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Rewritten after JuliaGNI/GeometricOptimizers.jl#121 was redesigned. GO now steps a CompositeMethod with one TrainingOptimizer that keeps a cache and a state per leaf. So this PR no longer adds a per-layer seam to GML's own optimizer loop. It deletes that loop: this is GML's half of G4. The earlier design (leafmethod/accepts_parameter_set/sync_state!) is gone from both PRs.

Summary

Optimizer holds one GeometricOptimizers.TrainingOptimizer over the whole parameter set of a network, and optimization_step!(ps, opt, dp) is GO's own function extended for it. A composite then needs nothing of its own here:

opt = Optimizer(CompositeMethod(; manifold = ScalarMomentAdam(), array = Adam()), nn)

Every leaf gets the cache and state of the method chosen for it. That is how ScalarMomentAdam, which steps a single StiefelManifold, trains the Stiefel weights of a symplectic autoencoder beside Adam on the SympNet layers.

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1. 8470206e, move to the GeometricOptimizers 0.9 dependency generation. GO 0.9 requires AbstractNeuralNetworks 0.9, NeuralNetworkParameters 0.4.2 and GeometricBase 0.15. No registered GO release before 0.9 allows those (GO 0.8.0 pins NNP 0.3, GB 0.14 and ANN 0.8), and every registered SymbolicNeuralNetworks 0.8.x pins ANN 0.8 and NNP 0.3, so all five bounds move together. I had planned this as a separate PR, but it can't pass without GO 0.9.

  • Deleted, now ANN 0.9's own: the three 3-tensor functors on Dense/Linear (src/layers/resnet.jl) and ext/HDF5Ext.jl (save/load for NeuralNetwork). Aqua's piracies and ambiguities checks are switched back on and report 0, down from 3 and 1, which closes B7.
  • Renamed: LowerTriangular/UpperTriangular are now StrictlyLowerTriangular/StrictlyUpperTriangular, as in GO 0.9. Files GML 0.8 wrote with these leaves load again with Register the pre-0.9 names of the triangular types for loading GeometricOptimizers.jl#146; the legacy-file test now covers a VolumePreservingFeedForward network.
  • Added: KernelAbstractions.get_backend(::PoissonTensor), because GO 0.9's * asks both factors for their backend.
  • Changed by NNP 0.4: a Zygote gradient through a NetworkParameters is now the gradient with respect to the leaf's storage. A SymmetricMatrix leaf keeps its type however often the loss reads it, which resolves Zygote gradient w.r.t. NetworkParameters loses the SymmetricMatrix leaf on a second access #319, and its off-diagonal entries are doubled. The gradient-structure tests assert that instead of the old split.

2. 84d0c4ef, Optimizer is a TrainingOptimizer.

  • Deleted: _make_optimizer_cache, _make_optimizer_state, _tree_optim_step!, _leaf_optim_step!, GMLEuclideanState, _GMLGradient, _as_go_solution, the isa chain over the state types, and the λY argument of optimization_step! and optimize_for_one_epoch!.
  • Same iterates: GO's G4 (CompatHelper: bump compat for AbstractNeuralNetworks to 0.2, (keep existing compat) #124) checked that TrainingOptimizer reproduces GML 0.8's iterates: exactly for Adam, and to 4eps(T) for gradient and momentum on manifold models.
  • New API: optimization_step!(ps, opt, dp) instead of optimization_step!(opt, λY, ps, dp); retraction = Cayley()/Geodesic() instead of the functions; methods without an element type (Adam(), MomentumMethod(; α), AdamOptimizerWithDecay(n)). Every call site in src, test, docs and scripts is updated.
  • Re-exported: CompositeMethod, CompositeState, ScalarMomentAdam and ScalarMomentAdamState.
  • Name clash: optimization_step! is now one function across both packages. Optimizer is still exported by both, and C1 in KNOWN_ISSUES is narrowed to that.
  • Tests: test/optimizers/composite_method.jl checks that each leaf gets the state of its method, and that a composite of Adam on every leaf equals Adam exactly.

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CI here can't go green until both are released.

Testing

Run locally on Julia 1.13 (Apple M4 Max). The test environment had GO from the local clone (#121 with #146 on top) and SNN from the #80 branch, both developed into it. Because those still carry 0.8.x version numbers, the GO and SNN compat bounds were relaxed to "0.8" for the run only and not committed.

what result
full suite (core, slow, metal) 4217 pass, 3 broken (the existing JET @test_broken for #325), 0 fail/error
doctests (in slow) pass
docs/check_references.jl 0 unresolved references
.githooks/test-layout.jl --check clean

The full docs build was not run: the docs environment failed to precompile LibCURL_jll (a missing Zstd_jll package image), which has nothing to do with this change, and the tutorials train networks. The scripts under scripts/ were updated but not run.

