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sys.path.insert(0, "/root/compose-audit")
from common import *
R = "/root/compose-audit/results"
def load(pat):
rows = []
for fp in sorted(glob.glob(f"{R}/{pat}")):
for line in open(fp):
try: rows.append(json.loads(line))
except Exception: pass
return rows
def md_table(headers, rows):
out = ["| " + " | ".join(headers) + " |", "|" + "|".join(["---"] * len(headers)) + "|"]
for r in rows:
out.append("| " + " | ".join(str(x) for x in r) + " |")
return "\n".join(out)
def fmt(x, n=3):
try:
if x is None or (isinstance(x, float) and not math.isfinite(x)): return "—"
return f"{x:.{n}f}"
except Exception:
return str(x)
set1 = load("set1_*.jsonl")
set4 = load("set4_goldfish.jsonl")
VOCAB = {"14m": 50304, "70m": 50304, "160m": 50304}
sizes = sorted({r["size"] for r in set1}, key=lambda s: int(s[:-1]))
# ---------------- SET1 rung table
rung_rows, mdtabs = [], []
for sz in sizes:
sub = [r for r in set1 if r["size"] == sz]
d0 = np.array([r["rungs"]["M0_naive_avg"]["delta_floor"] for r in sub])
floor = np.mean([r["floor"] for r in sub])
keys = list(sub[0]["rungs"])
body = []
for k in keys:
d = np.array([r["rungs"][k]["delta_floor"] for r in sub if k in r["rungs"]])
nll = np.array([r["rungs"][k]["nll"] for r in sub if k in r["rungs"]])
body.append([k, len(d), fmt(nll.mean(), 2), fmt(d.mean(), 2), fmt(np.median(d), 2),
fmt(d.min(), 2), f"{int((d < d0).sum())}/{len(d)}",
fmt(np.mean(1 - d / d0) * 100, 1) + "%"])
rung_rows.append({"set": "SET1", "substrate": f"pythia-{sz}", "rung": k, "n_pairs": len(d),
"mean_nll": float(nll.mean()), "mean_dfloor": float(d.mean()),
"median_dfloor": float(np.median(d)), "min_dfloor": float(d.min()),
"n_better_than_naive": int((d < d0).sum()),
"mean_pct_of_naive_dfloor_removed": float(np.mean(1 - d / d0) * 100)})
bn = np.mean([r["barrier_naive"]["barrier"] for r in sub if "barrier_naive" in r])
bp = np.mean([r["barrier_perm"]["barrier"] for r in sub if "barrier_perm" in r])
mdtabs.append((sz, len(sub), floor, math.log(VOCAB.get(sz, 50304)), bn, bp,
md_table(["rung", "n", "mean nats/tok", "mean Δfloor", "median Δfloor",
"best Δfloor", "beats naive", "% of naive Δfloor removed"], body)))
# ---------------- write
L = []
L.append("# Compose-audit: putting the alignment map and the merging payoff on the SAME real models\n")
L.append(f"_Generated {time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M UTC')} · training-free · "
"code: `/root/compose-audit` · operators/aligners/metrics imported unmodified from "
"`mergeschool.core` (`/root/mergeability`, treated as read-only)._\n")
L.append("""## Read this first: what substrate, and what metric
| | SET 1 | SET 4 |
|---|---|---|
| **Substrate** | `EleutherAI/pythia-{14m,70m,160m}-seed{1..9}` (PolyPythia) — real reseeded LMs | `goldfish-models/eng_latn_1000mb` × `{nld,spa,ell,pol}_*_1000mb` — the real bilingual-composition models, GPT-2 arch, 125M |
| **What varies between the two parents** | the init/data-order **seed only**. Same data, same architecture, same tokenizer → the merge obstruction is *purely coordinate* | the **language** and the **tokenizer**. Independently initialised, independently trained |
| **Held-out corpus** | FLORES-200 devtest `eng_Latn` | FLORES-200 devtest, `eng_Latn` + the partner language |
| **Metric** | Δfloor in **nats/token** vs the better parent | Δfloor in **nats per UTF-8 byte** vs the better parent (bytes, because the two parents use different tokenizers and nats/token is not comparable across them) |
| **What the metric is** | a **likelihood** metric | a **likelihood** metric |
> **Δfloor is a likelihood metric, not benchmark accuracy.** Nothing below shows that a likelihood
> rescue transfers to BLiMP/MultiBLiMP accuracy, or to any downstream task. The audit's sharpest
> point — *recovery is not success* — is **not** settled by these numbers and must not be written up
> as if it were. **We tested that transfer directly on SET 1 with BLiMP — see the accuracy section
> below — and it does not hold.** SET 4 has no accuracy benchmark in this window (see Coverage).
