All four 500k runs died about 10 minutes in when the container was
reclaimed. No SIGTERM fired, so no .dom was written and 0 of 12 runs
completed. My plan committed results per finished run, which protected
nothing because no run reached its commit point. The bad assumption was
reading "reclaimed after inactivity" as CPU inactivity; it is conversation
inactivity, and background compute does not hold the box open.
Progress reached before the loss (from the tracked logs): harbor 24,960
evals / 40 fails, maple 14,880 / 79, health-centre 25,920 / 33,
programme-house 138,800 / 2.
The underlying gap is not environmental: a search's only output lands at
the very end or on SIGTERM, so ANY abrupt loss -- reclaimed container, OOM,
power cut -- takes the whole run with it. On a 3M-eval search that is 2.4
days of compute with no recoverable artefact.
- driver.search gains checkpoint=/checkpoint_every=: the current best is
handed to a callback at most every N evals. Rate-limited by evals, not
improvements, which come in bursts early. A failing checkpoint is logged
and swallowed -- losing a checkpoint is bad, losing the search because a
checkpoint failed is worse.
- homemaker-evolve --checkpoint-every N writes <out>.dom.checkpoint via
mkstemp + os.replace, so a crash can never catch it half-written. It is
deliberately NOT the output path: a checkpoint is a leaf-sharing run's
internal best, dishonest under the canonical scorer until the finish
stage unfolds it (homemaker-py-3l6), and must not be mistaken for the
finished article.
- Verified the written checkpoint re-loads as a valid .dom.
Default off, so behaviour is unchanged without the flag.
Lint at parity (46); tests 372 passed (3 new), same 2 pre-existing failures.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MJ84Feep79Hhm3E4zZJmnB
§39.9 named the upstream fix: keep circulation connected DURING the resize
rather than rebuilding it after. Built and measured. It does not help, and the
reason matters more than the lever.
Both halves of the re-cut do damage, in different proportions per programme.
Freezing rotations and letting only ratios move (% levels connected, 12 seeds):
harbor 100 -> 71 -> 50, health-centre 100 -> 8 -> 8, maple 100 -> 92 -> 67. So
health-centre is destroyed entirely by the ratio and maple mostly by the
rotation; a fix must be able to give back either.
operators._size_divisions_preserving_circulation snapshots every cut, resizes,
then reverts the cuts on the tree path between each circulation pair the resize
broke -- programme fully intact, no retyping, only geometry given back. It works
on connectivity (harbor 50->92%, maple 67->97%, health-centre 8->17%) and costs
area accuracy: constructed-seed fails harbor 96.6->141.5, maple 141.8->175.8,
size fails roughly double. (A greedy single-cut revert barely moved -- it stalls
where no ONE revert helps though two would. Targeting the broken pairs is what
made connectivity work.)
The obvious defence -- raw constructed seeds understate it, the resize is only a
warm start, the inner loop should recover -- was TESTED AND FAILS. Full search,
harbor-house, 12000 evals, seed 1:
OFF 43 fails, 9 hard, 3 connectivity
ON 65 fails, 26 hard, 4 connectivity
Worse on every axis, including connectivity itself.
REFRAMING: §39.9's fact stands (the resize destroys 41 of 49 circulation edges)
but is NOT ACTIONABLE, because construction-time connectivity does not determine
final connectivity. The search discards and rebuilds the seeder's circulation
either way, and constraining the seed only spends area quality the search cannot
recover. Together with §39.8 (not an incentive problem) that retires the framing
this thread inherited from §38: connectivity is neither a construction problem
nor an incentive one.
Both flags (repair_circulation, preserve_circulation) stay default off with the
numbers recorded, plus byte-identical-default tests. Do not revisit either
without a new formulation -- the standing this document gives bubble.py.
356 passed (+1 new), same 7 pre-existing fixture failures, lint unchanged.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MJ84Feep79Hhm3E4zZJmnB
Supersedes the previous commit's approach. Renaming harbor's four colliding
codes fixed one programme; tightening the matching rule fixes the rule, so a
room may be called anything. cr1/of/st1/st2 are restored and the examples are
byte-identical to their pre-§39 state -- which also means existing .dom
artefacts (evolved-3M*) stay valid, so migrate_ju3_rename.py is deleted.
The rule: Urb has exactly three GENERIC structural types (get_space_types:
qw/C O S/), the leaves the search creates. Measured across the corpus: 154 C,
110 O, 1 S, not one lowercase generic -- while every programme code is
lowercase, including single-character ones (r, t, m, n). Case is the
discriminator, not length. Every generic test was type[0].lower() in (...), a
case-insensitive PREFIX that swept up any programme code starting with those
letters; they now match the generic set exactly. 30 sites across dom, fitness,
graph, operators, programme, shapecurve and bubble.
NOT applied to the SEMANTIC prefixes: l/k/b/t classify programme codes by first
letter (graph.py builds bedroom<->toilet and kitchen<->living relations from
them) and stay prefix-based. Where the namespaces were mixed in one expression
they were split -- has_circulation's ("b","l","k","c") is three semantic
prefixes plus dom.is_circulation; access()'s ("l","c","s") is semantic l plus
the generic circulation set.
New: dom.GENERIC_{CIRCULATION,OUTSIDE,TYPES} + is_generic(); fitness.
_generic_class(), replacing the _t0 dispatch in quality_size/quality_width/
quality_proportion/value_rate -- the four terms that mattered most and that a
first sweep missed, since they dispatch through a t0 variable rather than an
inline test. graph._adjacency_target resolves a generic adjacency requirement
(programmes write "adjacency: [c, o]") to the generic set while every other
requirement keeps Perl's prefix semantics.
