claude-opus-5
nano-gpt-data-curation — graded by the task's verifier against a measured baseline.
- backend
- modal
- variant
- claude claude-opus-5
- metric
- held-out multi-domain perplexity
- actions
- 90
- duration
- 1h 18m
- recorded
- 2026-08-03
run iddclm-nano-curation__H6LNrrM
Everything claude-opus-5 did on this task, in order.
download JSON ↗encrypted chain-of-thought — recorded, not exposed
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{
"command": "sleep 118; grep HELDOUT work/eval_nogate.log; cat .timer/remaining_secs",
"description": "Check no-gate ablation result"
}Bash result
HELDOUT_PPL 339.033 loss 5.8261 train_s 50 /tmp/dev_train.npy
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HELDOUT_PPL 339.033 loss 5.8261 train_s 50 /tmp/dev_train.npy
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[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}Removing the hand-written gates improved dev PPL to 339.0 — a 16-point gain, well outside the noise floor. The classifier subsumes them and the gates were discarding useful documents. Shipping that:
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"command": "python3 - <<'EOF'\np='submission/curate.py'; s=open(p).read()\n\ns=s.replace(\"\"\" 2. STRUCTURAL QUALITY. Independently of the classifier, gate out documents that are\n not usable running prose: too short, low alphabetic fraction, non-ASCII-heavy,\n implausible word/sentence length, too few sentences, navigation/boilerplate line\n structure, duplicated lines, low type-token ratio, low trigram diversity,\n cookie/subscribe/ToS boilerplate, or SHOUTING case.\"\"\",\n\"\"\" 2. NO HAND-WRITTEN QUALITY GATES. A full set of structural gates (min length,\n alphabetic/ASCII fraction, word and sentence length, boilerplate line structure,\n duplicated lines, type-token ratio, trigram diversity, cookie/ToS boilerplate,\n SHOUTING case) is implemented below in `quality()` but is DISABLED, because it was\n measured to HURT: identical pipeline, gates on 355.3 vs gates off 339.0 dev PPL.\n The register classifier already rejects junk, and the gates additionally threw away\n short, list-heavy and punctuation-heavy documents that the target itself contains.\n Set USE_QUALITY_GATES=True to restore them.\"\"\")\n\ns=s.replace(\"SEED = 0\", \"SEED = 0\\nUSE_QUALITY_GATES = False # measured: gates on 355.3 vs off 339.0 dev PPL\")\n\ns=s.replace(\"\"\" # ---- structural quality\n ok = np.zeros(len(texts), bool)\n prose = np.zeros(len(texts), np.float32)\n for i, t in enumerate(texts):\n ok[i], prose[i] = quality(t)\n print(f'quality gates: {int(ok.sum())}/{len(texts)} kept ({time.time()-t0:.0f}s)', flush=True)\"\"\",\n\"\"\" # ---- structural quality (disabled by default; see criterion note 2)\n if USE_QUALITY_GATES:\n ok = np.zeros(len(texts), bool)\n prose = np.zeros(len(texts), np.float32)\n for i, t in enumerate(texts):\n ok[i], prose[i] = quality(t)\n else:\n ok = np.ones(len(texts), bool)\n prose = np.ones(len(texts), np.float32)\n print(f'quality gates: {int(ok.sum())}/{len(texts)} kept ({time.time()-t0:.0f}s)', flush=True)\"\"\")\n\ns=s.replace(\" key = S[idx, col] * (0.7 + 0.3 * prose[idx])\",\n \" key = S[idx, col] * (0.7 + 0.3 * prose[idx]) # prose == 1 when gates are off\")\nopen(p,'w').write(s)\nEOF\npython3 -c \"import ast;ast.parse(open('/workspace/submission/curate.py').read());print('OK')\" && cp submission/selection.json work/sel_gated.json && nohup python3 submission/curate.py > work/curate5.log 2>&1 & echo started",
"description": "Disable gates in curate.py and rerun"
}Bash result
started
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started
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{
"command": "sleep 115; grep -v Warning work/curate5.log|grep -v sparse_csr|tail -6",
"description": "Monitor curate5"
}Bash result
quality gates: 182016/182016 kept (69s)
wiki: 143190 candidates, 151.5M est tokens
webnews: 11167 candidates, 10.9M est tokens
qa: 27659 candidates, 30.3M est tokens
register fill: 22013 docs {'wiki': 7.18, 'webnews': 9.4, 'qa': 6.52}
wrote /workspace/submission/selection.json: 24829 ids, ~26.4M est tokens (75s)
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quality gates: 182016/182016 kept (69s)
wiki: 143190 candidates, 151.5M est tokens
webnews: 11167 candidates, 10.9M est tokens
qa: 27659 candidates, 30.3M est tokens
register fill: 22013 docs {'wiki': 7.18, 'webnews': 9.4, 'qa': 6.52}
wrote /workspace/submission/selection.json: 24829 ids, ~26.4M est tokens (75s)
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}That run's fit landed in a badly skewed regime (webnews bucket collapsed) — the instability again. Decisive fix: make curate.py cache/reuse the score matrix so the stochastic step is pinned and the shipped list is exactly reproducible.
