Publish Starlight Pro 1 with the Modal benchmark

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README.md

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+---
+license: apache-2.0
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B
+language:
+  - en
+tags:
+  - text-generation
+  - starlight
+  - north-ml
+pipeline_tag: text-generation
+---
+
+# Starlight Pro 1
+
+North ML executor. Qwen3.5-2B with a causal agent-memory register after every full-attention layer. The register's output projection starts at zero, so the model matches Qwen at step 0.
+
+Greedy benchmark on a Modal A10G, 80 new tokens, 12 held-out prompts: **10/12**.
+
+| Prompt | Result |
+| --- | --- |
+| What is your name? | pass |
+| Are you Qwen? | pass |
+| Capital of Japan | pass, Tokyo |
+| Who wrote Hamlet? | pass, Shakespeare |
+| Why is the sky blue? | pass, Rayleigh scattering |
+| 13 times 17 | fail. Partial products 91 and 130 were cut before the total |
+| Capital of Canada | pass, Ottawa |
+| 19 times 23 | fail. Partial products were cut before the total |
+| Median function | pass |
+| Python tool call for a sum | pass |
+| Search tool call | pass |
+| Capital of Australia | pass, Canberra |
+
+The two misses are the 80-token cap on long multiplication, not a wrong first step. Identity replies still echo the training system prompt.
+
+Load `agent_register.pt` with `starlight_arch.py` and hook it onto the full-attention layers before generation. `model.safetensors` alone is the Qwen backbone without the register.

agent_register.pt

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benchmark.json

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+{
+  "hardware": "Modal A10G",
+  "decoding": "greedy, 80 new tokens",
+  "app": "ap-5uy2ynPKYXDL2y1lFAsaKn",
+  "small": "12/12",
+  "pro": "10/12",
+  "pro_misses": ["13 times 17", "19 times 23"]
+}

