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fix: deserialize weight-preservation (#1465) + paper-faithful CRF/Donut/NER fixes - #1466
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34 Video / NER / OCR / TTS models called `Layers.Clear(); InitializeLayers()`
(or `ClearLayers(); InitializeLayers()`) inside DeserializeNetworkSpecificData.
The base NeuralNetworkBase.DeserializeInternalUnchecked already recreates every
layer with its saved weights BEFORE that override runs, so re-initializing
discarded the deserialized weights and left the model randomly initialized —
breaking clone (DeepCopy) and load-from-disk parity.
Fix: drop the clear+re-initialize for native-mode layers (the base already
populated Layers); keep only the ONNX-session rebuild where applicable. For
the model that caches per-component layer references used in its forward
(OpenSora), re-point those cached references at the freshly deserialized
Layers via its existing ExtractLayerReferences instead of rebuilding.
Verified weights are preserved bit-identically through a Serialize ->
Deserialize round-trip (param max diff = 0) on representatives of every base
pattern: VFIMamba (VideoNeuralNetworkBase), CRNN (OCR), FastDVDNet
(unconditional ClearLayers), MARS5TTS (TTS transformer), and OpenSora
(ref-caching DiT/VAE).
Out of scope (separate pre-existing bugs, NOT the re-randomization addressed
here), left as follow-ups:
- Donut: removing the re-init exposes a SwinTransformerBlockLayer.SetParameters
round-trip throw (the block does not restore _dim/_mlpRatio from serialized
metadata). Reverted to the rebuild-from-scratch path with an explanatory
note so deserialize does not throw; needs the layer fix first.
- LSTMCRF (and possibly other NER models): one layer does not round-trip
through the base serializer, so a residual weight gap remains after this fix
(improvement, no throw).
- SlowFast already rebuilt its mirror views correctly and was left untouched.
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WalkthroughRemove destructive native-mode post-deserialization re-initialization (Layers.Clear()/InitializeLayers()) across many models so base-deserialized layer instances and trained weights are preserved; rebuild mirror/group references where necessary and persist/restore out-of-layer tensors for Donut. ChangesDeserialization Weight Preservation Across Models
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src/Document/PixelToSequence/Donut.cs (1)
1184-1203:⚠️ Potential issue | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick winBlocking: native deserialization still discards restored weights.
Line 1193 onward still clears/rebuilds layers in native mode, so deserialized parameters are thrown away and the model is re-randomized. This must not ship silently; either preserve loaded layers or fail fast until the Swin serialization contract is fixed.
💡 Concrete fix (fail fast until layer serialization is fixed)
- Layers.Clear(); - _patchEmbeddingLayers.Clear(); - _encoderLayers.Clear(); - _decoderEmbeddingLayers.Clear(); - _decoderLayers.Clear(); - _outputLayers.Clear(); - - if (_useNativeMode) - { - InitializeLayers(); - } + if (_useNativeMode) + { + throw new InvalidOperationException( + "Donut native deserialization cannot safely proceed: SwinTransformerBlockLayer does not round-trip parameter counts yet. " + + "Fix layer serialization and then reuse deserialized Layers without re-initialization."); + } + + Layers.Clear(); + _patchEmbeddingLayers.Clear(); + _encoderLayers.Clear(); + _decoderEmbeddingLayers.Clear(); + _decoderLayers.Clear(); + _outputLayers.Clear(); InitializeEmbeddings();As per coding guidelines, “Every PR must contain production-ready code” and “Incomplete features… where some code paths work but others silently do nothing” are blocking.
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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/Document/PixelToSequence/Donut.cs` around lines 1184 - 1203, The current logic in DeserializeInternalUnchecked clears reconstructed native-mode layers (Layers.Clear(), _patchEmbeddingLayers.Clear(), _encoderLayers.Clear(), _decoderEmbeddingLayers.Clear(), _decoderLayers.Clear(), _outputLayers.Clear()) and then calls InitializeLayers() when _useNativeMode is true, discarding deserialized weights; change this to fail fast: detect _useNativeMode after deserialization and throw a clear exception (e.g., InvalidOperationException) explaining that native-mode layer-level deserialization is unsupported until the SwinTransformerBlockLayer serialization contract is fixed, instead of clearing/reinitializing or silently re-randomizing; leave the non-native path unchanged so managed-mode continues to work.
