Restructure: descriptive tier and experiment names, paper/manuscript

- paper/pnas -> paper/manuscript (venue-neutral)
- configs/layer1 -> configs/inheritance, src/knowledge -> src/inheritance
  (imported as `inheritance`), make layer1 -> make inheritance; layer2 alias dropped
- inheritance and trained-network bundles named after the manuscript figure
  they feed (fig2_grounding_sweep, figS3_rebaselining, ...), or descriptively
  where they feed none; configs keep their `experiment:` value so parquet
  hashes are unchanged, only output.dir moves
- figure scripts, SI figure sources, notebooks, REPRODUCING.md, README and the
  SI Methods/tables updated; make clean no longer deletes tracked manifests;
  reproduce.sh hashes the s{seed}/ layouts too

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y64o8FKP7rCuXzC48pxpMm
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# E1 — Distillation without grounding collapses, tail-first
**Claim tested:** if a model is trained only on the previous model's output, generation after
generation, does it lose knowledge — and does the *rare* knowledge go first?
**Setup (Layer 1, pure math).** A "population" of `K = 500` items with a fixed true frequency
`p*` shaped like a Zipf curve (a few common items, a long tail of rare ones). Each generation we
draw `n = 100` samples from the current model and refit — **no real data is ever added** (`g = 0`).
Run for 600 generations, averaged over 100 independent repeats.
### Symbols
- **`p*`** — the true frequencies (fixed reality). **`p_t`** — the model's frequencies at generation *t* (drifts).
- **`H`** heterozygosity = diversity (1 = everything equally likely, 0 = one item left). **`H*`** = diversity of the truth.
- **forward-KL** `D(p*‖p_t)` — how far the model has drifted from truth (0 = perfect, grows without bound as the tail is forgotten).
- **support** = how many items still have any probability. **head/tail** = common/rare items.
### The three panels
1. **Geometric decay.** Blue = the simulated diversity `H`; black dashed = the exact textbook law
`H₀·(1 1/n)^t`. They sit on top of each other — the loss of diversity is *exactly* the
population-genetics drift law, not an approximation. (This is the validation gate: if these two
curves disagreed, the simulator would be wrong.)
2. **Tail dies first** (log axis). Red = fraction of *rare* (tail) items still alive; green =
fraction of *common* (head) items still alive. The red curve plunges far faster — rare knowledge
is lost roughly an order of magnitude sooner than common knowledge.
3. **Collapse.** Purple (left axis, log) = number of distinct items surviving, falling from 500
toward ~1 (everything collapses onto a single dominant item). Orange (right axis) = forward-KL to
truth, diverging as the tail vanishes.
### Takeaway
Unchecked model-on-model training is a ratchet: diversity decays on a precise mathematical schedule,
and the rare tail is destroyed first. **Falsifier (not triggered):** if `H` had stayed flat, the
whole thesis would fail. It didn't.

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experiment: E1_reproduce_collapse
seed: 20260704
n_replicates: 100
source_config:
experiment: E1_reproduce_collapse
seed: 20260704
n_replicates: 100
generations: 600
truth:
K: 500
R: 1
tail: zipf
zipf_s: 1.1
tail_frac: 0.5
tail_threshold: 0.001
init: truth
dynamics:
n: 100
teachers:
K_T: 1
rho: 0.0
q: 1.0
grounding:
m: 0
policy: proportional
selection:
mode: none
novelty_alpha: 0.0
remint:
enabled: false
period: null
H_gate: null
metrics:
kl_floor: 1.0e-09
support_eps: 1.0e-09
output:
dir: results/collapse_null
grid:
- label: {}
lineage_cfg:
truth:
K: 500
R: 1
tail: zipf
zipf_s: 1.1
tail_frac: 0.5
tail_threshold: 0.001
init: truth
dynamics:
n: 100
teachers:
K_T: 1
rho: 0.0
q: 1.0
grounding:
m: 0
policy: proportional
selection:
mode: none
novelty_alpha: 0.0
remint:
enabled: false
period: null
H_gate: null
generations: 600
metrics:
kl_floor: 1.0e-09
support_eps: 1.0e-09