---
license: other
tags:
- mechanistic-interpretability
- circuit-tracing
- arithmetic
- qwen
- sparse-circuits
pretty_name: Circuit Shotting Artifacts
---

# Circuit Shotting Artifacts

This dataset stores large/generated artifacts externalized from `Occupying-Mars/circuit-shotting`.

The Git repo keeps source code, configs, lightweight reports, and current narrative documents. This HF dataset keeps generated datasets, raw result trees, pod artifact bundles, masks, dashboards, logs, adapters, and reference files that do not belong in normal Git history.

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## Artifact and Backup Locations


### Issue 43 XCOMET Destructive MLP 95% Gate - 2026-05-18

- Primary backup bundle: `circuit-shotting/artifacts/xcomet_destructive_mlp_95/issue43_xcomet_destructive_mlp_95_20260518T145643Z`
- Mirror bundle: `TokenBender/synth-data-en-pt-circuit` (`dataset`) at `issue43_xcomet_destructive_mlp_95_20260518T145643Z`
- Source repo/branch/commit: `Occupying-Mars/circuit-shotting`, `tokenbender_experiments`, `038f04f`
- Pod/run root: `brave-hawk-1c`, `/root/runs/issue43_xcomet_destructive_mlp_95_038f04f`
- Model/task: `tencent/HY-MT1.5-1.8B`, EN->PT translation
- Held-out eval: NTREX EN->PT, 1,012 rows
- Judge: `Unbabel/XCOMET-XXL` via four local RTX 6000 Ada service workers
- Method: restore #42 ranked 100x1%ile MLP dust damage rows; build cumulative flat percentile candidates `topN in {10,15,20,30,40,50}`; nuke each candidate inside the full HY-MT model; generate NTREX hypotheses; score each candidate with XCOMET-XXL.
- Gate: target recovery `<= 0.05`, where recovery is `candidate_XCOMET / no_mask_XCOMET`.
- Prior floor: #39 `final_mix_top_3`, 5,898 channels (~3%), XCOMET recovery `0.15275785974445857`, destruction `0.8472421402555415`.
- No-mask XCOMET: `0.9281014436671856`
- Candidate XCOMET table:
  - `percentile_top_10`: 19,660 channels, XCOMET `0.18256553325603309`, recovery `0.19670859742946434`, destruction `0.8032914025705357`
  - `percentile_top_15`: 29,491 channels, XCOMET `0.2529226868034234`, recovery `0.27251620879292665`, destruction `0.7274837912070733`
  - `percentile_top_20`: 39,321 channels, XCOMET `0.19338692443559438`, recovery `0.2083683047312901`, destruction `0.7916316952687099`
  - `percentile_top_30`: 58,982 channels, XCOMET `0.189112861187974`, recovery `0.20376313653897224`, destruction `0.7962368634610277`
  - `percentile_top_40`: 78,643 channels, XCOMET `0.2072743144836056`, recovery `0.22333152900248426`, destruction `0.7766684709975158`
  - `percentile_top_50`: 98,304 channels, XCOMET `0.2053742483847226`, recovery `0.2212842677770569`, destruction `0.7787157322229431`
- Outcome: no candidate reached the 95% destructive gate, and none beat the #39 3% destructive floor. The flat whole-model percentile ranking should be treated as a negative result; the next mining frontier should recurse inside the #39 mined region instead of scaling flat percentile unions.

### Issue 42 Top-20 Destructive MLP 1%ile Proxy Search - 2026-05-18

- Primary backup bundle: `circuit-shotting/artifacts/percentile_proxy/issue42_percentile_proxy_20260518T110628Z`
- Mirror bundle: `TokenBender/synth-data-en-pt-circuit` (`dataset`) at `issue42_percentile_proxy_20260518T110628Z`
- Source repo/branch/commit: `Occupying-Mars/circuit-shotting`, `tokenbender_experiments`, `8b46e31`
- Pod/run root: `golden-orbit-d6`, `/root/runs/issue42_percentile_proxy_8b46e31`
- Model/task: `tencent/HY-MT1.5-1.8B`, EN->PT translation
- Eval mode: teacher-forced HY-MT KL proxy on FLORES devtest EN->PT, 512 rows; no XCOMET judge run
- Method: split the full HY-MT MLP down-proj input channel universe into 100 contiguous 1%ile chunks; nuke-score all chunks by KL; union the 20 most destructive chunks; compare all-MLP-zero, top-20 nuked, and native top-20 substrate-only
- Final mix: `percentile_top_20`, 39,321 MLP channels, `0.1999969482421875` of the HY-MT MLP channel universe
- Proxy summary: all-MLP-zero mean token KL `12.821661838961273`; top-20 nuked mean token KL `13.415645710292592` (`-0.046326590015529634` KL-gap recovery vs all-zero); native top-20 substrate-only mean token KL `10.892991802528064` (`0.15042278143481724` KL-gap recovery vs all-zero)
- Top 1%ile chunks: `sector_0_chunk_0`, `sector_0_chunk_1`, `sector_0_chunk_2`, `sector_0_chunk_91`, `sector_0_chunk_4`, `sector_0_chunk_3`, `sector_0_chunk_23`, `sector_0_chunk_5`, `sector_0_chunk_20`, `sector_0_chunk_65`, `sector_0_chunk_56`, `sector_0_chunk_7`, `sector_0_chunk_58`, `sector_0_chunk_6`, `sector_0_chunk_62`, `sector_0_chunk_9`, `sector_0_chunk_57`, `sector_0_chunk_59`, `sector_0_chunk_18`, `sector_0_chunk_60`
- Outcome: the selected 20% dust is strongly destructive by proxy when removed, but weak as native substrate-only; it is more a destructive chokepoint candidate than a sufficient MLP MVC.

