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Marcin Pawlowski
4baccd8d4b
Paired design: resolve the design band with common random numbers
The unpaired comparison could not answer the question it was asked. The
two uncle models draw independent RNG streams -- uncle_model is in the
config key, which is what makes --old bit-reproduce earlier runs -- so
the arms differed in stake draw, peering graph and every lottery
outcome, each comparison paid the between-run variance twice, and the
per-cell floor (+-0.0015) sat an order of magnitude above the effect.
Only delta_max = 5 resolved, and only after pooling.

Adds `paired_streams`: the RNG root is derived from the model-
independent part of the key, so a countable cell and its --old twin get
the SAME stake, graph and lottery draws and the uncle rule is the only
difference. Each replicate is then a matched pair and the shared
variance cancels. Trajectories still diverge after epoch 0 through the
genuine feedback (a different counted density changes the next epoch's
difficulty), which is the signal.

The flag is deliberately NOT in key(): it selects which key the seed is
derived from, so including it would perturb every historical seed.
Re-verified that --old still bit-reproduces the committed 2026-07-27
rho-boundary parquet, max |delta| = 0.

Results (configs/fine-delay-paired.yaml, 40 replicates per arm):
- Negative control becomes an IDENTITY check. With U = 0 no reference is
  taken, so shared streams must give bit-identical trajectories. All 200
  replicate pairs differ by exactly 0.0. Unpaired, the same control only
  had to agree within +-0.025 and drifted by 0.016.
- Per-cell SE shrinks by a median 1.6x (1.2-2.1x); widest 95% CI goes
  +-0.0015 -> +-0.0010. 5/15 cells resolve at |t| >= 2 (0.75 expected by
  chance); the largest, U=2 at delta_max=4, is t = 4.32 and clears
  Bonferroni for 15 tests.
- The cost is a STEP, not the ramp the unpaired data suggested:
  delta_max 1-3 unresolved (t = 1.1, 1.8, 1.4), then delta_max 4 AND 5
  both resolve at -0.0011 (t = 4.7) and -0.0009 (t = 3.7). Whole-band
  pooled -0.00060 +- 0.00021, t = 5.7 -- where the unpaired estimate of
  the same quantity (t = 2.8) had failed correction.

So the first-fork restriction costs nothing measurable up to
delta_max = 3 and about 0.1% at 4-5 -- an order of magnitude below the
+-0.9% per-epoch sampling noise.

Two bugs found while building this, both of which would have silently
produced a wrong answer:
- paired_streams was missing from metrics._CONFIG_FIELDS, so it never
  reached the parquet; plot_fine_delay.py falls back to the unpaired
  test when it cannot confirm pairing, so the sweep would have completed
  and quietly reported the old result. Caught before the run finished;
  the sweep was restarted and a test now pins the field.
- The U=0 control check reported FAILS on a PERFECT control: paired, the
  gap is exactly 0 so its SE is 0 and t is 0/0. It now checks the gap
  itself when the streams are shared, and falls back to the t-test only
  when there is real spread.

§3.2a is rewritten around the paired measurement; the unpaired sweep is
retained in §9 as the power comparison that motivated it. Figures 34-35
regenerated, with the control annotation and provenance reflecting the
design actually used.

Tests: 214 passed (was 209). ruff clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 11:58:26 +02:00
Marcin Pawlowski
ac6a309e58
Review fixes + high-precision design-band delay study
Acts on a correctness/completeness review of the countable uncle model
and its report material.

Correctness fixes in the report:
- s3.4 quoted 0.998 for W_abs=10 at the 8s budget; the run says 0.9963.
- s1 claimed both models >= 0.996 at U >= 1; countable U=2 delta=8 is
  0.9955. Corrected to >= 0.995.
- The s3.2 table presented two cells (U=1 at delta 16 and 32) as model
  differences. They are not resolvable: t = 0.46 and 0.47 over 5
  replicates. The table now carries +-SEM and a t per cell.
- s3.4 claimed the ~7-block-interval floor "carries over unchanged".
  Accuracy is still climbing past W=7 at every delay (8s: 0.989 ->
  0.996), so the claim is dropped. The 32s curve is non-monotonic with
  replicate SD up to 0.22 and is now flagged as noise, not a trend.
- 1-r was attributed to the first-fork restriction alone; it is the
  combined first-fork and capacity loss, which this measurement cannot
  separate. Hedged to match fig32's own axis label.

Completeness: the U=0 negative control was swept but never reported.
With no uncles the two models are identical by construction, yet they
differ by -0.23 at delta_max=32 (t=2.1) because they draw independent
RNG streams. That is the noise floor the rest of the grid must clear,
and it is now in s3.2, s9, fig30 and the config header.

