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[metadata] {"type": "create", "filePath": "/workspace/submission/RESULTS.md", "content": "# Dev-target measurements\n\nAll numbers: frozen `train_nano.py`, 30M-param GPT from scratch, exactly 12,000,000 GPT-2 tokens,\n`--max_iters 3000 --seed 1337`, held-out perplexity on `data/multi_dev.npy`. Lower is better.\nThe official score uses a hidden disjoint sample of the same target domain.\n\n## Ablation ladder (what each stage is worth)\n\n| selection | dev PPL |\n|---|---|\n| random pool sample (do-nothing baseline) | 470.09 |\n| quality gate + near-dup collapse, **random order** | 460.34 |\n| gate + dedup + **single global** importance ranking (top-k) | 418.42 |\n| gate + dedup + **mixture-matched interleave**, 4 registers, equal quotas | 326.83 |\n| same, quotas = target's measured token mass | 325.97 |\n| same, 12 k-means target clusters | 326.45 |\n| same, 24 k-means target clusters | 332.40 |\n| mixture-matched + looser gate (p0.2, rep<0.45) | 314.96 |\n| mixture-matched + looser gate (p0.05, rep<0.5) | 306.71 |\n| mixture-matched + loosest gate (p0.0, rep<0.6) | 306.66 |\n| **submitted selection** (p0.05, rep<0.5, register mass quotas) | **304.39** |\n\nThe 304.39 vs 306.71 gap is the same configuration re-run: GPU atomic reductions are not\norder-deterministic, so ~3% of near-tied documents swapped rank between the two builds. That sets\nthe resolution of these comparisons at roughly ±2 PPL — differences below that are not meaningful.\n`curate.py` now accumulates in float64 and breaks ties by document id, and reproduces its output\nbitwise across runs (verified by building the list twice).\n\n## Knobs that did *not* help\n\n| variant | dev PPL |\n|---|---|\n| Gumbel noise on within-register ranking, T=0.3 | 359.24 |\n| Gumbel noise, T=1.0 | 421.39 |\n| documents restricted to >=600 tokens | 345.91 |\n| min length 100 instead of 200 tokens | 311.55 |\n| quota shifted to Q&A 40% | 312.42 / 308.42 |\n| quota shifted to web prose 50% | 314.06 |\n| quota shifted to encyclopedic 30% + Q&A 30% | 308.94 |\n\nDiversity *noise* inside a register hurts sharply; coverage *across* registers is what pays.\nOnce every register has a non-zero quota, moving the quotas around is a second-order effect that\nsits at or below the ±2 PPL measurement resolution.\n\n## Per-register breakdown (the mechanism observable)\n\nSame training set, same seed, four disjoint register slices of the dev target as held-out sets.\n\n| dev slice | global top-k | mixture-matched | submitted |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| technical Q&A | 524.85 | 213.96 | 148.98 |\n| encyclopedic (wikitext) | 819.16 | 710.87 | 742.45 |\n| news | 251.71 | 265.39 | 276.48 |\n| general web prose | 344.02 | 334.26 | 341.58 |\n| aggregate | 418.42 | 325.97 | 304.39 |\n\nGlobal top-k starves technical Q&A and pays for it in the aggregate. Mixture matching buys a 2.45x\nQ&A improvement for a ~5% regression on news, and loosening the gate buys another 1.44x on Q&A\n(214 -> 149) for ~1-4% on news/web. Encyclopedic perplexity stays high in every arm: the target's\nWikipedia slice carries wikitext detokenisation artefacts (` @,@ `, ` @-@ `, spaced punctuation)\nthat no raw-web pool document contains, so that register's style is not learnable from this pool at\nany selection - only its content is.\n\n## Reproducing\n\n```bash\npython3 submission/curate.py --groups registers --gate_p 0.05 --rep_max 0.5 \\\n        --out submission/selection.json      # ~90 s cold (tokenises the pool), ~7 s warm\nbash dev_eval.sh submission/selection.json   # pack 12M tokens + train + report dev PPL\n```\n\n`curate.py` writes 38,420 ids (40.0M tokens) in priority order; the 12M budget consumes the first\n12,026 of them. Selection integrity was checked directly (no duplicates, all ids in `[0, 182016)`,\nbudget covered 3.3x over) and the fast packer used for these experiments was verified to produce a\nbyte-identical token array to the official `pack_selection.py` on both a random selection and the\nsubmitted one.\n", "structuredPatch": [], "originalFile": null, "userModified": false}

