Mistral: use fork-capable attention bridge (enable hook_attn_in / set_use_attn_in)#1497
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Mistral has separate q/k/v/o projections with RoPE and GQA, structurally
identical to Qwen2, but its adapter used the plain AttentionBridge, which
delegates q/k/v to HF and exposes no per-receiver fork point. As a result
set_use_attn_in() raised and blocks.{i}.hook_attn_in did not exist, so
per-head input interventions (activation/path patching on attention inputs)
were impossible on Mistral.
Switch the Mistral adapter to PositionEmbeddingsAttentionBridge (the same
fork-capable bridge Qwen2/Qwen3 use) and pass config to its BlockBridge so
hook_mlp_in is wired too. Add a test booting the tiny random Mistral that
checks the attention bridge is fork-capable, hook_attn_in fires at
[batch, pos, n_heads, d_model], and zeroing a single head's forked input
actually changes the logits.
This was referenced Jul 9, 2026
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Mistral loads through the plain
AttentionBridge, which delegates q/k/v to HF and exposes no per-receiver fork point. So on a bridged Mistral,set_use_attn_in(True)raises andblocks.{i}.hook_attn_in(and the q/k/v input forks) never exist, making per-head attention-input interventions (activation/path patching that edits a receiver input) impossible.Mistral is structurally identical to Qwen2 here (separate
q/k/v/o_proj, RoPE, GQA, RMSNorm, gated MLP), which usesPositionEmbeddingsAttentionBridge.Fix
PositionEmbeddingsAttentionBridge(same bridge as Qwen2/Qwen3).configto Mistral'sBlockBridgesohook_mlp_inis wired too.Test
tests/unit/model_bridge/test_mistral_attn_in_fork.pybootshf-internal-testing/tiny-random-MistralForCausalLMand checks the bridge isPositionEmbeddingsAttentionBridge,hook_attn_infires at[batch, pos, n_heads, d_model], and zeroing a single head's forked input changes the logits.