MachineSex/src/neural/config.py
Giorgio Gilestro 79bbc45f41 neural: real-MNIST external-validity tier (collapse + grounding)
Confirms model collapse and its arrest by grounding on REAL images, not
just the synthetic sandbox. A conv VAE (the canonical generative-collapse
model) is retrained each generation on its own generated digits, with a
fraction g of fresh real MNIST mixed in. Modes = digit class x stroke-
thickness bin (K=30, Zipf, ~18 tail modes); the oracle is a frozen CNN +
deterministic thickness at 98.5% mode accuracy (30x30 confusion matrix
recorded in the manifest as the measurement-noise floor).

Result (4 reps): dry (g=0) collapses to a single mode -- forward-KL
0.5->18, support 30->1, tail 1.0->0.06, H->0 -- while 10% grounding holds
all 30 modes (KL~0.6, full tail, H~0.9). Signs, not magnitudes (blueprint
3.5); the exact synthetic oracle stays the quantitative anchor. The VAE
needs ~10% grounding vs the synthetic histogram's ~5%, consistent with the
grounding finding that trained nets need more than the exact operator.

Plugs into the existing data-agnostic contract (metrics/grounding/output
reused verbatim): mnist_data (thickness bins, class x thickness bijection,
MnistSampler), mnist_oracle (ClassifierOracle + confusion matrix),
mnist_vae (ConvVAEGenerator), mnist_loop (run_mnist_lineage), kind=
mnist_lineage dispatch, MnistCfg/OracleCfg. Figures: plot_mnist (parquet-
only) + mnist_montage (eyeball diagnostic showing digits degenerate to one
blurry mode). make mnist / make env-mnist, kept out of the make neural
loop. 99 tests green (+5 torchvision-gated).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-05 09:19:36 +01:00

