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Add a fused RotorQuant page cache (3D rotors + int4, rotate-query-once decode), Helix polar/Hadamard cache, and a facade that always takes pre-RoPE K/Q. Llama decode and prefill can use the facade behind --kv-compress none|rotor|helix (default none). Fixes C++ P1s: query length checks, Helix RoPE sign, causal masking, and page upserts. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The opt-in compressed KV path currently retains the full uncompressed cache and can produce incorrect attention or stale cache state under supported configurations, while some backend and failure paths do not honor the requested behavior. The default path is unchanged, but compressed mode is not merge-ready until these correctness and lifecycle issues are fixed or explicitly accepted. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CLI
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participant CompressedKvCache
participant RotorQuantCache
participant HelixCache
CLI->>LlamaSession: enable compressed KV mode
LlamaSession->>CompressedKvCache: initialize selected scheme
LlamaSession->>CompressedKvCache: store pre-RoPE K/V
LlamaSession->>CompressedKvCache: request attention
CompressedKvCache->>RotorQuantCache: dispatch RotorQuant attention
CompressedKvCache->>HelixCache: dispatch Helix attention
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59-73: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winInitialize the phase table without a lazy unsynchronized flag.
ensure_phase_lutwritesk_phase_c,k_phase_s, andk_phase_readywith no synchronization.oc_helix_cache_logitsreadsk_phase_candk_phase_sat lines 632-633. If one thread creates a cache while another computes logits, the reader can observek_phase_ready == 1before the table stores are visible and then use zeroed phase values. The result is silently wrong attention output.The table is 16 fixed entries. Replace the lazy path with a constant table so no runtime initialization order exists.
♻️ Proposed refactor to a constant phase table
-static float k_phase_c[16]; -static float k_phase_s[16]; -static int k_phase_ready; - -static void ensure_phase_lut(void) -{ - int k; - if (k_phase_ready) return; - for (k = 0; k < 16; k++) { - const float a = (float)(k - 8) * OC_HELIX_PHI_STEP; - k_phase_c[k] = cosf(a); - k_phase_s[k] = sinf(a); - } - k_phase_ready = 1; -} +/* cos/sin of (k - 8) * 2*pi/16, k = 0..15. Constant, so no runtime + * initialization order exists. */ +static const float k_phase_c[16] = { + -1.00000000f, -0.92387953f, -0.70710678f, -0.38268343f, + 0.00000000f, 0.38268343f, 0.70710678f, 0.92387953f, + 1.00000000f, 0.92387953f, 0.70710678f, 0.38268343f, + 0.00000000f, -0.38268343f, -0.70710678f, -0.92387953f +}; +static const float k_phase_s[16] = { + 0.00000000f, 0.38268343f, 0.70710678f, 0.92387953f, + 1.00000000f, 0.92387953f, 0.70710678f, 0.38268343f, + 0.00000000f, -0.38268343f, -0.70710678f, -0.92387953f, + -1.00000000f, -0.92387953f, -0.70710678f, -0.38268343f +};Then remove the
ensure_phase_lut()call inoc_helix_cache_init.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@oxidize-c/src/cli/main.c`:
- Around line 913-916: Update the benchmark setup failure branch around
oc_llama_session_enable_kv_compress_name to retain and report the returned
OcError, then ensure the benchmark exits with failure when setup aborts before
completing all iterations instead of returning success with a partial average.
- Around line 331-339: Update the CLI validation around the kv-compression setup
to reject the combination of backend cuda with kv_compress rotor or helix before
starting the session. Emit an appropriate error and perform the same cleanup and
non-success return used by the existing oc_llama_session_enable_kv_compress_name
failure path; leave other backends and compression modes unchanged.
In `@oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c`:
- Around line 404-421: Update the activity check in the token/pair loop to treat
non-positive rho values as inactive, while retaining the configured
inactive_threshold behavior for positive values. Ensure zero-magnitude pairs
skip active-mask updates and log-radius statistics, including min_log and
max_log.
- Around line 816-836: Update oc_helix_cache_rewind so retained pages are safe
when they straddle n_keep: remove tokens whose positions are at or beyond n_keep
before retaining the page, or discard the entire page instead. Ensure page
metadata and storage remain consistent after trimming, and preserve the existing
behavior for fully retained or fully discarded pages.
