- CudaBackend: paged decode via attn_paged_decode, prefill via attn_prefill
- Decode uses req_to_token as page_table with page_size=1
- Falls back to TorchNativeBackend when kernel unavailable
- Rename forward_decode/forward_extend to fwd_decode/fwd_prefill
- Register ATTN_BACKEND.CUDA in _BACKEND_REGISTRY
- Replace all buffer[layer_id][loc] double indexing with buffer[layer_id, loc] single advanced indexing in cache.py and attention.py
- Revert KVStorage buffers back to 4D [n_layers, size, n_kv_heads, head_dim], remove leftover 3D reshape/view in MLA path
- Update docs/guides/inference.md, docs/developer/internals.md, docs/developer/architecture.md to reflect new PagePool/KVStorage/ReqToTokenPool/KVCache classes
- Extract _resolve_base_type and _validate_component as module-level helpers
- Replace ForwardRef._evaluate private API with eval in module namespace
- Remove broad except Exception in __init_subclass__, _component_base always set
- Replace direct _entries mutation in strategy.py with register() call form
- Remove dead TOKENIZER_CLASSES registry from AutoTokenizer
- Extract ModelFactory(BaseFactory[nn.Module]) as pure factory
- AutoModel now inherits only nn.Module, no factory state
- Move @AutoModel.register to @ModelFactory.register in transformer.py and encoder.py
- Replace hand-rolled BaseConfig (from_dict/to_dict/_coerce/_unwrap_optional) with pydantic.dataclasses
- from_dict now uses cls(**d), to_dict uses dataclasses.asdict + json.dumps filter
- TrainConfig: required fields are now truly required (no default=None), delete manual validate()/__post_init__
- Remove dead required() helper and metadata={'help': ...} annotations
- Fix gradient_checkpointing_modules type from List[str] to List[type]
- Add pydantic>=2.0 as direct dependency in pyproject.toml
- Add numpy-style Parameters docstrings to all config classes
- Enable use_attribute_docstrings in BaseConfig for schema generation
- LoRAConfig also migrated to pydantic dataclass
- Move create_ref_model from astrai/parallel/utils.py into executor.py
- Remove unused ColumnParallelLinear/RowParallelLinear (module.py)
- Update imports in strategy.py and train_context.py
- Drop unused astrai.parallel.utils and astrai.parallel.module
- unshard() and full_tensor() are collective ops, all ranks must participate
- Old code returned None on non-rank-0 before calling unshard, causing deadlock
- Fix: all ranks unshard/full_tensor, only rank-0 keeps the result
- Move create_ref_model to parallel/utils.py, accept executor+model directly
- Guard create_ref_model and sync_old_model against None on non-rank-0
- FSDP params are DTensors sharded across ranks
- torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_ computes LOCAL norm only
- Each rank would clip by a different factor, causing gradient divergence
- Fix: compute local norm, all-reduce squared sum, sqrt for global norm
- Default reshard_after_forward=False (forward then backward makes reshard redundant)
- Reduces per-step time by ~19% (1033ms to 839ms on 2xL20)
- Add __getstate__/__setstate__ to drop cached _compiled Jinja2 template
- Jinja2 Template.root_render_func is a dynamic closure unpicklable by reference
- cached_property rebuilds the template lazily on first render after unpickle
- Remove H5Store, H5Writer, save_h5/load_h5 and h5py dependency
- MmapStore (bin) is the sole pre-tokenized storage backend
- Move setup_logging after imports to fix E402 in __init__.py
- Clean up unused imports across test files
- Move inline test imports to file top
- Remove --max_tokens, let scheduler use max_seq_len - prompt_len
- Rename --cache_len to --max_seq_len to match engine naming
- Unify sampling defaults to 0.8/50/0.95
- Add EOS token at end of response in both conditional and unconditional passes so model also predicts when response should end
- New --append_eos/--no-append_eos CLI flag (default: enabled) with graceful fallback when tokenizer has no EOS
- Replace hand-rolled StreamDecoder (O(n^2) full-history re-decode per token) with tokenizers.decoders.DecodeStream
- Keep O(1) bounded token buffer internally via prefix drain instead of accumulating all token IDs
- Simplify flush_remaining to no-op since stream always emits completed text per step
- Benchmark on 8000 tokens: 2305ms -> 3.9ms (~592x speedup)
- setup_logging(): attach handler only to astrai logger, not root
- all astrai.* sub-module loggers inherit automatically
- controlled by ASTR_LOG_LEVEL env var (default INFO)
- called in if __name__ == '__main__' of each CLI script
- Replace argparse with click in all scripts (train, server, generate,
preprocess, benchmark)
- Add --config YAML support to train.py with CLI flag override
- Add --dry-run mode to validate config before training
- Add type annotations throughout benchmark.py
- Unify docstring format across all commands
- Remove redundant deps httpx, requests, pyyaml, rich from pyproject.toml
- Net -346 lines while adding YAML config support
- Fix pre-existing ruff lint warnings (F401, F541, F841, E741)
- Exclude .md/.json/.yml from ruff format check
- Unblock SIGTERM/SIGINT via pthread_sigmask in early signal handler
- Do not restore SIG_DFL on unregister to prevent pending signal kills
- Register SIGTERM/SIGINT handlers in training loop, set stop flag on signal
- Check stop_requested at each epoch/batch boundary, break and call on_error to save checkpoint
- LocalStrategy parent forwards signal to child processes via terminate(), waits up to 600s for graceful exit
- TrainContext gains threading.Event-based stop_requested/request_stop
- Tests verify SIGTERM/SIGINT trigger checkpoint save with exit code 0, works on both CPU and GPU
- add loss_mask parameter to get_logprobs to decouple attention from loss masking
- DPO/GRPO strategies compose key-padding + causal mask before model forward
- prevents prompt tokens from being masked out of attention and missing causal masking
- use fmaf() for V-accumulation in scalar decode paths to reduce rounding
- delay scale multiplication to after dot-product in scalar prefill
- unify __expf/expf across MMA and scalar paths for consistent numerics
- harmonize divide-by-zero guards to 1e-20f
- add both absolute and relative error checks in standalone tests (atol=0.01, rtol=0.01)
- Merge 3 duplicated dispatch blocks into single attn_dispatchers.cuh
- Merge compute_num_splits from attn_utils.cuh into dispatcher header
- All dim3 grid/block declarations and <<<>>> launches are single-line
- Production .cu files (35-42 loc) only handle torch wrapping + pybind11
- Test files include dispatcher header directly, removing all #ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA duplication
- Introduce KernelTraits<HEAD_DIM, BC, WARPS, STAGES> compile-time config bundle, replacing scattered <KD, NC8, KT2, ...> template params
- Template all MMA and scalar kernels on IsCausal/HasMask bools to eliminate inner-loop runtime branches
- Dispatch to 4-path IsCausal/HasMask kernel variants at entry points based on p.causal_offset and p.use_mask
- Update standalone test files with new kernel signatures, add causal test cases
- Fix duplicate using bf16 in MMA kernels that include attn_mma_utils.cuh
- Replace .tolist() calls with _total_len in gather(); move _slot_len updates from per-layer write to once-per-step bind_tasks
- Use torch.as_tensor instead of torch.tensor in decode penalty history construction