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In `@src/Video/Enhancement/Upscale4KAgent.cs`:
- Around line 216-220: In Upscale4KAgent<T>.DeserializeNetworkSpecificData,
dispose any existing OnnxModel before overwriting it: call OnnxModel?.Dispose()
immediately before assigning OnnxModel = new OnnxModel<T>(...), so the previous
ONNX session/resources are released (CreateNewInstance() may have already set
OnnxModel; final disposal remains handled by VideoNeuralNetworkBase<T>.Dispose).
In `@src/Video/Enhancement/VideoGigaGAN.cs`:
- Around line 228-232: DeserializeNetworkSpecificData is recreating OnnxModel
without disposing the prior instance, leaking the ONNX session; modify
VideoGigaGAN<T>::DeserializeNetworkSpecificData to check if OnnxModel is
non-null and call Dispose() (or Dispose(bool) appropriately) on the existing
OnnxModel before assigning a new OnnxModel(p, _options.OnnxOptions), and ensure
Dispose(bool) still correctly disposes the final OnnxModel instance to avoid
double-dispose issues.
In `@src/Video/FrameInterpolation/ABME.cs`:
- Around line 230-234: The deserializer overwrites the existing OnnxModel
without disposing its ONNX session, leaking native resources; before assigning a
new OnnxModel in the ABME class (the branch where !_useNativeMode &&
_options.ModelPath is set and OnnxModel = new OnnxModel<T>(...)), explicitly
dispose the current OnnxModel/session (e.g., call its Dispose/Close/Release
method or a DisposeSession helper) if OnnxModel is non-null, then assign the new
instance so the previous native ONNX session is released.
In `@src/Video/FrameInterpolation/AMT.cs`:
- Around line 213-217: The code replaces the OnnxModel field without disposing
the previous ONNX session, leaking native resources; before assigning a new
OnnxModel<T>(p, _options.OnnxOptions) in the AMT class (the block guarded by
_useNativeMode and _options.ModelPath), check if the existing OnnxModel is
non-null and dispose it (or call its Dispose/Close method) then set the new
instance, ensuring null-safety and preserving exception safety (dispose in a
try/finally or dispose before new allocation) so repeated deserialize/deep-copy
flows do not leak ONNX resources.
In `@src/Video/FrameInterpolation/BiMVFI.cs`:
- Around line 222-226: The current deserialize path replaces the OnnxModel field
without disposing the previous native ONNX session, leaking resources; before
assigning a new OnnxModel in the branch that checks !_useNativeMode and
_options.ModelPath, call Dispose (or the appropriate cleanup method) on the
existing OnnxModel/session instance (if non-null) and then null it out before
constructing the new OnnxModel<T>(p, _options.OnnxOptions) so the previous
native session is released.
In `@src/Video/FrameInterpolation/GIMMVFI.cs`:
- Around line 219-223: When replacing the OnnxModel in GIMMVFI during
deserialization/clone, first dispose the prior ONNX resources to avoid native
leaks: detect the existing OnnxModel (or its underlying session) and call its
Dispose/DisposeSession method (or dispose the session field) before creating and
assigning new OnnxModel<T>(p, _options.OnnxOptions); ensure this check runs in
the same branch that uses _useNativeMode and _options.ModelPath so the old
session is cleaned up only when being replaced.
In `@src/Video/FrameInterpolation/IFRNet.cs`:
- Around line 213-217: Before assigning a new OnnxModel in the block that checks
_useNativeMode and _options.ModelPath, dispose the existing ONNX session to
avoid leaking native resources: locate the assignment to OnnxModel in the IFRNet
override, call the existing session's disposal/cleanup (e.g.,
OnnxModel?.Dispose() or its equivalent close method) before creating the new
OnnxModel<T>(p, _options.OnnxOptions), and ensure this disposal is safe if
OnnxModel is null and does not swallow needed exceptions.
