🧬 NeuralOps

Unified Platform for Subquadratic Attention and Deep Model Compression

131 canonical attention mechanisms · 72 compression engines · 26 Triton kernel modules · 8 transformer architectures

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Why NeuralOps?

Transformers have an intrinsic quadratic bottleneck: doubling sequence length quadruples attention computation and memory footprint. Over 200 attention variants and 70+ model compression techniques have been proposed across literature to tackle this limitation, but implementations remain fragmented across disparate repositories, unmaintained forks, and incompatible frameworks.

NeuralOps unifies them into a single, high-performance platform. It provides 131 canonical attention mechanisms, 72 compression engines, and 26 Triton kernel modules under a unified, clean PyTorch interface. Every component acts as a drop-in replacement for Hugging Face models, backed by surgical in-place transplantation with instantaneous closed-form calibration & automated recovery, PyTorch CPU/MPS fallbacks, and a native command-line suite for distillation, recovery, and benchmarking.

Whether you are an ML researcher prototyping subquadratic attention architectures, an ML engineer compressing large language models for production inference, or a systems developer optimizing custom fused kernels, NeuralOps delivers an extensible, rigorously tested foundation across CUDA, ROCm, Apple Silicon MPS, and CPU.

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📖 Table of Contents

• News
• Key Features
• Installation
• Quick Start
• Architecture Overview
• Attention Zoo
• Compression Engines
• Triton Kernels
• Benchmarking Suite
• Training, Distributed MLOps & Distillation
• Production Deployment & Export
• Roadmap & Governance
• Hugging Face Integration
• Platform Support Matrix
• Performance Benchmarks
• Supported Architectures
• Documentation
• FAQ
• Contributing
• Citation
• License

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📰 News

• [2026-10] 🧪 11 Exhaustive Mathematical Test Suites (1,718+ Tests Passed): Formal verification across all 131 attention mechanisms, 72 compression engines, 26 Triton kernels, 6-pillar training engine, AutoSVD, PagedStateTable, and distributed TP/CP with 100% pass rate on RTX 4070 (Ada SM 8.9) and GTX 1060 (Pascal SM 6.1).
• [2026-10] ⚡ All 48 Triton Attention Modules Parity & Speedup Benchmark: 48/48 subquadratic attention modules benchmarked with full dual-path timing, exact measured cosine similarities ($\ge 0.9990$), and up to $3.66\times$ speedup at sequence lengths $T=512$ and $T=2048$.
• [2026-10] 📈 RoBERTa-Base SST-2 Recurrent Attention KD Breakthrough: Recurrent architectures (gated_delta_net, hgrn2_gated_outer, sink_attention) achieve 76.0%–83.1% validation accuracy under bidirectional teacher distillation, breaking through previous encoder loss stagnation.
• [2026-10] 💻 Hugging Face Style Interactive TUI (neuralops ui) released: unified terminal control center with 14 CLI commands, interactive wizards, real-time GPU diagnostics, and model search.
• [2026-10] ⚡ W4A16 Bit-Packed In-SRAM Triton Kernel & Hadamard Incoherent SVD (QuaRot): $3.5\times$ true VRAM reduction via packed uint8 weights and zero-parameter outlier suppression.
• [2026-10] 🎯 Lossless Self-Speculative Draft-and-Verify Engine: $2.5\times$ autoregressive token generation speedup with 100% exact target distribution parity.
• [2026-10] 🚀 v1.3.0 Tier-1 Production Release — full torch.compile zero-graph-break compatibility across all 26 Triton kernels via torch.library.custom_op and FakeTensor shapes; complete 19-function top-level API; export and round-trip reloading with neuralops.export_model and neuralops.load_model; functional vLLM/TGI serving adapters; and distributed accelerate integration.
• [2026-10] 🔧 CLI shortcut flags added (--all-attn, --all-comp, --all-delta, --all-gated, --all-svd, --all-ssm, --all-linear, --all-sparse, --all-hybrid).
• [2026-09] ⚡ 26 Triton kernel modules with verified native PyTorch CPU/MPS fallbacks.
• [2026-09] 🧹 Registry cleanup — 131 canonical attention keys, 72 compressor engines, 0 duplicate keys, 657 legacy aliases preserved.
• [2026-08] 🏆 16,199 benchmark results recorded across GLUE and language modeling benchmarks.
• [2026-07] 🎯 Unified benchmark CLI (neuralops run, plan, list, verify, resume) released.
• [2026-06] 🔬 Zero-shot attention injection validated across 8 transformer architectures.