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"""Resolved run configuration for a neural (Layer 1.5) lineage.
Mirrors the ``knowledge.config`` idiom exactly: frozen dataclasses with a ``from_dict``
that fills defaults and rejects unknown keys via ``knowledge.config._sub``. The grounding,
re-mint, and metrics blocks are *reused verbatim* from ``knowledge.config`` so the neural
runner speaks the same schema as Layer 1 (grounding ``m``, the ``g -> m`` conversion, the
re-mint gate, and the KL/support floors are all identical). Only the data source
(``synthetic``) and the model (``model``) are neural-specific.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import math
from dataclasses import dataclass, field, replace
from typing import Any, Mapping
from knowledge.config import GroundingCfg, MetricsCfg, RemintCfg, _sub
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class SyntheticCfg:
"""The fully-synthetic mode-truth and observation grammar.
The first seven fields are the Layer-1 ``TruthCfg`` knobs (they build ``p*`` over the
``K`` modes via ``knowledge.truth.make_true_distribution``). The remaining fields
define how a mode is rendered to a categorical token sequence: an *identity* segment
that encodes the mode losslessly (read by the exact oracle) followed by a *style*
segment of within-mode stochastic tokens (so a real generative model has a
distribution to learn, not just a lookup table).
"""
K: int
R: int = 1
tail: str = "zipf"
zipf_s: float = 1.1
tail_frac: float = 0.5
tail_threshold: float = 1e-3
init: str = "uniform" # initial p_0 over modes: {uniform, truth}
style_len: int = 4 # style-segment length (within-mode entropy)
style_vocab: int = 6 # style token alphabet size
id_base: int = 2 # identity segment encodes the mode in this base
@property
def id_len(self) -> int:
"""Identity-segment length: fewest base-``id_base`` digits to index ``K`` modes."""
if self.K <= 1:
return 1
return max(1, math.ceil(math.log(self.K, self.id_base)))
@property
def vocab(self) -> int:
"""Token alphabet size (shared by identity and style segments)."""
return max(self.id_base, self.style_vocab)
@property
def seq_len(self) -> int:
"""Total observation length in tokens."""
return self.id_len + self.style_len
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class MnistCfg:
"""Real-MNIST mode-truth: a Zipf ``p*`` over ``K = n_classes * style_bins`` modes.
A mode is ``(digit class, stroke-thickness bin)`` under the fixed bijection
``mode = class * style_bins + bin``. The first seven fields are the Layer-1 ``TruthCfg``
knobs (they build the Zipf ``p*`` over the ``K`` modes via ``make_true_distribution``);
the rest govern the image tier. Unlike ``SyntheticCfg`` there is no rendering grammar —
observations are real images and the oracle is a frozen classifier.
"""
K: int = 30
R: int = 1
tail: str = "zipf"
zipf_s: float = 1.5 # steep enough that the rarest ~18/30 modes form a real tail
tail_frac: float = 0.5
tail_threshold: float = 1e-2 # modes with p* < 0.01 are "tail" (~9% of the mass)
init: str = "truth" # initial p_0 over modes: {uniform, truth}
n_classes: int = 10 # MNIST digit classes
style_bins: int = 3 # S: per-class stroke-thickness quantile bins (K = n_classes*S)
data_root: str = "data" # gitignored MNIST download dir
def __post_init__(self) -> None:
if self.K != self.n_classes * self.style_bins:
raise ValueError(
f"K ({self.K}) must equal n_classes*style_bins "
f"({self.n_classes}*{self.style_bins}={self.n_classes * self.style_bins})")
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class OracleCfg:
"""Frozen-classifier oracle training/caching (MNIST tier)."""
epochs: int = 5
lr: float = 1.0e-3
batch_size: int = 256
cache: str = "models/mnist_cnn.pt" # gitignored checkpoint; its hash goes in the manifest
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class ModelCfg:
"""The generative learner. ``kind`` selects the architecture behind a thin adapter.
Neural hyperparameters are ignored by the ``histogram`` bridge model.
"""
kind: str = "histogram" # {histogram, rnn, vae, mlp, convvae}
hidden: int = 64
embed: int = 16
epochs: int = 30
lr: float = 1.0e-3
batch_size: int = 256
device: str = "auto" # {auto, cpu, cuda}
latent: int = 16 # VAE latent dimension (VAE only)
beta: float = 1.0 # VAE KL weight (VAE only)
# Samples used to estimate a neural model's mode distribution by generate-and-classify
# (ignored by the exact histogram bridge). Larger -> less measurement noise on p_hat.
n_eval: int = 8000
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class NeuralDynamicsCfg:
"""Generational dynamics: drift strength ``n`` + reused grounding/re-mint blocks."""
n: int = 4000 # pupil training-sample size (drift strength ~ 1/n)
grounding: GroundingCfg = field(default_factory=GroundingCfg)
remint: RemintCfg = field(default_factory=RemintCfg)
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class NeuralLineageCfg:
"""A fully-resolved neural lineage configuration."""
synthetic: SyntheticCfg
model: ModelCfg = field(default_factory=ModelCfg)
dynamics: NeuralDynamicsCfg = field(default_factory=NeuralDynamicsCfg)
generations: int = 30
metrics: MetricsCfg = field(default_factory=MetricsCfg)
@staticmethod
def from_dict(cfg: Mapping[str, Any]) -> "NeuralLineageCfg":
"""Build a validated NeuralLineageCfg from a nested mapping, filling defaults."""
if isinstance(cfg, NeuralLineageCfg):
return cfg
synthetic = _sub(cfg.get("synthetic", {}), SyntheticCfg)
model = _sub(cfg.get("model", {}), ModelCfg)
dyn_raw = dict(cfg.get("dynamics", {}))
dynamics = NeuralDynamicsCfg(
n=dyn_raw.get("n", NeuralDynamicsCfg.n),
grounding=_sub(dyn_raw.get("grounding", {}), GroundingCfg),
remint=_sub(dyn_raw.get("remint", {}), RemintCfg),
)
metrics = _sub(cfg.get("metrics", {}), MetricsCfg)
return NeuralLineageCfg(
synthetic=synthetic,
model=model,
dynamics=dynamics,
generations=int(cfg.get("generations", NeuralLineageCfg.generations)),
metrics=metrics,
)
def replace(self, **kw) -> "NeuralLineageCfg":
return replace(self, **kw)