""")
if set1:
L.append("\n## SET 1 · PolyPythia seed-merge (the pure-coordinate ceiling)\n")
L.append(f"C(9,2) = 36 seed pairs per size. Predictors are computed **before** any merge; the "
f"alignment factors (residual basis map fitted from activations on the shared corpus, "
f"free MLP hidden axis, attention heads) are each accepted only if they do not increase "
f"the scale-free block-normalised weight distance.\n")
for sz, n, floor, unif, bn, bp, tab in mdtabs:
L.append(f"\n### pythia-{sz} — {n} seed pairs · mean parent floor **{floor:.3f}** nats/token · "
f"uniform-over-vocabulary reference **{unif:.3f}** nats/token\n")
L.append(tab)
L.append(f"\nLinear-mode-connectivity barrier (`eval.merge_barrier`): naive **{bn:.2f}**, "
f"permutation-aligned **{bp:.2f}** nats/token.\n")
L.append("""
**What this says.**
1. **Naive averaging of two same-data, same-architecture, same-tokenizer models that differ only in
seed is catastrophic.** The merged model's loss is tens of nats/token above the better parent —
far above the uniform-over-vocabulary reference, i.e. the merge is not a degraded model, it is a
destroyed one. This is the pure-coordinate case: there is no data, architecture or tokenizer
difference left to blame.
2. **Unit alignment removes a large, highly consistent fraction of that gap** — the permutation rung
beats naive on essentially every pair — **and still does not produce a usable model.** The aligned
merge remains above the uniform reference at every size we ran. So on real LMs at this scale,
alignment *predicts and reduces* the obstruction without *enabling* the merge. Reporting the
reduction as "merging works once you align" would be wrong.
3. **Task-arithmetic and TIES are not applicable here and the numbers show it.** PolyPythia seeds are
independent re-initialisations: `EleutherAI/pythia-<size>` is *not* a shared ancestor, so the
"task vectors" those operators subtract are not task vectors. Their rows are reported only to
document that the shared-base family degenerates when the base is not shared.
4. The linear interpolation path has its minimum at the endpoints for every pair — there is no
interior t that beats the better parent, aligned or not.
""")
if len(mdtabs) >= 3:
L.append("\n### The scale trend — alignment's coordinate rescue WEAKENS with model size\n")
tr = []
for sz in sizes:
sub = [r for r in set1 if r["size"] == sz]
d0 = np.array([r["rungs"]["M0_naive_avg"]["delta_floor"] for r in sub])
dp = np.array([r["rungs"]["M1_perm_avg"]["delta_floor"] for r in sub])
do = np.array([r["rungs"]["M1_orth_avg"]["delta_floor"] for r in sub])
db = np.minimum(dp, do)
ck = np.array([r["predictors"]["cka_mean"] for r in sub])
ac = np.array([r["predictors"].get("aligned_cka_perm", float("nan")) for r in sub])
cs = np.array([r["predictors"]["coord_share_bnd_perm"] for r in sub])
tr.append([f"pythia-{sz}", len(sub), fmt(float(np.mean([r["floor"] for r in sub])), 2),
fmt(d0.mean(), 2), fmt(np.mean(1 - dp / d0) * 100, 1) + "%",
fmt(np.mean(1 - do / d0) * 100, 1) + "%",
fmt(np.mean(1 - db / d0) * 100, 1) + "%",
fmt(ck.mean()), fmt(float(np.nanmean(ac))), fmt(cs.mean(), 4)])
L.append(md_table(["substrate", "n pairs", "parent floor", "naive Δfloor",
"rescue, permutation", "rescue, Procrustes", "rescue, best of the two",
"unaligned CKA", "aligned CKA", "weight coordinate share"], tr))
L.append("""
The coordinator flagged this from the first two pairs and asked whether it survives the full grid.
