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Add an ml extra for gradients in SQL, and two ML demos - #269
Builds on #275 (in-memory tables), now merged. Two PRs are stacked on this one: #270 (the GraphCast demo, moved out of here) and #287 (Context.prepare).
This adds an ml extra that brings ddx's gradients into xarray_sql.Context; ddx differentiates SQL queries. It also adds two ML demos in benchmarks/ml built on the extra, and a guide for contributing more. Each demo:
is a benchmark for ddx, xarray-sql and einfold, a query optimizer that rewrites SQL plans into array algorithms.
The extra
pip install "xarray-sql[ml]" installs ddxdb (>=0.4.2,<0.5; ddxdb exchanges Substrait plans with DataFusion 55). xarray_sql/ad.py follows the pattern of the geo extension:
Every Context registers ddx_stop_gradient.
Context.sql() computes grad, vjp and jvp calls in a select list. A query that doesn't call them never reaches ddx's parser.
xql.ad.sql_all(ctx, statements) runs several statements over one backward pass. A training step uses it to update each parameter table.
WITH pred AS (
SELECTx.sample, SUM(x.value*w.val) AS y
FROM x JOIN w ONx.feature=w.featureGROUP BYx.sample),
loss AS (
SELECTAVG(power(pred.y-t.value, 2)) AS l
FROM pred JOIN t ONpred.sample=t.sample)
SELECT feature, val -0.1* grad(loss, val) AS val FROM w
tests/test_ad.py covers it:
a gradient against its closed form;
a gradient step written as SQL;
sql_all sharing one loss;
ddx_stop_gradient;
the typed error for an expression ddx can't differentiate.
The test extra now includes ml.
The demos
Script
Model
Checked against JAX
01_attention.py
causal attention, as a view (the model) and a separate loss, in einfold's window and GROUP BY spellings; plus a control that isn't attention, the Nadaraya–Watson kernel average
the forward pass; the gradients with respect to Q, K and V; that masked pairs are rows the query drops
02_nanogpt.py
nanoGPT's GPT, built from layer_norm(), attention(), mlp() and residual() as nanoGPT's Block is, trained on Tiny Shakespeare with SGD or nanoGPT's AdamW, sized by --layers, --embed, --heads and --context
the loss, and all 11 parameter tables (and Adam's moments) after every step
Each script runs the same SQL on every host in _hosts.py:
DataFusion, through xarray_sql.Context;
DuckDB, through xql.register.
Both hosts take ddx's gradients. _bench.py holds the shared command line, timing and checks, and the results table: each step's time, its error against JAX, and its plan's operator count. A gradient that a host refuses is recorded as refused: with the error.
For contributors
benchmarks/ml/CONTRIBUTING.md: what a demo is made of, how to write its SQL, what to do when ddx or an engine can't run it, and how to measure.
tests/test_ml_demos.py: runs every demo at its smallest size, and fails if a demo isn't listed. A new ml demos CI job installs JAX and runs it.
AGENTS.md: two rules from review:
introduce every reference before relying on it;
an issue number may appear in a workaround's TODO(#NN), and nowhere else in the source.
They're written up in full in benchmarks/ml/README.md, and #285 has the latest numbers. All of the following were measured on an i7-8700 with DataFusion 55.0.0 and ddxdb 0.4.2.
Correctness: ddx's gradients match JAX to about 1e-15 everywhere ddx can differentiate, on both hosts. That covers every parameter after each of five SGD or AdamW steps.
The GPT is planning-bound on DataFusion:
DataFusion copies a CTE into the plan at every place that reads it, so the 1-layer loss is 13,756 operators. DuckDB plans it in 126.
Of the loss's 2.5 s, nearly all is planning: the same physical plan, run again, takes 1.8 ms. DuckDB runs the loss in 0.063 s.
Attention is execution-bound, because it stores every score; making that fast is einfold's job. The gradients at 512 tokens take 0.84–0.95 s on DataFusion and 2.4 s on DuckDB.
Added optional SQL differentiation support for gradients, vector-Jacobian products, and Jacobian-vector products.
Added machine-learning demos for causal attention and character-level GPT training, with JAX comparisons, multiple SQL engines, and optional AdamW optimization.
