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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
61
duration
57m
recorded
2026-08-04

run iddclm-nano-curation__phgXX4s

Everything claude-opus-5 did on this task, in order.

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#26
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toolBashCheck E/F/G logs for errors
args
{
  "command": "tail -3 work/trainE.log work/trainF.log work/trainG.log; nvidia-smi --query-gpu=utilization.gpu,memory.used --format=csv; ps aux|grep -c train_nano",
  "description": "Check E/F/G logs for errors"
}
Bash result
tail: option used in invalid context -- 3
utilization.gpu [%], memory.used [MiB]
0 %, 4 MiB
6

[stdout]
tail: option used in invalid context -- 3
utilization.gpu [%], memory.used [MiB]
0 %, 4 MiB
6
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#27
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toolBashRead E/F/G logs individually
args
{
  "command": "for v in E F G; do echo \"=== $v ===\"; cat work/train$v.log | grep -v Warning | tail -5; done",
  "description": "Read E/F/G logs individually"
}
Bash result
=== E ===
=== F ===
=== G ===

[stdout]
=== E ===
=== F ===
=== G ===
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#28
narration

The E/F/G runs were killed when my shell command hit its timeout. Relaunching detached with setsid so they survive:

toolBashRelaunch E/F/G detached
args
{
  "command": "for v in E F G; do setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null & done\ndisown -a 2>/dev/null; sleep 5; ls -la /tmp/trE.npy /tmp/trF.npy /tmp/trG.npy; ps aux|grep train_nano|grep -v grep|wc -l",
  "description": "Relaunch E/F/G detached"
}
Bash result
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24000128 Aug  4 01:26 /tmp/trE.npy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24000128 Aug  4 01:26 /tmp/trF.npy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24000128 Aug  4 01:26 /tmp/trG.npy
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[stdout]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24000128 Aug  4 01:26 /tmp/trE.npy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24000128 Aug  4 01:26 /tmp/trF.npy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24000128 Aug  4 01:26 /tmp/trG.npy
6
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#29
narration

Let me draft claim.md and prepare the mechanism measurement (n-gram closeness, measurable without training):

toolBashWrite n-gram closeness probe; check training
args
{
  "command": "cat > /workspace/work/ngram_close.py <<'EOF'\n\"\"\"Mechanism probe, no training involved: unigram+bigram cross-entropy of the TARGET\ntoken stream under the empirical distribution of a candidate training set.\nLower = the training set literally puts more mass where the target does.\"\"\"\nimport json, sys, numpy as np\nW=\"/workspace/work\"; EOS=50256\ntoks=np.load(f\"{W}/pool_toks.npy\",mmap_mode=\"r\"); off=np.load(f\"{W}/pool_off.npy\")\nlens=np.load(f\"{W}/pool_lens.npy\"); ids=np.load(f\"{W}/pool_ids.npy\")\nrow={int(v):i for i,v in enumerate(ids)}\ntgt=np.load(\"/workspace/data/multi_dev.npy\").astype(np.int64)\nV=50257\ndef stream(sel,budget=12_000_000):\n    parts=[];tot=0\n    for i in sel:\n        r=row[i]; parts.append(np.asarray(toks[off[r]:off[r+1]],dtype=np.int64)); tot+=int(lens[r])+1\n        if tot>=budget: break\n    return np.concatenate(parts)[:budget]\ndef xent(tr):\n    c=np.bincount(tr,minlength=V).astype(np.float64)\n    p=(c+1.0)/(c.sum()+V)                       # add-1 smoothed unigram\n    u=-np.log(p[tgt]).mean()\n    # bigram: hash pairs into 2^22 buckets\n    B=1<<22\n    hb=lambda a: ((a[:-1].astype(np.int64)*50257+a[1:])% B)\n    cb=np.bincount(hb(tr),minlength=B).astype(np.float64)\n    pb=(cb+1.0)/(cb.sum()+B)\n    b=-np.log(pb[hb(tgt)]).mean()\n    return u,b\nfor name,path in [(n,f\"{W}/sel{n}.json\") for n in sys.argv[1:]]:\n    tr=stream(json.load(open(path)))\n    u,b=xent(tr)\n    print(f\"{name}: unigram H(target|train) {u:.4f}  bigram {b:.4f}  ({len(tr)} tok)\",flush=True)\nEOF\nfor v in A E F G; do echo -n \"$v: \"; grep -h HELDOUT work/train$v.log || echo running; done",
  "description": "Write n-gram closeness probe; check training"
}
Bash result
A: HELDOUT_PPL 323.223  loss 5.7783  train_s 51  /tmp/trA.npy
E: running
F: running
G: running

[stdout]
A: HELDOUT_PPL 323.223  loss 5.7783  train_s 51  /tmp/trA.npy
E: running
F: running
G: running
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#30
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toolBashWait for E/F/G
args
{
  "command": "sleep 110; for v in E F G; do echo -n \"$v: \"; grep -h HELDOUT work/train$v.log || echo running; done; cat /workspace/.timer/remaining_secs",
  "description": "Wait for E/F/G"
}
Bash result
E: running
F: running
G: running
3897

[stdout]
E: running
F: running
G: running
3897
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#31
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toolBashCheck E/F/G again
args
{
  "command": "sleep 100; for v in E F G; do echo -n \"$v: \"; grep -h HELDOUT work/train$v.log || tail -c 200 work/train$v.log; echo; done",
  "description": "Check E/F/G again"
}
Bash result
E: HELDOUT_PPL 329.917  loss 5.7988  train_s 162  /tmp/trE.npy

F: HELDOUT_PPL 322.086  loss 5.7748  train_s 162  /tmp/trF.npy

G: HELDOUT_PPL 325.929  loss 5.7867  train_s 162  /tmp/trG.npy

[stdout]
E: HELDOUT_PPL 329.917  loss 5.7988  train_s 162  /tmp/trE.npy

F: HELDOUT_PPL 322.086  loss 5.7748  train_s 162  /tmp/trF.npy

G: HELDOUT_PPL 325.929  loss 5.7867  train_s 162  /tmp/trG.npy
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#32
narration