Two subtleties: S is in both generic sets but takes the OUTSIDE parameter
families -- a first translation tested circulation first and silently gave S
the circulation params, caught by test_get_space_params_sahn_proportion. And
validate_codes survives, narrowed to a code spelled exactly C/O/S, which is a
genuine ambiguity; merely starting with c/o/s is now fine.
Invariant asserted as a test: test_scoring_is_invariant_under_programme_code_
spelling relabels one tree and its config together and re-scores. Bit-identical
across 12 comparisons (6 seeds x collapse on/off).
Re-baseline (seed 1, 20k, original names): 58 fails (15 hard / 43 soft) against
the real 37-instance programme, with cr1 at 79.1 m2 vs declared 80 (was 32.9
and 17.1), of/st1/st2 all present and in band, and one fail naming any of them.
57 -> 58 on a 5-instance-harder programme is within noise: "did not regress".
Fallout (§39.5): 2g7.5's CP-SAT seeder win does not survive. Over 6 seeds --
harbor real 102/114 (cpsat loses), harbor old-effective 98/99 (tie, so the win
was already marginal), maple-court 156/144 (cpsat wins). maple is the control:
the solver did not regress, harbor's programme changed. Test xfail'd with that
reason plus a maple companion; both assign_solver flags stay default off.
Filed homemaker-py-w6x to re-check other narrow-margin harbor A/Bs.
345 passed, 1 xfailed, same 7 pre-existing fixture failures.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MJ84Feep79Hhm3E4zZJmnB
driver.collapse_best built its evaluator with _fitness_for's default
collapse_insearch=True, so collapse_finish's base_fails/cand_fails were
both measured through score_with_fails' own auto-collapse pass -- base
silently equalled collapsed on 5/5 probed files, making the "keep only
if fails don't increase" safety guard vacuous and understating 94g's
real effect in logs. fitness.collapse_finish now forces canonical
(collapse_insearch=False) scoring for its own measurement regardless of
self's config; collapse_best now builds its evaluator canonically too
(matching what homemaker-fitness reports for the written .dom) and
threads max_share/conn_grade through. Same-family fix in
search_annealed's no-polish-budget rescore branch, which silently
defaulted to collapse_insearch=True via _evaluate's default.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014uCyZJCh5mBuA2yEFxgQpo
Adds src/homemaker_layout/cpsat.py (OR-Tools CP-SAT) as an exact alternative
to operators._assign_adjacency_aware's greedy/beam room-code placement,
wired in as assign_solver="greedy"|"cpsat" (EXPERIMENTAL, default "greedy",
byte-identical to before) through constructive_topology/lift_base_to_storeys/
driver.search, plus a new operators.mutate_reassign in-search repair
operator (driver.search's enable_reassign=False default, mirrors
enable_ruin_recreate). Both found and fixed a resize-fragility bug (a
second CP-SAT pass against settled geometry, operators._cpsat_relabel_settled)
and a CP-SAT symmetry-blowup stall (explicit interchangeable-code grouping).
Seeder-level A/B on harbor-house is a solid, low-noise positive (~13% fewer
real fitness-scored secondary-adjacency fails, 10 seeds). Full driver.search
A/B is only pilot-scale (budget=3000 vs the bead's own 20k target) and
inconclusive -- both flags stay default-off pending a larger-N confirmation.
Full writeup: DESIGN.md §37.7. Bead left in_progress (own acceptance
criteria not fully met); homemaker-py-5bv tracks the deferred post-collapse
repair item.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LSwQwpEaHFBkeVSDDWd75S
Generalise shapecurve.py's DP to process dom.levels(root) bottom-up per
storey instead of assuming a single free tree. A divided node's split is
free only per solver.free_branches' own criterion (below is None or
undivided there) -- geometry.coordinate always mirrors a below-linked
node's corners from the storey below regardless of whether that storey's
counterpart is divided, so every free region at any storey reduces to the
exact same single-region problem the pre-existing _check/realise already
solved. New _region_roots finds below-fixed leaves (checked directly,
gridless) and below-fixed-box/free-split fringe nodes per storey;
_solve_all_levels realises each storey before checking the one above and
snapshots+restores on any infeasibility, preserving solve()'s all-or-nothing
and is_feasible()'s never-writes contracts across the whole tree.
eligible() now allows any storey count.
Validated on the real (non-de-risked) examples/harbor-house: 200 random
2-storey topologies, DP-vs-NM agreement 99.5%, 0 false negatives, 117.7x
speedup (DESIGN.md §37.6). Full suite 397 passed.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LSwQwpEaHFBkeVSDDWd75S
Adds shapecurve.is_feasible() (a non-mutating refactor of solve()'s check
phase) and a shapecurve_prune flag composing the DP's exact feasible/
infeasible verdict with operators.predicted_shape_fails' existing heuristic
prune: DP-feasible vetoes a heuristic prune outright; DP-infeasible only
hard-prunes when the incumbent already has zero total fails (exact, since
infeasible proves the shape-fail floor is >=1); otherwise defers unchanged
to today's heuristic threshold. Conservative by design since a wrong prune
is unrecoverable.