Tests
Added coverage for SQL differentiation and automated checks that the machine-learning demos run and match their JAX references.
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Added guidance for running and contributing to the demos, including engine behavior, limitations, and benchmark findings.
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This pull request adds optional SQL differentiation through ddx, shared benchmark tooling, and attention and nanoGPT demos that compare SQL execution with JAX. It also adds tests, dependencies, CI execution, and documentation for these capabilities.
Changes: SQL autodifferentiation and ML benchmarks
Adds an optional ddx interface for grad, vjp, and jvp queries. Context.sql routes matching queries through the extension. Tests compare gradient operations with NumPy results.
Adds DataFusion and DuckDB hosts, shared timing and reporting utilities, demo subprocess tests, a separate CI job, and dependency configuration. Documentation describes the demo workflow and host behavior.
Adds two SQL spellings of causal attention, JAX forward and gradient comparisons, an infinity-based masking check, and a Nadaraya–Watson comparison with NumPy.
xqlsystems/xarray-sql#275: Changes Context._from_dataset, which the DataFusion benchmark host uses to register datasets.
xqlsystems/xarray-sql#290: Addresses repeated CTE and view work for the NanoGPT loss query used by this pull request.
xqlsystems/xarray-sql#287: Defines prepared execution behavior for differentiation queries that this pull request routes through Context.sql.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 1361a
The PR adds useful autodiff and ML demos, but parameterized SQL can regress, the benchmark documentation remains incomplete, and default development setup still fails on Intel macOS. These issues should be addressed before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 1361a
The integration is optional and uses existing local database sessions. The main unresolved risk is whether statements routed through differentiation preserve table ownership and prepared-query invalidation. No security vulnerability was established, but incomplete dependency and failure-recovery coverage prevents a minimal-risk assessment.
Retained concerns
Low · reliability · inferred: The differentiation route returns before table replacement/drop invalidation. If ddxdb executes DDL selected by the textual detector, including a match inside a comment, Dataset ownership metadata and prepared-query invalidation counters can remain stale. DDL acceptance is unverified, so this is a conditional lifecycle-contract concern rather than a demonstrated security vulnerability.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated exposure is the Python process and database sessions using the optional integration, including their registered datasets. Installing ddxdb affects all Context instances in that process. The inspected consumers do not establish a tenant-facing service or cross-tenant attack path; external dependency internals remain outside verified coverage.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Caller-supplied SQL can select a new third-party planning path through textual matching. The adapter passes the same session and statement to ddxdb; it is not an authorization boundary. Extra query arguments are rejected on this path rather than silently discarded.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The existing table-lifecycle control removes Dataset metadata and increments deregistration counters after replacement or drop. Prepared queries check those counters before writing or executing. Unmatched SQL and explicit deregistration retain these controls; the new AD early return does not pass through them.
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proposed — Keep successful table replacement/drop finalization common to both planning routes, or explicitly reject mutating statements on the differentiation route. Specify session reuse, temporary-state cleanup and concurrency guarantees for sql_all after failure before relying on it in shared long-lived contexts.
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* Dense tensor operations are slower in SQL than Xarray. It seems like the vanilla HashJoin implementation in standard DB engines are not as performant as array ops (they don't take advantage of contiguous array layouts), though this gives us some idea for how it could [one day be possible](https://github.com/xqlsystems/einfold).
* Sparse tensor operations are just as fast (or faster!) than Xarray today. Specifically, SQL is an excellent way to perform regridding and reprojecting between different spatial scales (see also: we include a `proj` udf via the `xarray-sql[geo]` extra).
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🌀 Claude: Removed in 21f99d6. The section's example still lives in benchmarks/ml/README.md and in xarray_sql.ad's docstring. I listed it under "Not done yet" in the PR description so it isn't forgotten.
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🌀 Claude: Done in 21f99d6. This docstring now says what einfold, FlashAttention (with the paper), JAX, ddx and a host are before using them. I went through every document in the PR for the same problem: the other two demos, benchmarks/ml/README.md, _hosts.py, _bench.py and xarray_sql/ad.py (Substrait, JAX), plus the GraphCast docs on #270 (GraphCast, ERA5, forcings, swish).