Best so far: F = 322.09 (3-register + argmax + quality gate + non-English filter). Let me run three more: an isolated test of the markup-stripped qa classifier, a mixture-skew test, and the falsification ablation (single-register) that my claim needs:

toolBashBuild and launch H, I, J
args
{
  "command": "python - <<'EOF'\nimport numpy as np\nz1=np.load('work/scores.npz'); z2=np.load('work/scores2.npz')\nnp.savez('work/scores4.npz', ids=z1['ids'], wiki=z1['wiki'], web=z1['web'], qa=z2['qa'])\nprint('scores4 = v1 wiki/web + markup-stripped qa')\nEOF\n# H: isolate the markup-stripped qa classifier, web/wiki held at F's signal\npython work/select.py --scores work/scores4.npz --mix wiki:0.25,web:0.5,qa:0.25 --assign argmax --out work/selH.json 2>&1|tail -1\n# I: over-weight the hardest register (technical Q&A) -- PPL is an average over registers\npython work/select.py --scores work/scores.npz --mix wiki:0.22,web:0.43,qa:0.35 --assign argmax --out work/selI.json 2>&1|tail -1\n# J: FALSIFICATION ablation -- single register only (encyclopedic), no mixture matching\npython work/select.py --scores work/scores.npz --mix wiki:1.0 --assign argmax --out work/selJ.json 2>&1|tail -1\nfor v in H I J; do python work/fast_pack.py work/sel$v.json /tmp/tr$v.npy >/dev/null; done\nfor v in H I J; do setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null & done\nsleep 3; echo \"launched H I J\"",
  "description": "Build and launch H, I, J"
}
Bash result
scores4 = v1 wiki/web + markup-stripped qa
selected 18805 docs 13502170 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.25, 'web': 0.5, 'qa': 0.251}
selected 18543 docs 13500216 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.22, 'web': 0.43, 'qa': 0.35}
selected 23454 docs 13500886 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 1.0}
[1]   Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[2]-  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[3]+  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
launched H I J

[stdout]
scores4 = v1 wiki/web + markup-stripped qa
selected 18805 docs 13502170 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.25, 'web': 0.5, 'qa': 0.251}
selected 18543 docs 13500216 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.22, 'web': 0.43, 'qa': 0.35}
selected 23454 docs 13500886 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 1.0}
[1]   Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[2]-  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[3]+  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
launched H I J
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#33
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toolBashMeasure n-gram closeness (mechanism probe, no training)
args
{
  "command": "timeout 300 python work/ngram_close.py _random F D J 2>&1 | tail -6",
  "description": "Measure n-gram closeness (mechanism probe, no training)"
}
Bash result
_random: unigram H(target|train) 8.1343  bigram 13.6374  (11993019 tok)
F: unigram H(target|train) 7.9273  bigram 13.3064  (11983591 tok)
D: unigram H(target|train) 7.9662  bigram 13.3881  (11984175 tok)
J: unigram H(target|train) 8.1299  bigram 13.6209  (11979334 tok)

[stdout]
_random: unigram H(target|train) 8.1343  bigram 13.6374  (11993019 tok)
F: unigram H(target|train) 7.9273  bigram 13.3064  (11983591 tok)
D: unigram H(target|train) 7.9662  bigram 13.3881  (11984175 tok)
J: unigram H(target|train) 8.1299  bigram 13.6209  (11979334 tok)
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#34
narration

The mechanism probe cleanly rank-orders candidates without any training: F (7.927) < D-no-gate (7.966) < wiki-only (8.130) ≈ random (8.134). Let me collect the training results:

toolBashCollect H, I, J results
args
{
  "command": "sleep 105; for v in H I J; do echo -n \"$v: \"; grep -h HELDOUT work/train$v.log || echo running; done; cat /workspace/.timer/remaining_secs",
  "description": "Collect H, I, J results"
}
Bash result
H: running
I: running
J: running
3557

[stdout]
H: running
I: running
J: running
3557
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#35
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toolBashCollect H, I, J results
args
{
  "command": "sleep 90; for v in H I J; do echo -n \"$v: \"; grep -h HELDOUT work/train$v.log || echo running; done",
  "description": "Collect H, I, J results"
}
Bash result
H: HELDOUT_PPL 329.728  loss 5.7983  train_s 162  /tmp/trH.npy
I: HELDOUT_PPL 317.036  loss 5.7590  train_s 161  /tmp/trI.npy
J: HELDOUT_PPL 445.879  loss 6.1000  train_s 162  /tmp/trJ.npy

[stdout]
H: HELDOUT_PPL 329.728  loss 5.7983  train_s 162  /tmp/trH.npy
I: HELDOUT_PPL 317.036  loss 5.7590  train_s 161  /tmp/trI.npy
J: HELDOUT_PPL 445.879  loss 6.1000  train_s 162  /tmp/trJ.npy
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#36
narration

Two key findings: I (tilting toward the harder Q&A register) = 317.0, new best, and the falsification ablation J (wiki-only) = 445.9 — barely better than random despite being clean encyclopedic text. Let me map the mixture gradient around I:

toolBashLaunch mixture-gradient variants K, L, M
args
{
  "command": "python work/select.py --scores work/scores.npz --mix wiki:0.20,web:0.38,qa:0.42 --assign argmax --out work/selK.json 2>&1|tail -1\npython work/select.py --scores work/scores.npz --mix wiki:0.25,web:0.40,qa:0.35 --assign argmax --out work/selL.json 2>&1|tail -1\npython work/select.py --scores work/scores.npz --mix wiki:0.18,web:0.47,qa:0.35 --assign argmax --out work/selM.json 2>&1|tail -1\nfor v in K L M; do python work/fast_pack.py work/sel$v.json /tmp/tr$v.npy >/dev/null; done\nfor v in K L M; do setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null & done\nsleep 2; echo launched",
  "description": "Launch mixture-gradient variants K, L, M"
}
Bash result
selected 18674 docs 13503865 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.201, 'web': 0.38, 'qa': 0.42}
selected 19129 docs 13507723 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.25, 'web': 0.401, 'qa': 0.35}
selected 17893 docs 13501062 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.18, 'web': 0.47, 'qa': 0.35}
[1]   Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[2]-  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[3]+  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
launched

[stdout]
selected 18674 docs 13503865 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.201, 'web': 0.38, 'qa': 0.42}
selected 19129 docs 13507723 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.25, 'web': 0.401, 'qa': 0.35}
selected 17893 docs 13501062 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.18, 'web': 0.47, 'qa': 0.35}
[1]   Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[2]-  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[3]+  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
launched
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#37
narration

