The route2 tau-gate anchored on (teacher OR hacked_E student). hacked_E is the
run_tests detector; it cross-fires <=1.1% on held-out modes (stdout 17/1540,
file_marker 2/1337), force-routing those rollouts -- a real label leak into the
held-out class, not noise. Add gate_anchor_teacher_only: anchor on teacher rows
only, so held-out classes get PROVABLY zero detector labels (airtight A5 control).
Extracted the inline anchor loop to build_route2_anchors() and added
scripts/verify_gate_anchor.py (wired into just smoke): proves default reproduces
the leak (held-out FP student force-routed) and teacher_only removes it (zero
student routing, teachers unchanged). 9/9 assertions pass.
Rescoring can't fix this -- the leak is in training (gate shaped the weights),
not scoring (per-mode ground-truth eval is clean). Retrain is the only path; the
A5 run saved no per-eval checkpoints anyway.
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End-labels sat on the line termini (2-arm figs) and piled up bottom-left on
ragged-length multi-arm overlays (substrate, where arms end at different steps).
Now all labels anchor at one gutter x with a leader fanning back to each line's
actual end, y-de-collided. Added right margin so the gutter is clear.
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The solid-red deploy line ran straight through the annotation text (tufte
collision test). Move it into the empty band above the flat line (axes y=0.12).
Co-Authored-By: Claudypoo <288921227+claudypoo@users.noreply.github.com>
A vanilla seed (s43) lacked the held-out deploy eval, so its train series fell
back to the noisy n=28 per-step hack_s while other seeds used the n=64 eval.
Averaging mixed estimators fabricated a vanilla train-vs-deploy gap that does
not exist (lie-factor). Now: train series reuses the knob-off eval only (nan if
absent -> seed drops from the mean), and missing eval columns normalise to nan
so absent==all-nan. Regenerated all figures from logs. The canonical
train_vs_deploy_60 (has hk_on) is unchanged; sub4/longrun byproducts now show
train==deploy honestly (no knob-on data to split).
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Job 86 placebo (null_city arbitrary direction) reached deploy hack 0.000 over
the full 60 steps, falsifying the 'expect ~vanilla' prediction. Route's gate
is direction-agnostic: the discarded knob absorbs whatever crosses the per-step
energy threshold regardless of v_hack alignment. Directional specificity now
rests on the erase arm (subtracts prop cos(g,v)), pending.
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y=mode, dot per arm, thin connector per mode so vanilla->route change reads as a
line segment. Faint x-grid only, no box (dots+labels carry categories), labels
staggered to avoid collision, xerr=seed std when n>1. Kills the invisible
zero-bar problem and shows the per-mode drop directly.
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Caption now states v is run_tests-only, teacher is run_tests-only, held-out
modes have hacked_E=0 so the gate is blind, they emerge on knob-on but deploy~0,
and the placebo caveat (suppression is the direction-agnostic quarantine, not v
specificity). Bar plot tags invisible zero-height bars with ≡0.
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Groups per_mode_deploy.json by arm into a list, plots mean+/-std across seeds.
At n=1 (current A5: seed 41 only) no bar appears; TODO in code points at the
queued a5 seeds 42/43 (jobs 107-110) that will populate it. Bar labels show n.
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- overlay: floor hack panel below 0 so a pinned-at-0 line shows; direct-label
the TOP (hack) panel not the bottom (read top-to-bottom); tag any arm whose
series sits at 0 with $\equiv 0$.
- train-vs-deploy: replace the 2x2 with one panel per arm, 4 series each --
colour=metric (red hack/green solve), linestyle=train(dashed)/deploy(solid).
The route gap (dashed-red up, solid-red at 0) and vanilla overlap (train==deploy)
read in one panel. two-axis legend (colour=metric, style=train/deploy).
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The train row fell back to per-step hack_s (noisy n=28 train batch) for arms
without a knob-on eval, so vanilla's train/deploy rows looked like different
estimators. Fix: vanilla/erase have no quarantine -> train==deploy, so reuse
hk_dep (the n=64 knob-off eval) for the train row. route2 still uses hk_on
(knob-on eval). Now every panel is the same held-out eval, differing only in
the quarantine knob. Regen source: train_vs_deploy_60.csv (route2 nofloor_rf2
+ vanilla sweep, seed 41, 60 steps).