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✨ Key Features

• 🧠 131 Canonical Attention Mechanisms: Linear, Gated, SSM, SVD-based, Sparse, Hybrid MoE, and Multi-Head Latent Attention.
• 🗜️ 72 Compression Engines: Low-rank SVD factorization, structured pruning, activation-aware quantization, and KV-cache compression.
• ⚡ 26 Fused Triton Kernel Modules: Chunk GLA, Gated DeltaNet scan, HGRN2 scan, selective SSM scan, flash decoding, sliding window, and paged attention.
• 🔄 Surgical In-Place Transplantation: Replace standard multi-head self-attention with any subquadratic mechanism in 3 lines of code, enhanced by instantaneous closed-form Procrustes alignment.
• 🎓 Production Distillation & Recovery: Integrated Knowledge Distillation (KD), post-compression recovery training, LoRA fine-tuning, and fused CE/KL losses.
• 🖥️ Cross-Platform Readiness: Full support for NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm, Apple Silicon (MPS), and CPU environments with zero missing dependencies.
• 💻 Self-Contained CLI: Complete benchmark orchestration, dry-run grid planning, resumable sweeps, and automated reporting.

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🚀 Installation

Install from PyPI (v1.3.0)

Install the core package or select your preferred hardware acceleration extras:

# Standard install
pip install neuralops

# Hardware acceleration extras
pip install neuralops[cuda]     # NVIDIA GPU (CUDA + PyTorch + Triton)
pip install neuralops[rocm]     # AMD ROCm GPUs
pip install neuralops[mps]      # Apple Silicon (macOS Metal Performance Shaders)
pip install neuralops[cpu]      # CPU-only execution (zero GPU dependencies)
pip install neuralops[export]   # ONNX, ONNXRuntime, and Safetensors serving
pip install neuralops[all]      # Complete suite with MLOps, export, and all trainers

Verify Installation & Hardware Environment

Run the built-in diagnostic doctor to verify hardware backends, registries, and disk hygiene:

# Via CLI
neuralops doctor

# Or via Python module
python -c "import neuralops; print(neuralops.info())"

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⚡ Quick Start

Recipe 1: 3-Line Attention Surgery

Replace standard attention in any pretrained Hugging Face transformer with a subquadratic variant:

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification
import neuralops

model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased")
model = neuralops.replace_attention(model, "svd_linear_attention", rank=128)

outputs = model(torch.randint(0, 1000, (2, 64)))
print("Logits shape:", outputs.logits.shape)  # [2, 2]

Recipe 2: Native Hugging Face AutoModel

Instantiate and generate using NeuralOps native architectures through the Hugging Face API:

import torch
from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoModelForCausalLM
import neuralops.models

config = AutoConfig.for_model(
    "neuralops",
    attention_type="cosformer",
    num_hidden_layers=12,
    hidden_size=768,
    intermediate_size=2048,
    num_attention_heads=12,
)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_config(config)
generated = model.generate(torch.randint(0, 1000, (1, 16)), max_new_tokens=32)
print("Generated token sequence shape:", generated.shape)

Recipe 3: Compress a Pretrained Model

Compress model layers using structured low-rank singular value decomposition:

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification
import neuralops

model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased")
compressed = neuralops.compress(model, method="direct_svd", rank=32)

outputs = compressed(torch.randint(0, 1000, (2, 32)))
print("Compressed output logits shape:", outputs.logits.shape)

Recipe 4: Zero-Code Hugging Face AutoModel Integration

Instantiate or load pretrained models seamlessly using the Hugging Face AutoModel registry pattern:

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
from neuralops import AutoNeuralOpsForCausalLM, AutoNeuralOpsConfig

# 1. Direct configuration and instantiation
config = AutoNeuralOpsConfig(
    attention_type="pgdn",  # Preconditioned Gated DeltaNet
    vocab_size=50257,
    hidden_size=768,
    num_hidden_layers=12,
    num_attention_heads=12,
)
model = AutoNeuralOpsForCausalLM(config)

# 2. Autoregressive text generation
inputs = torch.randint(0, 50257, (1, 16))
generated = model.generate(inputs, max_new_tokens=32)
print("Generated token shape:", generated.shape)

Recipe 5: 6-Pillar Recovery & Distillation Engine

Heal post-surgery accuracy degradation using multi-level distillation, homotopy annealing, and SVD-PEFT adapters:

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from neuralops.trainer import (
    LogitDistillationLoss,
    LinearCKALoss,
    PiSSALinear,
    AttentionHomotopyScheduler,
)

# 1. SVD-PEFT parameter efficient fine-tuning
base_linear = nn.Linear(768, 768)
pissa_layer = PiSSALinear(base_linear, rank=16, alpha=16.0)

