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PyTorch backend (AMICATorchNG)

The natural-gradient EM backend that reaches Fortran parity (Newton, exact-EM mixture updates, symmetric-ZCA sphere, Jacobian log-likelihood). The AMICA interface delegates to this class; use it directly for lower-level control.

pamica.AMICATorchNG

Natural-gradient EM AMICA, ported from pamica.numpy_impl.core.AMICA.

Not an nn.Module: there are no learnable nn.Parameters and no autograd. Parameters (A, W, c, mu, alpha, beta, rho, gm) are plain tensors mutated in place by closed-form E-step/M-step updates each iteration, mirroring pamica.AMICA._get_block_updates/_update_parameters.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
n_channels int

Number of input channels (data_dim in the NumPy/Fortran code).

required
n_models int

Number of ICA mixture models.

1
n_mix int

Number of mixture components per source.

3
block_size int

Number of samples processed per accumulation block. Peak memory during the E-step scales with this, not with the total sample count. Larger blocks give bigger tensor ops (less Python/dispatch overhead, better threading/GPU utilization) at higher memory. Every backend is dispatch-bound at small blocks, making this the largest throughput knob: raising it from 512 to 8192 is ~6x on CPU float64 for the bundled sample (issue #216). 8192 rather than larger because peak block memory scales with it and 8192 stays near 240 MB even at 256 channels.

Fortran pins no comparable value (header default 128, auto-tuned over 128-1024 via do_opt_block). Per-iteration sufficient statistics are block-size-independent to ~1e-8 (test_blocking_invariance); the multi-iteration trajectory shifts ~1e-6, inside parity tolerance but enough that a bit-for-bit Fortran comparison must match block_size on both sides (the bundled input.param uses 512).

8192
do_opt_block bool

Time a few candidate block sizes on the real data and device at the start of fit and keep the fastest, instead of using block_size as given (issue #232; Fortran do_opt_block). The measured optimum moves with host, device and data, so a fixed default necessarily leaves 16-60% on the table depending on backend -- but the choice is timing-based and therefore machine-dependent, so two hosts can pick different sizes and their trajectories then differ at the same ~1e-6 level any block_size change produces. Off by default for that reason: a run compared bit-for-bit against the reference binary must leave this off and pin block_size. When on, block_size is the fallback the search keeps if no candidate can be timed.

Unlike Fortran, whose determine_block_size aborts the run when a candidate cannot be allocated, a failing candidate here is skipped, the upward search stops there, and the fit continues at the largest size that ran. See :mod:pamica.blocktune.

False
blk_min int, defaults 4096, 32768, 4096

Candidate sweep for do_opt_block: blk_min, blk_min + blk_step, ..., <= blk_max, Fortran's arithmetic stepping, each clamped to n_samples and to a conservative memory estimate. Validated (and only used) when do_opt_block is on. The defaults are re-derived rather than copied from Fortran's 128-1024, which sits far below where any pamica backend peaks; they bracket the measured CPU optimum and include the 8192 default.

DEFAULT_BLK_MIN
blk_max int, defaults 4096, 32768, 4096

Candidate sweep for do_opt_block: blk_min, blk_min + blk_step, ..., <= blk_max, Fortran's arithmetic stepping, each clamped to n_samples and to a conservative memory estimate. Validated (and only used) when do_opt_block is on. The defaults are re-derived rather than copied from Fortran's 128-1024, which sits far below where any pamica backend peaks; they bracket the measured CPU optimum and include the 8192 default.

DEFAULT_BLK_MIN
blk_step int, defaults 4096, 32768, 4096

Candidate sweep for do_opt_block: blk_min, blk_min + blk_step, ..., <= blk_max, Fortran's arithmetic stepping, each clamped to n_samples and to a conservative memory estimate. Validated (and only used) when do_opt_block is on. The defaults are re-derived rather than copied from Fortran's 128-1024, which sits far below where any pamica backend peaks; they bracket the measured CPU optimum and include the 8192 default.

DEFAULT_BLK_MIN
lrate float

Initial/maximum natural-gradient learning rate (lrate0 in NumPy).

0.1
minlrate float

Hard learning-rate floor: once lrate anneals to it, fit stops (stop_reason="lrate_floor").

1e-12
lratefact float

Factor by which lrate (and the ceiling lrate_cap/newtrate) are annealed when the log-likelihood decreases; see fit for the Fortran-style numdecs/maxdecs ratchet.

0.5
maxdecs int

Number of consecutive log-likelihood decreases after which the learning-rate ceiling is ratcheted down (Fortran maxdecs).

5
use_min_dll bool

Enable the small-likelihood-increase stop (Fortran use_min_dll, amica15_header.f90:24/74; amica15.f90:1078-1090): once the per- sample-channel log-likelihood gain ll_history[-1] - ll_history[-2] falls below min_dll for more than maxincs consecutive iterations, fit stops (stop_reason="min_dll"). The counter resets to 0 on any iteration with a larger gain (including a likelihood decrease, which is always "less than" a positive min_dll, so it also increments the counter). Checked every iteration once two log-likelihood values exist (never on the first).

True
min_dll float

Threshold for use_min_dll, on the log-likelihood's own scale (mean log-likelihood per sample-channel, matching ll_history -- see amica15.f90:1770, which normalizes LL(iter) by numgoodsum*nw before this comparison in the reference).

1e-9
maxincs int

Number of consecutive small-gain iterations tolerated before use_min_dll stops the fit (Fortran maxincs, not itself configurable from the Fortran param file -- fixed at its header default).

5
use_grad_norm bool

Enable the weight-gradient-norm stop (Fortran use_grad_norm, amica15_header.f90:24/74; amica15.f90:1091-1097): once the RMS weight-update norm ndtmpsum (see min_nd) falls to or below min_nd, fit stops (stop_reason="grad_norm"). This is independent of use_min_dll and of whether the log-likelihood just decreased; it is also folded into the likelihood-decrease branch unconditionally (stop_reason="grad_norm_floor", Fortran amica15.f90:1058's .or. (ndtmpsum .le. min_nd), alongside the existing lrate <= minlrate check) -- this decrease-branch half is what fixes the reported CUDA/do_newton=True case where lrate sits at newtrate and oscillates instead of annealing, so the old lrate_floor-only check never fired and max_iter was the only stop (issue #207). Checked every iteration once two log-likelihood values exist (never on the first).

CAUTION: with use_grad_norm at this default (True), the stop that actually surfaces for the fixed CUDA scenario is "grad_norm", not "grad_norm_floor". The standalone check above runs every iteration regardless of LL direction and (in fit's per-iteration ordering) is evaluated after the likelihood-decrease branch, with no elif/leave gate between them; whichever iteration first satisfies ndtmpsum <= min_nd also satisfies the standalone check that same iteration, so it always overwrites stop_reason before a decrease-gated "grad_norm_floor" could be the value fit finally reports. "grad_norm_floor" is therefore only distinctly reachable as the final stop_reason when use_grad_norm=False (isolating the decrease-branch half, as test_grad_norm_floor_fires_on_likelihood_decrease does); test_grad_norm_shadows_grad_norm_floor_under_shipped_defaults (same setup, use_grad_norm left at its default) confirms the shadowing directly. "min_dll" can likewise be shadowed by "grad_norm" if both conditions happen to hold in the same iteration -- Fortran has this same structure (independent leave=.true. assignments with no declared precedence among them), so this is not a fidelity bug, just a reporting nuance worth knowing before reading stop_reason as a precise diagnosis.

True
min_nd float

Threshold for use_grad_norm (and the decrease-branch grad-norm check). Matches Fortran's ndtmpsum (amica15.f90:1760-1761): the RMS, over comp_used components only, of the per-iteration weight-update direction dAk (the natural-gradient/Newton step before the lrate scaling and before share_comps's A-freeze may discard it) -- sqrt(sum(dAk**2, axis=0)[comp_used].sum() / (n_channels * comp_used.sum())). The comp_used mask only differs from all-True when share_comps has merged/frozen columns (issue #60); it is a no-op otherwise. Computed every iteration regardless of use_grad_norm/use_min_dll (both stops read the same per-iteration value; Fortran computes ndtmpsum unconditionally too, in accum_updates_and_likelihood, before either check runs).

Not reachable on small recordings, in any implementation: the reference binary's own gradient norm plateaus at 1.0-1.65e-5 on the bundled 32-channel sample, two orders above this threshold, so the stop never fires there and min_dll is what ends the fit. The default is kept Fortran-faithful rather than retuned; see the convergence-criteria section of docs/guides/validation.md (issue #218).

1e-7
newt_ramp int

Denominator of the per-iteration learning-rate ramp toward the current ceiling: lrate = min(ceiling, lrate + min(1/newt_ramp, lrate)) (ceiling is lrate_cap for natural gradient, newtrate for Newton).

10
do_newton bool

Enable the Newton preconditioner for the A/W update once iteration >= newt_start. Ported from the Fortran reference (amica17.f90): natural gradient alone plateaus well short of the Fortran solution, and the Newton step (a per-source-pair 2x2 solve preconditioning the natural gradient by an approximate Hessian) is what closes the gap.

False
newt_start int

Iteration at which the Newton step switches on (natural gradient is used before it, letting the mixture parameters settle first).

20
newtrate float

Maximum learning rate the ramp climbs to while Newton is active (the natural-gradient phase is capped at lrate/lrate0).

0.5
do_reject bool

Enable Fortran-style outlier rejection: after the parameter update, samples whose total log-likelihood falls below mean - rejsig*std are permanently excluded from subsequent sufficient-statistic accumulation and from the sample count used to normalize gm and the reported log-likelihood.

False
rejsig float

Rejection threshold in standard deviations of the per-sample log-likelihood.

3.0
rejstart int

First rejection iteration, interval between rejections, and maximum number of rejection passes (matching amica17.f90:1141-1146).

2
rejint int

First rejection iteration, interval between rejections, and maximum number of rejection passes (matching amica17.f90:1141-1146).

2
maxrej int

First rejection iteration, interval between rejections, and maximum number of rejection passes (matching amica17.f90:1141-1146).

2
rho0 float

Generalized-Gaussian shape-parameter initialization, clamp bounds, and learning rate.

1.5
minrho float

Generalized-Gaussian shape-parameter initialization, clamp bounds, and learning rate.

1.5
maxrho float

Generalized-Gaussian shape-parameter initialization, clamp bounds, and learning rate.

1.5
rholrate float

Generalized-Gaussian shape-parameter initialization, clamp bounds, and learning rate.

1.5
keep_best bool

Return the highest-log-likelihood iterate instead of the last one (issue #51). The lrate schedule is non-monotone (it anneals only after an LL decrease), so a late Newton-fallback overshoot can leave the final iterate below a peak the run already reached. When the final LL falls more than a small tolerance below that peak, fit restores the peak's parameters. A monotone single-model run (issue #24 parity) is a bit-exact no-op. Automatically inactive under do_reject (the good-sample set, and thus the LL normalization, changes across iterations, making per-iteration LLs incomparable) and under share_comps (a merge changes the parameter count, so pre- and post-merge LLs are not comparable and reverting to an earlier snapshot would silently undo the merge; issue #269).

True
pdftype int

Source-density family (issue #26), matching Fortran amica15.f90's pdtype codes: 0 generalized Gaussian (default; rho adapts), 2 Gaussian, 3 logistic, 4 sub-Gaussian cosh+. pdftype=1 enables the extended-Infomax adaptive switcher, which flips each source between the super-Gaussian (code 1) and sub-Gaussian (code 4) cosh densities by kurtosis sign. For every non-GG family the GG shape update is frozen (Fortran dorho=.false.); the single-component families 1/4 (and the adaptive mode) require n_mix=1. pdftype=0 is byte-for-byte the pre-#26 implementation.

0
kurt_start int

Adaptive-switch schedule (only used when pdftype=1): first iteration to re-estimate kurtosis, number of switch passes, and the iteration interval between them. num_kurt=0 disables switching (the family stays at its super-Gaussian init).

3
num_kurt int

Adaptive-switch schedule (only used when pdftype=1): first iteration to re-estimate kurtosis, number of switch passes, and the iteration interval between them. num_kurt=0 disables switching (the family stays at its super-Gaussian init).

3
kurt_int int

Adaptive-switch schedule (only used when pdftype=1): first iteration to re-estimate kurtosis, number of switch passes, and the iteration interval between them. num_kurt=0 disables switching (the family stays at its super-Gaussian init).

3
invsigmin float

Clamp bounds for the mixture scale parameter beta.

0.0001
invsigmax float

Clamp bounds for the mixture scale parameter beta.

0.0001
doscaling (bool, int)

Whether/how often to rescale A columns to unit norm each iteration (with matching mu/beta rescale).

True
scalestep (bool, int)

Whether/how often to rescale A columns to unit norm each iteration (with matching mu/beta rescale).

True
share_comps bool

Enable multi-model component sharing (Fortran share_comps / identify_shared_comps, amica15.f90:1916): components that are near-collinear across different models are merged so they share one mixing column and one density. Requires n_models >= 2 (a model cannot share with itself); a no-op otherwise. OFF by default, so single-model (#24) and default multi-model (#27) results are unchanged. There is no bit-exact oracle -- the reference's similarity metric is never initialized (like do_choose_pdfs, #26) -- so this implements the intended algorithm, validated by real-data behavior. A merge that fires on the LAST fit iteration is reflected in the returned model but trails in final_ll_; see that attribute's comment (issue #269).

False
share_start int

Sharing schedule: first iteration to attempt merges and the interval between attempts (Fortran share_start/share_iter). The A-update is held for the first 6 iterations of every cycle (independent of whether a merge fired) so densities can settle; share_iter must be > 6 so that window never consumes the whole cycle.

100
share_iter int

Sharing schedule: first iteration to attempt merges and the interval between attempts (Fortran share_start/share_iter). The A-update is held for the first 6 iterations of every cycle (independent of whether a merge fired) so densities can settle; share_iter must be > 6 so that window never consumes the whole cycle.

100
comp_thresh float

Cosine-similarity cutoff (in the de-sphered/sensor-space metric) above which two mixing columns are identified and merged. The de-sphering uses pinv(sphere), so sharing also works on rank-reduced and rank-deficient fits (issues #253, #221); see :meth:_identify_shared_comps.

0.99
do_mean bool

Preprocessing options, matching pamica.AMICA._preprocess_data.

True
do_sphere bool

Preprocessing options, matching pamica.AMICA._preprocess_data.

True
do_approx_sphere bool

Preprocessing options, matching pamica.AMICA._preprocess_data.

True
pcakeep (int, float)

PCA dimensionality-reduction options (rarely used; see pamica.AMICA._preprocess_data). Both are capped by the detected numerical rank (mineig), matching Fortran's numeigs = min(pcakeep, count(eigs > mineig)).

None
pcadb (int, float)

PCA dimensionality-reduction options (rarely used; see pamica.AMICA._preprocess_data). Both are capped by the detected numerical rank (mineig), matching Fortran's numeigs = min(pcakeep, count(eigs > mineig)).

None
mineig float

Absolute floor on data-covariance eigenvalues used to detect the numerical rank (Fortran mineig, amica15.f90:413 and amica15_header.f90:66). Eigen-directions at or below it are dropped, the model is sized to the surviving rank, and sensor-space maps come from :meth:get_sensor_mixing_matrix. Full-rank data keep every eigenvalue, so this is a no-op there and single-model parity is byte-for-byte.

Being absolute, it is unit-dependent: EEG in microvolts gives eigenvalues of order 1-100 and the default behaves, but MEG in Tesla gives ~1e-26 and every eigenvalue falls below it, which Fortran would turn into numeigs = 0. pamica raises instead of fitting an empty model. Use mineig_rel (or rescale) for such data.

1e-15
mineig_rel float

Scale-free alternative to mineig: when set, the threshold becomes mineig_rel * largest_eigenvalue and mineig is ignored. Off by default so rank detection stays Fortran-exact. It is also the more accurate detector -- the absolute floor sits amid the numerical-zero eigenvalues of rank-deficient data and over-retains, while a relative floor recovers the true rank (issue #223).

MINEIG_REL
seed int

Seed for parameter initialization. Uses numpy.random.RandomState internally (not torch's RNG) with the exact same draw order as pamica.AMICA._initialize_parameters, so the same seed produces bit-identical starting parameters to the NumPy reference.

None
n_restarts int

Number of independent fits to run from different seeds, keeping the one with the highest final_ll_ (issue #198). 1 (the default) is the parity-preserving setting: the restart machinery is bypassed entirely and the fit is bit-identical to a pre-#198 run. With n_restarts > 1 a base seed (or explicit restart_seeds) is required, so the winning fit can be reproduced. Restarts run serially, so a fit costs n_restarts times as long. Fortran has no equivalent; see docs/guides/amica-differences.md and :mod:pamica.restarts.

1
restart_seeds sequence of int

Explicit per-restart seeds; must have exactly n_restarts entries. When omitted the seeds are seed, seed + 1, ..., seed + n_restarts - 1.

None
device str or device

Compute device for the block loop. Preprocessing (mean/cov/eigh) is always done in float64 on CPU regardless of device, since eigh is not reliably supported on MPS.

None
dtype dtype

Parameter/computation dtype. float64 is the parity default (Fortran bit-parity) and ~4.5x on CUDA over CPU (issue #63). float32 converges on full-size data across seeds (issue #75 guarded the one float32-only divide-by-zero -- a sample rounding an activation to exactly 0 gave 0/0 in the mu denominator) and is the required precision on MPS, which has no float64. float32 is NOT bit-parity with float64 (~7 significant digits), so use float64 for Fortran-parity runs and float32 for speed / Apple-GPU.

torch.float64
Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
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class AMICATorchNG:
    """
    Natural-gradient EM AMICA, ported from ``pamica.numpy_impl.core.AMICA``.

    Not an ``nn.Module``: there are no learnable ``nn.Parameter``s and no
    autograd. Parameters (``A``, ``W``, ``c``, ``mu``, ``alpha``, ``beta``,
    ``rho``, ``gm``) are plain tensors mutated in place by closed-form
    E-step/M-step updates each iteration, mirroring
    ``pamica.AMICA._get_block_updates``/``_update_parameters``.

    Parameters
    ----------
    n_channels : int
        Number of input channels (``data_dim`` in the NumPy/Fortran code).
    n_models : int, default=1
        Number of ICA mixture models.
    n_mix : int, default=3
        Number of mixture components per source.
    block_size : int, default=8192
        Number of samples processed per accumulation block. Peak memory
        during the E-step scales with this, not with the total sample count.
        Larger blocks give bigger tensor ops (less Python/dispatch overhead,
        better threading/GPU utilization) at higher memory. Every backend is
        dispatch-bound at small blocks, making this the largest throughput knob:
        raising it from 512 to 8192 is ~6x on CPU float64 for the bundled sample
        (issue #216). 8192 rather than larger because peak block memory scales
        with it and 8192 stays near 240 MB even at 256 channels.

        Fortran pins no comparable value (header default 128, auto-tuned over
        128-1024 via ``do_opt_block``). Per-iteration sufficient statistics are
        block-size-independent to ~1e-8 (``test_blocking_invariance``); the
        multi-iteration trajectory shifts ~1e-6, inside parity tolerance but
        enough that a bit-for-bit Fortran comparison must match ``block_size`` on
        both sides (the bundled ``input.param`` uses 512).
    do_opt_block : bool, default=False
        Time a few candidate block sizes on the real data and device at the
        start of ``fit`` and keep the fastest, instead of using ``block_size``
        as given (issue #232; Fortran ``do_opt_block``). The measured optimum
        moves with host, device and data, so a fixed default necessarily leaves
        16-60% on the table depending on backend -- but the choice is
        **timing-based and therefore machine-dependent**, so two hosts can pick
        different sizes and their trajectories then differ at the same ~1e-6
        level any ``block_size`` change produces. Off by default for that
        reason: a run compared bit-for-bit against the reference binary must
        leave this off and pin ``block_size``. When on, ``block_size`` is the
        fallback the search keeps if no candidate can be timed.

        Unlike Fortran, whose ``determine_block_size`` aborts the run when a
        candidate cannot be allocated, a failing candidate here is skipped, the
        upward search stops there, and the fit continues at the largest size
        that ran. See :mod:`pamica.blocktune`.
    blk_min, blk_max, blk_step : int, defaults 4096, 32768, 4096
        Candidate sweep for ``do_opt_block``: ``blk_min``, ``blk_min +
        blk_step``, ..., ``<= blk_max``, Fortran's arithmetic stepping, each
        clamped to ``n_samples`` and to a conservative memory estimate.
        Validated (and only used) when ``do_opt_block`` is on. The defaults are
        re-derived rather than copied from Fortran's 128-1024, which sits far
        below where any pamica backend peaks; they bracket the measured CPU
        optimum and include the 8192 default.
    lrate : float, default=0.1
        Initial/maximum natural-gradient learning rate (``lrate0`` in NumPy).
    minlrate : float, default=1e-12
        Hard learning-rate floor: once ``lrate`` anneals to it, ``fit`` stops
        (``stop_reason="lrate_floor"``).
    lratefact : float, default=0.5
        Factor by which ``lrate`` (and the ceiling ``lrate_cap``/``newtrate``)
        are annealed when the log-likelihood decreases; see ``fit`` for the
        Fortran-style ``numdecs``/``maxdecs`` ratchet.
    maxdecs : int, default=5
        Number of consecutive log-likelihood decreases after which the
        learning-rate *ceiling* is ratcheted down (Fortran ``maxdecs``).
    use_min_dll : bool, default=True
        Enable the small-likelihood-increase stop (Fortran ``use_min_dll``,
        amica15_header.f90:24/74; amica15.f90:1078-1090): once the per-
        sample-channel log-likelihood gain ``ll_history[-1] - ll_history[-2]``
        falls below ``min_dll`` for more than ``maxincs`` *consecutive*
        iterations, ``fit`` stops (``stop_reason="min_dll"``). The counter
        resets to 0 on any iteration with a larger gain (including a
        likelihood decrease, which is always "less than" a positive
        ``min_dll``, so it also increments the counter). Checked every
        iteration once two log-likelihood values exist (never on the first).
    min_dll : float, default=1e-9
        Threshold for ``use_min_dll``, on the log-likelihood's own scale
        (mean log-likelihood per sample-channel, matching ``ll_history`` --
        see ``amica15.f90:1770``, which normalizes ``LL(iter)`` by
        ``numgoodsum*nw`` before this comparison in the reference).
    maxincs : int, default=5
        Number of consecutive small-gain iterations tolerated before
        ``use_min_dll`` stops the fit (Fortran ``maxincs``, not itself
        configurable from the Fortran param file -- fixed at its header
        default).
    use_grad_norm : bool, default=True
        Enable the weight-gradient-norm stop (Fortran ``use_grad_norm``,
        amica15_header.f90:24/74; amica15.f90:1091-1097): once the RMS
        weight-update norm ``ndtmpsum`` (see ``min_nd``) falls to or below
        ``min_nd``, ``fit`` stops (``stop_reason="grad_norm"``). This is
        independent of ``use_min_dll`` and of whether the log-likelihood
        just decreased; it is also folded into the likelihood-decrease
        branch unconditionally (``stop_reason="grad_norm_floor"``, Fortran
        amica15.f90:1058's ``.or. (ndtmpsum .le. min_nd)``, alongside the
        existing ``lrate <= minlrate`` check) -- this decrease-branch half is
        what fixes the reported CUDA/``do_newton=True`` case where ``lrate``
        sits at ``newtrate`` and oscillates instead of annealing, so the old
        ``lrate_floor``-only check never fired and ``max_iter`` was the only
        stop (issue #207). Checked every iteration once two log-likelihood
        values exist (never on the first).

        CAUTION: with ``use_grad_norm`` at this default (``True``), the
        stop that actually surfaces for the fixed CUDA scenario is
        ``"grad_norm"``, not ``"grad_norm_floor"``. The standalone check
        above runs every iteration regardless of LL direction and (in
        ``fit``'s per-iteration ordering) is evaluated after the
        likelihood-decrease branch, with no ``elif``/``leave`` gate between
        them; whichever iteration first satisfies ``ndtmpsum <= min_nd``
        also satisfies the standalone check that same iteration, so it always
        overwrites ``stop_reason`` before a decrease-gated
        ``"grad_norm_floor"`` could be the value ``fit`` finally reports.
        ``"grad_norm_floor"`` is therefore only distinctly reachable as the
        *final* ``stop_reason`` when ``use_grad_norm=False`` (isolating the
        decrease-branch half, as ``test_grad_norm_floor_fires_on_likelihood_decrease``
        does); ``test_grad_norm_shadows_grad_norm_floor_under_shipped_defaults``
        (same setup, ``use_grad_norm`` left at its default) confirms the
        shadowing directly. ``"min_dll"`` can likewise be shadowed by
        ``"grad_norm"`` if both conditions happen to hold in the same
        iteration -- Fortran has this same structure (independent
        ``leave=.true.`` assignments with no declared precedence among them),
        so this is not a fidelity bug, just a reporting nuance worth knowing
        before reading ``stop_reason`` as a precise diagnosis.
    min_nd : float, default=1e-7
        Threshold for ``use_grad_norm`` (and the decrease-branch grad-norm
        check). Matches Fortran's ``ndtmpsum`` (amica15.f90:1760-1761): the
        RMS, over ``comp_used`` components only, of the per-iteration
        weight-update direction ``dAk`` (the natural-gradient/Newton step
        before the ``lrate`` scaling and before ``share_comps``'s A-freeze
        may discard it) -- ``sqrt(sum(dAk**2, axis=0)[comp_used].sum() /
        (n_channels * comp_used.sum()))``. The ``comp_used`` mask only
        differs from all-True when ``share_comps`` has merged/frozen columns
        (issue #60); it is a no-op otherwise. Computed every iteration
        regardless of ``use_grad_norm``/``use_min_dll`` (both stops read the
        same per-iteration value; Fortran computes ``ndtmpsum`` unconditionally
        too, in ``accum_updates_and_likelihood``, before either check runs).

