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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.

---

## 🚀 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**.

---

## 🛠️ Installation

### 📦 Pre-compiled PyPI Packages (Recommended for End-Users)
If you want to run Torch-Candle without compiling it from source, install the pre-compiled binaries:

*   **CPU / macOS Metal (Apple Silicon)**:
    ```bash
    pip install torch-candle
    ```
    *(Note: Apple Silicon users automatically get Metal GPU acceleration out-of-the-box).*

*   **NVIDIA CUDA (Includes CPU + GPU acceleration)**:
    ```bash
    pip install torch-candle-cuda
    ```

---

### 🛠️ Building from Source (Local Compilation)
If you are developing or compiling specifically for your machine's hardware architecture, follow the instructions below.

#### 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
```

### ⚡ Installing with `uv` (Recommended)
By default, standard installation builds the **CPU-only** version (optimized automatically for your system's instruction set, like AVX2 on x86 or NEON on ARM). 

To compile the library with hardware acceleration tailored to your system, use the following commands:

#### 1. CPU-Only (Default)
```bash
uv pip install torch-candle
```

#### 2. NVIDIA CUDA Acceleration (NVIDIA GPUs)
Ensure the CUDA Toolkit is installed and `nvcc` is available in your `PATH` or standard location (e.g. `/usr/local/cuda`).
*   **From a local git clone (Recommended)**:
    We provide an automated hardware detection and installation script that configures CUDA paths and queries your GPU's exact compute capability automatically:
    ```bash
    # Standard installation
    python install.py

    # Editable installation (for active development)
    python install.py -e
    ```
*   **From PyPI (forcing a custom source build)**:
    If installing directly from PyPI without cloning, you can still compile with CUDA support manually:
    ```bash
    CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda CUDA_PATH=/usr/local/cuda CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP=75 MATURIN_PEP517_ARGS="--features pyo3/extension-module,cuda" uv pip install --force-reinstall --no-cache torch-candle --no-binary torch-candle
    ```
    *(Note: Set `CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP` to match your GPU architecture, e.g., `89` for Ada Lovelace, `80` for Ampere, `75` for Turing/GTX 1650).*

#### 3. Apple Silicon GPU / Metal (macOS)
*   **From a local git clone (Recommended)**:
    The installer script automatically detects macOS and enables Metal and Accelerate features:
    ```bash
    # Standard installation
    python install.py

    # Editable installation (for active development)
    python install.py -e
    ```
*   **From PyPI (forcing a custom source build)**:
    ```bash
    MATURIN_PEP517_ARGS="--features pyo3/extension-module,metal,accelerate" uv pip install --force-reinstall --no-cache torch-candle --no-binary torch-candle
    ```

---

### 🐍 Standard Installation using `pip`
Standard `pip` supports the exact same build variables by forcing a source distribution build:
```bash
# NVIDIA CUDA
CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda CUDA_PATH=/usr/local/cuda CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP=75 MATURIN_PEP517_ARGS="--features pyo3/extension-module,cuda" pip install --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir torch-candle --no-binary torch-candle

# Apple Silicon GPU
MATURIN_PEP517_ARGS="--features pyo3/extension-module,metal,accelerate" pip install --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir torch-candle --no-binary torch-candle
```

---

### 🛠️ Local Development Build
For active development in this repository, compile the Rust extension directly:
```bash
# Build and link the local editable module with CUDA
CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda CUDA_COMPUTE_CAP=75 .venv/bin/maturin develop --features "pyo3/extension-module,cuda"
```

> [!IMPORTANT]
> When running Python scripts locally using `uv run`, `uv` will automatically check `pyproject.toml` and rebuild the package using default features (CPU-only), overwriting your manual CUDA build. 
> To prevent `uv` from overwriting your custom hardware build, always run with the `--no-sync` flag:
> ```bash
> uv run --no-sync your_script.py
> ```

---

## 💡 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()}")
```

---

## 🧪 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.

## 🐳 Docker IPC Requirement (Multiprocessing)
For Torch-Candle's Zero-Copy IPC Shared Memory pipeline to work correctly within Docker containers, you must run the container with the host's IPC namespace. This allows the processes inside the container to mount the host's `/dev/shm` segment.

Pass the `--ipc=host` flag when running your Docker container:
```bash
docker run --gpus all --ipc=host -it my-torch-candle-app
```

---

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


