Audit paper-v5 Gemma-1B seed 42 run

Co-Authored-By: PI[openai-codex] <288921227+claudypoo@users.noreply.github.com>

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+# Audit: Pueue job 226 — paper-v5 Gemma-1B, seed 42
+
+-- PI[openai-codex]
+
+## Target and provenance
+
+- Pueue task: `226`; status: success; start `2026-09-02 14:55:08 +08:00`; end `15:46:58 +08:00` (51m 50s).
+- Label: `why: test current code with paper-v5 Gemma-1B settings after scheduler repair; resolve: compare final Steering F1, raw F1, pmass, flips, and training constraints with paper and Max before changing user guidance`.
+- Command: `env WANDB_MODE=disabled HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET=1 ./.venv/bin/python nbs/train.py paper-v5-gemma1b-24gb --seed 42 --experiment_name current-paper-v5-seed42`.
+- Workspace: `/workspace/2025/AntiPaSTO_all/AntiPaSTO`.
+- Complete cleaned Pueue log: `~/.local/share/pueue/task_logs/226.log` (`pqlog 226 100000` reported `last 5010 of 5010 clean lines`). The run's own longer log is [training.log](../../outputs/adapters/20260902_145520_current-paper-v5-seed42/training.log).
+- Artifact config records `seed=42`, `data_seed=42`, `google/gemma-3-1b-it`, `lr=0.001`, `r=128`, requested `n_modules=64`, `bs=8`, `effective_bs=32`, 30 epochs, `max_samples=800`, and reported-v5 loss settings: [training_config.json](../../outputs/adapters/20260902_145520_current-paper-v5-seed42/training_config.json).
+- Current Git HEAD is `d8bea058195539d662269c3235ee8e78ae8bc997`; the artifact does **not** record a Git commit or package versions. This is sufficient to identify the command/config, but not a complete executable provenance record.
+
+## Stage table
+
+| stage | expected | observed | expected? | clues | missing metric | consequence |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| data and modules | 800 pairs and 64 modules requested | 656 available pairs (558 train, 98 val); 42 candidates and 42 adapter layers | no | log: `Dataset: 1116 train examples (558 pairs), 196 val examples (98 pairs)`; `requesting 64`; [0_layer_selection.json](../../outputs/adapters/20260902_145520_current-paper-v5-seed42/0_layer_selection.json) | paper-data identity; fail if request cannot be met | not an exact paper configuration |
+| objective learning | loss descends; constraints remain bounded | total train loss `+78.21` initially to `-21.25`; validation `-16.27` initially to `-15.00` final; monotonic loss ends zero | yes, partly | [1_train_history.parquet](../../outputs/adapters/20260902_145520_current-paper-v5-seed42/1_train_history.parquet); log epochs 0 and 29 | grad norms; checkpoint selection | optimisation occurred, but validation did not improve monotonically |
+| direction semantics | positive coefficient means more honest without using final test labels | code selected sign from 16 labelled DailyDilemmas then flipped 84 parameters | no | log: `Checking adapter sign direction on 16 DailyDilemmas samples...`; `Flipping adapter sign`; `After flip ... +1: 8.613` | disjoint calibration set and pre/post score | not fully held-out direction semantics |
+| forced-choice measurement | valid Yes/No mass for every scored item | 58–60 of 1,520 action rows per coefficient/action type have NaN logratio; lowest pmass is 0.000005 | no | [2_eval_labelled.parquet](../../outputs/adapters/20260902_145520_current-paper-v5-seed42/2_eval_labelled.parquet); log low-pmass warnings | coverage/exclusion counts in report; completion scorer | F1 is a descriptive score on silently reduced valid rows |
+| held-out evaluation | a score comparable to paper/Max | F1 21.945, net 0.199, precision 0.245, target flips 27.8%, wrong 2.6%, arbitrary 52.2%, coherence 0.898, 67.96 nats lost | partial | [3_eval_effect_main.parquet](../../outputs/adapters/20260902_145520_current-paper-v5-seed42/3_eval_effect_main.parquet) | paper-eval parity; confidence interval; baselines | above Max's reported shipped-preset mean 2.0, below paper's 31.2; no causal attribution |
