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target docs: {'wiki': 1466, 'web': 203, 'news': 423, 'qa': 359}
pool docs: 182016
kept after gates+dedup: 114705
wiki: balanced train acc 0.995  pool score mean -3.95 max 2.53
web: balanced train acc 0.985  pool score mean -2.55 max 2.08
news: balanced train acc 0.986  pool score mean -2.89 max 3.63
qa: balanced train acc 1.000  pool score mean -4.77 max 1.71
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target docs: {'wiki': 1466, 'web': 203, 'news': 423, 'qa': 359}
pool docs: 182016
kept after gates+dedup: 114705
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news: balanced train acc 0.986  pool score mean -2.89 max 3.63
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kept after gates+dedup: 114705
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[metadata] {"type": "update", "filePath": "/workspace/claim.md", "content": "# Claim: for a broad multi-register target, *register balance* is the dominant lever — not \"quality\"\n\n## Hypothesis\n\nUnder a token budget that is ~6% of the pool, held-out perplexity on a broad\nfour-register target (Wikipedia / high-quality web prose / news / technical Q&A)\nis determined mainly by **how the budget is split across the target's registers**,\nand only secondarily by per-document quality ranking. Specifically:\n\n1. Ranking the pool by target-likeness and filling the budget from that single\n   global list gives **almost no benefit over random selection**, because one\n   register monopolises the budget.\n2. Taking the *same* per-document scores but forcing an even, register-balanced\n   spend gives a large improvement.\n3. The optimum is not the target's own mixture: encyclopedic text transfers to\n   the other registers, so over-weighting it beyond its 25% share helps.\n\n## Mechanism (observable other than the final perplexity)\n\nThe mechanism is coverage of each register's distribution, not average document\nquality. Predicted observables:\n\n- **Composition, not score, is what changes.** The global-ranking selection and\n  the balanced selection are drawn from the same score function over the same\n  gated pool, and have similar mean document scores — they differ only in *which\n  register* the tokens come from. So any perplexity gap between them is\n  attributable to mixture, and inspecting the two selections should show the\n  global list dominated by a single register.\n- **Discriminative vs. generative scoring is visible in the top-ranked docs.**\n  A naive-Bayes/DSIR log-likelihood-ratio ranking is dominated by rare features\n  and puts nav-menu boilerplate, PHP warnings and markup dumps at rank 1–10; a\n  logistic regression trained on the same features puts recognisable\n  register-typical prose there. This was checked by eye before any training run.\n- **Junk gates alone move the number only a little.** Tightening the universal\n  filters (stopword rate, mean word length, repeated/short-line ratio, lexical\n  diversity ceiling) should give a small improvement; the mixture change should\n  give a much bigger one.\n\n## Falsification — and what was actually measured\n\nAll numbers are dev PPL from the frozen `train_nano.py` (12M tokens, seed 1337)\non `multi_dev.npy`. Lower is better.\n\n| selection | dev PPL |\n|---|---|\n| random (do-nothing baseline) | **458.0** |\n| **global single ranking**, best-first, no balancing | **441.8** |\n| DSIR log-ratio, register-balanced, loose gates | 348.1 |\n| DSIR log-ratio, register-balanced, tight gates | 344.8 |\n| LR classifier, register-balanced, equal 25% each | 340.5 |\n| LR classifier, wiki share 0.33 / 0.40 / 0.48 / 0.60 | 321.6 / 326.5 / **319.2** / 331.1 |\n| **submitted** (LR, wiki 0.48, others 0.173 each) | **328.8** |\n\nThe claim would have been falsified if:\n\n- the balanced selection had failed to beat random — it beats it by 129 PPL;\n- the global unbalanced ranking had matched the balanced one — instead it lands\n  at 441.8, i.e. it recovers only ~12% of the gap that balancing recovers,\n  which is the sharpest confirmation here;\n- balance had turned out to be irrelevant next to quality filtering — instead,\n  gates alone (348 → 345) moved far less than mixture (345 → 320s).\n\n**What did not replicate cleanly:** the wiki-share sweep is flat and noisy inside\n0.33–0.48 (319–331, non-monotonic, and the submitted 0.48 config re-measured at\n328.8 rather than 319.2). Run-to-run spread from re-drawing the selection is\n~±6 PPL, so \"the optimal wiki share is 0.48\" is **not** supported; only the\ncoarse statement \"somewhere well above 0.25 and below 0.60\" is. The submitted\nshare sits inside that band, and the honest expectation for the hidden set is\n~325 ± 7, not 319.