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fix(training): GPU-resident optimizer steps by default; clipping and anomaly guard on the device - #2434
Depends on ooples/AiDotNet.Tensors#1666 (the ParameterBuffer view device-cache fix and GpuOptimizer.TryClipGradNorm / TryGradientSumOfSquares); this branch builds against it with -p:UseLocalTensors=true and needs the Tensors release before CI can build it.
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GPU-resident optimizer steps are the default on a float GPU engine for every optimizer that has one (Adam, AdamW, SGD, Momentum, RMSprop, Adagrad, AdaDelta, AdaMax, AMSGrad, Lion, Nadam, FTRL, proximal GD, mini-batch GD, GD). The AIDOTNET_GPU_ADAM opt-in gate is removed (no opt-out either), as in PyTorch. Adam no longer drops to the host update when clipping or the anomaly guard is on.
The eager step's (and UpdateSolution's) post-step invalidation skips a parameter whose device copy the step made authoritative (HasPendingGpuData): invalidating it dropped the update.
NeuralNetworkBase.ApplyGradientClipping: global-norm clip on the device (clip_grad_norm_, foreach, no host read); element-wise clip clamps on the device in place after one device finiteness sum. LastStepHadNonFiniteGradients reads the device norm only when asked.
GradientBasedOptimizerBase: tape norm/value clipping and HasAnomalousTapeGradients on the device; the guard reads one scalar (as GradScaler does) and confirms a non-finite sum with the exact host scan.
Before / after (27M-param HRE LM, RTX 3080, B=8 S=128, with Tensors#1666)
5 / 69.6 KB (anomaly scalar, loss scalar, CE mask, router one-hot - Tensors#1664)
step time
~0.96 s
0.25-0.39 s
Tests
New GpuEagerTapeStepMatchesCpuTests: Dense -> LayerNorm -> Dense, AdamW, eager step; GPU losses must track the CPU engine step by step. Against the unfixed Tensors the GPU loss is frozen (2.3527 for six steps while the CPU goes 2.3527 -> 0.579). Passes with the fix.
GPU acceleration is now selected automatically for supported float training workloads, without requiring an environment-variable setting.
Gradient norm and value clipping, as well as gradient anomaly checks, can run on the GPU when supported.
Bug Fixes
Improved handling of pending GPU updates during training, helping preserve current parameter values and report non-finite gradients accurately.
Consolidated into #2436 (23 changed files). All commits and the dependency are retained; the five unresolved review findings are linked as outstanding items in the combined PR.
…anomaly guard on the device
- Every GPU optimizer step (Adam, AdamW, SGD, Momentum, RMSprop, Adagrad, AdaDelta, AdaMax, AMSGrad,
Lion, Nadam, FTRL, proximal GD, mini-batch GD, GD) runs on the device on a float GPU engine, as in
PyTorch: no AIDOTNET_GPU_ADAM opt-in gate. Adam no longer drops to the host update whenever the
anomaly guard or clipping is active.
- The eager step's invalidation loops skip a parameter whose device copy the step made authoritative
(HasPendingGpuData); invalidating it dropped the update and trained against frozen weights.
- NeuralNetworkBase.ApplyGradientClipping: global-norm clip on the device (GpuOptimizer.TryClipGradNorm,
clip_grad_norm_); element-wise clip clamps on the device after one device finiteness sum.
LastStepHadNonFiniteGradients reads the device norm only when asked.
- GradientBasedOptimizerBase tape clipping (norm and value) and HasAnomalousTapeGradients run on the
device; the anomaly guard reads one scalar and confirms a non-finite sum with the exact host scan.
The host scans downloaded every device-resident gradient each step.
Measured (HRE LM, 26.9M params, RTX 3080, B=8 S=128): device-to-host per step 36 transfers / 107.7 MB
-> 5 / 69.6 KB; step ~0.96 s -> 0.25-0.39 s; GPU loss trajectory matches the CPU engine
(10.91, 9.2007, 7.8826, 6.7754, 5.8072 vs 10.91, 9.20, 7.88, 6.78, 5.81).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dense -> LayerNorm -> Dense with AdamW on the eager (non-fused) step: GPU losses must match the CPU
engine step by step. Against the unfixed Tensors the GPU loss is frozen (2.3527 for six steps while
the CPU goes 2.3527 -> 0.579).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GPU eager training now selects eligible optimizer paths without an environment-variable gate. Gradient clipping and anomaly checks can use device operations, and update paths preserve parameters with pending device data. An integration test compares GPU and CPU eager-training loss trajectories.
