Quick Fix Reference - Backpropagation Errors

What Was Fixed

✅ Inplace operation errors - Changed residual connections to use new variable names
✅ Gradient accumulation - Added explicit gradient clearing
✅ Error recovery - Enhanced error handling to catch and recover from inplace errors
✅ Performance - Disabled anomaly detection (2-3x speedup)
✅ Checkpoint race conditions - Added delays and existence checks
✅ Batch validation - Skip training when required data is missing

Key Changes

Transformer Layer (NN/models/advanced_transformer_trading.py)

# ❌ BEFORE - Causes inplace errors
x = self.norm1(x + self.dropout(attn_output))
x = self.norm2(x + self.dropout(ff_output))

# ✅ AFTER - Uses new variables
x_new = self.norm1(x + self.dropout(attn_output))
x_out = self.norm2(x_new + self.dropout(ff_output))

Gradient Clearing (NN/models/advanced_transformer_trading.py)

# ✅ NEW - Explicit gradient clearing
self.optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)
for param in self.model.parameters():
    if param.grad is not None:
        param.grad = None

Error Recovery (NN/models/advanced_transformer_trading.py)

# ✅ NEW - Catch and recover from inplace errors
try:
    total_loss.backward()
except RuntimeError as e:
    if "inplace operation" in str(e):
        self.optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)
        return zero_loss_result
    raise

Testing

Run your realtime training and verify:

✅ No inplace operation errors
✅ Training completes without crashes
✅ Loss and accuracy show real values (not 0.0)
✅ GPU utilization increases during training

If You Still See Errors

Check model is in training mode: model.train()
Clear GPU cache: torch.cuda.empty_cache()
Restart training from scratch (delete old checkpoints if needed)

Files Modified

NN/models/advanced_transformer_trading.py - Core fixes
ANNOTATE/core/real_training_adapter.py - Validation and cleanup

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