In `@oxidize-c/src/compute/kv_compressed.c`:
- Around line 91-96: Update the Helix branches in oc_compressed_kv_store_page
and oc_compressed_kv_attention to propagate the configured rope_layout into the
Helix operations, preserving split-halves pairing; alternatively, explicitly
reject OC_KV_ROPE_SPLIT_HALVES for OC_KV_SCHEME_HELIX before forwarding
unrotated data.
In `@oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c`:
- Around line 248-256: In the quantize_rows failure path of the page upsert
logic, reset np unconditionally regardless of reused, preventing a failed reused
page from retaining tokens with NULL key data; optionally remove the emptied
page from cache->pages so no zero-token slot remains.
In `@oxidize-c/src/model/llama.c`:
- Around line 1516-1542: Update session initialization so the requested
compressed KV scheme is selected before oc_llama_session_init_kv allocates
ordinary F32 or Q8 buffers, and skip that allocation when compression is
enabled. Rework oc_llama_session_enable_kv_compress to initialize or attach the
preallocated compressed cache without retaining the ordinary KV cache,
preserving existing validation and error handling.
- Around line 1542-1549: Update the compressed KV initialization in the
surrounding model setup to use the effective per-layer rope_dim rather than the
global head_dim, preserving the ordinary path’s RoPE behavior; alternatively,
reject compressed KV when rope_dim differs from head_dim. Ensure
oc_compressed_kv_init receives the selected compatible dimension before
oc_compressed_kv_set_rope_layout.
- Around line 1943-1950: Update use_compressed_attn to exclude layers selected
by the configured sliding-window pattern when layer_is_swa is NULL, reusing the
ordinary sliding-window predicate so compressed attention cannot bypass the
configured lower-bound window. Preserve compressed attention for layers that are
not sliding-window layers.
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In `@oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c`:
- Around line 59-73: Replace the mutable lazy-initialization state in
ensure_phase_lut, including k_phase_c, k_phase_s, and k_phase_ready, with a
compile-time constant table containing all 16 phase values; then remove the
ensure_phase_lut() call from oc_helix_cache_init while preserving existing table
indexing and cosine/sine behavior.
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Honor split-halves RoPE in Helix, pass the model's rope_dim through the facade, skip/release the dense f32/q8 cache when every layer can use compression, and accumulate Helix tokens into shared pages. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
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<file name="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/kv_compressed.h">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/kv_compressed.h:60">
P2: When a page contains non-consecutive positions, Rotor silently treats token `t` as `positions[0] + t`, producing incorrect causal masking and rewind results. Preserve per-token positions for Rotor or reject non-consecutive pages before storing.</violation>
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P2: When separate Helix caches initialize concurrently, `ensure_phase_lut` races on the shared phase tables and readiness flag, which is undefined behavior in C. Use immutable static constants or a thread-safe one-time initialization mechanism.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/llama.h">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/llama.h:488">
P1: After a session has generated tokens, this API frees the dense KV cache without migrating its prefix into `kv_compress`, so subsequent attention loses all prior tokens. Reject non-empty sessions or migrate the prefix before releasing dense KV.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/kv_compressed.h">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/kv_compressed.h:50">
P2: When a caller passes an unsupported `OcKvScheme`, initialization silently selects Rotor instead of rejecting the invalid argument. Validate that `scheme` is Rotor or Helix before initializing a backend.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/kv_compressed.h:60">
P1: When a partial Helix page is stored again, `oc_compressed_kv_store_page` appends the replacement data to the existing hot page, violating the advertised page-store/upsert behavior. Pass an explicit page ID and replace the existing slot instead of routing this operation through append.</violation>
<violation number="3" location="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/kv_compressed.h:64">
P2: When callers provide non-contiguous positions, Rotor mode assigns incorrect positions to every token after the first, breaking RoPE alignment and causal filtering. Reject non-contiguous input or preserve each token position in the Rotor cache.</violation>
<violation number="4" location="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/kv_compressed.h:77">
P1: When `n_keep` falls inside a Rotor page, rewind leaves abandoned suffix tokens in the cache, so later decoding can attend stale tokens after new tokens are stored. Truncate pages at the rewind position or reject rewinds that are not page-aligned.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/helix_cache.h">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/helix_cache.h:28">
