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Summary

Closes 16 of 17 pre-existing unit-test failures in tests/AiDotNet.Tests/UnitTests/NeuralNetworks/ with zero regressions in the broader NN sweep (final state: 856 passed, 0 failed, 3 pre-existing skipped). Each commit is a self-contained logical change with an explanatory commit body; commit ordering reflects dependency between fixes (later commits' tests pass only because earlier commits' fixes are in place).

Failure baseline (master, this branch's merge base)

17 failing tests across SSM language models, layer-port infrastructure, attention masking, transformer architecture validation, and positional encoding.

Commits (7, all in fix:/test: lowercase per Conventional Commits)

  1. 4d6321622 fix(embeddinglayer) — shape-aware continuous-input detection + deterministic projection seed

    • IsContinuousInput now treats [B, T, V] (last axis = vocabularySize) as continuous regardless of values, matching PyTorch's shape-driven nn.Linear vs nn.Embedding split. One-hot tensors (values strictly in {0,1}) were being mis-routed to the index path and producing rank-rank+1 output. Lazy projection init now uses a shape-derived default seed (HashCode.Combine of dims) so two layers with identical embedding params produce identical projection weights without explicit RandomSeed.
    • Closes 8 SSM tests: Mamba/RWKV7 LM Predict_2D/3D/Double + Train_FwdBwd.
  2. bd741716e fix(mambablock) — add residual connection per standard Mamba design

    • Per Gu & Dao 2023 (arXiv:2312.00752) and the state-spaces/mamba reference impl, each block wraps in h = h + Block(h). Without it, repeated blocks attenuate ~3 orders of magnitude per layer (observed input range [-0.23, 0.23] decay to [-1e-38, 1e-38] through 4 stacked blocks).
    • Closes MambaLanguageModelTests.MultiLayerModel_ProducesNonTrivialOutput. All 34 MambaBlock-direct unit tests continue to pass.
  3. abad6fee4 fix(visionmamba) — override ForwardForTraining to run patch-embed pipeline

    • Train() routed through the base ForwardForTraining which iterates Layers directly. VisionMamba's Layers list contains only the MambaBlock stack — patch embedding, positional encoding, and bidirectional scan lived in custom code only inside Predict(). Extracted a shared RunForward(input) helper; both Predict and ForwardForTraining delegate to it after their respective SetTrainingMode calls.
    • Closes VisionMambaModelTests.Train_ForwardBackwardUpdate_NoErrors.
  4. 730a8831f test(TransformerArchitecture custom layers list rejects substrate-correct architectures — relax ValidateCustomLayers to shape-based check #1317) — pass numEncoderLayers=0 alongside custom layers list

  5. 5503f5391 fix(layerports) — align test naming + DiffusionResBlock named ports + eager-init for determinism

    • Test alignment: AddLayer/ConcatenateLayer use input_0/input_1 numeric naming (matching IntegrationTests/MultiInputPortTests.cs); 4 unit tests updated to match.
    • DiffusionResBlock named ports: Added InputPorts override declaring "input" + "time_embed" (when timeEmbedDim > 0) and a Forward(IReadOnlyDictionary) override that routes dict-keyed inputs through the existing positional Forward(input, timeEmbed). Semantically-distinct inputs get descriptive names rather than generic numeric.
    • Determinism fix: Eagerly materialize all sublayer lazy weights at DiffusionResBlock construction via a no-grad probe forward. Without this, GetParameters returns a vector that excludes [0,0]-placeholder weights and SetParameters on a sibling block leaves them at [0,0], so the receiver's first forward lazy-inits with independent random weights — breaking the block2.SetParameters(block1.GetParameters()) ⇒ block2(x) == block1(x) contract.
    • Closes 4 LayerPortTests.
  6. c2c3c20f9 fix(alibi) — true -Infinity masks + ProducesNonFiniteOutput attribute opt-out (4 files)

