"""E4 figure: multi-teacher recombination — supply vs realisation. Three panels tell the honest story: (A) union coverage rises with K_T and decorrelation, matching the exact closed form (recombination *supplies* the tail); (B) that supply is realised in the pupil only under a union-preserving merge — mean-mixture distillation dilutes it away (flat in K_T) while max-merge keeps it; (C) the union-surviving gap. Usage: python figures/plot_figS8_multiparent_union.py [results/figS8_multiparent_union] """ from __future__ import annotations import sys from pathlib import Path import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent)) from _figlib import load_bundle, savefig, letter_axes # noqa: E402 def U_closed(K_T, rho, q): return rho * q + (1 - rho) * (1 - (1 - q) ** K_T) def main(results_dir: str = "results/figS8_multiparent_union") -> None: df, cfg = load_bundle(results_dir) q = cfg["coverage"]["q"] K_Ts = sorted(df["K_T"].unique()) rhos = sorted(df["rho"].unique()) g0 = df[df["g"] == 0.0] colors = plt.cm.viridis(np.linspace(0, 0.85, len(K_Ts))) fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 3, figsize=(15, 4.3)) # Panel A: union coverage vs rho per K_T, with closed-form overlay ax = axes[0] for K, c in zip(K_Ts, colors): sub = g0[g0["K_T"] == K].groupby("rho")["union_coverage"].mean() ax.plot(sub.index, sub.values, "o", color=c, label=f"$K_T$={K}") ax.plot(rhos, [U_closed(K, r, q) for r in rhos], "-", color=c, lw=1) ax.set(xlabel=r"parent correlation $\rho$", ylabel="union tail coverage", title=r"Supply: union matches $U(K_T,\rho,q)$") ax.legend(frameon=False, fontsize=8) # Panel B: surviving coverage vs rho per K_T — mean (dashed) vs max (solid) ax = axes[1] for K, c in zip(K_Ts, colors): sub = g0[g0["K_T"] == K].groupby("rho") ax.plot(sub["surviving_max"].mean().index, sub["surviving_max"].mean().values, "-o", color=c, label=f"$K_T$={K}", ms=4) ax.plot(sub["surviving_mean"].mean().index, sub["surviving_mean"].mean().values, "--", color=c, lw=1, alpha=0.7) ax.set(xlabel=r"parent correlation $\rho$", ylabel="surviving tail coverage", title="Realised: max-merge (solid) rises;\nmean-mixture (dashed) stays flat") ax.legend(frameon=False, fontsize=8) # Panel C: surviving vs K_T at rho=0, both operators — the recombination benefit ax = axes[2] r0 = g0[g0["rho"] == 0.0] mx = r0.groupby("K_T")["surviving_max"].agg(["mean", "sem"]) mn = r0.groupby("K_T")["surviving_mean"].agg(["mean", "sem"]) ax.errorbar(mx.index, mx["mean"], yerr=1.96 * mx["sem"], fmt="-o", color="#1f77b4", capsize=3, label="max-merge (union-preserving)") ax.errorbar(mn.index, mn["mean"], yerr=1.96 * mn["sem"], fmt="--s", color="#d62728", capsize=3, label="mean-mixture distillation") ax.set(xlabel="number of parents $K_T$", ylabel="surviving tail coverage", title=r"Benefit needs a union-preserving merge ($\rho=0$)", xticks=K_Ts) ax.legend(frameon=False, fontsize=9) fig.tight_layout() letter_axes(fig) savefig(fig, results_dir, "figS8_multiparent_union") if __name__ == "__main__": main(*sys.argv[1:])