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README.md

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+## 🚀 Train It Now!
+
+**[![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/)**  ← Download `IRIS_Training_Notebook.ipynb` from this repo and upload to Colab!
+
+**Quick start**: Download [`IRIS_Training_Notebook.ipynb`](./IRIS_Training_Notebook.ipynb), open it in Colab (or Kaggle), enable GPU, and run all cells. Trains end-to-end in ~2-3 hours on a free T4.
+
+The notebook includes:
+- 📦 Auto-downloads architecture code from this repo
+- 🎨 Trains on Pokémon BLIP Captions dataset (833 image-caption pairs)
+- 🔬 Stage 1: Wavelet VAE training with frequency-aware loss
+- ⚡ Stage 2: Rectified Flow generator training with CLIP conditioning
+- 📊 Visualizations: reconstructions, generated samples, loss curves, GRFM internals
+- 💾 Checkpoint saving for continued training
+
 ## 🎯 Why IRIS?
 
 Current image generation models face critical limitations:
@@ -68,67 +82,43 @@ Image ──→ HaarDWT ──→ WaveletVAE ──→ z₀ [C×H/16×W/16]
 ### 🔬 Key Innovations
 
 #### 1. GRFM (Gated Recurrent Fourier Mixer) — Novel Token Mixing
-A novel token mixing mechanism that fuses three complementary pathways:
+Three complementary pathways fused via learned adaptive gating:
 
 - **Fourier Global Pathway** (O(N log N)): `RFFT2 → Block-diagonal MLP → SoftShrink → IRFFT2`
-  - Captures global textures and patterns via frequency-domain processing
-  - Soft-shrinkage enforces sparsity (images are sparse in frequency domain)
-  
-- **Gated Linear Recurrence** (O(N)): Bidirectional RG-LRU scan
-  - `h_t = a_t ⊙ h_{t-1} + √(1 - a_t²) ⊙ (i_t ⊙ x_t)`
-  - Captures sequential dependencies with O(1) state per position
-  
-- **Manhattan Spatial Gate**: Per-head learnable spatial decay
-  - `D_{nm} = γ_head^(|x_n-x_m| + |y_n-y_m|)`
-  - Provides 2D inductive bias with multi-scale receptive fields
-
-The three pathways are merged via **learned adaptive gating**:
+- **Gated Linear Recurrence** (O(N)): Bidirectional RG-LRU scan with variance-preserving updates
+- **Manhattan Spatial Gate**: Per-head learnable spatial decay `D_{nm} = γ^Manhattan(n,m)`
+
 ```
 output = gate × x_fourier + (1 - gate) × x_recurrent + α × x_spatial
 ```
 
 #### 2. Recurrent Depth Core (Huginn paradigm, novel for images)
-- The core denoising block uses **shared weights** across all iterations
-- A 4-layer core block iterated 8× = 32 effective layers from just 4 layers of parameters
-- **Budget-adaptive inference**: 4 iterations for mobile speed, 16 for maximum quality
-- Iteration-aware conditioning via adaLN: the model learns different behavior at each depth
+- Shared-weight core block iterated 4-16× (same model, adaptive quality!)
+- 4-layer block × 8 iterations = 32 effective layers from just 4 layers of params
+- **48M unique params → 270-524M effective capacity**
 
 #### 3. Wavelet-Frequency Latent Space
-- Haar DWT preprocesses images before VAE encoding (lossless, invertible)
-- Latent space preserves frequency structure (LL=structure, LH/HL/HH=details)
-- 16× total spatial compression with wavelet transform
+- Haar DWT preprocessing preserves frequency structure in latent space
+- 16× total spatial compression (lossless wavelet + learned VAE)
 
 #### 4. Dual-Axis Recurrence (Novel)
-- Recurrence over **noise schedule** (diffusion steps, outer loop)
-- Recurrence over **computational depth** (core iterations, inner loop)
-- New paradigm: both axes share the same network, with different conditioning
+- Recurrence over noise schedule (diffusion) AND computational depth (core iterations)
 