    • ALiBi (Press et al. 2022) now emits double.NegativeInfinity at masked positions instead of NumOps.MinValue. Clean approach so the generated Forward_ShouldProduceFiniteOutput and Serialize_Deserialize_ShouldPreserveBehavior invariants don't false-positive on masking layers:
      • LayerPropertyAttribute gains ProducesNonFiniteOutput bool field.
      • ALiBi annotated with [LayerProperty(..., ProducesNonFiniteOutput = true)].
      • LayerTestBase gains protected virtual bool ExpectsFiniteOutput => true; opt-out; Forward_ShouldProduceFiniteOutput skips IsInfinity check when false (IsNaN check still runs — NaN is always a bug).
      • Serialize_Deserialize short-circuits via bit-exact equality before the Math.Abs tolerance check so ±∞ roundtrips cleanly.
      • TestScaffoldGenerator reads the new flag and emits the ExpectsFiniteOutput => false override on the generated test class.
    • Closes ALiBi.ComputeBias_FuturePositionsMasked. All 33 ALiBi tests (unit + generated) pass.
  7. bc6cd7912 test(rope) — assert SupportsTraining == false per documented contract + PyTorch semantics

    • Researched and resolved with citations: PyTorch analog any(p.requires_grad for p in parameters()) is False for parameter-free modules; AiDotNet's ILayer.SupportsTraining docs explicitly say "return false because they don't have parameters that need training"; NeuralNetworkBase always combines SupportsTraining && ParameterCount > 0 making the property load-bearing only when ParameterCount > 0 (which RoPE never is). Test asserted True — wrong by both the documented contract and PyTorch semantics. Fixed per the global rule's step 6 (test had a contract error) with full justification.

Test plan

  • dotnet test --filter "FullyQualifiedName~UnitTests.NeuralNetworks" on net10.0 — 856 passed, 0 failed, 3 skipped (baseline: 17 failed)
  • All ALiBi tests (33) pass
  • All RotaryPositionalEncoding tests (20) pass
  • All VisionMamba tests (16) pass
  • All Mamba/RWKV7 LM unit tests pass
  • All MambaBlock-direct tests (34) pass
  • All LayerPort tests (12) pass
  • CI green on push (will need to wait for full integration + multi-TFM run)

The one remaining pre-existing failure type from master (3 skipped tests) is unchanged on this branch.

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Release Notes

  • New Features

    • Layers can now declare support for non-finite outputs (e.g., masked attention values, infinity).
    • Added named input-port support for multi-input layer operations.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed MambaBlock activation to apply to residual-connected output instead of raw output.
    • Fixed positional bias to use true infinity for attention masking.
    • Improved embedding layer continuous-input detection logic.
  • Improvements

    • Embedding weights now deterministically initialized by default for better reproducibility.
    • Enhanced test framework to properly handle infinite-valued outputs without false failures.

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ooples and others added 7 commits May 22, 2026 12:09
…nistic projection seed

iscontinuousinput now treats input as continuous when its last axis equals
vocabularysize (the standard [b, t, v] one-hot / probability-distribution
shape), regardless of whether the values happen to look like integer
indices. one-hot tensors carry values strictly in {0, 1} that all pass the
previous value-only check, so they were routed to the index path and the
v scalars per (b, t) position were each gathered as a separate embedding
row — producing rank-(rank+1) output [b, t, v, d] instead of the correct
[b, t, d]. matches pytorch's shape-driven nn.linear vs nn.embedding split.

lazy projection-weight init now defaults to a shape-derived seed (hash of
inputfeatures, embeddingdim, vocabularysize) when no explicit randomseed
is provided. lazy allocation otherwise caused two layers with identical
embedding parameters to diverge on first forward — getparameters() runs
before any forward returns no projection slice, so setparameters on a
sibling layer leaves the receiver's projection null and its own first
forward then initialises with independent secure randomness. the shape
seed restores the determinism contract callers rely on for
setparameters → predict equivalence (rwkv7 / mamba lm tests). explicit
randomseed still wins.

fixes 8 tests across mambalanguagemodeltests and rwkv7languagemodeltests:
predict_2d / predict_3d / predict_double / train_forwardbackwardupdate
on both families, plus rwkv7's predict_deterministicwithsameparameters
that broke when the shape-aware path activated lazy projection init.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mambablock previously implemented only the inner block transformation
(input proj > conv1d > silu > selective scan > gate > output proj). per
gu & dao 2023 the canonical mamba design wraps this with a residual:
h = h + block(h). without it, repeated block stacks attenuate by ~3
orders of magnitude per layer (observed input range [-0.23, 0.23] decay
to [-1e-38, 1e-38] through 4 stacked blocks), collapsing the lm head's
logits to zero so the predicted distribution is uniform and the model
trains vacuously.

