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_curriculum_v5_early/s2/manifest.json

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+  "hard": false,
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+      "arc",
+      "hellaswag",
+      "squad",
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+      "society"
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+      "alpha": 32
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+    "merge_until": null,
+    "orders": [
+      [
+        "boolq",
+        "winogrande",
+        "mnli",
+        "arc",
+        "hellaswag",
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+      ],
+      [
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+        "boolq",
+        "arc",
+        "hellaswag",
+        "squad",
+        "mnli"
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+      [
+        "boolq",
+        "winogrande",
+        "hellaswag",
+        "squad",
+        "mnli",
+        "arc"
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+  }
+}

results/llm_curriculum_v5_early/s2/resolved_config.yaml

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+experiment: llm_curriculum_v5_early
+seed: 2
+n_replicates: 1
+source_config:
+  experiment: llm_curriculum_v5_early
+  kind: llm_curriculum
+  base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B
+  seed: 2
+  families:
+  - mnli
+  - arc
+  - hellaswag
+  - squad
+  - boolq
+  - winogrande
+  lineages: 3
+  generations: 6
+  arms:
+  - isolated
+  - society
+  baselines: []
+  allow_veto: true
+  n_new: 300
+  n_replay: 150
+  n_test: 60
+  n_val: 20
+  epochs: 3
+  lr: 0.0001
+  operator: linear
+  merge_weights:
+  - - 0.5
+    - 0.5
+  - - 0.3
+    - 0.7
+  - - 0.7
+    - 0.3
+  max_new_tokens: 48
+  batch_size: 48
+  train_batch_size: 4
+  train_max_len: 512
+  lora:
+    r: 16
+    alpha: 32
+  output:
+    dir: results/llm_curriculum_v5_early/s2
+  orders:
+  - - boolq
+    - winogrande
+    - mnli
+    - arc
+    - hellaswag
+    - squad
+  - - winogrande
+    - boolq
+    - arc
+    - hellaswag
+    - squad
+    - mnli
+  - - boolq
+    - winogrande
+    - hellaswag
+    - squad
+    - mnli
+    - arc
+  n_replicates: 1