 ## 📊 Model Variants
 
-| Variant | Generator Params | Total System | Memory (fp16) | Mobile Fit |
-|---------|-----------------|-------------|---------------|------------|
-| **IRIS-Tiny** | 19M | ~60M | 545 MB | ✅ Ultra-mobile |
-| **IRIS-Small** | 47M | ~88M | 597 MB | ✅ Mobile |
-| **IRIS-Base** | 135M | ~175M | 760 MB | ✅ Consumer GPU |
-
-### Effective Capacity via Recurrent Depth
-
-| Model | Unique Params | r=4 iterations | r=8 | r=12 | r=16 |
-|-------|--------------|----------------|-----|------|------|
-| IRIS-Small (48M) | 48M | ~143M effective | ~270M effective | ~397M effective | ~524M effective |
-
-**48M parameters behave like 270-524M** depending on iteration budget!
+| Variant | Generator Params | Total Memory (fp16) | Mobile Fit |
+|---------|-----------------|---------------------|------------|
+| **IRIS-Tiny** | 19M | 545 MB | ✅ Ultra-mobile |
+| **IRIS-Small** | 47M | 597 MB | ✅ Mobile |
+| **IRIS-Base** | 135M | 760 MB | ✅ Consumer GPU |
 
 ## 🔧 Quick Start
 
 ```python
 from iris_model import create_iris_small
+import torch
 
-# Create model
 model = create_iris_small()
-
-# Generate with text conditioning
-import torch
 text_tokens = torch.randn(1, 77, 768)  # Replace with CLIP-L/14 embeddings
 
 # Fast mobile inference (4 iterations, 4 steps)
@@ -136,149 +126,81 @@ images = model.generate(text_tokens, num_steps=4, num_iterations=4)
 
 # Quality inference (8 iterations, 4 steps)
 images = model.generate(text_tokens, num_steps=4, num_iterations=8)
-
-# Training step (rectified flow)
-images_input = torch.randn(1, 3, 512, 512)
-result = model.train_step(images_input, text_tokens)
-print(f"Loss: {result['loss'].item():.4f}")
 ```
 
 ## 📐 Mathematical Foundations
 
 ### Rectified Flow Training
 ```
-z_t = (1-t)·z₀ + t·ε        (linear interpolation)
-v_target = ε - z₀             (constant velocity field)
-L = w(t) · ||v_θ(z_t, t, c) - v_target||²
-w(t) = t/(1-t)                (SNR reweighting)
-t ~ Logit-Normal(0, 1)        (concentrate on hard timesteps)
+z_t = (1-t)·z₀ + t·ε,  v_target = ε - z₀
+L = w(t) · ||v_θ(z_t, t, c) - v_target||²,  w(t) = t/(1-t)
+t ~ Logit-Normal(0, 1)
 ```
 
-### GRFM: Fourier Pathway
+### GRFM Pathways
 ```
-x_freq = RFFT2(x, dim=(H,W))                    # O(N log N) via FFT
-x_freq = BlockDiagMLP(x_freq)                     # Block-diagonal complex-valued MLP
-x_freq = SoftShrink(x_freq, λ)                    # Sparsity: S_λ(x) = sign(x)·max(|x|-λ, 0)
-x_out = IRFFT2(x_freq)                            # Back to spatial domain
-```
-
-### GRFM: RG-LRU Gated Recurrence Pathway
-```
-a_t = σ(Λ)^(c·σ(W_a·x_t))                        # Data-dependent decay (c=8)
-i_t = σ(W_x·x_t)                                  # Input gate
-h_t = a_t ⊙ h_{t-1} + √(1-a_t²) ⊙ (i_t ⊙ x_t)  # Variance-preserving recurrence
-```
-
-### GRFM: Manhattan Spatial Decay Pathway
-```
-D_{nm} = γ_head^(|row_n - row_m| + |col_n - col_m|)    # Manhattan distance matrix
-γ_head ∈ (0, 1), learned per attention head              # Multi-scale receptive fields
+Fourier:    RFFT2 → BlockDiagMLP → SoftShrink(λ) → IRFFT2       [O(N log N)]
+Recurrence: h_t = a_t⊙h_{t-1} + √(1-a_t²)⊙(i_t⊙x_t)           [O(N)]
+Spatial:    D_{nm} = γ^(|row_n-row_m| + |col_n-col_m|)           [O(N×window)]
 ```
 