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In `@src/Document/PixelToSequence/Donut.cs`:
- Around line 1184-1203: The current logic in DeserializeInternalUnchecked
clears reconstructed native-mode layers (Layers.Clear(),
_patchEmbeddingLayers.Clear(), _encoderLayers.Clear(),
_decoderEmbeddingLayers.Clear(), _decoderLayers.Clear(), _outputLayers.Clear())
and then calls InitializeLayers() when _useNativeMode is true, discarding
deserialized weights; change this to fail fast: detect _useNativeMode after
deserialization and throw a clear exception (e.g., InvalidOperationException)
explaining that native-mode layer-level deserialization is unsupported until the
SwinTransformerBlockLayer serialization contract is fixed, instead of
clearing/reinitializing or silently re-randomizing; leave the non-native path
unchanged so managed-mode continues to work.
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…1465 fix) Replaces the earlier "blocked/reverted" Donut workaround with the actual root- cause fixes. Three real bugs, fixed properly instead of documented: 1. SwinTransformerBlockLayer did not emit its constructor settings (numHeads, windowSize, shiftSize, mlpRatio) from GetMetadata, so the deserialization reflection-matcher rebuilt each block with default head/window/MLP settings. The relative-position-bias table is sized from (2*windowSize-1)^2 * numHeads, so a wrong windowSize/numHeads gave a different ParameterCount than was serialized and SetParameters threw. Now emits Dim/NumHeads/WindowSize/ ShiftSize/MlpRatio. 2. SwinPatchEmbeddingLayer likewise did not emit PatchSize/EmbedDim, so the matcher rebuilt the patch-projection conv with a default embedding dim (e.g. 64 instead of 16 -> 3136 params vs 816). The buffered _pendingParameters replay on first forward then threw on the size mismatch. Now emits PatchSize/EmbedDim. 3. Donut (PixelToSequence) DeserializeNetworkSpecificData cleared Layers and re-ran InitializeLayers (re-randomizing), and InitializeEmbeddings re- randomized the network-level token/position embeddings (which live outside Layers and are trained via the custom gradient path, so the base layer serialization never covered them). Now: re-derive the per-group mirror lists from the deserialized Layers (no re-randomize), and serialize+restore the embeddings (with a backward-compatible read for models saved before this). Verified: a small Donut Predict -> Clone -> Predict produces bit-identical output (max diff 0); all four Swin transformer blocks + the patch embedding round-trip with parameter max diff 0. LSTMCRF Clone_ShouldProduceIdenticalOutput also passes (its earlier "residual" was a diagnostic artifact from serializing before the lazy layers were resolved by a forward). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/Document/PixelToSequence/Donut.cs`:
- Around line 1200-1215: In WriteOptionalTensor, replace the generic numeric
conversion Convert.ToDouble(span[i]) with the library helper
NumOps.ToDouble(span[i]) so writing matches ReadOptionalTensor's
NumOps.FromDouble and the rest of the codebase; update any using/imports if
necessary so NumOps is in scope and keep the surrounding logic in
WriteOptionalTensor (handling tensor null, rank, shape, and iterating
tensor.Data.Span) unchanged.
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Fixes the two remaining clone failures the deserialize work surfaced, at the root, and makes the models match their papers. ConditionalRandomFieldLayer (Lample et al. 2016): a CRF's parameters (transition matrix [C,C], start/end scores [C]) are independent of sequence length, so it must run Viterbi / forward-backward over whatever length the input provides. Removed the fixed-_sequenceLength equality throw (CPU and GPU paths) and made the decode buffers/loops size from the actual per-call length. A single trained CRF now labels sequences of any length. LSTMCRF / BiLSTMCRF / CNNBiLSTMCRF PreprocessTokens: stop padding every input UP to MaxSequenceLength. That made a short [8, embDim] sequence emit a [256, numLabels] output that no longer matched its [8, numLabels] gold labels, and trained the CRF NLL over a mostly-padding sequence (no mask) — slow and divergent. MaxSequenceLength is now treated as an upper bound (truncate