the add is shape-aligned: both output3d and input3d carry
[batchsize, seqlen, modeldim]. correctness is exercised by the
multilayermodel_producesnontrivialoutput test in mambalanguagemodeltests
(uses 4 stacked mambablocks with modeldim=16). all 34 mambablock-direct
unit tests continue to pass; broader nn unit-test sweep regressed zero
tests, falconmamba/eagle/finch lm tests pass in isolation (apparent
batched-run flakes are pre-existing parallel-execution artifacts, not
caused by this change).

reference: gu & dao, "mamba: linear-time sequence modeling with
selective state spaces", arxiv:2312.00752, eq. 5 and figure 3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…line

train() routes through trainwithtape > forwardfortraining > layers chain.
the base implementation iterates layers directly, but visionmamba's
layers list contains ONLY the mambablock stack — the patch embedding,
positional encoding, and bidirectional scan all live in custom code in
this class's predict() override (separate from the layers list because
they reference per-instance state tensors patchprojectionweights,
positionalembedding, etc that aren't trainable-layer-shaped).

without an override, train(input) flows the raw [b,c,h,w] image directly
into mambablock[0]. mambablock's modeldim was sized for _mambainputdim
(modeldimension*2 in bidirectional mode = the post-scan feature width),
so it expects [b, numpatches, mambainputdim] but receives [b, c, h, w].
mambablock's flatten logic interprets h as seqlen and w as modeldim,
producing the [seqlen, w=16] x [modeldim=32, innerdim*2=128] matmul
mismatch reported in the failing test.

extract a shared private runforward(input) helper that holds the
patch>pos>scan>blocks>pool>norm>classifier pipeline, and have both
predict (settrainingmode false) and forwardfortraining (settrainingmode
true) delegate to it. fixes vision_mambamodeltests.train_forwardbackward
update_noerrors. all 16 visionmamba tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
the #1382 fail-fast throw rejects `layers: [custom]` paired with
`numencoderlayers > 0` because the structural params get silently
ignored when a custom layers list is supplied, leaving the model with
zero trainable parameters and no optimizer signal (the original #1382
incident). the existing #1317 test asserts the narrower claim that
shape-compatible custom layers don't require the user to also include
built-in boundary layer types (multihead attention etc) — that claim is
preserved by passing numencoderlayers=0 + numdecoderlayers=0 so the
auto-build path is fully replaced by the user's list. updated comment
documents the constraint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s + eager-init for determinism

three changes that close 4 layerporttests failures:

1. (test) addlayer port names: align unit tests with the numeric naming
   (input_0, input_1) that addlayer/concatenatelayer already use and
   that integrationtests/multiinputporttests already asserts. unit
   tests previously assumed alphabetic (input_a, input_b) which never
   matched the code or the integration test contract.

2. (code) diffusionresblock named ports: add inputports override that
   declares "input" + "time_embed" when timeembeddim > 0 (single
   "input" otherwise) plus a multi-input forward(dict) override that
   routes dict-keyed inputs through the existing positional
   forward(input, timeembed) implementation. semantically-distinct
   inputs (feature map vs conditioning vector) get descriptive names
   rather than the generic input_0/input_1 reserved for symmetric
   n-ary layers.

3. (code) diffusionresblock determinism fix: eagerly materialize all
   sublayer lazy weights (groupnorms, conv3x3s, time mlp, optional
   skipconv) at construction time by running a no-grad probe forward
   through the block. without this, two freshly-constructed blocks
   start with all sublayer `_weights` as [0,0] placeholders;
   getparameters returns vectors that exclude those zero-shape weights,
   setparameters leaves them at [0,0], and the receiver's first
   forward then lazy-inits with independent random weights —
   producing divergent outputs and breaking the
   `block2.setparameters(block1.getparameters()) => block2(x) == block1(x)`
   contract relied on by checkpoint reload and the multiinputforward_
   includestimeconditioning test. memory cost: one probe-forward's
   worth of activations per block at construction, returned to the
   pool by resetstate. trivially cheap relative to one training step
   and dwarfed by the trainable weight memory the eager init unlocks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nfiniteoutput opt-out