Eligible gradient clipping and anomaly checks now use GPU operations. LastStepHadNonFiniteGradients can use a stored device norm to determine finiteness.
Eligible optimizer GPU paths no longer require AIDOTNET_GPU_ADAM=1. Existing type, engine, and optimizer-specific conditions remain.
Device update preservation and validation src/NeuralNetworks/NeuralNetworkBase.cs, src/Optimizers/GradientBasedOptimizerBase.cs, tests/AiDotNet.Tests/IntegrationTests/NeuralNetworks/GpuEagerTapeStepMatchesCpuTests.cs
Update paths skip cache invalidation for parameters with pending GPU data. The integration test compares six GPU eager-training losses with a CPU reference.
GPU-resident optimizer steps become the default, so sparse embedding training on several optimizers can silently switch to dense full-table updates. Global-norm clipping can also fail to clip in a narrow overflow case. A cache flush after the step may also undo device-side updates. The new GPU test can pass without confirming that the GPU step ran. These should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.
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Preserve pending device updates in the cache helper.
The eager path skips pending device data in its local loop, but the later default InvalidateWeightCachesAfterSuccessfulWeightUpdate() call passes updatedOnDevice: false. The helper then invalidates the same parameter and can discard its device-authoritative update. The streaming path has the same risk because it also uses the default overload.
Apply the pending-data predicate independently of updatedOnDevice:
Suggested fix
- if (updatedOnDevice && wtensor.HasPendingGpuData && wtensor.TryGetGpuBuffer() is not null)+ if (wtensor.HasPendingGpuData && wtensor.TryGetGpuBuffer() is not null)
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Review comment at @src/NeuralNetworks/NeuralNetworkBase.cs around lines 12688 -
12689:
Update InvalidateWeightCachesAfterSuccessfulWeightUpdate so its pending-data
guard skips tensors with pending GPU data and an available GPU buffer regardless
of updatedOnDevice; preserve the existing buffer availability check and continue
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set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- sparse helper implementations ---'
sed -n '220,470p' src/Optimizers/SparseEmbeddingOptimizerHelpers.cs
printf'%s\n''--- Adam current control flow ---'
sed -n '930,1105p' src/Optimizers/AdamOptimizer.cs
printf'%s\n''--- AdamW current control flow ---'
sed -n '735,815p' src/Optimizers/AdamWOptimizer.cs
printf'%s\n''--- pre-change sparse guards ---'forfin AMSGradOptimizer.cs AdaMaxOptimizer.cs AdagradOptimizer.cs FTRLOptimizer.cs LionOptimizer.cs NadamOptimizer.cs StochasticGradientDescentOptimizer.cs GradientDescentOptimizer.cs;doprintf'\n--- %s ---\n'"$f"
git show 104d616b557d40b81b2d5729e0405e3c88ed4fde:src/Optimizers/"$f"2>/dev/null | rg -n -F -C 8 -- 'AIDOTNET_GPU_ADAM'||truedone
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Blocking: Preserve sparse scatter before the dense GPU update.
For a sparse-only embedding gradient, the float DirectGpuTensorEngine path skips the sparse helper in AMSGrad, AdaMax, Adagrad, FTRL, Lion, NAdam, and StochasticGradientDescentOptimizer. TryGetEffectiveGradient then materializes the full embedding-table gradient. The dense update touches the complete table instead of preserving the sparse path’s memory and work bounds.
Do not make sparse handling conditional on the GPU-path boolean. Check the gradient representation first, run the optimizer-specific sparse helper, and invoke the dense GPU update only when the sparse helper declines. Follow the sparse-first ordering already used by Adam and AdamW.
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Review comment at @src/Optimizers/AMSGradOptimizer.cs at line 397:
In AMSGrad, AdaMax, Adagrad, FTRL, Lion, NAdam, and
StochasticGradientDescentOptimizer, check the gradient representation and run
the optimizer-specific sparse helper before choosing the GPU path. Invoke the
dense GPU update only when the sparse helper declines, following the
sparse-first ordering used by Adam and AdamW so sparse gradients do not reach
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Blocking: preserve clipping when the device norm is non-finite.