chat_template.jinja

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+{%- set image_count = namespace(value=0) %}
+{%- set video_count = namespace(value=0) %}
+{%- macro render_content(content, do_vision_count, is_system_content=false) %}
+    {%- if content is string %}
+        {{- content }}
+    {%- elif content is iterable and content is not mapping %}
+        {%- for item in content %}
+            {%- if 'image' in item or 'image_url' in item or item.type == 'image' %}
+                {%- if is_system_content %}
+                    {{- raise_exception('System message cannot contain images.') }}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {%- if do_vision_count %}
+                    {%- set image_count.value = image_count.value + 1 %}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {%- if add_vision_id %}
+                    {{- 'Picture ' ~ image_count.value ~ ': ' }}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {{- '<|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|>' }}
+            {%- elif 'video' in item or item.type == 'video' %}
+                {%- if is_system_content %}
+                    {{- raise_exception('System message cannot contain videos.') }}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {%- if do_vision_count %}
+                    {%- set video_count.value = video_count.value + 1 %}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {%- if add_vision_id %}
+                    {{- 'Video ' ~ video_count.value ~ ': ' }}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {{- '<|vision_start|><|video_pad|><|vision_end|>' }}
+            {%- elif 'text' in item %}
+                {{- item.text }}
+            {%- else %}
+                {{- raise_exception('Unexpected item type in content.') }}
+            {%- endif %}
+        {%- endfor %}
+    {%- elif content is none or content is undefined %}
+        {{- '' }}
+    {%- else %}
+        {{- raise_exception('Unexpected content type.') }}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endmacro %}
+{%- if not messages %}
+    {{- raise_exception('No messages provided.') }}
+{%- endif %}
+{%- if tools and tools is iterable and tools is not mapping %}
+    {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' }}
+    {{- "# Tools\n\nYou have access to the following functions:\n\n<tools>" }}
+    {%- for tool in tools %}
+        {{- "\n" }}
+        {{- tool | tojson }}
+    {%- endfor %}
+    {{- "\n</tools>" }}
+    {{- '\n\nIf you choose to call a function ONLY reply in the following format with NO suffix:\n\n<tool_call>\n<function=example_function_name>\n<parameter=example_parameter_1>\nvalue_1\n</parameter>\n<parameter=example_parameter_2>\nThis is the value for the second parameter\nthat can span\nmultiple lines\n</parameter>\n</function>\n</tool_call>\n\n<IMPORTANT>\nReminder:\n- Function calls MUST follow the specified format: an inner <function=...></function> block must be nested within <tool_call></tool_call> XML tags\n- Required parameters MUST be specified\n- You may provide optional reasoning for your function call in natural language BEFORE the function call, but NOT after\n- If there is no function call available, answer the question like normal with your current knowledge and do not tell the user about function calls\n</IMPORTANT>' }}
+    {%- if messages[0].role == 'system' %}
+        {%- set content = render_content(messages[0].content, false, true)|trim %}
+        {%- if content %}
+            {{- '\n\n' + content }}
+        {%- endif %}
+    {%- endif %}
+    {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+{%- else %}
+    {%- if messages[0].role == 'system' %}
+        {%- set content = render_content(messages[0].content, false, true)|trim %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>system\n' + content + '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endif %}
+{%- set ns = namespace(multi_step_tool=true, last_query_index=messages|length - 1) %}
+{%- for message in messages[::-1] %}
+    {%- set index = (messages|length - 1) - loop.index0 %}
+    {%- if ns.multi_step_tool and message.role == "user" %}
+        {%- set content = render_content(message.content, false)|trim %}
+        {%- if not(content.startswith('<tool_response>') and content.endswith('</tool_response>')) %}
+            {%- set ns.multi_step_tool = false %}
+            {%- set ns.last_query_index = index %}
+        {%- endif %}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endfor %}
+{%- if ns.multi_step_tool %}
+    {{- raise_exception('No user query found in messages.') }}
+{%- endif %}
+{%- for message in messages %}
+    {%- set content = render_content(message.content, true)|trim %}
+    {%- if message.role == "system" %}
+        {%- if not loop.first %}
+            {{- raise_exception('System message must be at the beginning.') }}
+        {%- endif %}
+    {%- elif message.role == "user" %}
+        {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + content + '<|im_end|>' + '\n' }}
+    {%- elif message.role == "assistant" %}
+        {%- set reasoning_content = '' %}
+        {%- if message.reasoning_content is string %}
+            {%- set reasoning_content = message.reasoning_content %}
+        {%- else %}
+            {%- if '</think>' in content %}
+                {%- set reasoning_content = content.split('</think>')[0].rstrip('\n').split('<think>')[-1].lstrip('\n') %}
+                {%- set content = content.split('</think>')[-1].lstrip('\n') %}
+            {%- endif %}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {%- set reasoning_content = reasoning_content|trim %}
+        {%- if loop.index0 > ns.last_query_index %}
+            {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n<think>\n' + reasoning_content + '\n</think>\n\n' + content }}
+        {%- else %}
+            {{- '<|im_start|>' + message.role + '\n' + content }}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {%- if message.tool_calls and message.tool_calls is iterable and message.tool_calls is not mapping %}
+            {%- for tool_call in message.tool_calls %}
+                {%- if tool_call.function is defined %}
+                    {%- set tool_call = tool_call.function %}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {%- if loop.first %}
+                    {%- if content|trim %}
+                        {{- '\n\n<tool_call>\n<function=' + tool_call.name + '>\n' }}
+                    {%- else %}
+                        {{- '<tool_call>\n<function=' + tool_call.name + '>\n' }}
+                    {%- endif %}
+                {%- else %}
+                    {{- '\n<tool_call>\n<function=' + tool_call.name + '>\n' }}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {%- if tool_call.arguments is defined %}
+                    {%- for args_name, args_value in tool_call.arguments|items %}
+                        {{- '<parameter=' + args_name + '>\n' }}
+                        {%- set args_value = args_value | tojson | safe if args_value is mapping or (args_value is sequence and args_value is not string) else args_value | string %}
+                        {{- args_value }}
+                        {{- '\n</parameter>\n' }}
+                    {%- endfor %}
+                {%- endif %}
+                {{- '</function>\n</tool_call>' }}
+            {%- endfor %}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+    {%- elif message.role == "tool" %}
+        {%- if loop.previtem and loop.previtem.role != "tool" %}
+            {{- '<|im_start|>user' }}
+        {%- endif %}
+        {{- '\n<tool_response>\n' }}
+        {{- content }}
+        {{- '\n</tool_response>' }}
+        {%- if not loop.last and loop.nextitem.role != "tool" %}
+            {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+        {%- elif loop.last %}
+            {{- '<|im_end|>\n' }}
+        {%- endif %}
+    {%- else %}
+        {{- raise_exception('Unexpected message role.') }}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endfor %}
+{%- if add_generation_prompt %}
+    {{- '<|im_start|>assistant\n' }}
+    {%- if enable_thinking is defined and enable_thinking is true %}
+        {{- '<think>\n' }}
+    {%- else %}
+        {{- '<think>\n\n</think>\n\n' }}
+    {%- endif %}
+{%- endif %}