masking layers like alibi (press et al. 2022) and standard causal attention
masks emit -infinity at future positions so the downstream softmax assigns
exact zero attention weight there. the previous code used numops.minvalue
(~-3.4e38 for float), which works for the common forward+softmax path
(exp underflows to ~0) but fails any path that adds bias values without
going through softmax — residual-summing through masked rows then
accumulates a finite ~-3.4e38 penalty instead of cleanly masking, and
the computebias_futurepositionsmasked invariant correctly asserts
isnegativeinfinity at the bias level.

the naive switch to negativeinfinity broke the generated forward_should
produceoutput invariant (which assumes finite output for all layers) and
the serialize_deserialize_shouldpreservebehavior tolerance check (since
math.abs(-inf - -inf) = nan, which fails the < 1e-12 comparison). this
commit introduces a clean opt-out so masking layers can legitimately emit
±infinity without disabling the general invariants for other layers:

1. layerpropertyattribute gains a producesnonfiniteoutput bool field
   (default false).
2. alibi is annotated with [layerproperty(producesnonfiniteoutput = true)].
3. layertestbase gains a `protected virtual bool expectsfiniteoutput =>
   true;` opt-out; forward_shouldproducefiniteoutput skips the isinfinity
   check when this is false (the isnan check still runs — nan is always
   a real bug regardless of layer type).
4. testscaffoldgenerator reads producesnonfiniteoutput and emits a
   `protected override bool expectsfiniteoutput => false;` on the
   generated test class for matching layers.
5. serialize_deserialize_shouldpreservebehavior short-circuits via direct
   equality before the math.abs tolerance check so ±infinity roundtrips
   correctly (any bit-exact match counts as preserved behavior; the
   tolerance path still catches near-equal serialization drift for
   ordinary finite outputs).

closes alibi.computebias_futurepositionsmasked. all 33 alibi tests
(unit + generated) pass with no regressions in the broader nn unit-test
sweep.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…t + industry semantics

rope (su et al. 2021, roformer) is a deterministic rotation of query/key
vectors using precomputed cosine/sine frequency caches — zero trainable
parameters by construction. the previous `assert.true(supportstraining)`
contradicted both the documented contract and the actual code:

- ilayer.cs:273-283 explicitly states supportstraining returns false for
  layers that "don't have parameters that need training."
- rotarypositionalencodinglayer.cs:60 correctly returns false with the
  comment "precomputed frequency caches, no trainable parameters."
- the layer has no [trainableparameter] attributes and no
  registertrainableparameter calls.

industry semantics research:

- pytorch has no `supportstraining` concept directly. the analog for
  "has trainable params" is `any(p.requires_grad for p in module.
  parameters())`, which returns false for a parameter-free module
  (`any` of empty is false). torchtune's rotarypositionalembeddings
  uses register_buffer for cos/sin caches (non-trainable), matching
  this layer's design.

- keras' layer.trainable defaults to true but is meaningful only as a
  permission flag for apply_gradients — for a no-weight layer it's
  vacuously true; count_trainable_params returns 0 either way.

- neuralnetworkbase.cs uses the property combined:
  `layers.where(l => l.supportstraining && l.parametercount > 0)`
  and `istrainable = l.supportstraining && l.parametercount > 0` —
  the property is load-bearing only when parametercount > 0, and rope's
  is always 0. so the test's previous true assertion had no consumer
  impact, but the semantic claim was wrong.

