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fix: slicer OOB nondeterminism; perf: F-6 pool-only estimator, batched mel FFT; docs - #15

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Four commits on top of the merged PR #14:

  1. c57877f — fix the slicer's trailing-silence cut reading rms[n_frames] one past the end: an uninitialised heap value decided the cut position run-to-run (452 vs 501 frames → 9.04 s vs 10.0 s chunks), making the WHOLE pipeline nondeterministic (~25% of runs flipped the first-note boundary) despite everything being single-thread deterministic. Clamp the argmin window to n_frames-1. 10/10 runs now bit-identical.
  2. 02a2081 — F-6: run the estimator's last JEBF layer pool-only (queries restricted to the N pool rows, x-side FFN2/CgMLP dropped; FFN1_x kept because x feeds the attention keys). Numerically identical (pool_only on/off outputs bit-identical); estimator 737→733 nodes and fewer flash_attn query rows.
  3. 89d25a3 — E: batched mel FFT: each worker runs its stripe as one 2-D pocketfft r2c (twiddle table built once per stripe instead of per frame). Bit-identical output, RNG-replay 100% 1-1.
  4. d87b238 — docs: DBCache default is every backend (since 8a667b9), not just CPU.

Verification (deterministic now)

  • 10/10 identical chunk length + note list after the slicer fix (was alternating).
  • CPU/Vulkan/CUDA MATCH at nsteps=1/8; RNG-replay vs PyTorch 75-100% 1-1, pitch delta 0.
  • Benchmark (test10s.wav, nsteps=8, no-slice 10 s, median of 3):
    • CPU total 2.50 s → 2.39 s; encoder (incl. mel) 0.347 → 0.327 s; estimator 0.260 → 0.223 s (-14%).
    • Vulkan 0.293 s; CUDA 0.31 s.

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  • New Features
    • DBCache is now enabled by default for multi-step processing across supported backends, with GPU-specific defaults unchanged where applicable.
  • Performance
    • Improved audio feature extraction efficiency.
    • Reduced unnecessary processing in the final estimation stage for faster inference.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed trailing-silence detection to prevent invalid reads and ensure deterministic final cut positions.
  • Documentation
    • Updated English and Chinese documentation to reflect the revised DBCache defaults and behavior.

silence_end was clamped with min(n_frames, silence_start+max_sil_kept),
so the trailing-silence argmin could read rms[n_frames] — one past the
end of the 0..n_frames-1 vector.  That uninitialised heap value decided
the cut position run-to-run (e.g. 452 vs 501 -> 9.04 s vs 10.0 s chunks),
which made every downstream stage nondeterministic (~25% of runs flipped
the first-note boundary) despite the whole pipeline being single-thread
deterministic.  Clamp to n_frames-1.

Verified: 10/10 runs now produce identical chunk length + note list
(was alternating 9.04 s/10.0 s and 4/5 notes).
The estimator's last JEBF layer produces only pool_logits — the x stream
has no consumer, and ggml already DCE'd its FFN2/CgMLP.  The joint
attention was still computing all S = N + T query rows in one
flash_attn_ext node.  Run the last layer pool-only:

- joint_attention(pool_only): queries restricted to the N pool rows
  (k/v stay full S), rope positions truncated to N, mask view of the
  first N rows (contiguous copy), no x-side split/linear.
- pjac(pool_only): skip the x-side CgMLP + merge entirely.
- jebf_block(pool_only): skip FFN2_x; FFN1_x is KEPT because the x
  stream still feeds the attention keys.
- build_estimator_graph: last layer uses pool_only=true.

Numerically identical: attention rows are independent; verified
pool_only on/off outputs are bit-identical.  Estimator graph nodes
737 -> 733 (the real win is the flash_attn work: S query rows -> N,
and the x-side FFN/CgMLP chain dropping out).

Verified: CPU/Vulkan/CUDA MATCH at nsteps=1/8; RNG-replay vs PyTorch
stable 75% 1-1 with pitch delta 0 (ggml's 3 notes all align; PyTorch
has one extra edge note) once the slicer OOB fix made runs deterministic.
Each worker now runs its frame stripe as ONE 2-D r2c ({n_fft, block},
FFT along axis 0) instead of one r2c call per frame.  pocketfft builds
its twiddle table per call, so batching amortises that over the whole
stripe; the non-FFT axis is only iterated, so per-frame results are
identical (verified: output note list bit-identical to the per-frame
build, RNG-replay vs PyTorch 100% 1-1 with pitch delta 0).
Since 8a667b9 the device-side DBCache decision removed the GPU host
round-trip and the cache is enabled by default on all backends (0.25).
The README/README_CN still said 'on CPU'.
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The PR adds pool-only execution for the final JEBF layer, batches mel FFT processing, fixes a trailing-silence frame bound, and updates DBCache documentation for all backends.