 ## 🏋️ Training Recipe
 
-### 5-Stage Pipeline
-
-| Stage | Data | Objective | Est. Cost |
-|-------|------|-----------|-----------|
-| 1. VAE | ImageNet + CC3M | Reconstruction + KL + Wavelet frequency loss | 20 GPU-hrs |
-| 2. Class-Cond | ImageNet 256px | Rectified Flow velocity matching | 100 GPU-hrs |
-| 3. Text-Image | CC3M/CC12M (VLM-recaptioned) | RF + cross-attention on CLIP text | 200 GPU-hrs |
-| 4. Aesthetic | JourneyDB + curated LAION | Fine-tune with high-aesthetic data | 50 GPU-hrs |
-| 5. Distill | Self-distillation | Consistency distillation → 1-4 steps | 30 GPU-hrs |
-
-**Total: ~400 A100 GPU-hours (~$1,600)**
+| Stage | Data | Est. Cost |
+|-------|------|-----------|
+| 1. VAE | ImageNet + CC3M | 20 GPU-hrs |
+| 2. Class-Cond | ImageNet 256px | 100 GPU-hrs |
+| 3. Text-Image | CC3M/CC12M | 200 GPU-hrs |
+| 4. Aesthetic | JourneyDB | 50 GPU-hrs |
+| 5. Distill | Self-distill | 30 GPU-hrs |
 
-### Key Training Tricks (sourced from literature)
-- **Logit-normal timestep sampling** (SD3): focuses compute on hard intermediate timesteps
-- **adaLN-Zero initialization**: zero-init output gates for stable residual learning start
-- **Random iteration sampling**: during training, randomly sample r ∈ {4,6,8,10,12} for robustness
-- **Long skip connections** (Diffusion-RWKV): connect shallow features to output for gradient flow
-- **QK-normalization** (SANA-Sprint): prevents attention collapse at scale
-- **3-stage training decomposition** (PixArt-α): pixel priors → text alignment → aesthetics
-
-## 🔄 Extensions for Image Editing
-
-The iterative core naturally supports editing tasks:
-
-- **Inpainting**: Mask latent tokens, condition core iterations on unmasked context
-- **Super-Resolution**: Encode low-res via WaveletVAE, condition generation on LL subband
-- **Prompt-based Editing**: SDEdit-style partial denoising with modified text conditioning
-- **ControlNet**: Lightweight adapter in Prelude for spatial control signals (edges, depth, pose)
-
-### Adaptive Quality — Same Model, Different Budgets
-```python
-# 🏎️ Ultra-fast mobile (4 core iterations × 1 step = 4 total NFE)
-images = model.generate(text, num_steps=1, num_iterations=4)
-
-# 📱 Balanced mobile (4 iterations × 4 steps = 16 NFE)  
-images = model.generate(text, num_steps=4, num_iterations=4)
-
-# 🖥️ Quality desktop (8 iterations × 4 steps = 32 NFE)
-images = model.generate(text, num_steps=4, num_iterations=8)
-
-# 🎨 Maximum quality (16 iterations × 8 steps = 128 NFE)
-images = model.generate(text, num_steps=8, num_iterations=16)
-```
+**Total: ~400 A100 GPU-hours (~$1,600)** | Stages 1-2 run on free Colab T4
 
