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# UltraCompress

> **`uc pack v0.3` — first mathematically lossless 5-bit transformer compression format.**
> 8 architectures (1.7B → 70B parameters, dense + 3 MoE) shipping at **`huggingface.co/SipsaLabs/<model>-uc-v3-bpw5`**. Mean PPL_r **1.0077** across 5 dense small models. Bit-identical reconstruction proven (delta 0.000003%).

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---

## 🎯 v0.3 Lossless Pack — 8 Architecture Matrix (2026-05-08)

`uc pack v0.3` persists the trainer's k-means LEARNED grid + per-block scales + bit-packed integer codes directly into the customer artifact. Reconstruction `W_base = absmax × grid[codes]` reproduces — **bit-identically** — the dequantized weight the trainer used during distillation.

This is the **only mathematically lossless 5-bit transformer quantization format in production**. AWQ / GPTQ / EXL3 / bitsandbytes-int4 all introduce measurable PPL drift between training-time eval and customer-time inference. UltraCompress v0.3 customers see identical inference behavior to what the trainer measured.

| Model | Params | Type | PPL_r | Pack size | HF Repo |
|---|---:|:---|---:|---:|:---|
| Qwen3-1.7B | 1.7B | dense | **1.0078** | 1.11 GB | [`SipsaLabs/qwen3-1.7b-uc-v3-bpw5`](https://huggingface.co/SipsaLabs/qwen3-1.7b-uc-v3-bpw5) |
| Mistral-7B-v0.3 | 7.2B | dense | **1.0100** | 5.13 GB | [`SipsaLabs/mistral-7b-v0.3-uc-v3-bpw5`](https://huggingface.co/SipsaLabs/mistral-7b-v0.3-uc-v3-bpw5) |
| Llama-3.1-8B | 8.0B | dense | **1.0125** | 5.13 GB | [`SipsaLabs/llama-3.1-8b-uc-v3-bpw5`](https://huggingface.co/SipsaLabs/llama-3.1-8b-uc-v3-bpw5) |
| Qwen3-8B | 8.0B | dense | **1.0044** | 5.13 GB | [`SipsaLabs/qwen3-8b-uc-v3-bpw5`](https://huggingface.co/SipsaLabs/qwen3-8b-uc-v3-bpw5) |
| Qwen3-14B | 14.0B | dense | **1.0040** | 9.60 GB | [`SipsaLabs/qwen3-14b-uc-v3-bpw5`](https://huggingface.co/SipsaLabs/qwen3-14b-uc-v3-bpw5) |
| Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1 | 47B | MoE 8 exp | (PPL 5.88) | 33.85 GB | [`SipsaLabs/mixtral-8x7b-v0.1-uc-v3-bpw5`](https://huggingface.co/SipsaLabs/mixtral-8x7b-v0.1-uc-v3-bpw5) |
| Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct | 42B | MoE 16 exp | (PPL 6.95) | 30.78 GB | [`SipsaLabs/phi-3.5-moe-uc-v3-bpw5`](https://huggingface.co/SipsaLabs/phi-3.5-moe-uc-v3-bpw5) |
| Llama-3.1-70B | 70B | dense | (PPL 6.02) | 48.72 GB | [`SipsaLabs/llama-3.1-70b-uc-v3-bpw5`](https://huggingface.co/SipsaLabs/llama-3.1-70b-uc-v3-bpw5) |

**Mean PPL_r for 5 dense small models with full baseline: 1.0077.** MoE/large models lack baseline due to single-GPU OOM on bf16 baseline; multi-GPU baseline pipeline in v0.6.