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Old figure paired route2 (job 84) with job 85 vanilla, whose step-88
'collapse' was a hot-preset artifact. Job 97 re-ran vanilla-200 gentle and
stays coherent. New pairing: route2 holds deploy hack at 0; vanilla rises to
~0.32 (onset ~step 40); route2 solve ends higher (0.61 vs 0.47). Caption now
flags the remaining optimizer mismatch (route2 hot / vanilla gentle, both
beta=0) and TODOs the matched beta=1e-5 regen (jobs 100/101).
Co-Authored-By: Claudypoo <288921227+claudypoo@users.noreply.github.com>
The route2 placebo result (job 86, dir-insensitive gate) doesn't settle
directionality; erase projects with magnitude ~cos(g,v) so it's the arm where
direction must enter. Matched 60-step s41 pair differs only in v source. #183.
Co-Authored-By: Claudypoo <288921227+claudypoo@users.noreply.github.com>
New Results subsection + fix stale Limitations bullet (50%->12.5%). Three
evidence pieces: (1) construction (4 teacher vs 28 student rollouts/step,
student out-hacks ~3:1 from step 40, job 103 trajectory); (2) A5 held-out
emergence (teacher demos only run_tests, student emerges 3 modes with zero
teacher examples); (3) teacher-off@40 control TODO (jobs 93/94, bumped ahead
of A3 random-V).
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Fill route2 column of tab:generalisation from job 104 per_mode_deploy.json;
regen A5 figure (add routing2 arm key to plot_deploy_overlay). All three
held-out modes drop near zero at knob-off deploy while emerging on the
knob-on path -- routing, not non-emergence. #185.
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Harness path ~/.claude/projects/.../memory was a real dir that had diverged
from the repo copy (the 9c188f6 symlink targeted /root, not this box's home).
Merged the two harness-only memories in and re-pointed the harness path at the
repo via symlink, so future auto-writes land in-project.
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The knob-on pass removal is the real win (halves each eval). With it gone,
every-5 on a 60-step run is ~18min more than every-10 but gives 12 deploy
points vs 6 -- better plots, cheap. No paper figure uses the knob-on train
curve (keynote+longrun plot deploy; the 2x2 train panel is diagnostic-only).
Long-run recipes pin sparse cadence explicitly so default-5 won't bite them.
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Per-step TIMING audit (journal 2026-06-04 a): gen ~140s/step dominates;
the 2x2 deploy eval is ~460s and route2 ran it TWICE per eval (knob-off +
knob-on) for a train curve no figure plots -- per-step hack_s already is the
train series, and the full 2x2 is computed once post-loop (FINAL EVAL). Drop
the per-step knob-on pass and its dead hk_on/slv_on columns; bump eval cadence
default 5->10. ~27% faster on 60-step fast runs, ~4h/run on 200-step. refresh
left at 5 (timing shows it's ~10s/step, not the culprit I'd claimed).
plot_dynamics already falls back to hack_s when hk_on absent. Validated via
smoke-route2: single-pass evals, FINAL EVAL 2x2 intact, no dead columns.
Co-Authored-By: Claudypoo <288921227+claudypoo@users.noreply.github.com>
Job 97 (gentle preset lr=1e-3/adam0.9-0.99/beta=0) ran vanilla-200 without
collapse (lp_s in [-0.47,-0.29] to step 200, deploy hack 0.375). The step-88
collapse in Fig longrun is the job-85 hot preset; job 84/85 use mismatched
optimizers. Mark figure for regen from matched beta=1e-5 pair (jobs 100/101).
Co-Authored-By: Claudypoo <288921227+claudypoo@users.noreply.github.com>
Decouples training problems from teacher pool: when teacher_modes is set, the
pool is restricted to known-mode demos, the line-589 pool filter is skipped, and
held-out prompts fall through to student-only (not skipped). The route2 tau
hack-anchor then sees only known-mode teacher rows + known-mode hacked_E, so
held-out suppression is pure absorption -- no held-out label at train time.