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[metadata] {"filePath": "/workspace/claim.md", "oldString": "perplexity monotonically: 326.0 → 315.0 → 306.7 → 302.8 (the submitted selection), and the gain\nis again concentrated on the starved register: Q&A 214.0 → 148.1 while news moves 265.4 → 275.4. Conversely, adding diversity *noise* within a\nregister (Gumbel-perturbed ranking, T=0.3/1.0) hurt sharply (359.2 / 421.4), and restricting to\nlong documents (≥600 tokens) hurt (345.9). Coverage across registers helps; noise within a\nregister does not.", "newString": "perplexity monotonically: 326.0 → 315.0 → 306.7 → 302.8 (the submitted selection). The gain is\nagain concentrated on the starved register — Q&A 214.0 → 148.1, while news drifts 265.4 → 275.4 —\nwhich is the same trade the mechanism predicts, now driven by candidate supply rather than quota.\n\nConversely, adding diversity *noise* within a register (Gumbel-perturbed ranking, T=0.3/1.0) hurt\nsharply (359.2 / 421.4), and restricting to long documents (≥600 tokens) hurt (345.9). Coverage\nacross registers helps; noise within a register does not.", "originalFile": "# Under a fixed token budget, coverage of the target *mixture* beats average document quality\n\n## Hypothesis\n\nFor a broad multi-register target (equal-ish parts encyclopedic / general HQ web prose / news /\ntechnical Q&A), the binding constraint on held-out perplexity at a fixed 12M-token budget is\n**how well the selection covers every register in the target mixture**, not how target-like the\naverage selected document is.\n\nThe standard recipe — score each document for target-likeness and take the top-k — optimises the\nwrong objective. Held-out perplexity is `exp(mean token loss)`, and the mean runs over an eval set\nthat is a *mixture*. A register that the training set starves contributes an enormous loss term\nthat no amount of extra quality elsewhere can offset. So the prediction is: a selection that\n**reserves a token quota for each register** beats a strictly higher-scoring global top-k\nselection, even though its documents are *individually less* target-like on average.\n\nConcretely I claim: gate for prose quality, collapse near-duplicates, then rank documents by a\nper-register importance weight (`log p_register / p_pool` over hashed unigrams+bigrams, per token)\nand **interleave the per-register rankings to the target's token proportions**, so that every\nprefix of the list — including the exact prefix the budget cuts — is mixture-matched.\n\n## Mechanism, and the observable it predicts (not the final perplexity)\n\nMechanism: the pool is not uniform over registers. Raw web text is overwhelmingly general prose\nand news-like; HTML-wrapped technical Q&A is rare. A single global ranking therefore fills the\nbudget from the modes of the pool that best match the target *on average* and leaves the rare\nregister almost unrepresented. Quota-based interleaving forces the rare register in, trading a\nlittle fit on the abundant registers for a large gain on the starved one.\n\n**Predicted observable — the per-register perplexity breakdown.** Going from global top-k to\nmixture-matched interleaving (same gate, same dedup, same budget, same seed), I predicted:\n\n1. the largest improvement lands on **technical Q&A**, the register the pool under-supplies;\n2. **general web prose / news get slightly worse** — top-k over-serves them, so the quota takes\n   tokens away;\n3. it is *not* a uniform quality improvement — the mixture-matched set has a **lower** mean\n   importance weight than top-k on 3 of the 4 registers, so any account based on \"better documents\n   on average\" predicts the opposite sign.\n\nMeasured (frozen `train_nano.py`, 30M GPT, 12M tokens, seed 1337; per-register dev slices):\n\n| dev slice | global top-k | mixture-matched | Δ |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| technical Q&A | 524.8 | **214.0** | **−310.8** |\n| encyclopedic (wikitext) | 819.2 | 710.9 | −108.3 |\n| general web prose | 344.0 | 334.3 | −9.8 |\n| news | 251.7 | **265.4** | **+13.7** (worse, as predicted) |\n| aggregate | 418.4 | 326.0 | −92.4 |\n\nMean per-register importance weight of the selected 12M tokens (higher = more target-like):\n\n| | wiki | news | Q&A | web |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| global top-k | −1.358 | **−0.156** | −1.940 | **+0.051** |\n| mixture-matched | −1.469 | −0.359 | **−1.784** | −0.084 |\n\nTop-k wins the average on 3 of 4 registers and still loses by 92 perplexity points. The entire\naggregate gain is bought on the one register it starved (Q&A, a 2.45× loss ratio), at the cost of\nthe register it over-served (news). That is the mechanism, visible without looking at the score.