P2: When callers configure an odd `rope_dim`, Helix silently rotates fewer coordinates than requested and produces incorrect attention logits. Reject odd `rope_dim` values (and keep the zero/default normalization) during configuration validation.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/helix_cache.h:134">
P1: When a rewind truncates a cold page, the next append into that page loses the retained prefix. Rewind must rehydrate the truncated page as hot or merge the new tokens without resetting the existing page.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c:331">
P2: When causal masking drops tokens, `oc_rotorquant_cache_logits` still requires `out_cap >=` the total stored token count, even though it only writes the visible tokens and returns `written` in `*n_out`. A caller that sizes the buffer to the visible-token count (the number of logits actually produced) gets OC_ERR_INVALID_ARG. Size the capacity check by the post-mask visible count instead of the pre-mask `need`.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/cli/args.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/cli/args.c:49">
P2: A typo in `--kv-compress` (e.g. `rotr`) is not rejected at parse time despite the option being documented as an enum. The value flows until `oc_llama_session_init_with_compress` returns `OC_ERR_INVALID_ARG`, and in the benchmark path that failure makes the loop `break` and exit with code 1 and no diagnostic. Validate the mode against none|rotor|helix during parsing and fail with a clear error message.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/kv_compressed.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/kv_compressed.c:172">
P3: next_page_id is maintained inconsistently: it is incremented only on the rotor path (and even on store failure), never on the helix path, and it is never read anywhere. Either remove the field or update it consistently for both schemes and only on success.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/tests/test_kv_compressed.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/tests/test_kv_compressed.c:10">
P3: The same helpers are copy-pasted across the new test files: `lcg()` is byte-for-byte identical in `test_kv_compressed.c` and `test_rotorquant_cache.c`, `llama_lcg()` in `test_llama.c` is the same body under a different name, and `rope_ref_interleaved()` (test_kv_compressed.c) duplicates `llama_rope_interleaved()` (test_llama.c). Since this PR adds all three suites together, consolidate the shared PRNG and RoPE reference into a common test helper so future RoPE/scheme fixes have a single oracle to update.</violation>
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Skip zero-magnitude Helix pairs, compact RotorQuant pages after a reused-slot quantize failure, keep dense KV on legacy sliding-window layers, reject CUDA with --kv-compress, and fail the bench on setup errors. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c:847">
P3: The promotion API (bump_uncertainty/should_promote and the OcHelixPromotion fields) is not called from any decode path; recent_max_overlap is written but never read and access_count is never updated. Either wire promotion into the cache flow or drop the dead fields/functions to avoid misleading the next reader.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c:944">
P2: After a Helix rewind, retained cold-page tokens are decoded against polar metadata (mu_phi, log_rho_min/step, rho_lut, value scales) that were calibrated over the whole pre-rewind page, including the dropped tokens, and the dropped tail buffers are never freed. Recompute the page's polar/value statistics over the kept prefix (or rebuild via store_cold_page) and shrink buffers after truncation.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/helix_cache.h">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/helix_cache.h:28">
P2: When a model supplies an odd `rope_dim`, Helix silently rounds the rotary region down to complete pairs. Reject odd `rope_dim` values during initialization and when setting the facade's rope dimension.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/helix_cache.h:54">
P2: A cold-page view cannot be correlated with the promotion APIs because it omits `page_id`. Expose the page ID in `OcHelixColdPageView` and populate it from the stored page key.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/tests/test_llama.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/tests/test_llama.c:692">
P3: If any cr_assert/cr_assert_eq in rotor_facade_vs_f32 fails, Criterion longjmps out of the test and the nine malloc'd buffers plus the compressed cache are never freed. Move to a bail-out pattern (goto cleanup) or rely on Criterion's per-test arena so failures don't leak.</violation>
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Helix append thaws truncated cold pages, matches hot pages by page_id, and installs via copy-and-swap. Rotor upserts into temps first, truncates mid-page rewind, and rejects non-contiguous positions. Llama decode uses append; enable-after-tokens, GPT-family, and serve/CUDA combos are refused. Attention errors now fail decode and prefill. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
cargo fmt --all --check failed on top_k_limit / top_candidates wrapping from PR #42. Reformat so the workspace CI job can pass. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
MAX_DRAFT_TOKENS_PER_STEP < 1024 is a compile-time invariant. Use a const block so clippy 1.98 (-D warnings) accepts it. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c:508">
P3: When rewind truncates a straddling page, `tokens` is reduced but the page's quantized buffers (`key_codes`/`value_codes`/`key_scales`/`value_scales`, sized for the original token count) are retained until the page is later re-stored or the cache is cleared/freed. Over a session with repeated rewind/backtrack before regeneration, this keeps the dead token bytes allocated. Truncate the allocations to the new token count (`(n_keep - first_position) * cb` code bytes and `* bpr` scales) via `realloc`/`memmove` so rewind actually reclaims the dropped tokens, or document that rewind intentionally defers reclamation to the next upsert.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/kv_compressed.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/kv_compressed.c:153">
P2: When a `store_page` call crosses a page boundary, the Helix facade stores all tokens under `positions[0]`’s page and later upserts can lose tokens. Reject positions whose `positions[t] / page_size` differs from the first page before installing the cold page.</violation>
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<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/model/llama.c:3637">
P2: When compressed prefill runs with multiple workers and an attention call fails, callbacks write `AttnJob.error` unsynchronized. Make the error field atomic or collect one error per worker before returning it.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/tests/test_rotorquant_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/tests/test_rotorquant_cache.c:250">
P2: This test cannot detect a missing causal mask because all keys and values are constant. With every key equal, the full 4-token cache softmaxes to the same per-token weight (0.25) whether or not tokens 2–3 are masked, and because every value is 1.0 the accumulated output is 1.0 in either case — identical to the 2-token prefix. Give future tokens a distinct value (or per-token varying values) so that including them changes the output, otherwise the assertion only verifies that two equal computations are equal.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c:702">
P2: When a full page already exists for `page_id`, this condition skips thawing and the following block allocates a second page with the same key, so attention double-counts those tokens. Reject this append or roll over to a different page instead of creating a duplicate key.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/tests/test_kv_compressed.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/tests/test_kv_compressed.c:115">
P3: The new cosine-similarity guard can never fail independently. The per-dimension `cr_assert(fabsf(out[i] - ref[i]) <= tol, ...)` in the same loop already aborts the test on any deviation, so by the time `cosine >= 0.95f` is evaluated the vectors differ by at most tol per coordinate and cosine is ~1.0. Either drop the redundant cosine block or rely on it alone (without the per-dim tolerance) if similarity is the metric you actually want to gate on.</violation>
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Reject Helix store_page spans that cross a page boundary and appends onto an already-full page_id. Prefill attention errors use a C11 atomic so parallel workers do not race. Rotor rewind reallocs quantized buffers to the kept token count. Tests now distinguish masked vs unmasked attention and gate Helix on cosine similarity. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/model/llama.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/model/llama.c:3637">
P2: When two parallel prefill slices report a compressed-attention error, they write `AttnJob.error` concurrently. Make the error field atomic or synchronize error publication before `prefill_layer` reads it.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/kv_compressed.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/kv_compressed.c:157">
P2: When a Helix `store_page` batch crosses a page boundary, this call stores the entire batch under `positions[0] / page_size`. A later upsert of the second page leaves a duplicate or stale token visible to attention; reject cross-page batches or split them before storing.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/kv_compressed.c:163">
P2: When `positions[0] + t` overflows `size_t`, the new check accepts a non-contiguous logical range and Rotor records wrapped positions. Reject a starting position whose requested token range would overflow before comparing positions.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/tests/test_helix_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/tests/test_helix_cache.c:60">
P3: The assertion `oc_helix_cache_compression_ratio(&stats) > 0.0f` is vacuous: `oc_helix_cache_compression_ratio` returns a positive value whenever any data is stored (it returns `1.0f` only when `bytes == 0`, otherwise `f32_baseline_bytes / bytes`, which is always > 0). After a cold page is stored the check can never fail, so this line no longer validates that the cache compresses at all in this scenario. If the small d=8 case genuinely compresses worse than f32 after the rho_lut metadata is counted, either assert a ratio `< 1.0f` (tiny-but-real structural check) or add a comment explaining the vacuous intent, rather than a check that is always true.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c:702">
P2: When an append starts in a page that is already full, this branch creates a duplicate page key instead of rejecting the invalid append; reject full existing pages before allocating a new slot.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c:810">
P2: When `rope_theta` is NaN, this comparison is false, so `rope_frequency` propagates NaN into every Helix logit and attention result; reject non-finite values in both checks.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c:509">
P3: After rewind truncates a page's token count (tokens = n_keep - first_position), the page's key/value scales and codes buffers still hold the quantized rows for every originally stored token, so the removed-token memory is never reclaimed. Reallocate or re-quantize the page to the truncated length, or at least free the now-unused tail rows, so the mid-page rewind actually releases memory.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/cli/main.c">
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P3: When the user runs `serve-realtime --kv-compress rotor`, the rejection message says "not supported with serve", naming the wrong subcommand. Use the resolved command name (oc_cli_command_name(ctx.command)) in the message so serve-realtime is identified accurately.</violation>
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Reject Rotor store_page ranges whose positions wrap size_t, and reject non-finite Helix rope_theta before frequencies are computed. Name the actual serve subcommand in the --kv-compress error. Tiny Helix d=8 tests check populated stats instead of a vacuous ratio. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
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P2: When a caller passes a non-finite `rope_theta`, both new guards accept NaN (and infinity), so `powf` produces invalid frequencies and Helix returns NaN logits or attention output. Reject non-finite theta in both entry points.</violation>
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P2: When a caller holds an `OcRotorQuantPageView`, rewinding a straddling page can move these buffers with `realloc`, leaving its pointers dangling even though the page remains live. Keep the backing allocations stable during rewind so existing views remain valid.</violation>
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Mid-page rewind now truncates the token count only. realloc could move code/scale buffers and dangle OcRotorQuantPageView pointers while the page stays live. Unused tail rows are reclaimed on the next upsert or when the page is cleared/freed. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/cli/main.c">
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P3: The kv-compress CUDA-conflict, name-validity, and server-restriction checks are duplicated across the subcommand and flag-only paths in main(), and the two copies already drift (command-based vs serve_api condition, different error text). Extract the validation into a single helper (e.g. oc_cli_kv_compress_validate(backend, kv_compress, allow_server)) and call it once per path so compression names and restrictions stay in sync.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c">
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P2: When a page range overflows `size_t`, this addition wraps and `rewind` keeps tokens at or beyond `n_keep`. Compare the token count with `n_keep - first_position` after the preceding `first_position < n_keep` check, and reject overflowing ranges when storing pages.</violation>
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P2: When a caller keeps an `OcRotorQuantPageView` and rewinds through a page that straddles `n_keep`, these `realloc` calls can move its buffers while the page remains alive, causing use-after-free through the documented view. Keep retained-page buffers stable during rewind, or explicitly change the page-view lifetime contract.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/kv_compressed.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/kv_compressed.c:208">
P2: When a batched Helix append crosses a page boundary, this forwards the whole batch to one page-fill operation, misassigning later tokens to the first page. Split the batch at `positions[i] / page_size` boundaries before delegating.</violation>
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Helix append now stops a batch at positions[i]/page_size so tokens are not stored on the wrong page. Rotor store rejects a first_position plus n_tokens range that would wrap size_t, and rewind compares token counts without adding first_position. CLI CUDA/name/serve checks share one helper so the subcommand and flag-only paths cannot drift. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
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P2: When `first_position + tokens` overflows, this condition wraps and fails to truncate a page at `n_keep`, leaving tokens at or beyond the rewind boundary. Compare `tokens` with `n_keep - first_position` after the preceding `first_position < n_keep` check.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c">
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P2: When appending enough tokens to fill an existing cold page, an encoding OOM after `thaw_page_for_append` loses the whole page. Keep the original cold representation until freezing succeeds, or restore it when freezing fails.</violation>
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store_cold_page already copy-and-swaps into the existing slot. Freeze no longer clears hot buffers first, so an encoding OOM leaves the hot page (including a thawed prefix) intact. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c">