TryClipGradNorm returns a non-null DeviceGradientNorm even when the device sum of squares or norm is non-finite. Its device scale is then 1, so the gradients remain unscaled. Both GradientBasedOptimizerBase and NeuralNetworkBase treat that non-null result as a successful clip and skip the host fallback.
A finite float gradient around 3e19 is enough for float squaring to overflow while the corresponding double calculation remains finite. The double-precision host fallback would then clip the gradient, but the GPU path can pass it to the optimizer unchanged. Accept the device result only when its norm is finite. Otherwise, run the double-precision fallback so finite overflow is clipped while NaN/Inf gradients remain unscaled for anomaly handling. Apply the same correction to the NeuralNetworkBase caller.
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Review comment at @src/Optimizers/GradientBasedOptimizerBase.cs at line 3772:
Update the device-result checks in GradientBasedOptimizerBase and the
corresponding NeuralNetworkBase caller to accept a DeviceGradientNorm only when
its norm is finite; otherwise run the existing double-precision host fallback.
Preserve the fallback behavior that clips finite gradients whose device
calculation overflowed while leaving NaN/Inf gradients unscaled for anomaly
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Narrow the construction catch so that only the no-backend condition skips.
The catch at line 100 turns every exception from new DirectGpuTensorEngine() into a skip. A regression that makes the constructor throw on a GPU host is then reported as “No DirectGpuTensorEngine available” instead of failing the test. The path guideline for tests/** requires the test to fail when behavior is wrong.
Catch only the exception type that the engine throws when no backend is present. Let other construction exceptions propagate. Keep the IsGpuAvailable check after construction to skip hosts where the engine loads but has no usable GPU.
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Narrow the catch around DirectGpuTensorEngine construction to the specific
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Add an assertion that the GPU AdamW update ran.
The loss checks cannot distinguish a GPU update from a host update. Both apply the same AdamW update rule, so a host fallback can produce losses inside the 2e-3 tolerance. The test can then pass while the default GPU-resident step, which this PR changes, is never exercised.
Add a check on a GPU optimizer dispatch count, or on another signal from GpuOptimizer.TryAdamWStep. Assert that the GPU trajectory records at least one GPU AdamW dispatch. No such counter is referenced under src/. If the AiDotNet.Tensors engine does not expose one, add it there before adding this assertion.
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Update the GPU-versus-CPU integration test so it verifies that the GPU
trajectory actually dispatched at least one AdamW step, rather than relying only
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Closes #2433
Depends on ooples/AiDotNet.Tensors#1666 (the ParameterBuffer view device-cache fix and
GpuOptimizer.TryClipGradNorm/TryGradientSumOfSquares); this branch builds against it with-p:UseLocalTensors=trueand needs the Tensors release before CI can build it.Changes
AIDOTNET_GPU_ADAMopt-in gate is removed (no opt-out either), as in PyTorch. Adam no longer drops to the host update when clipping or the anomaly guard is on.UpdateSolution's) post-step invalidation skips a parameter whose device copy the step made authoritative (HasPendingGpuData): invalidating it dropped the update.NeuralNetworkBase.ApplyGradientClipping: global-norm clip on the device (clip_grad_norm_, foreach, no host read); element-wise clip clamps on the device in place after one device finiteness sum.LastStepHadNonFiniteGradientsreads the device norm only when asked.GradientBasedOptimizerBase: tape norm/value clipping andHasAnomalousTapeGradientson the device; the guard reads one scalar (as GradScaler does) and confirms a non-finite sum with the exact host scan.Before / after (27M-param HRE LM, RTX 3080, B=8 S=128, with Tensors#1666)
Tests
GpuEagerTapeStepMatchesCpuTests: Dense -> LayerNorm -> Dense, AdamW, eager step; GPU losses must track the CPU engine step by step. Against the unfixed Tensors the GPU loss is frozen (2.3527 for six steps while the CPU goes 2.3527 -> 0.579). Passes with the fix.GpuFusedTrainKeepsLearningTestsstill passes.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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floattraining workloads, without requiring an environment-variable setting.Consolidated into #2436 (23 changed files). All commits and the dependency are retained; the five unresolved review findings are linked as outstanding items in the combined PR.