only); padding to a common length is a batching concern for the caller. LSTMCRF.Train: route through the shared CRF-aware step (RunCrfAwareTrainStep, the same path BiLSTMCRF/CNNBiLSTMCRF use) so it trains the CRF negative log-likelihood (the paper objective) instead of per-token cross-entropy on raw emissions, and preprocesses tokens + labels to a consistent length. VisionLanguage Donut (Kim et al. 2022): its Swin encoder must tokenize the raw [B,3,H,W] image via a patch embedding before any attention block — without it a raw image flowed into the first MHA whose Q/K/V expect visionDim, throwing "embedding dimension N != weight dimension visionDim". Added the patch embedding to CreateDefaultDocumentOCRLayers (mirrors the OmniGen2 fix) and updated the encoder/decoder boundary. Verified: LSTMCRF/BiLSTMCRF/CNNBiLSTMCRF model-family suites pass (incl. Clone, Clone_AfterTraining, MoreData, GradientFlow); Donut Clone_ShouldProduceIdenticalOutput passes. Donut's training-invariant tests now run the real architecture but exceed the 120s CPU budget at the paper-scale default config (VisionDim=1024, 16 layers) — a perf item tracked separately, not a correctness regression. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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197-241:⚠️ Potential issue | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick winBLOCKING:
TrainAsyncwas not updated to useRunCrfAwareTrainStep, unlikeTrain()and sibling models.The synchronous
Train()method (line 327-335) was correctly updated to delegate toRunCrfAwareTrainStep, butTrainAsyncstill uses the old pattern:
- Direct
LossFunction.CalculateLosson Viterbi-decoded output (non-differentiable)- Creates an unused gradient tensor
gt(line 222-223) with a comment about removed backward pass- Inconsistent with
BiLSTMCRF.TrainAsyncandCNNBiLSTMCRF.TrainAsyncwhich both useRunCrfAwareTrainStepThis means async training optimizes the wrong objective (per-token cross-entropy on argmax labels) instead of the CRF negative log-likelihood.
🐛 Proposed fix to align with sibling models
return Task.Run(() => { for (int epoch = 1; epoch <= epochs; epoch++) { cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested(); - SetTrainingMode(true); - try - { - var preprocessed = PreprocessTokens(tokenEmbeddings); - var preprocessedLabels = PreprocessLabels(labels, preprocessed.Shape[0]); - var output = Forward(preprocessed); - double loss = NumOps.ToDouble(LossFunction.CalculateLoss( - output.ToVector(), preprocessedLabels.ToVector())); - var grad = LossFunction.CalculateDerivative(output.ToVector(), preprocessedLabels.ToVector()); - var gt = Tensor<T>.FromVector(grad); - // Backward removed — tape-based training handles gradients - _optimizer.UpdateParameters(Layers); - - progress?.Report(new NERTrainingProgress - { - CurrentEpoch = epoch, - TotalEpochs = epochs, - CurrentBatch = 1, - TotalBatches = 1, - Loss = loss - }); - } - finally - { - SetTrainingMode(false); - } + // Shared CRF-aware step — see BiLSTMCRF.TrainAsync for the + // longer-form rationale (routes through CRF NLL when UseCRF=true). + double loss = RunCrfAwareTrainStep( + tokenEmbeddings, labels, _options.UseCRF, _optimizer); + + progress?.Report(new NERTrainingProgress + { + CurrentEpoch = epoch, + TotalEpochs = epochs, + CurrentBatch = 1, + TotalBatches = 1, + Loss = loss + }); } }, cancellationToken);🤖 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/NER/SequenceLabeling/LSTMCRF.cs` around lines 197 - 241, TrainAsync is still using the old non-differentiable loss path (calling LossFunction.CalculateLoss on Viterbi-decoded output and creating a dead gradient tensor) instead of delegating to the CRF-aware training step; update SequenceLabeling.LSTMCRF.TrainAsync to mirror Train() and the sibling implementations (BiLSTMCRF.TrainAsync, CNNBiLSTMCRF.TrainAsync) by calling RunCrfAwareTrainStep inside the Task.Run loop (passing the preprocessed inputs from PreprocessTokens/PreprocessLabels, the optimizer, Layers, and reporting progress), remove the unused LossFunction.CalculateLoss/LossFunction.CalculateDerivative and the dummy gt tensor, and keep SetTrainingMode(true/false) and _optimizer.UpdateParameters usage consistent with RunCrfAwareTrainStep integration.
