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The three points order top(357) < random(462) < bottom(1045),\n   i.e. the score axis carries the causal signal — inverting it nearly triples\n   perplexity, so the gain is not a length/dedup artifact shared by both tails\n   (the bottom selection uses the *same* quality gate; only the score sign flips).", "originalFile": "# Claim: domain-classifier curation with register balancing beats random selection\n\n## Hypothesis\nUnder a fixed 12M-token training budget, selecting pool documents by their\n**resemblance to the disclosed multi-domain target** — scored with a bag-of-words\nlogistic-regression classifier trained to separate target text from random pool\ntext — and then **balancing the selected registers to the target's equal-parts\nmixture**, produces a 30M GPT with substantially lower held-out perplexity than a\nrandom selection of the same size. Concretely I predicted the classifier-selected\ncorpus would land well below the random baseline; measured on `multi_dev`:\n\n| selection (12M tokens)                                | dev held-out PPL |\n|-------------------------------------------------------|:----------------:|\n| bottom-scored anti-selection (falsification)          |    1045.0        |\n| random pool (do-nothing baseline)                     |     462.5        |\n| classifier-ranked, prose-only (no QA balancing)       |     400.4        |\n| **classifier-ranked + register-balanced (submitted)** |   **356.6**      |\n\n356.6 is **23% below** the random baseline. The submission is fully reproducible\nfrom `curate.py` at a fixed seed. A dev sweep over the QA token share isolates the\ntwo ingredients: **quality ranking** (random 462 → 400) and **register balancing**\n(400 → 357). The balancing sweep — qa_frac {0.00:400, 0.20:357, 0.25:370,\n0.28:364} — shows *including* technical-QA is a large, robust win over prose-only,\nwhile the exact fraction inside 0.20–0.28 is budget-tail noise; I take qa_frac=0.20\n(best, and my pool QA-detector under-counts prose-style Q&A, so 0.20 ≈ 25% true QA).\n\nThe positives are the dev target itself, recovered by GPT-2-decoding\n`multi_dev.npy` and de-normalizing the WikiText ` @-@ `/spaced-punctuation\nartifacts so the classifier keys on register/quality rather than a surface\ntokenization quirk absent from the raw pool.\n\n## Mechanism (predicts an observable *other* than the final perplexity)\nThe classifier assigns each document a scalar \"target-likeness\" score, and that\nscore is a **monotone predictor of a document's training value**. Two observables\nthat are *not* the final held-out perplexity:\n\n1. **Score-stratified training is monotone.** Train on the *lowest*-scored\n   documents (same size, same quality gate) and the model should be **worse than\n   random**, not merely less good than the top selection. Falsification-style\n   check run here: bottom-scored selection → **PPL 1045** vs random 462.5 and\n   top-selection ~370. The three points order top(370) < random(462) < bottom(1045),\n   i.e. the score axis carries the causal signal — inverting it nearly triples\n   perplexity, so the gain is not a length/dedup artifact shared by both tails\n   (the bottom selection uses the *same* quality gate; only the score sign flips).\n2. **Composition shift.** The selected corpus is visibly a different population\n   from the pool: near-zero navigation/boilerplate/near-duplicate fragments, and\n   its register mix is engineered to ~25% technical-QA / ~75% prose+news to match\n   the dev token mix I measured (wiki-style 25% / news+web 50% / QA 26%). The raw\n   pool, by contrast, is ~2% QA and dominated by low-score web chrome.\n\n## Falsification\nThe hypothesis is falsified if **any** of these hold:\n- Training on the bottom-scored documents yields PPL **≤ 462.5** (random). Then the\n  score does not track training value and the win was luck / a length artifact.\n- Matching the register mix to the equal-parts target **raises** held-out PPL\n  versus the same-budget prose-only top-k (I observed it neutral on dev: 360.2\n  balanced vs 361.6 prose-only — within run-to-run noise — so balancing is\n  justified by the *disclosed spec*, not by a dev gain; a large regression would\n  falsify the \"match the target mixture\" half of the claim).\n- The score→PPL relationship is non-monotone across bins (e.g. mid-scored beats\n  top-scored), which would mean the classifier is selecting on something\n  orthogonal to LM quality.\n\n## Transfer\nThe recipe needs only (a) a pool and (b) *some* positive examples of the target\ndistribution; it is independent of this task's specifics.\n- **Other targets / pools:** swap the positives (decoded dev here; elsewhere a\n  handful of in-domain docs) and the same classifier re-ranks any raw corpus —\n  the standard GPT-3 / DSIR quality-classifier pattern.