AGENTS.md now has the rule: introduce every project, paper, algorithm, dataset or term of art the first time a document mentions it, and link it where there is a link.
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This is compact code, but I'd rather make it legible / instructive SQL code, even if it is a bit more verbose. If it's all the same perf anyway, I'd rather demo what attention looks like as a long SQL statement.
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🌀 Claude: Done in 21f99d6. Each spelling is now two complete SQL statements, written out in full: the forward pass, and its gradient. The gradient statement is the forward query plus a loss CTE and a different final SELECT, so the two can be read side by side.
While doing this, I found that ddx can take the gradient with respect to all three inputs in one query, from a join of the three tables:
SELECTq.t, q.d,
grad(loss, q.x) AS dq,
grad(loss, k.x) AS dk,
grad(loss, v.x) AS dv
FROM q
JOIN k ONq.t=k.tANDq.d=k.dJOIN v ONq.t=v.tANDq.d=v.dORDER BYq.t, q.d
At 256 tokens it takes 0.59–0.67 s, against 0.61–0.62 s for three statements sharing one backward pass through sql_all, and it matches jax.grad to 3e-15. So the comprehension is gone, and so is sql_all in this demo. The cost is that the four CTEs appear twice per spelling.
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🌀 Claude: Thanks for asking me to check. The hyperparameters are not nanoGPT's, on purpose. The model wasn't quite nanoGPT's either, which wasn't on purpose, and 21f99d6 fixes that.
Size. nanoGPT's Shakespeare model (config/train_shakespeare_char.py) has 6 layers, 6 heads, 384 channels and 256 characters of context: 10.65M parameters. This one has 1 layer, 2 heads, 16 channels and 16 characters: 4,416 parameters. Even at this size, the 1-layer loss is 12,794 operators and 9.4 s on DataFusion, so nanoGPT's size isn't reachable yet. Each constant now names its GPTConfig counterpart and that config's value, with links to model.py and the config, and the script prints its parameter count. The vocabulary matches: 65 characters, from sorted(set(text)), as in nanoGPT's prepare.py.
What I compared against model.py, and fixed:
Layer-norm gains:LayerNorm has a learned weight, and the SQL had none. There are now tables ln_1, ln_2 and ln_f, with gains initialized to 1. Biases stay off, matching train.py's default bias = False.
Activation: nanoGPT's MLP uses GELU, and mine used ReLU² (from modded-nanogpt). It's now GELU in its tanh approximation, as GPT-2 computed it. nanoGPT's nn.GELU() is the exact erf form, which DataFusion doesn't have. The two differ by less than 5e-4. ReLU² can come back as a one-line diff in Part B, where einfold's zero-skipping needs it.
Initialization: nanoGPT scales c_proj (wo and w_proj here) to 0.02/√(2·n_layer). Mine used 0.02 for every weight; it now uses nanoGPT's scaling.
What already matched: tied wte and lm_head, learned position embeddings, pre-norm residual blocks, eps 1e-5, the 1/√head_size scale, the causal mask, and mean cross-entropy. c_attn holds the same parameters as wq, wk and wv, in one matrix.
Still different, now listed in the docstring:
SGD at a fixed learning rate. nanoGPT uses AdamW with warmup, cosine decay, weight decay and gradient clipping.
No dropout, so that a run can be checked against JAX. nanoGPT's Shakespeare config trains with dropout 0.2.
AdamW in SQL means keeping the optimizer's state in versioned tables, which einfold's Demo 2 calls out as an open question. I'd do it with Part B unless you want it here.
After the changes, five SGD steps still match JAX on every step: the loss to 2e-16, and all 11 parameter tables to 1e-15.
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🌀 Claude: Done in 5f92e69, along the lines you suggested in the follow-up: SGD stays the default, and --optimizer adamw trains as nanoGPT does. The learning rate is a table, schedule(step, lr), built from nanoGPT's get_lr (linear warmup, then cosine decay to min_lr). Each step's update joins it on s.step = {step}.
An AdamW step is two phases:
The gradient of every parameter table, SELECT …, grad(loss, w) AS g FROM wte and so on, through sql_all, so all eleven share one backward pass. Each result is registered as the table {name}_grad.