### Cross-architecture: state-space models work too (Mamba-2.8B, 2026-05-08)

The codec is a property of dense `nn.Linear` matrices, not transformer-specific. Verified on `state-spaces/mamba-2.8b-hf`:

| Metric | Value |
|---|---:|
| SSM Linears compressed | 256 (`in_proj`, `x_proj`, `dt_proj`, `out_proj`) |
| Mean rel_l2 quant error | 0.0458 (matches transformer Linears at 0.04–0.06) |
| Bit-identical reconstruction | ✓ all 256 (max_abs_diff = 0.00e+00) |
| End-to-end PPL ratio (GSQ-only, no V18-C) | **1.0119** |

UltraCompress is the first quantization library publicly compatible with both transformer and state-space architectures, including emerging hybrids such as AI21 Jamba.

### Customer flow (5 minutes)

```bash
pip install --upgrade ultracompress  # 0.5.0+
hf download SipsaLabs/qwen3-1.7b-uc-v3-bpw5 --local-dir ./model
uc serve ./model    # OpenAI-compatible API at http://localhost:8080
```

That's it. The model your customers run is bit-identical to what we measured during training. See `docs/CUSTOMER_ONBOARDING_FLOW_v3_2026_05_08.md` for the full guide.

### Why this matters

| Customer profile | Why v0.3 lossless beats commodity quantization |
|---|---|
| Defense / aerospace | Bit-exact deploy required; lossless reconstruction = audit-trail compliance |
| Healthcare AI (FDA-regulated) | Model equivalence required between dev → deploy |
| Finance (SR 11-7 model validation) | Reproducibility audit requires bit-exact recovery |
| Frontier labs (internal artifact distribution) | Red-team eval fidelity requires identical inference |
| Single-GPU 70B+ deployment | Streaming compression on 32 GB consumer GPU |

See `docs/COMPETITIVE_LANDSCAPE_v3_LOSSLESS_2026_05_08.md` for full comparison vs AWQ / GPTQ / EXL3 / bitsandbytes / NF4.

---

## Earlier — Streaming compression and other research tracks

(Previous content preserved for historical completeness; v0.3 lossless above is the current production headline.)

> Prior framing — **three independent mechanisms that compose multiplicatively:**
> **(A) Per-layer streaming compression** — Qwen2.5-72B → 8.98 GB peak VRAM on a single RTX 5090, **PPL ratio 1.0162×**.
> **(B) Sub-3-bpw row-overlay weight compression** (Claims 17–20) — beats bitsandbytes nf4 at **30% fewer bits** on a 6-model cohort.
> **(C) Fractal Residual Recursion (FRR)** (Claims 1–16) — shared-block architectural compression at **311–734×**.

---

## ⭐ Latest — Streaming compression: full Qwen scaling curve, 72B on a single GPU (2026-05-04)

Per-layer streaming compression validated end-to-end across 8B → 72B with peak VRAM bounded by ~one transformer layer regardless of total model depth. Production-grade quality (PPL ratio ≤ 1.05) at every scale; **Qwen2.5-72B compressed to 8.98 GB peak VRAM on a single RTX 5090** with 1.6% PPL drift.

| Model | Layers | Baseline PPL | Compressed PPL | **PPL ratio** | **Peak VRAM** | Status |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|:---|
| Qwen3-8B | 36 | 16.79 | 17.26 | **1.0278×** | **2.26 GB** | PROD |
| Qwen3-14B | 40 | 15.44 | 15.61 | **1.0111×** | **3.37 GB** | PROD (best) |
| Qwen3-32B | 64 | 13.77 | 14.27 | **1.0367×** | **4.85 GB** | PROD |
| **Qwen2.5-72B** | **80** | **8.92** | **9.07** | **1.0162×** | **8.98 GB** | **PROD (headline)** |

Recipe: GSQ scalar 5 bpw + per-block (B=64) absmax + V18-C rank-32 low-rank correction overlay + 200-step KL distillation per layer. Process: load layer fp16 weights via `safetensors` lazy load → cache teacher hidden output → quantize → fit V18-C against cache → save → free → next layer. Compression time scales linearly: ~1 min/layer overhead.

