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"""ortho_bridge — OrthoBridge: wraps any underlying bridge with cross-tower
orthogonality regularization.
Forces each tower to encode information that the other towers DON'T encode by
penalising cross-tower representational similarity. The penalty is added to
the main training loss via the `modify_loss` hook, so the fusion stage runner
sees it transparently — no other code changes required.
How it works
------------
1. Inner bridge fuses the embeddings into the usual single tensor (forward).
2. While forward is running, we compute pairwise linear-CKA between every
pair of input embeddings and stash the average value as `self._stashed`.
3. `modify_loss(loss)` returns `loss + ortho_weight * stashed`. Gradients
from the penalty flow back through the embeddings into the tower weights,
pushing each tower's representations apart.
CKA reference: Kornblith et al., "Similarity of Neural Network Representations
Revisited" (ICML 2019). Linear CKA on centred embeddings is in [0, 1]:
0 = orthogonal (uncorrelated) representations
1 = identical (up to linear transform)
Config example:
{
"name": "nt",
"type": "fusion",
"module": "v4.classes.bridges.ortho_bridge",
"class": "OrthoBridge",
"args": {
"ortho_weight": 0.1,
"inner_module": "v4.classes.bridges.fusion_bridge",
"inner_class": "FusionBridge",
"inner_args": { "fusion_dim": 256, "use_se": true }
}
}
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import importlib
from itertools import combinations
from typing import Any
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
def _linear_cka(z_a: torch.Tensor, z_b: torch.Tensor, eps: float = 1e-8) -> torch.Tensor:
"""Linear CKA between two (B, D_a) and (B, D_b) embedding batches.
Centred Gram-matrix similarity, normalised to [0, 1].
"""
a = z_a - z_a.mean(dim=0, keepdim=True)
b = z_b - z_b.mean(dim=0, keepdim=True)
Ga = a @ a.T
Gb = b @ b.T
num = (Ga * Gb).sum()
den = torch.sqrt((Ga * Ga).sum() * (Gb * Gb).sum() + eps)
return num / den
class OrthoBridge(nn.Module):
"""Wrap any underlying bridge and add cross-tower orthogonality.
Parameters
----------
input_dims : ordered list of input embedding dims (passed to inner bridge)
fusion_dim : convenience alias passed to inner bridge if it accepts it
ortho_weight : λ on the orthogonality penalty (default 0.1)
inner_module : import path of the inner bridge class
inner_class : class name within `inner_module`
inner_args : kwargs forwarded to the inner bridge constructor
The OrthoBridge does NOT touch the inner bridge's forward output — it only
computes and stashes a penalty during forward, then exposes it via the
`modify_loss` hook.
"""
def __init__(
self,
input_dims: list[int],
fusion_dim: int = 256,
ortho_weight: float = 0.1,
inner_module: str = "v4.classes.bridges.fusion_bridge",
inner_class: str = "FusionBridge",
inner_args: dict | None = None,
):
super().__init__()
self.ortho_weight = float(ortho_weight)
# Build the inner bridge. Pass fusion_dim through unless the caller's
# inner_args overrides it.
inner_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = dict(inner_args or {})
inner_kwargs.setdefault("fusion_dim", fusion_dim)
mod = importlib.import_module(inner_module)
cls = getattr(mod, inner_class)
self.inner = cls(input_dims, **inner_kwargs)
self.out_dim = self.inner.out_dim
# Stash penalty here on every forward; modify_loss reads from it.
self.register_buffer("_stashed", torch.zeros(()), persistent=False)
self._last_pairs_cka: list[float] = []
# ── core ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def forward(self, embeddings: list[torch.Tensor]) -> torch.Tensor:
# Compute pairwise linear-CKA across the raw tower embeddings.
# We use the RAW per-tower embeddings (not the inner bridge's projected
# versions) because we want to push the TOWERS apart, not the bridge's
# internal projections.
if len(embeddings) >= 2:
ckas = []
for i, j in combinations(range(len(embeddings)), 2):
ckas.append(_linear_cka(embeddings[i], embeddings[j]))
penalty = torch.stack(ckas).mean()
self._stashed = penalty
self._last_pairs_cka = [float(c.detach().cpu()) for c in ckas]
else:
self._stashed = torch.zeros((), device=embeddings[0].device)
self._last_pairs_cka = []
return self.inner(embeddings)
def modify_loss(self, loss: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
return loss + self.ortho_weight * self._stashed
# ── delegate to inner ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
def set_phase(self, phase: str) -> None:
if hasattr(self.inner, "set_phase"):
self.inner.set_phase(phase)
# ── introspection ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@property
def last_cka(self) -> float:
"""Mean cross-tower linear CKA from the most recent forward pass.
Useful for logging — should DECREASE during training if the penalty
is doing its job.
"""
return float(self._stashed.detach().cpu()) if self._stashed.numel() else 0.0