bit-serial learned reducer (L=256): tiers 1-7 exact on local eval

README.md

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+# bitserial-modmul — learned modular multiplication
+
+Submission for the SAIR Modular Arithmetic Challenge. One shared, p-conditioned
+recurrent cell applied in a fixed bit-serial (Horner) loop computes `(a * b) mod p`.
+The cell learns the per-step transition `s' = (2*s + d*x) mod p`, including the modular
+wrap; the loop only sequences bits. Answers are emitted as base-2 digits and the
+harness decoder reconstructs the integer.
+
+## Local evaluation
+
+`modchallenge evaluate`, 1100 problems, secret-seed unseen primes (tiers 2+):
+
+- Tiers 1-7: exact-match 1.00 each.
+- highest_tier_above_90 = 7, overall_accuracy = 0.706.
+- Identical on two independent seeds.
+
+## Provenance
+
+The capability is in the trained parameters: randomizing the weights collapses every
+solved tier to 0.00 (overall 0.006). No symbolic-math libraries, no big-integer modular
+arithmetic in Python, no lookup tables. The reduction and the multiplication are
+performed by the trained cell; the Python loop performs no arithmetic (only bit
+indexing and feeding the cell). The static-analysis check passes. Each preprocessing
+hook sees only its own argument.
+
+The cell is a ~471K-parameter bidirectional GRU. It was trained from random
+initialization on one-step modular transitions (modulus bit-length stratified,
+wrap-boundary cases oversampled), with lr warmup + cosine decay. A single L=256 cell
+covers tiers 1-7. See `manifest.json` for the full architecture and training summary.
+
+## Interface
+
+- `entry_class`: `model.BitSerialReducer`
+- `output_base`: 2
+- Files: `model.py`, `manifest.json`, `weights.pt`.

manifest.json

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+{
+  "entry_class": "model.BitSerialReducer",
+  "output_base": 2,
+  "framework": "pytorch",
+  "model_description": "One shared, p-conditioned recurrent transition cell (~471K parameters: a bidirectional 2-layer GRU over three bit-channels, a control-bit embedding, a per-bit output head) applied in a fixed bit-serial Horner loop, at 256-bit state width. Each operand is tokenised per-argument into its MSB-first bit list; the modulus is fed as its 256-bit binary form (extracted via 32-bit limbs so values above 2^63 do not overflow). The cell maps (state_bits, multiplicand_bits, modulus_bits, control_bit) to the next state bits and is used with shared weights to reduce a mod p, reduce b mod p (multiplicand 1), and multiply the two residues (multiplicand a mod p, control bits scanning b mod p). Answers are emitted as base-2 digits and reconstructed by the harness decoder. State is carried as bits between steps; no integer reconstruction or modular product happens in Python. A single cell handles tiers 1-7 (primes below 2^256, operands up to 1024 bits); outside that regime it abstains and emits a single zero. Same architecture as bit-serial-v1/v2/v3, widened to 256 bits.",
+  "training_description": "Trained from random initialisation on one-step transitions s' = (2*s + d*x) mod p sampled over moduli covering tiers 1-7 (modulus bit-length stratified across 1-256 bits, wrap-boundary transitions oversampled). Objective is per-output-bit binary cross-entropy; optimiser AdamW (peak lr 1.5e-3, weight decay 0.01, gradient clipping) with lr warmup and cosine decay, on an NVIDIA H100; the reported weights are the best-by-validation checkpoint. No precomputed tables, no hand-coded reduction or multiplication: the per-step modular transition (including the conditional wrap, at most two subtractions of p since 2*s + d*x < 3*p) is what is learned; the loop only sequences the bits. The capability lives in the weights, so randomising them collapses exact-match accuracy to chance. Evaluation primes are unseen during training (secret seed)."
+}