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P2: When `rope_theta` is positive but subnormal, `helix_rope_theta_ok` accepts it even though high-pair RoPE frequencies overflow and logits become NaN. Reject theta values whose generated frequencies are non-finite, or validate each frequency before using it.</violation>
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helix_rope_theta_ok now requires a normal positive theta (theta >= FLT_MIN). Logits also drop any frequency that is not finite so high pairs cannot overflow powf into NaN attention. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c:229">
P3: When `first_position` is `SIZE_MAX`, this check rejects a valid one-token page even though token 0 uses no addition overflow. Check `n_tokens - 1` against the remaining range so pages ending at `SIZE_MAX` remain representable.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c:512">
P3: A OcRotorQuantPageView captured before rewind snapshot the pre-truncation token count. Rewind now truncates a straddling page to `n_keep - first_position` but only updates the page's `tokens`; a held view still reports the old `tokens` and, if the caller iterates it, will process tokens that rewind dropped. The documented view-stability guarantee only covers buffer pointer validity, not the snapshotted `tokens`/count fields. Document that a view must be re-fetched after rewind (or have its `tokens` read from the page), so callers do not read truncated-out rows.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c:696">
P2: When freezing a full hot page fails with `OC_ERR_OOM`, retrying the append for that page returns `OC_ERR_INVALID_ARG` without retrying the freeze. Attempt `freeze_hot_page` for a full hot page before rejecting a genuinely full cold page, so the preserved page remains recoverable.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/tests/test_helix_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/tests/test_helix_cache.c:363">
P3: The test named preserves_prefix only asserts oc_helix_cache_n_logits == 3, which is a token count summed over pages. It would still pass if the two preserved tokens' keys, values, or positions were corrupted or replaced, since only the count is checked. Verify the prefix data is intact, e.g. assert view.positions[0]==0 and view.positions[1]==1, or run logits/attention against the rewind+append sequence.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/model/llama.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/model/llama.c:4012">
P2: When `oc_compressed_kv_attention` fails during prefill, the tokens were already appended to the compressed cache (store_compressed_token runs before the attention block), but the abort path returns without advancing `sess->pos`. Retrying the same tokens then appends duplicates, corrupting the KV sequence. Roll the appended tokens back (or check the attention error before storing) on this error path.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/cli/commands.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/cli/commands.c:682">
P3: The hardcoded error text "setup failed" is emitted for every failure that reaches this branch, including prefill failures and the standalone completed==0 case, so it can misreport the actual cause to JSON consumers. Use the real error: carry the specific reason (e.g. se/e) into the branch, or emit a generic "benchmark failed" plus the existing cli_error detail, instead of a fixed "setup failed".</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/rotorquant_cache.c:229">
P3: This guard rejects valid pages whose last token is at `SIZE_MAX`, because it checks the exclusive end position instead of the last token index. Check `n_tokens - 1` against the remaining range so representable endpoint positions are accepted.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/model/llama.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/model/llama.c:2913">
P2: When compressed attention returns an error, this exits before `sess->pos` advances even though the token is already in the compressed cache. Retrying the session therefore appends the same position again, especially on Helix; roll back to the starting position before returning from both decode and prefill attention-error paths.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c">
<violation number="1" location="oxidize-c/src/compute/helix_cache.c:107">
P2: When a model supplies a positive but very small `rope_theta`, this check passes even though high-pair `rope_frequency()` overflows; `cosf`/`sinf` then propagate NaNs through Helix attention. Reject non-finite computed frequencies before using them.</violation>
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On compressed prefill/decode errors, rewind the KV cache so a retry does not append duplicate tokens. Retry freeze on a full hot Helix page, allow a 1-token Rotor page at SIZE_MAX, and document that page-view token counts are snapshots that must be re-fetched after rewind. Co-authored-by: Jackson <Jackson57279@users.noreply.github.com>
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P2: When `store_page` upserts an existing page, it frees that page's code and scale buffers, so the documented pointer lifetime is incomplete and callers can dereference freed storage. State that `store_page` replacement also invalidates held views.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/llama.h">
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P3: After `oc_llama_session_reset`, compression can be enabled even if the session previously wrote tokens. Document this as refusal while the current position is nonzero, rather than refusal after any token has been written.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/tests/test_kv_compressed.c">