Validated 0/400 false negatives across two structurally distinct plots
(harbor-house-l0 + a newly-added programme-house sweep, the first genuinely
non-rectangular plot this DP has been checked against). The real
driver.search A/B on harbor-house-l0 measured NULL (byte-identical off/on)
for a root-caused, pre-existing reason: predicted_shape_fails rarely
triggers organically at this scale, so neither new branch had an opening to
fire -- not a defect in this change. Full writeup: DESIGN.md §37.5.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LSwQwpEaHFBkeVSDDWd75S
Promotes the validated shape-curve DP (experiments/shapecurve_spike.py,
2g7.4, DESIGN.md §37.2) from a reference-only spike into
src/homemaker_layout/shapecurve.py, and wires it into driver._evaluate as a
warm-start for innerloop.optimise: when eligible (single storey, no
leaf_sharing/superpose/max_share/multi_use) and no caller-supplied x0, the
DP's exact shape-feasible ratio point is written onto the tree before NM
runs, off by default (shapecurve_warmstart=/--shapecurve-warmstart).
Caught and fixed a latent bug promoting the spike: realise() could leave
numpy.float64 in `division`, which yaml.safe_dump can't serialise — the
original spike never round-tripped through dom.dumps so this was never hit.
A/B on harbor-house-l0 (experiments/ab_shapecurve_warmstart.py, budget=2000,
5 seeds): mean total fails 16.6 (on) vs 19.6 (off), ~3.5x mean fitness
improvement; mean hard-fail count alone was a noise-level wash at this
sample size. Full writeup in DESIGN.md §37.4.
Deliberately deferred to new tracked beads (children of 2g7): DP-exact hard
pre-filter (wkh), multi-storey below-link support (koo), leaf_sharing/
co_type modelling (tym), true skew-quad polygon algebra (ekc) — 6xh stays
in_progress pending those.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LSwQwpEaHFBkeVSDDWd75S
Splits the flat outer-search comparator (-n_fails, fitness) into a tiered
(-n_hard, -n_soft, fitness) so search budget stops being spent polishing
SOFT shape fails (crinkliness/proportion/size/width/edge-too-long/
staircase-volume) while HARD structural fails (missing space, wrong/
required level, level/circulation/vertical connectivity, adjacency,
stairs, covered-outside, storey limits, public access) remain unfixed.
fitness.classify_fail_tier/tier_counts classify every fail string emitted
across fitness.py and graph.py, raising on anything unrecognised so new
fail sites must declare a tier. Validated against all real fail strings in
the checked-in corpus plus every fail-emission call site read from source.
driver.Individual gains n_hard/n_soft (populated from innerloop.Result.
fail_lines); search(use_tiers=...) swaps the comparator when set (default
off, so existing runs are unaffected — inner-loop 0.5^n cliff untouched).
evolve.py exposes --use-tiers / HOMEMAKER_USE_TIERS.
experiments/tier_ab_2g7_3.py runs the acceptance A/B (harbor+maple, 3
seeds, 20k evals) in the background; results pending.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LSwQwpEaHFBkeVSDDWd75S
Builds path (b) from §26 -- a leaf permanently serving two DIFFERENT
compatible programme codes at once, extending leaf-sharing's same-code
multiplicity mechanism to different-but-compatible codes. Architect-declared
`co_locate` pairs (validated against interchangeable()'s S1-S4 bounds, no
transitive closure so the b3v chain problem can't recur), threaded through
graph.py's checks via a new leaf_codes() resolver and fitness.py's quality
terms (additive size, stricter-of-both width/proportion). Construction-time
only, gated behind `multi_use` (default OFF, bit-identical when off).
End-to-end A/B (20k evals x 3 seeds x 2 programmes) came back net negative:
harbor-house -4.0% but health-centre +24.5% worse (3/3 seeds), because
fusing different codes' shape targets via stricter-of-both can impose a
tighter joint constraint than either code needed alone, which the tightly-
packed health-centre programme can't absorb. Written up as DESIGN.md §33;
multi_use stays default OFF, no default-flip recommended.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01R8agJBT2ZpmF3ErW7wi2wY
operators._assign_adjacency_aware gains beam_width (default 1 = exact
prior greedy behaviour), threaded through constructive_topology/
lift_base_to_storeys/driver.search/search_staged as
construction_beam_width. Verified functioning on an adversarial
synthetic case, but byte-identical raw-seed output to greedy at every
width tested (1/4/8/20) on both example programmes -- no headroom for
the beam to find on this repo's programmes. DESIGN.md section 29.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01R8agJBT2ZpmF3ErW7wi2wY
Adds operators.mutate_ruin_recreate: un-divides one wing of a storey and
rebuilds it with the same adjacency-aware constructor the seeders use
(_assign_adjacency_aware, generalised with a new `scope` param), seeded
from the surviving circulation bordering the wing. Gated behind
enable_ruin_recreate (default off) / --ruin-recreate, same pattern as
reassociate/bridge_circulation.
A/B (qpk protocol, DESIGN.md §23): initial uniform-weight run was
underpowered (fired ~1/32 children), null. A weight=3.0 follow-up
(_MUTATION_WEIGHTS["ruin_recreate"]) showed a statistically significant
win on programme-house across 15 seeds (8W/1L/6T, mean fails 7.07->6.00,
Wilcoxon p=0.041) but no consistent effect on harbor-house across 8 seeds
(3W/2L/3T). Kept default off pending a size-threshold follow-up.
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Combined follow-up to 8sh (DESIGN.md §22): raised bridge_circulation's
_MUTATION_WEIGHTS entry to 2.0 (lj3) and re-ran the qi6/qpk-protocol A/B
at 4x the sample size (qjg) in one sweep, since the two variables were
confounded if tested separately. Result is null in the opposite direction
from 8sh's small-N signal -- no total-fail benefit (p=0.71 programme-house
N=20, p=0.69 harbor-house N=12) and a higher rate of trajectory-divergence
-induced new not-connected fails than at the original uniform weight.
