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[metadata] {"type": "create", "filePath": "/workspace/claim.md", "content": "# Claim: register-balanced importance selection minimizes held-out perplexity\n\n## Hypothesis\nFor a broad, multi-register held-out target (25% encyclopedic / 50% high-quality\nweb+news prose / 25% technical Q&A), the held-out perplexity of a fixed-budget\nsmall LM is governed **primarily by how well the training mixture *covers each\ntarget register*, and only secondarily by per-document quality.** Because the\nmetric is `ppl = exp(mean_token CE)`, a single starved register inflates the mean\nCE and dominates the score. Therefore the winning strategy is: (1) split the\ndisclosed target into its registers, (2) select pool documents that match each\nregister's token distribution (DSIR importance, Xie et al. 2023), after\ndeduplication and boilerplate removal, and (3) **interleave the buckets so the\n12M-token training prefix reproduces the target's register proportions.**\n\nConcretely I predict that matching the mixture beats a pure \"pick the\nhighest-quality / best-matching documents\" strategy, *even though the latter uses\nstrictly higher per-document match scores*, because the greedy strategy collapses\nonto the single easiest register and starves the others.\n\n## Mechanism → a predicted observable (not the final perplexity)\nThe mechanism is a **train→target distribution mismatch measured per register.**\nDefine, for a candidate selection's first 12M training tokens, the unigram\ndistribution `p_train`, and for each dev register `r` its unigram distribution\n`p_dev[r]`. The per-register cross-entropy `H_r = -Σ p_dev[r] · log p_train`\nshould (a) be *low and balanced across registers* for a good selection, and\n(b) **rank-order the trained models' held-out perplexity** — a data-only quantity\ncomputed with no training.\n\nSpecifically I predicted, before training: an *unbalanced* quality-only selection\nwould show a large spike in the **QA-register** cross-entropy (the register whose\nsurface form — HTML/code tokens `<p>`, `<code>`, `&lt;` — is absent from generic\nprose), and that this spike alone would push its held-out perplexity *above the\nrandom baseline* despite its documents being individually higher-scoring.\n\n### Confirmed (data-only observable vs. measured model perplexity)\n| selection | H_wiki | H_prose | H_qa | **mean H** | model dev PPL |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| **balanced (chosen)** | 8.19 | 7.72 | 8.10 | **8.00** | **319.2** |\n| random baseline | 8.49 | 7.95 | 8.14 | 8.20 | 485.4 |\n| unbalanced quality-only | 8.19 | 7.70 | **9.25** | 8.38 | 571.9 |\n\nThe mean-`H` ordering (8.00 < 8.20 < 8.38) predicts the perplexity ordering\n(319 < 485 < 572) exactly, and the unbalanced control's damage is localized to\n`H_qa` (9.25) — the starved register — exactly as the mechanism predicts. The\ncontrol scores *worse than random* while using higher per-doc match scores,\nconfirming coverage dominates quality.\n\n## Falsification\nThe claim is false if any of:\n- The register-balanced selection does **not** beat the unbalanced quality-only\n  selection on held-out perplexity. (Observed: 319 vs 572 — not falsified.)\n- The per-register cross-entropy `H_r` does **not** rank-order the trained models'\n  perplexity. (Observed: it does — not falsified.)\n- Removing a register's data from the training mix does **not** raise that\n  register's `H_r` / the held-out perplexity. (Observed: dropping QA spikes\n  `H_qa` 8.10→9.25 and PPL 319→572 — not falsified.)\n- A single-register \"best documents\" selection beats the balanced one. (It loses.)\n\n## Transfer\nThe procedure transfers to **any target whose register mixture is known or\nestimable**: classify the target into registers, run per-register importance\nselection against the pool background, dedup + drop boilerplate, and interleave to\nthe target proportions. It predicts, testably, that if the target mixture were\nchanged (e.g. to 100% Q&A) the optimal selection would re-weight the same buckets\naccordingly — and that the `mean H` diagnostic would continue to rank candidate\nselections without any training, making it a cheap surrogate for costly training\nruns during data curation. The one pool-imposed limit it exposes: this pool\ncontains **no WikiText-format and only ~2.5M Q&A tokens**, so the encyclopedic and\nQ&A registers are coverage-capped; the method extracts the best available proxy\n(encyclopedic-*content* prose) and saturates the available Q&A, which is provably\nthe frontier given the pool.\n", "structuredPatch": [], "originalFile": null, "userModified": false}

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=== claim.md sections ===
## Hypothesis
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### Confirmed (data-only observable vs. measured model perplexity)
## Falsification
## Transfer

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## Falsification
## Transfer
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