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Combined PR (100 files): to save 2-hour CI runs, this PR carries 3 independent changes, merged with git merge so every original commit is kept. Each section below is the original description.
this PR: fix: route activation caches through SaveForBackward (sweep 3/3)
Layers and models stored per-forward activations in fields (_lastInput = input;, _xOutput = ..., _cache.Add(...)) unconditionally. So in inference every activation stayed reachable after the forward, and peak memory was O(sum of activations). This is the third of three sweeps of the ADN0065 sites (ActivationCacheGuardAnalyzer), following #2408's pattern.
What changed, per site
Fields that nothing reads (the large majority): removed. The value stays a local. Most of these layers already run their backward on the tape, so the field was write-only. This covers the 11 SSM layers (PaTH, RWKV, RWKV-7, RG-LRU, Rebased, RetNet, Rodimus, S4D, S5, TTT, TransNormerLLM) and SelfAttention/Separable/SoftTree/SpatialTransformer/SpectralNorm/Spiking/SpiralConv/Split/SpyNet/SE/Subpixel/Swin (including its [windows, area, 3*dim] qkv)/TemporalMemory/TimeDistributed/TimeEmbedding/TransformerDecoder/Upsample/Upsample3D/UNetDiscriminator's down block. It also covers TNet, GaussianSplatting, the TimeSeries private layers (DeepANT, whose pre-activation buffer was never read; LSTM-VAE decoder; Chronos; N-HiTS) and every tabular backbone/head cache (AutoInt, FT-Transformer, GANDALF, Mambular, NODE, SAINT, TabDPT, TabM, TabPFN, TabR, TabTransformer, FeatureTokenizer, GhostBatchNorm, ContextEncoder). The list accumulators that nothing read went too.
Read by a manual backward: these go through SaveForBackward: SparseLinear, UNetDiscriminator's up block, and Rebased q/k/v.
Models and non-layer components:NeuralNetworkBase is in flight elsewhere, so I did not add the helper there. The new ManualBackwardCache<T> (src/NeuralNetworks/ManualBackwardCache.cs) applies the same rule as LayerBase.SaveForBackward: no InferenceMode scope, no recording tape unless KeepActivationCacheUnderTape, plus the train/eval flag where the caller has one. GraphClassificationModel, AutoInt, DuelingNetwork and the prototype SimpleNeuralNetwork use it. AutoInt now keeps the forward batch size separately, so its learning-rate scaling does not depend on whether the caches were kept.
Read only by an auxiliary loss or a learning rule: SelfAttention attention scores ([B,H,S,S]), SpatialTransformer theta, SE excitation weights, and SynapticPlasticity's STDP inputs. These are now kept only in a training pass outside InferenceMode (and, for the aux-loss ones, only with UseAuxiliaryLoss on). ShouldCacheForBackward is the wrong guard here because it is false under a recording tape, which is exactly when those consumers run. The ADN0065 analyzer from feat(analyzers): ADN0065 becomes an error with a [KeepsActivation] exemption, training guards and a baseline ratchet #2420, merged in here, recognises this IsTrainingMode && !InferenceMode.IsActive guard, so these sites are no longer reported and none of them is in the baseline.
PointNet / DGCNN / PointNet++: they wrote every layer's input and output into NeuralNetworkBase._layerInputs / _layerOutputs. Nothing reads those dictionaries after these models' forward: ForwardWithFeatures repopulates its own, and _layerInputs is never read anywhere. The writes are removed.
ADN0065 in this batch's files (net10.0 SARIF)
count
master
299 (4 of them in the excluded NeuralNetworkBase.cs)
this PR
21 (the same 4 in NeuralNetworkBase.cs, plus the 17 below)
The table above was measured before #2420 was merged in. With the merged analyzer, the four aux-loss and learning-rule sites are no longer reported, and the authoritative count is the baseline itself: 566 entries after review.
Sites left alone, and why
Cross-call state:
RVM._hiddenState (recurrent matting memory between frames).
LinkPredictionModel._nodeEmbeddings (read by PredictEdges after the forward).
VariationalAutoencoder._pendingKlLoss (consumed by the loss).
BayesianDenseLayer._samplePending (a bool flag).
SpatialPoolerLayer._lastBinaryOutput (Hebbian learning state, [ColumnCount], the same data as LastOutput).
RWKV7Block._incomingVFirst: passes v_first to the time-mix within the same forward. It is one tensor shared by every block, so it does not grow with depth.
SelfAttentionLayer._sdpaOutScratch: an intentionally reused output buffer.
Gated, but by a guard the analyzer does not recognise: the four aux-loss and learning-rule sites listed above.
NeuralNetworkBase.cs (4 sites): excluded, in flight elsewhere. Its _layerInputs writes (2003/2034/2086) have no reader anywhere. Its _layerOutputs writes are read only by CapsuleNetwork and ResidualNeuralNetwork.
Not covered
The tabular models, DuelingNetwork and the prototype have no train/eval flag, and their callers do not enter InferenceMode. Their caches now follow the central policy, but the memory win needs callers to predict inside an InferenceMode scope.
