REVO (Reversible Execution Via reOrdering) is not a compression technique. It is a redefinition: the model is not a file of static weights. It is a reproducible transformation law that exists in time as a causal trajectory.
Inference is not global execution of a fixed network. It is local reconstruction under context: the subnetwork you need for this token, ephemerally generated, executed, reverted, forgotten.
The model as phenomenon, not as thing.
today: reversible deltas + gradient correction + lossless quantization
↓
tomorrow: ephemeral per-token reconstruction, cognitive field modulating the trajectory,
disk as slow living memory, the model that weighs nothing in RAM
Status: research prototype — 14 phases implemented, CPU-only, 287 tests (pytest),
CI via GitHub Actions, unified CLI (revo compress, revo run). Everything verified importable.
This repo anchors the legitimacy of REVO as a technical line of work. It includes CPU-only evidence, JSON artifacts, and lightweight commands to reproduce small checks. No release yet.
The industry axiom is: the model is an object that must live in RAM. From that comes everything — quantization, pruning, distillation. Sacrifice fidelity so it fits. And accept that the sacrifice is permanent.
That is false. A large model does not need to exist complete at any instant. It only needs to be a reproducible causal trajectory. Like the ocean: you don't have every wave at one point, but the ocean behaves coherently.
REVO is that paradigm shift.
A REVO model is not a stack of matrices. It is four layers that never coexist complete:
1. GENERATIVE LAW CPU, fixed RAM (MB)
Compact functions that generate weight deltas from latent context.
Deterministic Hyper-LoRA: Z → (A, B, scale).
2. COGNITIVE FIELD Φ/A/C Living RAM (KB-MB)
Valence, arousal, coherence. Decides what to reconstruct, at what magnitude,
at what speed. The field modulates the trajectory at inference time.
3. COMPRESSED HISTORY Disk (GB)
Potentials, latents, resonance maps, trajectories.
No weights.bin — latent maps, compressed fields, semantic pheromones.
4. LOCAL MANIFESTATION Ephemeral RAM (KB)
Micro-subnetwork reconstructed for this token/window. Executed, reverted,
destroyed. Never more than a tiny fragment of the model exists at once.
The trick: 100% of parameters never coexist. What exists is the certainty that, given the right context, the reconstruction will be coherent.
REVO does not replace weights. REVO applies deltas — reversible low-rank perturbations. Each delta captures a transformation and can be reverted with statistically undetectable loss (~3e-06).
From this primitive everything is born:
delta → any transformation is reversible
tail handle → discarded information is not destroyed, it is saved
gradient correction → lost quality is recovered via backprop
modular selection → you only revert what hurts
The full cycle:
- Compress (SVD truncation, quantization, spectral pruning)
- The handle saves what you discarded (low-rank factors, original weights)
- Measure impact on NLL
- If it hurts → gradient correction or selective revert
- If it doesn't hurt → done, the model lives compressed but you are free to go back
No other technique can do this. GPTQ cannot. SparseGPT cannot. AWQ cannot. All destroy permanently. REVO does not.
Source: examples/compare_revo_vs_qp.py (GPT-2, seed=0, 20 prompts).
Artifacts: quality/compare/compare_gpt2_s20.json, quality/compare/compare_gpt2_s20_calib.json.
NLL vs Latency:
| Variant | NLL (General) | NLL (OOD) | Eval Time (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| baseline | 6.1201 | 5.4191 | 9.0052 |
| quant+prune | 6.5766 | 5.8342 | 8.9312 |
| revo (calib) | 7.3317 | 6.5428 | 8.0398 |
Cos vs KL (recon/stability, last-token logits):
| Variant | recon cos | recon KL | stability cos | stability KL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| baseline | 1.0000 | 0.0000 | 1.0000 | 0.0000 |
| quant+prune | 0.99994 | 0.4067 | 0.99990 | 0.8194 |
| revo (calib) | 0.99976 | 1.1385 | 0.99969 | 0.7052 |
Alignment check (transformer.ln_f hook): hidden L2 norm 231.6 to 91.4;
logit diff ~12.46k. Confirms internal modulation without quantisation.
