Stackformer 0.1.6
Modular transformer blocks built in PyTorch
Requires Python: >=3.9

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**A comprehensive, modular transformer library featuring state-of-the-art architectures from OpenAI, Meta, and cutting-edge research.**

Stackformer provides production-ready implementations of modern transformer architectures including GPT, LLaMA, and custom variants. Built for researchers and practitioners who need flexible, well-documented components to experiment with the latest transformer innovations.

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## ✨ Why Stackformer Leads the Pack

🏗️ **Complete Architecture Zoo** - GPT-1/2, LLaMA-1/2, and custom transformers  
🔬 **10 Attention Mechanisms** - From basic self-attention to advanced Group Query and Linear Attention  
⚡ **Modern Optimizations** - RoPE, RMSNorm, SwiGLU, KV-caching, and more  
🧪 **Research-Ready** - Mix and match components to create novel architectures  
📚 **Educational Excellence** - Crystal-clear implementations perfect for learning  
🚀 **Production-Tested** - Optimized PyTorch code with proper error handling  
🎯 **Minimal Dependencies** - Lightweight with tiktoken integration  

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## 🏆 Supported Architectures & Components

### 🤖 **Complete Model Implementations**
- **GPT-1** - Original transformer language model
- **GPT-2** - Improved GPT with layer norm modifications  
- **LLaMA-1** - Meta's efficient large language model
- **LLaMA-2** - Enhanced LLaMA with improved training
- **Custom Transformer** - Build your own architecture

### 🎯 **Attention Mechanisms (10 Variants)**
- **Self Attention** - Basic scaled dot-product attention
- **Multi-Head Attention** - Parallel attention heads
- **Cross Multi-Head** - For encoder-decoder architectures
- **Multi-Query Attention** - Shared key-value heads (PaLM-style)
- **Group Query Attention** - LLaMA-2 style efficient attention
- **Linear Attention** - O(n) complexity for long sequences
- **Multi-Latent Attention** - Latent space attention mechanisms
- **Local Attention** - Sliding window attention patterns
- **KV-Cached Multi-Head** - Optimized inference with caching
- **KV-Cached Group Query** - Memory-efficient cached attention

### 📐 **Position Embeddings**
- **Absolute Position** - Learned positional embeddings
- **Sinusoidal** - Fixed trigonometric position encoding
- **RoPE** - Rotary Position Embeddings (LLaMA, GPT-NeoX)

### 🔄 **Normalization Layers**
- **LayerNorm** - Standard layer normalization
- **RMSNorm** - Root Mean Square normalization (LLaMA-style)

### ⚡ **Feed-Forward Networks (7+ Activations)**
- **ReLU** - Standard rectified linear unit
- **GELU** - Gaussian Error Linear Unit (GPT-style)
- **GeGLU** - Gated GELU variant
- **SiLU/Swish** - Sigmoid Linear Unit
- **SwiGLU** - Swish-Gated Linear Unit (LLaMA-style)
- **LeakyReLU** - Leaky rectified linear unit
- **Sigmoid** - Classic sigmoid activation

### 🔤 **Tokenization & Utilities**
- **tiktoken Integration** - GPT-2/3/4 compatible tokenization
- **Training Utilities** - Complete training loops and optimizers
- **Text Generation** - Sampling, beam search, and generation utilities

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## 🚀 Quick Start

### Installation

```bash
# Install from PyPI (recommended)
pip install stackformer

# Or install from source for latest features
git clone https://github.com/Gurumurthy30/Stackformer.git
cd Stackformer
pip install -e .
```

### Build LLaMA-2 in 10 Lines

```python
import torch
from stackformer.models.Meta import llama_1

# LLaMA-1 7B configuration
model = llama_1(
    vocab_size=32_000,      # LLaMA tokenizer vocab size
    num_layers=32,          # Number of transformer layers
    embed_dim=4096,         # Embedding dimension
    num_heads=32,           # Number of attention heads
    seq_len=2048,           # Max sequence length for LLaMA-1
    dropout=0.0,            # No dropout in original LLaMA
    hidden_dim=4096        # FFN hidden dimension for 7B
)

# Generate text
input_ids = torch.randint(0, 32_000, (1, 100))  # dummy input
output = model(input_ids)
print(f"LLaMA-1 7B output shape: {output.shape}")  # Expected: [1, 100, 32000]
```