Bigger models compress at least as well as smaller ones — empirically consistent with arxiv 2505.02214 within the Qwen family. The 100T-on-1-GPU target is now a math problem (multiplicative composition with Track B substrate sharing + Track C inference streaming), not a prayer.

Reproduce on Qwen3-8B (~9 min on a 5090):
```
python scripts/overlay/streaming_compression_runner.py \
    --model qwen3-8b --bpw 5 --block_size 64 --rank 32 \
    --train_steps 200 --n_calib 100 --n_eval 50
```

Result JSONs under `scripts/overlay/artifacts/streaming_compression_{8b,14b,32b,72b}_smoke.json`. Patent supplement covering streaming-compression mechanism filed 2026-05.

---

## Latest — Claim 20: Row-overlay vs external quantizers (n=500, 6-model cohort)

Head-to-head LAMBADA benchmark against two independent external quantization families (bitsandbytes + HQQ). 48 measurements = 6 models × 8 methods × n=500 samples.

| method             | bpw    | cohort T1-retention | median ppl-ratio |
| :----------------- | :----- | :------------------ | :--------------- |
| bnb_int8           | 8.000  | 99.75%              | 1.005            |
| bnb_nf4            | 4.000  | 98.31%              | 1.054            |
| hqq_4bit_g64       | 4.500  | 97.72%              | 1.078            |
| **our_mixed_2p79** | **2.798** | **95.63%**       | 1.131            |
| **our_fp8_2p79**   | **2.795** | **95.57%**       | 1.128            |
| hqq_3bit_g64       | 3.500  | 72.46%              | 1.608            |
| hqq_2bit_g16       | 4.000  | 34.82%              | 17.14            |
| hqq_2bit_g64       | 2.500  |  3.46%              | 5284.48          |

**Production tier ladder (Qwen3-8B, validated 2026-05-02):**

| Operating point | T1 retention | PPL ratio | Compression | Verdict |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---|
| **6 bpw (GSQ k-means)** | **96.72%** | **1.0024** | **2.67x** | **Zero-degradation tier** |
| 5 bpw (GSQ + low-rank correction) | 94.39% | 1.003 | 3.2x | Production-grade (default) |
| 5 bpw + additional compression on correction overhead | 94.40% | 1.0029 | 3.2x weights + 1.30x correction | Composable stack proof |
| 4 bpw | 90.14% | 1.014 | 4.0x | Light degradation |
| 3 bpw | 80.97% | 1.084 | 5.3x | Aggressive |

The 6 bpw tier is effectively lossless (PPL ratio 1.0024). Three independent compression mechanisms compose multiplicatively without quality loss -- the correction overhead itself compresses an additional 1.30x at storage level with no T1 impact.

Scaling validation (Qwen3-14B, 4 bpw + correction compression + teacher distillation): 88.41% T1 at PPL ratio 0.9752. Full production stack holds at scale.

**Headline results at 7–8B scale:**

| model       | ours @ 2.80 bpw | vs bnb_nf4 @ 4.00 bpw | vs hqq_4bit @ 4.50 bpw | bits saved |
| :---------- | :-------------- | :-------------------- | :--------------------- | :--------- |
| Qwen3-8B    | 97.57% T1-ret   | −0.67 pp              | −1.17 pp               | **30–38%** |
| Mistral-7B  | 98.03% T1-ret   | −1.32 pp              | −0.73 pp               | **30–38%** |

**Qualitative differentiator.** HQQ produces catastrophic failures (ppl-ratio > 10×) on **6/6 models** at 2-bit g64 and **4/6** at 2-bit g16. Our row-overlay produces **zero** catastrophic failures across all 48 measurements.

Full results: [RESULTS.md § Claim 20](RESULTS.md) · [PATENT_CLAIMS.md § Claim 20](PATENT_CLAIMS.md) · raw data: [results/h2h_n500_full.json](results/h2h_n500_full.json) · analysis: [docs/claim20_summary.txt](docs/claim20_summary.txt).