While K/L/M train, let me align curate.py with the winning configuration (the ablations showed markup-stripping positives hurt, so it must reproduce the v1 signal):

toolBashAlign curate.py with winning config
args
{
  "command": "python - <<'EOF'\np='/workspace/submission/curate.py'; s=open(p).read()\ns=s.replace('''   Positives are surface-normalised first (WikiText detokenisation artefacts such as\n   \"@-@\" / \" , \" and HTML markup such as \"<p>\"/\"&lt;\" are removed), because those cues are\n   present in the target rendering but *never* in the raw-web pool: leaving them in lets\n   the classifier separate the classes on a cue that transfers to no pool document, which\n   we observed producing a degenerate ranking.''',\n'''   Positives are surface-normalised for WikiText detokenisation artefacts (\"@-@\", \" , \")\n   since those cues exist in the target rendering but in no raw-web pool document.\n   NOTE (measured, counter to our first guess): additionally stripping HTML markup from the\n   technical-Q&A positives made things *worse* (dev PPL 329.7 vs 322.1).  The markup tokens\n   evidently act as a useful register indicator, so we do not strip them.''')\ns=s.replace('''3. REGISTER-BALANCED PRIORITY ORDER.''','''3. REGISTER-TILTED PRIORITY ORDER.''')\ns=s.replace('''   output list is produced by a weighted round-robin that keeps the running token mixture\n   at the target's measured mixture (wiki 0.25 / web+news 0.50 / technical Q&A 0.25).\n   Because the trainer consumes the list in order until the budget fills, round-robin makes\n   *every prefix* mixture-matched, so the realised training mix is correct at any cutoff.''',\n'''   output list is produced by a weighted round-robin over a fixed token mixture.  Because the\n   trainer consumes the list in order until the budget fills, round-robin makes *every prefix*\n   mixture-matched, so the realised training mix is correct at whatever cutoff the budget lands.\n   The target's own measured token mixture is wiki 0.25 / web+news 0.50 / Q&A 0.25, but the\n   loss-minimising TRAINING mixture is not the eval mixture: tilting toward the technical\n   register (its per-token loss is highest, so it has the steepest remaining descent) measured\n   better, and MIX below is the tuned optimum.  Covering all registers is what matters most --\n   selecting only the single \"cleanest\" register (encyclopedic) scores 445.9 vs 317.0 tilted.''')\ns=s.replace('''def strip_markup(t):\n    t = TAG.sub(\" \", t)\n    for a, b in ((\"&lt;\", \"<\"), (\"&gt;\", \">\"), (\"&amp;\", \"&\"),\n                 (\"&quot;\", '\"'), (\"&#39;\", \"'\"), (\"&nbsp;\", \" \")):\n        t = t.replace(a, b)\n    return re.sub(r\"[ \\\\t]{2,}\", \" \", t)\n\n''','')\ns=s.replace('        pos[r].append(strip_markup(norm_wikitext(s))); ntok[r] += len(s.split())',\n            '        pos[r].append(norm_wikitext(s)); ntok[r] += len(s.split())')\ns=s.replace('TAG = re.compile(r\"<[^>]{1,40}>\")\\n','')\ns=s.replace('MIX    = {\"wiki\": 0.25, \"web\": 0.50, \"qa\": 0.25}',\n            'MIX    = {\"wiki\": 0.22, \"web\": 0.43, \"qa\": 0.35}   # tuned; see module docstring')\ns=s.replace('    ap.add_argument(\"--out\", default=OUT)',\n            '    ap.add_argument(\"--out\", default=OUT)\\n    ap.add_argument(\"--mix\", default=None,\\n                    help=\"override token mixture, e.g. wiki:0.22,web:0.43,qa:0.35\")')\ns=s.replace('''    a = ap.parse_args()\n''','''    a = ap.parse_args()\n    global MIX\n    if a.mix:\n        MIX = {k: float(v) for k, v in (p.split(\":\") for p in a.mix.split(\",\"))}\n''')\nopen(p,'w').write(s)\nimport ast; ast.parse(s); print('curate.py updated + syntax ok')\nEOF\nfor v in K L M; do echo -n \"$v: \"; grep -h HELDOUT work/train$v.log || echo running; done",
  "description": "Align curate.py with winning config"
}
Bash result
curate.py updated + syntax ok
K: running
L: running
M: running

[stdout]
curate.py updated + syntax ok
K: running
L: running
M: running
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#38
reasoning (redacted)

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toolBashCollect K, L, M
args
{
  "command": "sleep 115; for v in I K L M; do echo -n \"$v: \"; grep -h HELDOUT work/train$v.log || echo running; done; cat /workspace/.timer/remaining_secs",
  "description": "Collect K, L, M"
}
Bash result
I: HELDOUT_PPL 317.036  loss 5.7590  train_s 161  /tmp/trI.npy
K: running
L: running
M: running
3206

[stdout]
I: HELDOUT_PPL 317.036  loss 5.7590  train_s 161  /tmp/trI.npy
K: running
L: running
M: running
3206
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#39
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toolBashCollect K, L, M results
args
{
  "command": "sleep 95; for v in K L M; do echo -n \"$v: \"; grep -h HELDOUT work/train$v.log || echo running; done",
  "description": "Collect K, L, M results"
}
Bash result
K: HELDOUT_PPL 325.902  loss 5.7866  train_s 162  /tmp/trK.npy
L: HELDOUT_PPL 323.119  loss 5.7780  train_s 162  /tmp/trL.npy
M: HELDOUT_PPL 324.302  loss 5.7817  train_s 162  /tmp/trM.npy

[stdout]
K: HELDOUT_PPL 325.902  loss 5.7866  train_s 162  /tmp/trK.npy
L: HELDOUT_PPL 323.119  loss 5.7780  train_s 162  /tmp/trL.npy
M: HELDOUT_PPL 324.302  loss 5.7817  train_s 162  /tmp/trM.npy
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#40
narration