One plain-SQL statement per parameter table, with no ddx in it:
grad_norm and clip: the global norm of all eleven gradients, through a UNION ALL of the gradient tables, and the clip factor LEAST(1.0, 1.0 / (norm + 1e-6)), as clip_grad_norm_ computes it;
moments: Adam's two moments, which live as columns m and v beside w in each parameter table, so the optimizer's state is versioned with the weights;
the update: decoupled weight decay (0 for the layer-norm gains, as in nanoGPT's configure_optimizers), bias correction from s.step + 1, and eps.
Settings: nanoGPT's Shakespeare model's: lr 1e-3 to 1e-4, β = (0.9, 0.99), weight decay 0.1, clip 1.0. One difference: the schedule is stretched to --steps (warmup is 2% of the steps, as 100 of 5,000 is), because nanoGPT's spans 5,000 steps.
Checks:
The JAX reference step matches torch.optim.AdamW after clip_grad_norm_exactly (difference 0.0 over four steps, with clipping active). A control that changes torch's weight decay shows a difference of 5e-4, so the comparison isn't vacuous.
The SQL matches that reference to 6e-15 after each of five steps: the weights and both moments of all eleven tables.
Because the update is plain SQL, it would also run on DuckDB once ddx can take gradients there.
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🌀 Claude: Agreed, and that's how 5f92e69 does it: --optimizer sgd (the default) or --optimizer adamw. The SGD step is still one statement per table, w - 0.5 * grad(loss, w). Details in the reply above.
The DuckDB host sends statements that call grad, vjp or jvp to
ddxdb.duckdb.sql_all, as xarray-sql's Context does on DataFusion. A
gradient ddx or DuckDB's Substrait producer refuses is recorded with the
reason (Report.attempt), and a refused training step ends that host's
run, since later steps start from its weights.
Measured with ddx's development branch (after ddxdb 0.4.1): attention's
GROUP BY spelling differentiates on DuckDB and matches jax.grad; the
window spelling and the GPT are refused (xqlsystems/ddx#195). The
README records the timings and why DuckDB's gradient is slower: its
join order over Arrow scans in ddx's two big contractions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NyN7idACeDMh94qrnFMu6h
--layers, --embed, --heads and --context set nanoGPT's n_layer, n_embd,
n_head and block_size; the defaults are the model as it was. The README
records a profile on DataFusion: the loss's time is planning (a reused
physical plan runs in 1.8 ms), a second layer multiplies the plan by
about 100 and runs out of memory, and JAX's times are the target.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NyN7idACeDMh94qrnFMu6h
GraphCast takes about 6 minutes at its default 2 rounds and builds on
WeatherBench 2 data, so it lands with the work on its published weights
(#270). This PR keeps the attention and nanoGPT demos.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NyN7idACeDMh94qrnFMu6h
block() was one long template. It is now the composition nanoGPT's Block
is, of CausalSelfAttention and MLP, with the residual connections as their
own function. The SQL is the same, but for two table aliases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NyN7idACeDMh94qrnFMu6h
tests/test_ml_demos.py runs every demo at its smallest size, each checked
against JAX, and a new ml demos CI job installs JAX to run it.
benchmarks/ml/CONTRIBUTING.md says what a demo is made of, how to write
its SQL, and what to do when ddx or an engine can't run it. The
performance work is tracked in #285.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NyN7idACeDMh94qrnFMu6h
ddxdb 0.4.2 has the DuckDB backend, ddxdb.duckdb, which the DuckDB host
imports; 0.4.1 didn't. The demos' numbers are re-recorded on it. Every
check against JAX passes. On DuckDB, a loss may now take a gradient with
respect to a table that a view doesn't read. A view whose CTE computes a
window and is read twice is still refused (xqlsystems/ddx#204).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NyN7idACeDMh94qrnFMu6h
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🧹 If I'm reading Report.attempt right, a DdxError on DataFusion becomes a refused: row and the demo still exits 0: demo 1 continues past the gradient check, and demo 2 breaks out of training before comparing anything with JAX. So if a ddx release starts refusing the DataFusion gradients, this test stays green. DuckDB's refusals are expected, but could we fail here when the output has a refused: row for datafusion, or let _bench.cli take the hosts that must not refuse?