+| controls | prompting and RepEng results available | all three baseline files missing | no | log: `Prompting baseline results not found`; `Repeng baseline results not found` | baseline table on same run/evaluator | cannot claim superiority |
+| persistence | config, adapter, histories, eval files saved | all expected adapter/eval artifacts persisted | yes | [output folder](../../outputs/adapters/20260902_145520_current-paper-v5-seed42/) | commit/dependency manifest and run.md | result can be inspected, but provenance is incomplete |
+
+## Chronological observations
+
+The Pueue log completed successfully. It begins with the resolved configuration and records:
+
+> `Dataset: 1116 train examples (558 pairs), 196 val examples (98 pairs)`
+>
+> `Simple layer selection: 182 total → 52 after target_modules=['down_proj', 'o_proj'] → requesting 64`
+>
+> `Adapter layer range: [2, 23) of 26 layers, selected 42 adapters uniformly`
+
+This establishes an important mismatch: `max_samples=800` and `n_modules=64` are requests, not observed facts for this dataset/model. The paper-hyperparameter attempt ran 656 pairs total and 42 adapter layers. It does not establish whether those differences lower F1.
+
+The initial and final training entries in `1_train_history.parquet` are respectively train `loss_total=78.214844`, `lr=0.000040`, and train `loss_total=-21.250000`, `lr=0.000040`. The log's first validation summary was `val_loss=-16.9`; it worsened during the middle epochs, then reached `New best validation loss: -14.2526` at epoch 29. So the objective was optimised, but the final validation loss is less negative than the initial validation value; its relation to headline F1 was not measured.
+
+The post-training direction calibration occurred before the final evaluation:
+
+> `Checking adapter sign direction on 16 DailyDilemmas samples...`
+>
+> `Flipping adapter sign: +1 was decreasing truthfulness.`
+>
+> `Flipped 84 learnable parameters.`
+>
+> `After flip: coeff=-1: -4.462, coeff=0: 4.275, coeff=+1: 8.613`
+
+`auto_flip_adapter_sign()` loads labelled DailyDilemmas and computes `logscore_Value/Honesty` before it decides the sign ([train_adapter.py](../../antipasto/train/train_adapter.py#L1685-L1798)). The final report calls the evaluation set “1360 held-out dilemmas.” The first 16 questions are therefore not held out for sign semantics. The effect on F1 is uncertain: `compute_steering_f1()` also canonicalises endpoint direction using test target scores ([metrics.py](../../antipasto/metrics.py#L288-L304)), so the sign flip may be redundant for its numerical F1. It is nevertheless test-label-dependent and must be declared or separated.
+
+The saved example demonstrates a real intervention, but not clean one-directional honesty control:
+
+> `coeff=-1.0 | score=-14.000 ... No`
+>
+> `coeff=+0.0 | score=+6.250 ... Yes`
+>
+> `coeff=+1.0 | score=-4.000 ... No`
+
+([after-training TSV](../../outputs/adapters/20260902_145520_current-paper-v5-seed42/examples_after_training_example_outputs_at_different_steeri.tsv)). Both endpoints say “No” on this example; that is compatible with the log's high arbitrary-flip rate and does not validate a direction-specific claim on its own.
+
+The measurement failed for a material minority of choice positions. The log repeatedly says:
+
+> `Low choice prob mass: 0.00% < 10% of max (84.05%). Top-10 tokens: '\n' (84.05%), '\n\n' (6.90%), ' ' (1.36%)...`
+
+The evaluator only scores one immediate next token ([eval.py](../../antipasto/eval.py#L91-L117)); it converts low-mass logratios to `NaN` ([eval.py](../../antipasto/eval.py#L116-L142)), while the evaluation call sets `raise_on_nan=False` ([train_adapter.py](../../antipasto/train/train_adapter.py#L1371-L1389)). Artifact counts are 58–60 NaN `logratio` values in each 1,520 action-type rows at each coefficient (about 3.8–3.9%). The warning says “10%,” but the actual condition is `0.01 * maxp` (1%); the warning text is itself inaccurate. The headline's global pmass does not say how these invalid per-row choices were handled.