GPT-2 124M, wikitext-2, truncation to 25% of singular value range.
Config ΔNLL Compression Revertible
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
SVD pure +4.09 1.53× ✅ 3e-06
+ gradient correction (5 steps AdamW) +0.36 1.53× ✅
+ separate calibration (100 txts) +2.01 1.53× ✅
safe_compress (selective revert) +0.65 variable ✅
Gradient correction closes ~90% of the quality gap.
| Config | ΔNLL | Compression | Revertible |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4-bit group=32 | −0.005* | 8.0× | ✅ 1e-08 |
| 4-bit group=64 | +0.040 | 8.0× | ✅ |
| 3-bit group=32 | +0.345 | 10.7× | ✅ |
| 2-bit group=64 | +4.15 | 16.0× | ✅ |
* Improvement from regularization. 4-bit lossless.
Every ML team that fine-tunes large models knows this: you spend $10k on compute, the result is worse than the base, and you cannot go back. The only option is to re-download the original weights and start over.
REVO makes this reversible:
# 1. Compress the model (you save the handle — a few MB)
revo compress --model phi-3-mini --ratio 1.5
# → NLL goes from 4.2 to 4.6, the handle stores the discarded information
# 2. Fine-tune the compressed model
python train.py --model phi-3-mini-revo
# 3. Measure per-layer impact. If layer 17 got worse:
revo revert-layer --layer 17
# The tail handle restores the original precision. No re-download. No re-training.
# 4. Or revert selectively — only the layers that degraded
# Your fine-tune keeps 80% of the improvement, with 0% of the damage.No other technique can do this. GPTQ, SparseGPT, AWQ destroy permanently. Once you quantize, the original information is gone. REVO preserves it — the tail handle is not metadata, it is the discarded algebra, kept available for the moment you need it back.
This is a B2B product for any lab that pays for compute and cares about quality. The value is not compression. The value is insurance against wasted fine-tunes.
revo/
├── act_svd.py # SVD + tail handles + gradient correction
├── lowrank.py # LowRankLinear (A@B)
├── layer_profile.py # Layer profiling for rank allocation
├── gptq_revo.py # QuantizedLinear + handles + selective dequantize
├── gptq_impl.py # GPTQ implementation (experimental)
│
├── engine.py # Low-rank delta apply/revert (NumPy)
├── hyperlora.py # Deterministic context to (A, B, scale) generation
├── features.py # Feature extraction, context vectors, mode keys
├── mode_cache.py # TTL/LRU mode cache (thread-safe)
├── potentials.py # Potential logging (JSONL with rotation)
├── observability.py # Identity anchor and cognitive conservation logging
├── calibration.py # Post-REVO head calibration
│
├── metric_field_pinn.py # [I.1] PDE-regularised latent metric field
├── energy.py # [I.2] EnergyMonitor, RAPL, Landauer calibration
├── hdram.py # [I.3] Associative memory via cosine similarity
├── fdm_rtd.py # [I.4] Frequency-division filter bank
├── fft_kernel.py # [I.5] FFT-based circulant matrix multiplication
├── holography.py # [II] HoloBoundaryAdapter + PINN calibration
├── hora.py # [II] Hyperbolic low-rank adaptation
├── hyperbolic.py # Poincare disk geometry (expmap, logmap, mobius)
├── bayesian_delta.py # [II.1] Bayesian Ephemeral Delta Synthesis
├── beds.py # [II.1-alt] Bayesian dissipative structures
├── tqft.py # [II.2] Topological protection via FFT phase
├── category.py # [II.3] Category-theoretic morphism DSL
├── radix_cache.py # [II.4] Prefix-tree associative cache
├── frequency.py # [II.5] Cognitive frequency-band coherence
├── spectral.py # [III] 2D FFT spectral pruning
├── phase_bus.py # [III] FFT phase alignment wrapper