Reverted the weight bump; enable_bridge_circulation stays default off.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GDZjAATDWW1xFfc7xnJqSt
Adds operators.mutate_bridge_circulation: retypes the cheapest path between
two disconnected circulation components to circulation, directly clearing a
'level N not connected' fail instead of relying on the qi6 graded comparator
key (measured negative, DESIGN.md §18). Gated off by default via
driver.search's enable_bridge_circulation flag and evolve.py
--bridge-circulation, mirroring enable_reassociate's clean-toggle pattern.
qi6/qpk-protocol A/B (DESIGN.md §21) is directionally positive but mixed at
N=3/N=5 (never worse on total fails; clears 2/5 baseline not-connected fails
vs qi6's 0/4; one seed's RNG-trajectory divergence adds 2 new not-connected
fails) — kept default off pending a larger-N confirmation sweep
(homemaker-py-qjg) and a mutation-weight bump experiment (homemaker-py-lj3).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GDZjAATDWW1xFfc7xnJqSt
20-seed programme-house sweep (vs the original 5) resolves the qpk A/B's
mixed 3/5 result as small-sample noise around a true small positive: mean
fails 7.95->7.10 (~10.7%), 11W/6L/3T, paired t-test p~0.028. Flips
collapse_insearch's default from OFF to ON in evolve.py and driver.py
(_overrides_for/_fitness_for/_evaluate/search/polish_finish); opt out with
--no-collapse-insearch. fitness.Fitness itself is unchanged.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GDZjAATDWW1xFfc7xnJqSt
driver.search()/search_staged() gain enable_shape_repair (default off),
mirroring the enable_reassociate clean-toggle pattern: only builds a
fitness.Fitness instance and passes it to operators.mutate() when
enabled, so shape_rotate/deslim (7fm) can actually be selected mid-GA
instead of always no-opping on fit=None.
Full A/B sweep (harbor-house, budget=1M, 4 seeds) shows no improvement:
mean fails 14.50 (off) vs 14.75 (on), within seed noise. Confirms 7fm's
finish-time finding at in-search scale — these operators don't rescue
harbor-house's residual fails even with GA selection pressure.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GDZjAATDWW1xFfc7xnJqSt
Runs the 94g finish-time cell↔room collapse inside every fitness eval
(collapse_insearch conf flag, default off, bit-identical when off) instead
of once at the end, so search optimises the collapsed objective directly.
Plumbed through fitness.py/driver.py/evolve.py the same way superpose/
conn_grade are; --collapse-insearch CLI flag.
A/B validated against the xi7 protocol (equal budget, both arms finished
with standard finish-time --collapse): POSITIVE, opposite of the 9o5/xi7
prior. harbor-house ON wins 3/3 (mean fails 80.3->72.0); programme-house
mixed 3/5 (mean fails 8.4->7.8). Kept default off pending a larger
programme-house sample; documented as a working opt-in for harbor-house-
scale-or-larger programmes. Full writeup in DESIGN.md §20.
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The dominant post-collapse fail is the binary "level N not connected",
which is flat across fragmentation (a 7-component storey scores the same
as a 2-component one), so the outer search has no gradient toward
connected circulation. A finish-time convert-to-circulation repair was
prototyped and measured NEGATIVE (195->560 fails: bridging needed rooms
costs more missing-room fails than the one binary fail it clears).
Instead add graph.circulation_connectivity(G) = largest-circ-component
fraction, summed over storeys onto the score_with_grade proximity channel
(conf flag conn_grade; replaces the §11.4 leaf-grade there). It is a
secondary comparator key only — scalar fitness and fail count stay
byte-identical — restoring the gradient the binary fail lacks. Threaded
through driver (_overrides_for/_fitness_for/_evaluate/search; enabling it
implies the grade key) and evolve --conn-grade (default off).
A/B on full-budget runs pending; short smoke run confirms plumbing.
Tests: tests/test_conn_grade.py x9 (fraction contract, non-circ ignored,
monotone under (dis)connection, score/fail invariance); 276 pass.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01M8566xAxTnwtJTkpXjYNZm
Public-access term (preserve_public_access, default on): when the building's
only street access is an l/k ROOM neighbour of a public outside leaf (no
circulation fallback — an existential building-level check the per-leaf
objective can't see), that leaf is pinned (kept, its demand slot decremented)
so the collapse can't drop "no outside public access". Best layout 15→13
becomes 15→12 with zero new fails; sweep total 172→171, still monotone.
collapse_finish(root, **kw) -> (tree, base, coll, applied): keep-better wrapper,
scores on throwaway copies (score_with_fails merges in place), returns the
collapse only if fails don't increase.
Wiring: driver.collapse_best updates result.best (lineage +collapse, canonical
re-score); evolve.py runs it after the sharing polish behind --collapse/
--no-collapse (default on). New homemaker-collapse CLI (collapse_cmd.py) applies
it to an existing .dom, writing <stem>.collapsed.dom.
tests/test_collapse_global.py: demand-set relabel, level hard constraint, c/o/s
exclusion, no-op safety, keep-better/unmerged. 267 pass.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01M8566xAxTnwtJTkpXjYNZm
Ramp the leaf-share grain down within one continuous run (e.g. 4->3->2->off),
carrying the whole population across each step — graduated non-convexity over
the single hard sharing->off transition of the §15 finish.