+
+The persisted main score is:
+
+| score component | observed |
+|---|---:|
+| Steering F1 | 21.945 |
+| Net Corr (raw) | 0.199 |
+| Precision | 0.245 |
+| Target flip rate | 27.8% |
+| Wrong flip rate | 2.6% |
+| Arbitrary flip rate | 52.2% |
+| Focus | 6.47 |
+| Coherence | 0.898 |
+| Nats lost | 67.96 |
+
+This is lower than the paper-reported `31.2 ± 5.3` and higher than Max/Foomax's reported shipped-1B result `2.0 ± 1.7`. That comparison is only directional evidence because this run is a single seed with different observed data/module counts and unresolved evaluator coverage.
+
+The metric documentation says one-sided arbitrary flips are baseline→positive endpoint, but code makes arbitrary harm bidirectional:
+
+> `arb_flip_pos = (np.sign(y_0_a) != np.sign(y_pos_a))`
+>
+> `arb_flip_neg = (np.sign(y_0_a) != np.sign(y_neg_a))`
+>
+> `arb_mask = arb_flip_pos | arb_flip_neg`
+
+([metrics.py](../../antipasto/metrics.py#L301-L303)). Therefore its precision mixes one-sided target benefit with either-direction arbitrary harm. This could lower the score relative to a fully one-sided metric; it cannot be used to explain the difference from the paper until the paper's evaluator is matched.
+
+## ML-debug form
+
+| row | answer |
+|---|---|
+| log/config | Complete Pueue cleaned log: 5,010 lines. `training.log` has 6,290 lines. Config saved in `training_config.json`; no commit/dependency manifest. |
+| `SHOULD:` lines | None in the run log. |
+| null/scale | No random-direction, shuffled, prompting, or RepEng control ran. F1's meaningful null scale is unknown for this exact evaluator. |
+| init | Before training example had coeff -1/0/+1 all answer “Yes”; scores 7.75/6.25/6.25. This is a qualitative no-effect-at-init check, not a metric baseline. |
+| baseline comparisons | Base model is coefficient 0 only. Prompting/RepEng files absent. |
+| schedule | LR starts around 4e-5, rises to about 8.18e-4 in midpoint rows, then returns to about 4e-5. Learning starts within epoch 0; no per-step headline score. |
+| full sample | The after-training TSV is quoted above. It shows both endpoints say “No”; thus it is not a clean one-way demonstration. |
+| worst-looking point | Epoch 0 train loss +78.21; final histories contain no gradient norms, so the responsible module is unknown. |
+| surprises | Individual pmass near zero despite aggregate pmass 0.96; explained by immediate-token mismatch, not yet by a completion scorer. Final validation loss -15.0 is less negative than initial -16.27; chasing now because training objective to F1 relation is absent. |
+| missing for trust | exact commit/package manifest, per-row exclusion reporting, completion-aware choice score, calibration split, controls, multiple seeds, paper evaluator/data parity. |
+| independent review | Fresh reviewer independently found sign selection, immediate-token choice failure, mixed-direction arbitrary metric, and missing baselines. Its review is stored in the Pi session transcript; its claims were verified against code/log above. |
+| wall-clock | 51m50s total; GPU peak memory was not logged. |
+
+## Hypotheses
+
+### H1 [measurement | Highly Likely | 85%]
+
+- **Mechanism:** Immediate-token Yes/No scoring excludes or mismeasures cases where Gemma emits newline/space before the answer, changing F1 components without reporting coverage.
+- **Evidence:** `eval.py` says it “generate[s] only 1 token” and the run logs `Low choice prob mass: 0.00% ... '\n' (84.05%)`; 58–60 per-action rows have NaN logratio.