I (317.0) sits in a neighborhood of 323–326, so mixture gains are partly run-level noise. Let me spend the remaining runs on levers with plausibly larger effects — gate strictness and document-length diversity:

toolBashTest maxlen cap, stricter gate, higher minlen
args
{
  "command": "python - <<'EOF'\ns=open('work/select.py').read()\ns=s.replace('ap.add_argument(\"--assign\",default=\"global\",choices=[\"global\",\"argmax\"])',\n 'ap.add_argument(\"--assign\",default=\"global\",choices=[\"global\",\"argmax\"])\\nap.add_argument(\"--strict\",type=int,default=0)')\ns=s.replace(\"    prose_ok=(alpha>0.65)&(sw>0.06)&(mwl>3.0)&(mwl<10)&(dupline<0.30)&(shortline<0.55)&(ell<0.15)&(bad<0.5)\",\n \"    if a.strict:\\n        prose_ok=(alpha>0.72)&(sw>0.10)&(mwl>3.2)&(mwl<9)&(dupline<0.18)&(shortline<0.38)&(ell<0.08)&(bad<0.5)\\n    else:\\n        prose_ok=(alpha>0.65)&(sw>0.06)&(mwl>3.0)&(mwl<10)&(dupline<0.30)&(shortline<0.55)&(ell<0.15)&(bad<0.5)\")\nopen('work/select.py','w').write(s)\nprint('ok')\nEOF\nM=\"wiki:0.22,web:0.43,qa:0.35\"\npython work/select.py --scores work/scores.npz --mix $M --assign argmax --maxlen 3000 --out work/selN.json 2>&1|tail -1\npython work/select.py --scores work/scores.npz --mix $M --assign argmax --strict 1 --out work/selO.json 2>&1|tail -1\npython work/select.py --scores work/scores.npz --mix $M --assign argmax --minlen 256 --out work/selP.json 2>&1|tail -1\nfor v in N O P; do python work/fast_pack.py work/sel$v.json /tmp/tr$v.npy >/dev/null; done\nfor v in N O P; do setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null & done\nsleep 2; echo launched N O P",
  "description": "Test maxlen cap, stricter gate, higher minlen"
}
Bash result
ok
selected 23517 docs 13500318 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.22, 'web': 0.43, 'qa': 0.35}
selected 18393 docs 13500918 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.22, 'web': 0.43, 'qa': 0.35}
selected 13597 docs 13500910 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.22, 'web': 0.43, 'qa': 0.35}
[1]   Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[2]-  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[3]+  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
launched N O P

[stdout]
ok
selected 23517 docs 13500318 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.22, 'web': 0.43, 'qa': 0.35}
selected 18393 docs 13500918 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.22, 'web': 0.43, 'qa': 0.35}
selected 13597 docs 13500910 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.22, 'web': 0.43, 'qa': 0.35}
[1]   Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[2]-  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
[3]+  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr$v.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r$v.json > work/train$v.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
launched N O P
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#41
narration

Let me install the current best as insurance, then write the per-register mechanism probe:

toolBashInstall insurance selection; probe per-register difficulty
args
{
  "command": "cp work/selI.json /workspace/submission/selection.json && python -c \"\nimport json;s=json.load(open('/workspace/submission/selection.json'));print('insurance selection installed:',len(s),'ids, unique:',len(set(s))==len(s))\"\ncat > /workspace/work/per_reg.py <<'EOF'\n\"\"\"Per-register difficulty probe: unigram cross-entropy of EACH target register's tokens\nunder a candidate training set's empirical distribution. No model training involved.\"\"\"\nimport json,sys,re,numpy as np\nW=\"/workspace/work\"\ntoks=np.load(f\"{W}/pool_toks.npy\",mmap_mode=\"r\");off=np.load(f\"{W}/pool_off.npy\")\nlens=np.load(f\"{W}/pool_lens.npy\");ids=np.load(f\"{W}/pool_ids.npy\")\nrow={int(v):i for i,v in enumerate(ids)}\nfrom transformers import GPT2TokenizerFast\ntok=GPT2TokenizerFast.from_pretrained(\"gpt2\")\ndv=np.load(\"/workspace/data/multi_dev.npy\").astype(np.int64);EOS=50256\ndef register(t):\n    if re.search(r\"</?p>|<code>|<pre>|&lt;|&gt;|</a>|</?blockquote>\",t):return \"qa\"\n    if \"@-@\" in t or \"@,@\" in t:return \"wiki\"\n    n=len(t.split())\n    if n and (t.count(\" , \")+t.count(\" . \")+t.count(\" 's \"))/n>0.02:return \"wiki\"\n    return \"web\"\nbuck={\"wiki\":[],\"web\":[],\"qa\":[]};prev=0\nfor i in np.where(dv==EOS)[0]:\n    if i>prev:\n        seg=dv[prev:i];buck[register(tok.decode(seg))].append(seg)\n    prev=i+1\nbuck={k:np.concatenate(v) for k,v in buck.items()}\nV=50257\nsel=json.load(open(sys.argv[1]));parts=[];tot=0\nfor i in sel:\n    r=row[i];parts.append(np.asarray(toks[off[r]:off[r+1]],dtype=np.int64));tot+=int(lens[r])+1\n    if tot>=12_000_000:break\ntr=np.concatenate(parts)[:12_000_000]\nc=np.bincount(tr,minlength=V).astype(np.float64);p=(c+1.0)/(c.sum()+V)\nprint(f\"{sys.argv[1]}: per-register unigram H(target_register | train)\")\nfor k in (\"wiki\",\"web\",\"qa\"):\n    print(f\"   {k:5s} {-np.log(p[buck[k]]).mean():.4f}   ({len(buck[k])} target tokens)\")\nEOF\ntimeout 200 python work/per_reg.py work/selI.json 2>&1|grep -v Warning|tail -5",
  "description": "Install insurance selection; probe per-register difficulty"
}
Bash result
insurance selection installed: 18543 ids, unique: True
work/selI.json: per-register unigram H(target_register | train)
   wiki  8.3095   (248058 target tokens)
   web   7.7108   (499358 target tokens)
   qa    7.9426   (249474 target tokens)

[stdout]
insurance selection installed: 18543 ids, unique: True
work/selI.json: per-register unigram H(target_register | train)
   wiki  8.3095   (248058 target tokens)
   web   7.7108   (499358 target tokens)
   qa    7.9426   (249474 target tokens)
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#42
narration

Notable: per-register difficulty is wiki 8.31 > qa 7.94 > web 7.71 — the encyclopedic register is hardest partly because the target's WikiText rendering (@-@, , spacing) appears in no pool document, so it's irreducible under selection-only control. Let me check N/O/P:

toolBashCheck N, O, P
args
{
  "command": "for v in N O P; do echo -n \"$v: \"; grep -h HELDOUT work/train$v.log || echo running; done; cat /workspace/.timer/remaining_secs",
  "description": "Check N, O, P"
}
Bash result
N: running
O: running
P: running
2966

[stdout]
N: running
O: running
P: running
2966
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#43
narration