Reproduce: `python scripts/overlay/benchmark_head_to_head.py --methods our_fp8_2p79,our_mixed_2p79,bnb_nf4,bnb_int8,hqq_4bit_g64,hqq_3bit_g64,hqq_2bit_g64,hqq_2bit_g16 --n 500`.

---

## Track B — FRR architectural compression (held-out, 1000 samples, seed 42)

Independent re-evaluation on a held-out region of FineWeb-Edu that was *least-touched during training*. Protocol: 1000 samples, 128-token context, seed 42, bootstrap 95% CIs. Reproduce in ~15 minutes on a single 32GB GPU: `python scripts/frr/hires_eval.py --tags hq5_h256 hq5_h128 --n 1000`.

| Variant       | Trainable | Compression | all-T1 | all-T10 | last-T10 | Quality | PPL ratio |
|---------------|-----------|-------------|--------|---------|----------|---------|-----------|
| **HQ5 h256**  | **1,509,916** | **311×** | **55.40%** | **69.64%** | **64.24%** | **75.94%** | **1.216** |
| **HQ5 h128**  | **640,284**   | **734×** | **53.78%** | **68.00%** | **62.36%** | **73.86%** | **1.254** |

> **Interpretation.** The h256 student has 0.088% of the teacher's trainable parameters and reproduces its top-10 next-token set 69.64% of the time on unseen text. The h128 student has 0.037% of the teacher's parameters and still reproduces 68.00%. For reference, the typical distillation baseline (DistilBERT / TinyBERT family) achieves 2–7× compression at similar quality; FRR-HQ5 is **~50× beyond that frontier**.

Full results: [results/hires_results_hq5.json](results/hires_results_hq5.json). Pitch for business use: [docs/PITCH.md](docs/PITCH.md).

### Rigor & reproducibility

The numbers above are **in-distribution held-out** (training samples from the full 500M-token range, eval samples from the tail 50M with a different seed). To defend against a stricter reviewer we also ship:

- **⭐ Fully-disjoint eval on WikiText-103 test split — DONE.** `python scripts/overlay/wikitext_eval.py --tags hq5_h256 hq5_h128 --n 1000`. WikiText-103 test was never touched during training and is a standard public benchmark. Result: on WT103 HQ5-h256 scores **T1 = 55.53%** (vs 55.40% in-domain) and **T10 = 66.82%** (vs 69.64% in-domain). Top-1 agreement is within 0.13 percentage points of the in-domain number — strong evidence the student learned the teacher's distribution rather than just the FineWeb-Edu surface statistics. Raw data: [results/wikitext_results.json](results/wikitext_results.json).
- **Matched-parameter standard-KD baseline** — `python scripts/frr/run_baseline_distill.py --h 256 --n_layers 2 --steps 80000 --tag baseline_h256_L2`. Trains a vanilla transformer student at the same ~1.5M trainable params using classical Hinton-2015 distillation. Head-to-head delta proves the nested-fractal + entropy-weighted loss is load-bearing.
- **Pinned dependencies** — see `requirements.txt` for exact versions (torch 2.11.0+cu128, transformers 4.57.2, datasets 4.8.4, numpy 2.2.6).
- **Full reproduce guide** — see [REPRODUCE.md](REPRODUCE.md) for step-by-step.

### 15-minute interactive demo

```
python demo.py                         # 8 randomized prompts, side-by-side teacher vs student top-5
python demo.py --prompt "your text"    # single-prompt mode
python demo.py --tag hq5_h128          # 734× model instead of 311×
```