### Issue 41 Mined MLP Substrate-Only Sufficiency - 2026-05-18

- Primary backup bundle: `circuit-shotting/artifacts/mined_substrate_only/issue41_mined_substrate_only_20260518T103722Z`
- Mirror bundle: `TokenBender/synth-data-en-pt-circuit` (`dataset`) at `issue41_mined_substrate_only_20260518T103722Z`
- Source repo/branch/commit: `Occupying-Mars/circuit-shotting`, `tokenbender_experiments`, `c4354b4`
- Pod/run root: `gentle-raven-34`, `/root/runs/issue41_mined_substrate_only_c4354b4`
- Model/task: `tencent/HY-MT1.5-1.8B`, EN->PT translation
- Held-out eval: NTREX EN->PT, 1,012 rows
- Judge: `Unbabel/XCOMET-XXL` on one 96 GB RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition GPU
- Compared systems: `native_mined_substrate_only` and `actdelta_rank256_substrate_only`
- Substrate: #39 `final_mix_top_3`, 5,898 MLP channels, about 3.0% of the HY-MT MLP channel universe
- XCOMET summary: native substrate-only `0.2118839286819925` (`0.22814712205183943` recovery); ActDelta rank256 substrate-only `0.22047376124696297` (`0.23739626893520915` recovery)
- Outcome: the 3% mined MLP substrate is highly destructive when removed but weak as a standalone MLP sufficiency circuit; ActDelta rank256 improves substrate-only recovery only slightly over native.


### Issue 39 ActDeltaLoRA MLP MVC - 2026-05-18

- Primary backup bundle: `circuit-shotting/artifacts/actdelta_lora_mlp_mvc/issue39_actdelta_lora_mlp_mvc_20260518T011201Z`
- Mirror bundle: `TokenBender/synth-data-en-pt-circuit` (`dataset`) at `issue39_actdelta_lora_mlp_mvc_20260518T011201Z`
- Source repo/branch/commit: `Occupying-Mars/circuit-shotting`, `tokenbender_experiments`, `56c9195`
- Pod/run root: `noble-shark-57`, `/root/runs/issue39_actdelta_lora_mlp_mvc_a1baaaa`
- Model/task: `tencent/HY-MT1.5-1.8B`, EN->PT translation
- Held-out eval: NTREX EN->PT, 1,012 rows
- Judge: `Unbabel/XCOMET-XXL` via 7 local B200-backed service workers
- Method: MLP-only 10% sector nuke scan -> 1% dust mining -> final mix -> ActDeltaLoRA activation-delta SVD rank ladder
- Final mix: `final_mix_top_3`, 5,898 MLP channels, proxy recovery `0.10299166698225783`
- XCOMET summary: no-mask `0.9287162019683438`; nuked final mix `0.14186869932268653`; best ActDeltaLoRA rank 256 `0.5883143888676001` (`0.633470577578718` recovery)
- Outcome: artifact-preserved full run; rank-constrained ActDeltaLoRA recovered substantial quality over the nuked substrate but did not reach the 80% or 90% recovery gates.


### Issue 32 Preserved #28 EN->PT Artifact Replay - 2026-05-13

- Primary replay bundle: `circuit-shotting/artifacts/issue32/issue32_hy_lora_conditions_repro_20260513T141918Z`
- Source artifact repo: `Occupying-Mars/hy-lora-conditions`
- Base model: `tencent/HY-MT1.5-1.8B`
- Held-out eval: NTREX EN->PT, 1,012 rows
- Judge: `Unbabel/XCOMET-XXL`
- Validated scores: base fixed k160000 `0.6278288431`, r2 fixed k160000 `0.8031356555`, r8 fixed k160000 `0.8145537329`
- #28 recorded comparison: base `0.6300551002`, r2 `0.7655800197`, r8 `0.8121489377`
- Note: `low_rank_lens/k160_r4` is not present in `Occupying-Mars/hy-lora-conditions`; no r4 replay row is fabricated.