Writing claim.md now while N/O/P finish:

toolWrite
args
{
  "file_path": "/workspace/claim.md",
  "content": "# Curating a raw web pool for a fixed 12M-token budget\n\n**Setup.** 182,016 raw web documents (199.9M GPT-2 tokens). The trainer consumes an\nordered id list until 12M tokens are packed, then trains a frozen 30M GPT and reports\nheld-out perplexity on a broad, equal-parts high-quality English target\n(encyclopedic / general web prose / news / technical Q&A). Only the selection varies.\n\n---\n\n## Hypothesis\n\nAt a budget that is ~6% of the pool, held-out perplexity on a *broad multi-domain* target\nis set mainly by **distributional match to the target**, not by any single scalar notion of\n\"document quality\". Concretely, three things in decreasing order of effect:\n\n1. **Register coverage.** The training set must contain all registers the target contains.\n   Selecting only the register that looks most \"clean and encyclopedic\" should fail badly,\n   even though every selected document is individually high quality.\n2. **Junk removal.** Boilerplate / navigation dumps / duplicate-line spam / non-English\n   pages consume budget while contributing almost no target-relevant probability mass.\n3. **Target-similarity ranking.** The disclosed dev target (`multi_dev.npy`, 1M tokens) is a\n   sample of the target distribution itself; a bag-of-hashed-n-grams classifier separating\n   it from a random pool sample recovers enough of the importance ratio to rank documents\n   usefully, with no labels and no internet.\n\nI further predicted that the loss-minimising *training* mixture is **not** the target's own\nmixture, because registers differ in marginal return per token spent.\n\n## Mechanism — and an observable that is not the final perplexity\n\nThe mechanism is mass placement: selection wins by moving the training set's empirical\nn-gram distribution onto the target's. That is measurable **with no training at all**.\n\n*Pre-registered observable:* the unigram/bigram cross-entropy of the target token stream\nunder a candidate training set's own empirical n-gram distribution,\n`H(target | train)` (add-1 smoothed; `work/ngram_close.py`). Prediction: candidates that\nlower held-out PPL also lower `H(target | train)`, and — the sharp part — a\nsingle-register selection will **not** lower it, landing near random.\n\n| selection | unigram `H` | bigram `H` | trained PPL |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| random (do-nothing baseline) | 8.1343 | 13.6374 | 485.46 |\n| curated, no quality gate (D) | 7.9662 | 13.3881 | 357.61 |\n| curated, full recipe (F) | **7.9273** | **13.3064** | 322.09 |\n| curated but **encyclopedic register only** (J) | 8.1299 | 13.6209 | 445.88 |\n\nConfirmed, including the sharp prediction: the wiki-only selection is a *cleaner* corpus by\nevery intrinsic quality heuristic, yet its n-gram mass sits essentially as far from the broad\ntarget as random text does (8.1299 vs 8.1343), and its trained perplexity is correspondingly\nclose to random (445.9 vs 485.5) and far worse than the mixture-matched recipe (317–322).\nQuality-without-coverage does not work; the probe sees this before a single training step.\n\n*Second observable:* per-register `H(target_register | train)` should be **unequal**, which is\nwhy the optimal training mixture is not the eval mixture. Measured under the final selection:\n**wiki 8.31, qa 7.94, web 7.71**. The encyclopedic register is the hardest, and partly\n*irreducibly* so — the target renders Wikipedia with WikiText detokenisation artefacts\n(`@-@`, `@,@`, spaced ` , `) that occur in **no** pool document, and selection cannot create\nsurface form it does not have. Budget shifted off wiki toward the registers whose loss is\nactually reducible measured better (317.0 tilted vs 322.1 at the target's own 25/50/25).\n\n## Falsification\n\nThe hypothesis would be falsified by any of:\n\n- **Coverage is not what matters** → the single-register selection (J) would have matched the\n  mixture-matched selection. *Tested: 445.9 vs 317.0. Not falsified.*\n- **Junk removal is cosmetic** → dropping the quality gate would not hurt. *Tested: 357.6 vs\n  333.8 with the gate held otherwise identical — the gate is worth ~24 PPL. Not falsified.*\n- **The probe is not the mechanism** → `H(target | train)` would move independently of PPL.\n  *Tested: the four selections above rank identically on both. Not falsified.*\n- **Still open / weakly supported:** the mixture *tilt* is the least robust claim. Neighbouring\n  mixtures scored 317.0 / 323.1 / 324.3 / 325.9, a non-smooth ~5-point spread, so run-level\n  variance between selections is a few PPL and the tilt's true effect is small. It should be\n  treated as a marginal gain, not an established law. A clean falsification test would be\n  three seeds per mixture; that did not fit the compute budget.\n- One guess **was** falsified: I expected stripping HTML markup from the technical-Q&A\n  positives to help (the markup cannot transfer to plain-text pool documents). It measurably\n  hurt — 329.7 vs 322.1 — so the markup functions as a useful register indicator for the\n  classifier. The recipe keeps it, against my prior.\n\n## Transfer\n\nThe recipe needs no labels, no internet, and no target-specific engineering, so it transfers\nto any (unlabeled pool, small disclosed target sample) pair:\n\n1. Decode/collect a small sample of the target distribution; split it into registers.\n2. Fit one hashed-n-gram logistic regression per register, target-vs-random-pool.\n3. Veto junk with cheap surface heuristics (looser thresholds for code-bearing registers,\n   whose low alpha/stopword ratios are legitimate).\n4. Emit a weighted round-robin over registers so that **every prefix** of the list is\n   mixture-matched — which makes the output robust to *any* budget, since wherever the\n   trainer stops, the realised mixture is still right.\n\nCost is minutes of CPU plus a few seconds of GPU for the whole 200M-token pool; nothing\nscales worse than linearly, so the same script applies to much larger pools and budgets.\nThe parts I would expect to transfer least: the specific tilt weights, and the\ngate thresholds, both of which are tuned against this pool's junk profile. The parts I\nwould expect to transfer most: register coverage dominating single-axis quality, and\n`H(target | train)` as a zero-training proxy for ranking candidate selections — that probe\nis what makes the approach cheap to re-tune on a new corpus.\n\n---\n\n### Ablation ladder (dev PPL, frozen trainer, identical 12M budget)\n\n| # | selection | dev PPL |\n|---|---|---|\n| – | random baseline | 485.46 |\n| J | encyclopedic register only (falsification) | 445.88 |\n| D | 4-register, no quality gate | 357.61 |\n| B | 4-register, global (non-specialised) ranking | 333.83 |\n| E | merged web signal, markup stripped | 329.92 |\n| H | markup stripped from Q&A positives only | 329.73 |\n| C | 4-register (news/prose split), argmax assign | 327.85 |\n| A | 3-register 25/50/25, argmax, gate | 323.22 |\n| F | A + non-English filter | 322.09 |\n| **I** | **F + mixture tilt 0.22 / 0.43 / 0.35** | **317.04** |\n\nReproduce: `python3 submission/curate.py` → `submission/selection.json`;\nevaluate with `bash dev_eval.sh`.\n"
}
Write result
File created successfully at: /workspace/claim.md (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)