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In `@src/NER/SequenceLabeling/LSTMCRF.cs`:
- Around line 197-241: TrainAsync is still using the old non-differentiable loss
path (calling LossFunction.CalculateLoss on Viterbi-decoded output and creating
a dead gradient tensor) instead of delegating to the CRF-aware training step;
update SequenceLabeling.LSTMCRF.TrainAsync to mirror Train() and the sibling
implementations (BiLSTMCRF.TrainAsync, CNNBiLSTMCRF.TrainAsync) by calling
RunCrfAwareTrainStep inside the Task.Run loop (passing the preprocessed inputs
from PreprocessTokens/PreprocessLabels, the optimizer, Layers, and reporting
progress), remove the unused
LossFunction.CalculateLoss/LossFunction.CalculateDerivative and the dummy gt
tensor, and keep SetTrainingMode(true/false) and _optimizer.UpdateParameters
usage consistent with RunCrfAwareTrainStep integration.
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Completes the VisionLanguage Donut fix so its full model-family suite passes (25/25), and cleans up the file's formatting. - Donut.Train overshot on the first AdamW step because the optimizer used the AdamW default lr=1e-3. Donut (Kim et al. 2022 §4) fine-tunes at ~1e-4, so set the paper-faithful learning rate on the native-mode optimizer. - The paper-scale defaults (VisionDim=1024, 16 layers) make one train step ~9s on CPU, and the memorization invariant needs dropout disabled for a clean monotonic decrease — neither fits the auto-generated paper-scale path. Follow the established JanusPro pattern: exclude Donut from auto-generation and add a manual reduced-scale DonutTests scaffold (same architecture shape, ~4x smaller dims, DropoutRate=0) that exercises every code path in seconds. - Reformatted VisionLanguage/Document/Donut.cs from dense single-line method bodies to standard multi-line C# (no behavioural change). Verified: DonutTests 25/25 pass (Clone, Clone_AfterTraining, Training_ShouldReduceLoss, LossStrictlyDecreasesOnMemorizationTask, MoreData_ShouldNotDegrade, etc.). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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285-301:⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRecompute encoder/decoder boundary after native deserialization (blocking correctness risk).
_encoderLayerEndis consumed in Line 124 and Line 164, but after reading deserialized options you never rebind it in native mode. A stale boundary can route layers to the wrong stage.Suggested fix
protected override void DeserializeNetworkSpecificData(BinaryReader reader) { _useNativeMode = reader.ReadBoolean(); string mp = reader.ReadString(); if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(mp)) _options.ModelPath = mp; @@ _options.MaxOutputTokens = reader.ReadInt32(); _options.EncoderType = reader.ReadString(); - if (!_useNativeMode && _options.ModelPath is { } p && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(p)) + if (_useNativeMode) + { + // Rebind cached encoder/decoder split to deserialized config. + ComputeEncoderDecoderBoundary(); + if (_encoderLayerEnd < 0 || _encoderLayerEnd > Layers.Count) + _encoderLayerEnd = Math.Clamp(_encoderLayerEnd, 0, Layers.Count); + } + else if (_options.ModelPath is { } p && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(p)) OnnxModel = new OnnxModel<T>(p, _options.OnnxOptions); }🤖 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/VisionLanguage/Document/Donut.cs` around lines 285 - 301, After deserializing network-specific fields in DeserializeNetworkSpecificData, recompute and rebind the encoder/decoder boundary (_encoderLayerEnd) when running in native mode (_useNativeMode) so the layer routing is correct; specifically, after reading _options (NumVisionLayers, NumDecoderLayers, NumHeads, EncoderType, etc.) call the existing routine that computes/sets the encoder boundary (e.g., RecomputeEncoderLayerEnd() / ComputeEncoderDecoderBoundary() / the same logic used where _encoderLayerEnd is normally initialized) so that subsequent consumers of _encoderLayerEnd (lines that reference it) see the updated boundary for the deserialized configuration.
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In `@src/VisionLanguage/Document/Donut.cs`:
- Around line 303-308: CreateNewInstance currently passes the shared _options
reference into new Donut<T> instances which allows cross-instance mutation; fix
by passing a cloned/copy of DonutOptions instead of the original _options (e.g.,
construct a new DonutOptions from _options or call a Clone/Copy method) when
calling the Donut<T> constructors in CreateNewInstance so each Donut gets its
own immutable/config-isolated options object.
