Giorgio Gilestro 585264d0b4 llm_merge_hpc: the 7B firm-up makes the Fisher-Muller sign decisive ...

Re-ran the specialist-merge experiment at a capable base (Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct,
200 tests/family) on one L40S GPU of Imperial's CX3 HPC (8 min walltime). The
two caveats the 0.5B prototype left marginal are now resolved:

- "exceeds every parent overall" is clean: both merges 0.87 vs best specialist
  0.77 (+10 pts), and above every specialist on every family.
- dilution vanishes: at 0.5B averaging diluted the lists-specialist
  (0.43->0.26); at 7B the merge beats it (0.62>0.57). Dilution was a
  small-model artefact -- a capable base composes rather than dilutes, which
  softens E4's "merge, don't average" once the parents are strong.

The figure title is now data-driven (reports ">" for 7B, "~" for 0.5B).
Adds the hpc/ smoke job script and the llm_merge walltime trim. Results synced
to results/llm_merge_hpc/ (parquet gitignored per the reproducibility contract).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-05 17:32:51 +01:00

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