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Add per-stage init_from/freeze (gitea #42)
stage{1,2}_model.active = false already trains one stage alone, but the
checkpoint it writes holds only that stage, so giant rollout refuses it --
the "retrain stage 2 alone against a fixed, known-good stage 1" experiment
the 2026-08-03 species failure calls for wasn't runnable end to end.

Adds stage{1,2}_model.init_from (a checkpoint .pt to load this stage's
weights from before training) and .freeze (never update them), symmetric
across both stages. Both stages stay active = true, so both get built and
both land in the output checkpoint -- the frozen stage is merely
initialized from disk instead of from scratch.

Decisions made during planning:
- Soft freeze: forward/backward still run every batch (loss/grad_norm stay
  meaningful, no autograd special-casing), only optimizer.step() (and, for
  the frozen stage, lr_sched.step()/EMA update) is skipped -- weights are
  byte-identical for the whole run. This is StageTrainer._step_optimizer,
  shared by the non-adversarial path and both halves (generator + critic)
  of the WGAN path, so a frozen WGAN stage's critic freezes too.
- validate_config requires init_from whenever freeze = true, unless the run
  is a --resume (a resumed frozen stage's weights come from the resume
  checkpoint instead) -- freezing a randomly-initialized model is almost
  certainly a mistake.
- CLI flags on both `giant train` and `giant new-run`
  (--stage{1,2}-init-from/--stage{1,2}-freeze), matching every other
  per-stage model knob's existing treatment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 14:23:20 +02:00

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"""Checkpoint assembly and restore.
The on-disk layout is unchanged from v0.2/v0.3.0 and is read by
`giant/cli.py`, `giant/rollout.py`, `giant/sample.py` and
`giant/analysis/router_gating.py` — stage 1's weights live under `model`,
stage 2's under `sec_decoder`, with `_ema`/`critic`/`sec_critic` companions
and per-stage `optimizer_<stage>` / `optimizer_d_<stage>` / `lr_sched_<stage>`
entries.
"""
import torch
from giant.training.trainers import StageTrainer
#: Stage name -> the checkpoint key its weights live under. Historical: stage
#: 1 predates the two-stage split, so it kept the bare "model" key.
_STAGE_KEY = {"stage1": "model", "stage2": "sec_decoder"}
_CRITIC_KEY = {"stage1": "critic", "stage2": "sec_critic"}
def build_checkpoint(
trainers: dict[str, StageTrainer],
epoch: int,
global_step: int,
best_val_loss: float,
extras: dict,
) -> dict:
"""`extras` carries the dataset-level sidecars (normalizer, vocab maps,
model_config) that `train()` receives as arguments; `None` values are
omitted so an absent sidecar leaves no key behind."""
ckpt: dict = {
"epoch": epoch,
"best_val_loss": best_val_loss,
"global_step": global_step,
}
for name, trainer in trainers.items():
sd = trainer.state_dict()
key = _STAGE_KEY[name]
ckpt[key] = sd["model"]
if "model_ema" in sd:
ckpt[f"{key}_ema"] = sd["model_ema"]
if "critic" in sd:
ckpt[_CRITIC_KEY[name]] = sd["critic"]
ckpt[f"optimizer_d_{name}"] = sd["optimizer_d"]
ckpt[f"optimizer_{name}"] = sd["optimizer"]
ckpt[f"lr_sched_{name}"] = sd["lr_sched"]
ckpt.update({k: v for k, v in extras.items() if v is not None})
return ckpt
def init_stages_from_checkpoints(trainers: dict[str, StageTrainer]) -> list[str]:
"""Load each trainer's `spec.init_from` checkpoint (gitea #42) into its
model, before training starts — the partial-retrain counterpart to
`load_checkpoint`'s full-run `--resume`. Only weights move: unlike
`load_checkpoint`, this never touches optimizer/lr_sched/epoch state, so
it composes cleanly with `--resume` (call this first; a resume's own
`load_checkpoint` then overwrites whatever this loaded with the resumed
run's own weights).
A stage with no `init_from` set (`""`, the default) is left alone. The
EMA companion (`<key>_ema`) is loaded too when both the source checkpoint
and this trainer have one, so `--weights ema` at inference still sees the
source's EMA shadow rather than a copy of its raw weights. Returns one
description string per stage actually initialized, for the caller to
echo.
"""
loaded = []
for name, trainer in trainers.items():
init_from = trainer.spec.init_from
if not init_from:
continue
key = _STAGE_KEY[name]
ckpt = torch.load(init_from, map_location="cpu", weights_only=False)
trainer.model.load_state_dict(ckpt[key])
ema_key = f"{key}_ema"
if trainer.ema_model is not None and ema_key in ckpt:
trainer.ema_model.load_state_dict(ckpt[ema_key])
loaded.append(f"{name}: loaded from {init_from}" + (" (frozen)" if trainer.frozen else ""))
return loaded
def load_checkpoint(trainers: dict[str, StageTrainer], ckpt: dict, lr: float) -> None:
"""Restore every active stage, then hand `lr`'s authority back to the
config — `load_state_dict` would otherwise leave the checkpoint's own
base LR in place, silently ignoring `--lr` on resume."""
for name, trainer in trainers.items():
key = _STAGE_KEY[name]
sd = {
"model": ckpt[key],
"optimizer": ckpt[f"optimizer_{name}"],
"lr_sched": ckpt[f"lr_sched_{name}"],
}
ema_key = f"{key}_ema"
if ema_key in ckpt:
sd["model_ema"] = ckpt[ema_key]
crit_key = _CRITIC_KEY[name]
if crit_key in ckpt:
sd["critic"] = ckpt[crit_key]
sd["optimizer_d"] = ckpt[f"optimizer_d_{name}"]
trainer.load_state_dict(sd)
trainer.resume_lr(lr)