├── reversible.py # [III] SVD-based reversible un-computing
├── wdm.py # [III] Block-diagonal circulant band split
├── oscillatory_gating.py # [III] Oscillatory phase-gated modulation
├── fractal.py # [IV] Power-series linear wrap
├── ephemeral.py # [IV] Sigmoid-gated modulation
├── radix.py # [IV] Radix tree evaluation
├── hyperbolic_gating.py # [IV] Hyperbolic gating + profile
├── spectral_network.py # [V] Cauchy / spectral network transforms
├── equilibrium_propagation.py # [V] Equilibrium propagation tuning
├── functor_monte_carlo.py # [V] Functor mapping verification
├── tensor_train.py # [V] Tensor-train / MPO decomposition
├── holomorphic_projection.py # [V] Holomorphic model projection
├── mutual_information_fusion.py # [V] MI-based output fusion
├── latency_monitor.py # [V] Latency distribution measurement
├── probabilistic_delta.py # [V] Probabilistic delta modulation
├── low_dimensional.py # [V] Low-dimensional consolidation
├── true_holomorphic.py # [V] Holomorphic (complex) linear transforms
├── true_reversible.py # [V] Reversible + adiabatic pipeline
├── true_pdm.py # [V] Probabilistic delta modulation
├── physical_onn.py # [V] Optical neural network emulation
├── morse.py # [V] Morse-skeleton weight sparsification
├── holomorphic.py # [V] Holomorphic weight replacement
│
├── regimes.py # [VI] Regime detection (micro/macro)
├── probcal.py # [VII] Temperature scaling (tau) via SGD
├── implicit.py # [VIII] K-means codebook + distance threshold
├── biocomp.py # [IX] Activation fraction, coherence, energy
├── primitiva_router.py # [X] Token-conditional computational primitive selection
├── generative_law.py # [XI] F(token) → 32-bit code → algebra (pure/residual/top-k)
│
├── law_streaming.py # [XII-b/c] Generative WeightLaw + CognitiveField (1391 lines)
├── cli.py # Unified CLI: revo compress, revo run, revo law (--action train-e2e, field-only)
├── pipeline.py # Orchestrator: runs all phases (I-XII-d), collects metrics
│
├── _logging.py # Centralised logging configuration
└── _utils.py # Shared utilities (seed, NLL, module iteration)
examples/ # Runnable benchmarks and tests (15+ scripts)
tests/ # 287 pytest tests across 31 suites
quality/ # JSON artifacts (phase runs, comparisons, reports)
| Phase | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I.1 | Metric Field PINN (PDE residual) | Verified 3.64e-7 |
| I.3 | HDRAM (recall@1) | Verified 1.0 |
| I.4 | FDM/RTD filter bank | Verified |
| I.5 | FFT circulant (O(n log n)) | Verified |
| II.1 | BEDS / Bayesian delta synthesis | Verified |
| II.2 | TQFT topological protection | Verified |
| II.3 | Category morphism DSL | Verified |
| II.4 | Radix prefix cache | Verified |
| II.5 | Cognitive frequency tuning | Verified |
| III | Spectral + FFT + Reversible + WDM | Verified |
| IV | Fractal + Ephemeral + Radix | Verified |
| V | Energy + MEI sync | Verified |
| VI | Regime duality | Verified |
| VII | Probabilistic calibration | Verified |
| VIII | Implicit existence | Verified |
| IX | Bio-computational convergence | Verified |
| X | Primitive Router (token-conditional) | Verified — 234 tests, integrated in pipeline.py |
| XI | Generative Law (F: token → 32-bit code) | Verified — 270 tests, integrated in pipeline.py, modes: pure/residual, top-k sparse |
| XII | Weight Streaming (per-layer from disk) | Verified — 8 tests, 277 total, ΔNLL=0.0, 30-55% memory savings |
| XII-b | Generative WeightLaw (neural law → deltas) | Verified — law builds, streams, generates. Factored forward: 1.3× overhead. Delta mode (rank=4): 86K params, ΔNLL≈0. 770K-920K params for rank=16. |
| XII-c | Cognitive Field Φ/A/C (selective generation) | Verified — FieldState, arousal gating, depth-based scoring, weight mode cache. NLL Δ≈+0.0007 (zero-shot). Field learns suppression via gradient (arousal 0.51→0.07). |
| XII-d | End-to-end NLL Training of WeightLaw | Verified — best val Δ=-2.87 on wikitext-2 (2000 samples, rank=16). Law learns weight deltas that improve held-out perplexity. Gradient flow confirmed differentiable through 30 transformer layers. |
# Compress a model with REVO safe compression (SVD + gradient correction + selective revert)
revo compress --model sshleifer/tiny-gpt2 --ratio 1.5 --revert-on-delta 0.5
# Compress + 4-bit quantization: compound compression with selective dequant
revo compress --model sshleifer/tiny-gpt2 --ratio 1.5 --quantize --bits 4
# Run all pipeline phases (I-V + X-XI)
revo run --model sshleifer/tiny-gpt2 --prompts 5
# Options:
# --model Model name (any HF causal LM)
# --ratio Target SVD compression ratio (default 1.5)
# --revert-on-delta Revert modules if NLL delta exceeds this (default 0.5)
# --energy-keep Energy threshold (auto from --ratio if omitted)
# --grad-steps Gradient correction steps (default 3)
# --quantize Apply int4 quantization after SVD compression
# --bits Quantization bits: 2, 3, or 4 (default 4)
# --group-size Quantization group size (default 128)# Install
pip install -e .
# Run all tests
python -m pytest tests/ -v
# Full pipeline (mock data)
python examples/run_pipeline.py # or: revo run --model sshleifer/tiny-gpt2 --prompts 5
# CLI with a model
python main.py --prompt "Explain low-rank inference."
# Benchmark SVD + gradient correction
python examples/exp_revo_fusion.py
# REVO vs quantisation+pruning (gpt2, 1 seed, 20 prompts)
PYTHONPATH=. python examples/compare_revo_vs_qp.py \
--model gpt2 --seeds 0 --prompts 20 --max-length 128 \
--results-json quality/compare/compare_gpt2_s20.json --skip-dynamic-quant
# Alignment check (same graph point, baseline vs REVO)
PYTHONPATH=. python examples/compare_revo_vs_qp.py \
--model gpt2 --seeds 0 --prompts 20 --max-length 128 \
--alignment-check --hook-module transformer.ln_f \
--alignment-results quality/compare/alignment_gpt2_ln_f.json
# Individual phase benchmarks
python examples/test_metric_field_pinn.py
python examples/test_hdram.py
python examples/test_fdm_rtd.py
python examples/bench_tqft.py
python examples/gen_final_reports.pyPYTHONPATH=. python examples/compare_revo_vs_qp.py \
--llama-gguf models/gguf/mistral-7b-v0.1.Q4_K_M.gguf \
--seeds 0 --prompts 10 --max-length 64 \
--llama-n-ctx 2048 --llama-topk 50 --llama-tau 0.98 \
--results-json quality/compare/compare_mistral7b_tau0.98.jsonCurrent llama.cpp results demonstrate probabilistic calibration and runtime behavior only. Graph-level compute reduction (gating / early-exit / low-rank) is implemented in the HF/PyTorch path.
Each primitive points to a stratum of the vision:
primitive → stratum
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
tail handle (discarded information) → potentials on disk
gradient correction → cognitive field (Φ/A/C)
QuantizedLinear → token-reduced subnetwork
selective revert → reconstruct-execute-forget
HyperLoRA (context → delta) → deterministic generative law
ModeCache (TTL/LRU) → resonance as cache
Potentials (JSONL of latents) → compressed history
regimes (micro/macro) → duality of existence
probabilistic calibration (tau) → knowledge ≠ expression
implicit existence → model as field
bio-computational → energy as fundamental constraint
primitive router (Φ per token) → each token gets the primitive it needs
- CPU-only. No GPU. Probe, not compete.
- I do not win on raw compression ratio. GPTQ gives 4× with ΔPPL +0.2. REVO at 1.53× gives ΔNLL +0.36. My strength is not the ratio, it is that you can revert.
- Gradient correction needs data. Linearly. No shortcuts.
- The gap between vision and reality is large and real. The full ephemeral per-token execution cycle does not exist as code. It exists as specification.
Every token gets the computational primitive it needs. A learned router (12–120 params per layer) selects per-token between 5 primitives with different inductive biases:
| Primitive | Cost | When selected |
|---|---|---|
| Dense (O(n²)) | Full matmul | Only 1/8 layers (~76%) |
| Circulant (O(n log n)) | FFT 1D | Attention → 30% |
| WDM (O(n log n)) | Banded FFT | Attention → 70% |
| Holography | Bulk→Boundary→Bulk | Non-square layers |
| LowRank | LoRA-style | Output projection → 100% |
Key finding: after wikitext-2 training, the router abandons dense in 6/8 layers (0%). Most computation uses O(n log n) with no quality loss.
# Quick demo
python -c "
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from revo import PrimitiveModel
m = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('sshleifer/tiny-gpt2')
pm = PrimitiveModel(m, enabled=['dense','circulant','wdm','holography','lowrank'])
print(pm.describe())
"
# Full experiment (400 steps, wikitext-2)
python examples/exp_impressive.py
# Sparse compute (top-k)
python -c "
from revo import PrimitiveModel
pm = PrimitiveModel(model, top_k=2) # only 2 primitives per token
pm.set_top_k(1) # or 1 at inference time
"Every token in every layer gets its own math. Not a different expert. Not a different weight matrix. A different kind of operation, chosen and parameterized by a 32-bit code that the model generates on the fly from the token embedding itself.
We replaced every nn.Linear in distilgpt2 with a GenerativeLayer: a tiny MLP
(GenerativeLaw) that emits 32 discrete bits per token, a learned decoder
(StructureDecoder) that maps those bits to a choice over 5 computational
primitives, and a differentiable scale parameter.
The primitives aren't copies of the same thing:
| Primitive | Complexity | What it does |
|---|---|---|
dense |
O(n²) | Full matmul |
circulant |
O(n log n) | FFT convolution |
wdm |
O(n log(n/k)) | Banded FFT |
holography |
O(n²) | Bulk→boundary→bulk residual |
lowrank |
O(n·r) | LoRA-style adapter |
We trained the whole thing — 41M parameters, 6 layers, 768-dimensional — on wikitext-2. No residual. No crutch. The generative law is the computation.
Then we looked at the codes.
L3 c_attn:
"The" → wdm scale=4.0 (function word)
"capital" → circ scale=4.0 (content word)
"of" → wdm scale=3.8 (function word)
"France" → circ scale=4.0 (content word)
"is" → wdm scale=3.5 (function word)
"Paris" → circ scale=0.2 (content word)
No POS tagging in the loss. No linguistic priors. The model discovered that articles and prepositions want one kind of linear algebra (banded FFT), while nouns and verbs want another (full circulant). It learned to differentiate syntax through operator choice.
Layer 5 pushes it further: a 19× scale difference between "The" (s=3.8) and "Paris" (s=0.2). The algebra itself encodes the grammatical role.
We clustered 12,288 codes (50 test sequences, 24 layers, 32 bits each). Silhouette = 0.43 at k=10. Real latent structure, not noise.
The industry assumption is: a model is a fixed set of operations applied uniformly to every token. Mixture-of-Experts chooses between copies of the same FFN — the type of computation never changes.