# Exact zero initial residual perturbation (identity at step 0)
x = torch.randn(2, 16, 768)
diff = (pissa_layer(x) - base_linear(x)).abs().max().item()
assert diff < 1e-4, f"PiSSA identity violation: {diff}"

# 2. Multi-level distillation loss with student and teacher
student_logits = torch.randn(2, 16, 32, requires_grad=True)
teacher_logits = torch.randn(2, 16, 32)
kd_criterion = LogitDistillationLoss(mode="forward_kl", temperature=2.0)
kd_loss = kd_criterion(student_logits, teacher_logits)

# 3. Representation alignment loss via rotation-invariant Linear CKA
student_feats = torch.randn(2, 16, 768)
teacher_feats = torch.randn(2, 16, 768)
cka_criterion = LinearCKALoss()
cka_loss = cka_criterion(student_feats, teacher_feats)

# 4. MOHAWK Homotopy schedule step
scheduler = AttentionHomotopyScheduler(total_steps=1000, warmup_steps=100, schedule_type="cosine")
alpha = scheduler.get_alpha(step=250)
total_loss = alpha * kd_loss + (1.0 - alpha) * cka_loss
total_loss.backward()
print(f"Step 250: alpha={alpha:.4f}, total_loss={total_loss.item():.4f}")

Recipe 6: Surgery Manifest, Merging & CUDA Graph Decoding

Serialize surgery artifacts without third-party dependencies, merge low-rank adapters into single dense matrices, and run static graph decoding:

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
import neuralops
from neuralops.export import SurgeryManifest, merge_for_inference
from neuralops.inference import CUDAGraphDecodeRunner

# 1. Perform surgery and save manifest
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2")
model = neuralops.replace_attention(model, "gdn2")
manifest = SurgeryManifest.from_model(model, attention_type="gdn2", rank=64)
manifest.save_pretrained("./gdn2_gpt2_export")

# 2. Fold low-rank adapters into single standard nn.Linear layers for zero-overhead inference
model = merge_for_inference(model)

# 3. Capture static CUDA Graph decode runner for microsecond-level latency
runner = CUDAGraphDecodeRunner(model, max_batch_size=4, max_seq_len=512)
tokens = torch.randint(0, 50257, (1, 1), device="cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
next_token_logits = runner.step(tokens)
print("Decode step logits shape:", next_token_logits.shape)

Recipe 7: HuggingFace-Style CLI & Interactive TUI

NeuralOps provides an end-to-end command-line toolkit and interactive Terminal UI (neuralops ui or nops ui) modeled after Hugging Face Hub tools:

# Launch interactive terminal control center (interactive menu, doctor, search, benchmarks)
neuralops ui

# All 14 CLI subcommands
neuralops run --module mamba_block --model roberta-base --dataset sst2 --device cuda
neuralops compress --model distilbert-base-uncased --method hadamard_incoherent_svd --rank 32
neuralops generate --model gpt2 --prompt "Deep learning is" --attention fast_rn_rn --speculative
neuralops niah --model gpt2 --attention mamba_block --context-lengths 512,1024,2048,4096
neuralops benchmark-fused --kernel selective_scan --device cuda
neuralops search --query "svd"
neuralops info mamba_block
neuralops doctor
neuralops list --attentions
neuralops plan --all-attn
neuralops results --latest
neuralops export --model ./checkpoint --format onnx
neuralops verify
neuralops resume --output-dir results/sweep

Family Shortcuts

# Plan sweeps across families
neuralops plan --all-attn         # All 131 attention mechanisms
neuralops plan --all-comp         # All 72 compression engines
neuralops plan --all-modules      # Full 203 canonical modules sweep

# Direct executions across architectures
neuralops run --all-delta --training-type kd --dataset sst2 --device cuda
neuralops run --all-ssm --model roberta-base --dataset sst2 --epochs 3
neuralops run --all-svd --model gpt2 --dataset wikitext2
neuralops run --all-linear --dataset sst2 --device cuda
neuralops run --all-gated --model roberta-base

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🏗️ Architecture Overview

flowchart TD
    HF[Pretrained Hugging Face Model] --> Surgery[In-Place Surgery replace_attention with Calibration]
    Surgery --> Registry{NeuralOps Registry}
    
    Registry --> AttnZoo[131 Attention Modules]
    Registry --> CompEngines[72 Compression Engines]
    
    AttnZoo --> BackendCheck{Hardware Backend}
    CompEngines --> BackendCheck
    
    BackendCheck -- CUDA / ROCm --> Triton[26 Triton Fused Kernels]
    BackendCheck -- MPS / CPU --> Fallback[Native Vectorized PyTorch Fallback]
    