**It does, monotonically, across every size we ran.** The naive merge's Δfloor shrinks with scale
*and* the share of it that alignment can remove shrinks faster. Two things are worth separating:
- The **naive** merge gets less catastrophic with scale, which on its own would be an encouraging
trend for merging.
- The **alignment rescue** shrinks at the same time. So the improvement at larger scale is not
something the coordinate story is buying; the coordinate-removable component of the obstruction is
a *decreasing* fraction of the total. Whatever is left over at 160m is not a coordinate problem,
and the same aligners that recover most of the 14m gap recover a quarter of it.
That is a caution for the manuscript's central thesis, not a confirmation of it: alignment predicts
and reduces the obstruction most where the obstruction matters least, and its purchase falls away in
exactly the direction the field is scaling.
""")
if set4:
L.append("\n## SET 4 · Goldfish monolingual → bilingual merge (the real composition models)\n")
diag = {}
try: diag = json.load(open(f"{R}/set4_tokenizer_diag.json"))
except Exception: pass
for r in set4:
px = r["parents"]["x_on_x"]["nats_per_byte"]
for _v in r["rungs"].values():
_v["delta_floor_x"] = _v["x"]["nats_per_byte"] - px
_v["delta_floor_mean"] = 0.5 * (_v["delta_floor_eng"] + _v["delta_floor_x"])
r["floor_x"] = px
rung_keys = list(set4[0]["rungs"])
if diag:
L.append("\n**Tokenizer diagnostic — read this before any SET 4 number.** The merged model "
"lives in the *English* parent's token-id space, so partner-language text must be "
"tokenized with the English tokenizer. It cannot represent much of that text:\n")
L.append(md_table(["text", "UNK rate, English tokenizer", "UNK rate, own tokenizer",
"bytes/token, English tok", "bytes/token, own tok"],
[[k, f"{v['eng_tok_unk_rate']:.1%}", f"{v['own_tok_unk_rate']:.1%}",
fmt(v['eng_tok_bytes_per_token'], 2), fmt(v['own_tok_bytes_per_token'], 2)]
for k, v in diag.items()]))
L.append("\nAt a 46.5% UNK rate the English parent's *apparent* likelihood on Greek text is an "
"artifact — it is confidently predicting `<unk>`, not modelling Greek — so it is not "
"used as a floor. The partner-language floor below is the partner parent evaluated "
"with its **own** tokenizer. The **English-side** column is the clean one (0.07% UNK) "
"and is the primary SET 4 number.\n")
hdr = ["pair", "vocab overlap", "floor eng", "floor X (own tok)"] + [k for k in rung_keys]
body = []
for r in set4:
row = [f"eng–{r['lang']}", f"{r['predictors']['vocab_overlap']:.1%}",
fmt(r["floor_eng"]), fmt(r["floor_x"])]
for k in rung_keys:
row.append(fmt(r["rungs"][k]["delta_floor_mean"]))
body.append(row)
for k in rung_keys:
rung_rows.append({"set": "SET4", "substrate": f"goldfish eng-{r['lang']}", "rung": k,
"n_pairs": 1, "mean_nll": float(r["rungs"][k]["eng"]["nats_per_byte"]),
