MachineSex/tests/test_llm.py
Giorgio Gilestro 287d2326cc epistasis_predicts: functional conflict, not weight geometry, predicts merge failure pre-merge
The decisive experiment from the external review. 39 LoRA parent pairs
(0.5B, 3 seeds) on three axes decorrelated by construction: conflict
(contradictory conventions on shared prompts, private budgets fixed),
compat (same prompts, SAME convention — overlap without conflict), and
duration (weight divergence, zero conflict). Six pre-merge predictors;
primary outcome = merge penalty (parent potential − merged achieved).

League table (Spearman vs penalty, n=39): functional measures predict
(dis_raw +0.460, epi_conf +0.446, p<0.005); geometry collapses
(delta_cos +0.03, delta_l2 +0.17 n.s.); gradient alignment weak (−0.35);
performance ~0. The first grid's apparent geometry win (+0.60) was an
overlap/volume artifact — the compat control axis (added for exactly
this) exposed and killed it: same overlap and data volume, zero penalty.
Honest riders in the README: confidence weighting does not beat raw
disagreement as a rank predictor (pre-registered internal prediction not
confirmed; it does double the conflict/compat level contrast), and
|rho|~0.45 is bounded by 0.5B merge-outcome noise (7B is the firm-up).

Also: micro-batched gradient accumulation (OOM fix on the shared 16GB
GPU), exact r-space LoRA-delta geometry (brute-force-verified test,
151 green), systemd-run runbook lesson (tmux dies with the SSH session
scope on this box).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
2026-09-06 17:19:46 +01:00

