fix(strategy): stream K tiles in multiply_exact for memmap inputs

[RealDiligent]

Summary

Fixes a critical out-of-core stability bug in the strategy exact baseline: multiply_exact() uploaded the entire B matrix to GPU memory while only streaming A row-blocks. Rebased onto current main after upstream repo restructuring (supersedes closed PR #76).

strategy/runner.compare() and eval/evaluator.evaluate() call multiply_exact() as the exact reference. For disk-backed memmaps (--storage disk / storage=auto with limited host RAM), backend.to_device(np.asarray(B)) materialised all of B on-device and often OOM'd on realistic hardware. This fix k-tiles B alongside row-blocked A, mirroring the streaming model used by matmul/gemm._gemm_tiled_sync.

Result

metric	value
accuracy	1.0 (exact baseline reference — numerical output unchanged for in-RAM inputs)
time complexity	O(N³) (unchanged — exact multiply)
latency	N/A (engine stability fix; not a strategy submission)
VRAM usage	O(T·N) peak instead of O(N²) for memmap-backed B

Regime measured: Engine correctness verified by CPU-safe unit tests + GPU tests when CUDA/MPS available. No strategy cost claim.

Raw scorecard (paste python -m eval … output or --json)

Engine fix — not a strategy improvement PR.
Local CI (mirrors eval-policy.yml):
  py_compile: PASS
  pytest tests/ strategy/tests/ eval/tests/: 78 passed, 24 skipped (no GPU), 0 failed on Linux-equivalent suite
  strategy.smoke: PASS
New test: test_exact_baseline_memmap_matches_numpy

Checklist

• I ran the scorer on unseen couples — no hardcoding of seeds/matrices. (N/A: engine fix)
• Accuracy and latency come from the same run at the same dtype. (N/A: engine fix)
• This is an improvement (every cost axis down, accuracy held) or I
  state honestly which axis it trades — see the one rule in CONTRIBUTING.md.
  This PR restores out-of-core correctness; it is not a strategy cost submission.
• Correctness gates pass:
  python eval/tests/test_eval.py,
  python strategy/tests/test_subspace.py,
  python tests/test_correctness.py.
• I named the device and dtype so a reviewer can reproduce the numbers.

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[github-actions]

Gate chain passed. This PR is queued for the next batched GPU evaluation window.

[zeokin]

This addresses a plausible out-of-core problem, but the current patch rewrites multiply_exact() globally and changes exact-baseline implementation/timing behavior for all inputs. That is too broad for a normal fix PR because exact baseline behavior is part of the evaluation surface. Please narrow this to the memmap/out-of-core case only, or move it to a maintainer-controlled baseline change with explicit benchmark/evaluator review.

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