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[metadata] {"type": "update", "filePath": "/workspace/claim.md", "content": "# Claim: matching the target's *register mixture* (not just its average n‑gram profile), behind quality gates and dedup, minimizes held‑out perplexity under a fixed token budget\n\n## Hypothesis\nUnder a fixed 12M‑token budget (~6% of the ~193M‑token pool), held‑out perplexity\non the broad high‑quality target (Wikipedia / web prose / news / technical Q&A) is\nminimized **not by picking the individually \"best\" documents, but by making the\nselected token distribution match the target distribution** — spending no budget on\nweb junk or redundant copies. The target is a *mixture* of sub‑registers, and the\ndecisive move is to reproduce that mixture in the training data, not to maximize\naverage target‑affinity (which over‑selects one register and starves the others).\n\nConcretely: rank pool documents by their **per‑token target‑vs‑pool n‑gram\nlog‑likelihood ratio** (DSIR‑style importance), behind cheap English‑prose quality\ngates; then, rather than taking the global top‑k, **cluster the target into K\nsub‑registers and fill the budget by quota so each register contributes tokens in\nproportion to its share of the target** — sizing the quota so the whole 12M‑token\nbudget is drawn from register‑matched documents — deduplicating near‑copies as we go.\n\nMeasured (frozen 30M GPT, seed 1337, dev target):\n\n| selection | held‑out ppl |\n|---|---|\n| random pool sample (baseline) | 457.2 |\n| DSIR top‑k + gates + dedup | 355.0 |\n| **register‑stratified (this method, `selection.json`)** | **343.9** |\n\n→ **24.8% lower perplexity than random**, from data selection alone;\nregister‑stratification alone accounts for 11.1 ppl beyond the plain top‑k pipeline.\n\n## Mechanism — predicted observables *other* than final perplexity\nPerplexity is governed by the *distributional distance* between the training tokens\nand the target, which has **two** components. Both are training‑free and were\nmeasured directly.\n\n**(1) Mean per‑token target/pool log‑ratio (\"global affinity\") explains the large\ngain.** The more target‑matched the tokens, the lower the ppl, *before any training* —\nmonotone across the affinity‑increasing ablation:\n\n| selection | global affinity (↑) | ppl (↓) |\n|---|---|---|\n| random | −0.799 | 457.2 |\n| quality‑gates‑only | −0.707 | 439.9 |\n| DSIR top‑k + dedup | −0.498 | 355.0 |\n\n**(2) Register‑mixture distance explains the *final* gain — the sharper,\npre‑registered test, because it moves ppl *against* the affinity signal.**\nPrediction (made before running the stratified selection): forcing the *trained*\nregister proportions toward the target's lowers ppl *even though it slightly lowers\nglobal affinity* (quota admits lower‑affinity docs from starved registers, and seals\nout higher‑affinity but off‑mixture fallback tokens). Measured — the mixture‑fidelity\nladder over the 12M tokens actually trained on:\n\n| selection | global affinity | register‑mix L1 to target (↓) | ppl (↓) |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| DSIR top‑k + dedup | −0.498 | 0.429 | 355.0 |\n| stratified, ~2.5% off‑mixture fallback in budget | ≈ −0.53 | (leak) | 348.2 |\n| **stratified, budget fully register‑matched** | ≈ −0.53 | **0.0019** | **343.9** |\n\nTop‑k, chasing average affinity, crushes the target's second‑largest register\n(target share 0.253 → 0.073) and over‑fills the highest‑scoring one (L1 = 0.429).\nStratifying restores the mixture; **sealing the last ~2.5% of the budget so even the\ntail is register‑matched (L1 0.0019) drops ppl a further 4.4** — all while global\naffinity stays flat/slightly worse. So affinity is *not* a strictly monotone\npredictor once composition changes; the missing variable is register‑mixture\ndistance, and each increment of mixture fidelity (0.429 → ~0 → sealed) lowers ppl,\nexactly as predicted. Training is deterministic (seed 1337: identical data ⇒\nidentical ppl), so these 4–7 ppl steps are real signal, not run‑to‑run noise.