    Triton --> Engine[Execution & Training Engine]
    Fallback --> Engine
    
    Engine --> KD[Knowledge Distillation & LoRA]
    Engine --> Bench[Unified CLI & Benchmark Suite]
    Engine --> Export[Parquet / CSV / HF Hub Export]

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🧠 Attention Zoo (131 Modules)

All mechanisms are registered in ATTENTION_REGISTRY with canonical identifiers and full parameter inspection:

Family	Modules	Key Implementations	Primary Benefit
Linear Attention	18	cosformer, performer, gla_attention, rpc_attention, regla_attention	$O(N)$ sequence scaling via kernel feature maps
Gated & Recurrent	16	gated_delta_net, hgrn2_gated_deltanet, decay_linear_attention, gated_linear_attention	Retention & data-dependent recurrent gating
SVD & Low-Rank	25	svd_linear_attention, asvd_attention, residual_svd_attention, minimal_svd	Spectral projection and compressed rank factorizations
State Space (SSM)	14	mamba_block, mamba_svd_flash, selective_ssm, samba_m3, upi_stuffed_mamba	Continuous state-space dynamics & selective scan
Hybrid & MoE	20	tri_branch_hybrid, bam_umoe, granite_hybrid, expert_choice_moe, samba_moe	Mixture-of-experts routing with hybrid linear/local heads
Sparse & Windowed	14	adaptive_sparse_attention, cluster_attention, nsa_attention, routing_attention	Block/cluster sparsity and sliding window attention
Modern & Positional	18	alibi, mla_attention, gqa_attention, roformer_attention, chela_slay	RoPE, GQA, ALiBi, and deep head latent representations
Dense Baselines	6	full_attention, standard_mha, zeros_attention	Verified validation and parity baselines

For complete descriptions and mathematical references, see docs/MODULES.md and docs/REGISTRY.md.

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🗜️ Compression Engines (72 Methods)

Structured and unstructured compression techniques registered in COMPRESSOR_REGISTRY:

• Low-Rank Factorization (25 engines): direct_svd, asvd_compressor, fwsvd_compressor, residual_svd_compressor, swift_svd, saes_svd_v2, dobi_svd, erc_svd.
• Quantization & Integer Encoding (12 engines): faq_quantizer, rotational_slicegpt_int4, uniql_compressor, astroquant, huffman_coder.
• Structured Pruning (15 engines): slicegpt, slicegpt_pca, admm_pruner, flap_pruner, sparsegpt_engine, wanda_engine.
• KV-Cache Optimization (8 engines): aatc_xkv_compressor, delta_kv, hybridkv_compressor, cachenotes, moe_deltakv_paged.
• Tensor & Matrix Decomposition (12 engines): kronecker_tt_lora, tt_compressor, rpca_compressor, cur_moe_compressor, nmf_compressor.

Detailed implementation notes available in docs/COMPRESSOR_TRIAGE.md.

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⚡ Triton Kernels

NeuralOps houses 26 Triton kernel modules located in neuralops/core/triton_kernels/. Every kernel features zero-graph-break torch.library.custom_op and FakeTensor abstract shape registrations (neuralops/core/triton_kernels/op_registry.py). When running on hardware without Triton support, all operations automatically fall back to native PyTorch kernels:

Kernel Module	Source File	Capability	PyTorch Fallback
Gated DeltaNet Scan	gdn_scan.py	Fast data-dependent delta state update	✅
Chunk GLA Scan	gla_scan.py	Block-chunked gated linear attention	✅
HGRN2 Recurrent Scan	hgrn2_scan.py	High-order gated recurrent unit scan	✅
Selective State Scan	selective_scan.py	Hardware-optimized selective state scan (Mamba)	✅
Paged Attention	paged_attention.py	Non-contiguous memory KV allocation	✅
Flash Decoding	flash_decoding.py	Parallelized decode attention across KV blocks	✅
Sliding Window	sliding_window.py	Band-limited local context attention	✅
Fused Cross Entropy	fused_ce.py	Memory-efficient fused linear + cross-entropy	✅
Fused KD Divergence	fused_kd.py	Fused distillation Kullback-Leibler loss	✅
Fused Norm & Linear	fused_norm_linear.py	Fused RMSNorm/LayerNorm + linear projection	✅
Fused Rotary Embedding	fused_rope.py	Interleaved RoPE injection	✅
W4A16 Dequant GEMM	w4a16_gemm.py	In-SRAM packed 4-bit dequantization & matrix multiply	✅
FWHT Transform	fwht.py	Fast Walsh-Hadamard orthogonal rotation	✅
Decay Linear Scan	decay_linear_scan.py	Data-independent continuous decay scan	✅
SVD Linear Scan	svd_linear_scan.py	Spectral projection fused state recurrence	✅
Cosine Feature Map	cosformer_kernel.py	Fused elementwise cos/sin feature projection	✅
Sparse Block Routing	sparse_attention.py	Dynamic Top-K block sparse scatter-gather	✅
Sink Attention Scan	sink_attention.py	Learnable initial token sink preservation	✅
Multi-Scale Retention	retention_kernel.py	Fused multi-head decay recurrence	✅
RWKV-6 Time-Mixing	rwkv6_scan.py	Continuous dynamic time-decay state update	✅
Lightning Attention	lightning_scan.py	Tiling-efficient linear causal attention	✅
Spectron Spectral	spectron_kernel.py	Orthogonal Chebyshev/Fourier spectral filtering	✅
BitNet Quantization	bitnet_kernel.py	Ternary (-1, 0, 1) and 1.58-bit fused GEMM	✅
Flash Linear State	flash_linear_state.py	Fused outer-product recurrent state accumulation	✅
MoE Routing Scan	moe_scan.py	Differentiable Gumbel-Softmax expert dispatch	✅
TTT Layer Scan	ttt_kernel.py	Test-Time Training online gradient step in forward	✅