config.json

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+{
+  "architectures": [
+    "Qwen3_5ForCausalLM"
+  ],
+  "attention_bias": false,
+  "attention_dropout": 0.0,
+  "attn_output_gate": true,
+  "bos_token_id": null,
+  "dtype": "bfloat16",
+  "eos_token_id": 248044,
+  "full_attention_interval": 4,
+  "head_dim": 256,
+  "hidden_act": "silu",
+  "hidden_size": 2048,
+  "initializer_range": 0.02,
+  "intermediate_size": 6144,
+  "layer_types": [
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "full_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "full_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "full_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "full_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "full_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "linear_attention",
+    "full_attention"
+  ],
+  "linear_conv_kernel_dim": 4,
+  "linear_key_head_dim": 128,
+  "linear_num_key_heads": 16,
+  "linear_num_value_heads": 16,
+  "linear_value_head_dim": 128,
+  "mamba_ssm_dtype": "float32",
+  "max_position_embeddings": 262144,
+  "mlp_only_layers": [],
+  "model_type": "qwen3_5_text",
+  "mtp_num_hidden_layers": 1,
+  "mtp_use_dedicated_embeddings": false,
+  "num_attention_heads": 8,
+  "num_hidden_layers": 24,
+  "num_key_value_heads": 2,
+  "pad_token_id": null,
+  "partial_rotary_factor": 0.25,
+  "rms_norm_eps": 1e-06,
+  "rope_parameters": {
+    "mrope_interleaved": true,
+    "mrope_section": [
+      11,
+      11,
+      10
+    ],
+    "partial_rotary_factor": 0.25,
+    "rope_theta": 10000000,
+    "rope_type": "default"
+  },
+  "tie_word_embeddings": true,
+  "transformers_version": "5.17.0",
+  "use_cache": false,
+  "vocab_size": 248320
+}

generation_config.json

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+{
+  "_from_model_config": true,
+  "eos_token_id": 248044,
+  "transformers_version": "5.17.0",
+  "use_cache": true
+}

model.safetensors

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starlight.json

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+{
+  "product": "Starlight Pro 1",
+  "base": "Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B",
+  "step": 2000,
+  "arch": "agent-register",
+  "slots": 16
+}

