Manuscript revision and pending experiment work, snapshot before restructuring

Clarity pass over the main text (36-item audit), Discussion rewrite and cut,
acknowledgements, Souly et al. as ref 62, lettered SI panels, model section
moved under Results; plus the untracked curriculum/society/compose/smol
configs, runners, figures, stats and tests that the SI already cites.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y64o8FKP7rCuXzC48pxpMm

results/llm_compose/s1/manifest.json

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+{
+  "experiment": "llm_compose",
+  "master_seed": 1,
+  "git_commit": "e4804adabcdce6d928c5e6b1e85429b2a6acf2fe",
+  "python": "3.14.7",
+  "libraries": {
+    "numpy": "2.5.0",
+    "scipy": "1.18.0",
+    "pandas": "3.0.3",
+    "pyarrow": "24.0.0",
+    "torch": "2.12.1",
+    "transformers": "5.16.1",
+    "peft": "0.20.0"
+  },
+  "rows": 366,
+  "results_sha256": "92ea7965e13685f77a79b85393685a1e7b53e8c821778f2368c4a68097292818",
+  "layer": "2",
+  "tier": "llm",
+  "base_model": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B",
+  "hard": false,
+  "compose": {
+    "arms": [
+      "dry",
+      "grounded",
+      "dry_cat"
+    ],
+    "generations": 6,
+    "g": 0.1,
+    "k_inherit": 300,
+    "conf_gate": 0.85,
+    "epochs": 3,
+    "n_hard": 150,
+    "n_gsm8k": 150,
+    "n_mbpp": 100,
+    "lora": {
+      "r": 16,
+      "alpha": 32
+    }
+  }
+}

results/llm_compose/s1/resolved_config.yaml

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+experiment: llm_compose
+seed: 1
+n_replicates: 1
+source_config:
+  experiment: llm_compose
+  kind: llm_compose
+  base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B
+  seed: 1
+  generations: 6
+  arms:
+  - dry
+  - grounded
+  - dry_cat
+  g: 0.1
+  n_hard: 150
+  n_gsm8k: 150
+  n_mbpp: 100
+  n_probe: 60
+  k_inherit: 300
+  epochs: 3
+  conf_gate: 0.85
+  spec_train: 1200
+  spec_epochs: 3
+  max_new_tokens: 320
+  batch_size: 16
+  score_batch_size: 4
+  train_batch_size: 2
+  train_max_len: 448
+  resume: true
+  lora:
+    r: 16
+    alpha: 32
+  output:
+    dir: results/llm_compose/s1
+  arm_ops:
+    dry: linear
+    grounded: linear
+    dry_cat: cat
+  n_hard_val: 60
+  merge_weights:
+  - - 0.5
+    - 0.5
+  - - 0.3
+    - 0.7
+  - - 0.2
+    - 0.8
+  - - 0.1
+    - 0.9
+  n_replicates: 1