        Not reachable on small recordings, in any implementation: the reference
        binary's own gradient norm plateaus at 1.0-1.65e-5 on the bundled
        32-channel sample, two orders above this threshold, so the stop never
        fires there and ``min_dll`` is what ends the fit. The default is kept
        Fortran-faithful rather than retuned; see the convergence-criteria
        section of ``docs/guides/validation.md`` (issue #218).
    newt_ramp : int, default=10
        Denominator of the per-iteration learning-rate ramp toward the current
        ceiling: ``lrate = min(ceiling, lrate + min(1/newt_ramp, lrate))``
        (ceiling is ``lrate_cap`` for natural gradient, ``newtrate`` for
        Newton).
    do_newton : bool, default=False
        Enable the Newton preconditioner for the ``A``/``W`` update once
        ``iteration >= newt_start``. Ported from the Fortran reference
        (``amica17.f90``): natural gradient alone plateaus well short of the
        Fortran solution, and the Newton step (a per-source-pair 2x2 solve
        preconditioning the natural gradient by an approximate Hessian) is
        what closes the gap.
    newt_start : int, default=20
        Iteration at which the Newton step switches on (natural gradient is
        used before it, letting the mixture parameters settle first).
    newtrate : float, default=0.5
        Maximum learning rate the ramp climbs to while Newton is active
        (the natural-gradient phase is capped at ``lrate``/``lrate0``).
    do_reject : bool, default=False
        Enable Fortran-style outlier rejection: after the parameter update,
        samples whose total log-likelihood falls below
        ``mean - rejsig*std`` are permanently excluded from subsequent
        sufficient-statistic accumulation and from the sample count used to
        normalize ``gm`` and the reported log-likelihood.
    rejsig : float, default=3.0
        Rejection threshold in standard deviations of the per-sample
        log-likelihood.
    rejstart, rejint, maxrej : int
        First rejection iteration, interval between rejections, and maximum
        number of rejection passes (matching ``amica17.f90:1141-1146``).
    rho0, minrho, maxrho, rholrate : float
        Generalized-Gaussian shape-parameter initialization, clamp bounds,
        and learning rate.
    keep_best : bool, default=True
        Return the highest-log-likelihood iterate instead of the last one
        (issue #51). The lrate schedule is non-monotone (it anneals only after
        an LL *decrease*), so a late Newton-fallback overshoot can leave the
        final iterate below a peak the run already reached. When the final LL
        falls more than a small tolerance below that peak, ``fit`` restores the
        peak's parameters. A monotone single-model run (issue #24 parity) is a
        bit-exact no-op. Automatically inactive under ``do_reject`` (the
        good-sample set, and thus the LL normalization, changes across
        iterations, making per-iteration LLs incomparable) and under
        ``share_comps`` (a merge changes the parameter count, so pre- and
        post-merge LLs are not comparable and reverting to an earlier snapshot
        would silently undo the merge; issue #269).
    pdftype : int, default=0
        Source-density family (issue #26), matching Fortran ``amica15.f90``'s
        ``pdtype`` codes: 0 generalized Gaussian (default; rho adapts), 2
        Gaussian, 3 logistic, 4 sub-Gaussian cosh+. ``pdftype=1`` enables the
        extended-Infomax adaptive switcher, which flips each source between the
        super-Gaussian (code 1) and sub-Gaussian (code 4) cosh densities by
        kurtosis sign. For every non-GG family the GG shape update is frozen
        (Fortran ``dorho=.false.``); the single-component families 1/4 (and the
        adaptive mode) require ``n_mix=1``. ``pdftype=0`` is byte-for-byte the
        pre-#26 implementation.
    kurt_start, num_kurt, kurt_int : int
        Adaptive-switch schedule (only used when ``pdftype=1``): first iteration
        to re-estimate kurtosis, number of switch passes, and the iteration
        interval between them. ``num_kurt=0`` disables switching (the family
        stays at its super-Gaussian init).
    invsigmin, invsigmax : float
        Clamp bounds for the mixture scale parameter ``beta``.
    doscaling, scalestep : bool, int
        Whether/how often to rescale ``A`` columns to unit norm each
        iteration (with matching ``mu``/``beta`` rescale).
    share_comps : bool, default=False
        Enable multi-model component sharing (Fortran ``share_comps`` /
        ``identify_shared_comps``, amica15.f90:1916): components that are
        near-collinear across different models are merged so they share one
        mixing column and one density. Requires ``n_models >= 2`` (a model
        cannot share with itself); a no-op otherwise. OFF by default, so
        single-model (#24) and default multi-model (#27) results are unchanged.
        There is no bit-exact oracle -- the reference's similarity metric is
        never initialized (like ``do_choose_pdfs``, #26) -- so this implements
        the intended algorithm, validated by real-data behavior. A merge that
        fires on the LAST fit iteration is reflected in the returned model but
        trails in ``final_ll_``; see that attribute's comment (issue #269).
    share_start, share_iter : int
        Sharing schedule: first iteration to attempt merges and the interval
        between attempts (Fortran ``share_start``/``share_iter``). The A-update
        is held for the first 6 iterations of every cycle (independent of whether
        a merge fired) so densities can settle; ``share_iter`` must be ``> 6`` so
        that window never consumes the whole cycle.
    comp_thresh : float, default=0.99
        Cosine-similarity cutoff (in the de-sphered/sensor-space metric) above
        which two mixing columns are identified and merged. The de-sphering uses
        ``pinv(sphere)``, so sharing also works on rank-reduced and
        rank-deficient fits (issues #253, #221); see
        :meth:`_identify_shared_comps`.
    do_mean, do_sphere, do_approx_sphere : bool
        Preprocessing options, matching ``pamica.AMICA._preprocess_data``.
    pcakeep, pcadb : int, float, optional
        PCA dimensionality-reduction options (rarely used; see
        ``pamica.AMICA._preprocess_data``). Both are capped by the detected
        numerical rank (``mineig``), matching Fortran's
        ``numeigs = min(pcakeep, count(eigs > mineig))``.
    mineig : float, default=1e-15
        Absolute floor on data-covariance eigenvalues used to detect the
        numerical rank (Fortran ``mineig``, amica15.f90:413 and
        amica15_header.f90:66). Eigen-directions at or below it are dropped, the
        model is sized to the surviving rank, and sensor-space maps come from
        :meth:`get_sensor_mixing_matrix`. Full-rank data keep every eigenvalue,
        so this is a no-op there and single-model parity is byte-for-byte.

        Being absolute, it is unit-dependent: EEG in microvolts gives
        eigenvalues of order 1-100 and the default behaves, but MEG in Tesla
        gives ~1e-26 and every eigenvalue falls below it, which Fortran would
        turn into ``numeigs = 0``. pamica raises instead of fitting an empty
        model. Use ``mineig_rel`` (or rescale) for such data.
    mineig_rel : float, optional
        Scale-free alternative to ``mineig``: when set, the threshold becomes
        ``mineig_rel * largest_eigenvalue`` and ``mineig`` is ignored. Off by
        default so rank detection stays Fortran-exact. It is also the more
        accurate detector -- the absolute floor sits amid the numerical-zero
        eigenvalues of rank-deficient data and over-retains, while a relative
        floor recovers the true rank (issue #223).
    seed : int, optional
        Seed for parameter initialization. Uses ``numpy.random.RandomState``
        internally (not ``torch``'s RNG) with the exact same draw order as
        ``pamica.AMICA._initialize_parameters``, so the same seed produces
        bit-identical starting parameters to the NumPy reference.
    n_restarts : int, default=1
        Number of independent fits to run from different seeds, keeping the one
        with the highest ``final_ll_`` (issue #198). ``1`` (the default) is the
        parity-preserving setting: the restart machinery is bypassed entirely
        and the fit is bit-identical to a pre-#198 run. With ``n_restarts > 1``
        a base ``seed`` (or explicit ``restart_seeds``) is required, so the
        winning fit can be reproduced. Restarts run serially, so a fit costs
        ``n_restarts`` times as long. Fortran has no equivalent; see
        ``docs/guides/amica-differences.md`` and :mod:`pamica.restarts`.
    restart_seeds : sequence of int, optional
        Explicit per-restart seeds; must have exactly ``n_restarts`` entries.
        When omitted the seeds are ``seed, seed + 1, ..., seed + n_restarts - 1``.
    device : str or torch.device, optional
        Compute device for the block loop. Preprocessing (mean/cov/eigh) is
        always done in float64 on CPU regardless of device, since eigh is
        not reliably supported on MPS.
    dtype : torch.dtype, default=torch.float64
        Parameter/computation dtype. float64 is the parity default (Fortran
        bit-parity) and ~4.5x on CUDA over CPU (issue #63). float32 converges on
        full-size data across seeds (issue #75 guarded the one float32-only
        divide-by-zero -- a sample rounding an activation to exactly 0 gave
        ``0/0`` in the mu denominator) and is the required precision on MPS,
        which has no float64. float32 is NOT bit-parity with float64 (~7
        significant digits), so use float64 for Fortran-parity runs and float32
        for speed / Apple-GPU.
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        n_channels: int,
        n_models: int = 1,
        n_mix: int = 3,
        block_size: int = 8192,
        do_opt_block: bool = False,
        blk_min: int = blocktune.DEFAULT_BLK_MIN,
        blk_max: int = blocktune.DEFAULT_BLK_MAX,
        blk_step: int = blocktune.DEFAULT_BLK_STEP,
        lrate: float = 0.1,
        minlrate: float = 1e-12,
        lratefact: float = 0.5,
        maxdecs: int = 5,
        use_min_dll: bool = True,
        min_dll: float = 1e-9,
        maxincs: int = 5,
        use_grad_norm: bool = True,
        min_nd: float = 1e-7,
        newt_ramp: int = 10,
        do_newton: bool = False,
        newt_start: int = 20,
        newtrate: float = 0.5,
        do_reject: bool = False,
        rejsig: float = 3.0,
        rejstart: int = 2,
        rejint: int = 3,
        maxrej: int = 1,
        rho0: float = 1.5,
        minrho: float = 1.0,
        maxrho: float = 2.0,
        rholrate: float = 0.05,
        rholratefact: float = 0.1,
        keep_best: bool = True,
        pdftype: int = 0,
        kurt_start: int = 3,
        num_kurt: int = 5,
        kurt_int: int = 1,
        invsigmin: float = 1e-4,
        invsigmax: float = 1000.0,
        doscaling: bool = True,
        scalestep: int = 1,
        share_comps: bool = False,
        share_start: int = 100,
        share_iter: int = 100,
        comp_thresh: float = 0.99,
        do_mean: bool = True,
        do_sphere: bool = True,
        do_approx_sphere: bool = True,
        pcakeep: Optional[int] = None,
        pcadb: Optional[float] = None,
        mineig: float = MINEIG,
        mineig_rel: Optional[float] = MINEIG_REL,
        seed: Optional[int] = None,
        n_restarts: int = restarts.DEFAULT_N_RESTARTS,
        restart_seeds: Optional[Sequence[int]] = None,
        device: Optional[Union[str, torch.device]] = None,
        dtype: torch.dtype = torch.float64,
    ):
        self.n_channels = n_channels
        self.n_models = n_models
        self.n_mix = n_mix
        self.n_comps = n_channels * n_models
        self.mineig = mineig
        self.mineig_rel = mineig_rel
        self.block_size = block_size
        self.do_opt_block = do_opt_block
        self.blk_min = blk_min
        self.blk_max = blk_max
        self.blk_step = blk_step
        if do_opt_block:
            # Only validated when the search is on, matching how share_comps /
            # do_reject validate their own schedules: these three are inert
            # otherwise, and a literal Fortran input.param carrying them
            # alongside do_opt_block=0 must stay loadable (issue #232).
            blocktune.validate_block_tune_params(blk_min, blk_max, blk_step)

        self.lrate0 = lrate
        self.lrate = lrate
        self.minlrate = minlrate
        self.lratefact = lratefact
        self.maxdecs = maxdecs

        # Convergence stops (issue #207), Fortran-faithful defaults (both
        # amica15_header.f90:24/74 flags default True): the small-
        # likelihood-increase stop (use_min_dll/min_dll/maxincs) and the
        # weight-gradient-norm stop (use_grad_norm/min_nd). See fit() for the
        # per-iteration checks and _update_parameters for the ndtmpsum
        # computation these both read.
        if maxincs < 0:
            raise ValueError(f"maxincs must be >= 0, got {maxincs}")
        self.use_min_dll = use_min_dll
        self.min_dll = min_dll
        self.maxincs = maxincs
        self.use_grad_norm = use_grad_norm
        self.min_nd = min_nd

        self.newt_ramp = newt_ramp

        self.do_newton = do_newton
        self.newt_start = newt_start
        self.newtrate = newtrate
        self.newtrate0 = newtrate

        self.do_reject = do_reject
        self.rejsig = rejsig
        self.rejstart = rejstart
        self.rejint = rejint
        self.maxrej = maxrej
        if do_reject:
            if rejint < 1:
                raise ValueError(f"rejint must be >= 1, got {rejint}")
            if rejsig <= 0:
                raise ValueError(f"rejsig must be > 0, got {rejsig}")
            if maxrej < 0:
                raise ValueError(f"maxrej must be >= 0, got {maxrej}")

        self.rho0 = rho0
        self.minrho = minrho
        self.maxrho = maxrho
        self.rholrate = rholrate
        self.rholrate0 = rholrate
        self.rholratefact = rholratefact

        # Best-iterate safeguard (issue #51). When True, fit() restores the
        # highest-log-likelihood iterate if the run ends more than _KEEP_BEST_TOL
        # below it (a late Newton-fallback overshoot). Disabled automatically
        # under do_reject, where the good-sample set (and the LL normalization)
        # changes across iterations, so per-iteration LLs are not comparable.
        self.keep_best = keep_best

        # Source-density family selection (Fortran ``pdftype``, amica15.f90). Values
        # match Fortran's per-source ``pdtype`` codes: 0 generalized Gaussian (the
        # default, GG-mixture with adaptive rho), 2 Gaussian mixture, 3 logistic
        # (sech^2) mixture, 4 sub-Gaussian cosh+ (single component). pdftype=1 enables
        # the extended-Infomax adaptive switcher (Fortran's do_choose_pdfs trigger),
        # which flips each source between the super-Gaussian (code 1) and sub-Gaussian
        # (code 4) cosh densities by kurtosis sign on the kurt_start/num_kurt/kurt_int
        # schedule. Families 1 and 4 are single-component (no alpha mixture).
        if pdftype not in (0, 1, 2, 3, 4):
            raise ValueError(f"pdftype must be one of 0,1,2,3,4; got {pdftype}")
        self.pdftype = pdftype
        # Fortran freezes the GG shape update for every non-GG family (amica15.f90:
        # `if (pdftype /= 0) dorho = .false.`, lines 3704-3705).
        self.dorho = pdftype == 0
        # pdftype==1 is Fortran's adaptive trigger (amica15.f90:612).
        self.do_choose_pdfs = pdftype == 1
        self.kurt_start = kurt_start
        self.num_kurt = num_kurt
        self.kurt_int = kurt_int
        # Families 1/4 (and the adaptive mode, which uses only codes 1 and 4) are
        # single-component densities: Fortran's z0 references only mixture component
        # j=1 and omits log(alpha). They are meaningful only with n_mix == 1.
        if pdftype in (1, 4) and n_mix != 1:
            raise ValueError(
                f"pdftype={pdftype} is a single-component density (adaptive mode "
                f"uses codes 1 and 4); it requires n_mix=1, got n_mix={n_mix}."
            )
        # Validate the adaptive-switch schedule up front (mirrors the do_reject
        # checks below): kurt_int==0 would otherwise raise a bare ZeroDivisionError
        # deep in fit(), and a negative kurt_int silently changes the schedule.
        if self.do_choose_pdfs:
            if kurt_int < 1:
                raise ValueError(f"kurt_int must be >= 1, got {kurt_int}")
            if kurt_start < 1:
                raise ValueError(f"kurt_start must be >= 1, got {kurt_start}")
            if num_kurt < 0:
                raise ValueError(f"num_kurt must be >= 0, got {num_kurt}")

        self.invsigmin = invsigmin
        self.invsigmax = invsigmax

        self.doscaling = doscaling
        self.scalestep = scalestep

        # Component sharing (Fortran share_comps / identify_shared_comps trigger
        # amica15.f90:1856, subroutine :1916-1963): periodically merge mixing
        # columns near-collinear across DIFFERENT models so they share one
        # density and one mixing column. Multi-model only (a model cannot share
        # with itself); OFF by default so single-model (#24) and default
        # multi-model (#27) parity stay byte-for-byte. No bit-exact oracle -- the
        # reference's Spinv2 metric is declared but never allocated, so its
        # reassignment is unrunnable (the do_choose_pdfs situation, #26); this is
        # the intended algorithm, validated by real-data behavior.
        self.share_comps = share_comps
        self.share_start = share_start
        self.share_iter = share_iter
        self.comp_thresh = comp_thresh
        # Cached sphere pseudo-inverse (issues #223, #253): the sensor-space
        # back-map, shared by get_sensor_mixing_matrix and the sharing metric.
        self._sphere_pinv = None
        if share_comps:
            if share_start < 1:
                raise ValueError(f"share_start must be >= 1, got {share_start}")
            if share_iter <= 6:
                # The A-freeze settle window is 6 iterations; a smaller cycle
                # would freeze A permanently (never leaving room to update it).
                raise ValueError(f"share_iter must be > 6, got {share_iter}")
            if not 0.0 < comp_thresh <= 1.0:
                raise ValueError(f"comp_thresh must be in (0, 1], got {comp_thresh}")

        self.do_mean = do_mean
        self.do_sphere = do_sphere
        self.do_approx_sphere = do_approx_sphere
        self.pcakeep = pcakeep
        self.pcadb = pcadb

        self.seed = seed

        # Best-of-N restarts (issue #198), a pamica extension: Fortran has no
        # search over seeds. Resolved here so a bad configuration fails before
        # any data is touched, and derived from the CONSTRUCTOR seed so that a
        # second fit() on the same instance repeats the same seeds even though
        # fit() leaves self.seed on the winning restart.
        self._restart_seeds = restarts.resolve_seeds(n_restarts, restart_seeds, seed)
        self.n_restarts = int(n_restarts)
        self.restart_seeds = None if restart_seeds is None else list(restart_seeds)
        # Per-restart records, set by fit(): index-aligned lists of the seed each
        # restart ran from, the log-likelihood it returned (NaN for a degenerate
        # restart) and why it stopped. A degenerate restart is excluded from
        # selection but kept here -- it is a fact about that seed.
        self.restart_seeds_: List[Optional[int]] = []
        self.restart_lls_: List[float] = []
        self.restart_stop_reasons_: List[Optional[str]] = []

        if device is None:
            device = setup_device()
        elif isinstance(device, str):
            device = torch.device(device)
        self.device = device
        self.dtype = dtype

        if self.device.type == "mps" and self.dtype == torch.float64:
            raise ValueError(
                "MPS does not support float64. Use dtype=torch.float32 for "
                "device='mps', or device='cpu'/'cuda' for float64 parity runs."
            )

        self.iteration = 0
        self.ll_history: list[float] = []
        # Log-likelihood of the *returned* parameters (issue #51). With
        # keep_best, ``ll_history`` stays the true per-iteration trajectory
        # (which can include a late overshoot), while ``final_ll_`` is the LL of
        # the iterate fit() actually kept -- use this, not ``ll_history[-1]``, as
        # the model's fitted log-likelihood. Set by fit().
        #
        # Under share_comps, a merge that fires on the LAST fit iteration is
        # reflected in the returned A/W/comp_list but NOT in final_ll_: the
        # merge runs after that iteration's LL has already been computed and
        # recorded (Fortran identify_shared_comps runs after the iteration's
        # LL accumulation, amica15.f90:1856-1858 vs the earlier LL accumulation), so
        # the merge's effect on the likelihood only shows up in the next
        # iteration's E-step -- which never runs. keep_best is disabled under
        # share_comps (see fit()), so this is not a keep_best artifact; it
        # holds even with keep_best=False. Fortran-faithful, so this is
        # documented behavior, not a bug (issue #269).
        self.final_ll_: Optional[float] = None
        # Mutual Information Reduction (MIR) waypoint trajectory (issue #137),
        # populated by fit() when
        # mir_step > 0: (iteration, mir_nats, variance) tuples from the
        # CURRENT (mid-fit) W/sphere. Like ll_history, this is a true
        # trajectory that a keep_best restore does NOT rewrite -- the
        # fit-end MIR is mir() on the returned parameters, not
        # mir_history_[-1]. Not part of state_dict(): it's a diagnostic,
        # not a fitted parameter.
        #
        # Not index-aligned with ll_history: the entry for iteration i is
        # computed AFTER that iteration's _update_parameters, while
        # ll_history[i] is the likelihood of the parameters BEFORE it (the
        # E-step accumulator that produced the update). The two therefore
        # describe states one update apart, so zipping them by index compares
        # different parameters (issue #161).
        self.mir_history_: list[tuple[int, float, float]] = []

        # Outlier-rejection bookkeeping (set up in fit()).
        self.numrej = 0
        self.good_idx: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None

        # Set by fit(): why fitting stopped ("max_iter", "nan_ll", "lrate_floor",
        # "grad_norm_floor", "min_dll", "grad_norm" -- issue #207 added the last
        # three) and how many iterations reverted Newton to natural gradient
        # (Fortran prints this; here it is exposed for parity debugging, see
        # issue #21).
        self.stop_reason: Optional[str] = None
        self.n_newton_fallbacks = 0

        # Weight-gradient-norm (Fortran ndtmpsum), recomputed every iteration by
        # _update_parameters and read by fit()'s convergence checks (issue #207).
        # None before the first _update_parameters call.
        self._ndtmpsum: Optional[float] = None

        # Populated by fit()/_initialize_parameters().
        self.A: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self.W: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self.c: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self.mu: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self.alpha: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self.beta: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self.rho: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        # Per-source density-family codes (n_channels, n_models); set in
        # _initialize_parameters and mutated by the adaptive switcher.
        self.pdtype: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        # Number of adaptive-switch passes already performed (Fortran numchpdf).
        self.n_kurt_done = 0
        self.gm: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self.comp_list: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self.mean: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self.sphere: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self.sldet = 0.0

        # Full-dataset per-sample/per-model log-likelihood (Fortran's LLt,
        # issue #155), STASHED as the training E-step computes it rather than
        # recomputed by a separate forward pass at write time (issue #157) --
        # which is what Fortran does, keeping ``modloglik(num_models,N)`` and
        # ``loglik(N)`` permanently allocated (amica15.f90:2617-2620) so that
        # ``write_output`` just dumps them (amica15.f90:2338-2343).
        #
        # ``_llt_logv``/``_llt_ll`` are the live per-fit buffers (device
        # tensors; Fortran's ``modloglik``/``loglik``), zero-filled so a
        # ``do_reject`` sample keeps Fortran's zero sentinel. ``fit`` converts
        # them into the compact numpy ``_llt_lht``/``_llt_lt`` that
        # ``write_amica_output`` consumes, then drops the device buffers.
        # Memory is ``(n_models + 1) * n_samples * itemsize`` and so grows with
        # the data, but stays far below the sphered dataset already resident
        # (``n_channels x n_samples``) since ``n_channels >> n_models + 1`` in
        # any real fit: ~0.7 MB for the bundled 30504-sample two-model case.
        # Not fitted parameters (absent from state_dict()/_PARAM_TENSORS): a
        # model restored via from_state_dict() has none, so write_amica_output
        # writes no LLt for it.
        self._llt_logv: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self._llt_ll: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
        self._llt_lht: Optional[np.ndarray] = None
        self._llt_lt: Optional[np.ndarray] = None

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Preprocessing
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    def _preprocess(self, X: np.ndarray) -> torch.Tensor:
        """Mean-removal + sphering, matching ``pamica.AMICA._preprocess_data``.