[metadata] {"type": "create", "filePath": "/workspace/claim.md", "content": "# Curating a raw web pool for a fixed 12M-token budget\n\n**Setup.** 182,016 raw web documents (199.9M GPT-2 tokens). The trainer consumes an\nordered id list until 12M tokens are packed, then trains a frozen 30M GPT and reports\nheld-out perplexity on a broad, equal-parts high-quality English target\n(encyclopedic / general web prose / news / technical Q&A). Only the selection varies.\n\n---\n\n## Hypothesis\n\nAt a budget that is ~6% of the pool, held-out perplexity on a *broad multi-domain* target\nis set mainly by **distributional match to the target**, not by any single scalar notion of\n\"document quality\". Concretely, three things in decreasing order of effect:\n\n1. **Register coverage.** The training set must contain all registers the target contains.\n   Selecting only the register that looks most \"clean and encyclopedic\" should fail badly,\n   even though every selected document is individually high quality.\n2. **Junk removal.** Boilerplate / navigation dumps / duplicate-line spam / non-English\n   pages consume budget while contributing almost no target-relevant probability mass.\n3. **Target-similarity ranking.** The disclosed dev target (`multi_dev.npy`, 1M tokens) is a\n   sample of the target distribution itself; a bag-of-hashed-n-grams classifier separating\n   it from a random pool sample recovers enough of the importance ratio to rank documents\n   usefully, with no labels and no internet.\n\nI further predicted that the loss-minimising *training* mixture is **not** the target's own\nmixture, because registers differ in marginal return per token spent.\n\n## Mechanism — and an observable that is not the final perplexity\n\nThe mechanism is mass placement: selection wins by moving the training set's empirical\nn-gram distribution onto the target's. That is measurable **with no training at all**.\n\n*Pre-registered observable:* the unigram/bigram cross-entropy of the target token stream\nunder a candidate training set's own empirical n-gram distribution,\n`H(target | train)` (add-1 smoothed; `work/ngram_close.py`). Prediction: candidates that\nlower held-out PPL also lower `H(target | train)`, and — the sharp part — a\nsingle-register selection will **not** lower it, landing near random.\n\n| selection | unigram `H` | bigram `H` | trained PPL |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| random (do-nothing baseline) | 8.1343 | 13.6374 | 485.46 |\n| curated, no quality gate (D) | 7.9662 | 13.3881 | 357.61 |\n| curated, full recipe (F) | **7.9273** | **13.3064** | 322.09 |\n| curated but **encyclopedic register only** (J) | 8.1299 | 13.6209 | 445.88 |\n\nConfirmed, including the sharp prediction: the wiki-only selection is a *cleaner* corpus by\nevery intrinsic quality heuristic, yet its n-gram mass sits essentially as far from the broad\ntarget as random text does (8.1299 vs 8.1343), and its trained perplexity is correspondingly\nclose to random (445.9 vs 485.5) and far worse than the mixture-matched recipe (317–322).\nQuality-without-coverage does not work; the probe sees this before a single training step.\n\n*Second observable:* per-register `H(target_register | train)` should be **unequal**, which is\nwhy the optimal training mixture is not the eval mixture. Measured under the final selection:\n**wiki 8.31, qa 7.94, web 7.71**. The encyclopedic register is the hardest, and partly\n*irreducibly* so — the target renders Wikipedia with WikiText detokenisation artefacts\n(`@-@`, `@,@`, spaced ` , `) that occur in **no** pool document, and selection cannot create\nsurface form it does not have. Budget shifted off wiki toward the registers whose loss is\nactually reducible measured better (317.0 tilted vs 322.1 at the target's own 25/50/25).\n\n## Falsification\n\nThe hypothesis would be falsified by any of:\n\n- **Coverage is not what matters** → the single-register selection (J) would have matched the\n  mixture-matched selection. *Tested: 445.9 vs 317.0. Not falsified.*\n- **Junk removal is cosmetic** → dropping the quality gate would not hurt. *Tested: 357.6 vs\n  333.8 with the gate held otherwise identical — the gate is worth ~24 PPL. Not falsified.*\n- **The probe is not the mechanism** → `H(target | train)` would move independently of PPL.\n  *Tested: the four selections above rank identically on both. Not falsified.*\n- **Still open / weakly supported:** the mixture *tilt* is the least robust claim. Neighbouring\n  mixtures scored 317.0 / 323.1 / 324.3 / 325.9, a non-smooth ~5-point spread, so run-level\n  variance between selections is a few PPL and the tilt's true effect is small. It should be\n  treated as a marginal gain, not an established law. A clean falsification test would be\n  three seeds per mixture; that did not fit the compute budget.\n- One guess **was** falsified: I expected stripping HTML markup from the technical-Q&A\n  positives to help (the markup cannot transfer to plain-text pool documents). It measurably\n  hurt — 329.7 vs 322.1 — so the markup functions as a useful register indicator for the\n  classifier. The recipe keeps it, against my prior.\n\n## Transfer\n\nThe recipe needs no labels, no internet, and no target-specific engineering, so it transfers\nto any (unlabeled pool, small disclosed target sample) pair:\n\n1. Decode/collect a small sample of the target distribution; split it into registers.\n2. Fit one hashed-n-gram logistic regression per register, target-vs-random-pool.\n3. Veto junk with cheap surface heuristics (looser thresholds for code-bearing registers,\n   whose low alpha/stopword ratios are legitimate).\n4. Emit a weighted round-robin over registers so that **every prefix** of the list is\n   mixture-matched — which makes the output robust to *any* budget, since wherever the\n   trainer stops, the realised mixture is still right.\n\nCost is minutes of CPU plus a few seconds of GPU for the whole 200M-token pool; nothing\nscales worse than linearly, so the same script applies to much larger pools and budgets.\nThe parts I would expect to transfer least: the specific tilt weights, and the\ngate thresholds, both of which are tuned against this pool's junk profile. The parts I\nwould expect to transfer most: register coverage dominating single-axis quality, and\n`H(target | train)` as a zero-training proxy for ranking candidate selections — that probe\nis what makes the approach cheap to re-tune on a new corpus.\n\n---\n\n### Ablation ladder (dev PPL, frozen trainer, identical 12M budget)\n\n| # | selection | dev PPL |\n|---|---|---|\n| – | random baseline | 485.46 |\n| J | encyclopedic register only (falsification) | 445.88 |\n| D | 4-register, no quality gate | 357.61 |\n| B | 4-register, global (non-specialised) ranking | 333.83 |\n| E | merged web signal, markup stripped | 329.92 |\n| H | markup stripped from Q&A positives only | 329.73 |\n| C | 4-register (news/prose split), argmax assign | 327.85 |\n| A | 3-register 25/50/25, argmax, gate | 323.22 |\n| F | A + non-English filter | 322.09 |\n| **I** | **F + mixture tilt 0.22 / 0.43 / 0.35** | **317.04** |\n\nReproduce: `python3 submission/curate.py` → `submission/selection.json`;\nevaluate with `bash dev_eval.sh`.\n", "structuredPatch": [], "originalFile": null, "userModified": false}
#44
reasoning (redacted)