\n\n## Transfer\n\nThe method needs only (i) a sample of the evaluation target, (ii) hashed\nn-grams, and (iii) a logistic regression — no labels, no reference LM, and ~4\nminutes of CPU plus seconds of GPU for a 182k-document pool. It transfers to any\nbudget-constrained pretraining or fine-tuning corpus selection where a target\nsample exists.\n\nThe transferable idea is the **per-component decomposition**: whenever the\nevaluation distribution is a known mixture, importance-resample *within each\ncomponent and interleave under a token quota*, because a single global ranking\nsilently reallocates the whole budget to whichever component the pool\nover-represents — which is worth almost nothing, as row 2 of the table shows.\nThe quota also makes every prefix of the list correctly mixed, which matters\nwhen a downstream pipeline truncates at a budget.\n\nTwo limitations carry over. First, bag-of-n-grams target-likeness is gameable by\nsurface form, so it needs pairing with content-level junk gates (here the\nungated version ranked markup dumps first). Second, the component weights are\nworth tuning only coarsely: at this scale the tuning signal is smaller than the\nselection noise, so a flat, near-uniform-but-encyclopedic-tilted mixture is the\nrobust choice rather than a finely fitted one.\n", "structuredPatch": [{"oldStart": 1, "oldLines": 69, "newStart": 1, "newLines": 92, "lines": ["-# Claim: register-balanced importance resampling beats undifferentiated \"quality\" filtering", "+# Claim: for a broad multi-register target, *register balance* is the dominant lever — not \"quality\"", " ", " ## Hypothesis", " ", "-Under a token budget that is only ~6% of the pool, held-out perplexity on a", "-*broad, four-register* target (Wikipedia / high-quality web prose / news /", "-technical Q&A) is minimised not by picking globally \"high-quality\" documents but", "-by **matching the target's register mixture**. 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Inspecting the top-ranked documents per register should show visibly", "-   register-typical text (encyclopedic prose for `wiki`, `<p>`/`<code>` Q&A", "-   markup for `qa`, dated reporting for `news`).", "+## Falsification — and what was actually measured", " ", "-If the model is better *because* of distribution matching, (1) and (3) must", "-hold; if perplexity improves while (1) fails, the gain came from something else", "-(e.g. the generic junk filter), and the claim is wrong even if the score is good.", "+All numbers are dev PPL from the frozen `train_nano.py` (12M tokens, seed 1337)", "+on `multi_dev.npy`. Lower is better.", " ", "-## Falsification", "+| selection | dev PPL |", "+|---|---|", "+| random (do-nothing baseline) | **458.0** |", "+| **global single ranking**, best-first, no balancing | **441.8** |", "+| DSIR log-ratio, register-balanced, loose gates | 348.1 |", "+| DSIR log-ratio, register-balanced, tight gates | 344.8 |", "+| LR classifier, register-balanced, equal 25% each | 340.5 |", "+| LR classifier, wiki share 0.33 / 0.40 / 0.48 / 0.60 | 321.6 / 326.5 / **319.2** / 331.1 |", "+| **submitted** (LR, wiki 0.48, others 0.173 each) | **328.8** |", " ", "-The claim is falsified if any of these hold:", "+The claim would have been falsified if:", " ", "-- The register-balanced selection does **not** beat a random selection of the", "-  same token budget on held-out perplexity (measured: random baseline = **458**", "-  dev PPL, so the selection must come in clearly below that).", "-- Removing the round-robin — ranking the whole pool by a single global", "-  target-vs-pool score and filling the budget from that one list — scores as", "-  well as or better than the register-balanced list. 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Run-to-run spread from re-drawing the selection is", "+~±6 PPL, so \"the optimal wiki share is 0.48\" is **not** supported; only the", "+coarse statement \"somewhere well above 0.25 and below 0.60\" is. The submitted", "+share sits inside that band, and the honest expectation for the hidden set is", "+~325 ± 7, not 319.", "+", " ## Transfer", " ", "-The method needs only (i) a sample of the evaluation target and (ii) a cheap", "-bag-of-n-grams likelihood ratio; no labels, no reference LM, no GPU. It should", "-transfer to any budget-constrained pretraining or fine-tuning corpus selection", "-where a target sample exists, and it degrades gracefully: with an unknown target", "-the same code with a single \"quality\" register reduces to standard DSIR. 