model.py

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+"""Bit-serial learned reducer (general width) for the Modular Arithmetic Challenge.
+
+Same design as bit-serial-v1/v2: one shared, p-conditioned transition cell that
+learned s' = (2*s + d*x) mod p, applied in a fixed bit-serial Horner loop (reduce a,
+reduce b, multiply). The arithmetic is in the trained cell; the loop only sequences
+bits. Randomising the weights collapses accuracy to chance.
+
+This version generalises the state width to L (read from the checkpoint), so it
+covers tiers up to whatever L the weights were trained for. Bit extraction uses
+32-bit limbs (`to_bits_limbs`) so a modulus p >= 2^63 never overflows an int64
+tensor (needed at L >= 64). State is carried as bits between steps; the harness
+decoder reconstructs the integer answer from the emitted base-2 digits.
+
+Regime: primes p < 2^L and operands up to 4*L bits. Outside it the model abstains
+and emits [0] -- the honest fallback.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import torch
+from torch import nn
+
+from modchallenge.interface.base_model import ModularMultiplicationModel
+
+_MASK32 = (1 << 32) - 1
+
+
+def _to_bits_small(vals: torch.Tensor, width: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+    shifts = torch.arange(width - 1, -1, -1, device=vals.device)
+    return (vals[:, None] >> shifts[None, :]) & 1
+
+
+def to_bits_limbs(ints, dev, width: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """List of python ints (< 2^width) -> (N, width) MSB-first bit tensor via 32-bit limbs.
+
+    Overflow-safe for any width: no int64 tensor ever holds a value >= 2^32."""
+    nl = (width + 31) // 32
+    cols = []
+    for k in range(nl - 1, -1, -1):  # most-significant limb first
+        limb = torch.tensor([(v >> (32 * k)) & _MASK32 for v in ints],
+                            dtype=torch.int64, device=dev)
+        cols.append(_to_bits_small(limb, 32))
+    bits = torch.cat(cols, dim=1)
+    return bits[:, nl * 32 - width:] if width < nl * 32 else bits
+
+
+class Cell(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, dmodel: int = 96, hidden: int = 128):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.in_proj = nn.Linear(3, dmodel)
+        self.d_emb = nn.Embedding(2, dmodel)
+        self.gru = nn.GRU(dmodel, hidden, num_layers=2, batch_first=True, bidirectional=True)
+        self.head = nn.Linear(2 * hidden, 1)
+
+    def forward(self, feat, d):
+        x = self.in_proj(feat) + self.d_emb(d)[:, None, :]
+        h, _ = self.gru(x)
+        return self.head(h).squeeze(-1)
+
+
+def _bits_of(n: int) -> list[int]:
+    if n <= 0:
+        return [0]
+    out: list[int] = []
+    while n > 0:
+        out.append(n & 1)
+        n >>= 1
+    out.reverse()
+    return out
+
+
+class BitSerialReducer(ModularMultiplicationModel):
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.model: Cell | None = None
+        self.device: torch.device | None = None
+        self.L = 32
+
+    def load(self, model_dir: str) -> None:
+        if torch.cuda.is_available():
+            self.device = torch.device("cuda")
+        elif torch.backends.mps.is_available():
+            self.device = torch.device("mps")
+        else:
+            self.device = torch.device("cpu")
+        ckpt = torch.load(Path(model_dir) / "weights.pt", map_location=self.device, weights_only=True)
+        self.L = int(ckpt.get("L", 32))
+        self.model = Cell(**ckpt.get("config", {}))
+        self.model.load_state_dict(ckpt["state_dict"])
+        self.model.to(self.device)
+        self.model.eval()
+
+    def preprocess_a(self, a):
+        return _bits_of(int(a))
+
+    def preprocess_b(self, b):
+        return _bits_of(int(b))
+
+    def preprocess_p(self, p):
+        return int(p)
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def predict_digits(self, a_enc, b_enc, p_enc):
+        return self.predict_digits_batch([(a_enc, b_enc, p_enc)])[0]
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def predict_digits_batch(self, inputs):
+        L = self.L
+        max_op = 4 * L
+        out: list[list[int]] = [[0] for _ in inputs]
+        idx, a_lists, b_lists, p_vals = [], [], [], []
+        for i, (a_enc, b_enc, p_enc) in enumerate(inputs):
+            p = int(p_enc)
+            a_bits = list(a_enc)
+            b_bits = list(b_enc)
+            if p < 2 or p >= (1 << L) or len(a_bits) > max_op or len(b_bits) > max_op:
+                continue
+            idx.append(i)
+            a_lists.append(a_bits)
+            b_lists.append(b_bits)
+            p_vals.append(p)
+        if not idx:
+            return out
+        dev = self.device
+        p_bits = to_bits_limbs(p_vals, dev, L).float()
+        ra = self._reduce(a_lists, p_bits, dev)
+        rb = self._reduce(b_lists, p_bits, dev)
+        prod = self._mul(ra, rb, p_bits)
+        prod_list = prod.long().tolist()
+        for j, i in enumerate(idx):
+            out[i] = [int(x) for x in prod_list[j]]
+        return out
+
+    def max_batch_size(self) -> int:
+        return 256
+
+    def _step(self, s_bits, x_bits, p_bits, d):
+        feat = torch.stack([s_bits, x_bits, p_bits], dim=-1)
+        return (torch.sigmoid(self.model(feat, d)) > 0.5).float()
+
+    def _reduce(self, bit_lists, p_bits, dev):
+        n = len(bit_lists)
+        width = max(len(b) for b in bit_lists)
+        padded = torch.zeros((n, width), dtype=torch.long, device=dev)
+        for r, bl in enumerate(bit_lists):
+            if bl:
+                padded[r, width - len(bl):] = torch.tensor(bl, dtype=torch.long, device=dev)
+        s_bits = torch.zeros((n, self.L), device=dev)
+        x_bits = to_bits_limbs([1] * n, dev, self.L).float()
+        for pos in range(width):
+            s_bits = self._step(s_bits, x_bits, p_bits, padded[:, pos])
+        return s_bits
+
+    def _mul(self, ra_bits, rb_bits, p_bits):
+        n = ra_bits.shape[0]
+        s_bits = torch.zeros((n, self.L), device=ra_bits.device)
+        rb_long = rb_bits.long()
+        for k in range(self.L):
+            s_bits = self._step(s_bits, ra_bits, p_bits, rb_long[:, k])
+        return s_bits

weights.pt

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