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feat(hslm): [G] 3-Level Adaptive Sparsity — magnitude pruning #336

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Parent: #329 — Fully Ternary Transformer

Level 0 (no dependencies) | ~100 LOC | New: src/hslm/adaptive_sparsity.zig

Description

Three sparsity levels: dense (0%), sparse (33%), ultra_sparse (66%). Per-layer sensitivity analysis for automatic level selection. Magnitude-based pruning.

Implementation

  • SparsityLevel enum: dense (0%), sparse (33%), ultra_sparse (66%)
  • applyMask(weights: []i2, level: SparsityLevel) → []i2 — magnitude pruning to target density
  • analyzeSensitivity(layer: Layer) → SparsityLevel — auto per-layer: measure output variance change
  • Mask is binary: keep or zero out

tri CLI

tri hslm sparsity

Tests

  • Sparsity percentages: correct % of zeros after pruning
  • Pruning: smallest magnitudes removed first
  • Sensitivity: attention layers get less pruning than FFN

Blocks

  • Issue L (Integration — trainer.zig applies sparsity after optimizer)

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