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"""LLM-prototype tests — the pure, always-runnable parts (task generation + verifier).
The model/LoRA/merge path is heavy (downloads a base model, trains on a GPU) and is validated by the
experiment run itself, not in CI. What *is* unit-testable — and worth locking, since it is the
prototype's "reality that says no" — is that tasks are well-formed and the exact-match verifier
accepts correct answers (including verbose model phrasings) and rejects wrong ones.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import numpy as np
from llm.directed import sample_merge_weights, select_winners
from llm.moe import learned_routes
from llm.tasks import FAMILIES, make_tasks, verify
def test_make_tasks_wellformed_and_deterministic():
for fam in FAMILIES:
tasks = make_tasks(fam, 20, seed=0)
assert len(tasks) == 20 and all(t.family == fam for t in tasks)
assert all(t.prompt and t.answer for t in tasks)
a = make_tasks("arith", 10, seed=3)
b = make_tasks("arith", 10, seed=3)
assert [t.answer for t in a] == [t.answer for t in b] # deterministic in the seed
def test_hard_tasks_wellformed_verifiable_and_distinct():
# The hard variant must stay well-formed, self-verifying (canonical answer passes its own verifier),
# and genuinely different from the easy variant (harder content, same family labels + answer format).
for fam in FAMILIES:
hard = make_tasks(fam, 30, seed=7, hard=True)
assert len(hard) == 30 and all(t.family == fam for t in hard)
assert all(t.prompt and t.answer for t in hard)
assert all(verify(t.answer, t) for t in hard) # canonical answers verify
easy = make_tasks(fam, 30, seed=7, hard=False)
assert [t.prompt for t in hard] != [t.prompt for t in easy] # hard != easy
# a Caesar-cipher answer is a real transform of the input (not the identity)
caesars = [t for t in make_tasks("strings", 60, seed=2, hard=True) if "Caesar" in t.prompt]
assert caesars and any(t.answer not in t.prompt for t in caesars)
def test_verifier_accepts_correct_including_verbose():
tasks = make_tasks("lists", 40, seed=1) + make_tasks("arith", 40, seed=2)
assert all(verify(t.answer, t) for t in tasks) # the canonical answer verifies
# a verbose but correct model phrasing still verifies (the verifier extracts the answer)
num_task = next(t for t in tasks if t.family == "arith")
assert verify(f"The answer is {num_task.answer}.", num_task)
list_task = next(t for t in tasks if t.family == "lists" and t.answer.startswith("["))
assert verify(f"Here you go: {list_task.answer}", list_task)
def test_verifier_rejects_wrong():
t = make_tasks("arith", 1, seed=5)[0]
wrong = str(int(t.answer) + 1) if t.answer.lstrip("-").isdigit() else "zzz"
assert not verify(wrong, t)
lt = next(x for x in make_tasks("lists", 30, seed=6) if x.answer.startswith("["))
assert not verify("[9, 9, 9]", lt) or lt.answer == "[9, 9, 9]"
def test_learned_router_assigns_nearest_centroid():
# Three well-separated families in a 4-D "embedding" space; the nearest-centroid router
# (the MoE expert-selection gene) must route each test prompt to its own family's specialist.
rng = np.random.default_rng(0)
fams = ["lists", "strings", "arith"]
anchors = {"lists": [5, 0, 0, 0], "strings": [0, 5, 0, 0], "arith": [0, 0, 5, 0]}
train_emb = np.array([anchors[f] for f in fams for _ in range(8)], dtype=float)
train_emb += rng.normal(scale=0.1, size=train_emb.shape)
train_fam = np.array([f for f in fams for _ in range(8)])
test_fam = np.array(["arith", "lists", "strings", "arith"])
test_emb = np.array([anchors[f] for f in test_fam], dtype=float) + rng.normal(scale=0.1, size=(4, 4))
routes = learned_routes(train_emb, train_fam, test_emb, fams)
assert [fams[r] for r in routes] == list(test_fam) # each routed to its own family
def test_learned_router_is_cosine_scale_invariant():
# Cosine routing must ignore prompt-embedding magnitude (long vs short prompts): a test point on a
# family's ray routes there regardless of its norm.
fams = ["a", "b"]
train_emb = np.array([[1.0, 0.0], [1.0, 0.0], [0.0, 1.0], [0.0, 1.0]])
train_fam = np.array(["a", "a", "b", "b"])
test_emb = np.array([[10.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.01]]) # very different magnitudes
routes = learned_routes(train_emb, train_fam, test_emb, fams)
assert [fams[r] for r in routes] == ["a", "b"]
def test_merge_weights_population_pins_baselines_and_diversifies():
# The offspring population must contain the two canonical baselines (uniform soup, unit task-arith)
# and be diverse + reproducible for the rest.
rng = np.random.default_rng(0)
w = sample_merge_weights(3, 16, rng)
assert w.shape == (16, 3)
assert np.allclose(w[0], 1 / 3) # candidate 0 = uniform soup
assert np.allclose(w[1], 1.0) # candidate 1 = task arithmetic
assert np.unique(w[2:].round(3), axis=0).shape[0] > 5 # the random offspring are diverse
assert np.allclose(sample_merge_weights(3, 16, np.random.default_rng(0)), w) # deterministic
def test_select_winners_picks_argmax_per_objective():
val_overall = np.array([0.5, 0.9, 0.7])
val_worst = np.array([0.4, 0.1, 0.6]) # a different candidate is most balanced
w = select_winners(val_overall, val_worst)
assert w == {"overall": 1, "balanced": 2}
def test_merge_weights_requires_two_candidates():
import pytest
with pytest.raises(ValueError):
sample_merge_weights(3, 1, np.random.default_rng(0))
def test_convention_tasks_conflict_only_between_conventions():
# The BDM structure of llm_speciation: identical prompts, each convention internally consistent
# and verifiable, the two conventions contradictory on (almost) every prompt.
from llm.speciation import make_convention_tasks
from llm.tasks import verify
asc = make_convention_tasks(20, seed=5, convention="asc")
desc = make_convention_tasks(20, seed=5, convention="desc")
assert [a.prompt for a in asc] == [d.prompt for d in desc] # same inputs, graded two ways
assert all(verify(a.answer, a) for a in asc) # each convention self-consistent
assert all(verify(d.answer, d) for d in desc)
conflicting = sum(a.answer != d.answer for a, d in zip(asc, desc))
assert conflicting >= 18 # contradictory unless already sorted
assert all(not verify(a.answer, d) for a, d in zip(asc, desc) if a.answer != d.answer)
# deterministic: prompts and answers are a pure function of (seed, convention)
again = make_convention_tasks(20, seed=5, convention="asc")
assert [t.answer for t in again] == [t.answer for t in asc]
def test_lora_delta_inner_matches_brute_force():
# The r-space Frobenius inner product <B1@A1, B2@A2> must equal the materialised computation.
import torch
from llm.epistasis import lora_delta_inner
g = torch.Generator().manual_seed(0)
A1, B1 = torch.randn(4, 20, generator=g), torch.randn(12, 4, generator=g)
A2, B2 = torch.randn(4, 20, generator=g), torch.randn(12, 4, generator=g)
brute = float(((B1 @ A1) * (B2 @ A2)).sum())
assert abs(lora_delta_inner(A1, B1, A2, B2) - brute) < 1e-3