Primary artifact and backup surfaces:

| surface | HF repo | contents |
|---|---|---|
| Consolidated circuit-discovery dataset | `TokenBender/circuit-discovery` (`dataset`) | Main home for circuit-shotting generated datasets, run bundles, masks, logs, summaries, manifests, and pod snapshots. |
| Circuit-discovery checkpoints | `TokenBender/circuit-discovery` (`model`) | Model checkpoints and adapter artifacts that are meant to be consumed as model repos. |
| EN->PT synthesis dataset | `TokenBender/synth-data-en-pt-circuit` (`dataset`) | Issue 30 DataDesigner/OpenRouter source synthesis and HY-MT teacher labels. Mirrored here under `circuit-shotting/data/synth-data-en-pt-circuit/issue30_deepseek_openrouter_hymt_20260512T222915Z`. |
| Source code and lightweight specs | `Occupying-Mars/circuit-shotting` (`GitHub`) | Code, configs, scripts, issue specs, and lightweight documentation. |

Latest issue31 live backup:

| path | contents |
|---|---|
| `circuit-shotting/artifacts/issue31/acdc_region_student_enpt/partial_blackwell_20260513T100813Z` | Partial live Blackwell snapshot for issue31 ACDC-only EN->PT region-student search, created `20260513T100813Z` UTC. |

Upstream model weights are not duplicated in this artifact dataset. Restore `tencent/HY-MT1.5-1.8B` and `Unbabel/XCOMET-XXL` from their source Hugging Face model repos/cache, then restore this repo's run/data artifacts around them.
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## Layout

| path | contents |
|---|---|
| `circuit-shotting/data/` | generated evaluation datasets and correctness sets |
| `circuit-shotting/results/` | local result directories, masks, dashboards, profiles, plots |
| `circuit-shotting/artifacts/` | pod logs, fetched run artifacts, tarballs, summaries, adapter weights |
| `circuit-shotting/references/` | reference files removed from Git |
| `circuit-shotting/manifests/` | checksum and size manifests for externalized files |

## Restore

Download the artifact subtree with:

```bash
hf download TokenBender/circuit-discovery --repo-type dataset --include "circuit-shotting/**" --local-dir hf_artifacts
```

To restore the old repo-relative layout, copy `hf_artifacts/circuit-shotting/data`, `hf_artifacts/circuit-shotting/results`, and `hf_artifacts/circuit-shotting/artifacts` into the repo root.

## Manifest

The manifest at `circuit-shotting/manifests/externalized_git_artifacts_2026-04-25.json` records source paths, HF paths, byte sizes, and SHA-256 checksums.

Total payload in this manifest: 1642 files, 4768.22 MiB.

Skipped junk files are macOS `.DS_Store` and `._*` resource-fork files.

## Tencent EN->PT MVC Prep

Current bootstrap artifacts for the Tencent HY-MT EN->PT MVC prep run:

| path | contents |
|---|---|
| `circuit-shotting/bootstrap/tencent_mvc_enpt/source_20260512T135647Z/circuit-shotting-working-tree.tar.gz` | source snapshot with the MVC split builder, service-backed XCOMET scorer, prep script, Lium bootstrap script, runner, and README updates |
| `circuit-shotting/bootstrap/tencent_mvc_enpt/runner_20260512T135559Z/tencent_mvc_runner-0.1.tar.gz` | pip-install startup runner for Lium pods whose logs work but SSH does not |
| `circuit-shotting/artifacts/tencent_mvc_enpt/partial_h100_20260512T140115Z/` | preserved interrupted H100 prep root: source splits, teacher hypotheses, ReLP masks, logs, manifest, tarball, checksum |

The intended completed prep bundle path is `circuit-shotting/artifacts/tencent_mvc_enpt/prep_v1/`. It is still empty because no 2x RTX6000 executor was available after the failed port-unreachable pod attempts.

## Circuit-Shotting Artifact and Backup Index

- Issue #32 true #28 HY LoRA artifact replay: primary TokenBender/synth-data-en-pt-circuit/issue32_hy_lora_conditions_repro_20260513T141925Z; mirror TokenBender/circuit-discovery/circuit-shotting/artifacts/issue32/issue32_hy_lora_conditions_repro_20260513T141925Z; source artifacts `Occupying-Mars/hy-lora-conditions`; reproduces preserved k=160000 base XCOMET `0.6278288431` and strongest r8 XCOMET `0.8145537329`; includes source artifact manifest/config/train summaries, preserved PEFT adapters and ReLP mask, NTREX dumps, XCOMET scored pools, summaries, logs, and checksums; excludes upstream HY-MT/XCOMET weights, HF caches, API keys, service tokens, and merged full checkpoints.
Circuit-shotting run artifacts are kept in two places: TokenBender/synth-data-en-pt-circuit is the primary experiment-data dataset repo, and TokenBender/circuit-discovery mirrors specs, runbooks, and compact backups under circuit-shotting/ for recovery on fresh pods. Upstream model weights, Hugging Face caches, API keys, and service tokens are intentionally excluded from these backups.

- Issue #32 final ReLP region-student apples-to-apples run: primary TokenBender/synth-data-en-pt-circuit/issue32_relp_region_student_apples_20260513T124959Z; mirror TokenBender/circuit-discovery/circuit-shotting/artifacts/issue32/issue32_relp_region_student_apples_20260513T124959Z; includes config/spec, runbook note, ReLP mask, FLORES teacher-hyp data, NTREX dumps, proxy metrics, XCOMET summaries, logs, SHA256SUMS, and the rank-128 region-student checkpoint.