feat: add activation steering pipeline (extractor, loader, sampler injection)

Implements per-block DiT activation steering as an alternative to textual
inversion. Extractor runs frozen generator on dataset with BJ vs empty
conditions, records mean hidden-state delta per block, saves [hidden_dim]
vectors (seq-averaged so they broadcast to any inference duration). Loader
reads the bundle. Sampler registers forward hooks during the ODE that add
strength × vec to each block output, cleaned up in a finally block.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"""SelVA Activation Steering Extractor.
Computes per-block steering vectors by running the frozen generator on the
training dataset and recording how BJ's conditioning shifts the DiT hidden
states vs. empty/unconditional conditioning.
For each block i:
steering[i] = mean(latent_hidden | BJ conditions)
- mean(latent_hidden | empty conditions)
The resulting vectors are injected at inference time (via SelVA Sampler's
steering_strength input) to nudge the denoising trajectory toward BJ's
activation patterns without modifying any model weights.
"""
import random
from pathlib import Path
import torch
import comfy.utils
import folder_paths
from .utils import SELVA_CATEGORY, get_device, soft_empty_cache
from .selva_lora_trainer import _prepare_dataset
def _collect_activations(generator, conditions, latent, t_tensor):
"""Run one predict_flow call, collecting latent hidden states per block.
Returns a list of [hidden_dim] float32 CPU tensors,
one per block (joint_blocks first, then fused_blocks).
"""
activations = []
def make_hook(is_joint):
def hook(module, input, output):
h = output[0] if is_joint else output
# Mean over batch then seq → [hidden]: makes vectors length-agnostic so
# they broadcast to any inference duration without shape mismatches.
activations.append(h.detach().float().mean(0).mean(0).cpu()) # [hidden]
return hook
handles = []
for block in generator.joint_blocks:
handles.append(block.register_forward_hook(make_hook(is_joint=True)))
for block in generator.fused_blocks:
handles.append(block.register_forward_hook(make_hook(is_joint=False)))
try:
with torch.no_grad():
generator.predict_flow(latent, t_tensor, conditions)
finally:
for h in handles:
h.remove()
return activations # list of n_blocks tensors [seq, hidden]
class SelvaActivationSteeringExtractor:
"""Computes activation steering vectors from a training dataset.
Runs the frozen generator on N clips at random timesteps with both
BJ-conditioned and empty-conditioned inputs, then saves the mean
difference per DiT block to a .pt file.
"""
OUTPUT_NODE = True
CATEGORY = SELVA_CATEGORY
FUNCTION = "extract"
RETURN_TYPES = ("STRING",)
RETURN_NAMES = ("steering_path",)
OUTPUT_TOOLTIPS = ("Path to saved steering_vectors.pt — load with SelVA Activation Steering Loader.",)
DESCRIPTION = (
"Computes per-block activation steering vectors: mean(BJ activations) "
"mean(empty activations) at each DiT block. Load the result with "
"SelVA Activation Steering Loader and connect to the Sampler."
)
@classmethod
def INPUT_TYPES(cls):
return {
"required": {
"model": ("SELVA_MODEL",),
"data_dir": ("STRING", {
"default": "",
"tooltip": "Directory containing .npz feature files (same as LoRA/TI trainer).",
}),
"output_path": ("STRING", {
"default": "steering_vectors.pt",
"tooltip": "Where to save the steering vectors. Relative paths resolve to ComfyUI output directory.",
}),
"n_samples": ("INT", {
"default": 16, "min": 1, "max": 256,
"tooltip": "Number of clips to average over. More = more stable vectors, slower extraction.",
}),
"seed": ("INT", {"default": 42, "min": 0, "max": 0xFFFFFFFF}),
},
}
def extract(self, model, data_dir, output_path, n_samples, seed):
device = get_device()
dtype = model["dtype"]
seq_cfg = model["seq_cfg"]
data_dir = Path(data_dir.strip())
if not data_dir.is_absolute():
data_dir = Path(folder_paths.models_dir) / data_dir
if not data_dir.exists():
raise FileNotFoundError(f"[Steering] data_dir not found: {data_dir}")
out_path = Path(output_path.strip())
if not out_path.is_absolute():
out_path = Path(folder_paths.get_output_directory()) / out_path
out_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
print(f"\n[Steering] Extracting steering vectors n_samples={n_samples}", flush=True)
print(f"[Steering] data_dir = {data_dir}", flush=True)
print(f"[Steering] output = {out_path}\n", flush=True)
dataset = _prepare_dataset(model, data_dir, device)
generator = model["generator"]
generator.eval()
torch.manual_seed(seed)
random.seed(seed)
indices = random.choices(range(len(dataset)), k=n_samples)
n_blocks = len(generator.joint_blocks) + len(generator.fused_blocks)
bj_sums = [None] * n_blocks
empty_sums = [None] * n_blocks
counts = [0] * n_blocks
pbar = comfy.utils.ProgressBar(n_samples)
for sample_i, clip_idx in enumerate(indices):
x1_cpu, clip_f_cpu, sync_f_cpu, text_clip_cpu = dataset[clip_idx]
clip_f = clip_f_cpu.to(device, dtype) # [1, T_clip, 1024]
sync_f = sync_f_cpu.to(device, dtype) # [1, T_sync, 768]
text_clip = text_clip_cpu.to(device, dtype) # [1, 77, 1024]
# x1 shape is [1, latent_seq_len, latent_dim] — dim 1 is the sequence length.
clip_latent_seq_len = x1_cpu.shape[1]
generator.update_seq_lengths(
latent_seq_len=clip_latent_seq_len,
clip_seq_len=clip_f.shape[1],
sync_seq_len=sync_f.shape[1],
)
conditions = generator.preprocess_conditions(clip_f, sync_f, text_clip)
empty_conditions = generator.get_empty_conditions(bs=1)
# Random timestep and noise latent for this clip
t_val = torch.rand(1).item()
t_tensor = torch.tensor([t_val], device=device, dtype=dtype)
latent = torch.randn(
1, clip_latent_seq_len, generator.latent_dim,
device=device, dtype=dtype,
)
bj_acts = _collect_activations(generator, conditions, latent, t_tensor)
empty_acts = _collect_activations(generator, empty_conditions, latent, t_tensor)
for i, (bj, em) in enumerate(zip(bj_acts, empty_acts)):
if bj_sums[i] is None:
bj_sums[i] = bj.clone()
empty_sums[i] = em.clone()
else:
bj_sums[i] += bj
empty_sums[i] += em
counts[i] += 1
pbar.update(1)
if (sample_i + 1) % 4 == 0 or sample_i == n_samples - 1:
print(f"[Steering] Processed {sample_i + 1}/{n_samples} clips", flush=True)
# Steering vector per block: mean(BJ) - mean(empty)
steering_vectors = []
for i in range(n_blocks):
vec = (bj_sums[i] - empty_sums[i]) / counts[i] # [hidden]
steering_vectors.append(vec)
norm = vec.norm().item()
print(f"[Steering] Block {i:2d} steering_norm={norm:.4f}", flush=True)
n_joint = len(generator.joint_blocks)
payload = {
"steering_vectors": steering_vectors, # list of [hidden] tensors
"n_blocks": n_blocks,
"n_joint": n_joint,
"n_fused": len(generator.fused_blocks),
"latent_seq_len": seq_cfg.latent_seq_len,
"n_samples": n_samples,
"seed": seed,
"mode": model["mode"],
"variant": model["variant"],
}
torch.save(payload, str(out_path))
print(f"\n[Steering] Saved: {out_path}", flush=True)
soft_empty_cache()
return (str(out_path),)