preframr-tokens 0.13.0

SID reglog parsing, tokenization, and macro transforms extracted from the preframr research codebase.

preframr-tokens

SID reglog parsing, tokenization, and macro transforms extracted from the preframr research codebase.

Torch-free. The training-side concerns (model, loss, DataLoader, predict) live in the main preframr repo; this package contains the stable parsing + encoding layer that produces the parsed parquets + unigram tokenizer alphabet that downstream training consumes.

Install

pip install preframr-tokens

Optional extras:

• preframr-tokens[audio] — pulls preframr-audio for the lossy-macro round-trip check (Transform.round_trip_check lazy-imports preframr_audio.fidelity.assert_dfs_render_equivalent for any TIER != "bit_exact" macro). Skip if you only use the parsing / tokenisation / constrained-decode paths.

Modules

• preframr_tokens.reglogparser -- SID dump → parsed dataframe pipeline. RegLogParser.
• preframr_tokens.regtokenizer -- alphabet build + unigram tokenizer fit. RegTokenizer.
• preframr_tokens.macros.* -- declarative Transform registry plus the macro / pre-norm passes (slope, preset, hard_restart, legato_per_cluster, voice_block_order, ctrl_bigram, loop, etc.). Macros declare OP_CODES, LOSS_TIER, SUBSTITUTABLE_OPS, MUST_FOLLOW, etc. on their classes; pipeline_check.validate_pipeline_spec validates a pipeline declaratively.
• preframr_tokens.stfconstants -- SID register IDs, op codes, pandas dtypes, PAL clock constants.
• preframr_tokens.engine_fingerprint -- engine clustering for cross-engine evaluation pinning.
• preframr_tokens.coarsen_pass -- tracker-export pass (lossy audio-domain bucketing).
• preframr_tokens.dump_meta -- per-dump metadata sidecar with code-hash staleness gate.
• preframr_tokens.reglog_helpers -- voice-relative reg matchers, dtype tightening, and re-exports of wrapbits (now in utils) and the palette sidecar IO (now in palette_io) for back-compat. New consumers should import from the source modules.
• preframr_tokens.palette_io -- JSON sidecar load/dump for the engine-fingerprint / engine-fp-cluster df.attrs (extracted from reglog_helpers).
• preframr_tokens.macros.roles -- single source of truth for (op, subreg) → role classification. distance_pair_role, slope_subreg_role, frame_weight_role, plus the DISTANCE_PAIR_OPS table and the DistancePairSpec dataclass.
• preframr_tokens.vocab_signature -- VocabSignature class. Single- pass per-vocab-id (loss-tier, frame-time-weight) computation. The tier_classify and token_weighting free functions are thin wrappers; consumers that need both should build a VocabSignature directly to avoid two passes over the vocab.
• preframr_tokens.alphabet_projection -- eval-set atom projection table.
• preframr_tokens.reg_mappers -- FreqMapper (PAL clock + cents quantization).
• preframr_tokens.constrained_decode -- per-step structural-validity mask for sampling-time logit guarding. Pure numpy state machine; consumers (torch users) apply the returned bool mask with a single masked_fill at the boundary.
• preframr_tokens.blocks -- block iteration + materialization helpers: iter_voiced_blocks, materialize_block_array, parser_worker, glob_dumps, reg_widths_path, self_contained_prompt_df, plus the SeqMeta dataclass and parse_eval_reglogs / LEGACY_EVAL_SUBSET_NAME for eval-subset routing. Torch-free; main repo's RegDataset wraps the outputs in DataLoaders.
• preframr_tokens.audit_primitives -- pure-Python token-level audit functions: tier_accuracy (per-tier hit-rate + content/ structural ratio), detect_tail_cycle (loop-collapse detector), distinct_n (n-gram diversity). Used by the generalization-gate callback in main repo and by post-hoc audit scripts.
• preframr_tokens.parse_runner -- write_df(args, logger, dump_file)
  • parse_corpus(args, logger) parallel dump-parsing orchestrator. Main-repo preframr/parse.py is a thin argparse shim around this.
• preframr_tokens.corpus -- Corpus class: torch-free corpus orchestration owning the RegTokenizer + reg_widths + tokenize-stage metadata. Methods load_dfs, make_tokens, encode_and_save_cached_blocks, try_preload_from_disk, preload, iter_block_seqs, iter_predict_block_seqs cover the full parse → tokenize → load pipeline up to the point where blocks need to be routed into a torch BlockMapper (main repo's RegDataset is a thin adapter that does that routing).

Library-only

No CLI entry points. Consumers build their own (the main preframr repo's parse.py and stftokenize.py are simple wrappers that construct RegLogParser / RegTokenizer from an argparse.Namespace).

API surface

Design principle: expose decisions, not facts. Whenever a consumer would otherwise import raw stfconstants (reg ids, op codes, subreg constants) and re-implement a classification switch on top of them, that's a sign the helper should live here instead. Helpers ride the same code as the parser/tokenizer, so the classification matches the data by construction.