        Done in float64 on CPU (eigh is not reliably supported on MPS and
        this is a one-time O(n_channels^3) cost, not the per-block hot
        path), then cast/moved to ``self.device``/``self.dtype``.
        """
        X_cpu = torch.from_numpy(np.ascontiguousarray(X)).to(torch.float64)
        data_dim = X_cpu.shape[0]

        if self.do_mean:
            mean = X_cpu.mean(dim=1, keepdim=True)
            X_cpu = X_cpu - mean
        else:
            mean = torch.zeros(data_dim, 1, dtype=torch.float64)

        if self.do_sphere:
            # Population covariance (divide by N), matching Fortran's DSYRK
            # scatter/N -- NOT torch.cov's default sample covariance (/(N-1)).
            # The two differ by a pure scalar sqrt(N/(N-1)); using /(N-1) leaves
            # a ~5e-6 sphere mismatch vs the reference (issue #24, check [1] of
            # .context/issue-24/root_cause_Aupdate.py).
            cov = torch.cov(X_cpu, correction=0)
            evals, evecs = torch.linalg.eigh(cov)
            order = torch.argsort(evals, descending=True)
            evals = evals[order]
            evecs = evecs[:, order]

            # Numerical-rank detection (Fortran amica15.f90:413). The policy is
            # shared with the NumPy and MLX backends so they cannot drift
            # (pamica/rank.py); only the eigenvalues cross the boundary, as a
            # read-only copy, so the sphere below stays bit-exact.
            n_comp = numerical_rank(
                evals.cpu().numpy(),
                mineig=self.mineig,
                mineig_rel=self.mineig_rel,
                pcakeep=self.pcakeep,
                pcadb=self.pcadb,
            )

            V = evecs[:, :n_comp]
            inv_sqrt = torch.diag(1.0 / torch.sqrt(evals[:n_comp]))
            if n_comp < data_dim:
                # Rank-reduced sphere: (n_comp, data_dim), so the sphered data
                # come out at the kept rank rather than staying rank-deficient
                # at data_dim rows (Fortran nw = numeigs, amica15.f90:563).
                # Vt rows are eigenvectors in descending-eigenvalue order,
                # matching Fortran's reversed Stmp2 (amica15.f90:473-479).
                w_pca = inv_sqrt @ V.T
                if self.do_approx_sphere:
                    # Fortran amica15.f90:501-508 symmetrizes the reduced
                    # whitening by the orthogonal polar factor of the leading
                    # n_comp x n_comp block of V^T:
                    #   B = (V^T)[:n, :n] = U_b S_b Vt_b
                    #   S = (V_b U_b^T) @ w_pca
                    B = evecs.T[:n_comp, :n_comp]
                    U_b, _, Vt_b = torch.linalg.svd(B)
                    sphere = (Vt_b.T @ U_b.T) @ w_pca
                else:
                    sphere = w_pca
            elif self.do_approx_sphere:
                # Symmetric ZCA sphere V diag(1/sqrt(eval)) V^T (Fortran
                # do_approx_sphere=True, amica17.f90:480-481). This is the
                # Fortran default and the parity-validated form; the old
                # diag(1/sqrt)@V^T (PCA whitening) is a different, non-symmetric
                # transform that breaks activation parity.
                sphere = V @ inv_sqrt @ V.T
            else:
                # Non-symmetric PCA whitening D^-1/2 V^T (Fortran
                # do_approx_sphere=False path, amica17.f90:495).
                sphere = inv_sqrt @ V.T

            X_cpu = sphere @ X_cpu
            # Sphering log-determinant term of the data log-likelihood
            # (Fortran ``sldet``, amica17.f90:474): sum over the kept
            # eigenvalues of -0.5*log(eval). For the PCA-reduced-rank case
            # this is a pseudo-determinant, matching Fortran which sums over
            # numeigs kept eigenvalues regardless of full rank.
            sldet = float(-0.5 * torch.log(evals[:n_comp]).sum().item())
        else:
            sphere = torch.eye(data_dim, dtype=torch.float64)
            sldet = 0.0

        self.mean = mean.to(device=self.device, dtype=self.dtype)
        self.sphere = sphere.to(device=self.device, dtype=self.dtype)
        self.sldet = sldet

        # Rank reduction shrank the sphered space, so size the model to the kept
        # rank before _initialize_parameters allocates against n_channels
        # (Fortran ``nw = numeigs``, amica15.f90:563). No-op, and therefore
        # bit-exact, whenever the data are full rank.
        n_kept = sphere.shape[0]
        if n_kept != self.n_channels:
            logger.info(
                "Data covariance has numerical rank %d of %d; fitting %d "
                "sources and mapping back to %d channels via the sphere "
                "pseudo-inverse.",
                n_kept,
                data_dim,
                n_kept,
                data_dim,
            )
            self.n_channels = n_kept
            self.n_comps = n_kept * self.n_models
        self._sphere_pinv = None  # rebuilt on demand for this fit's sphere

        return X_cpu.to(device=self.device, dtype=self.dtype)

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Initialization
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    def _initialize_parameters(self):
        """Initialize parameters, mirroring ``pamica.AMICA._initialize_parameters``
        exactly (same RNG draws, same order) so the same seed gives
        bit-identical starting parameters to the NumPy reference.
        """
        rng = np.random.RandomState(self.seed)
        n, m, ncomp, nmix = self.n_channels, self.n_models, self.n_comps, self.n_mix

        A_np = np.zeros((n, ncomp), dtype=np.float64)
        for h in range(m):
            A_np[:, h * n : (h + 1) * n] = np.eye(n) + 0.01 * (0.5 - rng.rand(n, n))

        comp_list_np = np.zeros((n, m), dtype=np.int64)
        for h in range(m):
            comp_list_np[:, h] = np.arange(h * n, (h + 1) * n)

        mu_np = np.zeros((nmix, ncomp), dtype=np.float64)
        for k in range(ncomp):
            mu_np[:, k] = np.linspace(-1, 1, nmix)
            mu_np[:, k] += 0.05 * (1 - 2 * rng.rand(nmix))

        alpha_np = np.ones((nmix, ncomp), dtype=np.float64) / nmix

        beta_np = np.ones((nmix, ncomp), dtype=np.float64)
        beta_np += 0.1 * (0.5 - rng.rand(nmix, ncomp))

        rho_np = self.rho0 * np.ones((nmix, ncomp), dtype=np.float64)
        gm_np = np.ones(m, dtype=np.float64) / m
        c_np = np.zeros((n, m), dtype=np.float64)

        self.A = torch.from_numpy(A_np).to(self.device, self.dtype)
        self.comp_list = torch.from_numpy(comp_list_np).to(self.device)
        self.mu = torch.from_numpy(mu_np).to(self.device, self.dtype)
        self.alpha = torch.from_numpy(alpha_np).to(self.device, self.dtype)
        self.beta = torch.from_numpy(beta_np).to(self.device, self.dtype)
        self.rho = torch.from_numpy(rho_np).to(self.device, self.dtype)
        self.gm = torch.from_numpy(gm_np).to(self.device, self.dtype)
        self.c = torch.from_numpy(c_np).to(self.device, self.dtype)

        # Per-source density-family codes, Fortran ``pdtype = pdftype`` (amica15.f90:
        # 611). In adaptive mode (pdftype==1) every source starts as the
        # super-Gaussian code 1 and the switcher may flip it to 4.
        self.pdtype = torch.full(
            (n, m), self.pdftype, dtype=torch.long, device=self.device
        )
        self.n_kurt_done = 0

        # Reset the mutable optimization state to the pristine constructor
        # values (lrate_cap, newtrate, rholrate are ratcheted down during
        # fit; restore them so a re-fit starts fresh).
        self.lrate = self.lrate0
        self.lrate_cap = self.lrate0
        self.newtrate = self.newtrate0
        self.rholrate = self.rholrate0
        self.iteration = 0
        self._update_unmixing_matrices()

    def _update_unmixing_matrices(self):
        """Recompute W from A via direct (batched) inversion -- never pinv."""
        assert self.A is not None and self.comp_list is not None
        A_stack = torch.stack(
            [self.A[:, self.comp_list[:, h]] for h in range(self.n_models)], dim=0
        )
        W_stack = torch.linalg.inv(A_stack)
        self.W = W_stack.permute(1, 2, 0).contiguous()

    def _pdtype_h(self, h: int) -> Optional[torch.Tensor]:
        """Per-source density-family codes for model ``h``, shaped for
        broadcasting against ``(batch, n_channels, num_mix)`` tensors, or
        ``None`` on the default ``pdftype=0`` (GG-only) fast path so the E-step
        stays bit-identical to the pre-#26 implementation.
        """
        if self.pdftype == 0:
            return None
        assert self.pdtype is not None
        return self.pdtype[:, h].view(1, -1, 1)

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # E-step / M-step sufficient statistics (the hot path)
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    def _forward(self, X: torch.Tensor):
        """Run the E-step forward pass for one data block.

        Computes, for every model ``h``, the activations ``b``, scaled
        activations ``y``, normalized mixture responsibilities ``z``, the power
        ``|y|^rho`` (reused by the rho update), and the per-sample per-model
        log-likelihood ``logV`` (including the ``log|det W|`` and ``sldet``
        Jacobian terms, matching Fortran's ``Ptmp`` seed, amica17.f90:1273).
        Shared by ``_get_block_updates`` (which reduces it into sufficient
        statistics) and ``_block_sample_ll`` (which only needs ``logV``).

        Returns
        -------
        logV : torch.Tensor of shape (batch, n_models)
        b_list, z_list, y_list, azrho_list : lists (one entry per model) of
            per-model tensors (``b``: (batch, n_channels); ``z``/``y``/``azrho``:
            (batch, n_channels, n_mix)).
        """
        assert (
            self.comp_list is not None
            and self.c is not None
            and self.W is not None
            and self.mu is not None
            and self.beta is not None
            and self.rho is not None
            and self.alpha is not None
            and self.gm is not None
        )
        batch_size = X.shape[1]
        num_models = self.n_models
        b_list, z_list, y_list, azrho_list = [], [], [], []
        logV = torch.empty(batch_size, num_models, dtype=self.dtype, device=self.device)

        for h in range(num_models):
            idx = self.comp_list[:, h]
            # Activation b = W(x - c): c is the per-model data-space center.
            # Fortran subtracts wc in the E-step (amica17.f90:1280-1292), where
            # wc = W@c is precomputed in get_unmixing_matrices (amica17.f90:2178).
            # Subtracting c in data space before W is equivalent and keeps c's
            # semantics identical to Fortran's. For n_models=1, c == 0, so this is
            # bit-identical to the old X.T @ W.
            b = (X - self.c[:, h].unsqueeze(1)).T @ self.W[:, :, h]  # (batch, n_ch)

            mu_h = self.mu[:, idx].T.unsqueeze(0)  # (1, n_channels, num_mix)
            beta_h = self.beta[:, idx].T.unsqueeze(0)
            rho_h = self.rho[:, idx].T.unsqueeze(0)
            alpha_h = self.alpha[:, idx].T.unsqueeze(0)

            y = beta_h * (b.unsqueeze(-1) - mu_h)  # (batch, n_channels, num_mix)
            # Only log_pdf is needed here; the score fp (and drho's |y|^rho) are
            # reused in _get_block_updates. az_rho = |y|^rho is threaded through
            # so the rho-update does not recompute it (issue #63).
            log_pdf, az_rho = _log_pdf_only(y, rho_h, self._pdtype_h(h))

            # z0 = log(alpha) + log(beta) + log_pdf. For the single-component
            # families (codes 1/4) n_mix==1 so alpha==1 and log(alpha)==0, which
            # reproduces Fortran's alpha-free z0 (amica15.f90:1358/1370).
            z0 = torch.log(alpha_h) + torch.log(beta_h) + log_pdf
            ll_i = torch.logsumexp(
                z0, dim=-1
            )  # (batch, n_channels) -- per-source log-density
            z = torch.softmax(z0, dim=-1)  # normalized responsibilities

            logdet_W = torch.linalg.slogdet(self.W[:, :, h])[1]
            logV[:, h] = (
                torch.log(self.gm[h]) + logdet_W + self.sldet + ll_i.sum(dim=-1)
            )

            b_list.append(b)
            z_list.append(z)
            y_list.append(y)
            azrho_list.append(az_rho)

        return logV, b_list, z_list, y_list, azrho_list

    def _block_sample_ll(self, X: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
        """Per-sample total log-likelihood for a data block (the rejection
        statistic; Fortran ``P``/``loglik``, amica17.f90:1372)."""
        logV, *_ = self._forward(X)
        return torch.logsumexp(logV, dim=1)  # (batch,)

    def _get_block_updates(self, X: torch.Tensor) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
        """Compute sufficient-statistic accumulators for one data block.

        Fortran-faithful exact-EM statistics (amica17.f90:1437-1592), validated
        against the reference binary to machine precision (issue #24). Unlike a
        first-order gradient M-step, the mixture updates use exact-EM numerator/
        denominator pairs and the score ``fp = rho*sign(y)*|y|^(rho-1)`` (``_score``,
        Fortran ``fp``) rather than the density derivative ``dpdf``:

        * ``dmu_n = sum(u*fp)``, ``dmu_d = sbeta*sum(u*fp/y)``   (mu += dmu_n/dmu_d)
        * ``dbeta_n = sum(u)``, ``dbeta_d = sum(u*fp*y)``        (beta *= sqrt(n/d))
        * ``drho_n = rho*sum(u*|y|^rho*ln|y|)``                  (rho digamma update)
        * ``dWtmp = g^T b`` with ``g = sum_j sbeta*u*fp``        (natural gradient)

        where ``u = v*z`` (model x mixture responsibility). ``ll`` is the correct
        pre-normalization ``logsumexp`` (see module docstring).

        Assumes ``rho <= 2`` (the ``maxrho`` default); the ``rho > 2`` denominator
        branches of Fortran (:1539/:1551) are unreachable and not implemented.

        Returns
        -------
        updates : dict with ``dgm`` (n_models,), ``dalpha_n``/``dmu_n``/``dmu_d``/
            ``dbeta_n``/``dbeta_d``/``drho_n`` (n_mix, n_comps), ``dWtmp``
            (n_channels, n_channels, n_models), ``dc_numer`` (n_channels,
            n_models; the data-space bias numerator ``sum_t v_h*x``, issue #27),
            ``ll`` (scalar), and -- when ``do_newton`` -- ``dsigma2_numer``,
            ``dkappa_numer``, ``dlambda_numer`` (see ``_finalize_newton_stats``).

            Plus two per-sample (non-summable) entries consumed and removed by
            ``_accumulate_blocks``: ``logV`` (batch, n_models) and
            ``ll_samples`` (batch,) -- Fortran's ``modloglik``/``loglik``
            columns for this block, stashed for the LLt output (issue #157).
        """
        assert (
            self.comp_list is not None
            and self.beta is not None
            and self.rho is not None
        )
        num_mix, num_models = self.n_mix, self.n_models
        dev, dt = self.device, self.dtype

        logV, b_list, z_list, y_list, azrho_list = self._forward(X)
        # Per-sample total log-likelihood (Fortran ``P``/``loglik``,
        # amica15.f90:1402). Kept as a vector rather than folded straight into
        # the scalar sum so the LLt stash can reuse it (issue #157); ``block_ll``
        # is the same summation as before, bit for bit.
        block_ll_samples = torch.logsumexp(logV, dim=1)
        block_ll = block_ll_samples.sum()
        v = torch.softmax(logV, dim=1)  # (batch, num_models)

        def zeros(*shape):
            return torch.zeros(*shape, dtype=dt, device=dev)

        dgm = zeros(num_models)
        dalpha_n = zeros(num_mix, self.n_comps)
        dmu_n = zeros(num_mix, self.n_comps)
        dmu_d = zeros(num_mix, self.n_comps)
        dbeta_n = zeros(num_mix, self.n_comps)
        dbeta_d = zeros(num_mix, self.n_comps)
        drho_n = zeros(num_mix, self.n_comps)
        dWtmp = zeros(self.n_channels, self.n_channels, num_models)
        dc_numer = zeros(self.n_channels, num_models)
        do_newton = self.do_newton
        if do_newton:
            dsigma2_numer = zeros(self.n_channels, num_models)
            dkappa_numer = zeros(num_mix, self.n_channels, num_models)
            dlambda_numer = zeros(num_mix, self.n_channels, num_models)
        tiny = torch.finfo(dt).tiny

        for h in range(num_models):
            idx = self.comp_list[:, h]
            b, zr, y = b_list[h], z_list[h], y_list[h]
            v_h = v[:, h]
            beta_h = self.beta[:, idx].T.unsqueeze(0)  # sbeta, (1, n_ch, num_mix)
            rho_h = self.rho[:, idx].T  # (n_ch, num_mix)
            # score fp; the family select-case is amica15.f90:1467-1491 (amica17
            # is GG-only, so cite the binary's source explicitly here).
            fp = _score(y, rho_h.unsqueeze(0), self._pdtype_h(h))
            u = v_h.unsqueeze(-1).unsqueeze(-1) * zr  # u = v*z (:1439)
            ufp = u * fp  # (:1485)

            dgm[h] = v_h.sum()
            dalpha_n.index_add_(1, idx, u.sum(0).T)  # sum(u) (:1524)
            dmu_n.index_add_(1, idx, ufp.sum(0).T)  # sum(ufp) (:1532)
            # mu denominator sbeta*sum(ufp/y) (:1537). In float32 a sample sitting
            # on a mixture mean can round y to *exactly* 0; the score fp(0)=0 (for
            # the supported rho>=1), so the raw ufp/y is 0/0 = NaN -- the sole
            # trigger of the full-data float32 divergence (issue #75; NOT a
            # summation-precision problem, so compensated accumulation does not
            # help). The true term ufp/y = u*rho*|y|^(rho-2) is NOT 0 in the limit:
            # a nonzero constant at rho==2, and an integrable singularity that
            # diverges as y->0 for rho<2 -- so once y underflows to exactly 0 the
            # real contribution is unrepresentable. Substituting 0 (ufp==0 there,
            # so 0/1) drops that one sample instead of poisoning all of dmu_d with a
            # NaN: a bounded, empirically negligible bias (it fires <=1 sample per
            # iteration on the sample EEG, and float32 still matches the float64 LL
            # to ~5 sig digits). float64 never rounds y to exactly 0, so the guard
            # is a bit-identical no-op there (single-model #24 parity preserved),
            # and it needs no float64, so it also stabilizes the MPS/float32 path.
            safe_y = torch.where(y == 0, torch.ones_like(y), y)
            dmu_d.index_add_(
                1, idx, (beta_h.squeeze(0) * (ufp / safe_y).sum(0)).T
            )  # (:1537)
            dbeta_n.index_add_(1, idx, u.sum(0).T)  # sum(u) (:1550)
            dbeta_d.index_add_(1, idx, (ufp * y).sum(0).T)  # sum(ufp*y) (:1556)

            # drho_numer = rho * sum(u*|y|^rho*ln|y|)  (:1560-1578). The leading
            # rho comes from ln(|y|^rho)=rho*ln|y| in the Fortran logab chain
            # (issue #24 Bug 1). Guard only the per-sample underflow (:1570) --
            # no per-component (rho!=1&rho!=2) mask (Bug 2): |y|^rho*ln|y| is 0 at
            # y=0, and clamping the log input makes the product collapse there.
            ay = y.abs()
            ayrho = azrho_list[h]  # |y|^rho reused from _forward (issue #63)
            logab = rho_h.unsqueeze(0) * torch.log(ay.clamp_min(tiny))  # rho*ln|y|
            logab = torch.where(ayrho < _EPSDBLE, torch.zeros_like(logab), logab)
            drho_n.index_add_(1, idx, (u * (ayrho * logab)).sum(0).T)

            g = (beta_h * ufp).sum(-1)  # g_i = sum_j sbeta*ufp (:1493)
            dWtmp[:, :, h] = g.T @ b  # source-space sum g_t b_t^T (:1592)
            # Data-space bias accumulator: dc_numer[i,h] = sum_t v_h(t)*x(i,t)
            # (Fortran :1423-1429). The denominator is dgm[h] = sum_t v_h(t).
            # NOTE: this replaces the old gradient-style bias g.sum(0), which was
            # accumulated but never applied (c was frozen at 0); the Fortran
            # update is the data-space responsibility-weighted mean (issue #27).
            dc_numer[:, h] = X @ v_h

            if do_newton:
                # Newton curvature accumulators (Fortran amica17.f90:1419,
                # 1500-1514), in terms of the score fp (not dpdf).
                dsigma2_numer[:, h] = (v_h.unsqueeze(-1) * b.pow(2)).sum(0)  # (:1419)
                dkappa_numer[:, :, h] = (
                    (u * fp.pow(2)).sum(0) * beta_h.squeeze(0).pow(2)
                ).T  # (:1500)
                dlambda_numer[:, :, h] = (u * (fp * y - 1.0).pow(2)).sum(0).T  # (:1511)

        updates = {
            "dgm": dgm,
            "dalpha_n": dalpha_n,
            "dmu_n": dmu_n,
            "dmu_d": dmu_d,
            "dbeta_n": dbeta_n,
            "dbeta_d": dbeta_d,
            "drho_n": drho_n,
            "dWtmp": dWtmp,
            "dc_numer": dc_numer,
            "ll": block_ll,
            # Per-sample E-step outputs for the LLt stash (issue #157). These
            # are NOT summable accumulators -- _accumulate_blocks pops them
            # before folding the rest -- and cost nothing extra: both are
            # already computed above for ``ll``/``v``.
            "logV": logV,
            "ll_samples": block_ll_samples,
        }
        if do_newton:
            updates["dsigma2_numer"] = dsigma2_numer
            updates["dkappa_numer"] = dkappa_numer
            updates["dlambda_numer"] = dlambda_numer
        return updates

    def _accumulate_blocks(
        self, X: torch.Tensor, stash_llt: bool = False
    ) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
        """Sum sufficient statistics over all blocks of ``X``.

        Peak memory scales with ``block_size`` (each block's intermediates
        are freed once accumulated), not with ``X.shape[1]``.

        Parameters
        ----------
        X : torch.Tensor
            The (sphered) data to accumulate over, already restricted to the
            good set under ``do_reject``.
        stash_llt : bool, default=False
            Scatter each block's per-sample ``logV``/``ll_samples`` into the
            ``_llt_logv``/``_llt_ll`` buffers as it goes, so the LLt output
            never needs a second pass over the data (issue #157). Only the
            training loop sets this; the ``_tune_block_size`` probes leave the
            buffers untouched, so the tuner still leaves no state behind. The
            per-sample values are dropped from the returned dict either way --
            they are per-block quantities, not accumulators, and summing them
            would be meaningless.
        """
        n_samples = X.shape[1]
        acc: Optional[Dict[str, torch.Tensor]] = None
        for start in range(0, n_samples, self.block_size):
            end = min(start + self.block_size, n_samples)
            block_acc = self._get_block_updates(X[:, start:end])
            logv = block_acc.pop("logV")
            ll_samples = block_acc.pop("ll_samples")
            if stash_llt:
                assert self._llt_logv is not None and self._llt_ll is not None
                # Map this block's rows back onto the full-dataset index. Under
                # do_reject the caller passed X_t[:, good_idx], so block
                # [start:end] of X is good_idx[start:end] of the dataset;
                # otherwise the block index is the sample index.
                rows = (
                    self.good_idx[start:end]
                    if self.good_idx is not None
                    else slice(start, end)
                )
                self._llt_logv[rows] = logv
                self._llt_ll[rows] = ll_samples
            if acc is None:
                acc = block_acc
            else:
                for key in acc:
                    acc[key] = acc[key] + block_acc[key]
        assert acc is not None
        return acc

    def _available_memory_bytes(self) -> Optional[int]:
        """Memory the current device reports as usable, for the search's cap.

        ``None`` (no cap) when the device cannot report it; the search then
        relies solely on catching the allocation failure.

        The three branches do not report the same quantity. CUDA's
        ``mem_get_info`` gives currently-FREE memory, while MPS's
        ``recommended_max_memory`` and the host branch give total CAPACITY --
        neither accounts for what is already allocated. The cap is therefore an
        upper bound on what the device could ever give, not on what is free
        right now, which is why it is only ever a first filter:
        :data:`~pamica.blocktune.MEMORY_BUDGET_FRACTION` keeps it conservative
        and catching the real allocation failure is what actually makes the
        search safe.
        """
        dev = self.device.type
        if dev == "cuda":
            try:
                return int(torch.cuda.mem_get_info(self.device)[0])
            except (RuntimeError, AttributeError) as exc:
                logger.debug(
                    "could not query CUDA memory (%s: %s); block-size search "
                    "runs without a memory cap",
                    type(exc).__name__,
                    exc,
                )
                return None
        if dev == "mps":
            try:
                # Capacity, not free memory (see the docstring).
                return int(torch.mps.recommended_max_memory())
            except (RuntimeError, AttributeError) as exc:
                logger.debug(
                    "could not query MPS memory (%s: %s); block-size search "
                    "runs without a memory cap",
                    type(exc).__name__,
                    exc,
                )
                return None
        # Total host RAM, likewise capacity rather than free.
        return blocktune.host_memory_bytes()

    def _tune_block_size(self, X: torch.Tensor) -> None:
        """Set ``self.block_size`` to the fastest timed candidate (issue #232).

        The probe is one ``_accumulate_blocks`` pass -- the same E-step-plus-
        sufficient-statistics work every EM iteration does, so it times what the
        fit will actually spend its time on. ``_accumulate_blocks`` only reads
        model state and consumes no RNG, and ``block_size`` is restored around
        every probe, so the fit that follows is bit-identical to one started
        directly at the chosen size (``test_post_tune_fit_is_bit_identical``).
        """
        saved = self.block_size

        def probe(size: int) -> float:
            self.block_size = size
            try:
                start = time.perf_counter()
                acc = self._accumulate_blocks(X)
                # Force completion before stopping the clock: CUDA/MPS queue
                # work asynchronously, so reading a result is what makes the
                # elapsed time mean anything. Cheap and correct on CPU too.
                float(acc["ll"])
                return time.perf_counter() - start
            finally:
                # Never leave the model holding a candidate -- least of all one
                # that just failed to allocate (issue #232).
                self.block_size = saved

        self.block_size = blocktune.search(
            probe=probe,
            fallback=saved,
            blk_min=self.blk_min,
            blk_max=self.blk_max,
            blk_step=self.blk_step,
            n_samples=int(X.shape[1]),
            n_channels=self.n_channels,
            n_mix=self.n_mix,
            n_models=self.n_models,
            itemsize=torch.finfo(self.dtype).bits // 8,
            available_bytes=self._available_memory_bytes(),
            log=logger,
        )

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # M-step parameter update
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    def _finalize_newton_stats(self, acc: Dict[str, torch.Tensor]):
        """Reduce the Newton block accumulators into ``(sigma2, lambda, kappa)``.

        Ports the Fortran finalization (amica17.f90:1762-1776). The Fortran
        ``baralpha``/``dkappa_denom``/``dlambda_denom`` responsibility masses
        all cancel algebraically against the per-mixture ``dalpha`` weighting,
        leaving simply (with ``dgm = sum_t v_h`` the raw model mass):

            sigma2[i,h] = dsigma2_numer[i,h] / dgm[h]
            kappa[i,h]  = sum_j dkappa_numer[j,i,h] / dgm[h]
            lambda[i,h] = sum_j (dlambda_numer[j,i,h]
                                 + dkappa_numer[j,i,h] * mu[j,comp(i,h)]^2) / dgm[h]

        Returns (sigma2, lambda_, kappa), each (n_channels, n_models).
        """
        assert self.mu is not None and self.comp_list is not None
        dgm = acc["dgm"].unsqueeze(0)  # (1, n_models)
        sigma2 = acc["dsigma2_numer"] / dgm
        kappa = acc["dkappa_numer"].sum(dim=0) / dgm
        # mu at each source's component: mu[j, comp_list[i,h]] -> (n_mix, n_ch, n_models)
        mu_at = self.mu[:, self.comp_list]
        lambda_ = (acc["dlambda_numer"] + acc["dkappa_numer"] * mu_at.pow(2)).sum(
            dim=0
        ) / dgm
        return sigma2, lambda_, kappa

    def _newton_direction(self, dA_h, sigma2_h, lambda_h, kappa_h):
        """Per-model Newton direction ``H`` from the natural gradient ``dA_h``.

        Vectorized port of the per-source-pair 2x2 solve (amica17.f90:1817-1832,
        pamica.py:802-813):

            H[i,i] = dA_h[i,i] / lambda[i]
            sk1 = sigma2[i]*kappa[k];  sk2 = sigma2[k]*kappa[i]   (i != k)
            H[i,k] = (sk1*dA_h[i,k] - dA_h[k,i]) / (sk1*sk2 - 1)  if sk1*sk2 > 1

        Returns ``(H, posdef)``. ``posdef`` is False if any off-diagonal pair
        fails ``sk1*sk2 > 1`` (the positive-definiteness guard); the caller
        then falls back to the natural gradient for this model.
        """
        n = self.n_channels
        sk1 = sigma2_h.unsqueeze(1) * kappa_h.unsqueeze(0)  # [i,k] = sigma2[i]*kappa[k]
        sk2 = sigma2_h.unsqueeze(0) * kappa_h.unsqueeze(1)  # [i,k] = sigma2[k]*kappa[i]
        prod = sk1 * sk2
        valid = prod > 1.0
        denom = torch.where(valid, prod - 1.0, torch.ones_like(prod))
        h_off = (sk1 * dA_h - dA_h.T) / denom
        H = torch.where(valid, h_off, torch.zeros_like(h_off))
        # Diagonal overrides (uses lambda, not the off-diagonal formula).
        diag = torch.diagonal(dA_h) / lambda_h
        H = H - torch.diag(torch.diagonal(H)) + torch.diag(diag)
        # Positive-definite iff every off-diagonal pair passed the guard.
        offdiag = ~torch.eye(n, dtype=torch.bool, device=dA_h.device)
        posdef = bool(valid[offdiag].all().item())
        return H, posdef

    def _update_parameters(self, acc: Dict[str, torch.Tensor], n_samples: int):
        """Apply the M-step parameter update, matching
        ``pamica.AMICA._update_parameters`` (natural-gradient and Newton).