Verification
src/AiDotNet.csproj builds on net10.0 and net471 with 0 errors.
ADN0065 counts come from the net10.0 build's SARIF (-p:ErrorLog).
No tests were run locally; CI runs them.
From #2399: docs(license): fill in the BSL 1.1 Parameters block
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From #2420: feat(analyzers): ADN0065 becomes an error with a [KeepsActivation] exemption, training guards and a baseline ratchet
ADN0065 (ActivationCacheGuardAnalyzer) reports a backward-activation cache written in a Forward* body without a training-pass guard. An ungated write keeps the activation reachable after the pass, so peak inference memory becomes O(sum of activations) instead of O(max live set). Until now the rule was Info, so nothing stopped new ungated caches. This PR makes it an Error with a ratchet, and tightens what it recognises so the error has no known false positives.
1. [KeepsActivation("reason")]
src/Attributes/KeepsActivationAttribute.cs. A field attribute that marks a deliberate keep, such as recurrent state carried between frames or a value a later public call reads. The reason is required:
The analyzer reports a blank, whitespace or null reason as ADN0068 (Error), and that field gets no exemption, so ADN0065 still fires on it.
The constructor throws on a blank reason.
2. Guards ADN0065 now recognises
The SaveForBackward(ref _field, value) call is not a raw write, so it is never reported.
if (ShouldCacheForBackward) and the older ShouldCacheActivationsForManualBackward, either directly or through a local initialised from one (bool cacheBwd = ShouldCacheForBackward; if (cacheBwd) ...). Only the then-branch counts: a write in the else of a guard runs exactly when no backward is coming, so it is reported.
The ternary form _x = guard ? value : null. If both branches store something, it is still reported.
The aux-loss / learning-rule training guard. An && chain that both requires IsTrainingMode and excludes !InferenceMode.IsActive counts as a guard, for example UseAuxiliaryLoss && IsTrainingMode && !InferenceMode.IsActive. ShouldCacheForBackward is false under a recording tape, which is exactly when those consumers run. Either half on its own, or the two joined with ||, is still reported.
3. What ADN0065 now detects
Fields named *Out, in addition to _last*, *Output, *Outputs and [Scratch].
.Add(x) into a collection field (ICollection<T>), which retains the value just as an assignment does. Tensor<T>.Add is arithmetic and is not counted.
Value-typed and type-parameter-typed fields are skipped, because they cannot pin a tensor.
Null and default clears are skipped, as before.
4. Error plus baseline ratchet
This reuses the ModelDefectBaselines mechanism (ADNDEF001-003 style):
ModelDefectBaselines.UnguardedActivationCaches lists the violating fields, keyed Containing.Type.field.
A field outside the set fails the build with ADN0065.
A listed field that no longer violates is ADNDEF004 ("baseline entry is stale; remove its line"). So when a count falls, the build tells you to lower the baseline, and the set can only shrink.
The rule runs only on the AiDotNet assembly. Test and tool assemblies define throwaway layers.
The message now names the containing type, so a reported site maps straight to its baseline key.
Baseline: 820 fields, from origin/master 8542dd47e
How it was measured. The commit that adds the baseline records the method: build src/AiDotNet.csproj for net10.0 at 8542dd47e with this analyzer and an empty baseline, then read the ADN0065 results from the SARIF error log. That gave 898 write sites across 820 distinct fields, and those 820 keys are the set. The set has 820 distinct entries and no duplicates. I did not keep that SARIF and have not re-measured it.
How it is verified. This branch changes nothing under src/ except the analyzer, the baseline and the new attribute, so src is otherwise identical to 8542dd47e. A 0-error src build at this head therefore proves the set is exact: an unlisted violating field fails as ADN0065, and a listed field that no longer violates fails as ADNDEF004. That local build has not completed. The machine ran low on memory and the build was stopped. CI's build of this PR is the verification. A later commit narrows IsGuarded to the then-branch, which can only add violations. If it adds any, CI lists them as ADN0065, and they get added to the set.
Interaction with the activation-cache sweeps #2412, #2413 and #2416. Each of those PRs gates fields that are listed here. Whichever lands second has to delete the lines for the fields it fixed. ADNDEF004 names each of those lines, so this is mechanical.
Tests (tests/AiDotNet.Tests/Generators/ActivationCacheGuardAnalyzerTests.cs) and the mutation each catches
Test
Analyzer mutation that makes it fail
UnguardedField_IsReportedAsError
IsBackwardCacheField returns false, or the ReportDiagnostic call is removed
KeepsActivationWithReason_SuppressesTheField
the KeepsActivation(field) is { } keep && HasReason(keep) skip in AnalyzeMethod is removed
the requiresTraining && excludesInference return in IsGuardCondition is removed
IncompleteTrainingGuard_IsReported (3 forms)
IsTrainingMode alone is accepted, or conjuncts are collected through ||
OutSuffixField_IsReportedUnlessGuarded
the EndsWith("Out") name test is removed
AddIntoListField_IsReportedUnlessGuarded
the InvocationExpressionSyntax (Add) branch is removed
TensorArithmeticAddOnCacheField_IsNotReported
the IsCollection filter on Add is removed
ValueTypedCacheNamedField_IsNotReported
the IsValueType / TypeParameter filter is removed
BaselinedField_IsNotReported_ButANewFieldIs
the _baseline.Contains(key) skip is removed. It also catches an over-eager ratchet: recording the key only after that skip, or dropping the !violating.ContainsKey filter, makes the baselined field look stale
StaleBaselineEntry_IsReported
the compilation-end action is removed
OtherAssemblies_AreNotAnalyzed
the AssemblyName check is removed
I reasoned these mutations from the code. I did not run them: tests run in CI only, and no test host was run locally.
Follow-up (not in this PR)
A field kept only so that a test can read it after the forward is not a deliberate keep. CrossAttention _lastContext is one example. These fields should be removed, or the test should get what it needs through the API. They should not be exempted with [KeepsActivation], and the attribute's remarks say so. This PR touches no layer files or NeuralNetworkBase.cs, because other PRs own them.
Verification
src/AiDotNet.Generators builds with 0 errors, and this change adds no warnings.
Not verified locally:
src/AiDotNet.csproj. The net10.0 build was stopped for low machine memory, and the other TFMs were not attempted.
The test project: tests run in CI only.
No baselined type is declared in a file that contains #if, so I do not expect stale entries on the legacy TFMs (net471, net462, netstandard2.0). No build has confirmed that.
Merge order with the other activation-cache sweeps
The ADN0065 baseline in this PR is exact for this tree. The combined build reported 255 stale entries, for fields sweep 3 fixed, and 2 new ones (ConvolutionalLayer<T>._lastInput/_lastOutput in ForwardTraced, reported once the else-branch guard fix landed). Both are corrected in 81867831b: 820 → 567 entries.
#2413 (sweep 1) and #2416 (sweep 2) fix fields that are still listed here. Whichever lands after this PR has to delete those entries. The build names each one as ADNDEF004 '<Type>.<field>' ... no longer violates, so it is mechanical.
After review (72414674c)
Test-project compile: the WriteInElseBranchOfGuard_IsReported test had a raw newline inside a regular string literal (CS1010). That would have broken the test assembly; it now uses .
Negated guards: ADN0065 no longer accepts a negated guard as a guard. if (!ShouldCacheForBackward), if (!this.ShouldCacheForBackward), == false and !(IsTrainingMode && ShouldCacheForBackward) all store exactly when no backward is coming, and they are now reported.
New tests: NegatedGuard_IsReported (4 cases) and GuardComparedWithTrue_IsNotReported. The generators project builds with 0 errors.
ConvolutionalLayer: a stray [Scratch], left by a deleted field, had attached to _optimizedVerifiedForShape and made it ADN0065-eligible. The attribute and its baseline key are removed, leaving 566 entries.
Known false positive: an early-return guard, if (!ShouldCacheForBackward) return y; _last = x;, is still reported. No site in src uses that shape today.
TabDPT and TabPFN models now provide parameter retrieval and restoration methods.
Behavior Changes
Attention and transformation details are retained only during eligible training runs.
Synaptic-plasticity learning state is no longer updated during inference or non-training runs.
Refactor
Forward-state handling has been streamlined across neural-network, tabular, point-cloud, and time-series models; core forward calculations and outputs remain unchanged.
Documentation
Updated license terms to identify CrowdTrainer LLC, clarify permitted non-commercial use, and specify a change to Apache License 2.0 four years after release.
Chores
Updated company and copyright attribution across package information and website pages.
Prediction boundaries
AutoInt regression/classification predictions now enter InferenceMode, releasing manual-backward activation caches during public prediction calls. Classification training calls the forward/softmax path directly so it retains training caches.
Dueling DQN action selection, action-value queries, lazy initialization, and Double DQN target evaluation now use its inference prediction path. The current-state training forward still retains the caches required by UpdateWeights.
Regression coverage checks output parity, released caches, restored scope after exceptions, training cache retention, and Dueling parameter updates for terminal and nonterminal replay samples.
Validation: the net10.0 core build succeeded (analyzers/documentation disabled for local memory limits); fifteen focused tests passed. Full CI remains pending behind #2400. AutoInt training now computes and applies tape gradients to the embeddings, attention stack, MLP and head; the cache regression exercises the real training path.
AutoInt training
Both legacy AutoInt training APIs now compute a differentiable batch objective and apply SGD to the complete parameter set. Numerical and categorical embeddings, reshapes and attention stay on the tape. Attention splits heads independently. Gradient buffers are scratch state rather than published parameters, and six obsolete activation-cache baseline entries are removed.
Fifteen focused tests pass, including finite differences for every parameter for classification/regression with and without categorical features, categorical-only training, independent attention heads, and Dueling terminal/nonterminal replay updates. The local net10.0 build passed with nullable flow analysis, analyzers and XML generation disabled for memory limits. Full CI is queued serially after #2400.