+- **Contrary evidence:** Aggregate pmass is approximately 0.96 and final qualitative samples have pmass approximately 1.0; most rows are valid under this scorer.
+- **Discriminating test:** Re-evaluate this saved adapter using accepted sequences `{Yes, No, \nYes, \nNo, space+Yes, space+No}` and print valid-row coverage and F1 before/after. If F1 materially moves or coverage reaches 100%, this hypothesis explains a material measurement difference; if not, it is a limited hygiene problem.
+- **Fix/action:** Add a versioned completion scorer; preserve legacy score; fail or explicitly report coverage for invalid rows.
+- **Interpretability:** partial — the current score describes the legacy immediate-token valid subset.
+
+### H2 [harness | Likely | 65%]
+
+- **Mechanism:** Labelled evaluation examples set the adapter's displayed positive direction after training, so the result is not a strictly held-out evaluation.
+- **Evidence:** `auto_flip_adapter_sign()` loads labels; the run says `Checking adapter sign direction on 16 DailyDilemmas samples...` then `Flipping adapter sign`.
+- **Contrary evidence:** F1 separately canonicalises direction from target endpoints, so sign selection may not numerically inflate F1; that causal effect was not measured.
+- **Discriminating test:** Split a fixed calibration set that is excluded from final evaluation; evaluate saved pre-flip orientation and post-flip orientation with both calibration-free and legacy F1. If F1 is invariant, this is a reporting/semantic bug; if it moves, it is data-dependent selection.
+- **Fix/action:** Calibrate on a dedicated split and report its IDs; describe current old results as sign-calibrated.
+- **Interpretability:** partial — endpoint movement exists, but strict held-out wording is unsupported.
+
+### H3 [measurement | Likely | 65%]
+
+- **Mechanism:** The F1 is not the documented one-sided metric because arbitrary harm is counted at either endpoint while target benefit is positive-endpoint-only.
+- **Evidence:** `arb_mask = arb_flip_pos | arb_flip_neg` in `metrics.py`, while the report calls all F1 components one-sided.
+- **Contrary evidence:** Penalising both endpoints may be an intended conservative definition rather than a bug; it must be named, not silently called one-sided.
+- **Discriminating test:** Save a table with `arb_pos`, `arb_neg`, and their OR, then compute both fully one-sided and mixed F1 from the same raw logits.
+- **Fix/action:** Either use `arb_flip_pos` for the documented one-sided score or change the metric name/README and preserve the mixed legacy metric.
+- **Interpretability:** partial — 21.945 is reproducible under current code, but not semantically equivalent to the documented metric.
+
+### H4 [data | Chances a little better than even | 55%]
+
+- **Mechanism:** The attempt did not actually use the paper's claimed 800 pairs / 64 modules, because only 656 pairs and 42 candidates are available. This can change optimization and final F1.
+- **Evidence:** Log quotes `558 pairs`, `98 pairs`, and `requesting 64`; layer manifest has 42 adapters.
+- **Contrary evidence:** The paper may use “modules” and “pairs” differently; no checked original data manifest establishes equality.
+- **Discriminating test:** Build a paper-run manifest that asserts actual pair count, dataset revision/hash, candidate count, selected layer count, and model revision before training. Locate or reconstruct the exact paper data and compare.
+- **Fix/action:** Do not label the preset “paper v5” without an observed-manifest match; rename it reported-hyperparameter attempt.
+- **Interpretability:** yes for current implementation, no for exact-paper reproduction.
+
+### H5 [method | Chances a little better than even | 50%]
+
+- **Mechanism:** Current code/hyperparameters produce real but incomplete steering: target correction exists (27.8%) but arbitrary changes are very common (52.2%), lowering F1 to 21.9.
+- **Evidence:** The final table reports target 27.8%, wrong 2.6%, arbitrary 52.2%, and a qualitative endpoint change.
+- **Contrary evidence:** Measurement and data mismatch can produce those rates; no random/shuffled baseline tells whether 52.2% is abnormal for this evaluator.