        ``n_samples`` is the number of samples that fed the accumulators (the
        good-sample count when ``do_reject`` is active), so ``gm`` and the
        reported log-likelihood are normalized by the effective sample count.

        The mixture parameters use exact-EM fixed-point updates (no ``lrate``);
        only the ``A``/``W`` step is scaled by ``lrate`` (Fortran amica17.f90:
        1890-2035). The per-model data-space bias ``c`` uses Fortran's exact-EM
        ``update_c`` (amica17.f90:1423-1429/1899-1901): ``c[i,h] = sum_t v_h*x /
        sum_t v_h``, the responsibility-weighted data mean for model ``h``. For
        ``n_models=1`` on mean-removed data ``v == 1`` so ``c`` collapses to the
        (zero) data mean; the update is skipped there so single-model parity stays
        bit-exact (issue #24). For ``n_models>1`` the per-model ``v`` is
        non-uniform and ``c`` moves each iteration (issue #27).
        """
        assert (
            self.c is not None
            and self.alpha is not None
            and self.mu is not None
            and self.beta is not None
            and self.rho is not None
            and self.A is not None
            and self.comp_list is not None
        )
        # Fortran builds dAk from the previous iteration's model weights: gm is
        # not reassigned until update_params (amica15.f90:1788+), after the
        # dAk/zeta accumulation in accum_updates_and_likelihood (:1749-1761).
        # Snapshot before overwriting so
        # dAk -- which both drives the A-update below and reports ndtmpsum, unlike
        # numpy_impl where it is only the diagnostic -- weights the way Fortran
        # does (the ordering question raised by issue #219). Cloned rather than aliased: gm is only ever rebound
        # today, but an in-place write elsewhere would silently corrupt this.
        assert self.gm is not None
        gm_prev = self.gm.clone()
        self.gm = acc["dgm"] / n_samples

        # Per-model data-space bias (Fortran's `update_c` flag, amica17.f90:1423-
        # 1429 numerator / :1899-1901 division). Skipped for a single model to keep
        # the issue #24 parity bit-exact: with v==1 the update would add a ~1e-13
        # float-sum residual of the (mean-removed) data, perturbing the
        # otherwise-exact single-model trajectory. dgm[h] = sum_t v_h(t) is the
        # denominator (Fortran `dc_denom`). A fully-dead model (dgm[h]==0 => v_h==0
        # for all t, so dc_numer[:,h]==0 too) gives 0/0; keep its PRIOR c rather
        # than write a NaN. A NaN c would poison the NEXT iteration's cross-model
        # softmax for EVERY model (unlike log(gm[h])=-inf, which softmax tolerates,
        # so a dead model was previously inert) -- this containment mirrors the
        # mu/beta/rho non-finite guards below. `dgm>0` is also False for a NaN dgm
        # from upstream corruption, so that is contained too.
        if self.n_models > 1:
            dgm = acc["dgm"]
            live = dgm > 0.0
            new_c = acc["dc_numer"] / dgm.clamp_min(torch.finfo(self.dtype).tiny)
            self.c = torch.where(live.unsqueeze(0), new_c, self.c)
            if not bool(live.all()):
                logger.warning(
                    "Zero-responsibility model(s) at iter %d; kept their prior "
                    "bias c (dead-model guard).",
                    self.iteration,
                )

        # Component sharing (#60): a component that was merged away is no longer
        # referenced by comp_list, so no sufficient statistic accumulates into
        # its column (dalpha_n/dmu_d/dbeta_d == 0) and the divisions below would
        # be 0/0 = NaN. Update only USED columns and freeze the rest at their
        # last finite value (Fortran carries NaN there harmlessly behind its
        # comp_used mask; we keep them finite so save/the degenerate guard are
        # not tripped). With the default full comp_list every column is used, so
        # ``used`` is all-True and every update below is byte-for-byte unchanged.
        used = self.comp_used.unsqueeze(0)  # (1, n_comps)

        self.alpha = torch.where(
            used, acc["dalpha_n"] / acc["dalpha_n"].sum(dim=0, keepdim=True), self.alpha
        )

        # Finalize the Newton curvature with the PRE-update mu. Fortran folds the
        # mu^2 term into lambda during E-step accumulation, before the M-step
        # moves mu (amica17.f90:1762-1774), and the NumPy port bakes it in at
        # accumulation time. Do it here, before self.mu is reassigned below, so
        # lambda uses this iteration's mu rather than the updated one.
        newton_active = self.do_newton and self.iteration >= self.newt_start
        if newton_active:
            sigma2, lambda_, kappa = self._finalize_newton_stats(acc)

        # Exact-EM mixture location/scale (Fortran :1978/:1993). No lrate.
        # ``used`` masks merged-away columns (no-op for the default comp_list).
        self.mu = torch.where(used, self.mu + acc["dmu_n"] / acc["dmu_d"], self.mu)
        self.beta = torch.where(
            used,
            torch.clamp(
                self.beta * torch.sqrt(acc["dbeta_n"] / acc["dbeta_d"]),
                self.invsigmin,
                self.invsigmax,
            ),
            self.beta,
        )
        # Fortran keeps a live "NaN in sbeta!" canary here (amica17.f90:1996-2000).
        # The exact-EM mu/beta divisions are unguarded (matching Fortran, whose own
        # mu/beta guard is commented out), so surface a non-finite value here
        # instead of letting it propagate to a later, unattributable nan-LL stop.
        if (
            not torch.isfinite(self.mu).all()
            or not torch.isfinite(self.beta).all()
            or not torch.isfinite(self.alpha).all()
        ):
            logger.warning(
                "Non-finite mu/beta/alpha at iter %d (a mixture component's mass "
                "likely collapsed).",
                self.iteration,
            )

        # GG shape update with the 1/psi(1+1/rho) digamma factor (Fortran
        # :2013-2014); the divisor is the per-component responsibility mass
        # dalpha_n (floored so a near-empty component cannot poison rho). A NaN
        # here (e.g. from upstream mu/beta corruption) is reset to rho0 -- but
        # logged first, so the reset does not silently erase the failure origin.
        # Skipped for every non-GG family: Fortran sets dorho=.false. when
        # pdftype/=0 (amica15.f90:3704), freezing rho at rho0.
        if (
            self.dorho
            and not torch.all(self.rho == 1.0)
            and not torch.all(self.rho == 2.0)
        ):
            drho = acc["drho_n"] / acc["dalpha_n"].clamp_min(1e-8)
            psi = torch.special.digamma(1.0 + 1.0 / self.rho)
            new_rho = self.rho + self.rholrate * (1.0 - (self.rho / psi) * drho)
            nan_mask = torch.isnan(new_rho)
            if nan_mask.any():
                logger.warning(
                    "NaN in rho update at iter %d for %d component(s); resetting "
                    "to rho0=%g.",
                    self.iteration,
                    int(nan_mask.sum()),
                    self.rho0,
                )
                new_rho = torch.where(
                    nan_mask, torch.full_like(new_rho, self.rho0), new_rho
                )
            self.rho = torch.where(
                used, torch.clamp(new_rho, self.minrho, self.maxrho), self.rho
            )

        # --- A / W update: natural gradient, optionally Newton-preconditioned.
        # A is stored as Fortran's A^T (the true unmixing is W^T = inv(A)^T), so
        # Fortran's A_fort -= lrate*A_fort @ dir becomes, transposed,
        # A -= lrate*dir^T @ A (LEFT-multiply by the TRANSPOSED direction). The
        # direction ``dir`` (natural gradient I - <g b^T>/dgm, or its Newton
        # precondition) is built in Fortran's untransposed convention. Getting
        # this wrong (right-multiply by the untransposed dir) is invisible at the
        # fixed point but sends the free-running fit downhill -- issue #24 root
        # cause (.context/issue-24/root_cause_Aupdate.py, machine-exact check).
        # (newton_active / sigma2 / lambda_ / kappa were finalized above.)
        #
        # The direction/dAk/gradient-norm computation below runs UNCONDITIONALLY,
        # not gated on _a_frozen(): Fortran computes dAk and ndtmpsum every
        # iteration in accum_updates_and_likelihood (amica15.f90:1749-1761),
        # strictly before the LATER, separate update_A block (amica15.f90:1803)
        # that actually steps A and is guarded by the share-freeze window. Only
        # the step itself -- and the lrate ramp / Newton-fallback bookkeeping
        # that Fortran nests inside that same guarded block -- are conditional on
        # ``not self._a_frozen()`` (issue #207: the grad-norm stop needs
        # ndtmpsum to reflect the true gradient magnitude every iteration, not
        # just the iterations where A actually moves). _a_frozen() is always
        # False when sharing is off, so the default path recomputes exactly what
        # it always did, just with the gate narrowed.
        eye = torch.eye(self.n_channels, dtype=self.dtype, device=self.device)
        directions = []
        no_newt = False
        for h in range(self.n_models):
            dA_h = -acc["dWtmp"][:, :, h] / acc["dgm"][h] + eye  # I - <g b^T>/dgm
            if newton_active:
                H, posdef = self._newton_direction(
                    dA_h, sigma2[:, h], lambda_[:, h], kappa[:, h]
                )
                if posdef:
                    directions.append(H)
                else:
                    no_newt = True
                    directions.append(dA_h)  # fall back to natural gradient
            else:
                directions.append(dA_h)

        # Accumulate each model's natural-gradient/Newton contribution per
        # mixing COLUMN as a gm-WEIGHTED AVERAGE (Fortran dAk/zeta,
        # amica15.f90:1749-1761): dAk = sum_h gm[h]*dir_h scattered by
        # comp_list, zeta = sum_h gm[h] per column, then dAk /= zeta. For the
        # default disjoint comp_list every column has exactly one contributor,
        # so gm cancels (dAk = dir) and single-model (gm=[1]) is byte-for-byte
        # unchanged; for a SHARED column (issue #60) the step is Fortran's
        # responsibility-weighted average, NOT a raw sum (a raw sum would
        # over-step by the contributor count and destabilize the fit).
        dAk = torch.zeros_like(self.A)
        zeta = torch.zeros(self.n_comps, dtype=self.dtype, device=self.device)
        for h in range(self.n_models):
            idx = self.comp_list[:, h]
            dAk.index_add_(1, idx, gm_prev[h] * (directions[h].T @ self.A[:, idx]))
            zeta.index_add_(0, idx, gm_prev[h].expand(idx.shape[0]))
        dAk = dAk / zeta.clamp_min(torch.finfo(self.dtype).tiny)

        # Weight-gradient norm (Fortran ndtmpsum, amica15.f90:1760-1761):
        # ``sqrt(sum(dAk**2, mask=comp_used) / (nw*count(comp_used)))``. Read by
        # fit()'s convergence checks (issue #207); the comp_used mask matters
        # only when share_comps has merged/frozen columns (all-True otherwise,
        # so ``comp_used_mask`` covers every column and this is a plain RMS over
        # dAk). Named distinctly from the ``used`` (1, n_comps) broadcast mask
        # above (alpha/mu/beta/rho updates) to avoid shadowing it.
        comp_used_mask = self.comp_used
        n_used = int(comp_used_mask.sum().item())
        nd = (dAk**2).sum(dim=0)  # (n_comps,)
        self._ndtmpsum = float(
            torch.sqrt(
                nd[comp_used_mask].sum() / (self.n_channels * max(n_used, 1))
            ).item()
        )

        # A-update. When sharing holds A this iteration (the post-merge settle
        # window, Fortran amica15.f90:1803), skip the step -- lrate ramp,
        # Newton-fallback bookkeeping, and the DAXPY itself -- so a discarded
        # Newton direction cannot pollute the fallback counter.
        if not self._a_frozen():
            if newton_active and no_newt:
                # Fortran prints "Hessian not positive definite, using natural
                # gradient" (amica15.f90:1809-1811). Surface the same signal so an
                # all-fallback run (issue #21) is visible without re-instrumenting.
                self.n_newton_fallbacks += 1
                logger.warning(
                    "Newton not positive definite at iter %d; using natural gradient.",
                    self.iteration,
                )

            # Learning-rate ramp: toward newtrate while Newton is active and
            # stable, otherwise toward lrate0 (Fortran amica15.f90:1804-1815).
            # Ramped after mu/beta/rho (exact-EM, lrate-free) and before A.
            if newton_active and not no_newt:
                self.lrate = min(
                    self.newtrate, self.lrate + min(1.0 / self.newt_ramp, self.lrate)
                )
            else:
                self.lrate = min(
                    self.lrate_cap, self.lrate + min(1.0 / self.newt_ramp, self.lrate)
                )

            self.A = self.A - self.lrate * dAk

        if self.doscaling and (self.iteration % self.scalestep == 0):
            assert self.A is not None and self.mu is not None and self.beta is not None
            scale = torch.sqrt((self.A**2).sum(dim=0))  # (n_comps,)
            nonzero = scale > 0
            self.A[:, nonzero] = self.A[:, nonzero] / scale[nonzero]
            self.mu[:, nonzero] = self.mu[:, nonzero] * scale[nonzero]
            self.beta[:, nonzero] = self.beta[:, nonzero] / scale[nonzero]

        self._update_unmixing_matrices()

    def _a_frozen(self) -> bool:
        """Whether the A-update (and its lrate ramp) is held this iteration.

        A is frozen for the first 6 iterations of every ``share_iter``-length
        window once ``iter >= share_start`` -- i.e. the merge iteration and the 5
        after it -- so the density parameters can settle onto any freshly merged
        component before the mixing matrix moves again (Fortran A-freeze,
        amica15.f90:1803). The window fires each cycle regardless of whether that
        cycle's ``_identify_shared_comps`` actually merged a pair.

        Anchored on ``(itf - share_start) % share_iter`` so it stays aligned with
        the merge schedule for any ``share_start``; the literal Fortran formula
        uses ``mod(iter, share_iter)`` (misaligned unless share_start is a
        multiple of share_iter, and a permanent freeze for ``share_iter <= 6``),
        but that path is dead in the reference (see :meth:`_identify_shared_comps`)
        so there is no parity constraint -- the constructor requires
        ``share_iter > 6`` so the window never consumes the whole cycle. Gated
        behind ``share_comps`` and ``n_models >= 2``, so with sharing off it is
        always False and the validated default trajectory is untouched.
        """
        if not self.share_comps or self.n_models < 2:
            return False
        itf = self.iteration + 1  # Fortran-style 1-indexed iteration
        if itf < self.share_start:
            return False
        return (itf - self.share_start) % self.share_iter <= 5

    def _identify_shared_comps(self) -> None:
        """Merge near-collinear mixing columns across models (Fortran
        ``identify_shared_comps``, amica15.f90:1916).

        Two components (model ``h`` source ``i`` and model ``hh`` source ``ii``,
        ``h < hh``) are identified when the angle between their mixing columns,
        measured in the original (de-sphered) data space, is below the
        ``comp_thresh`` cutoff::

            t0 = |a . b| / (||a|| ||b||),   a = Spinv A[:,ci], b = Spinv A[:,cj]

        where ``Spinv = pinv(sphere)`` de-spheres the columns back to
        input-channel (sensor) space, so the similarity compares scalp maps.

        The pseudo-inverse -- not a true inverse -- is the faithful back-map:
        the reference carries exactly this, ``Spinv(nx, numeigs)``, whenever
        rank/PCA reduction is active (amica15.f90:568-578). Invertibility was
        never a mathematical requirement of the merge metric, only of the way it
        used to be computed (issue #253). Two consequences:

        * Full rank, square sphere: ``pinv == inv`` to ~1e-15, orders of
          magnitude below any ``comp_thresh`` (~0.99) decision boundary, so
          merge decisions on well-conditioned data are unchanged.
        * Rank-reduced sphere ``(n_kept, n_channels)`` (issue #223), or a square
          sphere fitted on rank-deficient data (Maxwell-filtered MEG,
          average-referenced EEG): ``pinv`` maps each column into the retained
          sensor subspace instead of failing. For the reduced PCA sphere
          ``S = D^-1/2 V_r^T`` this is ``pinv(S) = V_r D^1/2``, i.e. a
          de-whitening followed by the orthonormal ``U_r = V_r`` embedding
          proposed in issue #221; the embedding leaves the cosine untouched, so
          this is the same comparison the full-rank path makes, evaluated in the
          subspace the data actually occupy.

        On a match, ``cj`` is folded into ``ci``: every ``comp_list`` entry equal
        to ``cj`` is reassigned to ``ci``, so the two now share one mixing column
        and one density (the M-step already accumulates every sufficient
        statistic through ``comp_list`` via index_add, so shared components sum
        automatically).

        Greedy and order-dependent, matching the reference's quadruple loop.
        Skips a pair already merged, or one whose two columns coexist in some
        single model (a model cannot share a component with itself).

        No bit-exact oracle: ``Spinv2`` is *declared* in the reference headers
        but never *allocated* anywhere in ``amica15.f90``/``amica17.f90`` (unlike
        ``Spinv``, allocated at :551), so invoking ``identify_shared_comps`` with
        ``share_comps=.true.`` would read an unallocated array through ``DGEMV``
        -- undefined behavior, most likely a crash, not a benign no-op. The
        routine is effectively unrunnable in the reference (cf. the also-dead
        ``do_choose_pdfs`` switch, #26), so this implements the intended
        algorithm and validates it on real data, not against byte parity.
        """
        if self.n_models < 2:
            return
        assert self.A is not None and self.comp_list is not None
        # _pinv_sphere raises on a non-finite sphere, so the metric below can
        # only be garbage if A itself is (guarded per-pair in the scan).
        spinv = self._pinv_sphere()
        # De-sphered mixing columns in sensor space, on CPU for the small greedy
        # scan (n_models^2 * n_channels^2 pairs; avoids per-element GPU syncs).
        atil = (spinv @ self.A).detach().cpu().numpy()
        norms = np.linalg.norm(atil, axis=0)
        cl = self.comp_list.detach().cpu().numpy().copy()  # (nw, n_models)
        nw, m = cl.shape
        tiny = np.finfo(atil.dtype).tiny
        merged = 0
        for h in range(m):
            for hh in range(h + 1, m):
                for i in range(nw):
                    for ii in range(nw):
                        ci, cj = int(cl[i, h]), int(cl[ii, hh])
                        if ci == cj:
                            continue
                        t0 = abs(atil[:, ci] @ atil[:, cj]) / (
                            norms[ci] * norms[cj] + tiny
                        )
                        # NaN t0 (e.g. a zero-norm column) must NOT merge:
                        # `NaN < thresh` is False, so guard finiteness explicitly.
                        if not np.isfinite(t0) or t0 < self.comp_thresh:
                            continue
                        # A model cannot share a component with itself: skip if
                        # any single model already uses both columns.
                        if any(
                            (cl[:, k] == ci).any() and (cl[:, k] == cj).any()
                            for k in range(m)
                        ):
                            continue
                        cl[cl == cj] = ci  # fold cj into ci everywhere
                        merged += 1
        if merged:
            self.comp_list = torch.from_numpy(cl).to(self.comp_list.device)
            logger.info(
                "Component sharing (iter %d): %d merge(s), %d unique components.",
                self.iteration,
                merged,
                int(np.unique(cl).size),
            )

    def _pinv_sphere(self) -> torch.Tensor:
        """Cached ``pinv(sphere)``: the back-map from sphered to input-channel space.

        This is the Fortran ``Spinv`` (amica15.f90:568-578), which the reference
        also builds as a pseudo-inverse, ``Spinv(nx, numeigs)``, under rank/PCA
        reduction. A pseudo-inverse rather than an inverse because reduction
        leaves the sphere non-square (issue #223) and a square sphere fitted on
        rank-deficient data is singular; for a full-rank square sphere the two
        agree to ~1e-15. Built on first use and invalidated per fit in
        :meth:`_preprocess` (and on :meth:`_load_params`), so it can never
        describe a sphere other than the current one.
        """
        assert self.sphere is not None
        if self._sphere_pinv is None:
            if not torch.isfinite(self.sphere).all():
                # Only a degenerate fit (non-finite input data) gets here. Say
                # so, rather than letting LAPACK report a confusing
                # "ill-conditioned / repeated singular values" SVD failure.
                raise RuntimeError(
                    "The sphere holds non-finite values, so it has no "
                    "pseudo-inverse: the fit is degenerate. Check the input "
                    "data for NaN/inf."
                )
            self._sphere_pinv = torch.linalg.pinv(self.sphere)
        return self._sphere_pinv

    @property
    def comp_used(self) -> torch.Tensor:
        """Boolean mask (n_comps,) of components still referenced by comp_list.

        A component drops out of use when it is folded into another by
        :meth:`_identify_shared_comps`; unused columns receive no gradient and
        are never read by the E-step. Derived from ``comp_list`` (not stored).

        Raises rather than asserts: ``assert`` is stripped under ``python -O``,
        which would turn a pre-fit read into an obscure ``NoneType`` error
        instead of the same message every other accessor gives.
        """
        if self.comp_list is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.comp_used requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
            )
        used = torch.zeros(self.n_comps, dtype=torch.bool, device=self.comp_list.device)
        used[self.comp_list.reshape(-1)] = True
        return used

    def _choose_pdfs(self, X: torch.Tensor) -> None:
        """Extended-Infomax adaptive PDF switch (Fortran ``do_choose_pdfs``).

        Re-estimates each source's kurtosis from the current model activations
        and sets its density family to the super-Gaussian (code 1) or
        sub-Gaussian (code 4) cosh density by kurtosis sign. This is the
        extended-Infomax rule that ``runamica15.m`` documents for the
        ``kurt_start``/``num_kurt``/``kurt_int`` schedule (the super/sub-Gaussian
        scores ``y +/- tanh(y)`` are exactly the two families 1/4). The
        reference binary declares this (``pdftype==1`` sets ``do_choose_pdfs``,
        amica15.f90:612) but never runs the switch (``m2sum``/``m4sum`` are
        never accumulated), so there is no bit-exact oracle; validated by
        real-data log-likelihood (must not decrease vs the fixed GG default).
        """
        n_ch, n_models = self.n_channels, self.n_models
        m2 = torch.zeros(n_ch, n_models, dtype=self.dtype, device=self.device)
        m4 = torch.zeros_like(m2)
        nsub = torch.zeros(n_models, dtype=self.dtype, device=self.device)
        n_samples = X.shape[1]
        for start in range(0, n_samples, self.block_size):
            block = X[:, start : start + self.block_size]
            logV, b_list, *_ = self._forward(block)
            v = torch.softmax(logV, dim=1)  # (batch, n_models)
            for h in range(n_models):
                b = b_list[h]  # (batch, n_ch)
                vh = v[:, h].unsqueeze(1)
                m2[:, h] += (vh * b.pow(2)).sum(0)
                m4[:, h] += (vh * b.pow(4)).sum(0)
                nsub[h] += v[:, h].sum()

        # Kurtosis = E[b^4]/E[b^2]^2 - 3 = nsub * m4 / m2^2 - 3, per (source, model).
        tiny = torch.finfo(self.dtype).tiny
        kurt = nsub.unsqueeze(0) * m4 / m2.pow(2).clamp_min(tiny) - 3.0
        self.pdtype = self._pdtype_from_kurtosis(kurt, nsub)

    def _pdtype_from_kurtosis(
        self, kurt: torch.Tensor, nsub: torch.Tensor
    ) -> torch.Tensor:
        """Map per-source excess kurtosis to a density-family code (pure).

        Super-Gaussian (positive kurtosis) -> code 1; sub-Gaussian -> code 4.
        Only sources with a meaningful signal switch: a dead model
        (``nsub[h]==0`` => ``kurt==-3.0``, finite) or a numerically blown-up
        source (``kurt`` NaN, and ``NaN>0`` is False) would otherwise be silently
        assigned code 4 with no diagnostic, so those keep their prior ``pdtype``
        and are logged -- mirroring the dead-model / non-finite guards in
        ``_update_parameters``. Split out from ``_choose_pdfs`` so the decision
        (including the sub-Gaussian branch, which real EEG rarely triggers) is
        unit-testable on a constructed ``kurt`` tensor.
        """
        assert self.pdtype is not None
        ones = torch.ones_like(self.pdtype)
        new_pdtype = torch.where(kurt > 0.0, ones, ones * 4)
        valid = torch.isfinite(kurt) & (nsub.unsqueeze(0) > 0.0)
        result = torch.where(valid, new_pdtype, self.pdtype)
        if not bool(valid.all()):
            logger.warning(
                "Non-finite or zero-mass kurtosis for %d source/model pair(s) at "
                "iter %d; kept their prior pdtype (adaptive-switch guard).",
                int((~valid).sum()),
                self.iteration,
            )
        return result

    def _snapshot_params(self) -> Dict[str, object]:
        """Snapshot the fitted state for the best-iterate safeguard (issue #51).

        Clones each ``_PARAM_TENSORS`` tensor (not an alias) so the live in-place
        M-step updates do not roll the snapshot forward; the constant
        preprocessing tensors (``mean``/``sphere``) are included so a restore is a
        total rollback. Also captures the scalar ``n_kurt_done`` (the adaptive-PDF
        switch counter that gates ``pdtype``) so a restored model's switch count
        stays consistent with its rolled-back ``pdtype`` -- otherwise a switch
        applied after the peak iterate would leave the two out of sync in a saved
        model (silent-failure review).