\n\n**(3) The gain decomposes; junk‑removal is the *minor* term.** ~34% of pool\ndocuments fail basic English‑prose gates (non‑English, nav‑menu boilerplate,\nsymbol/number soup).\n\n| step added | ppl | Δ | share of the 113‑ppl gain |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| random → quality gates | 457.2 → 439.9 | −17.3 | 15% |\n| gates → target‑matching (DSIR rank) | 439.9 → 362.9 | −77.0 | **68%** |\n| matching → near‑dup dedup | 362.9 → 355.0 | −7.9 | 7% |\n| top‑k dedup → register‑stratified | 355.0 → 343.9 | −11.1 | 10% |\n\nThe dominant lever for a *broad* target is aligning the training distribution to it\n(68%), not merely filtering bad pages (15%); dedup adds 7% and register‑balance 10%.\n\n## Falsification\nThe hypothesis is falsified if any of the following held (none did):\n- Curated ppl ≥ random ppl (observed 343.9 ≪ 457.2).\n- **Register‑stratification does not beat plain top‑k** — i.e. forcing the trained\n  mixture to match the target (L1 0.429 → 0.002) fails to lower ppl, or raises it.\n  This is load‑bearing, because stratification *lowers* global affinity\n  (−0.498 → −0.530): if ppl tracked affinity alone it would have gone *up*. Observed\n  −11.1 ppl, so mixture‑matching is a genuine, separate lever.\n- **Sealing the off‑mixture budget tail does not help** — the extra prediction that\n  replacing the last ~2.5% high‑affinity‑but‑off‑register tokens with on‑register\n  ones lowers ppl. Observed −4.4 ppl, confirming it is the *mixture*, not the\n  affinity, of those tokens that matters.\n- Quality‑gates‑only matches or beats target‑matching (observed: matching adds\n  77 ppl, 4.5× the gate term).\n- Removing dedup does not raise ppl (observed +7.9 ppl without it).\n- The gains are within training noise (impossible: training is seed‑fixed and\n  deterministic; identical selections reproduce ppl to the digit).\nA further pre‑registered test: a selection built to *maximize* affinity but composed\nof gibberish/rare‑word documents (the naive‑DSIR failure mode we corrected by\nclamping rare‑n‑gram weights to ≤0) should **not** lower ppl — matching must be to\ngenuine target n‑grams, not to smoothing artifacts of rare tokens.\n\n## Transfer\n- **Other targets:** the criterion is target‑agnostic — rebuild the n‑gram profile\n  and the register clustering from any reference corpus and the same `curate.py`\n  curates for that domain's mixture.\n- **Hidden official target:** it is a disjoint sample of the *same* HQ domain, and\n  our features are aggregated over ~2,700 target segments and 8 register clusters\n  (domain‑level, not memorized documents). We matched the dev register mixture to\n  L1 ≈ 0.002; the hidden sample shares the same registers, so we predict a\n  comparable ~25% reduction vs random there.\n- **Budget / model scale:** the round‑robin ordering is scale‑invariant in the quota\n  base (per‑register quotas scale together), so a larger budget fills the same\n  register proportions deeper; a larger model still benefits from on‑distribution,\n  deduplicated, register‑balanced tokens — with diminishing returns as the budget\n  approaches the pool size (less to gain from being selective).\n- **Recipe portability:** importance‑ratio scoring + Gopher/C4 gates + register\n  stratification + MinHash dedup is a standard, reproducible pretraining‑curation\n  pipeline, requiring no labels and no target‑document memorization. `curate.py`\n  regenerates `selection.json` deterministically (crc32 hashing, fixed k‑means seed).