- operators.unfold_shared_leaves(above=cap): unfold only leaves whose share
exceeds the new grain cap, leaving smaller-share leaves collapsed for the
next step. above=1 (default) keeps the full-unfold §15 behaviour.
- driver: max_share override threaded through _overrides_for/_fitness_for/
_evaluate so a phase can rebuild the evaluator at a lower leaf_share_max cap;
search(seed_pop=) evaluates an explicit initial population so a phase hands
its whole population to the next instead of restarting from a single best.
- driver.search_annealed: one phase per descending grain then a de-share
polish; unfold-above-cap between steps; cumulative accounting + grain-tagged
history; honest canonical best (byte-for-byte verified vs homemaker-fitness).
- evolve: --anneal-grain LADDER CLI (self-finishing; §15 finish not applied).
8iv settled the primitive (grid unfold beat the circulation-aware slice), so
the ramp reuses the plain balanced-grid unfold at every step.
Tests: unfold above-cap selectivity, seed_pop seeding, search_annealed phase
stitching / honest finish / degenerate-ladder fallback. 258 pass. DESIGN §16.
Head-to-head A/B on harbor-house still to run; verdict pending (issue open).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01M8566xAxTnwtJTkpXjYNZm
Leaf-sharing evolve runs optimised a sharing-credited objective (a shared
leaf of code X with share=k counts as k programme rooms, size re-centred on
k*target) but wrote the un-materialised genome, which the canonical
homemaker-fitness rates catastrophically worse (harbor-house: internal
1.03e-05 vs canonical 6.73e-29, 15 critical missing-room fails).
Fix: before write, driver.polish_finish() unfolds every live shared leaf
into k distinct rooms (operators.unfold_shared_leaves — pays down the count
deficit) then warm-starts a leaf_sharing=False polish search from the
unfolded genome so the materialised rooms get proportion/width/size cleanup.
Returned best.fitness is the canonical score (leaf_sharing off => internal
== canonical). This is yaa's proven unfold-then-polish path, made automatic.
evolve.py: new --polish-budget (env HOMEMAKER_POLISH_BUDGET; -1=auto=
budget//2, 0=unfold+rescore only). Interrupt forces polish_budget=0 for a
fast honest output. Default stays --leaf-sharing on (its topology-search
speed retained; output made honest by the finish). Schedule B in-run
annealing remains homemaker-py-kpu.
Verified (harbor-house 3000+1500): reported polish fitness 4.79788e-27
matches canonical homemaker-fitness exactly, 0 critical fails. Tests: 254
pass (+3 polish_finish).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01M8566xAxTnwtJTkpXjYNZm
Interchangeable codes (similar size/width/proportion, compatible level/stack,
no adjacency edge) form equivalence classes derived from the programme. With
--superpose (default off), each fitness eval COLLAPSES every superposed leaf to
its best in-class usage via an optimal supply->demand assignment (brute force
<=C! within cap C=4, scipy Hungarian beyond), then scores the condensed types.
Because collapse re-types on the unmerged tree before all checks, counts /
adjacency / quality are unchanged downstream -- no Node field, no graph/operator
changes -- and default OFF is bit-identical.
- programme.py: derive_interchange_classes + interchangeable (S1-S4, locked
thresholds R_SIZE=1.5/R_WIDTH=1.3/R_PROP=1.5, CLASS_CAP=4)
- fitness.py: collapse_superposition, _best_assignment, _usage_quality;
superpose/superpose_class_cap conf knobs; collapse hooked into _evaluate_full
- driver.py/evolve.py: superpose flag plumbed beside leaf_sharing; --superpose
- tests/test_superposition.py: 17 tests (derivation, assignment, end-to-end)
Closes homemaker-py-9o5 (build); validation A/B is homemaker-py-xi7.
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Expose tournament_k (default 2) on search()/search_staged(), threaded into
both _tournament call sites and the staged path's internal search() calls;
HOMEMAKER_TOURNAMENT_K env knob in the scaled/staged harnesses; run_6zy_ab.sh
joint niche×k grid (RESUME-able).
Result (negative, acceptable): no (niche,k) cell beats the legacy (off,k=2)
baseline. Blank-slate programme-house (5 seeds) baseline mean 4.80 fails is the
best of the 6-cell grid; every k>2 and every niche=on cell is 6.0-7.0. Niching
bites (pop_distinct 16/16 vs 4-11) but sharper pressure does not convert it to
lower fails — §11.5 'diffuses effort' null is robust to selection pressure;
plateau stays reachability-bound (confirms §11.4/§11.5).
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Prime a population from N independent converged elites + crossover-heavy
migration phase, vs best-of-N at equal total budget. Island does NOT win:
harbor 68 vs control 67 (within parallel noise), maple 124 vs control 116
(decisive). Default-off child_probe hook on driver.search instruments the
deciding mechanism: area-matched crossover across independently-converged
elites rarely synthesizes (1/65 harbor, 3/63 maple beat the better parent,
max fail-drop 2-5), confirming the alignment hypothesis (non-canonical 9gp
encoding -> disruptive splice). Search-machinery null #3; residual stays
geometry/shape-bound. 233 tests pass.
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§13.6/ld2 verdict: interior-O light-well seeding is net-positive — harbor
-16.4% (all seeds improve), maple net-neutral (-2.8% mean, no programme
regresses). Mirror the pll bal+share flip: default interior_outside
False->True in driver.search/search_staged and operators.constructive_topology/
lift_base_to_storeys (outside_divisor stays 3). The experiments INTERIORO
A/B override is unchanged. test_interior_outside_… now pins the peripheral
baseline to interior_outside=False explicitly. 215 tests pass.