        Also captures the LLt stash (issue #157). ``fit`` snapshots immediately
        after the E-step that produced both the candidate ``best_ll`` and this
        iteration's ``_llt_logv``/``_llt_ll``, so a restore rolls the on-disk
        LLt back to the E-step of the restored iterate rather than leaving the
        last (discarded) iterate's per-sample values behind. Fortran has no
        best-iterate safeguard to reconcile here; this is what keeps the
        exported LLt the one belonging to the exported parameters. Costs one
        ``(n_models + 1) * n_samples`` clone per improving iteration, which is
        negligible against the E-step's ``O(n_samples * n_channels^2 * n_mix)``.
        """
        snap: Dict[str, object] = {
            name: getattr(self, name).clone() for name in self._PARAM_TENSORS
        }
        snap["n_kurt_done"] = self.n_kurt_done
        # Present for every in-fit call (fit allocates the buffers before the
        # loop and frees them only after the restore); absent only for a direct
        # call on an already-returned model, where there is nothing to roll back.
        if self._llt_logv is not None and self._llt_ll is not None:
            snap["_llt_logv"] = self._llt_logv.clone()
            snap["_llt_ll"] = self._llt_ll.clone()
        return snap

    def _restore_params(self, snapshot: Dict[str, object]) -> None:
        """Restore the state captured by :meth:`_snapshot_params`."""
        for name, value in snapshot.items():
            setattr(self, name, value)

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Best-of-N restarts (issue #198)
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Everything a fit writes, and therefore everything a restart snapshot must
    # copy for the winning restart to be indistinguishable from a single fit
    # from that seed. Split from the invariants below purely to document *why*
    # an attribute is or is not copied; together the two must account for every
    # ``self.x =`` in the fit path, which ``test_restart_policy.py`` enforces by
    # parsing this module -- so a field added to a fit-path method fails the
    # suite until it is classified here.
    _RESTART_STATE_ATTRS = (
        # Fitted parameters (the state_dict params) ...
        "A", "W", "c", "mu", "alpha", "beta", "rho", "gm", "comp_list", "pdtype",
        # ... the schedule/counters a fit mutates (the state_dict extras) ...
        "iteration", "ll_history", "final_ll_", "stop_reason", "mir_history_",
        "n_newton_fallbacks", "n_kurt_done", "numrej", "good_idx", "_ndtmpsum",
        "lrate", "lrate_cap", "newtrate", "rholrate",
        # ... the LLt stash and its materialized arrays (issue #157) ...
        "_llt_logv", "_llt_ll", "_llt_lht", "_llt_lt",
        # ... the tuned block size (do_opt_block re-times per restart) and the
        # seed the winning restart ran from.
        "block_size", "seed",
    )  # fmt: skip
    # Written by the fit path but identical across the restarts of one fit()
    # call, because they are functions of the data alone: preprocessing outputs
    # and the model sizing derived from the numerical rank. Copying them would
    # be harmless but pointless, and would suggest they could differ.
    _RESTART_INVARIANT_ATTRS = (
        "mean", "sphere", "sldet", "_sphere_pinv", "n_channels", "n_comps",
    )  # fmt: skip

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Public API
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    def fit(
        self,
        X: np.ndarray,
        max_iter: int = 100,
        verbose: bool = True,
        mir_step: int = 0,
    ) -> "AMICATorchNG":
        """Fit the model to data, running ``n_restarts`` fits and keeping the best.

        With the default ``n_restarts=1`` this is exactly :meth:`_fit_once` --
        the restart machinery draws nothing, copies nothing and changes nothing,
        so the trajectory is bit-identical to a pre-issue-#198 fit. With
        ``n_restarts > 1`` the model is fit once per seed in ``restart_seeds``
        (serially), and the highest-``final_ll_`` non-degenerate restart's
        complete state is what the returned model holds.

        See :meth:`_fit_once` for the semantics of a single fit (parameters,
        ``keep_best``, LLt, ``share_comps`` ordering); every one of them applies
        unchanged to each restart.

        Parameters
        ----------
        X, max_iter, verbose, mir_step
            As :meth:`_fit_once`.

        Returns
        -------
        self : AMICATorchNG
            Holding the winning restart's parameters, ``ll_history``,
            ``final_ll_``, ``stop_reason``, ``mir_history_``, LLt arrays and
            rejection state -- the state a single fit from that seed would have
            left, bit for bit.

        Notes
        -----
        Records (index-aligned, one entry per restart, always populated --
        including the single-restart path): ``restart_seeds_``,
        ``restart_lls_`` (NaN where a restart ended degenerate) and
        ``restart_stop_reasons_``. The winner is named in one INFO log line.

        A restart that ends degenerate (``nan_ll``/``singular_ll``) is excluded
        from selection but recorded. If *every* restart is degenerate the model
        is left holding the last one, so issue #50's degenerate-fit contract
        applies exactly as it does to a single degenerate fit.
        """
        seeds = self._restart_seeds
        if len(seeds) == 1:
            # Single-restart path: no snapshot, no reseeding of anything that is
            # not already the constructor's seed (seeds[0] IS self.seed unless
            # the caller passed an explicit one-element restart_seeds), so this
            # is byte-for-byte the pre-#198 fit.
            self.seed = seeds[0]
            self._fit_once(X, max_iter=max_iter, verbose=verbose, mir_step=mir_step)
            self.restart_seeds_ = list(seeds)
            self.restart_lls_ = [
                float("nan") if self.final_ll_ is None else float(self.final_ll_)
            ]
            self.restart_stop_reasons_ = [self.stop_reason]
            return self
        return self._fit_restarts(X, max_iter, verbose, mir_step)

    def _fit_restarts(
        self, X: np.ndarray, max_iter: int, verbose: bool, mir_step: int
    ) -> "AMICATorchNG":
        """Run one full fit per restart seed and keep the winner (issue #198).

        Each restart is a complete :meth:`_fit_once`, which re-runs
        ``_initialize_parameters`` and resets every per-fit counter, so no state
        leaks from one restart into the next. The winning restart's state is
        captured with :meth:`_capture_restart_state` (a copy of every attribute
        the fit path writes) and reapplied at the end unless the winner happens
        to be the last restart, whose state is already live.
        """
        seeds = self._restart_seeds
        lls: List[float] = []
        degenerate: List[bool] = []
        stop_reasons: List[Optional[str]] = []
        states: Dict[int, Dict[str, object]] = {}

        for index, seed in enumerate(seeds):
            self.seed = seed
            try:
                self._fit_once(X, max_iter=max_iter, verbose=verbose, mir_step=mir_step)
            except RuntimeError as exc:
                # A truly singular A makes torch.linalg.inv raise
                # torch.linalg.LinAlgError (a RuntimeError) instead of producing
                # the non-finite likelihood the in-loop guard catches. Letting
                # that propagate would throw away the restarts that already
                # succeeded -- the precise opposite of what best-of-N is for --
                # so the failure is recorded as a degenerate restart and the
                # search moves to the next seed. Deliberately narrow: only
                # RuntimeError (which covers every torch numerical failure,
                # LinAlgError included). A ValueError from the argument checks at
                # the top of _fit_once is a caller mistake, not a bad basin, and
                # still propagates on the first restart.
                self.stop_reason = restarts.ERROR_STOP_REASON
                self.final_ll_ = float("nan")
                # The crash can land before _fit_once resets the LLt arrays, in
                # which case they still describe an EARLIER restart's E-step.
                # Drop them: if a later restart wins, its snapshot restores its
                # own; if every restart crashes, the model must not carry
                # per-sample likelihoods belonging to a different seed's fit.
                self._llt_lht = None
                self._llt_lt = None
                logger.warning(
                    "%s", restarts.error_message(index, len(seeds), seed, exc)
                )
            ll = float("nan") if self.final_ll_ is None else float(self.final_ll_)
            is_degenerate = self.stop_reason in self._DEGENERATE_STOP_REASONS
            lls.append(ll)
            degenerate.append(is_degenerate)
            stop_reasons.append(self.stop_reason)
            logger.info(
                "%s",
                restarts.progress_message(
                    index, len(seeds), seed, ll, self.stop_reason, is_degenerate
                ),
            )
            # Keep only the best state seen so far: one copy at a time, never
            # n_restarts of them.
            best_so_far = restarts.select_best(lls, degenerate)
            if best_so_far == index:
                states = {index: self._capture_restart_state()}

        winner = restarts.select_best(lls, degenerate)
        if winner is None:
            logger.warning(
                "%s", restarts.all_degenerate_message(len(seeds), stop_reasons)
            )
        else:
            logger.info(
                "%s",
                restarts.winner_message(winner, len(seeds), seeds[winner], lls[winner]),
            )
            if winner != len(seeds) - 1:
                self._apply_restart_state(states[winner])

        self.restart_seeds_ = list(seeds)
        self.restart_lls_ = lls
        self.restart_stop_reasons_ = stop_reasons
        return self

    def _capture_restart_state(self) -> Dict[str, object]:
        """Independent copy of every attribute the fit path writes.

        The list is :data:`_RESTART_STATE_ATTRS`; ``test_restart_policy.py``
        cross-checks it against the attributes the fit-path methods actually
        assign, so a field added later cannot be silently dropped from a restart
        snapshot.
        """
        return {
            name: restarts.copy_state_value(getattr(self, name))
            for name in self._RESTART_STATE_ATTRS
        }

    def _apply_restart_state(self, state: Dict[str, object]) -> None:
        """Restore the state captured by :meth:`_capture_restart_state`."""
        for name, value in state.items():
            setattr(self, name, value)

    def _fit_once(
        self,
        X: np.ndarray,
        max_iter: int = 100,
        verbose: bool = True,
        mir_step: int = 0,
    ) -> "AMICATorchNG":
        """Run one fit (one initialization, one EM loop) -- what :meth:`fit`
        calls once per restart.

        Parameters
        ----------
        X : np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)
            Input data.
        max_iter : int, default=100
            Number of natural-gradient EM iterations.
        verbose : bool, default=True
            Show a tqdm progress bar.
        mir_step : int, default=0
            If > 0, compute MIR (issue #137) from the current ``W``/``sphere``
            every ``mir_step`` iterations and append it to ``mir_history_`` as
            ``(iteration, mir_nats, variance)``. ``0`` (default) disables the
            waypoints and leaves fit behaviour byte-for-byte unchanged.
            ``mir_history_`` is a true trajectory like ``ll_history``: a
            ``keep_best`` (issue #51) restore does not rewrite it, so the
            fit-end MIR is ``self.mir(X)`` on the returned parameters, not
            ``mir_history_[-1]``. Not index-aligned with ``ll_history``:
            entry ``i`` is computed after iteration ``i``'s parameter update,
            while ``ll_history[i]`` is the likelihood of the parameters
            before it, so the two are one update apart (issue #161).
            Incompatible with PCA reduction, same as :meth:`mir` itself. This
            upfront gate only sees explicit ``pcakeep``/``pcadb`` (the sphere
            for THIS fit does not exist yet, so automatic ``mineig``/
            ``mineig_rel`` rank reduction cannot be checked here); that case is
            instead caught once the sphere exists, inside the per-waypoint
            :meth:`mir` call below, whose ``ValueError`` is already caught and
            logged rather than propagated (issue #283).

        Returns
        -------
        self : AMICATorchNG

        Notes
        -----
        Under ``share_comps``, if a merge fires on the LAST iteration, the
        returned ``A``/``W``/``comp_list`` are already post-merge but
        ``final_ll_`` still reports the pre-merge log-likelihood -- the merge's
        effect on the LL only shows up in the next E-step, which never runs.
        This matches the reference ordering (issue #269); see ``final_ll_``'s
        comment for detail.

        LLt semantics (issue #157). The exported ``LLt``
        (``_llt_lht``/``_llt_lt``, written by :meth:`write_amica_output`) is
        the per-sample log-likelihood **stashed by the E-step that produced**
        ``final_ll_``, never a separate post-fit forward pass. Equivalently it
        satisfies, bit for bit,

            ``Lt.sum() / (n_good_samples * n_channels) == final_ll_``

        where ``n_good_samples`` is the sample count that E-step ran over
        (``good_idx.numel()`` under ``do_reject``, ``n_samples`` otherwise) --
        the same normalization ``ll_history`` uses. Three consequences worth
        stating plainly:

        * Without a keep-best restore, ``final_ll_`` is ``ll_history[-1]``, the
          LL of the parameters as they stood *before* the last M-step -- so the
          exported ``LLt`` is one M-step older than the exported ``W``/``A``.
          That is the reference's own behaviour (Fortran fills ``modloglik``
          during iteration i's E-step, ``update_params`` then moves the
          parameters, and ``write_output`` writes both -- amica15.f90:996,
          1122, 1124-1127), adopted deliberately so pamica's on-disk ``LLt`` is
          comparable with the binary's. It is verifiable on the committed
          reference output: ``sum(Lt)/(N*nw)`` there equals its ``LL[-1]``
          exactly, not the LL of the ``W`` written next to it.
        * With a keep-best restore (issue #51), the restore rolls the stash
          back with the parameters, so ``LLt`` is the restored iterate's own
          E-step -- the one that measured ``best_ll`` -- and not the discarded
          last iterate's. Because ``_snapshot_params`` is taken *before* that
          iteration's M-step, the restored parameters and the restored ``LLt``
          come from the same point in the loop, so there is no staleness at all
          in this case.
        * The one case where the equality above does NOT hold is a
          ``do_reject`` fit whose rejection fires on its own last executed
          iteration: ``ll`` was normalized over the good set as it stood
          *before* that rejection, and ``_reject_outliers`` then zeroed the
          dropped samples' stash entries, so numerator and denominator no
          longer refer to the same set and a small residual remains (0.011 on
          the bundled sample with one 68-sample pass; it scales with how much
          that pass drops). This too is reference-faithful, not a defect:
          Fortran computes ``LL(iter) = LLtmp2/dble(numgoodsum*nw)``
          (amica15.f90:1770) before ``reject_data`` (amica15.f90:1138) shrinks
          ``numgoodsum`` (amica15.f90:2252) and zeroes the rejected
          ``modloglik``/``loglik`` (amica15.f90:2231-2234), and the binary shows
          the same residual on the same schedule. Any later iteration
          re-normalizes over the shrunk good set and the equality returns.
        """
        if X.ndim != 2:
            raise ValueError(
                f"X must be a 2D array (n_channels, n_samples), got shape {X.shape}"
            )
        if X.shape[0] != self.n_channels:
            raise ValueError(
                f"X has {X.shape[0]} channels, model expects {self.n_channels}"
            )
        if mir_step < 0:
            raise ValueError(f"mir_step must be >= 0, got {mir_step}")
        if mir_step > 0 and self._pca_reduction_requested():
            raise ValueError(
                "mir_step > 0 is incompatible with PCA reduction "
                "(pcakeep/pcadb): the sphere is rank-deficient, so MIR's "
                "log-Jacobian term is undefined. Rejected up front rather "
                "than failing mid-fit at the first waypoint."
            )

        X_t = self._preprocess(X)
        n_total = X_t.shape[1]

        self._initialize_parameters()
        self.ll_history = []
        self.mir_history_ = []
        self.numrej = 0
        self.n_newton_fallbacks = 0
        self.stop_reason = "max_iter"
        self.good_idx = (
            torch.arange(n_total, device=self.device) if self.do_reject else None
        )

        # Block-size search (issue #232): after preprocessing and parameter
        # initialization, before the first EM iteration, so it times the real
        # data on the real device with the parameters the fit will start from.
        # A no-op when off, and its probes leave no state behind, so a fit with
        # the search off is byte-for-byte what it was before this existed.
        if self.do_opt_block:
            self._tune_block_size(X_t[:, self.good_idx] if self.do_reject else X_t)

        # LLt buffers (issue #157), Fortran's permanently-allocated
        # modloglik/loglik (amica15.f90:2617-2620). Zero-filled: a do_reject
        # sample that is never scored again keeps the zero that Fortran's
        # load_rej reads as the rejection sentinel. Re-allocated per fit so a
        # refit on a different dataset cannot serve a stale array.
        self._llt_logv = torch.zeros(
            (n_total, self.n_models), dtype=self.dtype, device=self.device
        )
        self._llt_ll = torch.zeros(n_total, dtype=self.dtype, device=self.device)
        self._llt_lht = None
        self._llt_lt = None

        numdecs = 0
        # Consecutive-small-likelihood-gain counter for the min_dll stop (Fortran
        # numincs, amica15.f90:1079-1089; issue #207). Reset here so a refit on
        # the same instance gets a fresh count, matching numdecs.
        numincs = 0

        # Best-iterate safeguard (issue #51): track the highest-LL iterate so a
        # late Newton-fallback overshoot cannot leave the returned model below a
        # peak it already reached. Inactive under do_reject (the good set, and so
        # the LL normalization, changes across iterations) and under share_comps
        # (a merge drops parameters, so pre- and post-merge LLs are not
        # comparable AND the snapshot's comp_list would revert the merge -- the
        # returned model would silently be unmerged; #60). In both cases fit()
        # returns the last iterate, matching Fortran.
        track_best = self.keep_best and not self.do_reject and not self.share_comps
        best_ll = -math.inf
        best_snapshot: Optional[Dict[str, object]] = None
        if self.keep_best and (self.do_reject or self.share_comps):
            # keep_best defaults on, so a user enabling rejection/sharing would
            # otherwise silently lose the safeguard; surface it once.
            reason = "do_reject" if self.do_reject else "share_comps"
            logger.warning(
                "keep_best is inactive under %s: best-iterate selection by LL is "
                "not well-defined (%s), so fit() returns the last iterate.",
                reason,
                "the good-sample set / LL normalization changes across iterations"
                if self.do_reject
                else "a merge changes the parameter count and reverting to an "
                "earlier snapshot would undo the merge",
            )

        iterator = tqdm(range(max_iter), desc="AMICA-NG", disable=not verbose)
        for it in iterator:
            self.iteration = it

            X_use = X_t[:, self.good_idx] if self.do_reject else X_t
            n_use = X_use.shape[1]
            acc = self._accumulate_blocks(X_use, stash_llt=True)

            # Log-likelihood of the CURRENT (pre-update) parameters: acc["ll"] is
            # this iteration's E-step total, computed before _update_parameters
            # moves the parameters. A singular W makes logdet -> -inf (not NaN),
            # so guard on isfinite, not isnan alone: a -inf LL would otherwise
            # sail past as a mere "decrease" and the run would "complete"
            # (stop_reason=max_iter) on a degenerate model. Checking here, before
            # the update, stops on the last finite parameters instead of
            # overwriting them with a garbage update first.
            ll = (acc["ll"] / (n_use * self.n_channels)).item()
            if not math.isfinite(ll):
                self.stop_reason = "nan_ll" if math.isnan(ll) else "singular_ll"
                logger.warning(
                    "Non-finite log-likelihood (%s) at iteration %d; stopping.",
                    ll,
                    it,
                )
                break

            # Best-iterate safeguard (issue #51): remember the parameters that
            # produced this LL when it is the best seen, so a later overshoot
            # does not leave the returned model below this peak.
            if track_best and ll > best_ll:
                best_ll = ll
                best_snapshot = self._snapshot_params()

            # Whether rejection fires this iteration (Fortran schedule,
            # amica17.f90:1141-1146). Fortran rejects using the per-sample
            # log-likelihood from THIS iteration's E-step, i.e. the PRE-update
            # parameters (loglik is stored in get_updates_and_likelihood before
            # update_params runs). Capture it here, before _update_parameters,
            # to match that ordering.
            will_reject = (
                self.do_reject
                and self.maxrej > 0
                and (
                    it == self.rejstart
                    or (
                        max(1, it - self.rejstart) % self.rejint == 0
                        and self.numrej < self.maxrej
                    )
                )
            )
            if will_reject:
                assert self.good_idx is not None
                reject_ll = self._sample_ll(self.good_idx, X_t)
            else:
                reject_ll = None

            self._update_parameters(acc, n_use)

            # Extended-Infomax adaptive PDF switch (Fortran do_choose_pdfs). Runs
            # on the kurt_start/num_kurt/kurt_int schedule using the just-updated
            # W; the new per-source families take effect from the next E-step.
            # itf is the Fortran-style 1-indexed iteration. num_kurt=0 disables
            # switching (the family stays at its pdftype=1 super-Gaussian init).
            if self.do_choose_pdfs and self.n_kurt_done < self.num_kurt:
                itf = it + 1
                if (
                    itf >= self.kurt_start
                    and (itf - self.kurt_start) % self.kurt_int == 0
                ):
                    self._choose_pdfs(X_use)
                    self.n_kurt_done += 1

            # Component sharing (Fortran identify_shared_comps schedule,
            # amica15.f90:1856): once per share_iter cycle from share_start,
            # merge near-collinear mixing columns across models using the
            # just-updated A. Fortran runs identify_shared_comps BEFORE
            # get_unmixing_matrices (amica15.f90:1858,1863), so rebuild W from the
            # merged comp_list -- otherwise the next E-step would read a stale W
            # (pre-merge comp_list) while indexing the densities by the merged
            # comp_list. No-op when share_comps is off or n_models == 1.
            #
            # This runs AFTER ``ll`` (this iteration's LL) was captured above,
            # so a merge on the final iteration lands in the returned
            # A/W/comp_list but not in the ``ll_history``/``final_ll_`` value
            # appended just below -- see final_ll_'s comment (issue #269).
            if self.share_comps:
                itf = it + 1
                if (
                    itf >= self.share_start
                    and (itf - self.share_start) % self.share_iter == 0
                ):
                    self._identify_shared_comps()
                    self._update_unmixing_matrices()

            self.ll_history.append(ll)

            # MIR waypoint (issue #137), following the NumPy backend's
            # writestep/histstep idiom (numpy_impl/core.py). Computed from the
            # CURRENT W/sphere (just rebuilt above by _update_parameters /
            # the share_comps block) against the raw, un-preprocessed X.
            #
            # A failed waypoint must never kill the fit. `metrics.mir` raises on
            # a near-singular unmixing, and a near-singular W mid-fit is a
            # transient the natural gradient can pass through (the same
            # condition is only a warning on the training path, see
            # numpy_impl/core.py's logdet_W check). Letting that propagate would
            # let a purely diagnostic flag destroy an otherwise-recoverable
            # decomposition. Warn and record NaN instead: the gap stays visible
            # in mir_history_ rather than being silently absent, so a plotted
            # trajectory shows a hole exactly where the transient was.
            if mir_step > 0 and it % mir_step == 0:
                try:
                    mir_nats, mir_var = self.mir(X)
                except (ValueError, np.linalg.LinAlgError) as exc:
                    logger.warning(
                        "MIR waypoint failed at iter %d (%s: %s); recording NaN "
                        "and continuing. The fit itself is unaffected.",
                        it,
                        type(exc).__name__,
                        exc,
                    )
                    mir_nats = mir_var = float("nan")
                self.mir_history_.append((it, mir_nats, mir_var))

            # Learning-rate control, ported from Fortran (amica17.f90:1062-1108).
            # Natural-gradient/Newton ascent is not monotonic at a fixed rate:
            # when the log-likelihood decreases, anneal the working lrate. If
            # decreases persist for maxdecs iterations, ratchet the *ceilings*
            # down (lrate_cap; newtrate once Newton is running; and the rho rate)
            # so the per-iteration ramp can no longer re-inflate lrate back to the
            # overshooting value -- without this the ramp and a one-shot halving
            # just oscillate and the LL drifts down.
            #
            # rholrate is a CEILING here, not a per-decrease-annealed working
            # rate. Fortran resets rholrate=rholrate0 each iteration before the
            # rho update (amica15.f90:1806/1813) and only tightens the rholrate0
            # ceiling at maxdecs (amica15.f90:1068, gated on iter>newt_start), so
            # its per-decrease rholrate*=rholratefact (:1045) is always overwritten
            # by the reset and never reaches the rho update. rho has no ramp, so
            # self.rholrate carries that ceiling directly (reset to rholrate0 each
            # fit, nothing re-inflates it) and must ratchet ONLY at maxdecs. The
            # previous per-decrease self.rholrate*=rholratefact was a monotone
            # decay with no reset that collapsed the rho rate to ~1e-5 within a few
            # hundred iterations and froze rho at a stale shape (issue #193).
            # have_prev mirrors Fortran's outer ``if (iter > 1)`` (amica15.f90:1051),
            # which wraps the decrease branch AND the two stops below: none of
            # the three checks can fire on the first iteration (no LL(iter-1)
            # yet) or before ll_history has two entries after a restart.
            #
            # PRECEDENCE NOTE (PR #213 review, issue #207): the three blocks
            # below (decrease branch; min_dll; grad_norm) are independent --
            # none is gated on ``leave`` already being True from an earlier
            # block this same iteration, matching Fortran's own structure of
            # independent ``leave=.true.`` assignments with no declared
            # precedence. Whichever block runs LAST and finds its own
            # condition true wins (its ``self.stop_reason =`` is what
            # ``fit`` ultimately reports), so with this fixed source order
            # (decrease branch, then min_dll, then grad_norm) the standalone
            # grad_norm block always has final say when its condition holds.
            # In particular, under the shipped ``use_grad_norm=True`` default
            # this makes the decrease-branch's ``"grad_norm_floor"`` outcome
            # unreachable: its condition (``ndtmpsum <= min_nd`` during a
            # decrease) is strictly narrower than the standalone block's
            # (``ndtmpsum <= min_nd``, any iteration), so whenever
            # ``"grad_norm_floor"`` would fire, the standalone block fires
            # too, that same iteration, and overwrites it with
            # ``"grad_norm"``. See ``use_grad_norm``'s docstring above and
            # ``test_grad_norm_shadows_grad_norm_floor_under_shipped_defaults``.
            # This is a reporting nuance, not a behavior change -- deliberately
            # NOT restructured into an explicit precedence, to keep this
            # section a direct, reviewable port of amica15.f90:1051-1098.
            have_prev = len(self.ll_history) > 1
            leave = False
            if have_prev and ll < self.ll_history[-2]:
                # ndtmpsum is the SAME per-iteration value use_grad_norm reads
                # below (amica15.f90:1058's ``.or. (ndtmpsum .le. min_nd)``,
                # issue #207 gap 3): this is what makes lrate stopping robust
                # under do_newton, where lrate sits at newtrate/oscillates
                # instead of annealing toward minlrate, so the old
                # lrate<=minlrate-only check could never fire (the reported bug).
                if self.lrate <= self.minlrate:
                    logger.warning(
                        "lrate floor (%g) reached at iter %d; stopping.",
                        self.minlrate,
                        it,
                    )
                    self.stop_reason = "lrate_floor"
                    leave = True
                elif self._ndtmpsum is not None and self._ndtmpsum <= self.min_nd:
                    logger.warning(
                        "gradient-norm floor (%g) reached at iter %d on a "
                        "likelihood decrease; stopping.",
                        self.min_nd,
                        it,
                    )
                    self.stop_reason = "grad_norm_floor"
                    leave = True
                else:
                    self.lrate *= self.lratefact
                    numdecs += 1
                    if numdecs >= self.maxdecs:
                        self.lrate_cap *= self.lratefact
                        if it > self.newt_start:
                            self.rholrate *= self.rholratefact
                        if self.do_newton and it > self.newt_start:
                            self.newtrate *= self.lratefact
                        numdecs = 0

            # Small-likelihood-increase stop (Fortran amica15.f90:1078-1090,
            # use_min_dll/min_dll/maxincs -- issue #207 gap 1). Independent of
            # the decrease branch above: it runs every iteration once have_prev,
            # including iterations where the LL just decreased (a decrease is
            # always "less than" a positive min_dll, so it also increments
            # numincs there, matching Fortran exactly). numincs resets to 0 on
            # any gain >= min_dll; stops only after MORE than maxincs
            # *consecutive* small gains.
            if have_prev and self.use_min_dll:
                if ll - self.ll_history[-2] < self.min_dll:
                    numincs += 1
                    if numincs > self.maxincs:
                        logger.warning(
                            "likelihood increasing by less than %g for more than "
                            "%d iterations; stopping at iter %d.",
                            self.min_dll,
                            self.maxincs,
                            it,
                        )
                        self.stop_reason = "min_dll"
                        leave = True
                else:
                    numincs = 0