encrypted chain-of-thought — recorded, not exposed

toolBashCheck N, O, P results
args
{
  "command": "for v in N O P; do echo -n \"$v: \"; grep -h HELDOUT work/train$v.log || echo running; done; cat /workspace/.timer/remaining_secs",
  "description": "Check N, O, P results"
}
Bash result
N: running
O: running
P: running
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[stdout]
N: running
O: running
P: running
2906
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#45
reasoning (redacted)

encrypted chain-of-thought — recorded, not exposed

toolBashCollect N, O, P
args
{
  "command": "sleep 105; for v in N O P; do echo -n \"$v: \"; grep -h HELDOUT work/train$v.log || echo running; done",
  "description": "Collect N, O, P"
}
Bash result
N: HELDOUT_PPL 321.762  loss 5.7738  train_s 162  /tmp/trN.npy
O: HELDOUT_PPL 322.353  loss 5.7756  train_s 162  /tmp/trO.npy
P: HELDOUT_PPL 320.987  loss 5.7714  train_s 162  /tmp/trP.npy

[stdout]
N: HELDOUT_PPL 321.762  loss 5.7738  train_s 162  /tmp/trN.npy
O: HELDOUT_PPL 322.353  loss 5.7756  train_s 162  /tmp/trO.npy
P: HELDOUT_PPL 320.987  loss 5.7714  train_s 162  /tmp/trP.npy
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#46
narration

All three tweaks on top of I came out slightly worse (321–322 vs 317.0), confirming I as the winner and that ~317–326 is a noise band. Now the critical step — running the consolidated curate.py end-to-end to reproducibly regenerate the selection:

toolBashRun curate.py end-to-end
args
{
  "command": "setsid nohup python submission/curate.py --out /workspace/work/sel_final.json > work/curate.log 2>&1 < /dev/null & sleep 100; grep -v Warning work/curate.log | tail -8",
  "description": "Run curate.py end-to-end"
}
Bash result
[1]+  Done                    setsid nohup python submission/curate.py --out /workspace/work/sel_final.json > work/curate.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
    raise self._value
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 540, in _handle_tasks
    put(task)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 206, in send
    self._send_bytes(_ForkingPickler.dumps(obj))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/multiprocessing/reduction.py", line 51, in dumps
    cls(buf, protocol).dump(obj)
AttributeError: Can't pickle local object 'main.<locals>._tl'

[stdout]
[1]+  Done                    setsid nohup python submission/curate.py --out /workspace/work/sel_final.json > work/curate.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
    raise self._value
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 540, in _handle_tasks
    put(task)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 206, in send
    self._send_bytes(_ForkingPickler.dumps(obj))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/multiprocessing/reduction.py", line 51, in dumps
    cls(buf, protocol).dump(obj)
AttributeError: Can't pickle local object 'main.<locals>._tl'
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#47
narration

Quick fix — the token-length worker must be at module level to be picklable:

toolBashFix pickling and rerun curate.py
args
{
  "command": "python - <<'EOF'\np='/workspace/submission/curate.py'; s=open(p).read()\ns=s.replace('''def _qual_chunk(chunk):\n    return [qual_feats(t) for t in chunk]''','''def _qual_chunk(chunk):\n    return [qual_feats(t) for t in chunk]\n\ndef _tokline_chunk(chunk):\n    \"\"\"GPT-2 token length per doc = how much of the budget that doc costs.\"\"\"\n    from transformers import GPT2TokenizerFast\n    t = GPT2TokenizerFast.from_pretrained(\"gpt2\")\n    o = []\n    for s in range(0, len(chunk), 256):\n        o.extend(len(x) for x in t(chunk[s:s + 256], add_special_tokens=False)[\"input_ids\"])\n    return o''')\ns=s.replace('''    # GPT-2 token length per doc (defines how much of the budget a doc costs)\n    from transformers import GPT2TokenizerFast\n    def _tl(chunk):\n        t = GPT2TokenizerFast.from_pretrained(\"gpt2\")\n        o = []\n        for s in range(0, len(chunk), 256):\n            o.extend(len(x) for x in t(chunk[s:s + 256], add_special_tokens=False)[\"input_ids\"])\n        return o\n    bnd''','''    bnd''')\ns=s.replace('        tl = p.map(_tl, [texts[bnd[i]:bnd[i + 1]] for i in range(NWORK)])',\n            '        tl = p.map(_tokline_chunk, [texts[bnd[i]:bnd[i + 1]] for i in range(NWORK)])')\nopen(p,'w').write(s)\nimport ast; ast.parse(s); print('fixed')\nEOF\nsetsid nohup python submission/curate.py --out /workspace/work/sel_final.json > work/curate.log 2>&1 < /dev/null & sleep 110; grep -v Warning work/curate.log | tail -6",
  "description": "Fix pickling and rerun curate.py"
}
Bash result
fixed
[1]+  Done                    setsid nohup python submission/curate.py --out /workspace/work/sel_final.json > work/curate.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
Token indices sequence length is longer than the specified maximum sequence length for this model (2205 > 1024). Running this sequence through the model will result in indexing errors
pool tokens 199.9M
featurizing pool...
  118M feature occurrences
target registers: {'wiki': (1708, 0.316), 'web': (638, 0.539), 'qa': (358, 0.144)}
register 'wiki': 1708 positives

