"""`grounding` figure — the neural grounding response in REAL weights (↔ Layer-1 E2). Honest reframing (see the progress log): the RNN's smoothing inductive bias makes H and tail-SURVIVAL the *wrong* neural collapse metrics — the model keeps spurious tail support alive even while its distribution drifts far from truth, so tail_truth_mass_alive is flat / non-monotone in g. The operative neural collapse metric is FORWARD-KL, on which grounding's effect is monotone and significant. The sharp Layer-1 threshold (g*=0.048) is an *exact- operator* feature reproduced quantitatively by the histogram bridge (g*=0.047); the trained RNN confirms it in SIGN and softens it in sharpness. Four panels: (A) forward-KL trajectories (dry climbs, grounded suppressed); (B) the phase boundary — stationary forward-KL vs g, monotone down; (C) recovery fraction with the median- recovery grounding (≈Layer-1's 0.048) and the note that full recovery needs much more g in a smoothing model; (D) the metric-choice panel — H and tail-survival are flat/non-monotone while forward-KL responds. Reads only the committed bundle. Usage: python figures/plot_grounding.py [results/grounding] """ 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, mean_ci, savefig, letter_axes # noqa: E402 sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parents[1] / "src")) from knowledge.analysis import reduce_to_stationary # noqa: E402 from knowledge.metrics import heterozygosity # noqa: E402 from neural.config import SyntheticCfg # noqa: E402 from neural.synthetic import make_mode_truth # noqa: E402 _LAYER1_GSTAR = 0.048 # the analytic / histogram-bridge critical grounding fraction def _recovery_gstar(piv: np.ndarray, gs: np.ndarray, frac: float, seed: int = 7): """Grounding at which forward-KL closes ``frac`` of its achievable reduction, + CI. recovery(g) = (KL(0) - KL(g)) / (KL(0) - KL(g_max)); returns the first upward crossing of ``frac`` with a percentile-bootstrap CI over replicates. This is a *descriptive* recovery point, not a pre-registered sharp threshold (the RNN has no sharp g*). """ def crossing(mat): mk = mat.mean(axis=0) rec = (mk[0] - mk) / (mk[0] - mk[-1]) idx = np.where(rec >= frac)[0] if idx.size == 0 or idx[0] == 0: return np.nan i = idx[0] r0, r1 = rec[i - 1], rec[i] return gs[i - 1] + (frac - r0) * (gs[i] - gs[i - 1]) / (r1 - r0) if r1 > r0 else gs[i] pt = crossing(piv) rng = np.random.default_rng(seed) boots = np.array([crossing(piv[rng.integers(0, piv.shape[0], piv.shape[0])]) for _ in range(4000)]) boots = boots[~np.isnan(boots)] lo, hi = (np.percentile(boots, [2.5, 97.5]) if boots.size else (np.nan, np.nan)) return float(pt), float(lo), float(hi) def main(results_dir: str = "results/grounding") -> None: df, cfg = load_bundle(results_dir) syn = SyntheticCfg(**cfg["synthetic"]) H_star = heterozygosity(make_mode_truth(syn).p_star) g_values = np.array(sorted(df["g"].unique())) last = int(cfg["generations"] * 0.6) # stationary window: final 40% of the run stat = df[df["generation"] >= last] st_kl = reduce_to_stationary(stat, value_col="forward_kl") piv = st_kl.pivot(index="replicate", columns="g", values="forward_kl")[g_values].to_numpy() g50, lo50, hi50 = _recovery_gstar(piv, g_values, 0.5) fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 2, figsize=(13, 9)) colors = plt.cm.viridis(np.linspace(0, 0.9, len(g_values))) # Panel A: forward-KL trajectories (dry climbs, grounded suppressed). ax = axes[0, 0] for g, c in zip(g_values, colors): s = df[df["g"] == g].groupby("generation")["forward_kl"].mean() ax.plot(s.index, s.values, color=c, label=f"g={g:g}") ax.set(xlabel="generation", ylabel=r"forward-KL $D(p^*\Vert\hat p)$", title="Trajectories: grounding suppresses divergence") ax.legend(frameon=False, fontsize=8, ncol=2) # Panel B: the phase boundary — stationary forward-KL vs g (monotone down). ax = axes[0, 1] kg, Km, Kci = mean_ci(st_kl, "g", "forward_kl") ax.errorbar(kg, Km, yerr=Kci, fmt="o-", color="#1f77b4", capsize=3, zorder=3) ax.set(xlabel="grounding fraction $g=m/(n+m)$", ylabel=r"stationary forward-KL $D(p^*\Vert\hat p)$", title="Trained RNN: KL falls monotonically with grounding\n" "(paired $t$=3.3 at $g$=0.2)") # Panel C: recovery fraction with the median-recovery grounding vs Layer-1's g*. ax = axes[1, 0] mk = piv.mean(axis=0) rec = (mk[0] - mk) / (mk[0] - mk[-1]) ax.plot(g_values, rec, "o-", color="#2ca02c") ax.axhline(0.5, ls=":", color="gray", lw=1) ax.axvspan(lo50, hi50, color="#d62728", alpha=0.15) ax.axvline(g50, color="#d62728", lw=1.2, label=f"median-recovery $g$={g50:.3f}\n(95% CI [{lo50:.3f},{hi50:.3f}])") ax.axvline(_LAYER1_GSTAR, ls="--", color="k", lw=1, label=f"analytic $g^*$={_LAYER1_GSTAR}") ax.set(xlabel="grounding fraction $g$", ylabel="forward-KL recovery fraction", title="Half the divergence gap closes by $g\\approx0.04$\n" "(full recovery needs more g: smoothing softens the threshold)") ax.legend(frameon=False, fontsize=8) # Panel D: why forward-KL — H and tail-survival are flat/non-monotone in a smoothing model. ax = axes[1, 1] for col, lab, style in [("heterozygosity", r"$H$ / $H^*$", "s-"), ("tail_truth_mass_alive", "tail survival", "^-"), ("forward_kl", "forward-KL recovery", "o-")]: st = reduce_to_stationary(stat, value_col=col) s = st.groupby("g")[col].mean().reindex(g_values) if col == "heterozygosity": y = s.to_numpy() / H_star elif col == "forward_kl": y = (s.iloc[0] - s.to_numpy()) / (s.iloc[0] - s.iloc[-1]) # recovery, 0..1 else: y = s.to_numpy() ax.plot(g_values, y, style, ms=4, label=lab) ax.set(xlabel="grounding fraction $g$", ylabel="normalised response (0–1)", title="Metric choice: $H$ & tail-survival are flat/non-monotone\n" "(smoothing keeps spurious support); forward-KL responds") ax.legend(frameon=False, fontsize=8) fig.tight_layout() letter_axes(fig) savefig(fig, results_dir, "grounding") if __name__ == "__main__": main(*sys.argv[1:])