"""Exact null model for a SynthID Bio sequence g-value score. WHY THIS EXISTS --------------- The pilot's open question is calibration: two 95th-percentile thresholds gave held-out negative flag rates of 12.5% and 4.7%, which is a spread you would not expect from a well-determined threshold. Calibrating a threshold empirically from a small cohort conflates two different things: the sampling noise of the cohort, and the intrinsic score variance of each sequence. The second one has a closed form, so it does not need to be estimated from a cohort at all. THE MODEL --------- A score is the mean of binary g-values over all (window, key) pairs: score = 1/(W*K) * sum_{w,k} b[w,k] with ``W = len(sequence) - 3`` windows and ``K = 25`` keys. Each bit is a deterministic hash of (initialisation vector, 4-residue context, key), so under the null hypothesis of no watermark the bits behave as unbiased coin flips -- with one exception that matters: Identical 4-residue contexts produce IDENTICAL bits. A sequence that repeats a 4-mer does not get an independent draw for the repeat. So the naive standard error ``0.5/sqrt(W*K)`` is too small for any sequence with repeated contexts. Writing the distinct contexts as ``1..D`` with multiplicities ``m_i`` summing to ``W``: score = 1/(W*K) * sum_i m_i * sum_k b[i,k] Var = 1/4 * (sum_i m_i^2) / (W^2 * K) SE = 0.5 * sqrt(R / (W*K)), R = (sum_i m_i^2) / W ``R`` is the repeat inflation factor: 1.0 when every context is distinct, and larger when contexts repeat. ``W*K/R`` is the effective number of independent bits. This is exact under the null, needs no cohort, and gives a per-sequence threshold instead of one shared constant -- which is the direct fix for the instability the pilot observed. A caveat worth stating: the model treats distinct contexts as independent draws. The hash is not a random oracle, so that is an approximation for the across-context term, though an unbiased-bit assumption is exactly what a null threshold should be built on. The repeat correction itself is not an approximation -- identical contexts are identically valued by construction. Usage: python null_model.py # analyse the bundled vectors python null_model.py sequences.fa # analyse a FASTA file """ from __future__ import annotations import csv import json import math import sys from collections import Counter from pathlib import Path sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "scorer")) from synthidbio_sequence_scorer import ( # noqa: E402 NGRAM_LEN, get_config, parse_fasta, score_sequence, validate_sequence, ) KEYS = 25 def context_multiplicities(sequence: str) -> Counter: """Count how often each scorable 4-residue context appears.""" cleaned = validate_sequence(sequence) return Counter( cleaned[end - (NGRAM_LEN - 1) : end + 1] for end in range(NGRAM_LEN - 1, len(cleaned)) ) def null_stats(sequence: str, keys: int = KEYS) -> dict: """Closed-form null mean/SE for one sequence, with the repeat correction.""" counts = context_multiplicities(sequence) windows = sum(counts.values()) distinct = len(counts) sum_sq = sum(m * m for m in counts.values()) inflation = sum_sq / windows naive_se = 0.5 / math.sqrt(windows * keys) corrected_se = 0.5 * math.sqrt(inflation / (windows * keys)) return { "windows": windows, "distinct_contexts": distinct, "repeated_contexts": windows - distinct, "repeat_inflation_R": inflation, "effective_independent_bits": windows * keys / inflation, "null_mean": 0.5, "naive_se": naive_se, "corrected_se": corrected_se, "null_threshold_p95": 0.5 + 1.6448536269514722 * corrected_se, "null_threshold_p99": 0.5 + 2.3263478740408408 * corrected_se, } def analyse(records: list[tuple[str, str]]) -> list[dict]: config = get_config("nd") rows = [] for header, sequence in records: result = score_sequence(sequence, config) stats = null_stats(sequence) z = (result.score - 0.5) / stats["corrected_se"] rows.append( { "id": header, "score": result.score, "z": z, # Two-sided normal tail, via the erfc complement. "p_two_sided": math.erfc(abs(z) / math.sqrt(2)), **stats, } ) return rows def main(argv: list[str]) -> int: here = Path(__file__).resolve().parent if len(argv) > 1: records = parse_fasta(Path(argv[1]).read_text(encoding="utf-8")) else: # Default to every sequence in the dataset, not just the conformance # vectors, so the counts printed here match the ones quoted in the # README and docs/NULL-MODEL.md. table = here.parent / "data" / "sequences.csv" with table.open(encoding="utf-8", newline="") as fh: records = [ (row["record_id"], row["sequence"]) for row in csv.DictReader(fh) ] rows = analyse(records) header = ( f"{'id':<22} {'score':>9} {'W':>5} {'distinct':>9} {'R':>6} " f"{'SE':>8} {'p95 thr':>8} {'z':>7} {'p':>7}" ) print(header) print("-" * len(header)) for row in rows: print( f"{row['id']:<22} {row['score']:>9.6f} {row['windows']:>5} " f"{row['distinct_contexts']:>9} {row['repeat_inflation_R']:>6.3f} " f"{row['corrected_se']:>8.6f} {row['null_threshold_p95']:>8.6f} " f"{row['z']:>+7.2f} {row['p_two_sided']:>7.3f}" ) print() exceed = [r for r in rows if r["score"] > r["null_threshold_p95"]] print( f"{len(exceed)}/{len(rows)} sequences exceed their own per-sequence " f"95th-percentile null threshold." ) max_z = max(rows, key=lambda r: abs(r["z"])) print( f"Largest deviation: {max_z['id']} at z={max_z['z']:+.2f} " f"(two-sided p={max_z['p_two_sided']:.3f})." ) print( "\nUnder public keys these scores carry no detection signal, which is " "expected:\nthe published g-values were produced with secret " "laboratory keys. Treat this\ntable as a null-calibration reference, " "not as a detector evaluation." ) out = here.parent / "data" / "null_model_reference.json" out.write_text( json.dumps( { "description": ( "Closed-form null statistics for each bundled sequence. " "corrected_se accounts for repeated 4-residue contexts, " "which the naive 0.5/sqrt(W*K) standard error ignores." ), "keys": KEYS, "ngram": NGRAM_LEN, "formula": "SE = 0.5 * sqrt(R/(W*K)), R = sum(m_i^2)/W", "rows": rows, }, indent=2, ) + "\n", encoding="utf-8", ) print(f"\nWrote {out.name}") return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv))