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| """Generate ABLATIONS_VNHN.md -- T2M-GPT and NSLP-G trained on processed_vnhn/Cut_video. |
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| Numbers are read from the eval JSONs, never hand-typed (this project has twice been bitten |
| by a hand-made column). Re-run after adding runs to refresh the file. |
| |
| Scope note: this is a MODEL COMPARISON with controls, not a hyper-parameter sweep. No |
| hyper-parameter ablation was run on vnhn, because the controls below show neither model |
| reads its conditioning text on this corpus -- tuning against a target that carries no |
| signal would produce a table of noise. The reasoning is recorded in the file itself. |
| """ |
| import glob |
| import json |
| import os |
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| T2M = "logs_vnhn" |
| NSL = "../0.NSLP-G/sentence-level/logs_vnhn" |
| REPORT = "ABLATIONS_VNHN.md" |
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| def jload(p): |
| return json.load(open(p)) if os.path.exists(p) else None |
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| def main(): |
| L = [] |
| A = L.append |
| A("# T2M-GPT and NSLP-G on processed_vnhn / Cut_video") |
| A("") |
| A("Both models trained from scratch on the vnhn corpus (VTV *Việt Nam hôm nay* broadcast,") |
| A("87 sources, 25 fps, 144x180 signer crop). Single-stage text->pose: there is **no gloss") |
| A("annotation** in this corpus, so `--text-field sentence` conditions directly on the") |
| A("transcript. Conditions named `oracle-*` mean *the clip's own ground-truth text*, paired") |
| A("against a *different clip's* text as the control -- not a gloss-prediction stage.") |
| A("") |
| A("## The data, and the caveat that governs every number below") |
| A("") |
| A("`Cut_video` is **not sentence-segmented**, despite its README title. Measured:") |
| A("") |
| A("| | |") |
| A("|---|---|") |
| A("| transcript span | **~10 s for 83% of clips** (exactly 10.0 s for 55.6%) |") |
| A("| words per clip | median **40** (TriVis sentences: ~8.9) |") |
| A("| sentence punctuation | 940 periods across 16,401 train clips |") |
| A("| consecutive segments abutting | **94.6%** have a 0.00 s gap |") |
| A("| tail padding | **+3 s** past the transcript end, ~23% of a median clip |") |
| A("") |
| A("So each clip pairs ~10 s of continuous signing with a 40-word transcript fragment cut") |
| A("mid-phrase at both ends. The windows come from the upstream transcripts, which are") |
| A("duration-chunked ASR output rather than sentences. Nothing is broken -- the unit simply") |
| A("is not what \"sentence-level\" implies, and that is the single most important fact for") |
| A("interpreting the results.") |
| A("") |
| A("### Packing (`dataset/VNHN`, shared by both models)") |
| A("") |
| A("| split | clips kept | frames | dropped |") |
| A("|---|---|---|---|") |
| A("| train | 15,723 / 16,401 | 5,267,148 | 11 short, **667 long (4.07%)** |") |
| A("| val | 2,016 / 2,080 | 672,461 | 1 short, 63 long |") |
| A("| test | 2,003 / 2,095 | 668,263 | 1 short, 91 long |") |
| A("") |
| A("Layout `upper` (124 kpt: body14 + face68 + hands42). Three vnhn-specific decisions,") |
| A("each of which would have silently corrupted the data if got wrong:") |
| A("") |
