Python rewrite of the Urb/Homemaker stack
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Bruno Postle 7e39bf5870 Phase 7 §12.3: 9gp A/B measured — NEGATIVE; close 9gp + epic leu
24-run sweep (maple-court + harbor, seeds 0/1/2, 20000 evals): M3 reassociate
and the shape-feasibility filter are both neutral-to-slightly-worse vs the
§12.2 baseline (maple 136.0 -> 139-140, harbor 74.0 -> 77-78). Baseline controls
reproduce §12.2 exactly, so the negative is real.

Verdict: the Phase-7 residual is the geometry/shape floor of the constructed
slicing layouts, not reachability/feasibility-bound — third independent negative
on search machinery (§11.4/§11.5/§12.3) vs four construction/seed wins
(§11.2/§11.6/§11.7/§12.2). A full canonical Polish rewrite is not justified: its
one testable promise (associativity reachability) was tested and did not pay.
Both operators kept default-OFF.

Closes 9gp.1, 9gp.2, 9gp; epic leu (Phase 7) auto-closed (3/3). Adds the
reproducible sweep harness experiments/run_9gp_ab.sh.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 07:21:51 +01:00
.beads Phase 7 §12.3: 9gp A/B measured — NEGATIVE; close 9gp + epic leu 2026-06-21 07:21:51 +01:00
.claude Scaffold homemaker-py with validated geometry port 2026-06-10 20:50:20 +01:00
examples Phase 7 §12.2: proportion-aware constructive seeding + storey_minimum fix (leu.2, cq1) 2026-06-20 14:04:42 +01:00
experiments Phase 7 §12.3: 9gp A/B measured — NEGATIVE; close 9gp + epic leu 2026-06-21 07:21:51 +01:00
src/homemaker_layout Phase 7 §12.3: re-scoped 9gp — shape-feasibility filter + M3 reassociate (9gp.1, 9gp.2) 2026-06-20 18:54:48 +01:00
tests Phase 7 §12.3: re-scoped 9gp — shape-feasibility filter + M3 reassociate (9gp.1, 9gp.2) 2026-06-20 18:54:48 +01:00
.gitignore bd init: initialize beads issue tracking 2026-06-11 23:27:11 +01:00
AGENTS.md bd init: initialize beads issue tracking 2026-06-11 23:27:11 +01:00
CLAUDE.md Fix parity gap: oracle.py must run with URB_NO_OCCLUSION=1 2026-06-17 18:40:56 +01:00
DESIGN.md Phase 7 §12.3: 9gp A/B measured — NEGATIVE; close 9gp + epic leu 2026-06-21 07:21:51 +01:00
pyproject.toml Add core_divide, core_undivide, level_fix operators; wire reqs to mutate() 2026-06-14 16:10:20 +01:00
README.md Fix parity gap: oracle.py must run with URB_NO_OCCLUSION=1 2026-06-17 18:40:56 +01:00

homemaker-layout

Programme-driven building-layout search over slicing trees. A clean-room Python successor to the Perl Urb project, intended to eventually be 100% Python.

Why a rewrite

Urb represents a building as a binary slicing tree where room sizes are derived top-down from division ratios. That makes room area an emergent property of every cut above it, which:

  • gives the genome low locality (a cut near the root rescales every descendant),
  • makes target room sizes nearly impossible to hit, so the gaussian size penalty dominates fitness, and
  • defeats crossover (transplanted subtrees lose their proportions).

homemaker inverts this: leaves carry target dimensions from the programme and division ratios are solved bottom-up for a fixed topology. The evolutionary search then only explores topology + types + adjacency.

Phase plan

  1. Solver experiment: port Urb's geometry, re-solve ratios from programme targets, score the result against the original via the Perl oracle.
  2. Native Python fitness (retire the Perl oracle).
  3. Memetic search (current): canonical slicing genome + high-locality operators + Nelder-Mead inner loop.

Layout

  • src/homemaker_layout/dom.py — read/write Urb .dom YAML into a Node tree.
  • src/homemaker_layout/geometry.py — faithful port of Urb's top-down geometry.
  • src/homemaker_layout/programme.py — parse patterns.config space requirements.
  • src/homemaker_layout/solver.py — bottom-up ratio solve (scipy).
  • src/homemaker_layout/fitness.py — native Python fitness evaluator.
  • src/homemaker_layout/fitness_cmd.pyhomemaker-fitness CLI (drop-in for urb-fitness.pl).
  • src/homemaker_layout/graph.py — leaf-adjacency graph for programme-driven checks.
  • src/homemaker_layout/genome.py — topology genome: base-floor tree + per-storey deltas.
  • src/homemaker_layout/operators.py — high-locality mutation and subtree crossover.
  • src/homemaker_layout/innerloop.py — ratio optimisation inner loop (Nelder-Mead / CMA-ES).
  • src/homemaker_layout/driver.py — memetic search outer loop.
  • src/homemaker_layout/evolve.pyhomemaker-evolve CLI entry point.
  • src/homemaker_layout/oracle.py — legacy Perl shim, kept for cross-validation only.