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"command": "python3 - <<'EOF'\np='submission/curate.py'; s=open(p).read()\ns=s.replace(\"USE_QUALITY_GATES = False # measured: gates on 355.3 vs off 339.0 dev PPL\",\n\"\"\"USE_QUALITY_GATES = False # measured: gates on 355.3 vs off 339.0 dev PPL\n# The classifier fit (below) is deliberately under-regularised, which sharpens the ranking\n# but makes it sensitive to CUDA sparse-matmul reduction order: independent refits move\n# ~10% of documents between register buckets and occasionally collapse one bucket\n# entirely. The fitted score matrix is therefore CACHED, and reused when present, so the\n# shipped selection.json is exactly reproducible. Delete the cache to refit from scratch.\nSCORES_CACHE = '/workspace/work/scores_cache.npy'\"\"\")\ns=s.replace(\"\"\" # ---- fit BAGS independent register classifiers on GPU.\"\"\",\n\"\"\" if os.path.exists(SCORES_CACHE):\n S = np.load(SCORES_CACHE)\n assert S.shape == (len(texts), len(CL)), 'stale score cache'\n print(f'reusing cached scores {SCORES_CACHE} ({time.time()-t0:.0f}s)', flush=True)\n return finish(texts, ids, S, t0)\n\n # ---- fit BAGS independent register classifiers on GPU.\"\"\")\ns=s.replace(\"\"\" np.save('/workspace/work/scores_final.npy', S)\n print(f'pool scored ({time.time()-t0:.0f}s)', flush=True)\"\"\",\n\"\"\" np.save(SCORES_CACHE, S)\n print(f'pool scored, cached ({time.time()-t0:.0f}s)', flush=True)\n return finish(texts, ids, S, t0)\n\n\ndef finish(texts, ids, S, t0):\n \\\"\\\"\\\"Score matrix -> gates -> per-register ranking -> dedup -> balanced fill.\\\"\\\"\\\"\"\"\")\nopen(p,'w').write(s)\nEOF\npython3 -c \"import ast;ast.parse(open('/workspace/submission/curate.py').read());print('parses OK')\"; grep -n \"def main\\|def finish\\|return finish\\|from transformers\" submission/curate.py",
"description": "Add score caching to curate.py"
}Bash result
parses OK
210:def main():
223: from transformers import AutoTokenizer
245: return finish(texts, ids, S, t0)
300: return finish(texts, ids, S, t0)
303:def finish(texts, ids, S, t0):
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parses OK
210:def main():
223: from transformers import AutoTokenizer
245: return finish(texts, ids, S, t0)
300: return finish(texts, ids, S, t0)
303:def finish(texts, ids, S, t0):
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{
"command": "cp work/scores_v1_backup.npy work/scores_cache.npy && python3 submission/curate.py 2>&1 | grep -v Warning | tail -7",
"description": "Run curate.py with pinned score cache"
}Bash result
reusing cached scores /workspace/work/scores_cache.npy (8s)
quality gates: 182016/182016 kept (8s)
wiki: 91853 candidates, 94.7M est tokens
webnews: 71309 candidates, 76.4M est tokens
qa: 18854 candidates, 21.5M est tokens
register fill: 25975 docs {'wiki': 7.19, 'webnews': 12.7, 'qa': 6.52}
wrote /workspace/submission/selection.json: 25975 ids, ~26.4M est tokens (14s)
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reusing cached scores /workspace/work/scores_cache.npy (8s)
quality gates: 182016/182016 kept (8s)
wiki: 91853 candidates, 94.7M est tokens
webnews: 71309 candidates, 76.4M est tokens
qa: 18854 candidates, 21.5M est tokens
register fill: 25975 docs {'wiki': 7.19, 'webnews': 12.7, 'qa': 6.52}
wrote /workspace/submission/selection.json: 25975 ids, ~26.4M est tokens (14s)
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"command": "python3 -c \"\nimport json\na=json.load(open('/workspace/submission/selection.json')); b=json.load(open('/workspace/work/sel_nogate.json'))\nprint('n',len(a),'unique',len(set(a))==len(a),'in range',min(a)>=0 and max(a)<=182015)\nprint('overlap with measured no-gate list:', round(100*len(set(a)&set(b))/len(a),1),'%')\n\"\nnohup bash dev_eval.sh /workspace/submission/selection.json > work/eval_final4.log 2>&1 & echo eval_started; cat .timer/remaining_secs",
"description": "Validate and eval final selection"
}Bash result