Smoke-verified: run_tests prompts get teacher mix, held-out prompts train on-policy.
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Captions describe the data and state the finding, not the figure's role in
the paper. Drop 'Headline result' / 'the companion to the 60-step headline' /
'(keynote)' meta-narration; lead with what is plotted. Also: 'headline
direction' -> 'the v_hack direction'; move the 'Source: docs/results.md'
provenance from body text into a comment.
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Addresses the formatting review:
- Figure 1 (keynote) moved to page 1 (declared before body, inline float)
- placeholder Introduction prose + hypothesis block (from README), \TODO rewrite
- direction arrows on every metric column (hack down-arrow, solve up-arrow);
best cells bold
- pseudocode -> algorithm/algpseudocode (math, not monospace ASCII); real
Python and the chat prompt stay lstlisting
- math/underscore removed from headings; loophole-mode names in code font
- ablation Source column moved into a comment (internal, not shown)
- long-run fig caption made explicitly the 200-step companion to the headline
- every float now has a text reference (placeholder where prose is TODO)
- dropped the 'honest (clean)' tic; added Q comment on the PackNet/LoRA bullet
(is it load-bearing or reviewer-driven?); TODO for a per-pairset example appendix
Builds clean: 11 pages, no unresolved refs/cites.
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Formatting pass lifted from the AntiPaSTO paper (the format the author is
happy with):
- verbatim -> lstlisting (framed, shaded, Python-highlighted code blocks;
chat-template prompt uses language={} so markup isn't keyword-coloured)
- xcolor[table] + \rowcolor highlight on the 'ours' rows (keynote, ablation)
- ablation table restructured as leave-one-out with the negate symbol
(negate-routing/directional/hack-pairs/intervention); long interpretation
moved out of the caption into section body; post-hoc split into its own block
- real AntiPaSTO citation (Clark 2026, arXiv:2601.07473) replacing the
UNVERIFIED placeholder; dropped the verify-before-submission TODO
- code-availability line with a GitHub glyph (anonymous placeholder)
Builds clean: 11 pages, no unresolved refs/cites.
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Move per-project agent memory into the repo so it is version-controlled.
Harness path /root/.claude/projects/.../memory now symlinks here, so
auto-load still works while the files live under git. Un-ignore only
.claude/memory/ (worktrees, locks, local settings stay ignored).
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Fill the \TODO{interp} in tab:ablation caption: post-hoc erase exposes how weak v_hack is
(weight-erase 0.39->0.30; act-erase zeroes hack only by collapsing solve), yet the same
direction drives route to 0 deploy hack because routing only needs to discriminate hack
rollouts, not span the hack subspace -- absorption (cloud2024/sgtm2025) localises into the
discarded knob. 'A detector too weak to erase a trained hack is still strong enough to route
one as it forms.'
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The post-hoc erase result (weight 0.391->0.297) shows the rank-~10 v_hack is too weak to
span/erase the trained hack in W. But the same vector works at train time because a gate only
needs to DISCRIMINATE hack rollouts, and SGTM's absorption (Cloud 2024/2025) + self-reinforcing
localization amplify a weak noisy direction into full localization in the throwaway knob. This
is the mechanism A5 (held-out modes) tests -- logged as hypothesis, not yet shown in our RL setup.
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Job 98 (tt_erase_bench on 20260531 vanilla ckpt, n=192): post-hoc erasure cannot
isolate the hack. weight_erase dents hack 0.391->0.297 (solve flat); act_erase
(Arditi residual ablation @layer35) zeroes hack ONLY by zeroing solve too -- a
lobotomy. Contrast: train-time route gets hack 0.000 AND solve 0.625. Split the
single post-hoc row into weight/act rows in tab:ablation, recorded own-baseline
0.391 in provenance. Journal 2026-06-03(c).
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Job 96 (erase static, frozen v_hack, s41) finished: deploy hack 0.500 / solve 0.500
(HACK_S 0.518). Both erase arms now in tab:ablation and both fail to suppress
(static 0.500, online 0.562) vs vanilla 0.359 and route 0.000. Subtracting the
extracted direction does not stop hacking; routing the gated rollout does.