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🌀 Claude: Done in 38aaf91. Report.attempt now takes known=, a map from each host expected to refuse the step to the start of its error. Any other refusal is recorded as before, and then Report.finish exits with an error that lists it. So this test fails if a ddxdb release starts refusing a DataFusion gradient. I checked that by emptying known on a copy of the demos: both exit 1 and name the step. They also exit 1 when the error doesn't start with the expected text.
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🧹 --steps 1 runs the default SGD, so --optimizer adamw (adamw_statement, the clipping and the schedule table) never runs in CI, although the description says Adam's moments are checked against JAX after every step. Can we add an AdamW run? Since test_every_demo_is_listed compares set(DEMOS) with the scripts, it probably needs DEMOS to map a script to a list of argument lists.
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🌀 Claude: Done in 38aaf91. DEMOS maps each script to a list of argument lists, and 02_nanogpt.py now also runs --steps 1 --optimizer adamw. That run exercises adamw_statement, the clipping and schedule, and checks the weights and both moments against JAX.
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🧹 ddxdb 0.4.2's duckdb extra pins duckdb==1.5.6 (plus pyarrow), but nothing here installs it: the ml extra is plain ddxdb, the scripts ask for xarray-sql[ml,duckdb], and uv.lock resolves duckdb 1.5.5 through our own duckdb>=1.4.0. So the ml demos job and these numbers run ddx's DuckDB backend on a version ddxdb doesn't declare. Should the scripts' metadata ask for ddxdb[duckdb], or is 1.5.5 known to be fine?
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🌀 Claude: Good catch. 38aaf91 adds ddxdb[duckdb] to the dev group and to both scripts' metadata. The lock now resolves DuckDB 1.5.6, the version ddxdb pins, and the ml demos job runs on it. The whole unit suite passes on 1.5.6 (528 passed). I haven't changed the ml extra itself, so a DataFusion-only user doesn't get DuckDB.
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🧹 test_ad.py covers grad, sql_all and ddx_stop_gradient, but vjp and jvp never go through Context.sql() in the suite, so the routing and _wrap for those two are untested here. Can we add one small case for each, checked against the closed form as test_grad_matches_closed_form does?
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🌀 Claude: Added in 38aaf91. test_vjp_matches_closed_form pulls pred = x @ w back along the targets, which gives x.T @ y. test_jvp_matches_closed_form pushes it forward along a tangent t, which gives x @ t. Both run through Context.sql.
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🧹 uv pip install jax is the only unpinned install in this job (the rest comes from uv.lock), so a new JAX release can turn ml demos red with no change on our side. Can we pin it to the version the latest green run resolved?
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🌀 Claude: Fixed in 38aaf91 by locking it rather than pinning it in the workflow. jax is in the dev group, so uv.lock pins it (0.12.0.1 on Python 3.12, the version the last green run installed), and the separate uv pip install jax step is gone.
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🧹 CI's ml demos job installs only uv sync --dev plus jax, and tests/test_ml_demos.py runs each demo with sys.executable from .venv. Inline metadata is never read there, so a demo that adds a dependency as this step says passes under uv run and fails CI with an ImportError. I'd also put the dependency in the job's install step (or the test extra), and say so here.
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🌀 Claude: Done in 38aaf91. Step 1 now says to add a demo's dependency to the dev group in pyproject.toml as well as to its metadata, because CI runs the demos in the project's environment, which reads no script's metadata.
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🧹 At 512 tokens, this README's own figures put DataFusion 293 to 424 times behind JAX, but DuckDB's forward is up to 511 times behind and its gradients (2.4 s against 2.4 ms) about 1000 times. Proposal:
Suggested change
gradients: 300 to 400 times faster than either engine on attention,
gradients: 300 to 400 times faster than DataFusion on attention, and up to 1,000 times faster than DuckDB on its gradients,
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🌀 Claude: Applied in 38aaf91, with a small rewording so that the clause about where the time goes still reads: "300 to 400 times faster than DataFusion on attention, and up to 1,000 times faster than DuckDB on its gradients, whose time is in running their joins".