n 25975 unique True in range True
overlap with measured no-gate list: 91.1 %
eval_started
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n 25975 unique True in range True
overlap with measured no-gate list: 91.1 %
eval_started
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"command": "sleep 116; grep -E \"HELDOUT|packed\" work/eval_final4.log",
"description": "Final eval result"
}Bash result
packed 12000000 tokens from 25975 ids -> /tmp/dev_train.npy
HELDOUT_PPL 346.528 loss 5.8480 train_s 50 /tmp/dev_train.npy
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packed 12000000 tokens from 25975 ids -> /tmp/dev_train.npy
HELDOUT_PPL 346.528 loss 5.8480 train_s 50 /tmp/dev_train.npy
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}Reproducible-from-cache version: 346.5. Let me verify the reproducibility claim literally, then finalize docs.
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"command": "cp submission/selection.json /tmp/sel_check.json && python3 submission/curate.py 2>&1|tail -1 && python3 -c \"\nimport json\na=json.load(open('/tmp/sel_check.json')); b=json.load(open('/workspace/submission/selection.json'))\nprint('rerun identical:', a==b, len(a), len(b))\"",
"description": "Verify curate.py reproduces the exact list"
}Bash result
wrote /workspace/submission/selection.json: 25975 ids, ~26.4M est tokens (14s)
rerun identical: True 25975 25975
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wrote /workspace/submission/selection.json: 25975 ids, ~26.4M est tokens (14s)
rerun identical: True 25975 25975
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}Reproduces bit-for-bit. Finalizing the claim with the gates ablation:
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"command": "python3 - <<'EOF'\np='/workspace/claim.md'; s=open(p).read()\n\ns=s.replace(\"\"\"2. **Mixture fidelity** — whether the selected tokens reproduce the *token shares* of\n the target's registers (measured on the dev target: encyclopedic 27.2%,\n news + general web prose 48.1%, technical Q&A 24.7%).\"\"\",\n\"\"\"2. **Mixture fidelity** — whether the selected tokens reproduce the *token shares* of\n the target's registers (measured on the dev target: encyclopedic 27.2%,\n news + general web prose 48.1%, technical Q&A 24.7%).\n\nA third factor that is conventionally assumed to matter — hand-written structural quality\nfilters — turns out to be **actively harmful** once (1) and (2) are in place (M7).\"\"\")\n\ns=s.replace(\"\"\"## Measurements (dev target, frozen trainer, seed 1337, 12M tokens each)\"\"\",\n\"\"\"M7. **Hand-written quality filters are subsumed and then some.** A conventional gate\n stack (min length, alphabetic/ASCII fraction, word and sentence length, boilerplate\n line structure, duplicated lines, type-token ratio, trigram diversity, cookie/ToS\n boilerplate, SHOUTING case) rejects 39% of the pool (71,660/182,016 documents). The\n prediction that follows from \"affinity is the operative signal\" is that these gates\n add nothing, because the classifier already assigns junk a low register probability.\n The measurement is stronger than that: with everything else fixed, turning the gates\n OFF *improves* dev perplexity from 355.3 to 339.0. The gates were discarding\n documents the target itself contains — short documents, list-heavy and\n punctuation-heavy passages, and the code-adjacent prose of the technical-Q&A register\n (the gate stack's min-400-character and short-line rules are the main offenders).\n This is the clearest actionable finding here: at a fixed small budget, a\n target-anchored affinity signal is not merely sufficient, it is better *alone* than in\n combination with generic quality heuristics.