[stdout]
fixed
[1]+  Done                    setsid nohup python submission/curate.py --out /workspace/work/sel_final.json > work/curate.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
Token indices sequence length is longer than the specified maximum sequence length for this model (2205 > 1024). Running this sequence through the model will result in indexing errors
pool tokens 199.9M
featurizing pool...
  118M feature occurrences
target registers: {'wiki': (1708, 0.316), 'web': (638, 0.539), 'qa': (358, 0.144)}
register 'wiki': 1708 positives
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#48
reasoning (redacted)

encrypted chain-of-thought — recorded, not exposed

toolBashPoll curate.py progress
args
{
  "command": "sleep 115; grep -v Warning work/curate.log | tail -12; ls -la work/sel_final.json 2>/dev/null; cat /workspace/.timer/remaining_secs",
  "description": "Poll curate.py progress"
}
Bash result
clf loss 0.2672 bal-acc~0.962
register 'web': 638 positives
  clf loss 0.3683 bal-acc~0.912
register 'qa': 358 positives
  clf loss 0.1454 bal-acc~1.000
quality gate keeps 109811 / 182016
duplicates dropped 2345
  wiki: 28781 docs / 13M tokens available
  web: 37352 docs / 44M tokens available
  qa: 41333 docs / 37M tokens available
selected 18543 docs / 13500216 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.22, 'web': 0.43, 'qa': 0.35}
wrote /workspace/work/sel_final.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128151 Aug  4 01:57 work/sel_final.json
2435

[stdout]
  clf loss 0.2672 bal-acc~0.962
register 'web': 638 positives
  clf loss 0.3683 bal-acc~0.912
register 'qa': 358 positives
  clf loss 0.1454 bal-acc~1.000
quality gate keeps 109811 / 182016
duplicates dropped 2345
  wiki: 28781 docs / 13M tokens available
  web: 37352 docs / 44M tokens available
  qa: 41333 docs / 37M tokens available
selected 18543 docs / 13500216 tokens; realised mix {'wiki': 0.22, 'web': 0.43, 'qa': 0.35}
wrote /workspace/work/sel_final.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128151 Aug  4 01:57 work/sel_final.json
2435
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#49
narration

curate.py reproduced the winning selection exactly — identical classifier losses (0.2672 / 0.3683 / 0.1454) and 18,543 docs / 13,500,216 tokens. Let me verify it matches candidate I and install it:

toolBashVerify, install, and launch final confirmation training
args
{
  "command": "python - <<'EOF'\nimport json\na=json.load(open('work/sel_final.json')); b=json.load(open('work/selI.json'))\nprint('curate.py output == candidate I :', a==b)\nprint('len',len(a),'unique',len(set(a))==len(a),'min',min(a),'max',max(a))\nEOF\ncp work/sel_final.json /workspace/submission/selection.json\npython work/fast_pack.py /workspace/submission/selection.json /tmp/tr_final.npy\nsetsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr_final.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r_final.json > work/train_final.log 2>&1 < /dev/null &\nsleep 5; echo \"final confirmation run launched\"",
  "description": "Verify, install, and launch final confirmation training"
}
Bash result
curate.py output == candidate I : True
len 18543 unique True min 1 max 181601
packed 12000000 tokens from 18543 ids -> /tmp/tr_final.npy
[1]+  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr_final.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r_final.json > work/train_final.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
final confirmation run launched

[stdout]
curate.py output == candidate I : True
len 18543 unique True min 1 max 181601
packed 12000000 tokens from 18543 ids -> /tmp/tr_final.npy
[1]+  Done                    setsid nohup python train_nano.py --train_npy /tmp/tr_final.npy --heldout_npy data/multi_dev.npy --out_json /tmp/r_final.json > work/train_final.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
final confirmation run launched
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}
#50
narration

Bit-identical to candidate I. Let me verify the prefix-mixture property I claim in claim.md, and collect the final number:

toolBashVerify prefix-mixture property and final PPL
args
{
  "command": "python - <<'EOF'\nimport json, numpy as np, re\n# verify: is EVERY prefix of the list mixture-matched? (the property that makes it budget-robust)\nz=np.load('work/scores.npz'); ids=z['ids']; lens=np.load('work/pool_lens.npy')\nrow={int(v):i for i,v in enumerate(ids)}\nZ=np.stack([(z[k]-z[k].mean())/z[k].std() for k in ('wiki','web','qa')]); asg=Z.argmax(0)\nsel=json.load(open('/workspace/submission/selection.json'))\ngot=np.zeros(3); tot=0; marks=[]\nfor n,i in enumerate(sel,1):\n    r=row[i]; got[asg[r]]+=lens[r]+1; tot+=lens[r]+1\n    if n in (500,2000,8000,15000,18543) or (tot>=12_000_000 and not marks[-1:] or False):\n        marks.append((n,tot,np.round(got/tot,3)))\nfor n,t,m in marks: print(f\"  prefix {n:6d} docs / {t/1e6:6.3f}M tok -> mix {m}\")\n# where does the 12M budget actually cut?\nc=np.cumsum([lens[row[i]]+1 for i in sel]); k=int(np.searchsorted(c,12_000_000))+1\nprint(f\"12M budget consumes the first {k} of {len(sel)} ids ({c[-1]/1e6:.2f}M tok provided)\")\nEOF\ngrep -h HELDOUT work/train_final.log || echo \"final: running\"",
  "description": "Verify prefix-mixture property and final PPL"
}
Bash result
prefix    500 docs /  0.220M tok -> mix [0.218 0.428 0.354]
  prefix   2000 docs /  0.983M tok -> mix [0.22 0.43 0.35]
  prefix   8000 docs /  4.882M tok -> mix [0.22 0.43 0.35]
  prefix  15000 docs / 10.435M tok -> mix [0.22 0.43 0.35]
  prefix  18543 docs / 13.500M tok -> mix [0.22 0.43 0.35]
12M budget consumes the first 16872 of 18543 ids (13.50M tok provided)
final: running

[stdout]
  prefix    500 docs /  0.220M tok -> mix [0.218 0.428 0.354]
  prefix   2000 docs /  0.983M tok -> mix [0.22 0.43 0.35]
  prefix   8000 docs /  4.882M tok -> mix [0.22 0.43 0.35]
  prefix  15000 docs / 10.435M tok -> mix [0.22 0.43 0.35]
  prefix  18543 docs / 13.500M tok -> mix [0.22 0.43 0.35]
12M budget consumes the first 16872 of 18543 ids (13.50M tok provided)
final: running
[metadata] {"noOutputExpected": false}