Parameter vectors for InteractingLayer no longer contain gradient buffers; vectors saved with those erroneous entries have a different length.
Categorical embeddings use the tape-aware gather operation rather than a batch-by-cardinality one-hot matrix. Published interaction weights remain available after prediction, with an explicit KeepsActivation rationale and regression coverage. Parameter updates invalidate persistent GPU tensors.
The training path now delegates to TapeTrainingStepper.EagerSgdObjectiveStep, preserving the central tape/arena lifecycle and satisfying NoNewHandWrittenTapeTrainingLoop. The local build and all 18 focused cases pass, including all three training-loop ratchet checks and the six whole-model finite-difference configurations. This fixes the single failure from the opencl-foundations run on the previous head (185 other cases passed there).
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PaTH, RWKV, RWKV-7, RG-LRU, Rebased, RetNet, Rodimus, S4D, S5, TTT and
TransNormerLLM stored every forward intermediate in a field that nothing
reads (their backward runs on the gradient tape), so each layer pinned its
activations after the forward, in inference too. The fields are removed;
the values stay locals. Rebased's q/k/v, read by its manual backward
helper, now go through SaveForBackward.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Layers that wrote every forward intermediate to a field kept those
activations reachable after the forward, in inference too. Fields nothing
reads (most of them: these layers' backward runs on the tape) are removed
and the values stay locals. Caches a manual backward reads (SparseLinear,
UNetDiscriminator's up block) go through SaveForBackward. Caches read only
by an auxiliary loss (SelfAttention scores, SpatialTransformer theta,
squeeze-and-excitation weights) and SynapticPlasticity's STDP inputs are
kept only in a training pass outside InferenceMode; ShouldCacheForBackward
is not the guard there because it is false under a recording tape, when
those consumers still run. Also covers TimeSeries' private layers (DeepANT,
LSTM-VAE decoder, Chronos, N-HiTS), TNet, Swin's qkv and GaussianSplatting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ard policy
Models and standalone components with their own manual backward had no
equivalent of LayerBase.SaveForBackward, so their caches were written
unconditionally. ManualBackwardCache<T> applies the same rule (no
InferenceMode scope, no recording tape unless forced, and the train/eval
flag when the caller has one) without touching NeuralNetworkBase.
GraphClassification, AutoInt, DuelingNetwork and the prototype network now
use it. The tabular models' backbone/head caches, which nothing reads, are
removed, as are PointNet/DGCNN/PointNet++'s writes to the base layer
dictionaries that nothing reads after their forward. AutoInt keeps the
forward batch size separately so its learning-rate scaling does not depend
on whether the caches were kept.
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The change removes or conditionally retains forward-pass caches across neural-network layers and model components. It adds shared helpers for manual-backward cache retention, analyzer rules for cache writes, and parameter traversal and restoration in TabDPT and TabPFN. It also updates licensing and attribution text.
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Activation cache lifecycle
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Summary
Cache policy and analyzer src/NeuralNetworks/ManualBackwardCache.cs, src/AiDotNet.Generators/ActivationCacheGuardAnalyzer.cs, src/Attributes/KeepsActivationAttribute.cs, src/AiDotNet.Generators/ModelDefectBaselines.cs, src/AiDotNet.Generators/AnalyzerReleases.Unshipped.md, tests/AiDotNet.Tests/Generators/*
Adds manual-backward cache predicates and save helpers. Adds analyzer diagnostics for unguarded cache writes, invalid keep reasons, and stale baseline entries, with baseline tracking and tests.
Removes many cached inputs, outputs, and intermediate tensors. Selected recurrent states, attention weights, feature maps, and inner-weight snapshots remain cached.
Other neural-network layer caches src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/*
Removes cached forward inputs and intermediates across attention, convolution, transformer, temporal, and related layers. Some auxiliary-loss values now remain cached only under specified training conditions.
Tabular model caches and parameter access src/NeuralNetworks/Tabular/*
Removes cached forward activations and prediction outputs across tabular models. AutoInt uses the shared helper for input caches and tracks the forward batch size. TabDPT and TabPFN add ordered parameter access and restoration.
Other model forward caches src/NeuralNetworks/Tasks/Graph/GraphClassificationModel.cs, src/NeuralRadianceFields/Models/GaussianSplatting.cs, src/PointCloud/*, src/TimeSeries/*, src/ReinforcementLearning/Agents/DuelingDQNAgent.cs, src/Prototypes/SimpleNeuralNetwork.cs
Removes retained inputs and intermediate outputs in graph, point-cloud, radiance-field, and time-series paths. Selected manual-backward paths use the shared cache helper.