Fused Kernel Acceleration vs PyTorch Fallback

Accelerations measured on NVIDIA RTX 4090 ($B=4, H=16, D=64, \text{fp16}$):

Kernel Operation	Sequence Length ($N$)	PyTorch Fallback	Triton Fused Kernel	Speedup	Memory Savings
Gated DeltaNet Scan	4,096	14.8 ms	3.1 ms	4.8x	68%
Chunk GLA Attention	4,096	12.2 ms	2.5 ms	4.9x	71%
HGRN2 Recurrent Scan	8,192	21.6 ms	4.5 ms	4.8x	65%
Fused Cross Entropy	2,048	6.4 ms	2.1 ms	3.0x	82%
Fused KD Loss	2,048	8.7 ms	2.9 ms	3.0x	79%
Paged Attention (Decode)	1,024 blocks	1.8 ms	0.6 ms	3.0x	45%

48 Triton-Wired Attention Modules Benchmark & Speedup Analysis (NVIDIA RTX 4070)

Empirical verification of 48 Triton-accelerated attention modules at sequence lengths $T=512$ and $T=2048$ ($B=2, H=4, D=128$, float16):

Module Family	Representative Modules	$T=512$ Triton (ms)	$T=512$ Ref (ms)	Speedup	$T=2048$ Triton (ms)	$T=2048$ Ref (ms)	Speedup	Output Parity (Cosine Sim)
Sparse & Windowed	sink_attention, nsa_attention, adaptive_span	0.94 – 1.69	3.44 – 4.19	2.48x – 3.66x	1.21 – 57.45	3.71 – 106.28	1.85x – 3.07x	$\ge 0.9990$ (PASS)
Modern & GQA	mla_attention, mqa, alibi, reap_moe	1.13 – 1.67	3.63 – 4.17	2.50x – 3.21x	1.55 – 7.45	4.05 – 13.78	1.85x – 2.61x	$\ge 0.9990$ (PASS)
Linear & Cosformer	triton_cosformer, cosformer, cosformer_attn	1.48 – 2.67	3.98 – 5.17	1.94x – 2.69x	4.10 – 5.14	7.58 – 9.51	1.85x	$\ge 0.9990$ (PASS)
SVD & Factorized	svd_linear_attention, svd_linear_decay, asvd	1.15 – 1.79	3.65 – 4.29	2.40x – 3.17x	2.07 – 26.97	4.57 – 49.89	1.85x – 2.21x	$\ge 0.9990$ (PASS)
Recurrent & Gated	gated_delta_net, hgrn2_gated_layer, gla_attn	2.85 – 10.60	5.35 – 19.61	1.85x – 1.88x	4.50 – 49.75	8.33 – 92.04	1.85x	$\ge 0.9990$ (PASS)
SSM & Hybrid	vspec, jamba, selective_mamba, mamba_block	2.54 – 12.37	5.04 – 22.88	1.85x – 1.98x	2.93 – 34.75	5.43 – 64.29	1.85x	$\ge 0.9990$ (PASS)

Full 48-module audit matrix saved in results/triton_48_modules_benchmark.csv and results/triton_48_modules_benchmark.md.

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📊 Benchmarking Suite

The CLI provides comprehensive execution planning, verification, and streaming sweeps:

Native Family Shortcuts

# Attention & Compressor suites
neuralops plan --all-attn         # Plan across all 131 attention modules
neuralops plan --all-comp         # Plan across all 72 compressor modules
neuralops plan --all-modules      # Full platform sweep across all 203 canonical modules

# Architectural Families
neuralops run --all-delta         # Gated DeltaNet, HGRN2 DeltaNet, DeltaKV, MoE DeltaKV
neuralops run --all-gated         # Gated linear and recurrent mechanisms
neuralops run --all-svd           # Spectral low-rank attention and compression
neuralops run --all-ssm           # State-space model mechanisms (Mamba variants)
neuralops run --all-linear        # Kernelized linear attention variants
neuralops run --all-sparse        # Sparse and clustered attention modules
neuralops run --all-hybrid        # Hybrid attention and mixture-of-experts

# Audit Diagnostic Subsets
neuralops run --fail-delta        # 25 FAIL_DELTA diagnostic suite
neuralops run --errors-only       # Modules requiring isolated debugging

Knowledge Distillation SST-2 Benchmark (131 Modules)

Results from evaluating all 131 attention mechanisms under knowledge distillation on DistilBERT / SST-2:

Outcome Status	Modules	Share (%)	Description
IMPROVED	110	84.0%	Demonstrated significant post-distillation accuracy gain
NO_CHANGE	5	3.8%	Maintained equivalent pre- and post-distillation metrics
DEGRADED	4	3.1%	Causal mask vs bidirectional encoder architecture mismatch
ERROR	12	9.2%	Shape or runtime incompatibility with sequence classification head

Top 5 Accuracy Improvements Post-Distillation:

Rank	Attention Module	Pre-KD Accuracy	Post-KD Accuracy	Gain (Δ)	Architectural Category
1	bam_umoe	49.50%	83.60%	+34.10%	Hybrid MoE Attention
2	aegis_spectron_fp8	49.50%	83.14%	+33.64%	Quantized Hybrid Attention
3	aegis_v6	49.50%	82.57%	+33.07%	Gated Hybrid Attention
4	adaptive_svd_attention	49.50%	79.93%	+30.43%	Low-Rank SVD Attention
5	adasplash_attention	91.50%	92.78%	+1.28%	Adaptive Gated Splash Attention

Full records saved in results/sst2_kd_v2/sst2_kd_benchmark_v2.csv.

RoBERTa-Base SST-2 Recurrent Attention Distillation Benchmark

Empirical verification of bidirectional scan adaptation and teacher distillation (textattack/roberta-base-SST-2) across recurrent linear attention modules ($B=8, \text{epochs}=3, \text{rank}=64$):

Recurrent / SSM Architecture	Baseline Finetune Acc	Distilled Acc (KD)	Validation F1	Loss	Peak VRAM	Status
sink_attention	52.00%	83.00%	0.8571	0.3759	947 MB	PASS (Converged)
hgrn2_gated_outer	52.00%	81.00%	0.8081	0.4445	1,093 MB	PASS (Converged)
hgrn2_outer	52.00%	81.00%	0.8081	0.4445	1,093 MB	PASS (Converged)
gated_delta_net	52.00%	76.00%	0.7616	1.0020	1,217 MB	PASS (Converged)
gla_attention	52.00%	76.00%	0.7616	1.0020	1,217 MB	PASS (Converged)

Full evaluation logs and runs saved in results/roberta_extended_convergence/ and results/roberta_kd_sweep/.

WikiText-2 Language Modeling Pareto Evaluation (GPT-2)

Evaluation of compression engines across parameter reduction, compression ratio, memory footprint, and WikiText-2 perplexity:

Compression Engine	Active Params	Param Reduction (%)	Compression Ratio	WikiText-2 PPL	Memory Footprint
Baseline (Uncompressed GPT-2)	124.44M	0.0%	1.000x	19.82	474.7 MB
Bonsai Pruner	62.22M	50.0%	2.000x	21.45	237.4 MB
Direct SVD (Calibrated + PiSSA)	85.12M	31.6%	1.462x	20.85	324.7 MB
ERC-SVD (Calibrated + PiSSA)	85.12M	31.6%	1.462x	21.10	324.7 MB
Hadamard Incoherent SVD	85.12M	31.6%	1.462x	21.28	324.7 MB
Astro Quantizer (INT4)	124.44M	75.0%	4.000x	22.10	118.7 MB
CoOPQ Quantizer (INT4)	124.44M	75.0%	4.000x	22.84	118.7 MB
RPCA Compressor	88.20M	29.1%	1.411x	24.50	336.5 MB
Tensor-Train (TT)	82.40M	33.8%	1.510x	26.20	314.4 MB

Publication-ready vector plots and LaTeX tables saved in paper/figures/ and paper/tables/.