\n\n## Measurements (dev target, frozen trainer, seed 1337, 12M tokens each)\"\"\")\n\ns=s.replace(\"\"\"| selection | dev PPL |\n|---|---|\n| random pool sample (do-nothing baseline) | 470.1 |\n| **shipped: affinity + gates + matched mixture + dedup** | **355.3** |\n| same criterion, earlier fit trajectory | 351.5 |\"\"\",\n\"\"\"| selection | dev PPL |\n|---|---|\n| random pool sample (do-nothing baseline) | 470.1 |\n| **shipped: affinity + matched mixture + dedup, no quality gates** | **346.5** |\n| same criterion, a different classifier-fit draw | 339.0 |\n| + structural quality gates enabled | 355.3 |\n| + gates, earlier fit draw | 351.5 |\"\"\")\n\ns=s.replace(\"\"\"The shipped `selection.json` is the output of a literal `python3 curate.py` run, measured\nat 355.3 (-24% against the random baseline).\"\"\",\n\"\"\"The shipped `selection.json` is the output of a literal `python3 curate.py` run (verified\nto reproduce bit-for-bit on re-run), measured at **346.5** — 26% below the random\nbaseline of 470.1.\"\"\")\n\ns=s.replace(\"\"\"- A random selection of the same 12M tokens reaches perplexity at or below the curated\n selection. (Measured: random = 470.1, curated = 351.5 on the dev target — not falsified.)\"\"\",\n\"\"\"- A random selection of the same 12M tokens reaches perplexity at or below the curated\n selection. (Measured: random = 470.1, curated = 346.5 — not falsified.)\n- Re-enabling the structural quality gates improves perplexity. That would falsify M7 and\n restore the conventional filter-then-select picture. (Measured: 355.3 with gates vs\n 346.5 without, and 339.0 vs 355.3 on a matched pair of fit draws — not falsified. This\n is the prediction most worth re-testing at a different budget, since gate value should\n grow as the budget approaches the pool size and junk can no longer be avoided.)\"\"\")\n\ns=s.replace(\"\"\"- The unbalanced affinity ranking (M4) matches or beats the mixture-matched selection at\n equal budget, gates and dedup. That would show mixture fidelity is not a separate\n factor. (Measured: 383.1 vs 351.5 — not falsified.)\"\"\",\n\"\"\"- The unbalanced affinity ranking (M4) matches or beats the mixture-matched selection at\n equal budget, gates and dedup. That would show mixture fidelity is not a separate\n factor. (Measured: 383.1 vs 355.3 at matched settings — not falsified.)\"\"\")\n\ns=s.replace(\"\"\"Two runs of the shipped criterion\nscored 351.5 and 355.3.\"\"\",\n\"\"\"Matched pairs of fit draws scored 351.5/355.3 with gates and 339.0/346.5 without, so the\ndraw is worth ~5-8 perplexity on its own. `curate.py` therefore caches its fitted score\nmatrix and reuses it, which is what makes the shipped list exactly reproducible.\"\"\")\n\ns=s.replace(\"\"\" (Measured: two tilts tested, both worse — not falsified, but\n only two of many directions were probed; a finer sweep is the obvious next test.)\"\"\",\n\"\"\" (Measured: two tilts tested, both worse — not falsified, but\n only two of many directions were probed, and both were measured with gates on; a finer\n sweep in the gates-off configuration is the obvious next test.)\"\"\")\n\ns=s.replace(\"\"\"- **Larger models.**\"\"\",\n\"\"\"- **Filter transfer.** M7 predicts that porting a generic quality-filter stack (C4-style\n or Gopher-style rules) onto a pipeline that already has a target-anchored affinity\n signal will not help and may hurt, whenever the target contains registers those rules\n penalise (Q&A, code-adjacent prose, lists). The rules stay useful precisely where no\n target sample is available to fit an affinity signal against.\n- **Larger models.**\"\"\")\nopen(p,'w').write(s)\nprint('claim.md updated')\nEOF\npython3 - <<'EOF'\np='/workspace/submission/curate.py'; s=open(p).read()\ns=s.replace(\"\"\"this criterion 355.3 vs 470.1 for a random selection of the same budget. Ablations:\ndropping the mixture balancing costs +28 PPL, importance-resampling instead of sharp\ntop-k costs +8, tilting the mixture either way costs +2..+12, and smoothing the\nclassifier (stronger ridge, or bagged fits) costs +13..+17. See /workspace/claim.md.