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Pool-only JEBF execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pool-only attention execution
src/ops_joint_attn.h, src/ops_joint_attn.cpp
The attention stack accepts pool_only. It restricts queries and masks to pool rows, retains full keys and values, returns no x stream, and skips unused x-stream operations.
Final-layer pool-only wiring
src/model_estimator.cpp
The estimator marks the final JEBF layer as pool-only. Earlier layers retain full processing.

Batched mel FFT processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Batched worker FFT
src/mel.cpp
Each worker processes its frame stripe with one batched 2-D FFT. Windowing uses column-contiguous storage, and magnitude computation occurs during mel filterbank accumulation.

Slicer boundary and documentation updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Trailing-silence index bound
src/cli/slicer.cpp
The trailing-silence argmin window now ends at the last valid RMS frame.
DBCache default documentation
README.md, README_CN.md
The documentation states that cross-step DBCache is enabled by default on every backend for multi-step operation. The GPU cache-off note remains.

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  EstimatorGraph->>jebf_block: enable pool_only for the final JEBF layer
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  pjac->>joint_attention: pass pool_only with pool and x streams
  joint_attention->>joint_attention: query pool rows and retain full keys/values
  joint_attention-->>pjac: return pool output with no x output
  pjac-->>jebf_block: return pool-only result
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133-138: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Protect the boundary fix with a focused regression test.

If no dedicated test exists, add a waveform with terminal silence that enters this branch. Run it under ASan/UBSan and repeat the slice operation to verify stable chunk boundaries. The supplied tests/test_cli.cpp, Lines 34-50, covers internal silence and does not exercise terminal silence.

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In `@src/cli/slicer.cpp` around lines 133 - 138, The boundary fix for silence_end
in the slicer must have a focused regression test covering terminal silence
through this branch. Extend the relevant CLI test coverage, such as the waveform
cases in test_cli.cpp, with terminal silence; run the slice operation repeatedly
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In `@README.md`:
- Around line 181-187: Update the conflicting GPU-off DBCache statements: in
README.md lines 189-191 and README_CN.md lines 165-166, remove or rewrite them
so both localized READMEs consistently state that cross-step DBCache is enabled
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Comment thread README.md
Comment on lines +181 to +187
For `--nsteps > 1`, a cross-step DBCache is **on by default on every
backend** (threshold 0.25, front blocks 1, warmup 1): when the segmenter's
front-block residual between consecutive D3PM steps is below the
threshold, the tail blocks are skipped and the previous step's tail delta
is reused — a near-lossless approximation (~0.2–0.3 cents pitch drift, no
note-count change in the ablation) that cuts nsteps=8 segmenter wall time
roughly in half.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep both localized READMEs consistent with the runtime default.

The changed text correctly states that DBCache is enabled by default on every backend, but both files retain a conflicting GPU-off paragraph.

  • README.md#L181-L187: remove or rewrite the GPU-default paragraph at Lines 189-191.
  • README_CN.md#L161-L161: remove or rewrite the GPU-default paragraph at Lines 165-166.
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In `@README.md` around lines 181 - 187, Update the conflicting GPU-off DBCache
statements: in README.md lines 189-191 and README_CN.md lines 165-166, remove or
rewrite them so both localized READMEs consistently state that cross-step
DBCache is enabled by default on every backend for --nsteps > 1.

pocketfft's stride_t is std::vector<ptrdiff_t>; the initializer list
passed sizeof() results (size_t), which clang rejects as
-Wc++11-narrowing (MSVC accepted it) — this broke the macos metal
builds.  Cast explicitly to ptrdiff_t.

Also remove the unused esize in joint_attention's non-pool-only split
(clang -Wunused-variable; the view offsets already carry element size
via nb[1]).
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Fixed the macos build failure: the batched mel FFT passed sizeof() (size_t) into pocketfft's stride_t (std::vector<ptrdiff_t>) initializer — clang rejects that as -Wc++11-narrowing while MSVC accepted it. Explicit ptrdiff_t casts added. Also dropped an unused esize in joint_attention that clang flagged.

Both READMEs still carried the pre-8a667b9 note that DBCache defaults off
on GPU backends because of host round-trip regressions; the device-side
decision removed that, and it is now on by default on every backend.
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Fixed the remaining README inconsistency: removed the stale 'GPU defaults off' paragraphs (pre-8a667b9) in both README.md and README_CN.md — DBCache is now on by default on every backend.

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