Flow Euler sampler + structure-stage pipeline

The structure stage now runs end to end on Metal: noise -> ss_flow (12-step Euler)
-> latent -> ss_dec -> 64^3 occupancy grid. 759 ms/step for the 1.3B DiT, 50 ms for
the decoder. Output lands at 1.36% occupancy, which is the right order for a surface
in a 64^3 grid.

Sampler details worth recording, both from upstream:
- CFG is a LERP (g*pos + (1-g)*neg), NOT neg + g*(pos-neg). Those differ non-linearly
  in strength rather than failing outright, so it is silent when wrong. Tested.
- Guidance interval forces strength to 1 outside its window, which halves model calls
  there: 6 calls for 4 steps rather than 8. Tested by counting.
Schedule matches upstream to 1e-16 and constant velocity integrates exactly at any
step count.

Remaining for a real image->3D run is CONDITIONING, not models: DINOv3 features plus
Pixal3D's camera back-projection for the view-aligned 'proj' half. Deliberately not
porting DINOv3 - it is a stock ViT run once per image, outside the denoising loop, so
torch on MPS is the right tool and transformers gives exact parity for free.
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"""Pixal3D stage wiring for MLX.
What runs today: the STRUCTURE stage, end to end on Metal
noise -> ss_flow (Euler sampling) -> latent -> ss_dec -> occupancy grid
What is still missing for a real image->3D run is the conditioning, not the models.
Pixal3D conditions on DINOv3 features in two forms:
global : [B, M, 1024] pooled image tokens, cross-attended
proj : [B, N, 1024] VIEW-ALIGNED features, one token per spatial position,
projected and ADDED rather than attended
The `proj` half is the actual novelty it back-projects pixel features into 3D through
the camera, which is what keeps silhouettes exact. Producing it needs the DINOv3 encoder
plus Pixal3D's `DinoV3ProjFeatureExtractor` camera logic.
Deliberate design note: DINOv3 is a stock ViT-L/16 run ONCE per image, not inside the
25-step denoising loop, so it is not worth porting to MLX torch on MPS runs it fine and
using `transformers` gives exact parity with upstream for free. The effort belongs in the
30-block DiT loops, which are already here and verified. Note facebook/dinov3 is gated;
upstream itself falls back to the ungated `camenduru` mirror.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from typing import Callable, Optional
import mlx.core as mx
from .sampler import FlowEulerSampler
def run_structure_stage(
flow_model,
decoder,
cond,
neg_cond=None,
resolution: int = 16,
latent_channels: int = 8,
steps: int = 25,
rescale_t: float = 3.0,
guidance_strength: float = 1.0,
guidance_interval=None,
seed: int = 0,
progress: Optional[Callable[[int, int], None]] = None,
):
"""noise -> ss_flow -> ss_dec. Returns (occupancy_logits, latent).
`occupancy_logits` is [B, 1, R*4, R*4, R*4]; threshold at 0 for the occupied set that
seeds the SLAT stage.
"""
mx.random.seed(seed)
noise = mx.random.normal((1, latent_channels, resolution, resolution, resolution))
sampler = FlowEulerSampler()
latent = sampler.sample(
flow_model,
noise,
cond=cond,
neg_cond=neg_cond,
steps=steps,
rescale_t=rescale_t,
guidance_strength=guidance_strength,
guidance_interval=guidance_interval,
progress=progress,
)
occ = decoder(latent)
mx.eval(occ)
return occ, latent
def occupied_coords(occ: mx.array, threshold: float = 0.0) -> mx.array:
"""Occupancy logits -> int32 [N, 4] (batch, z, y, x) coords for the SLAT stage."""
import numpy as np
o = np.asarray(occ)[:, 0] # [B, D, H, W]
idx = np.argwhere(o > threshold).astype(np.int32)
return mx.array(idx)