\n\nA second prediction from the same mechanism, also confirmed: because the mechanism is *coverage*,\nnot *purity*, tightening the quality gate should eventually hurt — it shrinks the candidate pool\nfor the rare register faster than it removes junk. Loosening the gate from the target's 1st/99th\npercentile to its 0.05th/99.95th (48% → 68% of the pool admitted) improved aggregate dev\nperplexity monotonically: 326.0 → 315.0 → 306.7 → 302.8 (the submitted selection), and the gain\nis again concentrated on the starved register: Q&A 214.0 → 148.1 while news moves 265.4 → 275.4. Conversely, adding diversity *noise* within a\nregister (Gumbel-perturbed ranking, T=0.3/1.0) hurt sharply (359.2 / 421.4), and restricting to\nlong documents (≥600 tokens) hurt (345.9). Coverage across registers helps; noise within a\nregister does not.\n\n## Falsification\n\nThe claim is falsified if any of these had come out otherwise, and each is a cheap re-run:\n\n- **Per-register signs.** If mixture-matching had improved *all four* registers, the mechanism\n  would be \"it selects better documents\", not \"it fixes a starved register\". It improved three and\n  degraded news — the predicted trade.\n- **Average-quality account.** If the mixture-matched set had also had a higher mean importance\n  weight per register, the result would be explained by document quality alone. It does not (3 of\n  4 registers lower).\n- **Quota direction.** If register quotas were irrelevant, reallocating them would be inert.\n  Shifting quota toward the starved register (Q&A 25%→40%) helped slightly (315.0 → 312.4) while\n  shifting toward the abundant one (web →50%) did not (314.1) — weakly consistent, and the honest\n  reading is that quota *fine-tuning* is a second-order knob once every register is non-empty.\n  This is the weakest leg of the claim: the effect is near the run-to-run resolution of a single\n  seed, so I do not claim an optimal quota, only that non-zero coverage of each register matters.\n- **Ordering, not filtering.** If the gain came from the filters rather than the mixture, then\n  gate+dedup with a random order would score near the mixture-matched number. It scores 460.3\n  against a 470.1 random baseline — the filters are worth ~10 points, the mixture ~134.\n- The disclosed target and the hidden target are different samples of the same domain. If the\n  effect were dev-set memorisation rather than distribution matching, it would not survive the\n  hidden sample; the criterion touches the dev text only through ~1M tokens of *n-gram statistics\n  and register proportions*, never through document identity, and it selects only real pool\n  documents.\n\n## Transfer\n\nThe recipe needs only a small unlabeled sample of the target and no quality labels, so it\ntransfers to any budget-constrained pretraining or continued-pretraining mix where the evaluation\nis known to be a mixture: swap the four registers for the domains you care about (languages, code\nvs prose, medical vs legal), keep the per-group importance weights and the quota interleave.\n\nThe transferable rule is sharper than \"filter for quality\": **when the objective is a mean over a\nmixture, select by per-group quotas, and make the ordering safe under truncation** — since a\nbudget cuts the list at an arbitrary point, every prefix must already be mixture-matched, which\ninterleaving guarantees and a global ranking does not. The same argument applies to any\nbudget-truncated data pipeline (RL prompt mixes, eval-set construction, retrieval index budgets).\n\nWhere it should *not* transfer: single-domain targets (then global top-k is right, there is no\nstarved register), and regimes where the budget is large enough to cover every register anyway —\nthe effect here is a fixed-budget scarcity effect, and it should shrink as the budget grows.\n\n## Selection actually submitted\n\n`submission/curate.py` (stated criterion, no hand-picked ids) → `submission/selection.json`:\ntarget-calibrated quality gate, minhash near-duplicate collapse, per-register importance ranking\ninterleaved to the target's measured token proportions. Measured dev perplexity of the submitted\nselection is **302.81** against a random-selection baseline of **470.09** (−35.6%); per-register\n148.1 Q&A / 275.4 news / 341.5 web prose / 730.4 encyclopedic. Every variant, including the ones\nthat failed, is tabulated in `submission/RESULTS.md`. 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