\"\"\",\n\"\"\"this criterion 346.5 vs 470.1 for a random selection of the same budget. Ablations:\nenabling the structural quality gates costs +9 PPL (they are subsumed by the classifier\nand reject text the target contains), dropping the mixture balancing costs +28,\nimportance-resampling instead of sharp top-k costs +8, tilting the mixture either way\ncosts +2..+12, and smoothing the classifier (stronger ridge, or bagged fits) costs\n+13..+17. See /workspace/claim.md for the full table.\"\"\")\ns=s.replace(\"\"\"NOTE ON REPRODUCIBILITY: the classifier fit is intentionally lightly regularised and\nstopped before convergence, which measurably sharpens the ranking but makes it sensitive\nto CUDA sparse-matmul reduction order. Re-running reproduces the criterion, the quality\ngates and the register token quotas exactly, and the id list up to that fit noise (two\nruns scored 351.5 and 355.3). Set BAGS>1 for a stable-but-slightly-worse ranking.\"\"\",\n\"\"\"NOTE ON REPRODUCIBILITY: the classifier fit is intentionally lightly regularised and\nstopped before convergence, which measurably sharpens the ranking but makes it sensitive\nto CUDA sparse-matmul reduction order (independent refits move ~10% of documents between\nregister buckets, worth ~5-8 dev PPL). The fitted score matrix is therefore cached at\nSCORES_CACHE and reused, so `python3 curate.py` regenerates the shipped selection.json\nbit-for-bit; deleting the cache refits from scratch and gives an equivalent-criterion but\nnot identical list. Set BAGS>1 for a stable-but-slightly-worse ranking.\"\"\")\nopen(p,'w').write(s)\nimport ast; ast.parse(s); print('curate.py updated + parses')\nEOF\ncat /workspace/.timer/remaining_secs",
"description": "Finalize claim.md and curate.py docs"
}Bash result
claim.md updated
curate.py updated + parses
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claim.md updated
curate.py updated + parses
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"old_string": "The shipped `selection.json` is the output of a literal `python3 curate.py` run, measured\nat 355.3 (−24% against the random baseline).",
"new_string": "The shipped `selection.json` is the output of a literal `python3 curate.py` run, verified\nto reproduce bit-for-bit on re-run, and measured at **346.5** — 26% below the random\nbaseline of 470.1."
}Edit result
The file /workspace/claim.md has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)
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"old_string": "M1. **Register buckets are unequally populated in the pool.** The pool's own composition\n does not match the target's. Observable: of the 110,356 documents passing the\n structural quality gates, the technical-Q&A bucket holds only ~10.6k documents\n (~6.5M est. tokens) while news/general-web holds ~54k (~50M est. tokens). The Q&A\n register is therefore *budget-binding*: an unbalanced top-k ranking must under-serve\n it, and a mixture-matched selection must consume nearly all of it. Confirmed:\n the balanced fill exhausts the Q&A bucket (6.1M of 6.5M available est. tokens) while\n using under a quarter of the news/web bucket.",
"new_string": "M1. **Register buckets are unequally populated in the pool.** The pool's own composition\n does not match the target's, so mixture fidelity cannot come for free. Observable in\n the gated configuration: of the 110,356 documents that pass the structural gates, the\n technical-Q&A bucket holds only ~10.6k documents (~6.5M est. tokens) while\n news/general-web holds ~54k (~50M est. tokens). The Q&A register is therefore\n *budget-binding* — an unbalanced top-k ranking must under-serve it, and a\n mixture-matched fill must consume nearly all of it. Confirmed: the balanced fill\n exhausts the Q&A bucket (6.1M of 6.5M available est. tokens) while drawing under a\n quarter of the news/web bucket. In the shipped (gates-off) configuration the same\n asymmetry holds with more headroom (Q&A 18.9k documents / 21.5M est. tokens against\n news/web 71.3k / 76.4M), and the Q&A quota is met exactly."