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🌀 Claude: 6.7 s is the measured one: the GPT's forward loss took 9.2 s with lazy tables and 2.5 s with in-memory ones (#275). 1.5 ms came from a single SELECT * over 1,040 rows, 1.7 ms against 0.26 ms. So in the GPT each lazy read cost about 2.2 ms. 38aaf91 gives both numbers, with the 9.2 s from that measurement rather than 9.4 s.
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⚠️ When a host refuses a gradient step, attempt records a refused: row and the demo carries on and exits 0. tests/test_ml_demos.py only checks the exit code. So if a ddxdb release inside <0.5 starts refusing attention's gradient or the GPT training step on DataFusion, the ml demos job stays green and no gradient gets compared against JAX. _hosts.py:108 also treats any duckdb.NotImplementedException as a refusal, not only the ones from DuckDB's Substrait producer. Today the only expected refusals are on DuckDB: attention's window spelling and the GPT training step (xqlsystems/ddx#204). I'd list those in a known-refusals set and have finish() exit non-zero for any other refusal, so the test fails when a new one appears.
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🌀 Claude: Done in 38aaf91, as you proposed. Each demo lists its known refusals, and finish() exits non-zero for any other. Today the known ones are DuckDB with Not implemented Error: CTE, on attention's window spelling and on the GPT's training steps, each with a TODO(xqlsystems/ddx#204). On _hosts.py:108: a refusal counts as known only if its error starts with that text, so any other duckdb.NotImplementedException now fails the run as well. I left refusals itself broad, so that an unexpected one still shows up as a refused: row in the table before the run fails.
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🧹 The loss here is SUM(w), which ddx differentiates, and the column is feature, an integer key the loss never reads. So this test never reaches an expression ddx can't differentiate, and pytest.raises(DdxError) on the base class also passes on any other ddx failure. Could we use one of the constructs the README lists instead, a GROUP BY key that depends on w, and add a match= on the name the error reports?
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🌀 Claude: Done in 38aaf91. The loss now groups by ROUND(w) and then reads the key, and the test expects UnsupportedExpression with match="GROUP BY key". ddx reports it as "gradient through a GROUP BY key: the aggregate groups by a value that depends on a wrt column…".
…uckDB
- A demo names the refusals it expects, by host and the start of the
error; Report.finish exits with an error for any other, so CI notices a
gradient a new ddxdb refuses.
- CI runs demo 2 with AdamW too.
- tests/test_ad.py: vjp and jvp through Context.sql, against their closed
forms; the refusal test reaches a GROUP BY key that depends on w.
- jax and ddxdb[duckdb] join the dev group, so the lock pins JAX and puts
DuckDB at the 1.5.6 ddxdb declares; CI's ml demos job no longer installs
JAX on its own, and the unit test job leaves the demos to it.
- Docs: run a ddx checkout with .venv/bin/python, since uv run ignores
--no-sync for a script with inline metadata; a demo's dependency goes in
the dev group too; the lazy read's cost and the JAX comparison, fixed.
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Enable DuckDB training with the fixed ddxdb release.
The development lockfile selects ddxdb 0.4.2, so CI skips DuckDB training for both optimizers. ddxdb 0.4.3 fixes the cited issue and supports the GPT step. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Update the development lockfile, check both optimizers, and remove this refusal allowance.
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Keep JAX optional for Intel macOS development.
On Intel macOS, uv sync cannot install the locked jaxlib: the lockfile has no compatible wheel or source distribution. This blocks the default development setup even when the demos are not needed. Move JAX to an opt-in demo group or exclude unsupported platforms. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Context.sql sends a query that calls grad, vjp or jvp to ddx, and runs any
other through main's path, which forgets a replaced table's Dataset.
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ddxdb 0.4.3 differentiates a view whose CTE computes a window on DuckDB
(xqlsystems/ddx#204), so the demos no longer expect DuckDB to refuse
attention's window spelling or the GPT's training step. Record the GPT
on DuckDB: its weights match JAX's, its loss takes 0.062 s against
DataFusion's 2.7 s, and an SGD step takes 0.87 s against 0.41 s, most of
it DuckDB planning ddx's 77 steps afresh and the adapter's reads.