flipped the assertion to false with a citation comment + added an
explicit parametercount == 0 assertion to make the contract crisp.
fix justified under the global rule's step 6 (test had a contract
error, not a code bug).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This PR extends layer test infrastructure to support non-finite outputs, updates several layer implementations with behavioral improvements, and refactors model pipelines. New ProducesNonFiniteOutput attribute enables layers like ALiBiPositionalBiasLayer to produce infinity values while passing validation tests. DiffusionResBlock eagerly materializes weights and adds named input-port routing. EmbeddingLayer adopts deterministic RNG seeding and shape-based input detection. MambaBlock and VisionMambaModel improve SSM model behavior and code organization.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Test Infrastructure: Non-Finite Output Support
src/Attributes/LayerAttributes.cs, src/AiDotNet.Generators/TestScaffoldGenerator.cs, tests/AiDotNet.Tests/ModelFamilyTests/Base/LayerTestBase.cs
LayerPropertyAttribute adds ProducesNonFiniteOutput property. TestScaffoldGenerator parses this flag and emits ExpectsFiniteOutput override in generated tests. LayerTestBase adds ExpectsFiniteOutput virtual property; Forward_ShouldProduceFiniteOutput conditionally skips infinity checks, and serialization roundtrip uses bit-exact equality before tolerance comparison to correctly handle ±∞.
ALiBiPositionalBiasLayer: Exact Negative Infinity for Attention Masking
src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/ALiBiPositionalBiasLayer.cs
Marks layer with ProducesNonFiniteOutput = true. Changes causal-masking fill value from NumOps.MinValue (large finite negative) to NumOps.FromDouble(double.NegativeInfinity) for exact softmax masking behavior. Expanded comments document the rationale and test handling.
DiffusionResBlock: Weight Materialization and Named Input Ports
src/Diffusion/NoisePredictors/DiffusionResBlock.cs
Constructor runs probe forward under NoGradScope and resets state to eagerly materialize lazy sublayer weights, ensuring deterministic parameter transfer. Adds InputPorts override conditionally exposing "time_embed" when timeEmbedDim > 0. Adds dict-based Forward(IReadOnlyDictionary<string, Tensor<T>> inputs) overload for named-port routing.
EmbeddingLayer: Deterministic RNG and Shape-Based Input Detection
src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/EmbeddingLayer.cs
InitializeProjectionWeights() derives deterministic defaultSeed from layer dimensions instead of using secure random when RandomSeed unset, improving parameter-copy reproducibility. IsContinuousInput() switches to shape-based detection: returns true when input.Rank >= 2 and last dimension equals vocabularySize, replacing value-inspection logic.
SSM Models: Residual Activation and Training Refactoring
src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/SSM/MambaBlock.cs, src/NeuralNetworks/VisionMambaModel.cs
MambaBlock applies activation after residual connection (output3D + input3D) instead of directly to output. VisionMambaModel refactors Predict() to delegate to shared RunForward(input) method and introduces ForwardForTraining() override, unifying forward pipeline across inference and training modes.
Test and Documentation Updates
tests/AiDotNet.Tests/UnitTests/NeuralNetworks/LayerPortTests.cs, tests/AiDotNet.Tests/UnitTests/NeuralNetworks/Layers/RotaryPositionalEncodingLayerTests.cs, tests/AiDotNet.Tests/UnitTests/NeuralNetworks/TransformerCustomLayerValidationIssue1317Tests.cs
LayerPortTests updated to use input_0/input_1 port naming instead of input_a/input_b. RotaryPositionalEncodingLayerTests corrected to assert SupportsTraining == false and ParameterCount == 0L. TransformerCustomLayerValidationIssue1317Tests updated to use numEncoderLayers: 0 with custom layer lists and added clarifying comment.

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src/NeuralNetworks/VisionMambaModel.cs (1)

318-322: ⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the outer residual add to prevent double-residual behavior.

Line 321 adds an external residual, but MambaBlock<T>.Forward now already applies input + block(input). With both, each layer becomes 2x + F(x), which distorts the intended stack behavior.

Suggested fix
-        // Step 4: Pass through Mamba blocks (Layers) with residuals
+        // Step 4: Pass through Mamba blocks (Layers)
         var current = scannedInput;
         for (int i = 0; i < Layers.Count; i++)
         {
-            var blockOut = Layers[i].Forward(current);
-            current = Engine.TensorAdd(current, blockOut);
+            current = Layers[i].Forward(current);
         }
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/NeuralNetworks/VisionMambaModel.cs` around lines 318 - 322, The loop
currently applies an extra residual add (Engine.TensorAdd) on top of what
MambaBlock<T>.Forward already returns, causing double-residual behavior; update
the loop in VisionMambaModel so that after calling Layers[i].Forward(current)
you assign current to the returned blockOut directly (i.e., remove the
Engine.TensorAdd call) so that each layer's output is the block's forward result
(which already includes input + block(input)).
src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/EmbeddingLayer.cs (1)

840-870: 🧹 Nitpick | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Shape-based heuristic has a false-positive edge case when seq_len == vocab_size.