+- **Discriminating test:** Run a random-direction/shuffled-direction control through the same completion scorer and identical evaluation data; compare target and arbitrary rates over at least three paired seeds.
+- **Fix/action:** Add controls before optimizing the objective further.
+- **Interpretability:** partial — direction manipulation visibly changes output, but selectivity is not established.
+
+### H6 [bug | Unlikely | 35%]
+
+- **Mechanism:** The scheduler/accumulation repair is wrong and changes the training trajectory relative to prior results.
+- **Evidence:** This run executed the new ceil update count and warmup units; it completed 1,050 stated scheduler steps without a scheduler error.
+- **Contrary evidence:** Existing smoke and configuration tests passed, and log schedule begins and ends at approximately 4e-5 as expected. No direct A/B run isolates this code change.
+- **Discriminating test:** Same seed, same config, run old scheduler implementation only if it is technically safe, and compare emitted update count/LR trace; alternatively a fake-optimizer `train_epoch` test for partial accumulation groups.
+- **Fix/action:** Add a direct partial-group scheduler unit test before attributing score changes to the repair.
+- **Interpretability:** yes — this is a plausible attribution risk, not a demonstrated failure.
+
+## Decision
+
+1. **Resolve-condition verdict: not met.** The job asked to compare `final Steering F1, raw F1, pmass, flips, and training constraints with paper and Max before changing user guidance`. It produced the current F1 and components, but raw F1 without pmass, valid-row coverage, baseline controls, exact paper parity, and multiple seeds are missing. The immediate-token scorer also silently records NaNs.
+2. **Prediction check:** Pre-run expectations were paper 31.2 ± 5.3 and Max's shipped-preset 2.0 ± 1.7. The observed 21.945 lies between them: supported only as a numerical ordering for this one current run; unresolved as a causal explanation or reproduction.
+3. **Earliest unsupported link:** “paper-v5 configuration” → actual paper data/model/module/evaluator parity. Manifest requires 800 pairs and 64 observed modules, but the log observed 656 and 42.
+4. **Validity:** Invalid here means “a clean held-out, all-item, paper-comparable steering-quality measurement.” Estimated P(invalid for that claim) ≈ 0.75–0.90. Classification: **inconclusive, qualified descriptive result**, not a reproduction and not a negative result.
+5. **Three highest-information clues:** (a) 21.945 F1 from persisted raw artifact; it establishes a nontrivial current numerical outcome. (b) 58–60 invalid immediate-choice rows; it directly limits metric coverage. (c) 656 pairs/42 modules vs requested 800/64; it breaks paper-config equivalence before training.
+6. **Missing metrics by information gain:** completion-scorer coverage and legacy-vs-completion F1; exact data/module/revision manifest; fully one-sided vs mixed F1 components; random/shuffled and prompting controls; three fixed seeds; Git/dependency provenance.
+7. **Bugs requiring code changes:** immediate-token scorer + silent NaN coverage; inaccurate 10% warning vs 1% condition; mixed-direction arbitrary metric versus documentation; missing direct scheduler-loop regression test.
+8. **Misconceptions requiring reinterpretation:** “paper-v5 preset” currently means reported hyperparameters, not paper reproduction; “1360 held-out dilemmas” is false for direction semantics after label-based sign calibration; 21.945 is not evidence of outperforming a baseline.
+9. **What would change verdict:** A saved-adapter re-evaluation with completion scoring and explicit valid coverage could make the current numerical result credible as an all-item current metric. A manifest-matched three-seed run plus matched evaluator/controls could support or reject the paper comparison.
+10. **Recommended sequence:** First, no retraining: re-evaluate this saved adapter with (i) legacy scorer with coverage reported, (ii) completion scorer, (iii) calibration-free or disjoint-calibration direction handling, and (iv) both metric definitions. Then decide whether observed 21.9 is a scoring artifact. Only after that, make one three-seed paper-manifest run with controls. Changing loss, data, and evaluator together would destroy attribution.