- keep training attention on dense 4d tensors
- use packed 3d tensors with KV cache for inference
- extend CUDA rotary embedding to packed 3d inputs
- adapt torch, CUDA and FlashAttention backend dispatch
- register yaml 1.2 float resolver so scientific notation (2e-5) becomes float, not str
- replaces the decimal-point workaround in train configs
- add containerized training doc under docs/developer
- route decode benchmark through InferenceEngine generate path
- add enable_cuda_graph toggle to engine, scheduler, and executor
- make benchmark --cuda-graph/--no-cuda-graph control the toggle
- hoist local time imports to module top
- Eliminate core/ directory into cache/, runtime/, network/ subpackages plus flat modules
- Split cache.py (647 lines) into cache/{buffer,strategy,pool}.py by layer
- Add explicit ContiguousStrategy, make AllocationStrategy a real ABC
- Move TaskCacheState to cache/strategy.py, drop string forward references
- Rename api/ to network/, server.py to app.py
- Move sample.py into runtime/ alongside executor and graph
- Simplify TaskCacheManager.__init__ to single pool param
- Expose pool.strategy and pool.req_pool as public properties
- Fix KVCache import in attention_backend.py (TYPE_CHECKING guard)
- Fix steady-state decode reading uninitialized position_ids on first step
- TaskCacheRegistry -> TaskCacheManager (independent, held by scheduler)
- TaskCacheState co-locates 5 parallel dicts into one dataclass
- AllocationStrategy base class + PagedStrategy subclass (page_size is a parameter)
- _rollback() helper for unified cleanup (no duplicate free paths)
- Task._kv_len + prefill_done property (explicit, no output_tokens proxy)
- Steady-state detection single-sourced in TaskCacheManager.bind()
- PagePool is now pure physical layer (no task knowledge)
- Removed dead _page_to_hash dict in RadixCache
- move setup_logging to astrai/logging.py
- timed() now uses logger.isEnabledFor(DEBUG) instead of separate env var
- enable ASTR_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG to see per-step timing logs
- call setup_logging() in stream_chat.py
- Pre-allocate decode_out in InferenceWorkspace so attn_paged_decode does not call torch::empty inside graph capture
- Wire decode_out through KVCache, PagePool.bind_tasks, and CudaBackend.fwd_decode
- Run live forward before graph capture to get valid output (graph pool memory is zeroed after capture block exits)
- Greedy generation with graph replay is bit-exact across all batch sizes
- Decode speedups vs no-graph: B=1 2.09x, B=4 1.80x, B=8 1.94x, B=16 1.76x
- Replace per-.cu-file static cached tensors with workspace-managed pre-allocated buffers
- InferenceWorkspace now owns decode_o_part / decode_ml_part (mirrors FlashInfer's workspace pattern)
- KVCache carries the buffers through the backend -> C++ kernel chain
- C++ kernels accept optional pre-allocated buffers; fallback to alloc_split_partials for backward compat
- Pre-allocates once at Executor init, zero allocation in the decode hot loop
- Prerequisite for CUDA-graph capture (all kernel addresses are stable)
- adapt bind_tasks to workspace API and reuse a stable workspace
- drop required checkpoint, randomize default 1B GQA preset
- add config override flag for arbitrary model architectures
- Drop hardcoded CACHE_MAX_SEQ=2048 which overflowed at long prompts
- Size prefill pool to prompt_length and decode pool to prompt+5+gen*num_trials
- Unblocks decode/prefill benchmark at prompt 4096+ (was KV cache index OOB)
- add GradSNRTracker to metric_util.py computing SNR = E[g]^2 / Var(g) via per-parameter EMA moments
- add grad_snr_tracker field to TrainContext (instantiated by default)
- register grad_snr in MetricCallback, update tracker on each optimizer step before metrics are recorded
- add grad_snr to default --metrics in train.py CLI
- implement Mano (v2) with axis-rotating tangent projection and manifold normalization, replacing Newton-Schulz iteration
- composite ManoAdamW reuses partition_optimizer_parameters and composite helpers
- register mano_adamw in OptimizerFactory, export Mano and ManoAdamW
- add --mano_momentum and --mano_nesterov CLI options in Optimizer group
- add mano_adamw hyperparameters branch in train.py
- document mano_adamw in params.md
- add tests for single-step projection, axis alternation, factory registration, closure, and resume
- add GroupedOption/GroupedCommand (no third-party dep) that tags each option with a group label and renders help in labeled sections
- add opt() shorthand wrapping click.option with cls=GroupedOption
- tag all ~55 options into 10 groups aligned with params.md chapters
- 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
- 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
- New FSDP2Executor registers as 'fsdp2' in ExecutorFactory, using per-module fully_shard() instead of FSDP1 FlatParameter wrapper
- FSDP2 preserves original Parameter objects as DTensors, eliminating use_orig_params=True hack
- FSDP2Executor implements _no_sync via set_requires_gradient_sync, clip_grad_norm via unshard, unwrap_model via DTensor.full_tensor
- Drop **_extra/**_ddp_only_kwargs fallbacks in BaseExecutor/FSDPExecutor/FSDP2Executor, replaced by parallel_mode-aware executor_kwargs dispatch in train.py (ddp-only kwargs only passed when parallel_mode=ddp)
- Export FSDP2Executor in astrai.parallel.__init__
- TrainConfig.max_grad_norm defaults to None
- executor.clip_grad_norm returns grad norm without clipping when None
- train.py --max_grad_norm defaults to None
- StreamStore: fetch(begin, end, key) for stream access (SEQ/SFT)
- RecordStore: mixin with fetch_record(i, key) for record access
- H5Store/MmapStore/JsonlStore now dual-inherit both (C3 MRO)
- JsonlStore supports lazy mode via processor= (no TokenizeTransform)
- RecordDataset base class holds processor, DPO/GRPO simplified
- dpo_tokenize pure function for on-the-fly JSONL tokenisation
- DatasetFactory builds processor for jsonl+record datasets
- train.py passes tokenizer_path=param_path uniformly
- progress: len(dataset) returns sample count (stream=windows, record=records)
- json no longer auto-detected as jsonl format
- Store gains fetch_record/num_records alongside stream fetch/__len__
- save_bin/load_bin support per-record offsets via record_keys param
- H5Store/MmapStore/JsonlStore all support dual stream+record access
- DPODataset/GRPODataset use fetch_record, no cross-record concat
- dpo_collate_fn + collate_fn wired through TrainConfig
- fixes attention context leakage in DPO from windowed concatenation
- stream_chat: default empty system_prompt, single-turn mode
- generate_batch: drop hardcoded system role
- generate.py: preserve original fields in messages branch
and use response_key for the output column name
- 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