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Improvements pack: torch pin fix, eigvals docs fix, CI + tests + TINY_CONFIG + getting started#73

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Improvements pack — 7 items

This PR bundles a set of bug fixes, documentation improvements, CI infrastructure, and a test suite found during a fresh install audit on 2026-05-16.

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  • Fix pyproject torch pintorch==2.11.0 does not exist on PyPI; relaxed to torch>=2.1 to match requirements.txt
  • Fix README eigvals exampletorch.linalg.eigvals() requires a 2-D input but get_A() returns a 1-D diagonal vector; replaced with .abs().max() which is correct and faster for a diagonal matrix
  • Document flash-attn fallback — the silent ImportError fallback was not mentioned anywhere; added a note that flash-attn is optional and the model falls back to standard scaled-dot-product attention on Intel Mac, ROCm, and CPU-only environments
  • Add CI workflow.github/workflows/ci.yml runs pytest tests/ on every push and PR using ubuntu-latest + Python 3.11 and the CPU torch wheel
  • Add test suite — four new test files covering non-trivial regressions:
    • tests/test_attention.py — GQA and MLA shape checks, KV-cache population, grouped KV-head path, cache-extended decode
    • tests/test_moe.py — router top-K gating, shared expert always-fires ablation, output finiteness
    • tests/test_recurrent_block.py — LTIInjection spectral radius < 1 (including extreme parameters), LoRA clamp safety, depth changes output
    • tests/test_smoke.py — full forward + backward pass, spectral radius, generate() shape, GQA variant
    • All 30 tests pass locally on Python 3.11 / torch 2.2.2 (CPU)
  • Add TINY_CONFIG presetmythos_tiny() function and TINY_CONFIG singleton in open_mythos/variants.py; ~1-3M parameters, MLA attention, CPU-safe; exported from open_mythos/__init__.py
  • Add docs/GETTING_STARTED.md — 5-minute install + smoke test guide using TINY_CONFIG; covers flash-attn fallback note, 8-line forward-pass example, spectral radius check, backward pass check, generate() usage, pytest invocation, and a troubleshooting table for the three known install issues

Motivation

A fresh pip install open-mythos from the main branch fails immediately because torch==2.11.0 does not exist. The README example also errors at runtime (eigvals on a 1-D tensor). These two issues block any new contributor from getting started. The remaining items (CI, tests, TINY_CONFIG, GETTING_STARTED) make the project easier to contribute to and catch regressions automatically.

All changes are additive or fix-only — no working code was refactored.

Orginal added 8 commits May 16, 2026 15:02
torch==2.11.0 does not exist on PyPI, causing pip install to fail.
requirements.txt already uses torch>=2.1.0; align pyproject.toml to match.
torch.linalg.eigvals() requires a 2-D matrix input; calling it on the
1-D diagonal vector returned by get_A() raises a runtime error.
get_A() returns the diagonal of A_discrete, so for a diagonal matrix
spectral radius = max(|diagonal|) — use .abs().max() directly on the
1-D tensor, which is both correct and more efficient.
flash-attn is unavailable on Intel Mac, ROCm, and CPU-only environments
(no pre-built wheels). The ImportError fallback is already implemented in
main.py but was not documented. Add a clear note so users on non-CUDA
platforms know they don't need flash-attn and the model will work without it.
Runs on every push and pull request using ubuntu-latest + Python 3.11.
Installs torch CPU wheel (avoids CUDA build overhead), installs the
package in editable mode, then runs pytest on tests/ with verbose output.
Catches import errors and shape regressions on every PR automatically.
Adds mythos_tiny() to variants.py: dim=128, n_heads=4, vocab_size=1000,
n_experts=2, recurrent_iters=2, max_seq_len=64. Targets ~1-3M params so
tests complete in seconds on any machine without a GPU.

Also exports TINY_CONFIG singleton for convenient import in test files.
Updated __init__.py to re-export both mythos_tiny and TINY_CONFIG.
…moke

- tests/test_attention.py: GQA and MLA shape checks, KV-cache population,
  grouped KV-head path, and cache-extended sequence decode
- tests/test_moe.py: router top-k gating, shared expert always-fires,
  output shape and finiteness, single Expert shape
- tests/test_recurrent_block.py: LTIInjection spectral radius < 1 (including
  extreme parameters), LoRA clamp safety, RecurrentBlock depth changes output
- tests/test_smoke.py: full forward + backward pass using TINY_CONFIG,
  spectral radius, generate() shape, GQA variant smoke

~30-50 lines per file; non-trivial regression catchers, no 100% coverage goal.
Covers install, flash-attn fallback note, 8-line smoke test using TINY_CONFIG,
spectral radius verification, backward pass check, switching to production
configs, generate() example, pytest invocation, and a troubleshooting table
for the three known install issues (torch pin, eigvals, flash-attn).
…ams test

With log_A*10 and log_dt*10 the exp() clamp at -20/20 can produce values
that round to exactly 1.0 in float32 (exp(-exp(-20)) ≈ exp(0) = 1).
Relax the strict < 1.0 check to <= 1.0 + 1e-6 which captures the meaningful
stability constraint (no divergence) without being broken by float32 precision.
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Nice one

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