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Summary

Two independent foundation patches for ruvLLM (examples/ruvLLM/), shipped together. Both are non-default — gated behind opt-in feature flags so existing builds (incl. no_std/ESP32) are unaffected.

P1 — Persistent Trajectory Sidecar (feature: persistence)

Replaces the lossy in-memory crossbeam::ArrayQueue trajectory buffer with a durable SQLite-backed store. Fixes the SONA principle violation "no query is wasted" in src/sona/trajectory.rs.

  • src/sona/persist.rsPersistentTrajectoryStore with bounded mpsc channel + background writer thread
  • WAL mode, fsync NORMAL, schema versioning, drop-policy on overflow
  • src/bin/sidecar.rs — minimal v1 stub (embedded thread; external-process upgrade is mechanical once IPC contract exists)
  • 4 integration tests incl. p95 record-latency measurement (target <50µs under contention)

P4 — Wiki-Corpus Pretraining Pipeline (feature: real-inference)

Curated cold-start replacing random-init perplexity baseline.

  • src/corpus/{mod,wiki,tokenize}.rs — Simple-English-Wiki dump reader, sharder, HF-tokenizers wrapper
  • src/training.rsDatasetSource trait, ModelCheckpoint serde, save_checkpoint / load_checkpoint, measure_baseline_perplexity
  • src/bin/pretrain.rs — rewired with --corpus CLI flag
  • scripts/fetch-simple-wiki.sh — pulls + extracts ~250MB dump
  • 5 fixture-based pipeline tests

Disjoint by design

P1 touches src/sona/* + new sidecar binary. P4 touches src/corpus/* + src/training.rs + src/bin/pretrain.rs. Zero file overlap.

Smoke tests (all green)

  • cargo check (default, persistence, real-inference, persistence+real-inference)
  • cargo test --test persist_integration --features persistence
  • cargo test --test wiki_pipeline_test --features real-inference
  • cargo build --bin ruvllm-sidecar --features persistence
  • cargo build --bin ruvllm-pretrain --features real-inference

Known follow-ups (not in this PR)

  • P4.1: Trainer::train computes loss but does not call optimizer.step against weight matrices — perplexity-improvement acceptance criterion is structurally blocked until this lands. Pipeline correctness validated; quality target deferred.
  • P2 (KV-cache mixed-precision scheduler) and P3 (multi-LoRA unified-pool / S-LoRA) intentionally deferred — both need empirical trajectory + adapter-usage data that P1 will start collecting.

Test plan

  • CI green on default features
  • CI green on --features persistence
  • CI green on --features real-inference
  • No regression on ESP32/no_std build (persistence is gated)

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Crew Worker and others added 3 commits May 2, 2026 20:41
- examples/ruvLLM/Cargo.lock
- examples/ruvLLM/Cargo.toml
- examples/ruvLLM/docs/api-reference.md
- examples/ruvLLM/docs/code-standards.md
- examples/ruvLLM/docs/codebase-summary.md
- examples/ruvLLM/docs/configuration-guide.md
- examples/ruvLLM/docs/deployment-guide.md
- examples/ruvLLM/docs/handoffs/2026-05-02-1943-auto.md
- examples/ruvLLM/docs/project-overview-pdr.md
- examples/ruvLLM/docs/system-architecture.md
- examples/ruvLLM/docs/testing-guide.md
- examples/ruvLLM/learn/260502-1900-init-ruvllm/learn-results.tsv
- examples/ruvLLM/learn/260502-1900-init-ruvllm/summary.md

Co-Authored-By: Pi Coding Agent <pi@localhost>
- examples/ruvLLM/Cargo.lock
- examples/ruvLLM/config/example.toml
- examples/ruvLLM/config/pretrain.toml
- examples/ruvLLM/scripts/fetch-simple-wiki.sh
- examples/ruvLLM/src/bin/pretrain.rs
- examples/ruvLLM/src/bin/sidecar.rs
- examples/ruvLLM/src/config.rs
- examples/ruvLLM/src/lib.rs
- examples/ruvLLM/src/sona/mod.rs
- examples/ruvLLM/src/sona/persist.rs
- examples/ruvLLM/src/training.rs
- examples/ruvLLM/tests/persist_integration.rs

Co-Authored-By: Pi Coding Agent <pi@localhost>
- rename src/data/ → src/corpus/ (gitignore conflict: data/ pattern blocks Rust source)
- add corpus module: wiki corpus iter, tokenizer wrapper, tokenized dataset
- add tests/wiki_pipeline_test.rs (5/5 PASS)
- surgical fixes for pre-existing candle 0.8 API drift in src/inference_real.rs
- add From<candle_core::Error> shim in src/error.rs (unblocks --features real-inference)
- extend src/training.rs: DatasetSource trait, ModelCheckpoint serde, save_checkpoint, measure_baseline_perplexity

P4 status: DONE_WITH_CONCERNS — pre-existing issues surfaced:
- Trainer::train computes loss but does not call optimizer.step (no backprop) → perplexity-delta is structurally 0% until follow-up patch
- SmallTransformer lacks from_checkpoint() constructor → trained checkpoints are saved but to_q4_weights() re-randomizes; follow-up needed to load saved checkpoint into inference path
- TokenizerWrapper::from_pretrained stubbed (requires tokenizers/http feature, not currently enabled); inline whitespace WordLevel fallback works for offline pilot

Smoke tests:
- cargo check: PASS
- cargo check --features persistence: PASS
- cargo check --features real-inference: PASS
- cargo check --features persistence,real-inference: PASS
- cargo test --features persistence --test persist_integration: 4/4 PASS
- cargo test --features real-inference --test wiki_pipeline_test: 5/5 PASS
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