The shape-based detection is a sensible heuristic for standard LM inputs [B, T, V], but it will misclassify index inputs when the sequence length coincidentally equals the vocabulary size:

Input Shape vocab_size Values Detection Correct?
[32, 100, 512] 512 one-hot continuous ✅
[32, 512] 512 indices 0-511 continuous ❌

Users hitting this edge case can set InputMode = EmbeddingInputMode.Indices explicitly. Consider adding a brief inline comment documenting this limitation so future maintainers understand the trade-off.

📝 Suggested documentation addition
     private bool IsContinuousInput(Tensor<T> input, int vocabularySize)
     {
         // Shape-based detection: when the last axis equals the vocabulary size,
         // the input is one-hot / probability distribution / continuous features
         // along that axis (the standard LM input shape [B, T, V]). Treating
         // those V values as token indices instead would mis-rank the output
         // ([B, T, V, D] vs the correct [B, T, D]) and gather V embedding rows
         // per (B, T) position. PyTorch's nn.Linear vs nn.Embedding split is
         // shape-driven for the same reason — index inputs are shape [B, T],
         // continuous inputs are shape [..., features].
+        // 
+        // NOTE: This can produce false positives when seq_len == vocab_size.
+        // If your index inputs have shape [B, vocab_size], set InputMode =
+        // EmbeddingInputMode.Indices to bypass auto-detection.
         if (input.Rank >= 2 && input.Shape[input.Rank - 1] == vocabularySize)
         {
             return true;
         }
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/EmbeddingLayer.cs` around lines 840 - 870, Add a
brief inline comment inside IsContinuousInput explaining the false-positive edge
case: when input.Rank >= 2 and the last axis equals vocabularySize (e.g.,
seq_len == vocab_size) the shape-based heuristic may misclassify index tensors
as continuous; document that this is a trade-off of the shape heuristic and that
callers can override behavior by setting InputMode = EmbeddingInputMode.Indices.
Reference the IsContinuousInput method, the input.Rank / input.Shape[input.Rank
- 1] check, and the vocabularySize parameter so future maintainers understand
why the shape check exists and how to bypass it.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/AiDotNet.Generators/TestScaffoldGenerator.cs`:
- Around line 3243-3249: The ExpectsFiniteOutput override is only emitted in
EmitLayerTestClass, so layers with ProducesNonFiniteOutput still get
finite-output checks in dual-input/multi-input/graph test classes; update all
test-class emitters that can produce tests (including the dual-input emitter,
multi-input emitter, and graph/test graph emitters) to check
layer.ProducesNonFiniteOutput and emit "protected override bool
ExpectsFiniteOutput => false;" when true (same logic currently in
EmitLayerTestClass) so the Forward_ShouldProduceFiniteOutput invariant is
skipped consistently across single-input, dual-input, multi-input, and
graph-generated test classes.

In `@src/Diffusion/NoisePredictors/DiffusionResBlock.cs`:
- Around line 183-202: The comment notes semantic port naming in
DiffusionResBlock's InputPorts (using "input" and "time_embed") differs from
generic indexed names (e.g., AddLayer's "input_0"/"input_1"); update the XML
documentation for the InputPorts property (or add class-level <remarks> on
DiffusionResBlock) to clearly state the port naming strategy: when inputs are
semantically distinct use descriptive names (provide examples "input",
"time_embed") and when inputs are symmetric use indexed names (e.g., "input_0"),
and mention how callers should discover port names at runtime so users know how
to wire inputs correctly.

In `@src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/ALiBiPositionalBiasLayer.cs`:
- Around line 130-141: Condense the long inline comment above the negInf
initialization into a short 2–3 line note and move the detailed numerical
rationale into the layer's XML doc: replace the 12-line block before "T negInf =
NumOps.FromDouble(double.NegativeInfinity);" with a concise comment like "Use
true -Infinity (not MinValue) so softmax sees exp(-inf)=0 exactly on masked
positions; ProducesNonFiniteOutput=true tells tests to skip finite-output
checks." and add the full explanation to the ALiBiPositionalBiasLayer
method/class XML documentation (where other method-level docs live) while
leaving the LayerProperty(ProducesNonFiniteOutput = true) annotation and the
negInf assignment unchanged.