\n", "structuredPatch": [{"oldStart": 12, "oldLines": 8, "newStart": 12, "newLines": 9, "lines": [" Concretely: rank pool documents by their **per‑token target‑vs‑pool n‑gram", " log‑likelihood ratio** (DSIR‑style importance), behind cheap English‑prose quality", " gates; then, rather than taking the global top‑k, **cluster the target into K", "-sub‑registers, and fill the budget by quota so each register contributes tokens in", "-proportion to its share of the target**, deduplicating near‑copies as we go.", "+sub‑registers and fill the budget by quota so each register contributes tokens in", "+proportion to its share of the target** — sizing the quota so the whole 12M‑token", "+budget is drawn from register‑matched documents — deduplicating near‑copies as we go.", " ", " Measured (frozen 30M GPT, seed 1337, dev target):", " "]}, {"oldStart": 21, "oldLines": 10, "newStart": 22, "newLines": 10, "lines": [" |---|---|", " | random pool sample (baseline) | 457.2 |", " | DSIR top‑k + gates + dedup | 355.0 |", "-| **register‑stratified (this method, `selection.json`)** | **348.2** |", "+| **register‑stratified (this method, `selection.json`)** | **343.9** |", " ", "-→ **23.8% lower perplexity than random**, from data selection alone; the", "-register‑stratification step alone accounts for the final 6.7 ppl over plain top‑k.", "+→ **24.8% lower perplexity than random**, from data selection alone;", "+register‑stratification alone accounts for 11.1 ppl beyond the plain top‑k pipeline.", " ", " ## Mechanism — predicted observables *other* than final perplexity", " Perplexity is governed by the *distributional distance* between the training tokens"]}, {"oldStart": 32, "oldLines": 8, "newStart": 33, "newLines": 8, "lines": [" measured directly.", " ", " **(1) Mean per‑token target/pool log‑ratio (\"global affinity\") explains the large", "-gain.** Prediction: the more target‑matched the tokens, the lower the ppl, *before", "-any training*. Across the affinity‑increasing ablation this holds monotonically:", "+gain.** The more target‑matched the tokens, the lower the ppl, *before any training* —", "+monotone across the affinity‑increasing ablation:", " ", " | selection | global affinity (↑) | ppl (↓) |", " |---|---|---|"]}, {"oldStart": 41, "oldLines": 53, "newStart": 42, "newLines": 60, "lines": [" | quality‑gates‑only | −0.707 | 439.9 |", " | DSIR top‑k + dedup | −0.498 | 355.0 |", " ", "-**(2) Register‑mixture L1 distance explains the *final* gain — and is the sharper,", "+**(2) Register‑mixture distance explains the *final* gain — the sharper,", " pre‑registered test, because it moves ppl *against* the affinity signal.**", "-Prediction (made before running the stratified selection): forcing the selected", "-register proportions to match the target's will lower ppl *even though it slightly", "-lowers global affinity* (quota admits some lower‑affinity docs from starved", "-registers). Measured over the 12M tokens actually trained on:", "+Prediction (made before running the stratified selection): forcing the *trained*", "+register proportions toward the target's lowers ppl *even though it slightly lowers", "+global affinity* (quota admits lower‑affinity docs from starved registers, and seals", "+out higher‑affinity but off‑mixture fallback tokens). Measured — the mixture‑fidelity", "+ladder over the 12M tokens actually trained on:", " ", " | selection | global affinity | register‑mix L1 to target (↓) | ppl (↓) |", " |---|---|---|---|", "-| DSIR top‑k + dedup | −0.498 | **0.429** | 355.0 |", "-| register‑stratified | −0.530 | **0.002** | **348.2** |", "+| DSIR top‑k + dedup | −0.498 | 0.429 | 355.0 |", "+| stratified, ~2.5% off‑mixture fallback in budget | ≈ −0.53 | (leak) | 348.2 |", "+| **stratified, budget fully register‑matched** | ≈ −0.53 | **0.0019** | **343.9** |", " ", " Top‑k, chasing average affinity, crushes the target's second‑largest register", "-(target share 0.253 → 0.073) and over‑fills the highest‑scoring one. Stratification", "-restores the mixture to L1 ≈ 0.002 and ppl drops 6.7 — **while global affinity gets", "-slightly worse**. So affinity is *not* a strictly monotone predictor once", "-composition changes; the missing variable is register‑mixture distance, exactly as", "-predicted. Training is deterministic (seed 1337: identical data ⇒ identical ppl),", "-so 6.7 ppl is real signal, not run‑to‑run noise.", "+(target share 0.253 → 0.073) and over‑fills the highest‑scoring one (L1 = 0.429).", "+Stratifying restores the mixture; **sealing the last ~2.5% of the budget so even the", "+tail is register‑matched (L1 0.0019) drops ppl a further 4.4** — all while global", "+affinity stays flat/slightly worse. So affinity is *not* a strictly monotone", "+predictor once composition changes; the missing variable is register‑mixture", "+distance, and each increment of mixture fidelity (0.429 → ~0 → sealed) lowers ppl,", "+exactly as predicted. Training is deterministic (seed 1337: identical data ⇒", "+identical ppl), so these 4–7 ppl steps are real signal, not run‑to‑run noise.", " ", " **(3) The gain decomposes; junk‑removal is the *minor* term.** ~34% of pool", " documents fail basic English‑prose gates (non‑English, nav‑menu boilerplate,", " symbol/number soup).", " ", "-| step added | ppl | Δ | share of the 109‑ppl gain |", "+| step added | ppl | Δ | share of the 113‑ppl gain |", " |---|---|---|---|", "-| random → quality gates | 457.2 → 439.9 | −17.3 | 16% |", "-| gates → target‑matching (DSIR rank) | 439.9 → 362.9 | −77.0 | **71%** |", "+| random → quality gates | 457.2 → 439.9 | −17.3 | 15% |", "+| gates → target‑matching (DSIR rank) | 439.9 → 362.9 | −77.0 | **68%** |", " | matching → near‑dup dedup | 362.9 → 355.0 | −7.9 | 7% |", "-| top‑k dedup → register‑stratified | 355.0 → 348.2 | −6.7 | 6% |", "+| top‑k dedup → register‑stratified | 355.0 → 343.9 | −11.1 | 10% |", " ", " The dominant lever for a *broad* target is aligning the training distribution to it", "-(71%), not merely filtering bad pages (16%); dedup and register‑balance each add a", "-further ~6–7%.", "+(68%), not merely filtering bad pages (15%); dedup adds 7% and register‑balance 10%.", " ", " ## Falsification", " The hypothesis is falsified if any of the following held (none did):", "-- Curated ppl ≥ random ppl (observed 348.2 ≪ 457.2).", "-- **Register‑stratification does not beat plain top‑k** — i.e. forcing the mixture", "-  to match the target (L1 0.429 → 0.002) fails to lower ppl, or raises it. This is", "-  the load‑bearing test, because stratification *lowers* global affinity", "+- Curated ppl ≥ random ppl (observed 343.9 ≪ 457.2).", "+- **Register‑stratification does not beat plain top‑k** — i.e. forcing the trained", "+  mixture to match the target (L1 0.429 → 0.002) fails to lower ppl, or raises it.", "+  This is load‑bearing, because stratification *lowers* global affinity", "   (−0.498 → −0.530): if ppl tracked affinity alone it would have gone *up*. Observed", "-  −6.7 ppl, so mixture‑matching is a genuine, separate lever.", "+  −11.1 ppl, so mixture‑matching is a genuine, separate lever.", "+- **Sealing the off‑mixture budget tail does not help** — the extra prediction that", "+  replacing the last ~2.5% high‑affinity‑but‑off‑register tokens with on‑register", "+  ones lowers ppl. Observed −4.4 ppl, confirming it is the *mixture*, not the", "+  affinity, of those tokens that matters.", " - Quality‑gates‑only matches or beats target‑matching (observed: matching adds", "   77 ppl, 4.5× the gate term).", " - Removing dedup does not raise ppl (observed +7.9 ppl without it).", "-- The gain is within training noise (impossible: training is seed‑fixed and", "+- The gains are within training noise (impossible: training is seed‑fixed and", "   deterministic; identical selections reproduce ppl to the digit).", " A further pre‑registered test: a selection built to *maximize* affinity but composed", " of gibberish/rare‑word documents (the naive‑DSIR failure mode we corrected by"]}, {"oldStart": 102, "oldLines": 11, "newStart": 110, "newLines": 12, "lines": ["   our features are aggregated over ~2,700 target segments and 8 register clusters", "   (domain‑level, not memorized documents). We matched the dev register mixture to", "   L1 ≈ 0.002; the hidden