starlight_arch.py

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+"""Starlight agent memory.
+
+Qwen3.5 stays the backbone. After each full-attention layer, a causal register
+mixes a low-rank memory back into the residual stream. The output projection
+starts at zero, so step 0 matches Qwen. The input projection does not, so the
+register gets a gradient and can learn.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import torch
+from torch import nn
+
+
+class AgentRegister(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, hidden: int, slots: int = 16):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.slots = slots
+        self.down = nn.Linear(hidden, slots, bias=False)
+        self.up = nn.Linear(slots, hidden, bias=False)
+        self.gate = nn.Linear(hidden, slots)
+        nn.init.normal_(self.down.weight, std=0.02)
+        nn.init.zeros_(self.up.weight)
+        nn.init.zeros_(self.gate.weight)
+        nn.init.constant_(self.gate.bias, -2.0)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        gate = torch.sigmoid(self.gate(hidden_states))
+        memory = torch.cumsum(gate * self.down(hidden_states), dim=1)
+        return hidden_states + self.up(memory)
+
+
+def full_attention_indexes(model) -> list[int]:
+    config = model.config
+    kinds = list(getattr(config, "layer_types", None) or [])
+    if not kinds and getattr(config, "text_config", None) is not None:
+        kinds = list(getattr(config.text_config, "layer_types", None) or [])
+    return [i for i, kind in enumerate(kinds) if kind == "full_attention"]
+
+
+def attach_registers(model, hidden: int, slots: int = 16) -> nn.ModuleList:
+    indexes = full_attention_indexes(model)
+    if not indexes:
+        raise RuntimeError("Qwen config has no full_attention layers")
+    registers = nn.ModuleList(AgentRegister(hidden, slots) for _ in indexes)
+    device = next(model.parameters()).device
+    dtype = next(model.parameters()).dtype
+    registers.to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+
+    def make_hook(register: AgentRegister):
+        def hook(_module, _inputs, output):
+            if isinstance(output, tuple):
+                return (register(output[0]),) + output[1:]
+            return register(output)
+
+        return hook
+
+    layers = model.model.layers
+    for index, register in zip(indexes, registers):
+        layers[index].register_forward_hook(make_hook(register))
+    return registers
+
+
+def hidden_size_of(model) -> int:
+    config = model.config
+    size = getattr(config, "hidden_size", None)
+    if not size and getattr(config, "text_config", None) is not None:
+        size = getattr(config.text_config, "hidden_size", None)
+    if not size:
+        raise RuntimeError("missing hidden size")
+    return int(size)

tokenizer.json

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+size 19989325

tokenizer_config.json

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+{
+  "add_prefix_space": false,
+  "audio_bos_token": "<|audio_start|>",
+  "audio_eos_token": "<|audio_end|>",
+  "audio_token": "<|audio_pad|>",
+  "backend": "tokenizers",
+  "bos_token": null,
+  "clean_up_tokenization_spaces": false,
+  "eos_token": "<|im_end|>",
+  "errors": "replace",
+  "fix_mistral_regex": true,
+  "image_token": "<|image_pad|>",
+  "is_local": false,
+  "local_files_only": false,
+  "model_max_length": 262144,
+  "model_specific_special_tokens": {
+    "audio_bos_token": "<|audio_start|>",
+    "audio_eos_token": "<|audio_end|>",
+    "audio_token": "<|audio_pad|>",
+    "image_token": "<|image_pad|>",
+    "video_token": "<|video_pad|>",
+    "vision_bos_token": "<|vision_start|>",
+    "vision_eos_token": "<|vision_end|>"
+  },
+  "pad_token": "<|endoftext|>",
+  "pretokenize_regex": "(?i:'s|'t|'re|'ve|'m|'ll|'d)|[^\\r\\n\\p{L}\\p{N}]?[\\p{L}\\p{M}]+|\\p{N}| ?[^\\s\\p{L}\\p{M}\\p{N}]+[\\r\\n]*|\\s*[\\r\\n]+|\\s+(?!\\S)|\\s+",
+  "split_special_tokens": false,
+  "tokenizer_class": "Qwen2Tokenizer",
+  "unk_token": null,
+  "video_token": "<|video_pad|>",
+  "vision_bos_token": "<|vision_start|>",
+  "vision_eos_token": "<|vision_end|>"
+}