"""v41: BitConv — depthwise causal ±1 convolution replaces attention. Findings so far: - v38 (global static T×T mix, shared-across-channels) failed catastrophically (3.12 BPC). Too few degrees of freedom: one pattern for 256 channels can't capture diverse per-channel routing. - v39/v40 (attention + content-addressable memory) failed to beat v17. Adding more routing options didn't help; the underlying local routing was already OK. - Analysis said 102/120 heads are local-recent (mean argmax-distance < 3 tokens). v41 takes the "attention is local" finding literally and replaces attention with a CHANNEL-WISE causal ±1 convolution. Each of d_model channels gets its own learnable K-length ±1 kernel over the past K tokens. Per-channel (not shared) is the key distinction from v38. Parameter cost is trivial (D·K), so most of the 5M budget goes to FFN. y[b, t, d] = sign( sum_{k=0}^{K-1} sign(kernel[d, k]) * x[b, t-k, d] / sqrt(K) ) Everything stays ±1. No Q/K/V, no softmax, no ALiBi, no multi-head. Config (5M): d_model=256, n_layers=8, K=16, d_ff=800. """ import math import torch import torch.nn as nn import torch.nn.functional as F from model import sign_ste, sign_ste_clipped, BitLinear, BitFFN, BinaryEmbedding class BitCausalConv(nn.Module): """Depth-wise causal ±1 1D convolution. One K-length kernel per channel.""" def __init__(self, d_model, kernel_size=16): super().__init__() self.d_model = d_model self.K = kernel_size # Latent float kernel; forward uses sign(kernel). self.kernel = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(d_model, kernel_size) * 0.02) # Scale so sum of K ±1 values has unit variance on average. self.scale = 1.0 / math.sqrt(kernel_size) def forward(self, x): # x: (B, T, D), ±1 B, T, D = x.shape W = sign_ste(self.kernel) # (D, K) ±1 # F.conv1d expects (B, C, T_in) and weight (C_out, C_in/groups, K). # Depthwise: C_out = C_in = D, groups = D, weight shape (D, 1, K). W_conv = W.unsqueeze(1) # (D, 1, K) x_t = x.transpose(1, 2) # (B, D, T) # Causal: pad K-1 on the left. Output length = T. x_pad = F.pad(x_t, (self.K - 1, 0)) y = F.conv1d(x_pad, W_conv, groups=D) # (B, D, T) y = y.transpose(1, 2) * self.scale # (B, T, D), ~unit scale return sign_ste_clipped(y) class BitBlockV41(nn.Module): def __init__(self, d_model, d_ff, kernel_size): super().__init__() self.conv = BitCausalConv(d_model, kernel_size) self.ffn = BitFFN(d_model, d_ff) def forward(self, x): c = self.conv(x) f = self.ffn(x) return sign_ste(x + c + f) class BitLMv41(nn.Module): def __init__(self, vocab_size=128, d_model=256, n_layers=8, d_ff=800, kernel_size=16, max_seq_len=256): super().__init__() self.vocab_size = vocab_size self.d_model = d_model self.n_layers = n_layers self.max_seq_len = max_seq_len self.kernel_size = kernel_size self.embed = BinaryEmbedding(vocab_size, d_model) self.blocks = nn.ModuleList([ BitBlockV41(d_model, d_ff, kernel_size) for _ in range(n_layers) ]) self.out_codebook = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(vocab_size, d_model) * 0.02) self.logit_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(1.0 / math.sqrt(d_model))) self.out_bias = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(vocab_size)) def forward(self, idx, targets=None): x = self.embed(idx) for blk in self.blocks: x = blk(x) W_out = sign_ste(self.out_codebook) scores = torch.matmul(x, W_out.t()) logits = scores * self.logit_scale + self.out_bias loss = None if targets is not None: loss = F.cross_entropy(logits.view(-1, self.vocab_size), targets.view(-1)) return logits, loss @torch.no_grad() def generate(self, idx, max_new_tokens=200, temperature=1.0, top_k=None): self.eval() for _ in range(max_new_tokens): idx_cond = idx[:, -self.max_seq_len:] logits, _ = self(idx_cond) logits = logits[:, -1, :] / max(temperature, 1e-5) if top_k is not None: v, _ = torch.topk(logits, top_k) logits[logits < v[:, [-1]]] = -float('inf') probs = F.softmax(logits, dim=-1) nxt = torch.multinomial(probs, num_samples=1) idx = torch.cat([idx, nxt], dim=1) return idx if __name__ == '__main__': for d_ff in (768, 800, 816): for K in (8, 16, 32): m = BitLMv41(d_model=256, n_layers=8, d_ff=d_ff, kernel_size=K) n = sum(p.numel() for p in m.parameters()) print(f'd_ff={d_ff}, K={K}: {n:,} ({n/1e6:.3f}M)') m = BitLMv41() x = torch.randint(0, 128, (2, 64)) y = torch.randint(0, 128, (2, 64)) logits, loss = m(x, y) loss.backward() print(f'loss={loss.item():.3f}, backward OK')