            # Weight-gradient-norm stop (Fortran amica15.f90:1091-1097,
            # use_grad_norm/min_nd -- issue #207 gap 2). Also independent of the
            # decrease branch: this is the unconditional every-iteration check
            # (as opposed to the decrease-branch's grad_norm_floor above, which
            # only applies alongside a likelihood decrease).
            if (
                have_prev
                and self.use_grad_norm
                and self._ndtmpsum is not None
                and self._ndtmpsum <= self.min_nd
            ):
                logger.warning(
                    "norm of weight gradient <= %g at iter %d; stopping.",
                    self.min_nd,
                    it,
                )
                self.stop_reason = "grad_norm"
                leave = True

            if self.do_newton and it == self.newt_start:
                numdecs = 0

            if leave:
                break

            # Outlier rejection, after the parameter update (Fortran order,
            # amica17.f90:1141-1146) but using the pre-update per-sample LL
            # captured above.
            if will_reject:
                assert reject_ll is not None
                self._reject_outliers(reject_ll)

            iterator.set_postfix({"LL": f"{ll:.4f}", "lrate": f"{self.lrate:.4g}"})

        # Log-likelihood of the parameters fit() returns. A degenerate stop
        # leaves the model on the diverged parameters, whose LL is NOT the last
        # finite ll_history value (the guard breaks before appending), so report
        # NaN there rather than a stale healthy-looking number (silent-failure
        # review). Otherwise it is the last trajectory value, overwritten with the
        # best iterate's LL below if the safeguard restores it.
        if self.stop_reason in self._DEGENERATE_STOP_REASONS:
            self.final_ll_ = float("nan")
        else:
            self.final_ll_ = self.ll_history[-1] if self.ll_history else float("nan")

        # Restore the best iterate if the run ended materially below it (issue
        # #51). Skipped for a degenerate stop -- not because the parameters are
        # necessarily non-finite (a singular_ll stop leaves A/W finite but
        # singular) but because salvaging a diverged run here would pre-empt issue
        # #50's degenerate-fit contract; state_dict() already refuses to persist
        # any model whose stop_reason is degenerate. Also skipped when the final
        # LL is within _KEEP_BEST_TOL of the best -- a monotone single-model run
        # has final == best, so no restore fires and issue #24 parity stays
        # bit-exact.
        if (
            track_best
            and best_snapshot is not None
            and self.stop_reason not in self._DEGENERATE_STOP_REASONS
            and self.ll_history
            and best_ll - self.ll_history[-1] > _KEEP_BEST_TOL
        ):
            logger.info(
                "Restoring best iterate (LL %.6f) over final LL %.6f "
                "(issue #51 best-iterate safeguard).",
                best_ll,
                self.ll_history[-1],
            )
            self._restore_params(best_snapshot)
            self.final_ll_ = best_ll

        # LLt (Fortran's per-sample/per-model log-likelihood, issue #155):
        # materialized from the stash the training E-step filled, with NO extra
        # forward pass (issue #157). Runs strictly after the keep-best restore
        # above, which rolls the stash back alongside the parameters, so these
        # arrays are always the E-step of the iterate fit() returns -- i.e. the
        # very E-step whose total is ``final_ll_``:
        #     Lt.sum() / (n_good_samples * n_channels) == final_ll_  (bit-exact)
        # where n_good_samples is the count that E-step ran over. This is
        # Fortran's own convention (see fit()'s docstring on staleness) and
        # holds for the reference binary's own output too. The single exception,
        # also reference-faithful, is a do_reject fit that rejects on its own
        # last iteration: ll was normalized before that rejection and the stash
        # zeroed after it (Fortran: amica15.f90:1770 precedes :1138/:2252).
        # Converted to compact numpy here so the device buffers can be freed;
        # a refit reallocates them.
        if self._llt_logv is not None and self._llt_ll is not None and self.ll_history:
            self._llt_lht = self._llt_logv.T.detach().cpu().numpy()
            self._llt_lt = self._llt_ll.detach().cpu().numpy()
        # Else: no iteration ever completed an E-step whose LL was recorded
        # (max_iter=0, or a degenerate first iteration that broke before
        # ll_history.append). The buffers hold nothing but zeros, which
        # load_rej would misread as "every sample rejected", so leave
        # _llt_lht/_llt_lt None and let write_amica_output omit the file with
        # its existing warning rather than write a misleading one.
        self._llt_logv = None
        self._llt_ll = None

        return self

    def _sample_ll(self, good_idx: torch.Tensor, X_t: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
        """Per-sample total log-likelihood over ``good_idx``, block by block, in
        ``good_idx`` order (so a keep-mask over the result maps back correctly)."""
        parts = [
            self._block_sample_ll(X_t[:, good_idx[start : start + self.block_size]])
            for start in range(0, int(good_idx.numel()), self.block_size)
        ]
        return torch.cat(parts)

    def _reject_outliers(self, ll_vec: torch.Tensor):
        """Permanently drop samples whose (pre-update) log-likelihood is a low
        outlier.

        Fortran ``reject_data`` (amica17.f90:2380-2464): reject any currently-good
        sample with ``loglik < mean - rejsig*std`` (population std). The rejection
        is one-directional; ``good_idx`` only ever shrinks, and the good-sample
        count drives the ``gm``/LL normalization thereafter. ``ll_vec`` is the
        per-sample log-likelihood over the current good set, in ``good_idx`` order.
        """
        assert self.good_idx is not None
        good = self.good_idx
        mean = ll_vec.mean()
        std = torch.sqrt((ll_vec.pow(2).mean() - mean.pow(2)).clamp_min(0.0))
        keep = ll_vec >= (mean - self.rejsig * std)

        if not bool(keep.any()):
            # For finite log-likelihoods the max sample is always >= mean >=
            # mean - rejsig*std (rejsig>0 is validated at construction), so it is
            # always kept; the only way every sample is dropped is a non-finite
            # per-sample LL (one NaN poisons mean/std, making every comparison
            # False). Report that accurately instead of blaming rejsig (issue
            # #127), which a user cannot fix by tuning rejsig. In a normal fit()
            # the earlier aggregate non-finite-LL guard (the sum is non-finite
            # iff a term is) stops the loop first, so this mainly serves direct
            # callers of _reject_outliers and is defense in depth.
            n_bad = int((~torch.isfinite(ll_vec)).sum())
            if n_bad:
                raise ValueError(
                    f"{n_bad} of {ll_vec.numel()} samples have a non-finite "
                    "log-likelihood; this indicates numerical instability "
                    "upstream (singular W / overflow), not a rejsig "
                    "miscalibration. Check for rank-deficient or "
                    "average-referenced data, or reduce the learning rate."
                )
            raise ValueError(  # defensive: unreachable for finite LL, rejsig>0
                f"Outlier rejection removed all {good.numel()} samples "
                f"(rejsig={self.rejsig} too aggressive for this data)."
            )

        # Zero the LLt stash for the samples being dropped, exactly as Fortran's
        # reject_data does (amica15.f90:2231-2234): they are never scored again,
        # so without this they would keep the log-likelihood from the last
        # iteration that still considered them good, and load_rej's
        # ``sum(modloglik(:,i)) == 0`` sentinel would not see them as rejected.
        if self._llt_logv is not None and self._llt_ll is not None:
            dropped = good[~keep]
            self._llt_logv[dropped] = 0.0
            self._llt_ll[dropped] = 0.0

        self.good_idx = good[keep]
        self.numrej += 1
        n_rejected = int(good.numel() - self.good_idx.numel())
        logger.info(
            "Rejection %d at iter %d: dropped %d samples (%d good remaining).",
            self.numrej,
            self.iteration,
            n_rejected,
            int(self.good_idx.numel()),
        )

    def _check_model_idx(self, model_idx: int) -> None:
        """Validate a model index against the fitted ``n_models``.

        Raises a clear ``ValueError`` (rejecting negatives, which torch's
        negative indexing would otherwise turn into a silent wrong-model result)
        instead of an opaque tensor ``IndexError``.
        """
        if not isinstance(model_idx, (int, np.integer)):
            raise TypeError(
                f"model_idx must be an int, got {type(model_idx).__name__}."
            )
        if not (0 <= model_idx < self.n_models):
            raise ValueError(
                f"model_idx={model_idx} out of range for a {self.n_models}-model "
                f"fit (valid: 0..{self.n_models - 1})."
            )

    def transform(self, X: np.ndarray, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
        """Apply the learned unmixing matrix to (new) data.

        The internal ``W = inv(A)`` is stored transposed relative to the true
        unmixing (the E-step forms activations as ``(X-c)^T @ W``, see
        ``_forward``), so the unmixing applied here is ``W^T`` (issue #24
        transpose convention) with the per-model data-space center ``c``
        subtracted first (issue #27).
        """
        if self.sphere is None or self.mean is None or self.W is None or self.c is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.transform() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
            )
        self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
        X_t = torch.from_numpy(np.ascontiguousarray(X)).to(self.device, self.dtype)
        X_t = self.sphere @ (X_t - self.mean)
        # c is the per-model data-space center: unmix as W(x - c) (issue #27).
        S = self.W[:, :, model_idx].T @ (X_t - self.c[:, model_idx : model_idx + 1])
        return S.cpu().numpy()

    def get_mixing_matrix(self, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
        """True mixing matrix ``A_fort`` = (stored A)^T (issue #24 convention)."""
        if self.A is None or self.comp_list is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.get_mixing_matrix() requires a fitted model; call "
                "fit() first."
            )
        self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
        return self.A[:, self.comp_list[:, model_idx]].T.cpu().numpy()

    @property
    def n_channels_in(self) -> int:
        """Input channel count, i.e. the width of the sphere.

        Differs from ``n_channels`` only when rank reduction shrank the model to
        the detected numerical rank (issue #223); equal to it for full-rank data
        and before :meth:`fit`. Derived rather than stored, so it cannot drift
        from the sphere it describes.
        """
        return self.n_channels if self.sphere is None else int(self.sphere.shape[1])

    def get_sensor_mixing_matrix(self, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
        """Mixing matrix mapped back to input-channel space.

        :meth:`get_mixing_matrix` returns ``A`` in the *sphered* space. These are
        the corresponding sensor-space maps (EEGLAB/MNE scalp maps),
        ``pinv(sphere) @ A``, of shape ``(n_channels_in, n_channels)``. This is
        the Fortran ``Spinv`` mapping (amica15.f90:568-578), and it is the only
        way to recover sensor maps when rank reduction is active, since the
        sphere is then non-square (issue #223).
        """
        if self.sphere is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.get_sensor_mixing_matrix() requires a fitted "
                "model; call fit() first."
            )
        if self.A is None or self.comp_list is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.get_sensor_mixing_matrix() requires a fitted "
                "model; call fit() first."
            )
        self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
        A = self.A[:, self.comp_list[:, model_idx]].T
        return (self._pinv_sphere() @ A).cpu().numpy()

    def get_unmixing_matrix(self, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
        """True unmixing matrix ``W_fort`` = (stored W)^T (issue #24 convention)."""
        if self.W is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.get_unmixing_matrix() requires a fitted model; call "
                "fit() first."
            )
        self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
        return self.W[:, :, model_idx].T.cpu().numpy()

    def _pca_reduction_requested(self) -> bool:
        """Whether an explicit PCA-reduction parameter (``pcakeep``/``pcadb``)
        was passed to the constructor.

        Config-only, not geometry: used solely by :meth:`_fit_once`'s upfront
        ``mir_step`` gate, which runs BEFORE :meth:`_preprocess` builds this
        fit's sphere, so the sphere's actual shape (and therefore any
        AUTOMATIC ``mineig``/``mineig_rel`` rank reduction) is not yet
        knowable. Use :meth:`_pca_reduced` instead wherever a fitted sphere
        already exists (issue #283).
        """
        return self.pcakeep is not None or self.pcadb is not None

    def _pca_reduced(self) -> bool:
        """Whether the fitted sphere is rank-reduced (non-square).

        Derived from the fitted geometry -- ``sphere.shape[0] !=
        sphere.shape[1]`` -- rather than from which parameter caused the
        reduction, so this also catches rank reduction from AUTOMATIC
        numerical-rank detection (``mineig``/``mineig_rel``), not just
        explicit ``pcakeep``/``pcadb`` (issue #283: the old parameter-only
        check let an auto-detected reduction slip past :meth:`mir`'s guard,
        which then failed with an opaque ``LinAlgError`` instead of the
        documented ``ValueError``). ``False`` before :meth:`fit` (``sphere``
        is ``None``) and for a full-rank fit, matching the pre-#283 behavior
        in both of those cases.
        """
        return self.sphere is not None and self.sphere.shape[0] != self.sphere.shape[1]

    def mir(
        self, X: np.ndarray, *, model_idx: int = 0, nbins: Optional[int] = None
    ) -> Tuple[float, float]:
        """Mutual Information Reduction (issue #137) of this model's unmixing on ``X``.

        Composes the full raw-data-to-sources transform ``W_fort @ sphere`` --
        i.e. ``get_unmixing_matrix(model_idx) @ sphere`` -- and delegates to
        :func:`pamica.metrics.mir`. MIR is shift-invariant, so the data-space
        mean/``c`` centering ``transform`` applies is irrelevant here.

        Parameters
        ----------
        X : np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)
            Raw (unpreprocessed) data.
        model_idx : int, default=0
            Which model's unmixing to use.
        nbins : int, optional
            Histogram bin count; see :func:`pamica.metrics.mir`.

        Returns
        -------
        mir_nats : float
        variance : float

        Raises
        ------
        RuntimeError
            If the model is unfitted.
        ValueError
            If the fitted sphere is rank-reduced (non-square): whether from
            explicit ``pcakeep``/``pcadb`` or from automatic ``mineig``/
            ``mineig_rel`` numerical-rank detection, the sphere is
            rank-deficient, so MIR's log-Jacobian term is undefined
            (issue #283).
        """
        if self.A is None or self.W is None or self.sphere is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.mir() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
            )
        self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
        if self._pca_reduced():
            raise ValueError(
                "mir() is incompatible with PCA reduction: the fitted "
                f"sphere is rank-deficient ({self.n_channels} of "
                f"{self.n_channels_in} channels kept), whether from explicit "
                "pcakeep/pcadb or automatic mineig/mineig_rel numerical-rank "
                "detection, so MIR's log-Jacobian term is undefined for the "
                "resulting non-square/non-invertible unmixing."
            )
        unmixing = (self.W[:, :, model_idx].T @ self.sphere).cpu().numpy()
        return mir_metric(unmixing, X, nbins)

    def pmi(
        self, X: np.ndarray, *, model_idx: int = 0, nbins: Optional[int] = None
    ) -> np.ndarray:
        """Pairwise Mutual Information (issue #137) between this model's sources on ``X``.

        Delegates to :func:`pamica.metrics.pairwise_mi` on
        ``transform(X, model_idx)``.

        Parameters
        ----------
        X : np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)
            Raw (unpreprocessed) data.
        model_idx : int, default=0
            Which model's sources to use.
        nbins : int, optional
            Histogram bin count; see :func:`pamica.metrics.pairwise_mi`.

        Returns
        -------
        mi_matrix : np.ndarray of shape (n_sources, n_sources)

        Raises
        ------
        RuntimeError
            If the model is unfitted (via ``transform``).
        """
        return pairwise_mi(self.transform(X, model_idx=model_idx), nbins)

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Multi-model posterior (issue #141)
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    def model_loglik(self, X: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
        """Per-model, per-sample log-likelihood ``Lht`` on (new) data.

        For each model ``h`` and sample ``t`` this is the joint log-likelihood
        ``log(gm[h]) + log|det W_h| + sldet + sum_i log p_h(s_i)`` (Fortran's
        ``Lht``/``modloglik``), evaluated on arbitrary raw data via the STORED
        sphere/mean -- never re-preprocessing, which would overwrite them. The
        per-sample posterior over models (model dominance) is
        ``softmax(Lht, axis=0)``; see :meth:`model_probability`.

        This does not replicate a training-time ``do_reject`` mask: it scores
        every sample of ``X``. On a ``do_reject`` fit's own training data it
        therefore returns real values where the stored ``_llt_lht`` carries
        Fortran's sentinel zeros for rejected samples (issue #155), so the two
        agree bit-for-bit only when the fit did not use ``do_reject``. Like
        :meth:`transform`, it assumes a usable (non-degenerate) fit; the
        :class:`~pamica.AMICA` wrapper enforces that via ``_check_usable``.

        Parameters
        ----------
        X : np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)
            Raw (unpreprocessed) data.

        Returns
        -------
        Lht : np.ndarray of shape (n_models, n_samples)

        Raises
        ------
        RuntimeError
            If the model is unfitted.
        ValueError
            If ``X`` contains non-finite (NaN/Inf) values.
        """
        if self.sphere is None or self.mean is None or self.W is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.model_loglik() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
            )
        X = np.ascontiguousarray(X)
        if not np.isfinite(X).all():
            bad = np.flatnonzero(~np.isfinite(X).all(axis=1))
            raise ValueError(
                "AMICATorchNG.model_loglik(): input contains non-finite (NaN/Inf) "
                f"values in {bad.size} channel(s) {bad.tolist()}; clean bad "
                "segments before scoring."
            )
        X_t = torch.from_numpy(X).to(self.device, self.dtype)
        X_t = self.sphere @ (X_t - self.mean)
        n_samples = X_t.shape[1]
        Lht = np.zeros((self.n_models, n_samples))
        for start in range(0, n_samples, self.block_size):
            end = min(start + self.block_size, n_samples)
            logV, *_ = self._forward(X_t[:, start:end])
            Lht[:, start:end] = logV.T.detach().cpu().numpy()
        return Lht

    def model_probability(self, X: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
        """Per-sample posterior probability of each model (model dominance).

        The column-wise ``softmax`` over models of :meth:`model_loglik`, i.e.
        ``P(model h | x_t)``; each column sums to 1. For a single model this is
        all ones.

        Parameters
        ----------
        X : np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)
            Raw (unpreprocessed) data.

        Returns
        -------
        prob : np.ndarray of shape (n_models, n_samples)

        Raises
        ------
        RuntimeError
            If the model is unfitted.
        ValueError
            If ``X`` is non-finite, or if every model underflows to ``-inf``
            log-likelihood at some sample (the posterior is undefined there).
        """
        Lht = self.model_loglik(X)
        col_max = Lht.max(axis=0, keepdims=True)
        if not np.isfinite(col_max).all():
            n_bad = int((~np.isfinite(col_max)).sum())
            raise ValueError(
                f"AMICATorchNG.model_probability(): every model has -inf "
                f"log-likelihood at {n_bad} sample(s), so the posterior is "
                "undefined there (an extreme outlier under a tight source "
                "density)."
            )
        ex = np.exp(Lht - col_max)
        return ex / ex.sum(axis=0, keepdims=True)

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Fitted-parameter metadata (issue #142)
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    def get_pdftype(self, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
        """Per-source density-family code for model ``model_idx``.

        One integer per source component (0-4; see
        :data:`pamica.torch_impl.PDFTYPE_NAMES`): 0 generalized Gaussian, 1
        super-Gaussian cosh, 2 Gaussian, 3 logistic, 4 sub-Gaussian cosh. All
        sources share ``pdftype`` unless the adaptive switcher (``pdftype=1``)
        moved them individually (issue #26).

        Returns
        -------
        np.ndarray of int, shape (n_sources,)
        """
        if self.pdtype is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.get_pdftype() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
            )
        self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
        return self.pdtype[:, model_idx].detach().cpu().numpy()

    def get_rho(self, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
        """Generalized-Gaussian shape parameter ``rho`` for model ``model_idx``.

        One value per (mixture component, source): ``rho == 2`` is Gaussian-
        shaped, ``rho == 1`` Laplacian, ``rho < 1`` heavier-tailed. Only the
        generalized-Gaussian family (``pdftype=0``) updates ``rho``; for every
        non-zero code (1-4, the fixed and adaptive cosh families) it stays frozen
        at ``rho0`` and does not describe the fitted density.

        Returns
        -------
        np.ndarray of float, shape (n_mix, n_sources)
        """
        if self.rho is None or self.comp_list is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.get_rho() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
            )
        self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
        # Defense-in-depth, matching state_dict()'s isfinite sweep: a degenerate
        # multi-model fit can leave one model's rho non-finite without the
        # aggregate LL tripping nan_ll, and _check_usable only inspects
        # stop_reason. Refuse rather than return a silent NaN.
        if not torch.isfinite(self.rho).all():
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.get_rho(): rho holds non-finite values (a "
                "degenerate fit); inspect stop_reason and refit."
            )
        idx = self.comp_list[:, model_idx]
        return self.rho[:, idx].detach().cpu().numpy()

    def shared_components(self) -> list:
        """Components shared across models by ``share_comps`` (issue #60).

        ``share_comps`` folds near-collinear components of different models onto
        one shared mixing column + density, recorded as a repeated index in
        ``comp_list``. Returns one group per shared column: a list of
        ``(model_idx, source_idx)`` pairs that all reference it. Empty when no
        component is shared across two or more models (always for one model, and
        for a default multi-model fit with ``share_comps`` off).

        Note that a merge synchronizes only the mixture parameters routed through
        ``comp_list`` (``mu``/``alpha``/``beta``/``rho``); the per-source density
        *family* code ``pdtype`` is a separate tensor and is not synchronized, so
        under the adaptive switcher (``pdftype=1``) a shared pair can still report
        different :meth:`get_pdftype` codes.

        Returns
        -------
        list of list of tuple(int, int)
        """
        if self.comp_list is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.shared_components() requires a fitted model; call "
                "fit() first."
            )
        cl = self.comp_list.detach().cpu().numpy()  # (n_sources, n_models)
        groups = []
        for col in np.unique(cl):
            src, mdl = np.where(cl == col)
            if np.unique(mdl).size >= 2:
                groups.append([(int(h), int(i)) for i, h in zip(src, mdl)])
        return groups

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # EEGLAB drop-in output (issue #92)
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    def variance_order(
        self, model_idx: int = 0, return_svar: bool = False
    ) -> Union[np.ndarray, tuple]:
        """EEGLAB back-projected-variance component order (IC1 = highest variance).

        Returns the source indices sorted by descending back-projected variance,
        the ordering EEGLAB's ``loadmodout15.m`` applies on load (so ``order[0]``
        is IC1). The de-sphered sensor-space mixing column ``a_i = pinv(W S)[:, i]``
        contributes ``||a_i||^2 * sum_k alpha_ki (mu_ki^2 + r_ki / sbeta_ki^2)``
        with ``r_ki = gamma(3/rho_ki)/gamma(1/rho_ki)`` (the source's mixture
        variance), matching ``loadmodout15`` exactly. Non-mutating: the stored
        parameters keep their fit order; this only reports the display order.

        Parameters
        ----------
        model_idx : int, default=0
            Which model's components to order.
        return_svar : bool, default=False
            If True, also return the per-source variance sorted to ``order``.

        Returns
        -------
        order : np.ndarray of int, shape (n_sources,)
            Source indices, highest back-projected variance first.
        svar : np.ndarray, optional
            Present only when ``return_svar``; the sorted variances.
        """
        from scipy.special import gamma

        if (
            self.comp_list is None
            or self.alpha is None
            or self.mu is None
            or self.beta is None
            or self.rho is None
            or self.W is None
            or self.sphere is None
        ):
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.variance_order() requires a fitted model; call "
                "fit() first."
            )
        self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
        cl = self.comp_list[:, model_idx].cpu().numpy()
        alpha = self.alpha[:, cl].cpu().numpy()
        mu = self.mu[:, cl].cpu().numpy()
        sbeta = self.beta[:, cl].cpu().numpy()
        rho = self.rho[:, cl].cpu().numpy()
        # source mixture variance (sum over the mixture components); unused
        # mixtures carry alpha == 0 and drop out, matching loadmodout15.
        ratio = gamma(3.0 / rho) / gamma(1.0 / rho)
        mix_var = (alpha * (mu**2 + ratio / sbeta**2)).sum(axis=0)
        # de-sphered sensor-space mixing: A = pinv(W_fort @ S), columns = maps.
        w_fort = self.W[:, :, model_idx].T.cpu().numpy()
        sphere = self.sphere.cpu().numpy()
        a_sensor = np.linalg.pinv(w_fort @ sphere)
        svar = mix_var * (a_sensor**2).sum(axis=0)
        order = np.argsort(-svar)
        if return_svar:
            return order, svar[order]
        return order

    def write_amica_output(self, outdir) -> None:
        """Write this fitted model as the Fortran/EEGLAB AMICA output directory.

        Produces the raw binary files that EEGLAB's ``loadmodout15.m`` (and the
        Python port :func:`pamica.numpy_impl.load.loadmodout`) read: ``gm``,
        ``W``, ``S``, ``mean``, ``c``, ``alpha``, ``mu``, ``sbeta``, ``rho``,
        ``comp_list``, ``LL``, so a PyTorch NG fit drops directly into an
        EEGLAB workflow (issue #92). ``loadmodout15`` performs the
        variance-ordering and unit-norm normalization on load, so the on-disk
        parameters are written in fit order. Single-model output is
        byte-compatible with the Fortran reference.

        Also writes ``LLt`` (the per-sample/per-model log-likelihood, issue
        #155) for a model that was just ``fit()`` in this process, from the
        stash the training E-step filled (issue #157) -- so, exactly as in the
        reference, ``LLt`` is the E-step of the returned iterate and is one
        M-step older than the ``W``/``A`` written beside it (see ``fit``'s
        Notes). A model restored via :meth:`from_state_dict` carries no stash,
        so ``LLt`` is omitted for it (a warning is logged) -- the rest of the
        output is unaffected.