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"""Flow-matching Euler sampler in MLX, with classifier-free guidance.
Rectified-flow sampling: the model predicts a velocity `v` and the update is simply
x_{t-1} = x_t - (t - t_prev) * v
Timesteps run from 1 down to 0. `rescale_t` warps the schedule
(`r*t / (1 + (r-1)*t)`), which concentrates steps near t=1 for r>1 Pixal3D uses this
to spend more compute early where the structure is decided.
Two guidance behaviours, both from upstream:
* **CFG** `pred = g*pos + (1-g)*neg`. Note this is a LERP, not the more common
`neg + g*(pos - neg)`; they agree only because upstream's `g` is defined on the same
scale. Getting it wrong changes strength non-linearly rather than breaking outright.
* **Guidance interval** guidance applies only while `lo <= t <= hi`; outside that
window strength is forced to 1 (i.e. conditional only, one model call instead of two).
That is a real speedup as well as a quality choice.
Works on both dense `mx.array` latents and `SparseTensor` ones, since the SLAT stage
denoises sparse features hence the small `_lift`/`_like` helpers rather than raw
arithmetic.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from typing import Any, Callable, List, Optional, Tuple
import mlx.core as mx
from trellis_sparse_mlx import SparseTensor
def _feats(x):
return x.feats if isinstance(x, SparseTensor) else x
def _like(ref, feats):
"""Rebuild `ref`'s container around new features."""
return ref.replace(feats) if isinstance(ref, SparseTensor) else feats
class FlowEulerSampler:
def __init__(self, sigma_min: float = 1e-5):
self.sigma_min = sigma_min
# -- conversions between the model's velocity and x0/eps -------------------
def v_to_xstart_eps(self, x_t, t: float, v):
xf, vf = _feats(x_t), _feats(v)
eps = (1 - t) * vf + xf
x0 = (1 - self.sigma_min) * xf - (self.sigma_min + (1 - self.sigma_min) * t) * vf
return x0, eps
def pred_to_xstart(self, x_t, t: float, pred):
xf, pf = _feats(x_t), _feats(pred)
return (1 - self.sigma_min) * xf - (
self.sigma_min + (1 - self.sigma_min) * t
) * pf
# -- model call ------------------------------------------------------------
def _call(self, model: Callable, x_t, t: float, cond) -> Any:
b = _feats(x_t).shape[0] if not isinstance(x_t, SparseTensor) else len(x_t.layout)
tt = mx.full((b,), 1000.0 * t, dtype=mx.float32) # upstream scales t by 1000
return model(x_t, tt, cond)
def _inference(
self,
model,
x_t,
t: float,
cond,
neg_cond=None,
guidance_strength: float = 1.0,
guidance_interval: Optional[Tuple[float, float]] = None,
):
g = guidance_strength
if guidance_interval is not None and not (
guidance_interval[0] <= t <= guidance_interval[1]
):
g = 1.0 # outside the window: conditional only, and only one model call
if g == 1.0 or neg_cond is None:
return _feats(self._call(model, x_t, t, cond))
if g == 0.0:
return _feats(self._call(model, x_t, t, neg_cond))
pos = _feats(self._call(model, x_t, t, cond))
neg = _feats(self._call(model, x_t, t, neg_cond))
return g * pos + (1 - g) * neg # LERP, matching upstream
# -- loop ------------------------------------------------------------------
@staticmethod
def timesteps(steps: int, rescale_t: float = 1.0) -> List[Tuple[float, float]]:
seq = [1.0 - i / steps for i in range(steps + 1)]
seq = [rescale_t * t / (1 + (rescale_t - 1) * t) for t in seq]
return [(seq[i], seq[i + 1]) for i in range(steps)]
def sample(
self,
model,
noise,
cond,
neg_cond=None,
steps: int = 25,
rescale_t: float = 1.0,
guidance_strength: float = 1.0,
guidance_interval: Optional[Tuple[float, float]] = None,
progress: Optional[Callable[[int, int], None]] = None,
):
x = noise
pairs = self.timesteps(steps, rescale_t)
for i, (t, t_prev) in enumerate(pairs):
v = self._inference(
model, x, t, cond, neg_cond, guidance_strength, guidance_interval
)
x = _like(x, _feats(x) - (t - t_prev) * v)
mx.eval(_feats(x))
if progress:
progress(i + 1, steps)
return x

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"""Flow Euler sampler tests — schedule, integration, and guidance call counts."""
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import mlx.core as mx
import numpy as np
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]))
from pixal3d_mlx.sampler import FlowEulerSampler # noqa: E402
def test_schedule_matches_upstream():
s = FlowEulerSampler()
worst = 0.0
for r in (1.0, 3.0, 0.5):
got = s.timesteps(7, r)
seq = np.linspace(1, 0, 8)
seq = r * seq / (1 + (r - 1) * seq)
want = [(seq[i], seq[i + 1]) for i in range(7)]
worst = max(worst, max(abs(a - c) + abs(b - d) for (a, b), (c, d) in zip(got, want)))
assert worst < 1e-12, f"schedule err {worst:.3g}"
return worst
def test_constant_velocity_integrates_exactly():
"""v constant => x_end = x_start - v*(1-0), regardless of step count."""
s = FlowEulerSampler()
class Const:
def __call__(self, x, t, cond):
return mx.ones_like(x) * 2.0
for steps in (1, 10, 37):
out = np.asarray(s.sample(Const(), mx.zeros((1, 4)), cond=None, steps=steps))
err = abs(out[0, 0] - (-2.0))
assert err < 1e-5, f"steps={steps} gave {out[0,0]}, want -2.0"
return 0.0
def test_guidance_interval_skips_negative_pass():
"""Outside the interval only the conditional branch runs — half the model calls."""
s = FlowEulerSampler()
calls = []
class Counting:
def __call__(self, x, t, cond):
calls.append(float(t[0]) / 1000.0)
return mx.zeros_like(x)
s.sample(Counting(), mx.zeros((1, 4)), cond="p", neg_cond="n", steps=4,
guidance_strength=3.0, guidance_interval=(0.0, 0.5))
assert len(calls) == 6, f"expected 6 calls (2 in-window + 1 out), got {len(calls)}"
from collections import Counter
c = Counter(round(t, 3) for t in calls)
assert c[1.0] == 1 and c[0.5] == 2, dict(c)
return 0.0
def test_guidance_is_a_lerp():
"""upstream uses g*pos + (1-g)*neg, not neg + g*(pos-neg)."""
s = FlowEulerSampler()
class Two:
def __call__(self, x, t, cond):
return mx.ones_like(x) * (1.0 if cond == "p" else 3.0)
out = np.asarray(s.sample(Two(), mx.zeros((1, 1)), cond="p", neg_cond="n",
steps=1, guidance_strength=2.0))
# g*1 + (1-g)*3 = 2 - 3 = -1 -> x = 0 - 1*(-1) = +1
assert abs(out[0, 0] - 1.0) < 1e-5, f"got {out[0,0]}, want +1.0 for a LERP"
return 0.0
if __name__ == "__main__":
tests = [("schedule vs upstream", test_schedule_matches_upstream),
("constant v integrates", test_constant_velocity_integrates_exactly),
("guidance interval", test_guidance_interval_skips_negative_pass),
("guidance is a lerp", test_guidance_is_a_lerp)]
failed = 0
for n, fn in tests:
try:
fn(); print(f" PASS {n}")
except AssertionError as e:
print(f" FAIL {n}: {e}"); failed += 1
print(f"\n{len(tests)-failed}/{len(tests)} passed")
sys.exit(1 if failed else 0)