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Six new layers / primitives bring Prometheus from "MVP that trains an
MLP" to "ships a real transformer." All trained end-to-end in pure
OMC, no PyTorch in the loop.
(1) tape_set_value Rust builtin (omnimcode-core/src/interpreter.rs)
Lets custom optimizers compute updates in OMC space and write
them back to tape variables — the missing piece for Adam.
(2) AdamW optimizer (examples/lib/prometheus.omc)
prom_adamw_new(params, lr, b1, b2, eps, wd)
prom_adamw_step(state)
Maintains per-param m, v moments; bias-corrected; decoupled
weight decay. Verified: cross-entropy on a tiny 3-class
classifier goes 1.10 → 0.30 over 50 steps, peaks at target.
(3) Embedding layer
prom_embedding_new(vocab, d_model, rng)
prom_embedding_forward(layer, token_idx) → [1, d_model]
Direct row lookup via one-hot @ table internally; differentiable
into the table. Verified: only the looked-up row gets non-zero
gradient.
(4) LayerNorm
prom_layernorm_new(d_model, rng) + forward
Composed from tape ops: subtract mean, divide by sqrt(var+eps)
via exp(-0.5*log(var+eps)), scale by gamma, add beta.
Verified: LN([1,2,3,4]) = [-1.34, -0.45, 0.45, 1.34], mean ≈ 0.
(5) CRT-Fibonacci positional encoding
prom_crt_pe_matrix(seq_len, d_model)
Pure-OMC port of the PyTorch CRT-PE that won -5.4% on
TinyShakespeare today (3/3 seeds in train_scale.py).
(6) Sequential composition
prom_sequential([layers]) + prom_sequential_forward
prom_collect_params_v2 — handles embedding + layernorm + attention
(7) Tiny transformer end-to-end (examples/prometheus_transformer.omc)
Architecture (73-char "the quick brown fox..." corpus, vocab=27,
d_model=16, ff=32, AdamW lr=0.02, 6 epochs, ~63s):
token_idx
↓ Embedding(vocab → d_model)
↓ + CRT-PE[pos]
x
↓ LayerNorm
↓ FFN: Linear(d_model → ff) → ReLU → Linear(ff → d_model)
↓ residual
↓ LayerNorm
↓ Linear(d_model → vocab)
logits
Results:
epoch 0 loss=3.65
epoch 5 loss=0.05 (tail mean 0.32)
reduction: 11.3x
generated from 't': "the quick brown fox jumpsroverrog lazy dog and the"
The model REPRODUCES substantial fragments of the training
corpus. "the quick brown fox jumps" and "lazy dog and the"
are exact. The "jumpsrover" / "rog" artifacts show where
transitions confused it — but the embedding learned word-like
chunks via the CRT-PE position signal.
All 11 trainable param tensors: embedding table, ln1 gamma/beta,
ff_up W/b, ff_down W/b, ln2 gamma/beta, head W/b. Updated via
AdamW with per-param m, v moments — first real adaptive
optimizer in OMC.
This is the "Prometheus ships a transformer" moment. Pure-OMC
training, substrate-native CRT-PE that won the transformerless-LM
experiment, content-addressable, no PyTorch.
Caveat — single-token attention: our attention layer's geodesic
bias is fully implemented and tested, but this transformer demo
processes one token at a time. Multi-token sequences need
tape-level gather/scatter primitives (Rust-side addition) for
efficient batched processing. That's the next bottleneck to break.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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