"mean_dfloor": float(r["rungs"][k]["delta_floor_mean"]),
"median_dfloor": float(r["rungs"][k]["delta_floor_mean"]),
"min_dfloor": float(r["rungs"][k]["delta_floor_mean"]),
"n_better_than_naive": int(r["rungs"][k]["delta_floor_mean"] <
r["rungs"]["M0_naive_avg"]["delta_floor_mean"]),
"mean_pct_of_naive_dfloor_removed": float(
100 * (1 - r["rungs"][k]["delta_floor_mean"] /
r["rungs"]["M0_naive_avg"]["delta_floor_mean"]))})
# uniform-over-vocabulary reference in nats/byte, per language pair
uref = []
for r in set4:
v = r["rungs"]["M0_naive_avg"]
be = math.log(51200) * v["eng"]["nats_per_byte"] / v["eng"]["nats_per_token"]
bx = math.log(51200) * v["x"]["nats_per_byte"] / v["x"]["nats_per_token"]
uref.append([f"eng-{r['lang']}", fmt(0.5 * (be + bx))])
L.append("Uniform-over-vocabulary reference (a model that has learned nothing), mean over the two "
"languages, in the same units: " +
", ".join(f"**eng-{r['lang']}** {u[1]}" for r, u in zip(set4, uref)) + " nats/byte.\n")
L.append("\n**PRIMARY — Δfloor on ENGLISH text vs the English parent (nats/UTF-8 byte).** This "
"cell has no tokenizer artifact: the merge is asked only to retain what the English "
"parent already had.\n")
L.append(md_table(["pair"] + rung_keys,
[[f"eng–{r['lang']}"] + [fmt(r["rungs"][k]["delta_floor_eng"]) for k in rung_keys]
for r in set4]))
L.append("\n**Δfloor vs the better parent, mean over the two languages, nats/UTF-8 byte** "
"(lower is better; 0 would mean the merge matches the better parent):\n")
L.append(md_table(hdr, body))
body2 = []
for r in set4:
for k in rung_keys:
body2.append([f"eng–{r['lang']}", k, fmt(r["rungs"][k]["delta_floor_eng"]),
fmt(r["rungs"][k]["delta_floor_x"]),
fmt(r["rungs"][k]["delta_floor_mean"] -
r["rungs"]["M0_naive_avg"]["delta_floor_mean"])])
L.append("\n**Split by language, and Δ vs naive:**\n")
L.append(md_table(["pair", "rung", "Δfloor eng", "Δfloor X", "Δ vs naive (mean)"], body2))
L.append("""
**Rungs.** `M0_naive_avg` = straight weight average in raw index space (the merge the manuscript
reports as failing). `M1a_vocab_avg` = English/partner embedding + unembedding rows transported into
the English tokenizer's id space over shared surface forms, ids absent from the partner vocabulary
left at English's own row so the average over them is a no-op. `M1b/M1c` add the unit alignment
(residual-basis map fitted from **parallel** FLORES sentence representations — rows matched across
languages by sentence id — plus the free MLP hidden axis and the attention-head permutation), under
permutation and under Procrustes respectively, each factor accepted only if it does not increase the
block-normalised weight distance. `M1d/M1e` force the residual factor in regardless of that test.
`M1f_perm_novocab` isolates the unit alignment with **no** vocabulary transport.