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Seed O as interior light wells (most-landlocked leaves first, count scaled
by room count via outside_divisor) instead of one peripheral O, attacking the
erc crinkliness residual: seed diagnostic confirms every crinkliness fail is
under-exposed (landlocked), none over-exposed.
A/B (20k evals, seeds 0/1/2, bal+share stack, §13.6): control reproduces §13.5;
interior odiv=3 gives harbor -16.4% (all seeds improve) and maple -2.8%
(net-neutral). Default-optimal divisor 3 found by seed sweep (6 was null).
Lever default OFF; default-ON flip tracked as erc.8.
- operators: interior_outside + outside_divisor through constructive_topology,
lift_base_to_storeys, _assign_adjacency_aware (fix n_circ budget for >1 O)
- driver.search/search_staged threading; run_staged_search.py INTERIORO/ODIV env
- test_interior_outside_seeds_landlocked_wells_and_scales_count
- experiments/run_interioro_ab.sh; DESIGN.md §13.6
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erc.7/§13.5 verdict: depth_balanced + leaf_sharing (factor 3) is the
winning Phase-8 stack. Flip the three knobs to default-on so
homemaker-evolve inherits them; env-var A/B overrides (DEPTHBAL/
LEAFSHARE/LEAFSHAREFAC) unchanged. 214 tests pass, no snapshot churn.
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_grow_leaves grew a random caterpillar, so equal-target rooms landed at
wildly different binary-tree depths — the depth-driven size maldistribution
Diagnostic B (§13.2) localized (same code at 0.05x and 14.7x target). The
depth_balanced flag always splits a shallowest leaf instead, growing a
near-complete tree so the proportion-aware sizing pass hits each target with
cut fractions near their proportional value.
Floor probe (diag_depth_balance.py): depth spread collapses 7->1, the giant
ratio falls (maxR 12->8 harbor / 16->6 maple), %undersize 54->25 / 42->22,
and the achievable floor drops -12% harbor / -11% maple at EQUAL leaf count.
Additive with leaf-sharing (bal+sh3 beats §13.3 share3-alone). Default OFF,
214 tests pass; threaded through driver.search/search_staged and exposed via
DEPTHBAL in run_staged_search.py. End-to-end 20k A/B running.
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Replace the area-derived share recovery with explicit, type-guarded per-leaf
multiplicity: construction stamps leaf.share=k and leaf.share_type=code; the
fitness (graph.leaf_share) honours k only while leaf.type==share_type, so any
retype/undivide auto-invalidates a stale share — no operator resets, and a
small leaf cannot retype its way into covering rooms it does not provide. Two
Node fields survive the whole search via deepcopy (genome.decode is unused in
the hot path); .dom emits `share` only on a live shared leaf.
This closes the §13.3 missing-fail leak: floor probe missing 17–44 → 0, and the
achievable floor drops −39% harbor (120.3→73.3) / −32% maple (194.7→133.0) with
no re-emergence as size fails.
Flag threaded through driver.search/search_staged → constructive_topology /
lift_base_to_storeys, exposed via LEAFSHARE/LEAFSHAREFAC in run_staged_search.py
(injects the objective into inner-loop + final-score fitness so both A/B arms
share one programme dir). run_leafshare_ab.sh runs the staged 20k A/B.
Smoke-tested end-to-end (harbor, factor 3, re-score OK). 214 tests pass;
default-OFF reproduces baseline.
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The constructive seeder was never nondeterministic: _assign_adjacency_aware
ends every max/min with a unique leaf-idx tiebreak and uses set unions only
for membership, so iteration order never leaks. constructive_topology(seed=0)
is byte-identical across processes for every example programme. The cited
"sig 4480 vs 16064" was a measurement artifact — Python's builtin hash() of a
str is salted per process (PYTHONHASHSEED), so an identical signature hashes to
different ints run-to-run.
The real run-to-run noise was parallel-only: driver._run_batch admitted futures
via as_completed (completion order), and admit() is order-sensitive (accrues
n_evals per result; keeps the first individual of an equal-key tie as best). A
long parallel run diverged 167 vs 161 fails (maple seed 0). Fix: admit futures
in submission order (block on each result in turn; all still run concurrently),
reproducing the serial admission sequence. Two workers=4 runs are now
byte-identical. Serial (workers=1) was already byte-for-byte reproducible.
Per-seed numbers are reproducible only at a fixed worker count; serial != parallel
is expected (children/iteration 1 vs n_workers changes batch granularity).
- driver: iterate futs in submission order, not as_completed
- test: test_search_parallel_is_reproducible (fails on pre-fix, passes on fix)
- DESIGN.md §12.4: corrected the reproducibility note
Closes homemaker-py-xcy
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Threads circ_divisor (default 3 = unchanged) through
operators.constructive_topology/lift_base_to_storeys and
driver.search/search_staged; env CIRCDIV in run_staged_search.py. Adds
experiments/run_c3g_ab.sh.
Motivation (DESIGN.md §12.3 diagnostic): the maple shape residual is
over-granular construction (73 small leaves -> crinkliness+size). Cheap raw-seed
probe: a coarser spine lowers the SHAPE floor (maple 135->110, harbor 83->66)
but raises access/adjacency, leaving the raw TOTAL floor flat-to-worse. Because
§12.3 showed shape is the HARD residual and access/adjacency are cheap to
repair, only an end-to-end A/B settles whether trading them pays — this is the
plumbing for that run. Tests green (default path byte-identical).