New study (configs/fine-delay.yaml, scripts/plot_fine_delay.py, s3.2a,
fig34/fig35): the design band delta_max 1-5 at 40 replicates, both
models. Findings: every U >= 1 cell of both models lands in
0.998-1.001, flat in delay, while U=0 decays 0.810 -> 0.640. No
individual cell resolves a model difference (widest 95% CI +-0.15pp;
max t=2.59 vs Bonferroni 2.94 over 15 cells). Pooled across uncle caps
the first-fork cost is monotone in delay and separates from zero only
at delta_max=5 (-0.0014 +- 0.0007, t=3.7) -- below 0.15% everywhere in
the band, against +-0.9% per-epoch sampling noise.

Code:
- deep_ref_share is identically 0 on every real countable run: for a
  chain block B the producer's chain below B is the counting chain
  below B, so the counting-side parent-on-chain re-check cannot reject
  what selection emitted. It is a drift alarm, not a rate. Documented
  as such in measure.py, the plot docstring and the config header, and
  pinned by a new end-to-end test.
- Removed annotate_uncles: a second countable implementation that
  production never called, while carrying most of the selection test
  coverage. Tests now drive select_uncles_at_production through an
  annotate_via_production replay helper -- same assertions, live path.
- Added tests for the two previously uncovered branches of the live
  selection: the pmin/below chain walk that resolves parent-on-chain
  for candidates whose parent sits below the window, and the
  occupied-slot exclusion built from the chain walk.
- theory.q_effective and theory.window_miss_prob were unused and
  untested. Now used (the prediction figure reconstructs q_u through
  the identity the report quotes) and tested. The window_miss_prob test
  records that its "~ e^-W" docstring is the f->0 limit: the true decay
  is e^-1.017W at f=1/30, 16% off by W=10.
- Shared sem()/recovery_rate() moved into figures_pernode.py; fig30 and
  fig33 regenerated with SEM error bars and the U=0 control curve.
- Fixed the pre-existing E501 in bootstrap_dynamics.py; ruff clean.

Report prose reworked to read standalone: the countable model is
described as the rules under analysis and the former model as a
labelled "unrestricted" comparison baseline, with no dated banners and
no round-to-round narration.

Tests: 209 passed (was 202).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 20:48:38 +02:00
Marcin Pawlowski
bd2ac7b7be
Countable uncle model: spec counting rules, sweeps, figures
Implement the countable uncle model from the Cryptarchia spec's
counting-only reference rules, and make it the simulator default.

Counting rules (uncles.py, measure.py):
- Only the first block of a fork (parent on the producer's chain) is
  referenceable and countable, which makes every reference verifiable
  from chain data alone.
- The reference window is derived from a window-absorption parameter,
  w_u = W_abs/f slots (W_abs in expected block-intervals, default 10,
  bounded W_abs <= 0.6*k), replacing the free-standing uncle_window.
- Selection skips slots already occupied on the producer's chain and
  takes at most one uncle per slot.
- The measurement pass re-checks every rule per reference and tallies
  rejections as deep_ref_share.

The pre-redesign model is preserved behind --old on tsi-sweep and
tsi-verify. Its RNG key is byte-identical to the pre-uncle_model key,
so --old bit-reproduces the historical runs.

Supporting changes: uncle_model and window_absorption config surface
with validation (config.py, constants.py); accuracy closed form over
the effective q_u (theory.py); plumbing through tsi.py, epoch.py,
sweep.py, blocktree.py, metrics.py, verify.py, figures_pernode.py.

Studies and figures:
- configs/countable-vs-old.yaml -- delay x U grid, run under both
  models on the same grid.
- configs/absorption-window.yaml -- accuracy vs W_abs at U=1.
- scripts/plot_countable_vs_old.py renders fig30-fig33 into
  reports/tsi/report-figures/.

Tests: tests/test_countable_counting.py (7 cases) covering first-fork
eligibility, derived-window bounds, occupied-slot exclusion, and
per-reference re-checking; extensions to test_uncles.py,
test_config.py, test_slot_counting.py. Full fast suite: 202 passed.

Also adds CLAUDE.md (graphify project instructions) and ignores
editor/local-agent state plus the vendored Equi-X benchmark clone.

The reports/tsi/ prose describing this model is held back for a
separate editorial pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 18:48:46 +02:00
Marcin Pawlowski
24da2fc8b3
Importing tsi-sim v3 2026-07-30 18:57:10 +02:00