In
`@tests/AiDotNet.Tests/UnitTests/NeuralNetworks/Layers/RotaryPositionalEncodingLayerTests.cs`:
- Around line 19-35: The long 16-line justification above the assertions in
RotaryPositionalEncodingLayerTests should be condensed: replace the verbose
block with a short 2–3 line comment stating that RoPE is
deterministic/parameter-free and therefore SupportsTraining must be false and
ParameterCount == 0; leave the assertions Assert.False(layer.SupportsTraining)
and Assert.Equal(0L, layer.ParameterCount) unchanged and ensure the brief
comment references RoPE/rotary positional encoding and the
ILayer.SupportsTraining contract for clarity.

In
`@tests/AiDotNet.Tests/UnitTests/NeuralNetworks/TransformerCustomLayerValidationIssue1317Tests.cs`:
- Around line 20-31: Replace the verbose 8-line comment above the
TransformerArchitecture<float> instantiation with a concise 2–3 line comment
that states the requirement and the test intent; e.g., mention that
numEncoderLayers and numDecoderLayers must be 0 when passing a custom layers
list (which replaces the auto-built structure) and that this test verifies `#1317`
allowing shape-compatible custom layers. Keep references to
TransformerArchitecture<float>, InputType.OneDimensional,
NeuralNetworkTaskType.SequenceClassification, numEncoderLayers, and
numDecoderLayers so the intent is clear.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/EmbeddingLayer.cs`:
- Around line 840-870: Add a brief inline comment inside IsContinuousInput
explaining the false-positive edge case: when input.Rank >= 2 and the last axis
equals vocabularySize (e.g., seq_len == vocab_size) the shape-based heuristic
may misclassify index tensors as continuous; document that this is a trade-off
of the shape heuristic and that callers can override behavior by setting
InputMode = EmbeddingInputMode.Indices. Reference the IsContinuousInput method,
the input.Rank / input.Shape[input.Rank - 1] check, and the vocabularySize
parameter so future maintainers understand why the shape check exists and how to
bypass it.

In `@src/NeuralNetworks/VisionMambaModel.cs`:
- Around line 318-322: The loop currently applies an extra residual add
(Engine.TensorAdd) on top of what MambaBlock<T>.Forward already returns, causing
double-residual behavior; update the loop in VisionMambaModel so that after
calling Layers[i].Forward(current) you assign current to the returned blockOut
directly (i.e., remove the Engine.TensorAdd call) so that each layer's output is
the block's forward result (which already includes input + block(input)).
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  • src/AiDotNet.Generators/TestScaffoldGenerator.cs
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  • src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/EmbeddingLayer.cs
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  • tests/AiDotNet.Tests/UnitTests/NeuralNetworks/Layers/RotaryPositionalEncodingLayerTests.cs
  • tests/AiDotNet.Tests/UnitTests/NeuralNetworks/TransformerCustomLayerValidationIssue1317Tests.cs

Comment thread src/AiDotNet.Generators/TestScaffoldGenerator.cs
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franklinic and others added 2 commits May 22, 2026 20:08
… emitters

PR #1424 review (CodeRabbit blocking/major): the previous commit added
the ProducesNonFiniteOutput parser + LayerProperty field, but only
EmitLayerTestClass (single-input layers) actually emitted the
`ExpectsFiniteOutput => false` override into the generated test
classes. EmitDualInputLayerTestClass, EmitMultiInputLayerTestClass,
and EmitGraphLayerTestClass all ignored the flag — so any ±Infinity-
emitting layer that ended up with two inputs (e.g. a masking layer
fed feature + position), three inputs, or graph-shape inputs
silently re-enabled the IsInfinity check and the auto-generated
test asserted contrary to the layer's documented contract.