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Land the two evidence-supported parts of the re-scoped 9gp capstone as
operators on the existing decoded Node tree (no Polish-expression rewrite),
each default-OFF and measured against the §12.2 leu.2 baseline.
9gp.1 shape-feasibility pre-filter: operators.predicted_shape_fails lays a
topology out at its proportion-aware target geometry and counts shape fails
(size/width/proportion/crinkliness); driver._evaluate prunes clearly-infeasible
topologies before the inner loop (1 eval vs ~80), guarded so nothing that could
beat the incumbent is discarded. search/search_staged feasibility_filter,
feasibility_max_shape_fails (env FEAS/MAXSHAPE), default OFF.
9gp.2 M3 Wong-Liu reassociate: operators.mutate_reassociate adds associativity
(a|b)|c <-> a|(b|c) on same-orientation live cuts — the canonical-slicing move
missing from swap(M1)/rotate(M2), attacking the §11.4/§11.5 reachability
bottleneck. enable_reassociate (env REASSOC), default OFF (weight 0 -> baseline
byte-identical).
Unit tests (operators + driver) green, full suite 211 passed; maple-court smoke
run clean under native fitness. A/B sweep handed off per the plan; DESIGN.md
§12.3 documents the design and the pending measurement.
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Size each constructive-seed cut from leaf TARGET areas (division=[f,f] gives
left area-fraction f) and pick each cut's rotation for child squareness — both
derived from target dims, topology/type assignment untouched. Area-only
regressed (slivers); rotation choice is what makes it pay.
End-to-end (20000 evals, 3 seeds, staged): harbor 85.3->74.0 (-13%, best 69),
maple-court 151.7->136.0 (-10%, best 126). PROP=0 reproduces the §11.7/§12.1
baselines exactly. programme-house regresses at fixed budget (deeper local
optimum walls off the undivide restructuring path) but a budget sweep shows
it's convergence speed, not a worse asymptote (PROP=1 reaches 1 fail at 150k).
Default-on (seed_proportion_aware=True, env PROP=1).
cq1: n_storeys now honours storey_minimum, not just level: keys — programme-house
(storey_minimum:2, all rooms level:0) was seeded one storey short and fell
through to plain search. New programme.storey_minimum()/n_storeys_for();
driver.search passes min_storeys to the seeder; search_staged routes on the max.
No-op for harbor/maple; programme-house single-stage 8.0->5.0.
New maple-court best (126) saved as generated.dom. 204 tests pass.
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_assign_adjacency_aware gains fixed_circ (seed the connected-dominating-set from
given circulation leaves) and secondary-adjacency-aware room placement: codes
with the most non-c adjacency requirements are placed first, each onto the open
slot satisfying the most of its requirements against already-typed neighbours
(clustering k1<->da1, da1<->o). lift_base_to_storeys(reqs, adjacency_aware=True)
grows the upper-floor circulation spine off the inherited vertical core and
assigns rooms around it; threaded through driver.search_staged
(seed_adjacency_aware) and run_staged_search.py (ADJ env).
End-to-end staged harbor, 20000 evals, mean total fails over 3 seeds:
ADJ=0 99.0 (reproduces the §11.4 staged lex baseline exactly), ADJ=1 85.3
(-13.7, -14%; best 78). New best harbor configuration overall: staged baseline
99.0 -> single-stage adjacency-aware (§11.6) 90.7 -> staged + adjacency-aware
lift 85.3. Staging and adjacency-aware seeding compose.
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operators._assign_adjacency_aware spends ~one extra leaf per three rooms on a
greedy connected-dominating-set of circulation leaves (read from the geometric
leaf_graph, type-independent), so every room borders a connected circulation
spine and adjacency-to-c + access are satisfied by construction. Default-on via
constructive_topology(adjacency_aware=True), threaded through
driver.search(seed_adjacency_aware) and run_search_scaled.py (ADJ env).
End-to-end single-stage, 20000 evals, mean total fails over 3 seeds:
harbor 110.0 -> 90.7 (-17.5%; ADJ=0 reproduces the §11.2 105 baseline exactly),
programme-house 12.3 -> 9.3 (-24%). Adjacency-aware single-stage harbor (mean
90.7, best 85) beats the §11.3 staged best of 95 — the first Phase-6 fail-count
reduction from seeding. Follow-ups (lift_base_to_storeys, secondary adjacencies)
filed.
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genome.signature: ratio-invariant structural topology hash (per-storey tree
shape + cut orientation + leaf types), the cheap stand-in for the 9gp canonical
encoding. driver gains niche_by_signature (one individual per topology, replaces
the fitness-scalar dedup) and restart_patience (soft restart: keep elites,
refill with fresh seeds); SearchResult gains n_distinct_signatures /
diversity_history / n_restarts.
Diversity criterion MET (final-pop distinct ~5/16 -> 16/16). Gate NOT met:
blank-slate programme-house mean fails 12.3(legacy)/12.7(niche)/13.0(restart)
over 3 seeds at 20000 evals; harbor staged 95/94/108. Niching is a tie within
seed noise, restarts strictly worse — falsifies the premise that the
fitness-scalar dedup causes premature convergence. Both flags default-off,
kept for reuse. Epic c4c complete.