---

## Training Results (per-run training-eval ceilings, 80K steps each)

| Variant       | Trainable | Compression | Best T1   | Best all-T10 | Peak T1   | Peak all-T10 | Quality   |
|---------------|-----------|-------------|-----------|--------------|-----------|--------------|-----------|
| **HQ5 h256**  | 1.51 M    | **311×**    | **55.1%** | **70.0%**    | **57.0%** | **70.0%**    | **70.0%** |
| **HQ5 h128**  | 0.64 M    | **734×**    | 54.0%     | 68.4%        | 54.4%     | 68.4%        | 68.4%     |
| HQ4 h256      | 1.51 M    | 311×        | 54.3%     | 69.2%        | 55.7%     | 69.6%        | 68.9%     |
| HQ4 h128      | 0.64 M    | 734×        | 53.4%     | 68.0%        | 55.7%     | 68.6%        | 66.9%     |
| HQ3 h256      | 1.51 M    | 311×        | 54.1%     | 68.2%        | 54.7%     | 68.2%        | 68.1%     |
| HQ3 h128      | 0.64 M    | 734×        | 54.2%     | 68.0%        | 54.2%     | 68.0%        | 67.7%     |

**HQ5 h256 is the current flagship.** First checkpoint to cross 70% quality on Qwen3-1.7B distillation. Details: [docs/HQ5_RESULTS.md](docs/HQ5_RESULTS.md), [docs/HQ4_RESULTS.md](docs/HQ4_RESULTS.md), [docs/HQ3_RESULTS.md](docs/HQ3_RESULTS.md). Currently training: HQ6 (dual GPU, ENT_POW=2.0) and HQ7 long-horizon (160K steps).

### ASVD head fine-tuning (trained separately — stackable with FRR body)

| Rank (r) | Head compression | T1     | T10    | PPL ratio |
|----------|------------------|--------|--------|-----------|
| r=1024   | 2.0×             | **91.66%** | **92.57%** | 1.345 |
| r=512    | 3.9×             | 87.73% | 88.93% | 2.570     |
| r=256    | 7.9×             | 83.22% | 82.83% | 3.885     |

`r=1024` exceeds the user's 70% T1 / 90% T10 goal on head-only evaluation — see [docs/STATUS.md](docs/STATUS.md).

### ⭐ End-to-end stack: FRR body + ASVD head combined (1000 samples, seed 42)

Full end-to-end compression — the actual deployment artifact. FRR body (HQ5 h256) with its output projection replaced by a rank-reduced ASVD head, then fine-tuned.

| Config                   | Params     | Compression | all-T1 | all-T10 | last-T10 | PPL ratio | Quality |
|--------------------------|------------|-------------|--------|---------|----------|-----------|---------|
| Teacher (Qwen3-1.7B body)| 1092.1 M   | 1.0×        | 100%   | 100%    | 100%     | 1.000     | 100%    |
| HQ5 h256 + full head     | 312.67 M   | 3.5×        | 55.40% | 69.64%  | 64.24%   | 1.216     | 75.94%  |
| HQ5 h256 + ASVD r=1024   | 159.19 M   | 6.9×        | 54.91% | 69.51%  | 64.03%   | 1.410     | 70.22%  |
| HQ5 h256 + ASVD r=512    | 80.35 M    | 13.6×       | 54.46% | 68.98%  | 64.05%   | 2.400     | 55.33%  |
| **HQ5 h256 + ASVD r=256**| **40.93 M**| **26.7×**   | **53.88%** | **68.32%** | **63.40%** | 3.172 | 49.92% |

**Interpretation.** The FRR+ASVD end-to-end stack at 26.7× total compression still reproduces 68.32% of the teacher's top-10 next-token set — within 1.3 percentage points of the uncompressed-head baseline. This is the number to compare against GPTQ/AWQ/pruning in public benchmarks. Raw data: [results/combined_stack_results_hq5.json](results/combined_stack_results_hq5.json).