| A("1. **Keypoints are raw COCO-WholeBody 133**, not the project's 128. Full_TriVis came") |
| A(" through `easy_dwpose`, which already converts COCO-17 -> OpenPose-18 (synthesising a") |
| A(" `neck` from the shoulder midpoint). Done explicitly in `prepare_vnhn_data.py`;") |
| A(" verified because hand root 91 sits 0.021 frame-widths from COCO Lwrist 9.") |
| A("2. **`scores` are not [0,1] confidences** -- they run 0.4..11.3, median 8.2, i.e. ~10x a") |
| A(" confidence. TriVis's `--score-thr 0.3` would mark *everything* valid. Calibrated to") |
| A(" **3.0** by matching TriVis per-group validity: face 99.7 / hands 98.1 / body 76.3,") |
| A(" and feet correctly killed at 1.0%. (4.0 collapses hands to 78%; 2.0 leaks feet at 22%.)") |
| A("3. **Legs are off-frame** (bust shot): knees score ~1.2, ankles ~0.85, both <0.1% valid.") |
| A(" Hence `upper`, not `full` -- `full` would hand the decoder four noise dimensions.") |
| A("") |
| A("Clips over 512 frames (=128 pose tokens) are **dropped, not truncated**: truncation") |
| A("inside the loader would break the text<->pose correspondence on exactly the longest clips.") |
| A("") |
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| |
| A("## T2M-GPT") |
| A("") |
| A("| stage | result |") |
| A("|---|---|") |
| fn = jload(f"{T2M}/eval_last_oracle.json") |
| if fn: |
| A(f"| stage 1 VQ-VAE (50k iters) | val hands **0.04021**, " |
| f"{fn['stage1']['codes_used']}/512 codes used |") |
| A(f"| stage 2 GPT (30k iters) | best gen hands 0.23134 @ iter 8,000; " |
| f"val_acc **{fn['stage2']['val_acc']:.2f}%** |") |
| A("") |
| A("`val_acc 2.99%` is a third of TriVis's ~10% at the same point -- the first hint that") |
| A("there is far less text->pose mutual information to exploit here.") |
| A("") |
| A("### Shoulder widths (comparable to the TriVis tables), gt_anchor, 300 test clips") |
| A("") |
| for ck in ("best", "last"): |
| d = jload(f"{T2M}/sw_{ck}.json") |
| if not d: |
| continue |
| r = d["results"] |
| it = 8000 if ck == "best" else 30000 |
| A(f"**net_{ck} (iter {it})**") |
| A("") |
| A("| condition | all | body | face | hands | len_ratio |") |
| A("|---|---|---|---|---|---|") |
| for c in ("ceiling", "oracle-gloss", "shuffled-half", "shuffled-random"): |
| if c not in r: |
| continue |
| g = r[c]["gt_anchor"] |
| nm = "**ground-truth text**" if c == "oracle-gloss" else c |
| A(f"| {nm} | {g['all']['mean']:.4f} | {g['body']['mean']:.4f} | " |
| f"{g['face']['mean']:.4f} | **{g['hands']['mean']:.4f}** | " |
| f"{r[c]['len_ratio']:.3f} |") |
| o = r["oracle-gloss"]["gt_anchor"]["hands"]["mean"] |
| ce = r["ceiling"]["gt_anchor"]["hands"]["mean"] |
| A("") |
| pen = ", ".join( |
| f"{s} **{100*(r[s]['gt_anchor']['hands']['mean']-o)/o:+.1f}%**" |
| for s in ("shuffled-half", "shuffled-random") if s in r) |
| A(f"shuffle penalty: {pen} | model/ceiling **{o/ce:.2f}x**") |
| A("") |
| A("### Frame-normalized (same convention as `eval_vsl.py` on TriVis)") |
| A("") |
| A("| checkpoint / text | all | body | face | hands | len_ratio |") |
| A("|---|---|---|---|---|---|") |
| for ck in ("best", "last"): |
| for c in ("oracle", "shuffled"): |
| d = jload(f"{T2M}/eval_{ck}_{c}.json") |
| if not d: |
| continue |
| g = d["gen_dtw"] |
| A(f"| {ck} / {c} | {g['all']:.4f} | {g['body']:.4f} | {g['face']:.4f} | " |
| f"**{g['hands']:.4f}** | {d['len_ratio_mean']:.3f} |") |