""")
# ---------------- BLiMP: accuracy, not likelihood
blimp = load("blimp_*.jsonl")
if blimp:
L.append("\n## The accuracy test · does the likelihood rescue transfer? (BLiMP, SET 1)\n")
L.append("PolyPythia parents are English LMs, so BLiMP applies directly to SET 1's merges. "
"Scoring is the standard minimal-pair comparison: total log p over the sentence, "
"correct when the grammatical member scores higher. **Chance = 0.500.** Same merges, "
"same alignment, same pairs as the Δfloor tables above.\n")
body, corr_rows = [], []
for sz in sorted({b["size"] for b in blimp}, key=lambda x: int(x[:-1])):
sub = [b for b in blimp if b["size"] == sz]
ceil = np.mean([b["ceiling"] for b in sub])
pmean = np.mean([np.mean(list(b["parent_acc"].values())) for b in sub])
row = [f"pythia-{sz}", len(sub), fmt(pmean, 3), fmt(ceil, 3)]
for k in ("M0_naive_avg", "M1_perm_avg", "M1_orth_avg"):
a = np.array([b["rungs"][k]["blimp_acc"] for b in sub])
row.append(f"{a.mean():.3f}")
best = np.array([min(b["rungs"][k]["blimp_acc"] for k in b["rungs"]) for b in sub])
bestm = np.array([max(b["rungs"][k]["blimp_acc"] for k in b["rungs"]) for b in sub])
row.append(fmt(np.mean((bestm - 0.5) / (ceil - 0.5)) * 100, 1) + "%")
body.append(row)
# does the likelihood rescue predict the accuracy rescue, pair by pair?
by_pair = {tuple(b["pair"]): b for b in blimp if b["size"] == sz}
s1 = {tuple(r["pair"]): r for r in set1 if r["size"] == sz}
common = sorted(set(by_pair) & set(s1))
if len(common) >= 6:
nats = np.array([s1[c]["rungs"]["M0_naive_avg"]["delta_floor"] -
min(s1[c]["rungs"][k]["delta_floor"] for k in s1[c]["rungs"] if k.startswith("M1"))
for c in common])
acc = np.array([max(by_pair[c]["rungs"][k]["blimp_acc"] for k in by_pair[c]["rungs"] if k.startswith("M1")) -
by_pair[c]["rungs"]["M0_naive_avg"]["blimp_acc"] for c in common])
rx = np.argsort(np.argsort(nats)).astype(float); ry = np.argsort(np.argsort(acc)).astype(float)
corr_rows.append([f"pythia-{sz}", len(common), fmt(EV.pearson(rx, ry)),
fmt(float(nats.mean()), 2), fmt(float(acc.mean()), 4)])
L.append(md_table(["substrate", "n pairs", "mean parent acc", "better-parent ceiling",
"M0 naive", "M1 permutation", "M1 Procrustes",
"best rung, % of the parents' above-chance margin retained"], body))
L.append("""
**This is the result the audit asked for, and it is negative.** On pythia-14m the permutation
alignment removes ~70% of the naive merge's Δfloor in nats/token — and the merged model still scores
near chance on BLiMP, against parents at ~0.66-0.69. A large, consistent, statistically obvious
*likelihood* rescue buys essentially **no** grammatical competence back. "Recovery is not success"
is not a caveat to add to a positive result here; on this substrate it is the result.
""")
if corr_rows:
L.append("\nPair by pair, does the size of the likelihood rescue predict the size of the "
"accuracy rescue? (Spearman, over seed pairs within a size.)\n")
L.append(md_table(["substrate", "n", "Spearman(Δfloor rescue, BLiMP rescue)",
"mean Δfloor rescue (nats/tok)", "mean BLiMP rescue (acc)"], corr_rows))
L.append("\n## P0-2 · Do the pre-merge predictors predict the realised rescue?\n")
if os.path.exists(f"{R}/predictor_auroc.csv"):
rows = [l.rstrip("\n").split(",") for l in open(f"{R}/predictor_auroc.csv")]
hdr, dat = rows[0], rows[1:]
ix = {h: i for i, h in enumerate(hdr)}
body = []
for d in dat:
if d[ix.get("outcome", 0)] != "rescue_frac" and "outcome" in ix and d[ix["outcome"]] != "dfloor_M1best":
continue