License and attribution LICENSE, NOTICE, src/*.csproj, src/AiDotNet.*/*.csproj, website/src/components/Footer.astro, website/src/pages/*
Updates license terms and CrowdTrainer LLC copyright, company, licensor, and contractor references.
sequenceDiagram
participant ForwardPath
participant ManualBackwardCache
participant CacheField
ForwardPath->>ManualBackwardCache: Check tape, inference, and training conditions
ManualBackwardCache->>CacheField: Store activation or clear field
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ooples/AiDotNet#2416: Removes forward caches and routes retained manual-backward values through SaveForBackward; this PR continues that cache-lifecycle work.
ooples/AiDotNet#2408: Removes retained DenseNet activations and releases traced tensors after validation; this PR also changes activation retention.
ooples/AiDotNet#2403: Changes inference activation retention and cleanup behavior through prediction arenas; this PR also addresses tensor lifetime.
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Adds [KeepsActivation("reason")] for fields that deliberately keep an
activation across calls; a blank reason is ADN0068 and exempts nothing.
ADN0065 now also recognises the ternary form (guard ? value : null), the
training-pass guard used by auxiliary-loss and learning-rule caches
(IsTrainingMode && !InferenceMode.IsActive), *Out field names and Add into a
collection field, and skips value-typed fields. It becomes an Error in the
AiDotNet assembly with a field-keyed baseline in ModelDefectBaselines whose
stale entries are ADNDEF004. Baseline contents follow in the next commit.
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Measured from the net10.0 build's SARIF error log of src/AiDotNet.csproj at
8542dd4 with the updated analyzer and an empty baseline: 898 write sites
across 820 distinct fields. The message now names the containing type so a
site maps to its baseline key.
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IsGuarded accepted any enclosing if whose condition named a guard, so
"if (ShouldCacheForBackward) {...} else { _lastX = x; }" counted as gated
although the else-branch runs exactly when no backward is coming. Only the
then-branch counts now, with a test. Also corrects the mutation noted on the
stale-baseline test.
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fix: route activation caches through SaveForBackward (sweep 3/3)
fix: route activation caches through SaveForBackward (sweep 3/3) (+2 combined)
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…ne ConvolutionalLayer's
…ForwardTraced caches
The combined build of sweep 3 with ADN0065 reported 255 ADNDEF004 (fields sweep 3 now guards, so they no longer belong in the inventory) and 2 ADN0065: ConvolutionalLayer<T>._lastInput and _lastOutput written in ForwardTraced, which the else-branch guard fix newly reports. ConvolutionalLayer is outside every sweep, so those two are baselined, not fixed here. 820 -> 567 entries.
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…else-branch test literal
IsGuardCondition accepted any mention of a ShouldCache* name, so if (!ShouldCacheForBackward) _x = v counted as
guarded although it stores exactly when no backward is coming. A name read under ! or compared with false is
now not a guard; an || alongside it still is, as the aux-loss gates need. The else-branch test held a raw
newline inside a regular string literal (CS1010), which would have broken the test assembly. Also drops an
orphaned [Scratch] on ConvolutionalLayer that had attached to _optimizedVerifiedForShape, and its baseline key.
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- adn0065 treated `bool cacheBwd = shouldcacheforbackward; if (!cachebwd)` as a guard; a local
read negated inside the condition is now skipped like a negated guard name (two new cases;
removing the check fails both).
- the adn0065 baseline summary states its real count, 566.
- keepsactivationattribute is internal: only the library applies it.
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Combined PR (100 files): to save 2-hour CI runs, this PR carries 3 independent changes, merged with
git mergeso every original commit is kept. Each section below is the original description.This PR: fix: route activation caches through SaveForBackward (sweep 3/3)
Part of #2391
The class
Layers and models stored per-forward activations in fields (
_lastInput = input;,_xOutput = ...,_cache.Add(...)) unconditionally. So in inference every activation stayed reachable after the forward, and peak memory was O(sum of activations). This is the third of three sweeps of the ADN0065 sites (ActivationCacheGuardAnalyzer), following #2408's pattern.What changed, per site
[windows, area, 3*dim]qkv)/TemporalMemory/TimeDistributed/TimeEmbedding/TransformerDecoder/Upsample/Upsample3D/UNetDiscriminator's down block. It also covers TNet, GaussianSplatting, the TimeSeries private layers (DeepANT, whose pre-activation buffer was never read; LSTM-VAE decoder; Chronos; N-HiTS) and every tabular backbone/head cache (AutoInt, FT-Transformer, GANDALF, Mambular, NODE, SAINT, TabDPT, TabM, TabPFN, TabR, TabTransformer, FeatureTokenizer, GhostBatchNorm, ContextEncoder). The list accumulators that nothing read went too.SaveForBackward: SparseLinear, UNetDiscriminator's up block, and Rebased q/k/v.NeuralNetworkBaseis in flight elsewhere, so I did not add the helper there. The newManualBackwardCache<T>(src/NeuralNetworks/ManualBackwardCache.cs) applies the same rule asLayerBase.SaveForBackward: noInferenceModescope, no recording tape unlessKeepActivationCacheUnderTape, plus the train/eval flag where the caller has one. GraphClassificationModel, AutoInt, DuelingNetwork and the prototypeSimpleNeuralNetworkuse it. AutoInt now keeps the forward batch size separately, so its learning-rate scaling does not depend on whether the caches were kept.[B,H,S,S]), SpatialTransformer theta, SE excitation weights, and SynapticPlasticity's STDP inputs. These are now kept only in a training pass outsideInferenceMode(and, for the aux-loss ones, only withUseAuxiliaryLosson).ShouldCacheForBackwardis the wrong guard here because it is false under a recording tape, which is exactly when those consumers run. The ADN0065 analyzer from feat(analyzers): ADN0065 becomes an error with a [KeepsActivation] exemption, training guards and a baseline ratchet #2420, merged in here, recognises thisIsTrainingMode && !InferenceMode.IsActiveguard, so these sites are no longer reported and none of them is in the baseline.NeuralNetworkBase._layerInputs/_layerOutputs. Nothing reads those dictionaries after these models' forward:ForwardWithFeaturesrepopulates its own, and_layerInputsis never read anywhere. The writes are removed.ADN0065 in this batch's files (net10.0 SARIF)
NeuralNetworkBase.cs)NeuralNetworkBase.cs, plus the 17 below)The table above was measured before #2420 was merged in. With the merged analyzer, the four aux-loss and learning-rule sites are no longer reported, and the authoritative count is the baseline itself: 566 entries after review.
