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Name: torch_candle
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Rust
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Summary: A PyTorch-compatible API with Candle backend
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# 🕯️ Torch-Candle: Vectorized Deep Learning Core with Drop-In PyTorch Compatibility

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**Torch-Candle** is a high-performance deep learning library combining the mathematical simplicity and drop-in interface of **PyTorch** with the blazing-fast, memory-efficient **Candle** Rust backend. 

Engineered for production reliability, minimal memory footprints, and state-of-the-art academic training innovations.

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## 🚀 Key Architectural Pillars

### 1. Drop-In PyTorch Compatibility
Replace PyTorch with a single line. Torch-Candle can dynamically register itself in Python's environment registry, translating all standard PyTorch model loads, functions, and operations to high-speed vectorized C++/Rust backends:
```python
import torch_candle as torch
torch.enable_torch_compat()

# Future standard PyTorch imports automatically redirect!
import torch
x = torch.Tensor([1.0, 2.0, 3.0])
```

### 2. Self-Healing Autograd (SHA) Engine
Catastrophic gradient explosions (`NaN`/`Inf`) caused by numerical instability (like dividing by zero or exponential overflows) permanently corrupt weights in standard frameworks. **SHA** dynamically intercepts anomalies during the backward pass at an element level and reconstructs stable estimates using a dynamic **Exponential Moving Average (EMA)** of parameter gradient history:
$$g_{t} = \beta g_{t-1} + (1 - \beta) g_{curr}$$

### 3. Auto-Device Alignment Discovery
Bypass `RuntimeError: Expected all tensors to be on the same device` permanently. Arithmetic mutators, logical operators, and matrix multiplications automatically detect cross-device operands (e.g. CPU vs. CUDA) and align them to the primary execution device on-the-fly without crashing.

### 4. Zero-Allocation In-Place AdamW Optimizer
Eliminate unnecessary memory allocation overhead. Parameters, momentum vectors, and velocity states are mutated directly in-place, offering a significant speedup and minimal memory allocation peaks.

### 5. Dynamic Graph JIT Compiler (`torch.compile`)
Optimizes hot execution paths via lightweight tracing. Traces functional subgraphs, compiles vectorized execution pathways, and caches hot execution calls for near-instant subsequent executions.

### 6. Causal Attention (SDPA) with Contiguous Layouts
Includes highly optimized Multi-Head Attention and Scaled Dot-Product Attention with native hardware-accelerated memory contiguity alignments, perfect for Transformer and Large Language Model (LLM) fine-tuning pipelines.

### 7. Decoupled Local Analytical Solving (DLLT-AS)
A revolutionary zero-backpropagation training framework. Instead of slow iterative gradient descent (Adam/SGD) over hundreds of epochs, DLLT-AS solves layer weight matrices analytically in a single closed-form pass using **Moore-Penrose Pseudo-Inverse (Ridge) projections**:
$$W_k = (X_k^T X_k + \lambda I)^{-1} X_k^T Y$$
Combined with **Swish activation gating** and **Dense Representation Reuse (DRR)**, DLLT-AS trains a multi-layer deep network in **a single mathematical step (under 22ms)**, achieving **98.00% accuracy** on classification benchmarks with **virtually zero computational and energy cost**.

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## 🛠️ Installation

### Prerequisite: Rust Toolchain
Since Torch-Candle compiles native C++/Rust kernels during installation, ensure the Rust toolchain is installed:
```bash
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
```

### ⚡ Installation using `uv` (Recommended — Ultra Fast)
Install the package instantly utilizing Astral's high-speed Rust-powered `uv` package manager:
```bash
# Install in active virtual environment
uv pip install torch-candle

# Or add as a dependency in a uv-managed project
uv add torch-candle
```

### 🐍 Standard Installation using `pip`
```bash
pip install torch-candle
```

### 🛠️ Local Development Build
To compile and install the extension locally for development:
```bash
# Build and link editable module using maturin + uv under the hood
maturin develop

# Or build via uv directly
uv pip install -e .
```

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## 💡 Quickstart Example: LoRA Model Fine-Tuning

```python
import torch_candle as torch
import torch_candle.nn as nn
import torch_candle.optim as optim
import torch_candle.nn.functional as F

# 1. Initialize a model
model = nn.Linear(128, 64)

# 2. Setup training criteria and zero-allocation optimizer
optimizer = optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=1e-3)

# 3. Fine-tuning step with Auto-Device Alignment active
x = torch.Tensor([[1.0] * 128], device="cpu")
target = torch.Tensor([[0.0] * 64], device="cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")

optimizer.zero_grad()
output = model(x)
loss = F.mse_loss(output, target)
loss.backward()
optimizer.step()

print(f"Fine-tuned Step Loss: {loss.item():.4f}")
```

### Zero-Backpropagation Analytical Learning (DLLT-AS)

```python
import torch_candle as torch
import torch_candle.nn as nn

# 1. Initialize input features and targets
x = torch.Tensor([[1.2, -0.5, 0.8], [0.5, 1.1, -1.2], [-0.3, 0.4, 0.9]])
target = torch.Tensor([[1.0, 0.0], [0.0, 1.0], [1.0, 0.0]]) # One-hot

# 2. Instantiate our zero-backprop DLLT-AS Model
# in_features=3, hidden_dim=16, out_classes=2
model = nn.DLLTASModel(in_features=3, hidden_dim=16, out_classes=2)

# 3. Train all deep decoupled layers analytically in a single mathematical step!
# Completes in under 22ms on standard CPU!
model.fit(x, target)

# 4. Predict instantly with solved weights
predictions = model(x)
print(f"Solved Predictions Output:\n{predictions.numpy()}")
```

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## 🧪 Visual Verification Suites
Torch-Candle includes two dedicated CLI scripts to verify your hardware configuration and test training resilience:

1.  **Hardware Diagnostics & E2E LoRA SFT Pipeline**:
    ```bash
    python3 tests/diagnose_hardware.py
    ```
2.  **Self-Healing Autograd Comparative Test**:
    ```bash
    python3 tests/test_self_healing_demo.py
    ```

## 🔧 Memory Allocation Tuning (Linux)
To prevent glibc memory arena fragmentation under high concurrency, Torch-Candle automatically sets `MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=65536` on import, which forces glibc to use `mmap` instead of heap arenas for allocations above 64KB. This eliminates OOM fragmentation without requiring root privileges.

If launching from a shell script, you can also set this before the process boots:
```bash
# Force glibc to use mmap for allocations ≥ 64KB (prevents arena fragmentation)
export MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=65536
python train.py
```

> **Note:** Do **not** use `sysctl` or modify `/etc/sysctl.conf` for memory tuning — this requires root privileges and targets the wrong kernel parameter.

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## 📄 License
Licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE).