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Implement a graded proximity comparator key (-n_fails, grade, fitness) behind
a default-off use_grade flag: fitness._leaf_grade / score_with_grade sum
f/FAIL_THRESHOLD over failing per-leaf quality factors; scalar fitness and fail
count stay untouched so the inner-loop 0.5^n cliff (§5.4) is unaffected (0/9
regression check: PASS). Read once per child in driver._evaluate off the
already-optimised tree; threaded through search_staged (Stage 2 only).
Harbor staged A/B (20000 evals, seeds 0/1/2): lex 95/96/106 (mean 99.0) vs
lex+grade 99/98/102 (mean 99.7) — grade wins 1/3, no plateau escape. Premise
falsified: within a fixed fail-tier 0.5^n is constant so fitness still spans
~6 orders of magnitude; grade above fitness displaces that working signal.
Verdict: reject; lexicographic (-n_fails, fitness) stands. Flag kept default-off
for reproducibility / possible reuse as a §11.5 diversity signal.
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Search the genome in causal dependency order. Stage 1 evolves a single-storey
base over the level-0 room set (programme auto-derived to a tempdir), ranked
with a substrate-readiness bonus (reserved core × divisible capacity) so the
base is selected as a good substrate, not just a good ground floor (anti-§4.2).
Stage 2 lifts the best base into a full multi-storey design — preserving the
inherited core, instantiating each upper storey's required set by construction —
and searches the deltas with the base mutable at low probability (base_p=0.15).
New: programme.{n_storeys_required,partition_rooms_by_storey,write_stage1_programme},
graph.substrate_readiness, operators.{lift_base_to_storeys,_pick_weighted_by_storey},
base_p threading, driver.search rank_bonus_fn/seed_factory/base_p hooks +
search_staged orchestrator, experiments/run_staged_search.py, tests/test_staging.py.
Result (harbor, 20000 evals, seed 0): staged 95 fails vs single-stage 105
(-10, -9.5%), gain in crinkliness 27->18 + edge 12->8. Anti-bungalow confirmed
(Stage-2 core moves all noop — core inherited, not carved). Programme-house
regression PASS (warmstart-2f4 still reaches whole-pop 1-fail).
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Make the required programme room set a constructive invariant instead of
something the topology search must stumble onto by random divide+retype.
- operators.constructive_topology: bootstrap seeder that sizes each storey to
its required rooms (partitioned by level; level-free rooms distributed),
+1 core C and +1 O per storey, then assigns types. Stochastic for population
diversity. Wired into driver bootstrap when the programme has required spaces.
- operators.mutate_place_missing: repair op that inserts a missing required
space by dividing a host leaf into [room | remainder]. Lex-safe host ranking
(generic O first, never displace a required room); honours required level.
Weight 2.0 in the mutation mix; noops cheaply once the set is complete.
A/B on harbor-house (20k evals, seed 0, identical config):
old random-bootstrap 133 fails (103 missing, 77%)
new constructive 105 fails ( 12 missing, 11%) -21% total, missing-stack
collapsed; seed head-start 163->139.
§4.10 regression PASS: warmstart-2f4 still reaches a 1-fail population at 50k.
Verdict (DESIGN.md §11.2): construction is necessary and reframes the
bottleneck to quality-fail packing of a complete dense design (crinkliness/
size/access/edge) -> unblocks §11.3 staging, motivates §11.4 graded objective.
Follow-up filed (homemaker-py-s44): adjacency-aware seeding.
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When a compound operator (e.g. level_compound_fix) creates a new
internal node and explicitly sets its division ratio, that ratio was
silently overridden: warm_x0 received parent.ratios which had no entry
for the new node, so Nelder-Mead started at the default 0.5 instead
of the operator's intended 0.25 (for rrl/rrr). Result: NM evaluated
the compound topology at the wrong geometry and scored 3 fails instead
of 1 — so lex always rejected the compound child, making
level_compound_fix invisible to the outer search.
Fix: for nodes that are genuinely newly divided (not divided in the
parent tree at the same path), inherit the child's operator-set ratio
rather than defaulting to 0.5. Structural mutations (e.g. swap) can
reveal hidden level-N nodes that retain stale pre-writeback ratios —
those are correctly excluded by checking parent_node.divided.
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core_divide: divides a C leaf simultaneously on ALL storeys that share that
path, maintaining staircase consistency as an atomic invariant rather than
requiring multi-step recovery.
core_undivide: reverses core_divide consistently across all floors, merging
a C sub-core back into a single C leaf everywhere.
level_fix: atomically moves a level-constrained room to its required floor
by retyping the largest leaf there and vacating the wrong-floor leaf to C.
Requires `reqs` (SpaceReq dict); disabled (zero probability) without it.
mutate() gains `reqs=None` parameter; driver.search() passes its already-
loaded reqs so level_fix fires during the main memetic loop.
Together these let the optimiser escape the deceptive valley around the
2-fail warmstart: level_fix moves l1 to level 0 (reducing fails 2→1),
then core_divide can split the C core to accommodate the displaced t3.
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Outer search now ranks individuals by (-n_fails, fitness) instead of raw
fitness scalar. This prevents high-score 3-fail designs from displacing
2-fail designs in tournament selection and population replacement — the
root cause of the §4.8 pathology where flag count dominates geometry.
Inner loop is unchanged: it still optimises against the raw 0.5^n fitness
scalar, so the cliff that prevents trading into new failures remains intact
(0/9 regressions in experiments/penalty_reshape.py).
Also removes stale _CHILD_INNER_KW = {"sigmas": (0.05,)}: this was left
over from the CMA-ES era; the NM inner loop default (homemaker-py-d6d)
does not accept a sigmas parameter.
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