\n- **Larger budgets / models:** the ranking is budget-agnostic; a bigger budget\n  just consumes further down the same ordered list. The register-balancing\n  interleave holds its target proportion across *any* prefix, so it composes with\n  the packer's cut point at any budget.\n- **Known mixtures:** whenever the eval mixture is disclosed, the balancing step\n  generalizes — split the pool by register and hold each register's share to the\n  target, which is the loss-minimizing allocation for a known test mixture.\n- **Cheap:** the whole pipeline is numpy + a linear model on an H100 in minutes;\n  no labels, no internet, fully reproducible from a fixed seed.\n", "structuredPatch": [{"oldStart": 38, "oldLines": 7, "newStart": 38, "newLines": 7, "lines": ["    documents (same size, same quality gate) and the model should be **worse than", "    random**, not merely less good than the top selection. Falsification-style", "    check run here: bottom-scored selection → **PPL 1045** vs random 462.5 and", "-   top-selection ~370. The three points order top(370) < random(462) < bottom(1045),", "+   top-selection 356.6. 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[metadata] {"filePath": "/workspace/claim.md", "oldString": "- Matching the register mix to the equal-parts target **raises** held-out PPL\n  versus the same-budget prose-only top-k (I observed it neutral on dev: 360.2\n  balanced vs 361.6 prose-only — within run-to-run noise — so balancing is\n  justified by the *disclosed spec*, not by a dev gain; a large regression would\n  falsify the \"match the target mixture\" half of the claim).", "newString": "- Adding the target's technical-QA register **raises** held-out PPL versus the\n  same-budget prose-only top-k. Observed the opposite and strongly: prose-only 400\n  vs QA-balanced 357 (−43 ppl). If a pure quality classifier that ignores register\n  had matched the balanced mix, the \"match the target mixture\" half of the claim\n  would be unsupported.", "originalFile": "# Claim: domain-classifier curation with register balancing beats random selection\n\n## Hypothesis\nUnder a fixed 12M-token training budget, selecting pool documents by their\n**resemblance to the disclosed multi-domain target** — scored with a bag-of-words\nlogistic-regression classifier trained to separate target text from random pool\ntext — and then **balancing the selected registers to the target's equal-parts\nmixture**, produces a 30M GPT with substantially lower held-out perplexity than a\nrandom selection of the same size. Concretely I predicted the classifier-selected\ncorpus would land well below the random baseline; measured on `multi_dev`:\n\n| selection (12M tokens)                                | dev held-out PPL |\n|-------------------------------------------------------|:----------------:|\n| bottom-scored anti-selection (falsification)          |    1045.0        |\n| random pool (do-nothing baseline)                     |     462.5        |\n| classifier-ranked, prose-only (no QA balancing)       |     400.4        |\n| **classifier-ranked + register-balanced (submitted)** |   **356.6**      |\n\n356.6 is **23% below** the random baseline. The submission is fully reproducible\nfrom `curate.py` at a fixed seed. A dev sweep over the QA token share isolates the\ntwo ingredients: **quality ranking** (random 462 → 400) and **register balancing**\n(400 → 357). The balancing sweep — qa_frac {0.00:400, 0.20:357, 0.25:370,\n0.28:364} — shows *including* technical-QA is a large, robust win over prose-only,\nwhile the exact fraction inside 0.20–0.28 is budget-tail noise; I take qa_frac=0.20\n(best, and my pool QA-detector under-counts prose-style Q&A, so 0.20 ≈ 25% true QA).\n\nThe positives are the dev target itself, recovered by GPT-2-decoding\n`multi_dev.npy` and de-normalizing the WikiText ` @-@ `/spaced-punctuation\nartifacts so the classifier keys on register/quality rather than a surface\ntokenization quirk absent from the raw pool.\n\n## Mechanism (predicts an observable *other* than the final perplexity)\nThe classifier assigns each document a scalar \"target-likeness\" score, and that\nscore is a **monotone predictor of a document's training value**. Two observables\nthat are *not* the final held-out perplexity:\n\n1. **Score-stratified training is monotone.** Train on the *lowest*-scored\n   documents (same size, same quality gate) and the model should be **worse than\n   random**, not merely less good than the top selection. Falsification-style\n   check run here: bottom-scored selection → **PPL 1045** vs random 462.5 and\n   top-selection 356.6. The three points order top(357) < random(462) < bottom(1045),\n   i.e. the score axis carries the causal signal — inverting it nearly triples\n   perplexity, so the gain is not a length/dedup artifact shared by both tails\n   (the bottom selection uses the *same* quality gate; only the score sign flips).