- Add FrequencyPenaltyStrategy (logit -= penalty * count)
- Per-task rep_window for penalty history lookup
- Wire through engine, task, executor, API layer
- Add --frequency_penalty and --rep_window to stream_chat.py
- 9 unit tests for frequency penalty strategy
- BFDSplitPacking splits over-length sequences into chunks before BFD
- All keys (loss_mask, position_ids, ...) split in lockstep for alignment
- No tokens lost vs bfd which truncates over-length sequences
- Tests: token preservation, chunk alignment, short unchanged, vs bfd
- Add --resume bool flag to train.py CLI
- --param_path always loads weights only by default
- --resume restores epoch, consumed_samples, optimizer & scheduler
- Checkpoint.load() now preserves full meta dict
- Update test_early_stopping to use new param_path/resume API
- Replace is_causal + causal_offset with unified causal_offset (-1 = off, >=0 = first Q pos)
- Causal and mask can now coexist (was mutually exclusive)
- Add stride-based addressing for Q/KV/O (layout-agnostic, zero-copy)
- Add layout param ("bhld"/"blhd") parsed in Python, passed as int to C++
- Support 2D [batch, kv_len] and 3D [batch, q_len, kv_len] mask
- Vectorize paged KV gather in Python fallback (was per-token Python loop)
- Extract shared helpers: compute_num_splits, alloc_split_partials, dispatch_head_dim
- Unify paged_decode entry via attn_pack_paged_params
- Update mma_softmax_tile for 3D mask with per-row qrow indexing
- Mask prompt tokens to 0 so their logprobs excluded from ratio/KL
- Switch to token-level ratio + PPO clipping via reduction='none'
- Slice response token logprobs from full sequence output
- Replace k3 KL estimator with non-negative k1 estimator
- Fix epsilon from finifo.eps (~1e-38) to 1e-8
- Remove unused 'reduction' param from GRPOStrategy.__init__
- Clarify offline batch semantics in docstring
- Add 11 unit tests for masking, advantage, KL, sync, clipping
- Sync training.md and architecture.md docs
- Add attn_paged_decode wrapper in ops.py with gather fallback
- Register kernel in loader.py and export from __init__.py
- Extract test_utils.cuh shared by all attention unit tests
- Rename attn_paged_vs_contiguous.cu to attn_paged_decode_test.cu
- Refactor decode/prefill tests to use common bf16 helpers and cpu ref
- Fix k_cache dim check in attn_paged_decode.cu
- Rename all csrc/kernels/gqa_*.cuh/cu to attn_*, with _split_q / _split_kv
strategy suffix and optional _mma compute suffix
- Remove non-split MMA decode kernel, keep only split-KV path
- Convert scalar decode fallback to split-KV (o_part/ml_part + combine)
- Move combine kernel to attn_decode_split_kv.cuh (shared by both paths)
- Rename GQAParams to AttentionParams
- Update all C++ #include, PYBIND11, and Python extension references
- Extract SingleOutputMaskBuilder for SFT and pretrain configs
- Extract MultiOutputMaskBuilder for DPO and GRPO configs
- Keep SectionedMaskBuilder as backward-compatible facade
- Register "single" and "multi" names in MaskBuilderFactory
- Add parity and rejection tests for concrete builders
- add case 32 to decode/prefill dispatch switch
- fix swiz_col out-of-bounds for HEAD_DIM=32: XOR mask now limited to chunk count (3 for 32, 7 for >=64) instead of always 7, which produced column offsets >= LD=32 and corrupted shared memory
- restructure decode dispatch to #ifndef/#else/#endif matching prefill
- split astrai/extension/__init__.py into loader.py (kernel .so discovery) and ops.py (wrapper functions + torch SDPA fallback); __init__.py now re-exports the public API
- Add gqa_decode_attn/gqa_prefill_attn dispatch functions
- Internal _available/__modules with underscore prefix
- CUDA kernel path with F.scaled_dot_product_attention fallback
- GQA head expansion in fallback path
- Add KVCache/CacheView abstract base classes in cache.py
- Add ContiguousCache (contiguous per-slot buffer, default) alongside PageCache (paged, renamed from old KVCache)
- Merge make_table_tensor + bind into bind_tasks on KVCache interface
- Remove task_cached/task_record_hashes from base class (PageCache-only)
- Scheduler: decode all position groups instead of just the largest (eliminates 63% group skip rate)
- Scheduler: accept optional cache param for swapping implementations
- Model layer type hints use CacheView base class
- Batch 1-32: 1-7% speedup from eliminating Storage.gather overhead
- All 183 inference tests pass
- Remove separate ValidationCallback, merge into MetricCallback
- Progress bar now tracks optimizer steps instead of micro-steps
- Remove unused log_interval config field and CLI flag
- Fix validation all_reduce: use SUM(loss, count) instead of AVG
- Simplify metric logging: always log every optimizer step
- Add grad_norm display to progress bar
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