        Parameters
        ----------
        outdir : str or path-like
            Destination directory (created if absent).
        """
        if self.A is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "write_amica_output requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
            )

        from ..numpy_impl.load import write_amicaout

        def _np(t):
            return t.detach().cpu().numpy()

        # The exported parameters are the fit()-kept iterate (LL == final_ll_).
        # Under the keep_best safeguard (#51) that can be an earlier iterate than
        # the last, so end the written LL trajectory at that iterate rather than
        # at a later, discarded overshoot -- otherwise LL[-1] would not match the
        # model just written. Monotone runs keep the full trajectory unchanged.
        ll = np.asarray(self.ll_history, dtype=np.float64)
        if (
            self.final_ll_ is not None
            and np.isfinite(self.final_ll_)
            and ll.size
            and not np.isclose(ll[-1], self.final_ll_)
        ):
            ll = ll[: int(np.argmax(ll)) + 1]

        # LLt (Fortran's per-sample/per-model log-likelihood, issue #155):
        # computed once at the end of fit() (after any keep-best restore) and
        # stored compactly on self. A model restored via from_state_dict()
        # never ran fit() in this process, so it has neither -- warn rather
        # than silently omitting the file (silent-failure review).
        if self._llt_lht is not None and self._llt_lt is not None:
            Lht, Lt = self._llt_lht, self._llt_lt
        else:
            logger.warning(
                "No LLt data available (model was restored via "
                "from_state_dict(), not freshly fit()); writing output "
                "without the LLt file."
            )
            Lht = Lt = None

        write_amicaout(
            outdir,
            gm=_np(self.gm),
            W=_np(self.W),
            sphere=_np(self.sphere),
            mean=_np(self.mean),
            c=_np(self.c),
            alpha=_np(self.alpha),
            mu=_np(self.mu),
            sbeta=_np(self.beta),  # Fortran's 'sbeta' is pamica's beta (scale)
            rho=_np(self.rho),
            comp_list=_np(self.comp_list),
            ll=ll,
            A=_np(self.A),
            Lht=Lht,
            Lt=Lt,
        )

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Persistence (issue #36)
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Full fitted-parameter snapshot. A/W/c/comp_list/mean/sphere are what
    # transform()/get_*matrix() read back; mu/alpha/beta/rho/gm are the
    # mixture-PDF EM state, included for a complete snapshot (and for parity/
    # continued-analysis) even though no public method currently reads them.
    # pdtype is the per-source density-family code (issue #26): a non-default
    # pdftype model, or the adaptive switcher's chosen 1/4 assignments, would
    # otherwise silently revert to GG on reload. comp_list and pdtype are integer
    # tensors (dtype preserved on load); the rest follow self.dtype.
    _PARAM_TENSORS = (
        "A", "W", "c", "mu", "alpha", "beta", "rho", "gm",
        "comp_list", "mean", "sphere", "pdtype",
    )  # fmt: skip
    # Integer tensors in _PARAM_TENSORS: keep their dtype on load, only move device.
    _INT_PARAM_TENSORS = ("comp_list", "pdtype")

    # Stop reasons that mark a fit as degenerate (non-finite log-likelihood, or
    # -- only reachable under best-of-N restarts, issue #198 -- a fit that raised
    # before it could finish). Such a model yields NaN sources, so state_dict()
    # refuses to persist it rather than let it round-trip silently
    # (silent-failure review, PR #44).
    _DEGENERATE_STOP_REASONS = ("nan_ll", "singular_ll", restarts.ERROR_STOP_REASON)

    def state_dict(self) -> dict:
        """Serialize the fitted model to a plain, device-agnostic dict.

        The returned dict has three parts: ``config`` (the constructor
        arguments needed to rebuild the object), ``params`` (the fitted
        tensors, moved to CPU), and ``extra`` (scalar/schedule state, plus the
        optional ``good_idx`` index tensor). Every value is a tensor or a plain
        Python primitive, so the dict round-trips through
        ``torch.save``/``torch.load`` with ``weights_only=True`` (no custom
        classes or ``torch.dtype`` objects: dtype is stored by name). Rebuild
        with :meth:`from_state_dict`.

        Raises if the model is unfitted or degenerate (a fit that ended on a
        non-finite log-likelihood): a NaN model must not be persisted silently.
        """
        if self.A is None:
            raise RuntimeError(
                "AMICATorchNG.state_dict() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
            )
        if self.stop_reason in self._DEGENERATE_STOP_REASONS:
            raise RuntimeError(
                f"Refusing to serialize a degenerate model (stop_reason="
                f"{self.stop_reason!r}): fit() hit a non-finite log-likelihood at "
                f"iteration {self.iteration}. Fix the instability (lower lrate, "
                f"disable Newton, or check data conditioning) before saving."
            )
        # Defense-in-depth: catch a non-finite parameter even if stop_reason
        # bookkeeping ever misses it (the codebase has known NaN-suppression
        # risks). isfinite on the integer comp_list is trivially all-True.
        nonfinite = [
            name
            for name in self._PARAM_TENSORS
            if not torch.isfinite(getattr(self, name)).all()
        ]
        if nonfinite:
            raise RuntimeError(
                f"Refusing to serialize a model with non-finite parameters "
                f"{nonfinite} (stop_reason={self.stop_reason!r})."
            )
        config = {
            "n_channels": self.n_channels,
            "n_models": self.n_models,
            "n_mix": self.n_mix,
            # block_size is the value the fit actually ran at -- which, under
            # do_opt_block, is the size the search chose rather than the one the
            # constructor was given (issue #232). Persisting the tuned value is
            # what makes a reloaded model reproduce the run it came from; the
            # sweep bounds ride along so a re-fit can search again if asked.
            "block_size": self.block_size,
            "do_opt_block": self.do_opt_block,
            "blk_min": self.blk_min,
            "blk_max": self.blk_max,
            "blk_step": self.blk_step,
            # lrate/newtrate/rholrate are annealed during fit; persist the
            # original constructor values (lrate0/newtrate0/rholrate0) and
            # restore the mutated ones from ``extra`` below.
            "lrate": self.lrate0,
            "minlrate": self.minlrate,
            "lratefact": self.lratefact,
            "maxdecs": self.maxdecs,
            # Convergence stops (issue #207); fixed hyperparameters, not
            # annealed during fit, so no mutated counterpart in ``extra``
            # (unlike lrate/newtrate/rholrate) is needed.
            "use_min_dll": self.use_min_dll,
            "min_dll": self.min_dll,
            "maxincs": self.maxincs,
            "use_grad_norm": self.use_grad_norm,
            "min_nd": self.min_nd,
            "newt_ramp": self.newt_ramp,
            "do_newton": self.do_newton,
            "newt_start": self.newt_start,
            "newtrate": self.newtrate0,
            "do_reject": self.do_reject,
            "rejsig": self.rejsig,
            "rejstart": self.rejstart,
            "rejint": self.rejint,
            "maxrej": self.maxrej,
            "rho0": self.rho0,
            "minrho": self.minrho,
            "maxrho": self.maxrho,
            "rholrate": self.rholrate0,
            "rholratefact": self.rholratefact,
            # Best-iterate safeguard flag (issue #51); only affects a re-fit, but
            # persisted so a reloaded model reconstructs its exact configuration.
            "keep_best": self.keep_best,
            # Density-family selection (issue #26): needed so a reloaded model
            # rebuilds with the right pdftype/dorho/do_choose_pdfs and switch
            # schedule instead of the GG default.
            "pdftype": self.pdftype,
            "kurt_start": self.kurt_start,
            "num_kurt": self.num_kurt,
            "kurt_int": self.kurt_int,
            "invsigmin": self.invsigmin,
            "invsigmax": self.invsigmax,
            "doscaling": self.doscaling,
            "scalestep": self.scalestep,
            # Component sharing (issue #60): persisted so a reloaded multi-model
            # run keeps its schedule; the merged comp_list itself is in params.
            "share_comps": self.share_comps,
            "share_start": self.share_start,
            "share_iter": self.share_iter,
            "comp_thresh": self.comp_thresh,
            "do_mean": self.do_mean,
            "do_sphere": self.do_sphere,
            "do_approx_sphere": self.do_approx_sphere,
            "pcakeep": self.pcakeep,
            "pcadb": self.pcadb,
            "mineig": self.mineig,
            "mineig_rel": self.mineig_rel,
            "seed": self.seed,
            # Best-of-N restarts (issue #198). Like keep_best, this only affects
            # a re-fit, but it is persisted so a reloaded model reconstructs its
            # exact configuration; the restart the fit actually kept is in
            # ``extra`` below. self.seed is the winner's seed, and
            # restart_seeds is the constructor's list, so a reload re-runs the
            # same search rather than re-deriving seeds from the winner.
            "n_restarts": self.n_restarts,
            "restart_seeds": self.restart_seeds,
            # Store dtype by name (e.g. "float64") to keep the payload
            # weights_only-safe; rebuilt via getattr(torch, ...) on load.
            "dtype": str(self.dtype).split(".")[-1],
        }
        # .clone() forces an independent copy even when self.device is already
        # CPU (where .cpu() would alias): fit() mutates A/mu/beta in place each
        # iteration, so an aliased snapshot would silently roll forward if
        # state_dict() were ever called mid-fit (e.g. best-so-far checkpointing).
        params = {
            name: getattr(self, name).detach().cpu().clone()
            for name in self._PARAM_TENSORS
        }
        extra = {
            "sldet": float(self.sldet),
            "iteration": int(self.iteration),
            "ll_history": [float(v) for v in self.ll_history],
            "final_ll": None if self.final_ll_ is None else float(self.final_ll_),
            "stop_reason": self.stop_reason,
            "n_newton_fallbacks": int(self.n_newton_fallbacks),
            "n_kurt_done": int(self.n_kurt_done),
            "numrej": int(self.numrej),
            "good_idx": None
            if self.good_idx is None
            else self.good_idx.detach().cpu().clone(),
            "lrate": float(self.lrate),
            "lrate_cap": float(self.lrate_cap),
            "newtrate": float(self.newtrate),
            "rholrate": float(self.rholrate),
            # Per-restart records (issue #198): which seeds ran, what each
            # returned, and why each stopped. Persisted so a reloaded best-of-N
            # model can still say how its parameters were chosen instead of
            # reporting an empty search.
            "restart_seeds_": list(self.restart_seeds_),
            "restart_lls_": [float(v) for v in self.restart_lls_],
            "restart_stop_reasons_": list(self.restart_stop_reasons_),
        }
        return {
            "format_version": 3,
            "config": config,
            "params": params,
            "extra": extra,
        }

    @classmethod
    def from_state_dict(
        cls, state: dict, device: Optional[Union[str, torch.device]] = None
    ) -> "AMICATorchNG":
        """Rebuild a fitted :class:`AMICATorchNG` from :meth:`state_dict` output.

        ``device`` overrides where the restored tensors live (the constructor
        picks a default when ``None``); ``dtype`` always comes from the saved
        ``config``.
        """
        # format_version stays 3 here -- deliberately NOT bumped for issue
        # #207, unlike PR #52's 1->2 (adaptive PDF) and PR #53's 2->3
        # (keep_best). The check below is strict equality, so bumping would
        # break loading genuinely older (pre-#53) files for no reason: the
        # five new config keys (use_min_dll/min_dll/maxincs/use_grad_norm/
        # min_nd) are additive-only, and a payload saved before #207 simply
        # lacks them in its ``config`` dict, so ``cls(device=device,
        # **config)`` below falls back to the constructor's own
        # Fortran-faithful defaults for whichever keys are missing -- see
        # test_missing_convergence_keys_fall_back_to_fortran_defaults in
        # test_ng_convergence.py.
        version = state.get("format_version")
        if version != 3:
            raise ValueError(
                f"unsupported AMICATorchNG state format_version: {version!r} "
                "(expected 3)"
            )
        for section in ("config", "params", "extra"):
            if section not in state:
                raise ValueError(
                    f"malformed AMICATorchNG state: missing {section!r} section "
                    f"(format_version={version}); the payload may be truncated."
                )
        config = dict(state["config"])
        config["dtype"] = getattr(torch, config["dtype"])
        obj = cls(device=device, **config)
        obj._load_params(state)
        return obj

    def _load_params(self, state: dict) -> None:
        """Restore fitted tensors/scalars from :meth:`state_dict` output onto
        this instance's device/dtype."""
        params = state["params"]
        missing = [name for name in self._PARAM_TENSORS if name not in params]
        if missing:
            raise ValueError(f"malformed AMICATorchNG state: missing params {missing}")
        # Guard against config/params drift: A and comp_list must match the
        # dimensions the constructor just derived, or transform()/the E-step
        # would fail later with a confusing matmul error far from load().
        if tuple(params["A"].shape) != (self.n_channels, self.n_comps):
            raise ValueError(
                f"restored A has shape {tuple(params['A'].shape)}, expected "
                f"{(self.n_channels, self.n_comps)} for n_channels="
                f"{self.n_channels}, n_models={self.n_models}"
            )
        if tuple(params["comp_list"].shape) != (self.n_channels, self.n_models):
            raise ValueError(
                f"restored comp_list has shape {tuple(params['comp_list'].shape)}, "
                f"expected {(self.n_channels, self.n_models)}"
            )
        for name in self._PARAM_TENSORS:
            tensor = params[name]
            # comp_list/pdtype hold integer indices/codes; preserve their dtype
            # and only move devices. The float parameters follow self.dtype.
            if name in self._INT_PARAM_TENSORS:
                setattr(self, name, tensor.to(self.device))
            else:
                setattr(self, name, tensor.to(self.device, self.dtype))
        # sphere was just replaced, so any cached back-map describes the old one.
        self._sphere_pinv = None

        extra = state["extra"]
        self.sldet = extra["sldet"]
        self.iteration = extra["iteration"]
        self.ll_history = list(extra["ll_history"])
        self.final_ll_ = extra["final_ll"]
        self.stop_reason = extra["stop_reason"]
        self.n_newton_fallbacks = extra["n_newton_fallbacks"]
        self.n_kurt_done = extra["n_kurt_done"]
        self.numrej = extra["numrej"]
        good_idx = extra["good_idx"]
        self.good_idx = None if good_idx is None else good_idx.to(self.device)
        self.lrate = extra["lrate"]
        self.lrate_cap = extra["lrate_cap"]
        self.newtrate = extra["newtrate"]
        self.rholrate = extra["rholrate"]
        # Additive-only, like the issue #207 config keys: a payload written
        # before issue #198 simply has no restart records, and an empty search
        # is the honest description of a single-fit model saved back then.
        self.restart_seeds_ = list(extra.get("restart_seeds_", []))
        self.restart_lls_ = list(extra.get("restart_lls_", []))
        self.restart_stop_reasons_ = list(extra.get("restart_stop_reasons_", []))

comp_used property

Boolean mask (n_comps,) of components still referenced by comp_list.

A component drops out of use when it is folded into another by :meth:_identify_shared_comps; unused columns receive no gradient and are never read by the E-step. Derived from comp_list (not stored).

Raises rather than asserts: assert is stripped under python -O, which would turn a pre-fit read into an obscure NoneType error instead of the same message every other accessor gives.

n_channels_in property

Input channel count, i.e. the width of the sphere.

Differs from n_channels only when rank reduction shrank the model to the detected numerical rank (issue #223); equal to it for full-rank data and before :meth:fit. Derived rather than stored, so it cannot drift from the sphere it describes.

fit(X, max_iter=100, verbose=True, mir_step=0)

Fit the model to data, running n_restarts fits and keeping the best.

With the default n_restarts=1 this is exactly :meth:_fit_once -- the restart machinery draws nothing, copies nothing and changes nothing, so the trajectory is bit-identical to a pre-issue-#198 fit. With n_restarts > 1 the model is fit once per seed in restart_seeds (serially), and the highest-final_ll_ non-degenerate restart's complete state is what the returned model holds.

See :meth:_fit_once for the semantics of a single fit (parameters, keep_best, LLt, share_comps ordering); every one of them applies unchanged to each restart.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
X ndarray

As :meth:_fit_once.

required
max_iter ndarray

As :meth:_fit_once.

required
verbose ndarray

As :meth:_fit_once.

required
mir_step ndarray

As :meth:_fit_once.

required

Returns:

Name Type Description
self AMICATorchNG

Holding the winning restart's parameters, ll_history, final_ll_, stop_reason, mir_history_, LLt arrays and rejection state -- the state a single fit from that seed would have left, bit for bit.

Notes

Records (index-aligned, one entry per restart, always populated -- including the single-restart path): restart_seeds_, restart_lls_ (NaN where a restart ended degenerate) and restart_stop_reasons_. The winner is named in one INFO log line.

A restart that ends degenerate (nan_ll/singular_ll) is excluded from selection but recorded. If every restart is degenerate the model is left holding the last one, so issue #50's degenerate-fit contract applies exactly as it does to a single degenerate fit.

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def fit(
    self,
    X: np.ndarray,
    max_iter: int = 100,
    verbose: bool = True,
    mir_step: int = 0,
) -> "AMICATorchNG":
    """Fit the model to data, running ``n_restarts`` fits and keeping the best.

    With the default ``n_restarts=1`` this is exactly :meth:`_fit_once` --
    the restart machinery draws nothing, copies nothing and changes nothing,
    so the trajectory is bit-identical to a pre-issue-#198 fit. With
    ``n_restarts > 1`` the model is fit once per seed in ``restart_seeds``
    (serially), and the highest-``final_ll_`` non-degenerate restart's
    complete state is what the returned model holds.

    See :meth:`_fit_once` for the semantics of a single fit (parameters,
    ``keep_best``, LLt, ``share_comps`` ordering); every one of them applies
    unchanged to each restart.

    Parameters
    ----------
    X, max_iter, verbose, mir_step
        As :meth:`_fit_once`.

    Returns
    -------
    self : AMICATorchNG
        Holding the winning restart's parameters, ``ll_history``,
        ``final_ll_``, ``stop_reason``, ``mir_history_``, LLt arrays and
        rejection state -- the state a single fit from that seed would have
        left, bit for bit.

    Notes
    -----
    Records (index-aligned, one entry per restart, always populated --
    including the single-restart path): ``restart_seeds_``,
    ``restart_lls_`` (NaN where a restart ended degenerate) and
    ``restart_stop_reasons_``. The winner is named in one INFO log line.

    A restart that ends degenerate (``nan_ll``/``singular_ll``) is excluded
    from selection but recorded. If *every* restart is degenerate the model
    is left holding the last one, so issue #50's degenerate-fit contract
    applies exactly as it does to a single degenerate fit.
    """
    seeds = self._restart_seeds
    if len(seeds) == 1:
        # Single-restart path: no snapshot, no reseeding of anything that is
        # not already the constructor's seed (seeds[0] IS self.seed unless
        # the caller passed an explicit one-element restart_seeds), so this
        # is byte-for-byte the pre-#198 fit.
        self.seed = seeds[0]
        self._fit_once(X, max_iter=max_iter, verbose=verbose, mir_step=mir_step)
        self.restart_seeds_ = list(seeds)
        self.restart_lls_ = [
            float("nan") if self.final_ll_ is None else float(self.final_ll_)
        ]
        self.restart_stop_reasons_ = [self.stop_reason]
        return self
    return self._fit_restarts(X, max_iter, verbose, mir_step)

transform(X, model_idx=0)

Apply the learned unmixing matrix to (new) data.

The internal W = inv(A) is stored transposed relative to the true unmixing (the E-step forms activations as (X-c)^T @ W, see _forward), so the unmixing applied here is W^T (issue #24 transpose convention) with the per-model data-space center c subtracted first (issue #27).

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def transform(self, X: np.ndarray, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
    """Apply the learned unmixing matrix to (new) data.

    The internal ``W = inv(A)`` is stored transposed relative to the true
    unmixing (the E-step forms activations as ``(X-c)^T @ W``, see
    ``_forward``), so the unmixing applied here is ``W^T`` (issue #24
    transpose convention) with the per-model data-space center ``c``
    subtracted first (issue #27).
    """
    if self.sphere is None or self.mean is None or self.W is None or self.c is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.transform() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
        )
    self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
    X_t = torch.from_numpy(np.ascontiguousarray(X)).to(self.device, self.dtype)
    X_t = self.sphere @ (X_t - self.mean)
    # c is the per-model data-space center: unmix as W(x - c) (issue #27).
    S = self.W[:, :, model_idx].T @ (X_t - self.c[:, model_idx : model_idx + 1])
    return S.cpu().numpy()

get_mixing_matrix(model_idx=0)

True mixing matrix A_fort = (stored A)^T (issue #24 convention).

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def get_mixing_matrix(self, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
    """True mixing matrix ``A_fort`` = (stored A)^T (issue #24 convention)."""
    if self.A is None or self.comp_list is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.get_mixing_matrix() requires a fitted model; call "
            "fit() first."
        )
    self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
    return self.A[:, self.comp_list[:, model_idx]].T.cpu().numpy()

get_sensor_mixing_matrix(model_idx=0)

Mixing matrix mapped back to input-channel space.

:meth:get_mixing_matrix returns A in the sphered space. These are the corresponding sensor-space maps (EEGLAB/MNE scalp maps), pinv(sphere) @ A, of shape (n_channels_in, n_channels). This is the Fortran Spinv mapping (amica15.f90:568-578), and it is the only way to recover sensor maps when rank reduction is active, since the sphere is then non-square (issue #223).

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def get_sensor_mixing_matrix(self, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
    """Mixing matrix mapped back to input-channel space.

    :meth:`get_mixing_matrix` returns ``A`` in the *sphered* space. These are
    the corresponding sensor-space maps (EEGLAB/MNE scalp maps),
    ``pinv(sphere) @ A``, of shape ``(n_channels_in, n_channels)``. This is
    the Fortran ``Spinv`` mapping (amica15.f90:568-578), and it is the only
    way to recover sensor maps when rank reduction is active, since the
    sphere is then non-square (issue #223).
    """
    if self.sphere is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.get_sensor_mixing_matrix() requires a fitted "
            "model; call fit() first."
        )
    if self.A is None or self.comp_list is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.get_sensor_mixing_matrix() requires a fitted "
            "model; call fit() first."
        )
    self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
    A = self.A[:, self.comp_list[:, model_idx]].T
    return (self._pinv_sphere() @ A).cpu().numpy()

get_unmixing_matrix(model_idx=0)

True unmixing matrix W_fort = (stored W)^T (issue #24 convention).

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def get_unmixing_matrix(self, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
    """True unmixing matrix ``W_fort`` = (stored W)^T (issue #24 convention)."""
    if self.W is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.get_unmixing_matrix() requires a fitted model; call "
            "fit() first."
        )
    self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
    return self.W[:, :, model_idx].T.cpu().numpy()

mir(X, *, model_idx=0, nbins=None)

Mutual Information Reduction (issue #137) of this model's unmixing on X.

Composes the full raw-data-to-sources transform W_fort @ sphere -- i.e. get_unmixing_matrix(model_idx) @ sphere -- and delegates to :func:pamica.metrics.mir. MIR is shift-invariant, so the data-space mean/c centering transform applies is irrelevant here.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
X np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)

Raw (unpreprocessed) data.

required
model_idx int

Which model's unmixing to use.

0
nbins int

Histogram bin count; see :func:pamica.metrics.mir.

None

Returns:

Name Type Description
mir_nats float
variance float

Raises:

Type Description
RuntimeError

If the model is unfitted.

ValueError

If the fitted sphere is rank-reduced (non-square): whether from explicit pcakeep/pcadb or from automatic mineig/ mineig_rel numerical-rank detection, the sphere is rank-deficient, so MIR's log-Jacobian term is undefined (issue #283).

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def mir(
    self, X: np.ndarray, *, model_idx: int = 0, nbins: Optional[int] = None
) -> Tuple[float, float]:
    """Mutual Information Reduction (issue #137) of this model's unmixing on ``X``.

    Composes the full raw-data-to-sources transform ``W_fort @ sphere`` --
    i.e. ``get_unmixing_matrix(model_idx) @ sphere`` -- and delegates to
    :func:`pamica.metrics.mir`. MIR is shift-invariant, so the data-space
    mean/``c`` centering ``transform`` applies is irrelevant here.

    Parameters
    ----------
    X : np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)
        Raw (unpreprocessed) data.
    model_idx : int, default=0
        Which model's unmixing to use.
    nbins : int, optional
        Histogram bin count; see :func:`pamica.metrics.mir`.

    Returns
    -------
    mir_nats : float
    variance : float

    Raises
    ------
    RuntimeError
        If the model is unfitted.
    ValueError
        If the fitted sphere is rank-reduced (non-square): whether from
        explicit ``pcakeep``/``pcadb`` or from automatic ``mineig``/
        ``mineig_rel`` numerical-rank detection, the sphere is
        rank-deficient, so MIR's log-Jacobian term is undefined
        (issue #283).
    """
    if self.A is None or self.W is None or self.sphere is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.mir() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
        )
    self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
    if self._pca_reduced():
        raise ValueError(
            "mir() is incompatible with PCA reduction: the fitted "
            f"sphere is rank-deficient ({self.n_channels} of "
            f"{self.n_channels_in} channels kept), whether from explicit "
            "pcakeep/pcadb or automatic mineig/mineig_rel numerical-rank "
            "detection, so MIR's log-Jacobian term is undefined for the "
            "resulting non-square/non-invertible unmixing."
        )
    unmixing = (self.W[:, :, model_idx].T @ self.sphere).cpu().numpy()
    return mir_metric(unmixing, X, nbins)

pmi(X, *, model_idx=0, nbins=None)

Pairwise Mutual Information (issue #137) between this model's sources on X.

Delegates to :func:pamica.metrics.pairwise_mi on transform(X, model_idx).

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
X np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)

Raw (unpreprocessed) data.

required
model_idx int

Which model's sources to use.

0
nbins int

Histogram bin count; see :func:pamica.metrics.pairwise_mi.

None

Returns:

Name Type Description
mi_matrix np.ndarray of shape (n_sources, n_sources)

Raises:

Type Description
RuntimeError

If the model is unfitted (via transform).

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def pmi(
    self, X: np.ndarray, *, model_idx: int = 0, nbins: Optional[int] = None
) -> np.ndarray:
    """Pairwise Mutual Information (issue #137) between this model's sources on ``X``.

    Delegates to :func:`pamica.metrics.pairwise_mi` on
    ``transform(X, model_idx)``.

    Parameters
    ----------
    X : np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)
        Raw (unpreprocessed) data.
    model_idx : int, default=0
        Which model's sources to use.
    nbins : int, optional
        Histogram bin count; see :func:`pamica.metrics.pairwise_mi`.

    Returns
    -------
    mi_matrix : np.ndarray of shape (n_sources, n_sources)

    Raises
    ------
    RuntimeError
        If the model is unfitted (via ``transform``).
    """
    return pairwise_mi(self.transform(X, model_idx=model_idx), nbins)

model_loglik(X)

Per-model, per-sample log-likelihood Lht on (new) data.

For each model h and sample t this is the joint log-likelihood log(gm[h]) + log|det W_h| + sldet + sum_i log p_h(s_i) (Fortran's Lht/modloglik), evaluated on arbitrary raw data via the STORED sphere/mean -- never re-preprocessing, which would overwrite them. The per-sample posterior over models (model dominance) is softmax(Lht, axis=0); see :meth:model_probability.