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  • New Features
    • Added CompositeMethod support for choosing an optimizer method for each parameter group, including mixed manifold and dense parameters.
  • Updates
    • Optimizer setup and optimization-step calls have changed; optimizer methods no longer require an explicit element type.
    • Triangular matrix types are now named StrictlyLowerTriangular and StrictlyUpperTriangular.
    • Updated compatibility with newer related packages and improved gradient behavior for network parameters.
  • Removals
    • Removed HDF5 network save/load support and three-axis Dense and Linear methods.

A symplectic autoencoder has PSD layers that carry only Stiefel weights beside
SympNet layers that carry only Euclidean ones, and `ScalarMomentAdam` accepts
exactly one `StiefelManifold` solution. A caller wanting that method on the
former and ordinary `Adam` on the latter had to add methods to
`_make_optimizer_cache`, `_make_optimizer_state` and `_leaf_optim_step!` from
outside this package -- type piracy on four underscore-prefixed internals, which
breaks silently at run time on any refactor here, in the middle of whatever it
was training.

`GeometricOptimizers.CompositeMethod` is now accepted wherever a method is. The
three functions resolve the layer's method with `leafmethod` and then behave
exactly as they do for that method, so a layer stepped under a composite is
bit-for-bit a layer stepped under the method selected for it.

Two lists of methods maintained in the package that does not define them go with
it. `_leaf_optim_step!`'s `isa AdamState / isa MomentumState` chain becomes one
`sync_state!` call -- that chain had the failure mode such a list has, and
`ScalarMomentAdam` was simply missing from it -- and `_go_update_leaf!`
dispatches on `FirstOrderMethodWithState` rather than naming `Adam` and
`MomentumMethod`. `ScalarMomentAdam` is GO-native here as a result; it had been
falling through to `GMLEuclideanState`, which is coordinate-wise Adam on the
ambient array rather than the method, and off the manifold.

Requires GeometricOptimizers 0.8.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
The per-layer CompositeMethod seam of this branch is replaced in the next
commit, so main's versions of the files it touched are taken.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
benedict-96 and others added 2 commits October 5, 2026 17:56
…neration

GeometricOptimizers 0.9 requires AbstractNeuralNetworks 0.9,
NeuralNetworkParameters 0.4.2 and GeometricBase 0.15, and no registered
release of either GeometricOptimizers or SymbolicNeuralNetworks allows those,
so the five bounds move together (JuliaGNI/SymbolicNeuralNetworks.jl#80).

- AbstractNeuralNetworks 0.9 defines the three-axis methods of Dense and
  Linear and save/load for a NeuralNetwork itself: delete the three pirated
  functors in src/layers/resnet.jl and ext/HDF5Ext.jl. Aqua's piracies and
  ambiguities checks run again and report none.
- LowerTriangular/UpperTriangular are StrictlyLowerTriangular/
  StrictlyUpperTriangular; the legacy-file test covers a network with them
  (needs JuliaGNI/GeometricOptimizers.jl#146).
- PoissonTensor answers KernelAbstractions.get_backend, which
  GeometricOptimizers 0.9 asks of both factors of a product.
- Under NeuralNetworkParameters 0.4 a gradient through a NetworkParameters is
  the storage gradient: the gradient-structure tests assert that, and #319's
  structure loss is gone.

The optimizer is moved to GeometricOptimizers 0.9 in the next commit; this one
does not build on its own against GeometricOptimizers 0.9.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
…leaf

GML's half of G4. `Optimizer` holds one GeometricOptimizers.TrainingOptimizer
over the whole parameter set, and `optimization_step!(ps, opt, dp)` is
GeometricOptimizers' function extended for it. The per-layer walk, the
Euclidean update rules (GMLEuclideanState), _GMLGradient and the λY argument
of the step and of optimize_for_one_epoch! are gone.

A CompositeMethod (JuliaGNI/GeometricOptimizers.jl#121) now passes straight
through: every leaf gets the cache and state of the method selected for it,
so ScalarMomentAdam can train the Stiefel weights of a network beside Adam on
the rest. test/optimizers/composite_method.jl checks the per-leaf states and
that a composite of Adam on every leaf reproduces Adam exactly.

The GeometricOptimizers 0.9 API throughout: methods without an element type,
Cayley()/Geodesic() as retractions. KNOWN_ISSUES C2 is closed and C1 narrowed
to the shared name `Optimizer`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
@benedict-96 benedict-96 changed the title Take one optimizer method per layer, and stop listing methods here Train through GeometricOptimizers' TrainingOptimizer (G4), one method per leaf Oct 5, 2026
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The optimizer now delegates parameter updates to GeometricOptimizers and uses revised training signatures. The changes add per-leaf optimizer methods, adopt strict triangular matrix types, remove selected APIs and the package HDF5 extension, and update tests, dependencies, and documentation.