Sites left alone, and why
RVM._hiddenState(recurrent matting memory between frames).LinkPredictionModel._nodeEmbeddings(read byPredictEdgesafter the forward).VariationalAutoencoder._pendingKlLoss(consumed by the loss).BayesianDenseLayer._samplePending(a bool flag).SpatialPoolerLayer._lastBinaryOutput(Hebbian learning state,[ColumnCount], the same data asLastOutput)._globalFeatures(ExtractGlobalFeatures).SetAbstractionLayer._lastCentroidPositions(segmentation upsampling).TabRBase._neighborIndicesCache(GetRetrievedNeighborIndices).RWKV7Block._incomingVFirst: passes v_first to the time-mix within the same forward. It is one tensor shared by every block, so it does not grow with depth.SelfAttentionLayer._sdpaOutScratch: an intentionally reused output buffer.NeuralNetworkBase.cs(4 sites): excluded, in flight elsewhere. Its_layerInputswrites (2003/2034/2086) have no reader anywhere. Its_layerOutputswrites are read only by CapsuleNetwork and ResidualNeuralNetwork.Not covered
The tabular models, DuelingNetwork and the prototype have no train/eval flag, and their callers do not enter
InferenceMode. Their caches now follow the central policy, but the memory win needs callers to predict inside anInferenceModescope.Verification
src/AiDotNet.csprojbuilds on net10.0 and net471 with 0 errors.-p:ErrorLog).From #2399: docs(license): fill in the BSL 1.1 Parameters block
Licence housekeeping decided by the maintainer on 2026-10-28. No tracking issue.
Summary
LICENSEis the Business Source License 1.1, but it had no Parameters block and a blank Change Date, so it named no Licensor, Licensed Work, Additional Use Grant or Change License. Without those, the licence does not say who grants it, what it covers, or when it converts.This fills them in with the terms published at https://aidotnet.dev/license. The one exception is the Licensor, which the maintainer has confirmed is CrowdTrainer LLC:
Change Date:in the "Standard License Header" section with the same value.LICENSE(commit 4426782).Maintainer decisions (2026-10-28) and what was done
LICENSE: Licensor is CrowdTrainer LLC. The standard header'sCopyright (C) 2026 Franklin Moormannis nowCopyright (C) 2024-2026 CrowdTrainer LLC.NOTICE:Copyright 2024 Ooples Financeis nowCopyright (C) 2024-2026 CrowdTrainer LLC. "software developed at Ooples Finance" and "private projects maintained by Ooples Finance" now name CrowdTrainer LLC.<Company>Ooples Finance</Company>and<Copyright>Ooples Finance LLC 2023</Copyright>are nowCrowdTrainer LLCandCopyright (C) 2024-2026 CrowdTrainer LLCin 7 projects:src/AiDotNet.csprojAiDotNet.Privacy.HEAiDotNet.Storage.Elasticsearch,.Neo4j,.Postgres,.Redisand.Sqlitewebsite/: the Licensor onwebsite/src/pages/license.astroand the footer copyright inwebsite/src/components/Footer.astro. The live https://aidotnet.dev/license keeps saying Ooples Finance LLC until this PR is merged and the site is redeployed.<Authors>is authorship and is unchanged.Follow-up decisions (2026-10-28) and what was done
<Copyright>values readCopyright (C) 2024-2026 CrowdTrainer LLC.website/src/pages/enterprise.astronow says "a valid CrowdTrainer LLC-issued enterprise license" and "a CrowdTrainer LLC license server".website/src/pages/federal-use.astronow reads "CrowdTrainer LLC is a small-business contractor (single-person LLC)."Copyright (c) AiDotNet. All rights reserved.. 27 use//, which the maintainer's pattern matches, and 3 are.ps1files with#. None use the(c) 2024form..csprojmetadata (checked to parse as XML) and website strings.Summary by CodeRabbit
From #2420: feat(analyzers): ADN0065 becomes an error with a [KeepsActivation] exemption, training guards and a baseline ratchet
Part of #2391
What this does
ADN0065 (
ActivationCacheGuardAnalyzer) reports a backward-activation cache written in aForward*body without a training-pass guard. An ungated write keeps the activation reachable after the pass, so peak inference memory becomes O(sum of activations) instead of O(max live set). Until now the rule wasInfo, so nothing stopped new ungated caches. This PR makes it anErrorwith a ratchet, and tightens what it recognises so the error has no known false positives.1.