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P2: This test does not verify the advertised Helix replacement behavior. Because both stores use identical data and the only assertion is page count, an ignored upsert or stale page contents still passes; use different second-call data and assert the page view or attention result reflects it.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/rotorquant_cache.h">
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P2: When `store_page` replaces an existing `(layer, kv_head, first_position)` page, it frees the old backing buffers, so a held view becomes dangling even though the page is not dropped. Document upsert replacement as another invalidation event.</violation>
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P3: The `if (take == 0)` block in `oc_helix_cache_append` is unreachable. `take` is always >= 1 here because both `room` and `n_tokens - offset` are >= 1, and the page-boundary split loop only sets `take = t` with `t >= 1` (it starts at 1). Remove the dead branch.</violation>
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P2: When compressed attention fails for a gated layer, `attention_slice` still multiplies `out` even though the attention call may not have initialized it. Skip the gate-processing block for failed attention before continuing; the caller already propagates the atomic error.</violation>
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<file name="oxidize-c/include/oxidize/rotorquant_cache.h">
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P3: The new comments claim held views stay valid across rewind ("Rewind does not free buffers", "an OcRotorQuantPageView taken before rewind keeps valid pointers"). That is only true for straddling pages that get truncated; pages with first_position >= n_keep are fully dropped and page_free() frees all four buffers, so a previously-taken view of such a page dangles after rewind. Qualify the comment to state that only truncated pages keep valid backing buffers, and that fully-dropped pages leave held pointers dangling.</violation>
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Port of GitHub PR #33 (
kv-cache-compression) into oxidize-c only. Rust, Go, Python, and oxidize-cpp are untouched aside from rustfmt/clippy CI fixes so workspace CI can pass.What landed
rotorquant_cache.{h,c}): page-oriented 3D rotors + int4. Decode rotates the query once, int4-dots the cache, and unrotates the value accumulator once. Existing Lloyd-Max vector API inrotorquant.cis unchanged.helix_cache.{h,c}): polar 4-bit keys (pre-RoPE) + Hadamard 3-bit values. Scalar path only. Tokens append onto a hot page of size 64 and freeze to cold when full, so per-page polar metadata is amortized.kv_compressed.{h,c}):OcKvScheme { ROTOR=0, HELIX=1 }. Callers always pass pre-RoPE K/Q + positions; the facade applies RoPE for RotorQuant and leaves Helix pre-RoPE. Split-halves models are remapped into Helix's interleaved polar pairs.rope_dimis honored (partial RoPE).store_pageis a replace/upsert; llama decode/prefill useoc_compressed_kv_append.oc_llama_session_init_compressed) or is released onenable_kv_compress.--kv-compress none|rotor|helix(defaultnone). Not wired from--auto.--backend cuda,--serve-api, and invalid names are rejected.P1/P2 follow-ups (
b5bc55e)find_open_hotmatchespage_id; new pages use copy-and-swap (install_page).rope_dimare refused. Attention errors fail decode and prefill.rho_lut. Cold-page views exposepage_id. InvalidOcKvSchemeis rejected. Backend init errors are propagated.Cubic round 4 (
4fb222e)store_pagerejects tokens that straddle a page boundary.AttnJob.erroris atomic so parallel workers do not race on first failure.page_idis rejected instead of duplicating the page.Cubic round 5 (
ee3dc86)store_pagerejects a token range whosepositions[0] + twould wrapsize_t.rope_theta(NaN/+Inf) as well as non-positive values.--kv-compressserve rejection names the resolved subcommand (serve/serve-realtime).Cubic round 6 (
a4c36cd/f4d2396)OcRotorQuantPageViewpointers stay valid.tokens > n_keep - first_positionso a wrapping add cannot keep tokens pastn_keep; store rejects an overflowingfirst_position + n_tokensrange.positions[i] / page_sizeso cross-page tokens land on the correct page.oc_cli_kv_compress_reject.Vulkan shaders are skipped (no SDK required; CPU path is the merge requirement).
Tests
make -C oxidize-cand ASan Criterion suites (CC=gcc):rotorquant_cache,helix_cache,kv_compressed, llama cosine similarity, dense-cache skip/release, mixed SWA, Helix rewind/append, split-halves / partial-RoPE, and CLI parse / CUDA / name coverage.Summary by cubic
Adds optional RotorQuant and Helix compressed KV caches to
oxidize-cfor supported Llama sessions. The existing f32/q8 cache remains the default;--kv-compress none|rotor|helixenables compression, while unsupported combinations now fail instead of silently falling back.Features
rope_dim, and handles causal prefill, rewind, append, and page recovery.store_pageinvalidates live page-view pointers, so views must be re-fetched after a store or rewind.Validation
"benchmark failed"in JSON; C cache, Llama, CLI, and sanitizer tests cover the new paths, including Helix store-page replacement and reset/re-enable.Written for commit c92619e. Summary will update on new commits.
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New Features
--kv-compress none|rotor|helixCLI option for generation and benchmarking.Bug Fixes
Tests