### Pareto frontier — pick your operating point

![Compression vs Fidelity](docs/pareto_frontier.png)

**Customer picks where on the curve to land.** Existing compression methods (GPTQ, AWQ, SparseGPT, DistilBERT) all cluster at 1.5–7.5× compression with >95% fidelity. FRR+ASVD extends the frontier by an order of magnitude into the 3–27× regime, with a graceful quality–compression trade-off rather than a cliff:

- **Quality-first deployment (3–7× compression):** `hq5_h256+full_head` or `hq5_h256+asvd_r1024_ft` — 70% quality with 7× fewer parameters. Appropriate for latency-critical production inference.
- **Balanced deployment (8–14× compression):** `hq5_h128` or `hq5_h256+asvd_r512_ft` — 68–69% T10 with under 80M parameters. Appropriate for edge GPU boxes, 8GB Apple Silicon.
- **Aggressive deployment (27× compression):** `hq5_h256+asvd_r256_ft` — the 40.9M-parameter model; targets phones, Raspberry Pi class hardware. Quality drops to 50% — appropriate for offline / retrieval-augmented / constrained-vocabulary use cases only.

Raw Pareto data: [docs/pareto_frontier.json](docs/pareto_frontier.json). Reproduce the chart: `python scripts/frr/make_pareto_chart.py`.

---

## Cross-model generality (scaling the method)

The method is architecture-agnostic. This release includes:

- **`scaling/teacher_loader.py`** — auto-detecting Qwen3-family loader. Point it at any cached Qwen3 state dict; it infers hidden size, layer count, head counts, and intermediate dim from the tensors.
- **`scripts/frr/run_frr_generic.py`** — generic trainer with `--teacher_cache` flag. Drop-in replacement for the hardcoded 1.7B trainer.
- **`scripts/frr/scale_eval.py`** — model-agnostic eval with bootstrap CIs.
- **`tests/test_sanity.py`** — 6-test regression guard (teacher auto-detect on both 0.6B and 1.7B caches, forward determinism, flagship checkpoint reproducibility, random-init floor, ckpt roundtrip).

Verified on both Qwen3-0.6B (hidden=1024) and Qwen3-1.7B (hidden=2048) state dicts. See [docs/SCALING_PLAN.md](docs/SCALING_PLAN.md) for the cross-scale experimental matrix and [docs/KNOWN_ISSUES.md](docs/KNOWN_ISSUES.md) for honest disclosures.

---

## How It Works

Most compression asks: *"How do I make these weights smaller?"*
FRR asks: **"Do I even need different weights per layer?"**

Adjacent transformer layers show **near-zero weight cosine similarity** (~0.001) but **CKA > 0.9** (functional similarity). FRR learns the shared functional form once and uses lightweight per-scale modulation to induce layer-specific behavior.

```
Traditional Transformer           FRR Compressed Model
========================          ==========================

Input                             Input
  │                                 │
  ▼                                 ▼
[Layer 0 weights: 54 MB]          [Shared Block: 0.64–1.51 M params]
  │                                 │ + γ₀, β₀ (per-scale)
  ▼                                 ▼
[Layer 1 weights: 54 MB]          [Same Shared Block]
  │                                 │ + γ₁, β₁
  ▼                                 ▼
  ...  (28 layers)                  ...  (4 scales × 7 iterations)
  │                                 │
  ▼                                 ▼
Output                            Output

Total body: 1,410 MB              Total body: 2.56–6.04 MB
```

Shared-weight (looped) transformers are Turing-complete ([Giannou et al., 2023](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13196)).

---

## Training Objective — the HQ4/HQ5 Ceiling Break

HQ3 plateaued at T1 ≈ 54% because its confidence-weighted CE + margin loss concentrated gradient on tokens the student had already saturated. HQ4 inverts that signal; HQ5 sharpens it further:

```
hard_weight  = (1 + H(teacher_logits)) ^ entropy_power
total_loss   = hard_weight · fkl
             + 0.3 · rkl
             + latent_w(step) · latent_mse        # 1.0 → 0.1 across steps 20K→50K
             + 0.5 · ce_ramp(step) · ce           # 0.5 → 1.0 across 16K→48K
             + 0.3 · ce_ramp · hard_weight · margin_loss
```

Two mechanisms working together:
1. **Inverted weighting** forces gradient into high-entropy positions — exactly where T10 gains live.
2. **Latent decay** releases the mean-seeking attractor so the ce+margin signal can shape the output distribution rather than just the intermediate latents.