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DataFusion plans a CTE again at every place that reads it, so a model
whose CTEs read each other more than once has a plan that grows
exponentially with its depth (#267). The 1-layer loss took 2.7 s at the
demo's size and 108 s at nanoGPT's CPU size, and the 2-layer loss ran out
of memory while planning.
- The GPT's SQL builders return their CTEs as (name, sql) pairs, and
every statement starts with the model's and the loss's CTEs, through
_hosts.with_query.
- Hosts gain query_with(ctes, select) and operators_with. DataFusion's
runs each CTE on its own into an in-memory table that later CTEs read,
under TODO(apache/datafusion#26237). It uses collect_partitioned and
register_record_batches rather than DataFrame.cache(), which einfold
can't yet plan a join of (xqlsystems/einfold#93).
- The model is no longer the view logits. Creating a DataFusion view
writes its CTEs out, so the 3-layer view didn't fit in 8 GB; ddx, given
the CTEs inline, computes each shared one once.
apache/datafusion#24780's streaming fan-out example doesn't fit these
queries: by its own notes it can deadlock when both sides of a hash join
read the shared plan, and doesn't nest. DataFusion 55 parses
`AS MATERIALIZED` only in its PostgreSQL dialect, and ignores it.
With ddxdb 0.4.4, at batch 4, on an Intel i7-8700: the 2-layer loss takes
0.07 s on DataFusion, and a 6-layer SGD step 2.4 s, against 0.30 s and
5.5 s on DuckDB; every step matches JAX.
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Builds on #275 (in-memory tables), now merged. Two PRs are stacked on this one: #270 (the GraphCast demo, moved out of here) and #287 (
Context.prepare).This adds an
mlextra that brings ddx's gradients intoxarray_sql.Context; ddx differentiates SQL queries. It also adds two ML demos inbenchmarks/mlbuilt on the extra, and a guide for contributing more. Each demo:The extra
pip install "xarray-sql[ml]"installs ddxdb (>=0.4.2,<0.5; ddxdb exchanges Substrait plans with DataFusion 55).xarray_sql/ad.pyfollows the pattern of thegeoextension:Contextregistersddx_stop_gradient.Context.sql()computesgrad,vjpandjvpcalls in a select list. A query that doesn't call them never reaches ddx's parser.xql.ad.sql_all(ctx, statements)runs several statements over one backward pass. A training step uses it to update each parameter table.tests/test_ad.pycovers it:sql_allsharing one loss;ddx_stop_gradient;The
testextra now includesml.The demos
01_attention.pyGROUP BYspellings; plus a control that isn't attention, the Nadaraya–Watson kernel average02_nanogpt.pylayer_norm(),attention(),mlp()andresidual()as nanoGPT'sBlockis, trained on Tiny Shakespeare with SGD or nanoGPT's AdamW, sized by--layers,--embed,--headsand--contextEach script runs the same SQL on every host in
_hosts.py:xarray_sql.Context;xql.register.Both hosts take ddx's gradients.
_bench.pyholds the shared command line, timing and checks, and the results table: each step's time, its error against JAX, and its plan's operator count. A gradient that a host refuses is recorded asrefused:with the error.For contributors
benchmarks/ml/CONTRIBUTING.md: what a demo is made of, how to write its SQL, what to do when ddx or an engine can't run it, and how to measure.tests/test_ml_demos.py: runs every demo at its smallest size, and fails if a demo isn't listed. A newml demosCI job installs JAX and runs it.AGENTS.md: two rules from review:TODO(#NN), and nowhere else in the source.mllabel.Findings
They're written up in full in
benchmarks/ml/README.md, and #285 has the latest numbers. All of the following were measured on an i7-8700 with DataFusion 55.0.0 and ddxdb 0.4.2.WITH … AS MATERIALIZEDis the fix.prepare(perf(ddx-ad, ddx-datafusion, ddxdb): prepare statements to run again ddx#203) it takes 0.53 s.Before merging
mlextra now requires it, and the README's numbers are re-recorded on it.ml demosjob passes on ddxdb 0.4.2, along with the unit tests on Python 3.10–3.13 (run, started by hand). Now that Register small in-memory Datasets as native in-memory tables #275 is merged, the job runs on this PR too.Not done yet
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