[KeepsActivation("reason")]src/Attributes/KeepsActivationAttribute.cs. A field attribute that marks a deliberate keep, such as recurrent state carried between frames or a value a later public call reads. The reason is required:nullreason as ADN0068 (Error), and that field gets no exemption, so ADN0065 still fires on it.2. Guards ADN0065 now recognises
SaveForBackward(ref _field, value)call is not a raw write, so it is never reported.if (ShouldCacheForBackward)and the olderShouldCacheActivationsForManualBackward, either directly or through a local initialised from one (bool cacheBwd = ShouldCacheForBackward; if (cacheBwd) ...). Only the then-branch counts: a write in theelseof a guard runs exactly when no backward is coming, so it is reported._x = guard ? value : null. If both branches store something, it is still reported.&&chain that both requiresIsTrainingModeand excludes!InferenceMode.IsActivecounts as a guard, for exampleUseAuxiliaryLoss && IsTrainingMode && !InferenceMode.IsActive.ShouldCacheForBackwardis false under a recording tape, which is exactly when those consumers run. Either half on its own, or the two joined with||, is still reported.3. What ADN0065 now detects
*Out, in addition to_last*,*Output,*Outputsand[Scratch]..Add(x)into a collection field (ICollection<T>), which retains the value just as an assignment does.Tensor<T>.Addis arithmetic and is not counted.defaultclears are skipped, as before.4. Error plus baseline ratchet
This reuses the
ModelDefectBaselinesmechanism (ADNDEF001-003 style):ModelDefectBaselines.UnguardedActivationCacheslists the violating fields, keyedContaining.Type.field.AiDotNetassembly. Test and tool assemblies define throwaway layers.Baseline: 820 fields, from origin/master
8542dd47esrc/AiDotNet.csprojfor net10.0 at8542dd47ewith this analyzer and an empty baseline, then read the ADN0065 results from the SARIF error log. That gave 898 write sites across 820 distinct fields, and those 820 keys are the set. The set has 820 distinct entries and no duplicates. I did not keep that SARIF and have not re-measured it.src/except the analyzer, the baseline and the new attribute, sosrcis otherwise identical to8542dd47e. A 0-errorsrcbuild at this head therefore proves the set is exact: an unlisted violating field fails as ADN0065, and a listed field that no longer violates fails as ADNDEF004. That local build has not completed. The machine ran low on memory and the build was stopped. CI's build of this PR is the verification. A later commit narrowsIsGuardedto the then-branch, which can only add violations. If it adds any, CI lists them as ADN0065, and they get added to the set.Interaction with the activation-cache sweeps #2412, #2413 and #2416. Each of those PRs gates fields that are listed here. Whichever lands second has to delete the lines for the fields it fixed. ADNDEF004 names each of those lines, so this is mechanical.
Tests (
tests/AiDotNet.Tests/Generators/ActivationCacheGuardAnalyzerTests.cs) and the mutation each catchesUnguardedField_IsReportedAsErrorIsBackwardCacheFieldreturns false, or theReportDiagnosticcall is removedKeepsActivationWithReason_SuppressesTheFieldKeepsActivation(field) is { } keep && HasReason(keep)skip inAnalyzeMethodis removedKeepsActivationWithoutReason_IsReportedAndDoesNotExempt(""," ",null)IsNullOrWhiteSpaceis removed fromHasReason(ADN0065 disappears), or theSymbolKind.Fieldaction is removed (ADN0068 disappears)SaveForBackward_IsNotReportedrefto an invocation is treated as a writeShouldCacheForBackwardIf_IsNotReported(direct, and through a local)IsGuardedreturns false, or the local-initializer walk is removedWriteInElseBranchOfGuard_IsReportedchild != ifStatement.Statementtest is removed fromIsGuardedShouldCacheForBackwardTernary_IsNotReportedIsGuardedValuecheck is removedTernaryThatStoresOnBothBranches_IsReportedIsNullLike(conditional.WhenFalse)requirement is removedAuxiliaryLossTrainingGuard_IsNotReported(4 forms)requiresTraining && excludesInferencereturn inIsGuardConditionis removedIncompleteTrainingGuard_IsReported(3 forms)IsTrainingModealone is accepted, or conjuncts are collected through||OutSuffixField_IsReportedUnlessGuardedEndsWith("Out")name test is removedAddIntoListField_IsReportedUnlessGuardedInvocationExpressionSyntax(Add) branch is removedTensorArithmeticAddOnCacheField_IsNotReportedIsCollectionfilter onAddis removedValueTypedCacheNamedField_IsNotReportedIsValueType/TypeParameterfilter is removedBaselinedField_IsNotReported_ButANewFieldIs_baseline.Contains(key)skip is removed. It also catches an over-eager ratchet: recording the key only after that skip, or dropping the!violating.ContainsKeyfilter, makes the baselined field look staleStaleBaselineEntry_IsReportedOtherAssemblies_AreNotAnalyzedAssemblyNamecheck is removedI reasoned these mutations from the code. I did not run them: tests run in CI only, and no test host was run locally.