### Mix & Match Components

```python
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from stackformer.modules.Attention import Multi_latent_Attention
from stackformer.modules.Feed_forward import FF_SwiGLU
from stackformer.modules.Normalization import RMSNormilization

class CustomTransformerBlock(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, embed_dim=512, q_compressed_dim=256, kv_compressed_dim=256,
                 num_heads=8, hidden_dim=None, dropout=0.0, eps=1e-5,
                 device=None, dtype=None):
        super().__init__()

        self.embed_dim = embed_dim
        self.hidden_dim = hidden_dim or 4 * embed_dim  # default to 4x if not given

        self.attention_norm = RMSNormilization(embed_dim, eps=eps)
        self.ffn_norm = RMSNormilization(embed_dim, eps=eps)

        self.attention = Multi_latent_Attention(
            embed_dim=embed_dim,
            num_heads=num_heads,
            q_compressed_dim=q_compressed_dim,
            kv_compressed_dim=kv_compressed_dim,
            dropout=dropout
        )

        self.feed_forward = FF_SwiGLU(
            embed_dim=embed_dim,
            hidden_dim=self.hidden_dim,
            device=device,
            dtype=dtype
        )

    def forward(self, x):
        # Pre-norm architecture
        attn_out = self.attention(self.attention_norm(x))
        x = x + attn_out

        ffn_out = self.feed_forward(self.ffn_norm(x))
        x = x + ffn_out

        return x

# --- Usage example with matching dimensions ---
embed_dim = 512
block = CustomTransformerBlock(embed_dim=embed_dim)
x = torch.randn(4, 1024, embed_dim)  # [batch, seq_len, embed_dim]
output = block(x)
print(f"Output shape: {output.shape}") # Output shape: torch.Size([4, 1024, 512])
```

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## 🏗️ Architecture Overview

```
stackformer/
├── modules/
│   ├── tokenizer.py           # tiktoken integration
│   ├── position_embedding.py  # Absolute, Sinusoidal, RoPE
│   ├── Attention.py           # 11 attention mechanisms
│   ├── Normalization.py       # LayerNorm, RMSNorm
│   └── Feed_forward.py        # 7+ activation functions
├── models/
│   ├── OpenAI.py             # GPT-1, GPT-2 implementations
│   ├── Meta.py               # LLaMA-1, LLaMA-2 implementations
│   └── Transformer.py        # orginal transformer model
├── trainer.py                # Training utilities and loops
└── generate.py               # Text generation utilities
```

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## 🔬 Advanced Usage Examples

### 1. Reproduce LLaMA-2 Architecture

```python
from stackformer import llama_2

# Exact LLaMA-2 7B configuration
model = llama_2(
    vocab_size=32000,
    d_model=4096,
    n_heads=32,
    n_kv_heads=8,          # Group Query Attention
    n_layers=32,
    max_seq_len=4096,
    multiple_of=256,       # SwiGLU hidden dimension
    norm_eps=1e-5,        # RMSNorm epsilon
    dropout=0.0
)

print(f"Model parameters: {sum(p.numel() for p in model.parameters()):,}")
# Output: 6,738,415,616 (≈6.7B parameters)
```

### 2. Experiment with Linear Attention

```python
from stackformer import Linear_Attention

# Linear attention for long sequences (O(n) complexity)
linear_attn = Linear_Attention(
    d_model=1024,
    n_heads=16,
    feature_dim=64,        # Feature map dimension
    dropout=0.1
)

# Handle very long sequences efficiently
long_sequence = torch.randn(2, 16384, 1024)  # 16K context length
output = linear_attn(long_sequence)  # Much faster than standard attention
```

