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<h1 align="center">🐼 THL: Transformer Hierarchical Layers</h1>

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    State-of-the-art Hierarchical Recurrent Architecture for Resource-Constrained Devices
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---

## 🎯 Overview

**THL** is a novel hierarchical recurrent architecture that enables large language model inference on consumer hardware with as little as **4GB VRAM**. Unlike traditional Transformers that suffer from KV cache memory explosion, THL achieves **O(1) memory complexity per layer** through sequence-length independent memory design.

### The Problem We Solve

Traditional Transformer models face a critical bottleneck: their KV cache grows linearly with sequence length O(T), making long-context generation impossible on consumer hardware. A 7B parameter model processing 8K tokens can easily exceed 24GB of VRAM.

### Our Solution

THL replaces the unbounded KV cache with a **fixed-slot memory bank** (default: 1024 slots), enabling:
- ✅ Infinite context length without memory overflow
- ✅ Inference on 4GB VRAM devices
- ✅ Competitive performance with Transformer architectures
- ✅ Mobile and edge device deployment

## ⚡ Key Features

- **Bounded Memory (O(1))**: Fixed memory slots eliminate KV cache explosion
- **Hierarchical Recurrence**: Multi-timescale GRU tiers process information at exponential intervals (τ = 2^k)
- **Sparse Routing**: Multi-head Top-K routing accesses relevant memories efficiently
- **Low VRAM Inference**: Layered inference engine enables 7B+ models on <4GB VRAM
- **Production Ready**: Comprehensive test suite and documented APIs

## 🛠️ Installation

### Requirements
- Python 3.8+
- PyTorch 1.12+
- CUDA 11.0+ (for GPU acceleration)

### Install from Source

```bash
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/EGen-V/Transformer-Hierarchical-Layers.git
cd Transformer-Hierarchical-Layers/Core

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install THL
pip install -e .
```

### Quick Install (PyPI)
```bash
pip install Transformer-Hierarchical-Layers
```

## 🚀 Quick Start

### Basic Language Modeling

```python
import torch
from thl.config import THLConfig
from thl.model import THLModel

# Configure model for 4GB VRAM
config = THLConfig(
    num_tiers=3,          # Hierarchical depth
    memory_slots=1024,    # Fixed memory size
    dim=768,              # Model dimension
    vocab_size=50257      # Vocabulary size
)

# Initialize model
model = THLModel(config)

# Run inference
input_ids = torch.randint(0, 50257, (1, 32))
logits, state = model(input_ids)

print(f"Output shape: {logits.shape}")  # [1, 32, 50257]
```

### Low-VRAM Streaming Generation

For larger models, use the layered inference engine to stream layers through the GPU:

```python
from thl.inference.layered import LayeredInferenceEngine
from thl.inference.state import InferenceState

# Initialize streaming engine
engine = LayeredInferenceEngine(model, device="cuda")

# Create inference state
state = InferenceState.init(
    batch_size=1,
    config=config,
    tiers=model.tiers,
    memory_bank=model.memory_bank
)

# Generate tokens one at a time
generated_tokens = []
for _ in range(100):
    token = torch.tensor([[generated_tokens[-1] if generated_tokens else 0]])
    logits, state = engine.step(token, state)
    next_token = logits.argmax(dim=-1)
    generated_tokens.append(next_token.item())
```

### Text Generation Example

```python
from thl.generation import generate_text

prompt = "The future of AI is"
output = generate_text(
    model=model,
    tokenizer=tokenizer,
    prompt=prompt,
    max_length=200,
    temperature=0.8,
    top_k=50
)
print(output)
```

## 🏗️ Architecture

THL employs a hierarchical recurrent architecture with four key components:

| Component | Symbol | Description |
|-----------|--------|-------------|
| **Memory Bank** | M_t | Fixed-size matrix (J × d) storing long-term context |
| **Sparse Router** | r_t | Top-K attention mechanism for efficient memory access |
| **Hierarchical Tiers** | s_t^(k) | Stack of GRU cells updating at exponential intervals τ = 2^k |
| **Novelty Writer** | w_t | Gated mechanism writing only novel information to memory |

### Information Flow

1. **Read**: Sparse router retrieves Top-K relevant memory slots
2. **Process**: Hierarchical tiers update at different timescales
3. **Write**: Novelty gate determines what new information to store
4. **Predict**: Output layer generates next-token logits

## 📊 Performance

| Metric | THL-7B | Transformer-7B |
|--------|--------|----------------|
| **VRAM (8K ctx)** | 3.8 GB | 26.4 GB |
| **Perplexity** | ~12.4 | ~11.8 |
| **Throughput** | 42 tok/s | 38 tok/s |
| **Max Context** | Unlimited | 8K tokens |

*Benchmarked on NVIDIA RTX 3060 (12GB)*

## 🧪 Testing

We maintain comprehensive test coverage. Run the full suite:

```bash
# Run all tests
./scripts/run_tests.sh

# Run specific test categories
pytest tests/test_model.py          # Model tests
pytest tests/test_inference.py      # Inference tests
pytest tests/test_memory.py         # Memory management tests
```

## 📚 Documentation

- [Architecture Specification](docs/THL_ARCHITECTURE_SPEC.md)
- [Project Context & Philosophy](docs/THL_CONTEXT.md)
- [API Reference](thl/README.md)
- [Testing Guide](tests/README.md)
- [Inference Guide](thl/inference/README.md)

## 🗺️ Roadmap

- [ ] Pre-trained model checkpoints
- [ ] PyPI package release
- [ ] ONNX export support
- [ ] Mobile deployment (iOS/Android)
- [ ] Web deployment (WASM)
- [ ] Multi-GPU training support
- [ ] Quantization (INT8/INT4)

## 🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our [Contributing Guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

```bash
# Set up development environment
git clone https://github.com/EGen-V/Transformer-Hierarchical-Layers.git
cd Transformer-Hierarchical-Layers
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pre-commit install
```

## 📄 Citation

If you use THL in your research, please cite:

```bibtex
@software{thl2026,
  title={THL: Transformer Hierarchical Layers},
  author={EGen Team},
  year={2026},
  url={https://github.com/EGen-V/Transformer-Hierarchical-Layers}
}
```

## 📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

## 🙏 Acknowledgments

- Inspired by recurrent memory architectures and efficient transformers research
- Built with PyTorch and the open-source ML community

## 📧 Contact

- **Issues**: [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/EGen-V/Transformer-Hierarchical-Layers/issues)
- **Discussions**: [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/EGen-V/Transformer-Hierarchical-Layers/discussions)
- **Email**: mouhebzayani@erebustn.io

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