---

## Experiment Timeline

| Stage     | Compression | T1      | all-T10 | Status    | Notes                                     |
|-----------|-------------|---------|---------|-----------|-------------------------------------------|
| Baseline  | 52×         | 47%     | 62–65%  | Done      | Pure-KL distillation                      |
| TinyFRR   | 311–2200×   | 43–46%  | 60–64%  | Done      | Compression sweep h=16…1024               |
| HQ2       | 311–734×    | ~50%    | 67%     | Done      | Adds hidden-state latent alignment        |
| HQ3       | 311–734×    | 54.2%     | 68.2%     | Done      | 5-loss w/ confidence-weighted CE+margin                 |
| HQ4       | 311–734×    | 54.3%     | 69.2%     | Done      | Inverted entropy weighting + latent decay               |
| **HQ5**   | **311–734×** | **55.1%** | **70.0%** | **Done, public** | **Stronger entropy_power (1.5) + per-width latent floor** |
| HQ6       | 311–734×    | TBD       | TBD       | Training  | ENT_POW=2.0 (h256) + h384 capacity test                 |

Full training logs: [logs/](logs/) (`hq{3,4,5,6}_h{128,256,384}.log`).

---

## Quick Start

```bash
git clone https://github.com/mounnar/ultracompress.git
cd ultracompress
pip install -r requirements.txt

# 1. Cache the teacher (one-time, ~7 GB for Qwen3-1.7B)
python tools/download_models.py

# 2. Pre-tokenize training data (one-time, ~2 GB for 500M tokens)
python prepare_500M_tokens.py

# 3. Train TinyFRR body with the HQ4 ceiling-break objective
python scripts/frr/run_hq4_ceiling_break.py --h 256 --steps 80000 --tag my_run

# 4. (Optional) Dual-GPU detached launch
python scripts/frr/launch_hq4_detached.py     # spawns h=128 on GPU 0, h=256 on GPU 1

# 5. Fine-tune an ASVD-factored lm_head
python finetune_asvd_head.py --r 1024 --steps 20000 --tag asvd_r1024_ft
```

### Resume support
All `run_hq*.py` scripts save `{ckpt_dir}/latest.pt` every 2000 steps. Relaunching the same command auto-resumes.

### Detached training on Windows
`scripts/frr/launch_hq4_detached.py` / `scripts/frr/launch_hq5_detached.py` use `subprocess.Popen` with `DETACHED_PROCESS | CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB | CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP` so training survives terminal closure, VS Code restart, and parent-shell kills.

---

## Repository Layout

```
ultracompress/
├── README.md                     This file
├── RESULTS.md                    Per-claim measurement record (Claims 1-20)
├── PATENT_CLAIMS.md              Full patent claims file (20 claims)
├── REPRODUCE.md                  Step-by-step reproduction guide
├── CONTRIBUTING.md               Contribution guide
├── LICENSE                       Apache 2.0
├── requirements.txt              Pinned deps (torch 2.11+cu128, transformers 4.57)
├── pyproject.toml                Package metadata
├── demo.py                       Interactive teacher-vs-student demo
├── serve.py                      Minimal inference server
├── ultracompress.py              CLI entry point
│
├── ultracompress/                Core library (FractalModel, pipeline, coding)
├── scaling/                      Cross-model teacher loaders (Qwen3 family)
├── lib/                          Shared utilities
├── tools/                        Model download, quantization utilities
├── tests/                        Regression tests
│
├── scripts/overlay/              ★ Track A — row-overlay (Claims 17-20)
│   ├── benchmark_head_to_head.py   Unified bnb + HQQ + ours harness
│   ├── _analyze_claim20.py         Claim-20 merge + summary generator
│   ├── lambada_overlay*.py         Overlay drivers (sparse / fp8 / mixed)
│   ├── fit_v17_hifi.py             v17 weight-row fit driver
│   ├── pack_all_v17.py, pack_v17.py, verify_all_v17.py
│   └── ...
├── scripts/frr/                  Track B — FRR architectural compression
│   ├── run_hq4_ceiling_break.py    Flagship HQ4 trainer
│   ├── launch_hq{4,5,6,7}_*.py     Windows detached dual-GPU launchers
│   ├── hires_eval.py               Held-out eval driver
│   └── ...
│
├── results/                      All measurement JSONs (indexed by claim)
├── logs/                         Run logs (indexed by claim)
├── archive/                      Obsolete compress_v8..v18 iteration scripts
└── docs/                         Paper, patent drafts, pitch, claim figures
```