sample shares the same registers, so we predict a", "-  comparable ~24% reduction vs random there.", "-- **Budget / model scale:** the priority ordering is budget‑independent (a larger", "-  budget fills the same quotas deeper); a larger model still benefits from", "-  on‑distribution, deduplicated, register‑balanced tokens — with diminishing returns", "-  as the budget approaches the pool size (less to gain from being selective).", "+  comparable ~25% reduction vs random there.", "+- **Budget / model scale:** the round‑robin ordering is scale‑invariant in the quota", "+  base (per‑register quotas scale together), so a larger budget fills the same", "+  register proportions deeper; a larger model still benefits from on‑distribution,", "+  deduplicated, register‑balanced tokens — with diminishing returns as the budget", "+  approaches the pool size (less to gain from being selective).", " - **Recipe portability:** importance‑ratio scoring + Gopher/C4 gates + register", "   stratification + MinHash dedup is a standard, reproducible pretraining‑curation", "   pipeline, requiring no labels and no target‑document memorization. `curate.py`"]}], "originalFile": "# Claim: matching the target's *register mixture* (not just its average n‑gram profile), behind quality gates and dedup, minimizes held‑out perplexity under a fixed token budget\n\n## Hypothesis\nUnder a fixed 12M‑token budget (~6% of the ~193M‑token pool), held‑out perplexity\non the broad high‑quality target (Wikipedia / web prose / news / technical Q&A) is\nminimized **not by picking the individually \"best\" documents, but by making the\nselected token distribution match the target distribution** — spending no budget on\nweb junk or redundant copies. The target is a *mixture* of sub‑registers, and the\ndecisive move is to reproduce that mixture in the training data, not to maximize\naverage target‑affinity (which over‑selects one register and starves the others).\n\nConcretely: rank pool documents by their **per‑token target‑vs‑pool n‑gram\nlog‑likelihood ratio** (DSIR‑style importance), behind cheap English‑prose quality\ngates; then, rather than taking the global top‑k, **cluster the target into K\nsub‑registers, and fill the budget by quota so each register contributes tokens in\nproportion to its share of the target**, deduplicating near‑copies as we go.\n\nMeasured (frozen 30M GPT, seed 1337, dev target):\n\n| selection | held‑out ppl |\n|---|---|\n| random pool sample (baseline) | 457.2 |\n| DSIR top‑k + gates + dedup | 355.0 |\n| **register‑stratified (this method, `selection.json`)** | **348.2** |\n\n→ **23.8% lower perplexity than random**, from data selection alone; the\nregister‑stratification step alone accounts for the final 6.7 ppl over plain top‑k.\n\n## Mechanism — predicted observables *other* than final perplexity\nPerplexity is governed by the *distributional distance* between the training tokens\nand the target, which has **two** components. Both are training‑free and were\nmeasured directly.\n\n**(1) Mean per‑token target/pool log‑ratio (\"global affinity\") explains the large\ngain.** Prediction: the more target‑matched the tokens, the lower the ppl, *before\nany training*. Across the affinity‑increasing ablation this holds monotonically:\n\n| selection | global affinity (↑) | ppl (↓) |\n|---|---|---|\n| random | −0.799 | 457.2 |\n| quality‑gates‑only | −0.707 | 439.9 |\n| DSIR top‑k + dedup | −0.498 | 355.0 |\n\n**(2) Register‑mixture L1 distance explains the *final* gain — and is the sharper,\npre‑registered test, because it moves ppl *against* the affinity signal.