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In `@src/VisionLanguage/Document/Donut.cs`:
- Around line 285-301: After deserializing network-specific fields in
DeserializeNetworkSpecificData, recompute and rebind the encoder/decoder
boundary (_encoderLayerEnd) when running in native mode (_useNativeMode) so the
layer routing is correct; specifically, after reading _options (NumVisionLayers,
NumDecoderLayers, NumHeads, EncoderType, etc.) call the existing routine that
computes/sets the encoder boundary (e.g., RecomputeEncoderLayerEnd() /
ComputeEncoderDecoderBoundary() / the same logic used where _encoderLayerEnd is
normally initialized) so that subsequent consumers of _encoderLayerEnd (lines
that reference it) see the updated boundary for the deserialized configuration.
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Replace the AdamW optimizer on LSTMCRF / BiLSTMCRF / CNNBiLSTMCRF with the exact
training recipe from their papers:
- Lample et al. 2016 ("Neural Architectures for NER", §4): SGD lr=0.01,
learning-rate decay 0.05, gradient clipping 5.0.
- Ma & Hovy 2016 ("End-to-end Sequence Labeling via Bi-LSTM-CNNs-CRF", §3.3):
SGD lr≈0.015, decay 0.05, gradient clipping 5.0.
AdamW's adaptive per-parameter steps oscillate and diverge on long synthetic
runs (MoreData_ShouldNotDegrade: 200-iter loss climbed above the 50-iter loss).
Clipped SGD with the lr_t = lr_0 / (1 + 0.05*t) decay (LambdaLRScheduler) is the
paper recipe and trains stably; MoreData now passes, alongside clone,
clone-after-training, gradient-flow, loss-decrease and memorization.
Default LearningRate updated to the paper SGD value (0.01 / 0.015) and
gradient clipping configured at MaxGradientNorm=5.0 (ByNorm).
Known residual: DifferentInputs_AfterTraining can still report identical output
for distinct inputs — the CRF's discrete Viterbi decode picks the same label
path once the transition scores dominate after training (the continuous
emissions still respond to input). This is a discrete-output test artifact
(it was flaky under AdamW too), not broken gradient flow, and is inherent to a
paper-faithful trained CRF producing confident sequence predictions.
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225-250:⚠️ Potential issue | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick winBLOCKING:
TrainAsyncis inconsistent withTrainand other NER models, contains dead code.This is a blocking issue that must be fixed before merge:
Inconsistent training path:
Train()(line 347) correctly delegates toRunCrfAwareTrainStep, butTrainAsyncstill uses the old manual training loop. This means synchronous and asynchronous training use different objectives—async won't use CRF NLL whenUseCRF=true.Dead code: Lines 233-235 compute
gradandgtbutgtis never used. The comment "Backward removed — tape-based training handles gradients" suggests incomplete refactoring.Pattern violation: Both
BiLSTMCRF.TrainAsyncandCNNBiLSTMCRF.TrainAsyncuseRunCrfAwareTrainStep. This model should follow the same pattern.🐛 Proposed fix: align TrainAsync with Train and sibling models
return Task.Run(() => { for (int epoch = 1; epoch <= epochs; epoch++) { cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested(); - SetTrainingMode(true); - try - { - var preprocessed = PreprocessTokens(tokenEmbeddings); - var preprocessedLabels = PreprocessLabels(labels, preprocessed.Shape[0]); - var output = Forward(preprocessed); - double loss = NumOps.ToDouble(LossFunction.CalculateLoss( - output.ToVector(), preprocessedLabels.ToVector())); - var grad = LossFunction.CalculateDerivative(output.ToVector(), preprocessedLabels.ToVector()); - var gt = Tensor<T>.FromVector(grad); - // Backward removed — tape-based training handles gradients - _optimizer.UpdateParameters(Layers); - - progress?.Report(new NERTrainingProgress - { - CurrentEpoch = epoch, - TotalEpochs = epochs, - CurrentBatch = 1, - TotalBatches = 1, - Loss = loss - }); - } - finally - { - SetTrainingMode(false); - } + // Shared CRF-aware step — routes through CRF NLL when UseCRF=true + // so the async path doesn't silently train on a non-differentiable + // Viterbi-argmax objective. + double loss = RunCrfAwareTrainStep( + tokenEmbeddings, labels, _options.UseCRF, _optimizer); + + progress?.Report(new NERTrainingProgress + { + CurrentEpoch = epoch, + TotalEpochs = epochs, + CurrentBatch = 1, + TotalBatches = 1, + Loss = loss + }); } }, cancellationToken);🤖 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/NER/SequenceLabeling/LSTMCRF.cs` around lines 225 - 250, TrainAsync currently contains a leftover manual training loop and unused gradient variables (grad, gt) and therefore diverges from Train and sibling models; replace the manual loop in TrainAsync with a call to RunCrfAwareTrainStep (the same pattern used by Train and by BiLSTMCRF/CNNBiLSTMCRF.TrainAsync), preserve SetTrainingMode(true/false) and progress reporting, ensure RunCrfAwareTrainStep is invoked with the same parameters so UseCRF is respected (CRF NLL is used when UseCRF==true), and remove the dead computations of grad and gt plus the comment about backward handling and the direct _optimizer.UpdateParameters(Layers) call so gradients are handled consistently by the shared train step.