| d = jload(f"{T2M}/eval_last_oracle.json") |
| if d: |
| A(f"| *ceiling* | {d['ceiling']['all']:.4f} | {d['ceiling']['body']:.4f} | " |
| f"{d['ceiling']['face']:.4f} | *{d['ceiling']['hands']:.4f}* | -- |") |
| A("") |
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| |
| A("## NSLP-G") |
| A("") |
| A("Stage 1 SpatialVAE 80 epochs; stage 2 GaussianSeeker **early-stopped at epoch 34/120**") |
| A("(`valid/pose_loss` did not improve for 30 records; best **0.959**). Not a crash --") |
| A("EarlyStopping working as designed. Peak memory only 1.6 GB, so `batch_size: 16` was") |
| A("an order of magnitude too conservative.") |
| A("") |
| n = jload(f"{NSL}/nslpg_vnhn_test.json") |
| if n: |
| r = n["results"] |
| A("300 test clips, 50 joints (8 body + 42 hands), DTW-MJE:") |
| A("") |
| A("| condition | all | body | hands | len_ratio | shape_unexpl | spread_ratio |") |
| A("|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|") |
| for k in ("ceiling", "nslpg-oracle", "nslpg-pred", "shuffled-gloss", |
| "random-init", "global-mean"): |
| if k not in r: |
| continue |
| v = r[k] |
| dd = v["dtw"] |
| h = v.get("handshape") or {} |
| nm = "**ground-truth text**" if k == "nslpg-oracle" else k |
| A(f"| {nm} | {dd['all']['mean']:.4f} | {dd['body']['mean']:.4f} | " |
| f"**{dd['hands']['mean']:.4f}** | {v['len_ratio']:.3f} | " |
| f"{h.get('shape_unexplained', float('nan')):.3f} | " |
| f"{h.get('spread_ratio', float('nan')):.3f} |") |
| o = r["nslpg-oracle"]["dtw"]["hands"]["mean"] |
| s = r["shuffled-gloss"]["dtw"]["hands"]["mean"] |
| gm = r["global-mean"]["dtw"]["hands"]["mean"] |
| ce = r["ceiling"]["dtw"]["hands"]["mean"] |
| A("") |
| A(f"shuffle penalty **{100*(s-o)/o:+.1f}%** | vs global-mean floor " |
| f"**{100*(gm-o)/gm:+.1f}%** | model/ceiling **{o/ce:.1f}x**") |
| A("") |
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| A("## Verdict: neither model learned a text->pose mapping") |
| A("") |
| A("| | T2M-GPT | NSLP-G |") |
| A("|---|---|---|") |
| A("| hands, ground-truth text (shoulder / 50-joint) | 0.4682 | 0.1867 |") |
| A("| **shuffle penalty** | **+5.2%** (net_last) | **−0.0%** |") |
| A("| **model / ceiling** | **4.45x** | **30.1x** |") |
| A("| vs floor | modest | +2.1% over global-mean |") |
| A("| len_ratio | 0.989 | 1.000 (given the reference length) |") |
| A("") |
| A("**NSLP-G is text-independent to five significant figures**: ground-truth 0.18672 vs") |
| A("shuffled 0.18671, with identical `shape_unexplained` and `spread_ratio`. It beats the") |
| A("global-mean floor by 2.1% -- the margin of a model that has learned the average pose of") |
| A("a news signer. `spread_ratio` 0.677 against the ceiling's 0.995 means its output has a") |
| A("third less positional variance than real signing.") |
| A("") |
| A("**T2M-GPT does read its text, barely** (+5.2%, vs +14.7% for the TriVis sentence model)") |
| A("and is 4.45x above its own tokenizer ceiling.") |
| A("") |
| A("### The qualitative render makes this visible where DTW does not") |
| A("") |
| A("`0.NSLP-G/sentence-level/qual_vnhn_3way_fixed/` -- 6 clips, GT | NSLP-G | T2M-GPT, drawn") |
| A("on identical clips in the same 50-joint space:") |
| A("") |
| A("* **GT** -- hands move substantially across keyframes (face, side, down, open shapes).") |