Full inventory of what the main preframr repo currently consumes plus the narrowing opportunities still on the table is in API_SURFACE.md. Recent additions in that vein:

• preframr_tokens.tier_classify — vocab_id_tier, build_vocab_tier_ids, build_vocab_tier_map, CONTENT_TIER. Replaces ad-hoc reg/op tier classification in consumers.
• preframr_tokens.token_weighting.vocab_frame_weights — per-vocab audio-frame-time weighting. Replaces ad-hoc BACK_REF / DO_LOOP / SLOPE / DELAY / FRAME val accounting in consumers.
• preframr_tokens.vocab_signature.VocabSignature — single-pass bundle of both of the above. Consumers that need both tier_ids and frame_weights should construct this directly.
• preframr_tokens.reglog_helpers.read_initial_irq — first-frame diff lookup with PAL default. Replaces the df[df["reg"] == FRAME_REG] dance in consumers.
• preframr_tokens.constrained_decode.tail_charge_for_prompt — cycle cost of real-reg writes after the last frame marker. Replaces the manual is_real_reg[tail].sum() * MIN_DIFF arithmetic + the matching MIN_DIFF import in consumers.
• preframr_tokens.constrained_decode.frame_marker_count — formerly _frame_marker_count; promoted (underscore alias dropped).
• preframr_tokens.constrained_decode.StreamState.compute_invalid_mask — formerly _compute_invalid; promoted (underscore alias dropped).
• preframr_tokens.macros.transform.ensure_default_transforms_registered — call before any _REGISTRY lookup to populate transforms_audio_bit_exact / transforms_bit_exact side effects. Idempotent. Replaces the duplicated import-and-cache dance.
• preframr_tokens.corpus.TokenizeMeta — typed snapshot of the tokenize-stage metadata previously carried as an untyped dict on Corpus._tokenize_meta.
• preframr_tokens.constrained_decode.VocabArrays — dict subclass with attribute access (a.is_real_reg alongside a["is_real_reg"]). Return type of precompute_vocab_arrays / precompute_subtoken_arrays; external dict consumers see no change.
• preframr_tokens.macros.transform.PassBackedTransform, RowExpandingTransform — public bases for Transform subclasses that wrap a MacroPass for forward() and (optionally) a decoder for expand_atom(). Hoisted from transforms_bit_exact.py so other transform files can reuse the pattern.
• preframr_tokens.macros.transform_registry (internal) — holds the shared pipeline-spec primitives (_REGISTRY, PipelineEntry, PipelineConfigError, _normalize_spec) so transform.py and pipeline_check.py can both depend on them without forming an import cycle. Consumers should keep importing from preframr_tokens.macros.transform, which re-exports.
• preframr_tokens.utils.to_int64_arrays(df, *names, fillna={col: val}) — extract named columns as int64 numpy arrays with explicit per-column NaN fill values. Replaces 10+ ad-hoc df[col].fillna(...).astype(np.int64).to_numpy() triples.

Stability

Library follows semver from v1.0. Pre-1.0 releases may break API as the preframr codebase evolves. Token-alphabet shape changes bump major version since they invalidate downstream checkpoints.

Public surface (semver-promised once v1.0):

• Classes: RegLogParser, RegTokenizer, Corpus, TokenizeMeta, StreamState, PendingSlot, VocabArrays, VocabSignature, Transform (+ register decorator, PipelineEntry, TransformPipeline, PassBackedTransform, RowExpandingTransform), DistancePairSpec.
• Decision helpers: see API_SURFACE.md "Decision helpers" section.
• Routines: parse_corpus, precompute_vocab_arrays, precompute_subtoken_arrays, prepare_df_for_audio, remove_voice_reg, validate_back_refs, validate_pattern_overlays, frame_marker_count, tail_charge_for_prompt, read_initial_irq, ensure_default_transforms_registered, distance_pair_role, slope_subreg_role, frame_weight_role, to_int64_arrays.
• Boundary constants: PAD_ID, MODEL_PDTYPE, DUMP_SUFFIX, LEGACY_EVAL_SUBSET_NAME, DEFAULT_IRQ_CYCLES, LOSS_TIER_NAMES, DISTANCE_PAIR_OPS, CONTENT_TIER.

Back-compat aliases scheduled to drop

The internal aliases (_frame_marker_count, _compute_invalid, _LOSS_TIER_NAMES) and the public MIN_DIFF re-export have been removed this round; consumers have cut over to the public names. What remains is the reglog_helpers re-export set, which is blocked on a main-repo cutover of render_play.py.

alias	replacement	location
reglog_helpers.dump_palettes_attrs	palette_io.dump_palettes_attrs	preframr_tokens/reglog_helpers.py
reglog_helpers.load_palettes_attrs	palette_io.load_palettes_attrs	preframr_tokens/reglog_helpers.py
reglog_helpers.wrapbits	utils.wrapbits	preframr_tokens/reglog_helpers.py

Symbols prefixed _ are package-internal and may change without notice (current consumers that reach into them are tracked in API_SURFACE.md as "leaks to clean up").

License

Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.