body.append([d[ix["substrate"]], d[ix["outcome"]] if "outcome" in ix else "rescue_frac",
d[ix["predictor"]], d[ix["n_pairs"]],
fmt(float(d[ix["spearman_rescue"]]) if d[ix["spearman_rescue"]] else None),
fmt(float(d[ix["auroc_heldout_by_seed"]]) if d[ix["auroc_heldout_by_seed"]] else None),
fmt(float(d[ix["perm_null_mean"]]) if d[ix["perm_null_mean"]] else None),
fmt(float(d[ix["perm_null_p"]]) if d[ix["perm_null_p"]] else None),
fmt(float(d[ix["bh_q"]]) if d[ix["bh_q"]] else None)])
L.append("Outcome = **realised rescue** = the fraction of the naive Δfloor that the best M1 rung "
"removes. Label = above the within-size median. Held out **by seed**: fold *k* is every "
"pair touching seed *k*, trained on the pairs touching neither, so the predictor's sign "
"(and, for the multivariate row, its coefficients) never see the held-out pairs. Null = "
"**seed-cluster permutation** (2000 draws): permute the seed identities and re-map each "
"pair's outcome to the permuted pair, leaving the predictor vector untouched — this "
"preserves the pair-dependence structure that a plain label shuffle destroys. "
"BH-corrected across the predictor family.\n")
L.append(md_table(["substrate", "outcome", "predictor", "n", "Spearman",
"AUROC (held out by seed)", "null mean", "perm p", "BH q"], body))
if os.path.exists(f"{R}/predictor_transfer_across_size.csv"):
rows = [l.rstrip("\n").split(",") for l in open(f"{R}/predictor_transfer_across_size.csv")]
hdr, dat = rows[0], rows[1:]
ix = {h: i for i, h in enumerate(hdr)}
L.append("\n### Does a predictor fitted on one substrate transfer to another?\n")
L.append("Leave-one-**size**-out. Predictors are standardised *within* size first, so a predictor "
"that only works by encoding which substrate it is looking at scores nothing. The sign "
"(and the ridge coefficients) come from the other sizes only. Null = label permutation "
"within the held-out substrate, 1000–2000 draws; BH across the whole transfer family.\n")
body = [[d[ix["predictor"]], d[ix["outcome"]], d[ix["held_out_substrate"]], d[ix["n"]],
fmt(float(d[ix["auroc_transfer"]])), fmt(float(d[ix["null_mean"]])),
fmt(float(d[ix["perm_p"]])), fmt(float(d[ix["bh_q"]]))]
for d in dat if d[ix["outcome"]] == "rescue_frac"]
L.append(md_table(["predictor", "outcome", "held-out substrate", "n", "AUROC", "null mean",
"perm p", "BH q"], body))
if os.path.exists(f"{R}/set4_predictors.csv"):
rows = [l.rstrip("\n").split(",") for l in open(f"{R}/set4_predictors.csv")]
hdr, dat = rows[0], rows[1:]
ix = {h: i for i, h in enumerate(hdr)}
L.append("\n**SET 4, held out by language pair.** n = %d language pairs. This is far too few for "
"an AUROC or a permutation null; only the rank correlation is reported, and it should be "
"read as descriptive, not inferential.\n" % len(set4))
L.append(md_table(["predictor", "Spearman vs realised rescue"],
[[d[ix["predictor"]], fmt(float(d[ix["spearman_rescue"]]) if d[ix["spearman_rescue"]] else None)]
for d in dat]))
# coverage
abl = load("abl_*.jsonl")
if abl:
L.append("\n## Control · is the obstruction the INIT seed or the DATA order?\n")
L.append("SET 1's main grid uses `pythia-<size>-seed{n}`, which reseeds **both** the "
"initialisation and the data order. `pythia-160m-weight-seed{1,2,3}` varies only the "
"initialisation; `pythia-160m-data-seed{1,2,3}` varies only the data order. Three seeds "
"each, so three pairs each — small, but the contrast is unambiguous.\n")
body = []
for sz in sorted({r["size"] for r in abl}):
