docs/REPRODUCIBILITY.md

Reproducibility Guide

This project is designed for deterministic generation and validation.

Environment

• Python 3.10+
• No external runtime dependency is required for the current JSONL pipeline

Deterministic Build Commands

Run these from repository root:

make highvar
make baselines
make test

Default make highvar settings:

• num_examples=1250 per config
• configs=form_easy workflow_hard
• tasks=generation repair (applied inside release builder)
• seed=19

This produces ~5000 rows total.

Key Artifacts

• Release splits: data/release/<config>/<split>-00000.jsonl
• Config QA reports: reports/phase4/<config>_qa_report.json
• Diversity report: reports/diversity_report.json
• Baseline metrics: reports/phase5_baselines.json
• Build manifest: metadata/build_manifest.json
• Error taxonomy: metadata/error_taxonomy.json

Configuration Overrides

Generation behavior can be overridden with a settings JSON file.

Example:

python3 scripts/generate_high_variability_release.py --settings metadata/generation_settings.example.json

Supported override categories include:

• uniqueness enforcement controls
• instruction template pools
• distractor pools
• enum/value pools for config-specific generation

Validation Expectations

• QA reports should have passed=true for each config.
• Diversity report should show high uniqueness for composite rows.
• Test suite should pass (make test).