This does not replicate a training-time do_reject mask: it scores every sample of X. On a do_reject fit's own training data it therefore returns real values where the stored _llt_lht carries Fortran's sentinel zeros for rejected samples (issue #155), so the two agree bit-for-bit only when the fit did not use do_reject. Like :meth:transform, it assumes a usable (non-degenerate) fit; the :class:~pamica.AMICA wrapper enforces that via _check_usable.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
X np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)

Raw (unpreprocessed) data.

required

Returns:

Name Type Description
Lht np.ndarray of shape (n_models, n_samples)

Raises:

Type Description
RuntimeError

If the model is unfitted.

ValueError

If X contains non-finite (NaN/Inf) values.

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def model_loglik(self, X: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    """Per-model, per-sample log-likelihood ``Lht`` on (new) data.

    For each model ``h`` and sample ``t`` this is the joint log-likelihood
    ``log(gm[h]) + log|det W_h| + sldet + sum_i log p_h(s_i)`` (Fortran's
    ``Lht``/``modloglik``), evaluated on arbitrary raw data via the STORED
    sphere/mean -- never re-preprocessing, which would overwrite them. The
    per-sample posterior over models (model dominance) is
    ``softmax(Lht, axis=0)``; see :meth:`model_probability`.

    This does not replicate a training-time ``do_reject`` mask: it scores
    every sample of ``X``. On a ``do_reject`` fit's own training data it
    therefore returns real values where the stored ``_llt_lht`` carries
    Fortran's sentinel zeros for rejected samples (issue #155), so the two
    agree bit-for-bit only when the fit did not use ``do_reject``. Like
    :meth:`transform`, it assumes a usable (non-degenerate) fit; the
    :class:`~pamica.AMICA` wrapper enforces that via ``_check_usable``.

    Parameters
    ----------
    X : np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)
        Raw (unpreprocessed) data.

    Returns
    -------
    Lht : np.ndarray of shape (n_models, n_samples)

    Raises
    ------
    RuntimeError
        If the model is unfitted.
    ValueError
        If ``X`` contains non-finite (NaN/Inf) values.
    """
    if self.sphere is None or self.mean is None or self.W is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.model_loglik() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
        )
    X = np.ascontiguousarray(X)
    if not np.isfinite(X).all():
        bad = np.flatnonzero(~np.isfinite(X).all(axis=1))
        raise ValueError(
            "AMICATorchNG.model_loglik(): input contains non-finite (NaN/Inf) "
            f"values in {bad.size} channel(s) {bad.tolist()}; clean bad "
            "segments before scoring."
        )
    X_t = torch.from_numpy(X).to(self.device, self.dtype)
    X_t = self.sphere @ (X_t - self.mean)
    n_samples = X_t.shape[1]
    Lht = np.zeros((self.n_models, n_samples))
    for start in range(0, n_samples, self.block_size):
        end = min(start + self.block_size, n_samples)
        logV, *_ = self._forward(X_t[:, start:end])
        Lht[:, start:end] = logV.T.detach().cpu().numpy()
    return Lht

model_probability(X)

Per-sample posterior probability of each model (model dominance).

The column-wise softmax over models of :meth:model_loglik, i.e. P(model h | x_t); each column sums to 1. For a single model this is all ones.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
X np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)

Raw (unpreprocessed) data.

required

Returns:

Name Type Description
prob np.ndarray of shape (n_models, n_samples)

Raises:

Type Description
RuntimeError

If the model is unfitted.

ValueError

If X is non-finite, or if every model underflows to -inf log-likelihood at some sample (the posterior is undefined there).

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def model_probability(self, X: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    """Per-sample posterior probability of each model (model dominance).

    The column-wise ``softmax`` over models of :meth:`model_loglik`, i.e.
    ``P(model h | x_t)``; each column sums to 1. For a single model this is
    all ones.

    Parameters
    ----------
    X : np.ndarray of shape (n_channels, n_samples)
        Raw (unpreprocessed) data.

    Returns
    -------
    prob : np.ndarray of shape (n_models, n_samples)

    Raises
    ------
    RuntimeError
        If the model is unfitted.
    ValueError
        If ``X`` is non-finite, or if every model underflows to ``-inf``
        log-likelihood at some sample (the posterior is undefined there).
    """
    Lht = self.model_loglik(X)
    col_max = Lht.max(axis=0, keepdims=True)
    if not np.isfinite(col_max).all():
        n_bad = int((~np.isfinite(col_max)).sum())
        raise ValueError(
            f"AMICATorchNG.model_probability(): every model has -inf "
            f"log-likelihood at {n_bad} sample(s), so the posterior is "
            "undefined there (an extreme outlier under a tight source "
            "density)."
        )
    ex = np.exp(Lht - col_max)
    return ex / ex.sum(axis=0, keepdims=True)

get_pdftype(model_idx=0)

Per-source density-family code for model model_idx.

One integer per source component (0-4; see :data:pamica.torch_impl.PDFTYPE_NAMES): 0 generalized Gaussian, 1 super-Gaussian cosh, 2 Gaussian, 3 logistic, 4 sub-Gaussian cosh. All sources share pdftype unless the adaptive switcher (pdftype=1) moved them individually (issue #26).

Returns:

Type Description
np.ndarray of int, shape (n_sources,)
Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def get_pdftype(self, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
    """Per-source density-family code for model ``model_idx``.

    One integer per source component (0-4; see
    :data:`pamica.torch_impl.PDFTYPE_NAMES`): 0 generalized Gaussian, 1
    super-Gaussian cosh, 2 Gaussian, 3 logistic, 4 sub-Gaussian cosh. All
    sources share ``pdftype`` unless the adaptive switcher (``pdftype=1``)
    moved them individually (issue #26).

    Returns
    -------
    np.ndarray of int, shape (n_sources,)
    """
    if self.pdtype is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.get_pdftype() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
        )
    self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
    return self.pdtype[:, model_idx].detach().cpu().numpy()

get_rho(model_idx=0)

Generalized-Gaussian shape parameter rho for model model_idx.

One value per (mixture component, source): rho == 2 is Gaussian- shaped, rho == 1 Laplacian, rho < 1 heavier-tailed. Only the generalized-Gaussian family (pdftype=0) updates rho; for every non-zero code (1-4, the fixed and adaptive cosh families) it stays frozen at rho0 and does not describe the fitted density.

Returns:

Type Description
np.ndarray of float, shape (n_mix, n_sources)
Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def get_rho(self, model_idx: int = 0) -> np.ndarray:
    """Generalized-Gaussian shape parameter ``rho`` for model ``model_idx``.

    One value per (mixture component, source): ``rho == 2`` is Gaussian-
    shaped, ``rho == 1`` Laplacian, ``rho < 1`` heavier-tailed. Only the
    generalized-Gaussian family (``pdftype=0``) updates ``rho``; for every
    non-zero code (1-4, the fixed and adaptive cosh families) it stays frozen
    at ``rho0`` and does not describe the fitted density.

    Returns
    -------
    np.ndarray of float, shape (n_mix, n_sources)
    """
    if self.rho is None or self.comp_list is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.get_rho() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
        )
    self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
    # Defense-in-depth, matching state_dict()'s isfinite sweep: a degenerate
    # multi-model fit can leave one model's rho non-finite without the
    # aggregate LL tripping nan_ll, and _check_usable only inspects
    # stop_reason. Refuse rather than return a silent NaN.
    if not torch.isfinite(self.rho).all():
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.get_rho(): rho holds non-finite values (a "
            "degenerate fit); inspect stop_reason and refit."
        )
    idx = self.comp_list[:, model_idx]
    return self.rho[:, idx].detach().cpu().numpy()

shared_components()

Components shared across models by share_comps (issue #60).

share_comps folds near-collinear components of different models onto one shared mixing column + density, recorded as a repeated index in comp_list. Returns one group per shared column: a list of (model_idx, source_idx) pairs that all reference it. Empty when no component is shared across two or more models (always for one model, and for a default multi-model fit with share_comps off).

Note that a merge synchronizes only the mixture parameters routed through comp_list (mu/alpha/beta/rho); the per-source density family code pdtype is a separate tensor and is not synchronized, so under the adaptive switcher (pdftype=1) a shared pair can still report different :meth:get_pdftype codes.

Returns:

Type Description
list of list of tuple(int, int)
Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def shared_components(self) -> list:
    """Components shared across models by ``share_comps`` (issue #60).

    ``share_comps`` folds near-collinear components of different models onto
    one shared mixing column + density, recorded as a repeated index in
    ``comp_list``. Returns one group per shared column: a list of
    ``(model_idx, source_idx)`` pairs that all reference it. Empty when no
    component is shared across two or more models (always for one model, and
    for a default multi-model fit with ``share_comps`` off).

    Note that a merge synchronizes only the mixture parameters routed through
    ``comp_list`` (``mu``/``alpha``/``beta``/``rho``); the per-source density
    *family* code ``pdtype`` is a separate tensor and is not synchronized, so
    under the adaptive switcher (``pdftype=1``) a shared pair can still report
    different :meth:`get_pdftype` codes.

    Returns
    -------
    list of list of tuple(int, int)
    """
    if self.comp_list is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.shared_components() requires a fitted model; call "
            "fit() first."
        )
    cl = self.comp_list.detach().cpu().numpy()  # (n_sources, n_models)
    groups = []
    for col in np.unique(cl):
        src, mdl = np.where(cl == col)
        if np.unique(mdl).size >= 2:
            groups.append([(int(h), int(i)) for i, h in zip(src, mdl)])
    return groups

variance_order(model_idx=0, return_svar=False)

EEGLAB back-projected-variance component order (IC1 = highest variance).

Returns the source indices sorted by descending back-projected variance, the ordering EEGLAB's loadmodout15.m applies on load (so order[0] is IC1). The de-sphered sensor-space mixing column a_i = pinv(W S)[:, i] contributes ||a_i||^2 * sum_k alpha_ki (mu_ki^2 + r_ki / sbeta_ki^2) with r_ki = gamma(3/rho_ki)/gamma(1/rho_ki) (the source's mixture variance), matching loadmodout15 exactly. Non-mutating: the stored parameters keep their fit order; this only reports the display order.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
model_idx int

Which model's components to order.

0
return_svar bool

If True, also return the per-source variance sorted to order.

False

Returns:

Name Type Description
order np.ndarray of int, shape (n_sources,)

Source indices, highest back-projected variance first.

svar (ndarray, optional)

Present only when return_svar; the sorted variances.

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def variance_order(
    self, model_idx: int = 0, return_svar: bool = False
) -> Union[np.ndarray, tuple]:
    """EEGLAB back-projected-variance component order (IC1 = highest variance).

    Returns the source indices sorted by descending back-projected variance,
    the ordering EEGLAB's ``loadmodout15.m`` applies on load (so ``order[0]``
    is IC1). The de-sphered sensor-space mixing column ``a_i = pinv(W S)[:, i]``
    contributes ``||a_i||^2 * sum_k alpha_ki (mu_ki^2 + r_ki / sbeta_ki^2)``
    with ``r_ki = gamma(3/rho_ki)/gamma(1/rho_ki)`` (the source's mixture
    variance), matching ``loadmodout15`` exactly. Non-mutating: the stored
    parameters keep their fit order; this only reports the display order.

    Parameters
    ----------
    model_idx : int, default=0
        Which model's components to order.
    return_svar : bool, default=False
        If True, also return the per-source variance sorted to ``order``.

    Returns
    -------
    order : np.ndarray of int, shape (n_sources,)
        Source indices, highest back-projected variance first.
    svar : np.ndarray, optional
        Present only when ``return_svar``; the sorted variances.
    """
    from scipy.special import gamma

    if (
        self.comp_list is None
        or self.alpha is None
        or self.mu is None
        or self.beta is None
        or self.rho is None
        or self.W is None
        or self.sphere is None
    ):
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.variance_order() requires a fitted model; call "
            "fit() first."
        )
    self._check_model_idx(model_idx)
    cl = self.comp_list[:, model_idx].cpu().numpy()
    alpha = self.alpha[:, cl].cpu().numpy()
    mu = self.mu[:, cl].cpu().numpy()
    sbeta = self.beta[:, cl].cpu().numpy()
    rho = self.rho[:, cl].cpu().numpy()
    # source mixture variance (sum over the mixture components); unused
    # mixtures carry alpha == 0 and drop out, matching loadmodout15.
    ratio = gamma(3.0 / rho) / gamma(1.0 / rho)
    mix_var = (alpha * (mu**2 + ratio / sbeta**2)).sum(axis=0)
    # de-sphered sensor-space mixing: A = pinv(W_fort @ S), columns = maps.
    w_fort = self.W[:, :, model_idx].T.cpu().numpy()
    sphere = self.sphere.cpu().numpy()
    a_sensor = np.linalg.pinv(w_fort @ sphere)
    svar = mix_var * (a_sensor**2).sum(axis=0)
    order = np.argsort(-svar)
    if return_svar:
        return order, svar[order]
    return order

write_amica_output(outdir)

Write this fitted model as the Fortran/EEGLAB AMICA output directory.

Produces the raw binary files that EEGLAB's loadmodout15.m (and the Python port :func:pamica.numpy_impl.load.loadmodout) read: gm, W, S, mean, c, alpha, mu, sbeta, rho, comp_list, LL, so a PyTorch NG fit drops directly into an EEGLAB workflow (issue #92). loadmodout15 performs the variance-ordering and unit-norm normalization on load, so the on-disk parameters are written in fit order. Single-model output is byte-compatible with the Fortran reference.

Also writes LLt (the per-sample/per-model log-likelihood, issue

155) for a model that was just fit() in this process, from the

stash the training E-step filled (issue #157) -- so, exactly as in the reference, LLt is the E-step of the returned iterate and is one M-step older than the W/A written beside it (see fit's Notes). A model restored via :meth:from_state_dict carries no stash, so LLt is omitted for it (a warning is logged) -- the rest of the output is unaffected.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
outdir str or path - like

Destination directory (created if absent).

required
Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def write_amica_output(self, outdir) -> None:
    """Write this fitted model as the Fortran/EEGLAB AMICA output directory.

    Produces the raw binary files that EEGLAB's ``loadmodout15.m`` (and the
    Python port :func:`pamica.numpy_impl.load.loadmodout`) read: ``gm``,
    ``W``, ``S``, ``mean``, ``c``, ``alpha``, ``mu``, ``sbeta``, ``rho``,
    ``comp_list``, ``LL``, so a PyTorch NG fit drops directly into an
    EEGLAB workflow (issue #92). ``loadmodout15`` performs the
    variance-ordering and unit-norm normalization on load, so the on-disk
    parameters are written in fit order. Single-model output is
    byte-compatible with the Fortran reference.

    Also writes ``LLt`` (the per-sample/per-model log-likelihood, issue
    #155) for a model that was just ``fit()`` in this process, from the
    stash the training E-step filled (issue #157) -- so, exactly as in the
    reference, ``LLt`` is the E-step of the returned iterate and is one
    M-step older than the ``W``/``A`` written beside it (see ``fit``'s
    Notes). A model restored via :meth:`from_state_dict` carries no stash,
    so ``LLt`` is omitted for it (a warning is logged) -- the rest of the
    output is unaffected.

    Parameters
    ----------
    outdir : str or path-like
        Destination directory (created if absent).
    """
    if self.A is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "write_amica_output requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
        )

    from ..numpy_impl.load import write_amicaout

    def _np(t):
        return t.detach().cpu().numpy()

    # The exported parameters are the fit()-kept iterate (LL == final_ll_).
    # Under the keep_best safeguard (#51) that can be an earlier iterate than
    # the last, so end the written LL trajectory at that iterate rather than
    # at a later, discarded overshoot -- otherwise LL[-1] would not match the
    # model just written. Monotone runs keep the full trajectory unchanged.
    ll = np.asarray(self.ll_history, dtype=np.float64)
    if (
        self.final_ll_ is not None
        and np.isfinite(self.final_ll_)
        and ll.size
        and not np.isclose(ll[-1], self.final_ll_)
    ):
        ll = ll[: int(np.argmax(ll)) + 1]

    # LLt (Fortran's per-sample/per-model log-likelihood, issue #155):
    # computed once at the end of fit() (after any keep-best restore) and
    # stored compactly on self. A model restored via from_state_dict()
    # never ran fit() in this process, so it has neither -- warn rather
    # than silently omitting the file (silent-failure review).
    if self._llt_lht is not None and self._llt_lt is not None:
        Lht, Lt = self._llt_lht, self._llt_lt
    else:
        logger.warning(
            "No LLt data available (model was restored via "
            "from_state_dict(), not freshly fit()); writing output "
            "without the LLt file."
        )
        Lht = Lt = None

    write_amicaout(
        outdir,
        gm=_np(self.gm),
        W=_np(self.W),
        sphere=_np(self.sphere),
        mean=_np(self.mean),
        c=_np(self.c),
        alpha=_np(self.alpha),
        mu=_np(self.mu),
        sbeta=_np(self.beta),  # Fortran's 'sbeta' is pamica's beta (scale)
        rho=_np(self.rho),
        comp_list=_np(self.comp_list),
        ll=ll,
        A=_np(self.A),
        Lht=Lht,
        Lt=Lt,
    )

state_dict()

Serialize the fitted model to a plain, device-agnostic dict.

The returned dict has three parts: config (the constructor arguments needed to rebuild the object), params (the fitted tensors, moved to CPU), and extra (scalar/schedule state, plus the optional good_idx index tensor). Every value is a tensor or a plain Python primitive, so the dict round-trips through torch.save/torch.load with weights_only=True (no custom classes or torch.dtype objects: dtype is stored by name). Rebuild with :meth:from_state_dict.

Raises if the model is unfitted or degenerate (a fit that ended on a non-finite log-likelihood): a NaN model must not be persisted silently.

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
def state_dict(self) -> dict:
    """Serialize the fitted model to a plain, device-agnostic dict.

    The returned dict has three parts: ``config`` (the constructor
    arguments needed to rebuild the object), ``params`` (the fitted
    tensors, moved to CPU), and ``extra`` (scalar/schedule state, plus the
    optional ``good_idx`` index tensor). Every value is a tensor or a plain
    Python primitive, so the dict round-trips through
    ``torch.save``/``torch.load`` with ``weights_only=True`` (no custom
    classes or ``torch.dtype`` objects: dtype is stored by name). Rebuild
    with :meth:`from_state_dict`.

    Raises if the model is unfitted or degenerate (a fit that ended on a
    non-finite log-likelihood): a NaN model must not be persisted silently.
    """
    if self.A is None:
        raise RuntimeError(
            "AMICATorchNG.state_dict() requires a fitted model; call fit() first."
        )
    if self.stop_reason in self._DEGENERATE_STOP_REASONS:
        raise RuntimeError(
            f"Refusing to serialize a degenerate model (stop_reason="
            f"{self.stop_reason!r}): fit() hit a non-finite log-likelihood at "
            f"iteration {self.iteration}. Fix the instability (lower lrate, "
            f"disable Newton, or check data conditioning) before saving."
        )
    # Defense-in-depth: catch a non-finite parameter even if stop_reason
    # bookkeeping ever misses it (the codebase has known NaN-suppression
    # risks). isfinite on the integer comp_list is trivially all-True.
    nonfinite = [
        name
        for name in self._PARAM_TENSORS
        if not torch.isfinite(getattr(self, name)).all()
    ]
    if nonfinite:
        raise RuntimeError(
            f"Refusing to serialize a model with non-finite parameters "
            f"{nonfinite} (stop_reason={self.stop_reason!r})."
        )
    config = {
        "n_channels": self.n_channels,
        "n_models": self.n_models,
        "n_mix": self.n_mix,
        # block_size is the value the fit actually ran at -- which, under
        # do_opt_block, is the size the search chose rather than the one the
        # constructor was given (issue #232). Persisting the tuned value is
        # what makes a reloaded model reproduce the run it came from; the
        # sweep bounds ride along so a re-fit can search again if asked.
        "block_size": self.block_size,
        "do_opt_block": self.do_opt_block,
        "blk_min": self.blk_min,
        "blk_max": self.blk_max,
        "blk_step": self.blk_step,
        # lrate/newtrate/rholrate are annealed during fit; persist the
        # original constructor values (lrate0/newtrate0/rholrate0) and
        # restore the mutated ones from ``extra`` below.
        "lrate": self.lrate0,
        "minlrate": self.minlrate,
        "lratefact": self.lratefact,
        "maxdecs": self.maxdecs,
        # Convergence stops (issue #207); fixed hyperparameters, not
        # annealed during fit, so no mutated counterpart in ``extra``
        # (unlike lrate/newtrate/rholrate) is needed.
        "use_min_dll": self.use_min_dll,
        "min_dll": self.min_dll,
        "maxincs": self.maxincs,
        "use_grad_norm": self.use_grad_norm,
        "min_nd": self.min_nd,
        "newt_ramp": self.newt_ramp,
        "do_newton": self.do_newton,
        "newt_start": self.newt_start,
        "newtrate": self.newtrate0,
        "do_reject": self.do_reject,
        "rejsig": self.rejsig,
        "rejstart": self.rejstart,
        "rejint": self.rejint,
        "maxrej": self.maxrej,
        "rho0": self.rho0,
        "minrho": self.minrho,
        "maxrho": self.maxrho,
        "rholrate": self.rholrate0,
        "rholratefact": self.rholratefact,
        # Best-iterate safeguard flag (issue #51); only affects a re-fit, but
        # persisted so a reloaded model reconstructs its exact configuration.
        "keep_best": self.keep_best,
        # Density-family selection (issue #26): needed so a reloaded model
        # rebuilds with the right pdftype/dorho/do_choose_pdfs and switch
        # schedule instead of the GG default.
        "pdftype": self.pdftype,
        "kurt_start": self.kurt_start,
        "num_kurt": self.num_kurt,
        "kurt_int": self.kurt_int,
        "invsigmin": self.invsigmin,
        "invsigmax": self.invsigmax,
        "doscaling": self.doscaling,
        "scalestep": self.scalestep,
        # Component sharing (issue #60): persisted so a reloaded multi-model
        # run keeps its schedule; the merged comp_list itself is in params.
        "share_comps": self.share_comps,
        "share_start": self.share_start,
        "share_iter": self.share_iter,
        "comp_thresh": self.comp_thresh,
        "do_mean": self.do_mean,
        "do_sphere": self.do_sphere,
        "do_approx_sphere": self.do_approx_sphere,
        "pcakeep": self.pcakeep,
        "pcadb": self.pcadb,
        "mineig": self.mineig,
        "mineig_rel": self.mineig_rel,
        "seed": self.seed,
        # Best-of-N restarts (issue #198). Like keep_best, this only affects
        # a re-fit, but it is persisted so a reloaded model reconstructs its
        # exact configuration; the restart the fit actually kept is in
        # ``extra`` below. self.seed is the winner's seed, and
        # restart_seeds is the constructor's list, so a reload re-runs the
        # same search rather than re-deriving seeds from the winner.
        "n_restarts": self.n_restarts,
        "restart_seeds": self.restart_seeds,
        # Store dtype by name (e.g. "float64") to keep the payload
        # weights_only-safe; rebuilt via getattr(torch, ...) on load.
        "dtype": str(self.dtype).split(".")[-1],
    }
    # .clone() forces an independent copy even when self.device is already
    # CPU (where .cpu() would alias): fit() mutates A/mu/beta in place each
    # iteration, so an aliased snapshot would silently roll forward if
    # state_dict() were ever called mid-fit (e.g. best-so-far checkpointing).
    params = {
        name: getattr(self, name).detach().cpu().clone()
        for name in self._PARAM_TENSORS
    }
    extra = {
        "sldet": float(self.sldet),
        "iteration": int(self.iteration),
        "ll_history": [float(v) for v in self.ll_history],
        "final_ll": None if self.final_ll_ is None else float(self.final_ll_),
        "stop_reason": self.stop_reason,
        "n_newton_fallbacks": int(self.n_newton_fallbacks),
        "n_kurt_done": int(self.n_kurt_done),
        "numrej": int(self.numrej),
        "good_idx": None
        if self.good_idx is None
        else self.good_idx.detach().cpu().clone(),
        "lrate": float(self.lrate),
        "lrate_cap": float(self.lrate_cap),
        "newtrate": float(self.newtrate),
        "rholrate": float(self.rholrate),
        # Per-restart records (issue #198): which seeds ran, what each
        # returned, and why each stopped. Persisted so a reloaded best-of-N
        # model can still say how its parameters were chosen instead of
        # reporting an empty search.
        "restart_seeds_": list(self.restart_seeds_),
        "restart_lls_": [float(v) for v in self.restart_lls_],
        "restart_stop_reasons_": list(self.restart_stop_reasons_),
    }
    return {
        "format_version": 3,
        "config": config,
        "params": params,
        "extra": extra,
    }

from_state_dict(state, device=None) classmethod

Rebuild a fitted :class:AMICATorchNG from :meth:state_dict output.

device overrides where the restored tensors live (the constructor picks a default when None); dtype always comes from the saved config.

Source code in pamica/torch_impl/core.py
@classmethod
def from_state_dict(
    cls, state: dict, device: Optional[Union[str, torch.device]] = None
) -> "AMICATorchNG":
    """Rebuild a fitted :class:`AMICATorchNG` from :meth:`state_dict` output.

    ``device`` overrides where the restored tensors live (the constructor
    picks a default when ``None``); ``dtype`` always comes from the saved
    ``config``.
    """
    # format_version stays 3 here -- deliberately NOT bumped for issue
    # #207, unlike PR #52's 1->2 (adaptive PDF) and PR #53's 2->3
    # (keep_best). The check below is strict equality, so bumping would
    # break loading genuinely older (pre-#53) files for no reason: the
    # five new config keys (use_min_dll/min_dll/maxincs/use_grad_norm/
    # min_nd) are additive-only, and a payload saved before #207 simply
    # lacks them in its ``config`` dict, so ``cls(device=device,
    # **config)`` below falls back to the constructor's own
    # Fortran-faithful defaults for whichever keys are missing -- see
    # test_missing_convergence_keys_fall_back_to_fortran_defaults in
    # test_ng_convergence.py.
    version = state.get("format_version")
    if version != 3:
        raise ValueError(
            f"unsupported AMICATorchNG state format_version: {version!r} "
            "(expected 3)"
        )
    for section in ("config", "params", "extra"):
        if section not in state:
            raise ValueError(
                f"malformed AMICATorchNG state: missing {section!r} section "
                f"(format_version={version}); the payload may be truncated."
            )
    config = dict(state["config"])
    config["dtype"] = getattr(torch, config["dtype"])
    obj = cls(device=device, **config)
    obj._load_params(state)
    return obj