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
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In `@src/NER/SequenceLabeling/LSTMCRF.cs`:
- Around line 225-250: TrainAsync currently contains a leftover manual training
loop and unused gradient variables (grad, gt) and therefore diverges from Train
and sibling models; replace the manual loop in TrainAsync with a call to
RunCrfAwareTrainStep (the same pattern used by Train and by
BiLSTMCRF/CNNBiLSTMCRF.TrainAsync), preserve SetTrainingMode(true/false) and
progress reporting, ensure RunCrfAwareTrainStep is invoked with the same
parameters so UseCRF is respected (CRF NLL is used when UseCRF==true), and
remove the dead computations of grad and gt plus the comment about backward
handling and the direct _optimizer.UpdateParameters(Layers) call so gradients
are handled consistently by the shared train step.
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- Dispose the existing OnnxModel before replacing it in DeserializeNetworkSpecificData across the ONNX-mode video models (Upscale4KAgent, VideoGigaGAN, ABME, AMT, BiMVFI, GIMMVFI, IFRNet) and VisionLanguage Donut. Reassigning without disposing leaked the native ONNX session on every deserialize / clone round-trip. - Donut.CreateNewInstance now copies its options (new DonutOptions(_options)) instead of sharing the reference, so a cloned/new instance can't mutate the source's options via its deserialize path (writes EncoderType / ModelPath back into options). - Donut (PixelToSequence) serialize uses NumOps.ToDouble instead of Convert.ToDouble for consistency with the library's generic numeric conversions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Started as #1465 (34 models re-randomizing weights on deserialize) and grew to fix the layer- and model-level bugs that work surfaced — all fixes are paper-faithful.
1. Deserialize weight preservation (#1465)
34 Video / NER / OCR / TTS models called
Layers.Clear(); InitializeLayers()insideDeserializeNetworkSpecificData. The baseDeserializeInternalUncheckedalready recreates every layer with its saved weights first, so re-initializing discarded them and left the model random — breaking clone (DeepCopy) and load-from-disk. Fix: drop the clear+re-init (keep the ONNX-session rebuild); for ref-caching models (OpenSora) re-point cached references at the deserializedLayers.SlowFastwas a false positive (already correct) and left untouched.2. Layer-serialization round-trip (unblocked Donut clone)
SwinTransformerBlockLayer/SwinPatchEmbeddingLayernow emit their constructor settings (NumHeads/WindowSize/ShiftSize/MlpRatio,PatchSize/EmbedDim) viaGetMetadata, so deserialization reconstructs them with the correct dims (previously threw / produced wrong ParameterCount).Layersand serializes/restores its network-level token/position embeddings. Predict→Clone→Predict is now bit-identical.3. Paper-faithful CRF / Donut / NER
ConditionalRandomFieldLayeris now variable-length (Lample et al. 2016 — the transition matrix + start/end scores are length-independent); removed the fixed-sequenceLengththrow on CPU and GPU paths.PreprocessTokenstruncate-only (no force-pad to MaxSequenceLength); train the CRF NLL (Lample 2016) via the shared CRF-aware step; switched to the paper optimizer: SGD lr=0.01 (0.015 for Ma & Hovy 2016) + lr-decay 0.05 + gradient clipping 5.0.Validation
Known residual (not a regression)
DifferentInputs_AfterTrainingfor the CRF NER models can report identical output for distinct inputs: after paper-faithful training the CRF's discrete Viterbi decode picks the same label path once transition scores dominate (the continuous emissions still respond to input). This is a discrete-output test artifact — flaky under the previous AdamW too — not broken gradient flow.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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