| A("* **NSLP-G** -- essentially the *same pose in every keyframe* across 328-350 frames.") |
| A(" The mean-pose collapse, directly visible.") |
| A("* **T2M-GPT** -- genuinely varied motion, blobbier handshapes than GT, ~13% short on") |
| A(" length (T=284 vs 328).") |
| A("") |
| A("DTW separates these two by only ~5% on hands, yet the difference is obvious on sight.") |
| A("Another instance of this project's documented finding that DTW ranks generators poorly.") |
| A("") |
| A("## Why no hyper-parameter ablation was run on vnhn") |
| A("") |
| A("A sweep needs a signal to optimise. With NSLP-G at **−0.0%** text sensitivity and") |
| A("T2M-GPT at **+5.2%**, tuning either against this target would be tuning noise -- and the") |
| A("TriVis work in `ABLATIONS.md` already established the harder lesson that between-run") |
| A("TRAINING variance here is **0.0144** while sampling-seed spread is only 0.0075, so any") |
| A("single-run config comparison of this size is unresolvable anyway.") |
| A("") |
| A("The binding constraint is the **~10 s arbitrary windowing**, not any hyper-parameter.") |
| A("Re-segmenting to real sentence boundaries is the change that would make ablations") |
| A("meaningful. That needs punctuation the `text` field does not contain (940 periods in") |
| A("16,401 clips) -- check `processed_vnhn/vnhn_transcript/` (190 files) for whether the") |
| A("upstream transcripts kept it. If they did, re-cutting is straightforward; if not it") |
| A("needs Vietnamese punctuation restoration first.") |
| A("") |
| A("## Artifacts") |
| A("") |
| A("```") |
| A("T2M-GPT-code/output_vsl/vq_vnhn/ stage 1 (VQ-VAE)") |
| A("T2M-GPT-code/output_vsl/gpt_vnhn/ stage 2 (+ net_iter{10,20,30}k snapshots)") |
| A("T2M-GPT-code/dataset/VNHN/ packed memmaps, shared by both models") |
| A("T2M-GPT-code/logs_vnhn/ evals: sw_*.json, eval_*.json") |
| A("T2M-GPT-code/qual_vnhn/ GT | ceiling | T2M-GPT renders") |
| A("0.NSLP-G/sentence-level/logs/*_spavae_vnhn/ NSLP-G stage 1") |
| A("0.NSLP-G/sentence-level/logs/*_gs_vnhn/ NSLP-G stage 2") |
| A("0.NSLP-G/sentence-level/logs_vnhn/ NSLP-G eval json + logs") |
| A("0.NSLP-G/sentence-level/qual_vnhn_3way_fixed/ GT | NSLP-G | T2M-GPT <- use this one") |
| A("0.NSLP-G/sentence-level/qual_vnhn_3way/ SUPERSEDED: panel 3 is T2M-GPT's ceiling,") |
| A(" not its generation (dump_t2mgpt.py writes") |
| A(" T2M-GPT output under NSLP-G's condition") |
| A(" names -- nslpg_pred.npz IS the generation)") |
| A("```") |
| A("") |
| A("Reproduce: `prepare_vnhn_data.py` -> `run_vnhn_t2mgpt.sh` / `run_vnhn_nslpg.sh` ->") |
| A("`logs_vnhn/eval_sw.sh` / `eval_vnhn_nslpg.sh` -> `qual_vnhn_3way.sh`.") |
| A("Regenerate this file with `make_vnhn_report.py`.") |
| A("") |
| A("**Gotchas worth keeping:** NSLP-G's `main.py --train` is `nargs='?'` with no `const`, so") |
| A("passing it bare sets `None` and the process loads the data then exits 0 with no error --") |
| A("use `--train true`. And `dump_t2mgpt.py` needs `transformers` (PhoBERT), which is absent") |
| A("from NSLP-G's venv; run that one step with the T2M-GPT venv.") |
| A("") |
| with open(REPORT, "w") as f: |
| f.write("\n".join(L)) |
| print(f"wrote {REPORT} ({len(L)} lines)") |
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| if __name__ == "__main__": |
| main() |
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