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"command": "python3 -c \"\nimport json\ns=json.load(open('submission/selection.json'))\nassert isinstance(s,list) and all(isinstance(x,int) for x in s)\nassert len(set(s))==len(s) and min(s)>=0 and max(s)<=182015\nprint('selection.json VALID:', len(s), 'unique ids, range', min(s), '-', max(s))\n\" && grep -c . claim.md && ls -la submission/ claim.md && grep -E \"^(HELDOUT|packed)\" work/eval_final4.log; echo \"--- shipped config:\"; grep -E \"^(USE_QUALITY_GATES|BAGS|SHARE|OVERFILL) \" submission/curate.py",
"description": "Final validation of all deliverables"
}Bash result
selection.json VALID: 25975 unique ids, range 1 - 181972
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184306 Aug 3 23:53 selection.json
packed 12000000 tokens from 25975 ids -> /tmp/dev_train.npy
HELDOUT_PPL 346.528 loss 5.8480 train_s 50 /tmp/dev_train.npy
--- shipped config:
OVERFILL = 2.2 # emit this multiple of the budget
SHARE = {'wiki': 0.272, 'webnews': 0.481, 'qa': 0.247} # dev-target token shares
BAGS = 1 # classifier fits to average (measured: >1 blurs the ranking)
USE_QUALITY_GATES = False # measured: gates on 355.3 vs off 339.0 dev PPL
[stdout]
selection.json VALID: 25975 unique ids, range 1 - 181972
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11261 Aug 3 23:54 claim.md
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16979 Aug 3 23:53 curate.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184306 Aug 3 23:53 selection.json
packed 12000000 tokens from 25975 ids -> /tmp/dev_train.npy
HELDOUT_PPL 346.528 loss 5.8480 train_s 50 /tmp/dev_train.npy
--- shipped config:
OVERFILL = 2.2 # emit this multiple of the budget
SHARE = {'wiki': 0.272, 'webnews': 0.481, 'qa': 0.247} # dev-target token shares
BAGS = 1 # classifier fits to average (measured: >1 blurs the ranking)
USE_QUALITY_GATES = False # measured: gates on 355.3 vs off 339.0 dev PPL
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}All three deliverables are complete and verified.
Result
Dev perplexity 346.5 vs 470.1 random baseline (−26%), measured with the frozen trainer on the exact submitted selection.json.
Method
The dev target (multi_dev.npy) is a disclosed sample of the scoring distribution, so I decoded it back to text and used it as the positive class. It splits into three observable registers — wikitext-style encyclopedic (27.2% of tokens), news + general web prose (48.1%), StackExchange-style technical Q&A (24.7%).
- Affinity signal — hashed uni/bigram multinomial logistic regression (GPU, ~1M features) separating each register from random pool documents; every pool doc scored by P(register) averaged over three 1200-char windows. Wikitext detokenisation markers and HTML are normalised away on both sides so the classifier keys on content, not on formatting the pool never contains. (sklearn wasn't installed and there's no internet, so the classifier is plain torch.)
- Mixture-matched round-robin fill — each doc competes only inside its own register; the budget fills in the target's token proportions, so any prefix is balanced.
- Banded min-hash dedup over 5-word shingles.
What the experiments showed
| variant | dev PPL |
|---|---|
| random baseline | 470.1 |
| shipped | 346.5 |
| + hand-written quality gates | 355.3 |
| mixture tilts (40/40/20, 20/55/25) | 357.3, 367.2 |
| importance resampling instead of top-k | 363.6 |
| bagged / ridged classifier fits | 368.4, 372.1 |
| pseudo-labelled classifier | 381.6 |
| no register balancing | 383.1 |
The most interesting finding, now the headline mechanism in claim.md: a conventional structural quality-filter stack made things worse (355.3 → 339.0 on a matched pair). It rejects 39% of the pool including short, list-heavy and code-adjacent text the target itself contains — the classifier already handles junk.
Two things worth flagging
- Fit noise. The under-regularised classifier fit is nondeterministic on GPU (sparse-matmul reduction order); refits move ~10% of docs between register buckets, worth ~5–8 PPL. Smoothing it away costs more than the noise. So
curate.pycaches its fitted score matrix and reuses it — I verifiedpython3 curate.pyregenerates the shipped list bit-for-bit. - One un-shipped draw of the same criterion measured 339.0, but the score matrix behind it was overwritten before I could pin it, and picking the best of several noisy draws on the dev set would be dev-set overfitting. I shipped the exactly-reproducible 346.5 instead.
The pool contains zero documents in the target's surface format (0/182,016 with wikitext markers, 7 with <p>+<code>), which puts a floor on achievable perplexity that no selection can cross — noted in the claim's transfer section.