Follow-up (not in this PR)
A field kept only so that a test can read it after the forward is not a deliberate keep. CrossAttention
_lastContextis one example. These fields should be removed, or the test should get what it needs through the API. They should not be exempted with[KeepsActivation], and the attribute's remarks say so. This PR touches no layer files orNeuralNetworkBase.cs, because other PRs own them.Verification
src/AiDotNet.Generatorsbuilds with 0 errors, and this change adds no warnings.src/AiDotNet.csproj. The net10.0 build was stopped for low machine memory, and the other TFMs were not attempted.#if, so I do not expect stale entries on the legacy TFMs (net471, net462, netstandard2.0). No build has confirmed that.Merge order with the other activation-cache sweeps
The ADN0065 baseline in this PR is exact for this tree. The combined build reported 255 stale entries, for fields sweep 3 fixed, and 2 new ones (
ConvolutionalLayer<T>._lastInput/_lastOutputinForwardTraced, reported once the else-branch guard fix landed). Both are corrected in81867831b: 820 → 567 entries.#2413 (sweep 1) and #2416 (sweep 2) fix fields that are still listed here. Whichever lands after this PR has to delete those entries. The build names each one as
ADNDEF004 '<Type>.<field>' ... no longer violates, so it is mechanical.After review (
72414674c)WriteInElseBranchOfGuard_IsReportedtest had a raw newline inside a regular string literal (CS1010). That would have broken the test assembly; it now usesif (!ShouldCacheForBackward),if (!this.ShouldCacheForBackward),== falseand!(IsTrainingMode && ShouldCacheForBackward)all store exactly when no backward is coming, and they are now reported.||alongside the guard still counts as guarded, because the aux-loss gates in fix: activation-cache sweep 1/3 + keyed safety watermarks and honest classifiers #2413 use that form.NegatedGuard_IsReported(4 cases) andGuardComparedWithTrue_IsNotReported. The generators project builds with 0 errors.ConvolutionalLayer: a stray[Scratch], left by a deleted field, had attached to_optimizedVerifiedForShapeand made it ADN0065-eligible. The attribute and its baseline key are removed, leaving 566 entries.if (!ShouldCacheForBackward) return y; _last = x;, is still reported. No site insrcuses that shape today.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Prediction boundaries
AutoInt regression/classification predictions now enter
InferenceMode, releasing manual-backward activation caches during public prediction calls. Classification training calls the forward/softmax path directly so it retains training caches.Dueling DQN action selection, action-value queries, lazy initialization, and Double DQN target evaluation now use its inference prediction path. The current-state training forward still retains the caches required by
UpdateWeights.Regression coverage checks output parity, released caches, restored scope after exceptions, training cache retention, and Dueling parameter updates for terminal and nonterminal replay samples.
Validation: the net10.0 core build succeeded (analyzers/documentation disabled for local memory limits); fifteen focused tests passed. Full CI remains pending behind #2400. AutoInt training now computes and applies tape gradients to the embeddings, attention stack, MLP and head; the cache regression exercises the real training path.
AutoInt training
Both legacy AutoInt training APIs now compute a differentiable batch objective and apply SGD to the complete parameter set. Numerical and categorical embeddings, reshapes and attention stay on the tape. Attention splits heads independently. Gradient buffers are scratch state rather than published parameters, and six obsolete activation-cache baseline entries are removed.
Fifteen focused tests pass, including finite differences for every parameter for classification/regression with and without categorical features, categorical-only training, independent attention heads, and Dueling terminal/nonterminal replay updates. The local net10.0 build passed with nullable flow analysis, analyzers and XML generation disabled for memory limits. Full CI is queued serially after #2400.
Parameter vectors for InteractingLayer no longer contain gradient buffers; vectors saved with those erroneous entries have a different length.
Categorical embeddings use the tape-aware gather operation rather than a batch-by-cardinality one-hot matrix. Published interaction weights remain available after prediction, with an explicit KeepsActivation rationale and regression coverage. Parameter updates invalidate persistent GPU tensors.
The training path now delegates to TapeTrainingStepper.EagerSgdObjectiveStep, preserving the central tape/arena lifecycle and satisfying NoNewHandWrittenTapeTrainingLoop. The local build and all 18 focused cases pass, including all three training-loop ratchet checks and the six whole-model finite-difference configurations. This fixes the single failure from the opencl-foundations run on the previous head (185 other cases passed there).