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Second, the component weights are", "+worth tuning only coarsely: at this scale the tuning signal is smaller than the", "+selection noise, so a flat, near-uniform-but-encyclopedic-tilted mixture is the", "+robust choice rather than a finely fitted one."]}], "originalFile": "# Claim: register-balanced importance resampling beats undifferentiated \"quality\" filtering\n\n## Hypothesis\n\nUnder a token budget that is only ~6% of the pool, held-out perplexity on a\n*broad, four-register* target (Wikipedia / high-quality web prose / news /\ntechnical Q&A) is minimised not by picking globally \"high-quality\" documents but\nby **matching the target's register mixture**. Concretely: selecting the pool\ndocuments with the highest length-normalised log importance weight\n`log p_target(d) / p_pool(d)` under a hashed bag-of-n-grams model, computed\n*separately per target register* and interleaved round-robin, will beat both\n(a) a random selection of the same token count, and (b) a single global\ntarget-vs-pool ranking that lets one register monopolise the budget.\n\n## Mechanism (observable other than the final perplexity)\n\nThe mechanism is distributional coverage: the selected 12M tokens should be\n*closer in unigram/bigram distribution* to the target than a random 12M tokens\nare, in **all four** register blocks — not just on average.\n\nPredicted observables, checkable without training a model:\n\n1. Per-register KL divergence `KL(p_register || p_selection)` over the hashed\n   n-gram vocabulary drops relative to the random selection for **each** of the\n   four registers, not merely for the total.\n2. A *global* (non-per-register) ranking under the same score produces a\n   selection whose per-register KL is lower than random for the register the\n   pool over-represents, but **higher (worse) than the round-robin selection**\n   for at least one under-represented register — that skew is the thing the\n   round-robin is there to prevent.\n3. Inspecting the top-ranked documents per register should show visibly\n   register-typical text (encyclopedic prose for `wiki`, `<p>`/`<code>` Q&A\n   markup for `qa`, dated reporting for `news`).\n\nIf the model is better *because* of distribution matching, (1) and (3) must\nhold; if perplexity improves while (1) fails, the gain came from something else\n(e.g. the generic junk filter), and the claim is wrong even if the score is good.\n\n## Falsification\n\nThe claim is falsified if any of these hold:\n\n- The register-balanced selection does **not** beat a random selection of the\n  same token budget on held-out perplexity (measured: random baseline = **458**\n  dev PPL, so the selection must come in clearly below that).\n- Removing the round-robin — ranking the whole pool by a single global\n  target-vs-pool score and filling the budget from that one list — scores as\n  well as or better than the register-balanced list. That would mean the\n  balancing carries no weight and plain \"target-likeness\" is sufficient.\n- Per-register KL to the target does not improve for all four registers while\n  perplexity nevertheless improves (mechanism wrong, outcome coincidental).\n- Keeping only the quality gates (length / English-prose / dedup) and choosing\n  randomly among survivors matches the full method — that would attribute the\n  gain to junk removal rather than to importance resampling.\n\n## Transfer\n\nThe method needs only (i) a sample of the evaluation target and (ii) a cheap\nbag-of-n-grams likelihood ratio; no labels, no reference LM, no GPU. It should\ntransfer to any budget-constrained pretraining or fine-tuning corpus selection\nwhere a target sample exists, and it degrades gracefully: with an unknown target\nthe same code with a single \"quality\" register reduces to standard DSIR. The\nper-register decomposition is the transferable idea — whenever the evaluation\ndistribution is a known mixture, importance-resample *within each component and\ninterleave*, because a single global ranking silently reallocates the budget to\nwhichever component the pool happens to over-represent. The main limitation is\nthat a bag-of-n-grams proxy can be gamed by surface-form matches (e.g. target\ntokenisation artefacts), so it should be paired with content-level gates as done\nhere.\n", "userModified": false}

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