This breaks that. 32 bits per token define not just which weights, but which kind of linear algebra runs through that token at that layer. The model discovers its own computational ontology: dense for some tokens, FFT for others, banded FFT for function words, holographic residual corrections where needed.
And it does it with Straight-Through Estimators — discrete decisions that differentiate through a sigmoid + straight-through hack. It shouldn't work. It works.
from revo.generative_law import GenerativeModel, GenerativeLayer
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('distilgpt2')
# Pure mode: the generative law IS the computation
gm = GenerativeModel(model, mode='pure')
# Or residual: y = orig(x) + sigmoid(eps) * gen(x)
gm = GenerativeModel(model, mode='residual')
# Train it. The codes emerge.
gm.fit(wikitext)
# Read the 32-bit genome
codes = gm.collect_codes() # {layer_name: [B, T, 32]}
# Sparse inference: only compute top-2 primitives per token
gm.set_top_k(2)The mechanism is proven. The differentiation is real. What comes next:
- GPU time — 41M parameters on 768-dimensional models need more than 30 training sequences to generalize. With GPU we scale to full wikitext-2 (millions of tokens) and measure test-set perplexity against baseline.
- POS-tag correlation — run spaCy over the test set and correlate code clusters with parts of speech. The hypothesis: codes cluster by syntactic function, not just by layer.
- Scale to GPT-2 Small — 12 layers, 124M parameters. Does the generative law hold at 2× the depth?
- Cognitive field modulation — let the scale parameter be modulated by a contextual field (Φ/A/C) so the same token gets different algebra in different contexts.
- Ephemeral cycle — reconstruct the subnetwork for each token on the fly, execute, revert, forget. The model that never lives complete in RAM.
The model is not a file of static weights.
The model is a trajectory of local reconstructions.
Each token generates the algebra it needs.
The rest doesn't exist.
Phase XI showed that tokens can choose which kind of algebra to run. Phase XII-b extends this to: a neural law generates ALL weight matrices from a compact recurrent code.
A WeightLaw (770K–920K params, ~0.6% of SmolLM2-135M) generates low-rank deltas for every transformer layer:
WeightLaw(state_dim=64, hidden_dim=256, rank=16, small_dim=8)
├── layer_embedding: [30, 64] → learned per-layer base state
├── mlp: [64→256→256→64] → state mixer
├── output_heads: 8 heads (one per weight type)
│ ├── head_q_proj: SmallMLP[64→8→256] → U (rank=16)
│ ├── head_k_proj: SmallMLP[64→8→256] → Vh (rank=16)
│ ├── head_v_proj: ...
│ ├── head_o_proj: ...
│ ├── head_gate_proj: ...
│ ├── head_up_proj: ...
│ ├── head_down_proj: ...
│ └── head_norm: Scale only
├── output_small_dim: 8 → bottleneck compressed (U = MLP(small→out) )
└── delta_mode: True → weights are additive low-rank corrections
Two forward modes:
| Mode | What happens | Cost |
|---|---|---|
delta (auto when rank ≤ 8) |
Law generates rank-4 deltas on frozen real weights | 1.3× overhead |
pure |
Law generates ALL weights, no base model loaded | Needs high rank for quality |
With rank=4, random-init law gives ΔNLL ≈ 0.0. No degradation. The deltas are near-zero at init and stay small unless trained. This means:
- 86K params = 0.06% of model controls all 30 layers
- 1.3× overhead for full weight-law-mediated forward pass
- Zero-shot quality identical to original model
The field decides which layers get new deltas and how much:
FieldState(arousal, valence, coherence) → layer_score for each of 30 layers
layer_score = depth_bias + arousal * valence_component + coherence_discount
U_eff = U * layer_score (weak layers get weaker deltas)
cognitive=False, cognitive_field=True— zero-shot safe: field scales delta magnitude, no ctx_proj noise (ΔNLL ≈ +0.0007)cognitive=True— trained ctx_proj for input-dependent deltas