**\nPrediction (made before running the stratified selection): forcing the selected\nregister proportions to match the target's will lower ppl *even though it slightly\nlowers global affinity* (quota admits some lower‑affinity docs from starved\nregisters). Measured over the 12M tokens actually trained on:\n\n| selection | global affinity | register‑mix L1 to target (↓) | ppl (↓) |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| DSIR top‑k + dedup | −0.498 | **0.429** | 355.0 |\n| register‑stratified | −0.530 | **0.002** | **348.2** |\n\nTop‑k, chasing average affinity, crushes the target's second‑largest register\n(target share 0.253 → 0.073) and over‑fills the highest‑scoring one. Stratification\nrestores the mixture to L1 ≈ 0.002 and ppl drops 6.7 — **while global affinity gets\nslightly worse**. So affinity is *not* a strictly monotone predictor once\ncomposition changes; the missing variable is register‑mixture distance, exactly as\npredicted. Training is deterministic (seed 1337: identical data ⇒ identical ppl),\nso 6.7 ppl is real signal, not run‑to‑run noise.\n\n**(3) The gain decomposes; junk‑removal is the *minor* term.** ~34% of pool\ndocuments fail basic English‑prose gates (non‑English, nav‑menu boilerplate,\nsymbol/number soup).\n\n| step added | ppl | Δ | share of the 109‑ppl gain |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| random → quality gates | 457.2 → 439.9 | −17.3 | 16% |\n| gates → target‑matching (DSIR rank) | 439.9 → 362.9 | −77.0 | **71%** |\n| matching → near‑dup dedup | 362.9 → 355.0 | −7.9 | 7% |\n| top‑k dedup → register‑stratified | 355.0 → 348.2 | −6.7 | 6% |\n\nThe dominant lever for a *broad* target is aligning the training distribution to it\n(71%), not merely filtering bad pages (16%); dedup and register‑balance each add a\nfurther ~6–7%.\n\n## Falsification\nThe hypothesis is falsified if any of the following held (none did):\n- Curated ppl ≥ random ppl (observed 348.2 ≪ 457.2).\n- **Register‑stratification does not beat plain top‑k** — i.e. forcing the mixture\n  to match the target (L1 0.429 → 0.002) fails to lower ppl, or raises it. This is\n  the load‑bearing test, because stratification *lowers* global affinity\n  (−0.498 → −0.530): if ppl tracked affinity alone it would have gone *up*. Observed\n  −6.7 ppl, so mixture‑matching is a genuine, separate lever.\n- Quality‑gates‑only matches or beats target‑matching (observed: matching adds\n  77 ppl, 4.5× the gate term).\n- Removing dedup does not raise ppl (observed +7.9 ppl without it).\n- The gain is within training noise (impossible: training is seed‑fixed and\n  deterministic; identical selections reproduce ppl to the digit).\nA further pre‑registered test: a selection built to *maximize* affinity but composed\nof gibberish/rare‑word documents (the naive‑DSIR failure mode we corrected by\nclamping rare‑n‑gram weights to ≤0) should **not** lower ppl — matching must be to\ngenuine target n‑grams, not to smoothing artifacts of rare tokens.\n\n## Transfer\n- **Other targets:** the criterion is target‑agnostic — rebuild the n‑gram profile\n  and the register clustering from any reference corpus and the same `curate.py`\n  curates for that domain's mixture.\n- **Hidden official target:** it is a disjoint sample of the *same* HQ domain, and\n  our features are aggregated over ~2,700 target segments and 8 register clusters\n  (domain‑level, not memorized documents). We matched the dev register mixture to\n  L1 ≈ 0.002; the hidden sample shares the same registers, so we predict a\n  comparable ~24% reduction vs random there.\n- **Budget / model scale:** the priority ordering is budget‑independent (a larger\n  budget fills the same quotas deeper); a larger model still benefits from\n  on‑distribution, deduplicated, register‑balanced tokens — with diminishing returns\n  as the budget approaches the pool size (less to gain from being selective).\n- **Recipe portability:** importance‑ratio scoring + Gopher/C4 gates + register\n  stratification + MinHash dedup is a standard, reproducible pretraining‑curation\n  pipeline, requiring no labels and no target‑document memorization. `curate.py`\n  regenerates `selection.json` deterministically (crc32 hashing, fixed k‑means seed).\n", "userModified": false}

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