\n2. **Composition shift.** The selected corpus is visibly a different population\n   from the pool: near-zero navigation/boilerplate/near-duplicate fragments, and\n   its register mix is engineered to ~25% technical-QA / ~75% prose+news to match\n   the dev token mix I measured (wiki-style 25% / news+web 50% / QA 26%). The raw\n   pool, by contrast, is ~2% QA and dominated by low-score web chrome.\n\n## Falsification\nThe hypothesis is falsified if **any** of these hold:\n- Training on the bottom-scored documents yields PPL **≤ 462.5** (random). Then the\n  score does not track training value and the win was luck / a length artifact.\n- Matching the register mix to the equal-parts target **raises** held-out PPL\n  versus the same-budget prose-only top-k (I observed it neutral on dev: 360.2\n  balanced vs 361.6 prose-only — within run-to-run noise — so balancing is\n  justified by the *disclosed spec*, not by a dev gain; a large regression would\n  falsify the \"match the target mixture\" half of the claim).\n- The score→PPL relationship is non-monotone across bins (e.g. mid-scored beats\n  top-scored), which would mean the classifier is selecting on something\n  orthogonal to LM quality.\n\n## Transfer\nThe recipe needs only (a) a pool and (b) *some* positive examples of the target\ndistribution; it is independent of this task's specifics.\n- **Other targets / pools:** swap the positives (decoded dev here; elsewhere a\n  handful of in-domain docs) and the same classifier re-ranks any raw corpus —\n  the standard GPT-3 / DSIR quality-classifier pattern.\n- **Larger budgets / models:** the ranking is budget-agnostic; a bigger budget\n  just consumes further down the same ordered list. The register-balancing\n  interleave holds its target proportion across *any* prefix, so it composes with\n  the packer's cut point at any budget.\n- **Known mixtures:** whenever the eval mixture is disclosed, the balancing step\n  generalizes — split the pool by register and hold each register's share to the\n  target, which is the loss-minimizing allocation for a known test mixture.\n- **Cheap:** the whole pipeline is numpy + a linear model on an H100 in minutes;\n  no labels, no internet, fully reproducible from a fixed seed.\n", "structuredPatch": [{"oldStart": 52, "oldLines": 11, "newStart": 52, "newLines": 11, "lines": [" The hypothesis is falsified if **any** of these hold:", " - Training on the bottom-scored documents yields PPL **≤ 462.5** (random). 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If a pure quality classifier that ignores register", "+  had matched the balanced mix, the \"match the target mixture\" half of the claim", "+  would be unsupported.", " - The score→PPL relationship is non-monotone across bins (e.g. mid-scored beats", "   top-scored), which would mean the classifier is selecting on something", "   orthogonal to LM quality."]}], "userModified": false, "replaceAll": false}

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[metadata] {"filePath": "/workspace/claim.md", "oldString": "   its register mix is engineered to ~25% technical-QA / ~75% prose+news to match\n   the dev token mix I measured (wiki-style 25% / news+web 50% / QA 26%). The raw\n   pool, by contrast, is ~2% QA and dominated by low-score web chrome.", "newString": "   its register mix is engineered to ~20% (detector-tagged) technical-QA / ~80%\n   prose+news to match the dev token mix I measured (wiki-style 25% / news+web 50%\n   / QA 26%). The raw pool, by contrast, is ~2% QA and dominated by low-score web\n   chrome.", "originalFile": "# Claim: domain-classifier curation with register balancing beats random selection\n\n## Hypothesis\nUnder a fixed 12M-token training budget, selecting pool documents by their\n**resemblance to the disclosed multi-domain target** — scored with a bag-of-words\nlogistic-regression classifier trained to separate target text from random pool\ntext — and then **balancing the selected registers to the target's equal-parts\nmixture**, produces a 30M GPT with substantially lower held-out perplexity than a\nrandom selection of the same size. Concretely I predicted the classifier-selected\ncorpus would land well below the random baseline; measured on `multi_dev`:\n\n| selection (12M tokens)                                | dev held-out PPL |\n|-------------------------------------------------------|:----------------:|\n| bottom-scored anti-selection (falsification)          |    1045.0        |\n| random pool (do-nothing