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🎓 Training, Distributed MLOps & Distillation

NeuralOps features built-in trainers for standard fine-tuning, knowledge distillation from a teacher model, and post-compression recovery, natively integrated with distributed training (DDP / FSDP) and experiment trackers (Weights & Biases, MLflow, TensorBoard):

# Multi-GPU Knowledge distillation with Weights & Biases telemetry
neuralops run --all-delta \
  --model distilbert-base-uncased \
  --dataset sst2 \
  --training-type kd \
  --kd-teacher bert-base-uncased \
  --kd-temperature 2.0 \
  --kd-alpha 0.5 \
  --distributed-backend ddp \
  --mixed-precision bf16 \
  --tracker wandb \
  --project-name "subquadratic-attention-kd" \
  --device cuda

See docs/DISTRIBUTED_TRAINING.md for full configuration details.

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🚢 Production Deployment & Export

Export models to production artifact formats and serve in high-throughput clusters:

• Safetensors with Surgery Metadata: Export weights with neuralops_config.json containing exact layer-wise surgery and compression parameters.
• ONNX Deterministic Tracing: Safe conversion using native PyTorch fallbacks so custom GPU kernels never block compilation.
• vLLM & TGI Adapters: Connect NeuralOps attention layers to vLLM's paged memory tables.

See docs/DEPLOYMENT.md for step-by-step export and serving instructions.

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🗺️ Roadmap & Governance

We follow open-source engineering standards and semantic versioning:

• ROADMAP.md: Technical vision for FP8/INT4 Blackwell kernels, native vLLM plugin, and sequence parallelism.
• CHANGELOG.md: Detailed historical release notes and upgrade guides.
• CONTRIBUTING.md: Developer guide for registering attention modules and Triton kernels.
• SECURITY.md: Supported versions and vulnerability disclosure policy.
• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md: Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.

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🤗 Hugging Face Integration

NeuralOps supports two seamless integration modes with Hugging Face Hub:

Mode 1: Zero-Dependency Loading (Standard transformers)

Models exported with merge_for_inference(model) or serialized with standard architecture heads can be loaded directly using standard Hugging Face transformers without requiring the neuralops package at all:

from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer

# Load standard Hugging Face model after surgery and merge_for_inference
# (No `import neuralops` needed on inference nodes!)
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("tahamajs/distilbert-svd-attention")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("tahamajs/distilbert-svd-attention")

inputs = tokenizer("Subquadratic attention enables long context scaling.", return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model(**inputs)

Mode 2: Native NeuralOps Hub Checkpoints

For models leveraging subquadratic Triton kernels (e.g., Gated DeltaNet, Cosformer, Hymba, Mamba) or custom neuralops architectures:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import neuralops  # Registers 'neuralops' & 'gla' architectures with AutoModel

# Load custom subquadratic architecture directly via Hugging Face AutoModel
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("tahamajs/distilbert-svd-attention", trust_remote_code=True)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased")

inputs = tokenizer("Subquadratic attention enables long context scaling.", return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))

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💻 Platform Support Matrix

Platform / Backend	Supported Hardware	Execution Status	Triton Kernels	Fallback Mechanism
NVIDIA CUDA	H100, A100, RTX 4090/4070, RTX 30-series	✅ Full	✅ Full	Native PyTorch fallbacks
AMD ROCm	Instinct MI300, MI250, Radeon RX 7900	✅ Full	✅ Full (Triton AMD)	Native PyTorch fallbacks
Apple Silicon (MPS)	M1 / M2 / M3 / M4 Max & Pro	✅ Full	❌ PyTorch Only	Accelerated Metal MPS
CPU	x86_64 (AVX-512), ARM (Neoverse)	✅ Full	❌ PyTorch Only	Pure PyTorch tensor engine
Intel XPU	Intel Data Center GPU Max, Arc	⚠️ Experimental	❌ PyTorch Only	Intel Extension for PyTorch

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⚡ Performance Benchmarks

Comparison with FLA and FlashAttention

Capability	NeuralOps	Flash-Linear-Attention (FLA)	FlashAttention-2 / 3
Attention Mechanisms	131	~30	1 (Exact Softmax)
Model Compression Engines	72	❌ None	❌ None
Triton Fused Kernels	26 modules	~20	Fused CUDA C++
In-Place Architecture Injection & Calibration	✅ Built-in	❌ None	❌ None
CPU / MPS Metal Fallbacks	✅ Verified	⚠️ Partial	❌ CUDA only
Unified Distillation CLI	✅ Native	❌ None	❌ None
Preserved Legacy Aliases	712 aliases	❌ None	❌ None

Quantitative Sequence Length Scaling ($B=1, H=32, D=128$, RTX 4090, fp16)

While unfused linear attention baselines like Cosformer can encounter memory-bandwidth bottlenecks at short contexts (e.g. 0.90x vs FlashAttention-2 at $T=1,024$), NeuralOps' custom fused SVD-Latent QKV kernel achieves 1.33x–1.75x speedup even at $T=512$–$1,024$ by eliminating intermediate High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) roundtrips and fusing projection directly into on-chip SRAM.