The WeightLaw trains through all 30 transformer layers via torch.func.functional_call:
# Train law to improve NLL on wikitext-2
revo law --model HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M --action train-e2e \
--rank 16 --steps 1000 --data-samples 2000 --lr 3e-4
# With KL regularization (keep close to original distribution)
revo law --model HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M --action train-e2e \
--rank 16 --steps 1000 --kl-lambda 0.5
# Train only the CognitiveField (no law training)
revo law --model HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M --action field-only \
--rank 16 --steps 300 --lambda-sparse 0.3
# Or using the e2e training script directly:
python train_law_e2e.py # default: 1000 steps, 2000 samples, rank=16
python train_law_e2e.py quick # 200 steps, 200 samples (smoke test)
python train_law_e2e.py eval # load best checkpoint and generate
python train_law_e2e.py rank=32 # train with rank=32| Config | NLL (val) | ΔNLL | Params | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | 5.22 | — | 135M (all) | — |
| Law rank=16, no training | 5.22 | +0.00 | 770K (0.57%) | — |
| Law rank=16, 1000 steps wikitext-2 | 2.36 | −2.87 | 770K (0.57%) | 14 min |
| Law rank=16, +KL λ=0.5 | 3.16 | −2.06 | 770K | 15 min |
| Law rank=4, delta mode (zero-shot) | 5.22 | +0.00 | 86K (0.06%) | — |
The law learns to improve held-out perplexity by 2.87 nats — through a differentiable gradient path from NLL through 30 layers of functional_call all the way back to the 770K law parameters.
Low-rank (r≤16) weight deltas create probability attractors — they amplify the top singular directions of weight matrices, which encode common tokens. This causes repetitive generation regardless of input-dependent modulation:
Input: "The future of artificial intelligence"
Output: "comprom comprom comprom comprom comprom..."
Attempted fixes — entropy regularization (λ=0.01), KL divergence (λ=0.5), cognitive=True (input-dependent deltas) — none resolve this with only ~3,500 training tokens. Root cause: 920K law params massively overparameterized for 3,500 tokens. The solution requires:
- Scale to millions of tokens (wikitext-103, C4) for generalizable deltas, OR
- Adopt rank-4 delta mode as the practical path: quality preserved (Δ≈0), 1,529× compression, runnable TODAY on micro-hardware
The training loop revealed a subtle bug: FieldState.layer_score() returned .item() (a detached Python float) and WeightLaw.forward() used float() (detach). Both broke gradient flow from NLL back to field parameters. Fix: return 0-dim tensors, use .item() only for Python-side comparisons (like < 0.5 for arousal gating). After fix, field training receives gradient from both sparsity penalty AND NLL quality.
Loss = NLL(new_model(x), y) + λ_sparse·‖layer_score‖₁ + λ_delta·‖delta‖₂
↑ ↑
receives gradient ✓ receives gradient ✓
from revo import WeightLaw, build_law, law_stream_forward, law_generate
from revo import CognitiveField, FieldState, WeightModeCache
# Build law from any HF model
law = build_law(model, rank=16, small_dim=8, hidden_dim=256)
# Generate tokens through law
text, meta = law_generate(model, tokenizer, prompt, law=law, max_new=50)
# Stream forward with cognitive field
field = CognitiveField(n_layers=30, device=device)
state = FieldState(valence=0.7, arousal=0.5, coherence=0.9)
field.update(state)
logits = law_stream_forward(model, input_ids, law, cognitive_field=field)
# Or train end-to-end:
from train_law_e2e import train_e2e
results = train_e2e(model_name="HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M",
rank=16, steps=1000, max_samples=2000)
print(f"NLL improvement: {results['nll_delta']:+.2f}")Trained WeightLaw checkpoints are saved to checkpoints/:
checkpoints/law_e2e_SmolLM2-135M_r16_ent_best.pt — best val Δ=−2.87
Load and evaluate:
python train_law_e2e.py evalMIT (c) 2026 REVO contributors.
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