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Optimizer and gradient updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
TrainingOptimizer wrapper and composite methods
src/optimizers/optimizer.jl, src/GeometricMachineLearning.jl, test/optimizers/composite_method.jl, test/optimizers/optimization_step.jl, docs/src/optimizers/optimizer.md
Optimizer wraps a TrainingOptimizer. The package exports CompositeMethod, CompositeState, ScalarMomentAdam, and ScalarMomentAdamState. Tests check per-leaf method selection and optimizer state.
Training entry points and migrated call sites
src/data_loader/optimize.jl, test/data_loader/*, test/optimizers/*, test/layers/*, docs/src/tutorials/*, scripts/reproduction/*
Epoch training and optimizer examples use the revised call signatures. Optimizer constructors no longer receive an explicit element type. Tests inspect state through optimizer.training.
NetworkParameters gradient structure
test/helpers/network_parameters_gradient_structure.jl, test/layers/*network_parameters_gradient*.jl, src/layers/symplectic_attention.jl
The gradient helper compares wrapper gradients with storage gradients of bare parameter gradients. The checks assert that both gradients retain the SymmetricMatrix leaf structure.

Strict triangular matrix types

Layer / File(s) Summary
Strict triangular types in layers and kernels
src/GeometricMachineLearning.jl, src/layers/volume_preserving_feedforward.jl, src/kernels/*
Exports, layer parameter initialization, tensor multiplication methods, and pullbacks now use StrictlyLowerTriangular and StrictlyUpperTriangular.
Strict triangular tests and documentation
test/arrays/triangular.jl, test/layers/volume_preserving_feedforward.jl, test/integration/*, test/map_to_cpu_tests.jl, test/optimizers/structured_array_parameters.jl, docs/src/arrays/tensors.md, docs/src/layers/volume_preserving_feedforward.md, docs/src/index.md
Tests and documentation use the strict triangular types. HDF5 compatibility tests retain historical LowerTriangular and UpperTriangular storage tags.

Package integration and removed APIs

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dependency and HDF5 integration changes
Project.toml, ext/HDF5Ext.jl, docs/check_references.jl, docs/make.jl, docs/src/architectures/abstract_neural_networks.md
The package removes its HDF5 weak dependency and extension. Documentation assigns HDF5-backed save and load methods to AbstractNeuralNetworks. Several dependency minimums increase.
Removed methods and package checks
src/layers/resnet.jl, test/quality/aqua.jl, KNOWN_ISSUES.md, CHANGELOG.md
The rank-three Dense and Linear methods are removed. Aqua runs with default checks, and the changelog and known-issue entries are revised.
PoissonTensor backend lookup
src/arrays/poisson_tensor.jl
KernelAbstractions.get_backend returns the backend of the matrix wrapped by PoissonTensor.

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  participant optimize_for_one_epoch
  participant optimization_step
  participant TrainingOptimizer
  optimize_for_one_epoch->>optimization_step: pass parameters, optimizer, and gradient
  optimization_step->>TrainingOptimizer: delegate the optimization step
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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 84d0c

The inspected backend change is narrowly scoped and does not introduce a privileged operation. The optimizer ownership and API migration warrant design review, although dependency behavior and some affected paths remain incompletely verified.

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Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Backend identity is derived from the wrapped matrix rather than supplied independently. The adjacent comment describes GeometricOptimizers rejecting products across backends, but that external enforcement was not verified and should not be treated as a proven authorization control.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The existing Metal test checks backend preservation and host-equivalent values for row-view and adjoint-wrapped products. It supplies narrow counterevidence for valid inputs, not evidence about malformed dimensions, mixed backends, interruption, or recovery from failed kernel launches.
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning [#319] The updated helper verifies that both gradients retain a SymmetricMatrix leaf. It then compares the wrapper gradient with storage_gradient(ps.L1.A, a_bare), not with the bare gradient. The … Preserve the gradient-value agreement required by #319 while keeping the wrapper gradient leaf typed as SymmetricMatrix. Update the regression test to assert both properties.
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The optimizer-loop replacement and GO 0.9 compatibility changes are not needed for #319 alone. The current PR description identifies them as the PR's G4 objective. The dependency, API, type-name, docu…
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[#319] The updated helper verifies that both gradients retain a SymmetricMatrix leaf. It then compares the wrapper gradient with storage_gradient(ps.L1.A, a_bare), not with the bare gradient. The helper documentation says this conversion doubles off-diagonal entries. Therefore, the tests do not preserve #319's stated value agreement while fixing the type loss.

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sae_nn_gpu = NeuralNetwork(sae_arch, CUDADevice(), Float32)
o = Optimizer(sae_nn_gpu; AdamOptimizerWithDecay(integrator_train_epochs, Float32)...)
o = Optimizer(sae_nn_gpu; AdamOptimizerWithDecay(integrator_train_epochs)...)

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