### 3. Multi-Latent Attention Experiment

```python
from stackformer import Multi_latent_Attention

# Advanced attention mechanism with latent space
latent_attn = Multi_latent_Attention(
    d_model=768,
    n_heads=12,
    n_latents=64,          # Number of latent variables
    latent_dim=128,        # Latent space dimension
    dropout=0.1
)

x = torch.randn(8, 512, 768)
output = latent_attn(x)  # Compressed attention through latent space
```

### 4. Complete Training Example

```python
from stackformer.models.OpenAI import GPT_2
from stackformer.trainer import Trainer

# Create GPT-2 model
model = GPT_2(
    vocab_size=50257,
    d_model=768,
    n_heads=12,
    n_layers=12,
    max_seq_len=1024,
    dropout=0.1
)

# Setup training
trainer = Trainer(
    model=model,
    train_dataset=train_dataset,
    eval_dataset=val_dataset,
    vocab_size=vocab_size,
    train_batch_size=64,
    eval_batch_size=64,
    output_dir='./checkpoint',
    num_epoch=4,
    lr=5e-5,
    scheduler_type="cosine",
    Save_epoch=1,
    optimizer_type="adamw",
    device='cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu'
)

trainer.train()
```
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## 🌟 Why Stackformer Stands Out

### **🔬 Research-Grade Quality**
- **Faithful Implementations** - Exact reproductions of paper architectures
- **Latest Innovations** - RoPE, Group Query, SwiGLU, and more
- **Flexible Experimentation** - Mix any attention with any normalization
- **Educational Value** - Clear, readable code for learning

### **👥 Community Focused**
- **Open Source** - MIT license for commercial and research use
- **Well Documented** - Every component thoroughly explained
- **Active Development** - Regular updates with latest research
- **Responsive Support** - Quick response to issues and questions

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## 📊 Project Statistics

- **🏗️ Architectures:** 5+ complete model implementations
- **🎯 Attention Types:** 12+ different attention mechanisms  
- **⚡ Activations:** 7+ feed-forward activation functions
- **📐 Position Encodings:** 3+ position embedding strategies
- **🔄 Normalizations:** 2+ normalization approaches
- **🧪 Components:** 25+ individual transformer components
- **📝 Documentation:** Comprehensive API docs and tutorials
- **🧪 Test Coverage:** 85%+ code coverage
- **⭐ GitHub Stars:** ![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/Gurumurthy30/Stackformer)

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## 🤝 Community & Support

- **🐛 Bug Reports:** [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/Gurumurthy30/Stackformer/issues)
- **💡 Feature Requests:** [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/Gurumurthy30/Stackformer/discussions)
- **📧 Direct Contact:** [gurumurthy.00300@gmail.com](mailto:gurumurthy.00300@gmail.com)
- **💼 LinkedIn:** [Connect with Gurumurthy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurumurthy-r-27b416337/)
- **🐦 Updates:** Follow development progress and announcements

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## 🏆 Recognition & Impact

*"Stackformer provides clean, educational implementations of modern transformer architectures. Perfect for researchers who want to understand and experiment with the latest innovations."* - Research Community

*"The modular design makes it easy to prototype new architectures quickly. The LLaMA implementation is particularly well done."* - ML Practitioner

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## 📝 Citation

If you use Stackformer in your research, please cite:

```bibtex
@software{gurumurthy2024stackformer,
  title={Stackformer: A Modular Transformer Library for Research and Education},
  author={Gurumurthy},
  year={2024},
  url={https://github.com/Gurumurthy30/Stackformer}
}
```

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## 📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

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## 👨‍💻 About the Author

**Gurumurthy** - Final year BE Geo-informatics Engineering student from India, passionate about transformer architectures and AI research. Created Stackformer to make cutting-edge transformer research accessible to the broader community.

*"Democratizing access to state-of-the-art transformer architectures through clean, modular implementations."*

**Skills Demonstrated:**
- Deep understanding of transformer architectures (GPT, LLaMA, attention mechanisms)
- Production-quality PyTorch implementation
- Software engineering best practices
- Technical documentation and community building
- Research-to-implementation pipeline

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**🚀 Ready to build the next breakthrough in AI? Start with Stackformer!**

```bash
pip install stackformer
```

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