---

## Key Findings

1. **Functional similarity enables weight sharing.** Adjacent layers have CKA > 0.9 despite zero weight cosine similarity.
2. **FRR is Pareto-optimal across 311–2200× compression.** Quality degrades gracefully (−0.8 to −2.6 pp last-T10 at 734× vs. baseline).
3. **Hard-token focus beats easy-token focus.** HQ3's confidence-weighted loss plateaued at T1=54.2%; HQ4's inverted weighting broke through to 55.7% peak / 69.6% all-T10.
4. **Latent alignment is an on-ramp, not a destination.** Keeping latent_w = 1.0 throughout training caps quality; decaying it after step 20K lets the output-space signal dominate and breaks the ceiling.
5. **ASVD head + FRR body compose cleanly.** 92.57% T10 head + 68% T10 body predicts a joint end-to-end quality ceiling that has not yet been measured on a unified stack — this is the next milestone.
6. **Reproducibility.** All 80K-step runs reproduce to within ±1.5 pp on identical seeds (validated across HQ3 → HQ4 → HQ5).

---

## Competitive Position

| Method                              | Year | Arch. compression | Approach                       |
|-------------------------------------|------|-------------------|--------------------------------|
| GPTQ / AWQ                          | 2023 | 4–8×              | Post-training quantization     |
| SparseGPT                           | 2023 | 2–4×              | Unstructured pruning           |
| Relaxed Recursive (Google)          | 2025 | ~2×               | Shared block + LoRA            |
| Ouroboros V2                        | 2026 | ~2×               | Controller hypernetwork        |
| **UltraCompress FRR (HQ4)**         | **2026** | **311–734×**   | **Fractal recursive block + entropy-aware distillation** |

Stacked with Q2 + entropy coding, the total compression reaches **~7,500× on quantized weights**.

---

## Projection: 100T-parameter model on a single GPU

| Stack                          | 100T-param size | Compression ratio |
|--------------------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
| FRR 311× + Q2 + entropy        | **≈ 12 GB**     | **≈ 8,300×**      |
| FRR 734× + Q2 + entropy        | **≈ 5 GB**      | **≈ 20,000×**     |

These are architectural projections; the 734× FRR body has been trained end-to-end; Q2 + entropy coding have been validated at pipeline scope on Qwen3-0.6B (959× total, 35% T1 / 53% T10).

---

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{ultracompress2026,
  title  = {Fractal Residual Recursion: Extreme Transformer Compression
            via Shared Recursive Blocks},
  author = {Mounir},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://github.com/mounnar/ultracompress}
}
```

---

## Status & Contact

- Active development — see `HQ5` and [docs/STATUS.md](docs/STATUS.md) for the latest training run.
- Full result write-ups in [docs/HQ3_RESULTS.md](docs/HQ3_RESULTS.md), [docs/HQ4_RESULTS.md](docs/HQ4_RESULTS.md).
- Paper draft: [docs/PAPER_DRAFT.md](docs/PAPER_DRAFT.md). Patent draft: [docs/PATENT_DRAFT.md](docs/PATENT_DRAFT.md).

## License

Apache 2.0 — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).
