"""Claim 2, internal-consistency check: how large must eta*T actually be? Theorem 1/2 prescribe *simultaneously* eta*T = Theta(d^2) and m = Omega~(d^8 K^4). Those two are only compatible if the eta*T needed for the network to actually fit a task does not grow with m. In this model gradient descent moves the first layer multiplicatively, w_i <- (I + (eta a_i/sqrt(m)) A) w_i, so the *effective* horizon is eta*T/sqrt(m): naively one expects the eta*T needed for interpolation to grow like sqrt(m), which would contradict eta*T = Theta(d^2) once m is pushed to d^8 K^4. This script measures it directly. For a *single* task we find the smallest eta*T (scanning eta at fixed T) that drives the hinge training loss below a threshold, as a function of d and m, and fits eta*T_needed ~ d^alpha m^beta. Theorem 1's regime is self-consistent only if beta ~ 0 and alpha ~ 2. """ import json import os import sys import time from multiprocessing import Pool import numpy as np sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))) import clcore as C # noqa: E402 OUT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "results") os.makedirs(OUT, exist_ok=True) THRESH = 0.05 # "interpolating": hinge train loss below this T_FIXED = 50 # Cost control. Each loss evaluation here is a full T_FIXED-step GD run whose # cost is ~4*n*d*m*T flops, so a naive 40-point linear scan over eta at the top # of the (d, m) grid is several TFLOP *per probe*. Three changes keep this # tractable on a 12-core / 15 GB CPU box without changing what is measured: # * n = d^2 instead of 2 d^2 (still Theta(d^2), the regime the theorem asks # for with K = 1) and T_FIXED = 50 instead of 200 -- the quantity reported # is the product eta*T, and eta is what we scan, so shortening T just moves # the same threshold to a larger eta; # * a coarse geometric bracket followed by bisection in log-eta, ~7-11 # evaluations instead of up to 40; # * d <= 48 and m <= 16000, which still spans 1.8 decades in m -- enough to # resolve the beta in etaT_needed ~ d^alpha m^beta, which is the only thing # this script is asked to decide. N_COARSE = 7 N_BISECT = 4 ETA_LO, ETA_HI = 0.05, 4000.0 def _train_loss(d, m, n, eta, seed): r = C.continual_run(d=d, m=m, K=1, n=n, T=T_FIXED, eta=float(eta), sigma_c=0.1, loss_name="hinge", seed=seed, n_test=200) L = float(r["loss_at"][0, 0]) return L if np.isfinite(L) else np.inf def probe(job): """Smallest eta*T (scanning eta at fixed T) that gets hinge loss < THRESH. Coarse geometric bracket, then bisection in log(eta). Returns None if even the largest eta in the grid fails to interpolate. """ d, m, seed = job n = int(d * d) rec = [] lo_eta, hi_eta = None, None # lo: known-failing, hi: known-passing for eta in np.geomspace(ETA_LO, ETA_HI, N_COARSE): L = _train_loss(d, m, n, eta, seed) rec.append((float(eta * T_FIXED), L if np.isfinite(L) else None)) if L < THRESH: hi_eta = float(eta) break lo_eta = float(eta) if hi_eta is None: return dict(sweep="etaT_needed", d=d, m=m, n=n, T=T_FIXED, seed=seed, etaT_needed=None, curve=rec) if lo_eta is not None: # refine the bracket in log space for _ in range(N_BISECT): mid = float(np.sqrt(lo_eta * hi_eta)) L = _train_loss(d, m, n, mid, seed) rec.append((float(mid * T_FIXED), L if np.isfinite(L) else None)) if L < THRESH: hi_eta = mid else: lo_eta = mid return dict(sweep="etaT_needed", d=d, m=m, n=n, T=T_FIXED, seed=seed, etaT_needed=float(hi_eta * T_FIXED), curve=rec) if __name__ == "__main__": jobs = [(d, m, s) for d in [16, 24, 32, 48] for m in [250, 1000, 4000, 16000] for s in range(2)] print(len(jobs), "probes", flush=True) t0 = time.time() with Pool(C.NPROC) as p: recs = [] for i, r in enumerate(p.imap_unordered(probe, jobs)): recs.append(r) print(f" {i+1}/{len(jobs)} d={r['d']} m={r['m']} " f"etaT={r['etaT_needed']} {time.time()-t0:.0f}s", flush=True) with open(os.path.join(OUT, "exp5_etaT.json"), "w") as f: json.dump(recs, f) print("done", f"{time.time()-t0:.0f}s")