sub = [r for r in abl if r["size"] == sz]
d0 = np.array([r["rungs"]["M0_naive_avg"]["delta_floor"] for r in sub])
dp = np.array([r["rungs"]["M1_perm_avg"]["delta_floor"] for r in sub])
do = np.array([r["rungs"]["M1_orth_avg"]["delta_floor"] for r in sub])
cs = np.array([r["predictors"]["coord_share_bnd_perm"] for r in sub])
body.append([sz, len(sub), fmt(float(np.mean([r["floor"] for r in sub])), 2), fmt(d0.mean(), 2),
fmt(dp.mean(), 2), fmt(do.mean(), 2),
fmt(np.mean(1 - np.minimum(dp, do) / d0) * 100, 1) + "%", fmt(cs.mean(), 4)])
main160 = [r for r in set1 if r["size"] == "160m"]
if main160:
d0 = np.array([r["rungs"]["M0_naive_avg"]["delta_floor"] for r in main160])
dp = np.array([r["rungs"]["M1_perm_avg"]["delta_floor"] for r in main160])
do = np.array([r["rungs"]["M1_orth_avg"]["delta_floor"] for r in main160])
cs = np.array([r["predictors"]["coord_share_bnd_perm"] for r in main160])
body.append(["160m (init+data, main grid)", len(main160),
fmt(float(np.mean([r["floor"] for r in main160])), 2), fmt(d0.mean(), 2),
fmt(dp.mean(), 2), fmt(do.mean(), 2),
fmt(np.mean(1 - np.minimum(dp, do) / d0) * 100, 1) + "%", fmt(cs.mean(), 4)])
L.append(md_table(["seed variant", "n pairs", "parent floor", "naive Δfloor", "Δfloor perm",
"Δfloor Procrustes", "rescue, best", "weight coordinate share"], body))
L.append("""
Reading: models that differ **only in data order** start far closer together — the naive merge's
Δfloor is a small fraction of the reseeded-init case — and alignment does **nothing** for them,
because there is no coordinate mismatch to remove. Models that differ in **initialisation** land in
different coordinate frames and reproduce the main grid's behaviour. This is the control that makes
"the obstruction is coordinate" a claim about initialisation rather than about seeds generically,
and it also means SET 1's main grid conflates the two sources — its naive Δfloor is an
init-plus-data-order number, not an init-only one.
""")
L.append("""
### What P0-2 comes to
**Within a single substrate, nothing predicts the realised rescue.** On pythia-14m — 36 seed pairs,
a complete grid, a properly structured seed-cluster null — every pre-merge predictor we computed
(weight cosine, QMD in weight space and in representation space, coordinate share, CKA, task-vector
cosine) lands between AUROC 0.30 and 0.68 held out by seed, and **not one survives BH correction**.
The multivariate ridge over all of them does no better. This is a negative transfer result and it is
reported as one: the alignment-derived quantities that predict mergeability in the synthetic/S3
setting do **not** rank real reseeded-LM pairs by how much alignment will actually rescue them.
**Across substrates the picture is only slightly better and it is not consistent.** The
block-normalised coordinate share does transfer to some held-out sizes and not to others. Read
against the whole family that is one predictor doing well on part of the grid, not a validated
instrument, and it should not be quoted as a headline number.
Two honest caveats in the other direction. First, the *within-substrate* variance in rescue is small
relative to the *between*-substrate variance — every pair at a given size is rescued by roughly the
same amount — so there may simply be little signal left for a within-size predictor to find. Second,
the seed-cluster null is conservative by construction. Neither rescues the positive claim: on this
substrate, at this n, the predictors do not predict.
""")
L.append("\n## Coverage — what ran and what did not\n")
cov = []
for sz in ["14m", "70m", "160m"]:
n = len([r for r in set1 if r["size"] == sz])
cov.append([f"SET 1 · pythia-{sz}", f"{n}/36 seed pairs", "complete" if n == 36 else ("partial" if n else "NOT RUN"),
"M0 naive · M1 permutation · M1 Procrustes · M2 task-arithmetic · M3 TIES; barrier for M0 and M1-perm"])
langs = [r["lang"] for r in set4]
cov.append(["SET 4 · goldfish eng×X", f"{len(set4)}/4 language pairs ({', '.join(langs) or '—'})",
"complete" if len(set4) == 4 else ("partial" if set4 else "NOT RUN"),
"M0 naive · M1a vocab-transport · M1b/c vocab+unit-aligned (perm/Procrustes) · M1d/e forced-residual · M1f unit-aligned only"])
nb = {b["size"]: 0 for b in blimp}
for b in blimp: nb[b["size"]] += 1
cov.append(["BLiMP accuracy · SET 1 (English)", ", ".join(f"pythia-{k}: {v}/36 pairs" for k, v in sorted(nb.items())) or "0",
"RAN" if blimp else "**NOT RUN**",
"67 paradigms from `nyu-mll/blimp`, minimal-pair sentence-logprob scoring, on the SAME merges as the Δfloor tables"])
cov.append(["MultiBLiMP / any accuracy benchmark · SET 4 (Goldfish)", "0", "**NOT RUN**",
"No multilingual benchmark harness was close to wired inside this window; deliberately not built from scratch. SET 4's numbers are likelihood only and say nothing about accuracy."])
cov.append(["B-GPT joint bilingual reference", "0", "**NOT RUN**", "Out of window; the merged models are not compared against a jointly-trained bilingual ceiling."])
cov.append(["Goldfish 160m/other tiers, other language pairs", "0", "NOT RUN", "Only the 1000mb tier and the four audit languages."])
L.append(md_table(["cell", "n", "status", "what was measured"], cov))
L.append("""
## Threats to validity, stated plainly
- **Likelihood ≠ accuracy.** Repeated because it is the single most load-bearing caveat here.
- **SET 1's held-out corpus is FLORES-200 English devtest**, not a Pile validation split. It is
genuinely held out from PolyPythia training, but it is out-of-domain, so the absolute nats/token
floors are higher than a Pile-val number would be. Δfloor is a *difference* against parents
measured on the same corpus, so the comparison between rungs is unaffected.
- **SET 4's nats/byte is comparable across tokenizers but not free of tokenizer effects**: block
boundaries fall at different places for different tokenizers, and each block's first token is
unscored. With ~30k tokens per evaluation this is a sub-1% effect.
- **The alignment search is over the permutation group (residual basis, MLP hidden axis, attention
heads) and its orthogonal relaxation.** It is not the full symmetry group, and the residual factor
is fitted from a finite activation sample. A better aligner could raise the M1 rungs; nothing here
bounds how far.
- **SET 4's n = 4 language pairs.** Any predictor claim on that substrate is descriptive.
""")
L.append("\n## Files\n")
L.append("""```
results/set1_{14m,70m,160m}.jsonl per-pair raw records (predictors, rungs, barriers, align info)
results/set1_pairs.csv per-pair flat table, SET 1
results/set4_goldfish.jsonl per-language-pair raw records, SET 4
results/set4_pairs.csv per-language-pair flat table, SET 4
results/rung_summary.csv rung x substrate x metric summary
results/predictor_auroc.csv SET 1 predictor table: held-out AUROC, permutation null, BH q
results/set4_predictors.csv SET 4 predictor rank correlations (n=4, descriptive)
figs/set1_dfloor_by_rung.png Δfloor by rung, per size
figs/set1_rescue_vs_predictor.png realised rescue vs coordinate share / CKA
figs/set1_roc.png held-out-by-seed ROC
figs/set4_dfloor.png Δfloor by rung, Goldfish
```""")
open("/root/compose-audit/RESULTS_COMPOSE_AUDIT.md", "w").write("\n".join(L) + "\n")
if rung_rows:
keys = list(rung_rows[0])
with open(f"{R}/rung_summary.csv", "w") as f:
f.write(",".join(keys) + "\n")
for r in rung_rows:
f.write(",".join(str(r.get(k, "")) for k in keys) + "\n")
print("report written:", sum(len(x) for x in L), "chars")
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