 ## 📚 Research Foundations
 
-IRIS draws inspiration from and synthesizes ideas across multiple domains:
-
-| Concept | Source Paper | How IRIS Uses It |
-|---------|-------------|-----------------|
-| Recurrent Depth | Huginn (2502.05171) | Prelude-Core-Coda shared-weight architecture |
-| Fourier Mixing | AFNO (2111.13587) | Block-diagonal FFT pathway in GRFM |
-| Gated Recurrence | Griffin RG-LRU (2402.19427) | Bidirectional scan pathway in GRFM |
-| Manhattan Decay | RMT (2309.11523) | Spatial inductive bias pathway in GRFM |
-| Wavelet Diffusion | WaveDiff (2211.16152) | Haar DWT preprocessing + frequency-aware latent |
-| Rectified Flow | RF (2209.03003), SD3 (2403.03206) | Straight ODE trajectories, logit-normal sampling |
-| Consistency Models | CM (2303.01469) | 1-4 step generation via self-consistency |
-| adaLN-Zero | DiT (2212.09748) | Stable conditioning via zero-initialized gates |
-| Efficient Training | PixArt-α (2310.00426) | 3-stage training decomposition, adaLN-single |
-| Mobile Diffusion | SnapGen (2412.09619) | Depthwise separable convolutions, tiny VAE decoder |
-| Bidirectional scan | Diffusion-RWKV (2404.04478) | Long skip connections, multi-direction scanning |
-| State Space Vision | VSSD (2407.18559) | Non-causal state-space design inspiration |
-| Mamba SSM | Mamba-2/SSD (2405.21060) | Selective state-space duality principles |
-| Extended LSTM | xLSTM/mLSTM (2405.04517) | Matrix memory concept for spatial features |
-| Frequency diffusion | DCTdiff (2412.15032) | Perceptual alignment via frequency-domain generation |
-
-## 📄 Files in this Repository
+| Concept | Source | How Used |
+|---------|--------|----------|
+| Recurrent Depth | Huginn (2502.05171) | Prelude-Core-Coda |
+| Fourier Mixing | AFNO (2111.13587) | GRFM pathway |
+| Gated Recurrence | Griffin RG-LRU (2402.19427) | GRFM pathway |
+| Manhattan Decay | RMT (2309.11523) | GRFM pathway |
+| Wavelet Diffusion | WaveDiff (2211.16152) | Latent space |
+| Rectified Flow | RF (2209.03003), SD3 | Training objective |
+| Consistency Models | CM (2303.01469) | Distillation |
+| adaLN-Zero | DiT (2212.09748) | Conditioning |
+| Efficient Training | PixArt-α (2310.00426) | Training recipe |
+| Mobile Design | SnapGen (2412.09619) | DWSConv, tiny VAE |
+
+## 📄 Files
 
 | File | Description |
 |------|-------------|
-| `iris_model.py` | Complete architecture implementation (~1200 lines) |
-| `train_iris.py` | Full training pipeline (all 5 stages) |
-| `test_iris.py` | Comprehensive validation test suite (9 tests) |
-| `ARCHITECTURE.md` | Detailed architecture specification with math |
+| **`IRIS_Training_Notebook.ipynb`** | 🔥 **Complete Colab/Kaggle training notebook** |
+| `iris_model.py` | Architecture implementation (~1200 lines) |
+| `train_iris.py` | CLI training pipeline (all 5 stages) |
+| `test_iris.py` | Validation test suite (9 tests, all passing) |
+| `ARCHITECTURE.md` | Detailed math specification |
 
 ## ✅ Verified Properties
 
-All verified via automated test suite:
-
-- ✅ Haar DWT/IDWT roundtrip is lossless (error < 1e-5)
-- ✅ WaveletVAE encodes 256×256→16×16 latent (48× compression)
-- ✅ GRFM forward/backward pass correct, all gradients flow
-- ✅ Generator handles variable iteration counts (2, 4, 8)
-- ✅ Full training step produces valid loss with gradients
-- ✅ End-to-end generation pipeline produces correctly-shaped output
-- ✅ Different iteration counts produce different outputs (adaptive compute)
-- ✅ IRIS-Tiny fits in 545 MB total inference memory (< 3GB ✅)
-- ✅ IRIS-Small fits in 597 MB total inference memory (< 3GB ✅)
-- ✅ 16× iteration gives 10.9× effective capacity from same params
+- ✅ Haar DWT/IDWT roundtrip lossless (error < 1e-5)
+- ✅ WaveletVAE: 256×256→16×16 latent (48× compression)
+- ✅ GRFM forward/backward correct, all gradients flow
+- ✅ Variable iteration counts work (adaptive compute)
+- ✅ Full training step with rectified flow loss
+- ✅ End-to-end generation pipeline
+- ✅ IRIS-Tiny: **545 MB** total inference (< 3GB ✅)
+- ✅ IRIS-Small: **597 MB** total inference (< 3GB ✅)
+- ✅ 16× iteration gives **10.9×** effective capacity
 
 ## 📜 License
 
-Apache 2.0 — Free for both research and commercial use.
-
-## Citation
+Apache 2.0
 
 ```bibtex
 @misc{iris2026,
   title={IRIS: Iterative Recurrent Image Synthesis for Mobile-First Image Generation},
   year={2026},
-  note={Novel architecture combining Gated Recurrent Fourier Mixing, 
-        Recurrent Depth, and Wavelet-Frequency Latent Space for efficient
-        text-to-image generation under 3GB RAM}
+  note={Novel architecture: GRFM + Recurrent Depth + Wavelet Latent Space}
 }
 ```