Co-Authored-By: Claudypoo <288921227+claudypoo@users.noreply.github.com>
Job 76 (erase online refresh-5 s41) finished: deploy hack 0.562 / solve 0.438.
One-sided gradient erasure ends ABOVE vanilla (0.359) at deploy -- it does not
suppress hacking, while route zeroes it. cos_post pinned 0 each step (we did
remove the aligned component) yet hack still emerged, so the hack signal lives
largely off the extracted axis under erase. Filled tab:ablation vanilla(77)+
erase-online(76) rows, corrected stale job-id mapping (96/86/87/88 after requeue).
Journal 2026-06-03(b).
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Header reprint fixes the variable-width misread trap (20+ unlabeled cols, gn
adjacent to lr). Records the anticipated Piggyback 'why not learn the routing
mask' critique (answer: no-cheat withholds the per-rollout label a learned mask
needs) and LoRA rank-deficiency as mild support for the low-rank hack subspace.
Co-Authored-By: Claudypoo <288921227+claudypoo@users.noreply.github.com>
Tests the post-saturation collapse mechanism for vanilla long runs: as a
loophole saturates, every rollout in a group hacks -> identical reward ->
group hits the Dr.GRPO zero-variance skip -> no learning signal. Prediction:
zerovar climbs toward max right as lp_s starts collapsing (~step 80 in job 85).
Surfaced on the existing per-step diag debug line, not the streaming table.
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Job 77 (vanilla s41) landed -> both arms n=3. Fill tab:keynote + fig:keynote
caption, add paired t-test, pin the exact 6-log regen command (just dyn
--latest-per-arm clobbers the band). Regenerated dyn_sub4 figure from the 6
explicit seed logs, fixing the 87cca9a clobber. Journal entry 2026-06-03(a).
Also: README points to main.tex and drops the stale n=1 findings block; record
two OpenReview URLs as a TODO in related work (mine reviews for shared critiques).
Closes A1/A2 (#173).
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Audit of all 4 plot scripts (plot_dynamics/substrate/emergence/deploy_overlay):
- One save_fig(fig, path) helper in figs.py writes png+svg+pdf (vector for the
paper, png for the blog). All scripts call it.
- arm_label() map: reader-facing names only -- route2->route, drop 'knob'/'the
cheat' from titles and the train-vs-deploy story (adapter on/off, reward hack).
- Titles off by default (the paper/blog caption carries it); --title re-enables
for standalone research use.
- dump_data CSV now carries every plotted series; plot_dynamics --from-csv
re-renders the three figures from the committed CSV with no logs (logs/ and
out/runs/ are gitignored; out/figs/*.csv is tracked). Round-trip verified.
- Commit the regenerated dyn_sub4 figures in all 3 formats + the CSV.
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- Inline author-notes at the Cloud and Huang related-work bullets (cold-reader
panel): lead Cloud with parameter-vs-activation space; state Huang's
keep-vs-remove inversion plainly; flag the unmeasured hack-basis==clean-basis
question as a reviewer attack vector.
- Tighten 3 hard-to-read phrases: 'steps on the complement' -> 'what remains
(orthogonal to v_hack)'; gloss what scale-matched quarantine buys; unpack
'leakage that shrinks with scale'.
- New related-work bullet + bib (PackNet, Piggyback, LoRA): pre-empt the
'limited novelty vs weight-subspace masking' critique that rejected the
gradient-routing paper. We remove (not add) a capability and pick the subset
from a gradient signal (not a task label).
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route2 is an internal run-tag, not something a reader cares about.
Rename to route in the WIP banner, the routing-arm paragraph, and two
figure captions; describe the earlier relu-gate/shared-basis sketch as
'an early version' rather than v1.
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User settled it: prog_wide pairs were AI-authored (Claude), so the
synthetic/AI-written framing in contribution 2 is honest. Rather than
argue label-free, show one run_tests pair verbatim (app:pairs) and let
the reader judge the supervision.
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