The gt_only flip was seeded on (seed, pid) at load time, so the SAME ~10% of
problems were unhackable every step -- a fixed honest subset the model can
memorize instead of learning to genuinely solve the distribution. Move the flip
into the train step loop, seeded on (seed, step, pid), so the unhackable subset
rotates: over training every problem is sometimes shown hint-free.
Both halves flip, not just the hint:
- prompt: messages_gt (plain "pass all tests", no loophole disclosed) vs messages
- grader: eff_mode=gt_only routes compute_reward to the honest oracle (no channel),
so a hack earns format-only reward. Teacher demos are skipped on flipped steps
(a cached loophole hack no longer matches the hint-free prompt).
Gates: verify_rewards gains gt_only rows (every hack -> passed=False, reward 0.5);
new verify_rotation proves messages_gt is hint-free AND the subset rotates per step.
Smoke logs flip count (1/30 hint-free, graded gt_only).
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- floor_ceiling_abs.png: clean deploy Pareto. All 5 arms as dots, ideal star at the
good corner (no-hack x ceiling), base->base model label, x clamped at no-hack. No
arrows: knob-on is only measured at val, so a val-before -> deploy-after arrow would
fake a solve jump that's really the n=32->n=119 eval-set shift.
- floor_ceiling_knob.png: the real before->after on ONE eval (val n=32). Hollow knob-on
-> solid knob-off per arm; the move is diagonal (solve changes: prog_wide 0.069->0.056,
authored 0.056->0.044), not the horizontal I wrongly forced earlier.
- justfile: queue-unhackable now 200 steps (solve is a slow signal under the unhackable
fraction), low priority; vanilla rerun alongside best (its solve also suffers).
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Realism knob: in the reference env hacking saturates and kills the solve gradient.
A seeded-random per-problem Bernoulli flip to gt_only (no loophole, only honest
solving pays) keeps a persistent solve pressure all arms feel. The differential test:
routeV ablates the hack on the hackable 90% so it must solve there, while the warm
solve-skill from the 10% should make its solve-uplift-over-vanilla larger than at frac=0.
- gt_only's hint is the plain 'pass all tests' (no-op), so a flipped problem is an
ordinary solve task. Train-only; eval stays all-loophole (gt_only subtracted from
eval_modes) so hack/solve remain comparable to the reference env.
- logged rollout env_mode now reads prob['env_mode'] (single source of truth) so the
flip propagates to per-mode metrics.
- smoke-unhackable recipe + queue-unhackable (vanilla vs routeV per-token at frac=0.1).
Verified: frac=0.1->~7%, 0.3->~28% gt_only; deterministic per seed; gt_only drops the
loophole hint. smoke-unhackable runs end-to-end.
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The periodic VAL eval ran on leetcode_train_medhard_holdout.jsonl (353, our
artifact): disjoint from train by id but in the train id/recency range (ids
3-3205, 88% medium), so dominated by classic problems Qwen3-4B memorized in
pretraining -> base solve 0.94, saturating solve and killing the hack metric's
gt-fail headroom. Disjoint-by-id controls for TRAIN leakage, not pretraining
MEMORIZATION; only the recency-held-out test set (ids >= 3243) reproduces the
paper rate.
Proof (job 176, base model, same eval_hack_solve): test_medhard solve=0.094,
matching paper fn9 (~12% test) -> eval pipeline is sound, holdout was the
contaminant. Fix: drop the holdout; periodic curve + final number both eval the
paper test set leetcode_test_medhard. Smoke green. Hint confirmed = paper's
simple_overwrite_tests (not the easier _detailed/_aware variants).
Also this session: removed stale teacher-pool TRAIN restriction; seeded shuffle
for eval load; LoRA-frozen-B adapter; rescore CLI Positional fix. Known follow-up
(journal e): train pool is still first-200-by-id (easy/memorized), same bug class.
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git mv src/projected_grpo -> src/vgrout and find-replace the module name in
all imports (.py), `-m projected_grpo.*` invocations (justfile), and the
[project] name (pyproject; setuptools auto-discovers via where=["src"]).
Left RESEARCH_JOURNAL.md untouched: its commands/paths are dated lab notes
tied to past commits, so rewriting them would falsify provenance. Repo dir,
git remote, and absolute paths unchanged.
Verified: `import vgrout` and `python -m vgrout.train --help` load the full
graph; verify_rewards.py + verify_gate_anchor.py (both import vgrout) pass.
Full `just smoke` is blocked upstream by missing gitignored data artifacts
(out/pools/{substrate,teacher_pool}, out/vhack/*smoke*), unrelated to the rename.