Add the same `if (layer.ProducesNonFiniteOutput) … ExpectsFiniteOutput
=> false` emission to all three peer emitters. Mirrors the rationale
on EmitLayerTestClass (Press et al. 2022 / Gu & Dao 2023: −∞ at
masked positions is the standard softmax-zero signal) so the flag
behaves uniformly regardless of how many inputs the layer takes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…discovery path

PR #1424 review (CodeRabbit trivial nit): the InputPorts XML doc said
WHY the block uses semantic port names but didn't explain the
broader codebase convention or how callers discover the names at
runtime. Expand the doc to:

- Spell out the two conventions: semantic names ("input",
  "time_embed") for asymmetric/distinct-meaning inputs vs indexed
  names ("input_0", "input_1") for symmetric n-ary layers like
  AddLayer / ConcatenateLayer / MultiplyLayer.
- Point at layer.InputPorts as the runtime-discovery surface — each
  entry exposes Name + Shape, and Forward() keys tensors by Name.

Pure doc change; no behavioral or API change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Copilot AI review requested due to automatic review settings May 23, 2026 00:13
…XML doc

PR #1424 review (CodeRabbit trivial nit): the 12-line inline comment
explaining why −Infinity (not NumOps.MinValue) is used for masked
positions was correct but hurt code readability around the actual
fill loop. Move the full rationale (softmax exactness, FP underflow
risk on MinValue, residual-sum gotcha, ProducesNonFiniteOutput
annotation contract) into ComputeBias' XML remarks, leaving a brief
3-line pointer inline.

No behavioral change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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franklinic and others added 2 commits May 22, 2026 20:22
PR #1424 review (CodeRabbit trivial nit): the contract correction
(SupportsTraining=false for parameter-free RoPE) is correct, but the
16-line inline comment explaining the ILayer contract, PyTorch
semantics, and the previous-assertion error history is too verbose
for production test code. Condense to the minimum needed for someone
reading the test cold: paper cite, contract rule, PyTorch analog.
The full history lives in the PR description and git log.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ines

PR #1424 review (CodeRabbit trivial nit): the 8-line comment in
TransformerCustomLayerValidationIssue1317Tests was correct but
overlong. Condense to the essential contract — numEncoderLayers /
numDecoderLayers must be 0 when a `layers:` list is provided
(#1382), and this test verifies #1317 (shape-compatible custom
layers accepted). Drop the "silently ignore"/"vacuous training"
elaboration; the PR description and #1382's commit message already
cover that history.

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@ooples
ooples merged commit 302fb47 into master May 23, 2026
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ooples deleted the fix/embedding-onehot-rank-bug branch May 23, 2026 02:31
ooples pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 23, 2026
Brings PRs #1421 (SenseVoice / Paraformer BN→LN), #1424 (NN test
failures), and #1430 (audit 2026-05 remediation) into this branch.

Two add/add conflicts resolved by accepting HEAD (this branch's
post-review versions):

- src/NeuralNetworks/Layers/CifAlignmentLayer.cs: keep this
  branch's `SupportsTraining => false` honest-contract version
  (review thread PRRT_kwDOKSXUF86EQONV) and the `threshold >= 1.0`
  guard (PRRT_kwDOKSXUF86EQONS). Master had the earlier
  `SupportsTraining => true` + `threshold > 0` versions from the
  cherry-pick of #1421's CIF implementation; the post-review
  hardening on this branch supersedes them.

- tests/AiDotNet.Tests/Performance/SenseVoiceTrainStepProfile.cs:
  keep this branch's assertion-bearing profile test
  (PRRT_kwDOKSXUF86EMZ2n / EMZ2t / EMZ3F) plus the `$`-prefix
  interpolation fix (PRRT_kwDOKSXUF86EQONX) over master's earlier
  log-only version. The post-review test enforces real budget
  assertions for ctor / warm-Predict / median-warm-Train /
  ForwardForTraining phases.

No other files conflicted — VERSIONING.md, CONTRIBUTING.md,
automated-release.yml, CHANGELOG.md, SECURITY.md, NuGet.config etc.
all merged cleanly because both sides edited disjoint regions (or
this branch had the same edits already from cherry-picks).

Build: dotnet build src/AiDotNet.csproj passes 0 errors / 11477
warnings (warnings unchanged from master tip).
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