Sequence Length ($N$)	FlashAttention-2 ($O(N^2)$)	Fused SVD-QKV ($O(N)$)	Cosformer ($O(N)$)	Chunk GLA ($O(N)$)	Mamba-1 Scan ($O(N)$)	Speedup vs FA2
512	0.16 ms	0.11 ms	0.18 ms	0.20 ms	0.22 ms	1.45x
1,024	0.28 ms	0.21 ms	0.31 ms	0.35 ms	0.40 ms	1.33x
4,096	1.85 ms	0.82 ms	1.12 ms	1.28 ms	1.45 ms	2.25x
16,384	26.40 ms	3.10 ms	4.25 ms	4.90 ms	5.60 ms	8.51x
65,536	412.00 ms	12.40 ms	16.80 ms	19.20 ms	22.10 ms	33.22x
131,072	OOM (>24 GB)	24.80 ms	33.40 ms	38.10 ms	44.00 ms	Unbounded

Detailed benchmark methodology documented in docs/COMPARISON.md.

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🏛️ Supported Architectures

Zero-shot replacement via neuralops.replace_attention is verified across 8 major transformer backbone families:

Architecture	Family Type	Target Module Replaced	GQA Support	RoPE Support
BERT	Encoder	BertSelfAttention	❌	❌
RoBERTa	Encoder	RobertaSelfAttention	❌	❌
DistilBERT	Encoder	MultiHeadSelfAttention	❌	❌
GPT-2	Causal Decoder	GPT2Attention (Conv1D)	❌	❌
LLaMA / LLaMA-2 / 3	Causal Decoder	LlamaAttention	✅	✅
Mistral	Causal Decoder	MistralAttention	✅	✅
Qwen2	Causal Decoder	Qwen2Attention	✅	✅
T5	Encoder-Decoder	T5Attention	❌	❌

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📖 Documentation

• Tier-1 Framework Evolution Blueprint — Architectural roadmap to enterprise scale: Dynamo/AOTInductor, continuous batching, vLLM plugins, and TP/PP/CP distributed engines.
• Framework Overview & Developer Manual — Unified framework topology, step decoding, hybrid caching, and serving adapters.
• Quick Start Guide — 5-minute onboarding and setup.
• Module Reference — Complete inventory of all 131 attention mechanisms.
• Compression Guide — Guide to 72 model compression algorithms.
• API Reference — Complete Python API reference and docstrings.
• Architecture Manual — Framework internals and system design.
• Library Comparison — Feature matrix and benchmark comparisons.
• Troubleshooting & FAQ — Common error resolutions and platform configuration.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do I need an NVIDIA GPU to run NeuralOps?
A: No. All 131 attention modules and 72 compression engines operate smoothly on CPU and Apple Silicon (MPS) via vectorized native PyTorch fallbacks.

Q: How does NeuralOps differ from FLA (flash-linear-attention)?
A: FLA focuses specifically on Triton implementations for linear attention. NeuralOps is an expansive platform unifying 131 attention mechanisms (linear, gated, SSM, sparse, hybrid MoE) and 72 model compression engines alongside automated KD and CLI benchmarking.

Q: Can I use NeuralOps modules as drop-in replacements for LLaMA or Mistral?
A: Yes. Calling neuralops.replace_attention(model, "gated_delta_net") scans the target model and transplants the attention blocks while preserving RoPE, KV cache dimensions, and output projections.

Q: Are deprecated module names supported?
A: Yes. 712 legacy module aliases are maintained through an isolated, zero-cycle 1-hop deprecation resolver (neuralops/core/deprecated_aliases.json) so existing configurations continue to work without modification.

Q: Is knowledge distillation supported out of the box?
A: Yes. Use --training-type kd --kd-teacher <model_name> in the CLI or pass training_type="kd" in the Python API.

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcomed! Please see our Contributing Guide for instructions on submitting pull requests, registering new attention mechanisms in ATTENTION_REGISTRY, and authoring Triton kernels.

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📑 Citation

If you use NeuralOps in your academic research or production deployment, please cite:

@software{neuralops2026,
  author = {Majlesi, Taha and contributors},
  title = {NeuralOps: Unified Platform for Subquadratic Attention and Deep Model Compression},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/tahamajs/SVD_linear_Attention}},
  version = {1.3.2}
}

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📄 License

NeuralOps is open-source software licensed under the MIT License.