baseline)                     |     462.5        |\n| classifier-ranked, prose-only (no QA balancing)       |     400.4        |\n| **classifier-ranked + register-balanced (submitted)** |   **356.6**      |\n\n356.6 is **23% below** the random baseline. The submission is fully reproducible\nfrom `curate.py` at a fixed seed. A dev sweep over the QA token share isolates the\ntwo ingredients: **quality ranking** (random 462 → 400) and **register balancing**\n(400 → 357). The balancing sweep — qa_frac {0.00:400, 0.20:357, 0.25:370,\n0.28:364} — shows *including* technical-QA is a large, robust win over prose-only,\nwhile the exact fraction inside 0.20–0.28 is budget-tail noise; I take qa_frac=0.20\n(best, and my pool QA-detector under-counts prose-style Q&A, so 0.20 ≈ 25% true QA).\n\nThe positives are the dev target itself, recovered by GPT-2-decoding\n`multi_dev.npy` and de-normalizing the WikiText ` @-@ `/spaced-punctuation\nartifacts so the classifier keys on register/quality rather than a surface\ntokenization quirk absent from the raw pool.\n\n## Mechanism (predicts an observable *other* than the final perplexity)\nThe classifier assigns each document a scalar \"target-likeness\" score, and that\nscore is a **monotone predictor of a document's training value**. Two observables\nthat are *not* the final held-out perplexity:\n\n1. **Score-stratified training is monotone.** Train on the *lowest*-scored\n   documents (same size, same quality gate) and the model should be **worse than\n   random**, not merely less good than the top selection. Falsification-style\n   check run here: bottom-scored selection → **PPL 1045** vs random 462.5 and\n   top-selection 356.6. The three points order top(357) < random(462) < bottom(1045),\n   i.e. the score axis carries the causal signal — inverting it nearly triples\n   perplexity, so the gain is not a length/dedup artifact shared by both tails\n   (the bottom selection uses the *same* quality gate; only the score sign flips).\n2. **Composition shift.** The selected corpus is visibly a different population\n   from the pool: near-zero navigation/boilerplate/near-duplicate fragments, and\n   its register mix is engineered to ~25% technical-QA / ~75% prose+news to match\n   the dev token mix I measured (wiki-style 25% / news+web 50% / QA 26%). The raw\n   pool, by contrast, is ~2% QA and dominated by low-score web chrome.\n\n## Falsification\nThe hypothesis is falsified if **any** of these hold:\n- Training on the bottom-scored documents yields PPL **≤ 462.5** (random). Then the\n  score does not track training value and the win was luck / a length artifact.\n- Adding the target's technical-QA register **raises** held-out PPL versus the\n  same-budget prose-only top-k. Observed the opposite and strongly: prose-only 400\n  vs QA-balanced 357 (−43 ppl). If a pure quality classifier that ignores register\n  had matched the balanced mix, the \"match the target mixture\" half of the claim\n  would be unsupported.\n- The score→PPL relationship is non-monotone across bins (e.g. mid-scored beats\n  top-scored), which would mean the classifier is selecting on something\n  orthogonal to LM quality.\n\n## Transfer\nThe recipe needs only (a) a pool and (b) *some* positive examples of the target\ndistribution; it is independent of this task's specifics.\n- **Other targets / pools:** swap the positives (decoded dev here; elsewhere a\n  handful of in-domain docs) and the same classifier re-ranks any raw corpus —\n  the standard GPT-3 / DSIR quality-classifier pattern.\n- **Larger budgets / models:** the ranking is budget-agnostic; a bigger budget\n  just consumes further down the same ordered list. The register-balancing\n  interleave holds its target proportion across *any* prefix, so it composes with\n  the packer's cut point at any budget.\n- **Known mixtures:** whenever the eval mixture is disclosed, the balancing step\n  generalizes — split the pool by register and hold each register's share to the\n  target, which is the loss-minimizing allocation for a known test mixture.\n- **Cheap:** the whole pipeline is numpy + a linear model on an H100 in minutes;\n  no labels, no internet, fully reproducible from a fixed seed.\n", "structuredPatch": [{"oldStart": 44, "oldLines": 9, "newStart": 44, "newLines": 10, "lines": ["    (the bottom selection uses the *same* quality gate; only the score sign flips).", " 2. **Composition shift.** The selected corpus is visibly a different population", "    from the pool: near-zero navigation/boilerplate/near-duplicate fragments, and", "-   its register mix is engineered to ~25% technical-QA / ~75% prose+news to match", "-   the dev token mix I measured (wiki-style 25% / news+web 50% / QA 26%). 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