_layer_r.append([r_h.mean(), r_h.std(), r_h.max(), r_h.min()]) D_arr = np.array(per_layer_d, dtype=np.float32) # (L, 4) C_arr = np.array(per_layer_c, dtype=np.float32) R_arr = np.array(per_layer_r, dtype=np.float32) idx = 0 for ARR in (D_arr, C_arr, R_arr): for hagg_col in range(4): col = ARR[:, hagg_col] feats[b, idx + 0] = float(col.mean()) feats[b, idx + 1] = float(col.std()) feats[b, idx + 2] = float(col.max()) idx += 3 if idx >= DIM: break if idx >= DIM: break return feats, COLUMNS