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+ <div class="kicker">mlx-bun · sampling investigation</div>
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+ <h1>Transplanting Hybrid Log-Gamma onto LLM logit sampling</h1>
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+ <p class="sub">Mapping a piecewise HDR transfer function as a replacement sampler — what each control does, where the coherent region is walled, and whether the geometry is a property of the curve or of the model.</p>
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+ <div class="meta">Reference model gemma-4-e4b · cross-checked on gemma-4-12B and MiniCPM5-1B · June 2026</div>
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+
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+ <div class="thesis">
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+ Temperature is <b>one global slope</b> on the logits. It couples two things you might want to do separately:
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+ tamp down the over-confident top token, and lift the long tail. HLG (ITU-R BT.2100) is a <b>piecewise</b> curve —
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+ a toe in the shadows, a power region in the mids, a log shoulder in the highlights, plus a system gamma. The bet:
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+ transplant that shape onto logit sampling to <b>decouple</b> those moves — and get several controls where temperature gave one.
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+
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+ <h2><span class="n">1</span>The idea</h2>
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+ <p class="lead">A sampler's logits look, abstractly, like a tone curve: a bright "highlight" (the dominant token), a band of
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+ "midtone" plausible alternatives, and a dark "shadow" tail of unlikely tokens. Temperature scales that whole curve by a
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+ single exponent — raise it and you simultaneously dim the highlight <em>and</em> raise the shadows; you cannot do one without the other.</p>
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+ <p>HLG splits the curve into regions with independent behavior: a gamma/√ <strong>toe</strong>, a power <strong>mid</strong>, a logarithmic
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+ <strong>shoulder</strong>, and a separate system <strong>OOTF gamma</strong> (γ = 1.2 + 0.42·log₁₀(L_W/1000)). Transplanted onto sampling, those
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+ become: roll off the over-confident top (<code>shoulder</code> / <code>A</code>), sharpen the interesting middle (<code>s_m</code>), gate the
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+ junk tail (<code>window</code> / <code>target_gap</code>), and bend the global curvature (<code>L_W</code>). It is a <strong>replacement</strong> sampler —
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+ flag-gated (<code>--hlg-sampling</code>, default off), post-inference, model-agnostic — that stands in for temperature + top-p + top-k entirely.</p>
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+ <h3>Two cross-domain adaptations</h3>
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+ <p>The literal HDR curve does not work out of the box, because LM logits are not images:</p>
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+ <ul class="clean">
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+ <li><strong>Windowed anchor.</strong> A logit distribution is a spike-plus-tail, not an image histogram. Min-max normalization
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+ collapses every real candidate into the shoulder. Fix: anchor the input window <code>W</code> nats below the top token, so the
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+ candidates land across the curve instead of piling up at the top.</li>
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+ <li><strong>Inverted toe.</strong> HLG's toe <em>lifts</em> shadows (it describes how a display renders near-black). A sampler wants the
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+ opposite — to <em>crush</em> the tail. So the toe is inverted from lift to suppress.</li>
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+ <li><strong>Decoupled <code>out_scale</code>.</strong> The output scale auto-derives to pin the top→reference-token gap to <code>target_gap</code>,
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+ <h2><span class="n">2</span>How we measured</h2>
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+ <p>Every configuration is compared against the model's <strong>own recommended recipe</strong> (its <code>generation_config.json</code>,
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+ run unchanged) — the only thing that varies is the sampling method. Two metrics, two stages:</p>
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+ <ul class="clean">
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+ <li><strong>Coherence</strong> — a factual "canary" prompt (the sharpest spike-to-tail; it breaks last) scored by <em>junk ratio</em>,
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+ the fraction of non-Latin-script letters, which is the word-salad signature. Cheap, so it screens the whole grid first.</li>
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+ <li><strong>Diversity</strong> — measured <em>only on coherent survivors</em> (so garbage can't win): <em>1−self-BLEU</em> on the divergent
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+ region (shared prefix stripped), backed by distinct-2 and an LM-embedding cosine. The factual prompt stays the coherence canary.</li>
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+ <h4>Stance</h4>
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+ This is a <strong>map, not a verdict.</strong> Each run is a coordinate held loosely — we don't give up at the first rock or
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+ declare victory at the first tree. Small-sample diversity is noisy (self-BLEU swings ~±0.08 at K=6), so effect sizes near that
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+ scale are reported as terrain, not findings, and the decisive sweeps are re-run at K=20.
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+ </div>
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+
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+ <h2><span class="n">3</span>The five knobs</h2>
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+ <p class="lead">HLG exposes five controls where temperature gave one. They are <em>not</em> five copies of the same lever — they
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+ play different roles, which is the whole point of the transplant.</p>
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+ <table>
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+ <thead><tr><th>Knob</th><th>What it does</th><th>Role on the coherence wall</th><th>Diversity</th></tr></thead>
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+ <tbody>
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+ <tr><td><code>target_gap</code></td><td>overall sharpness anchor (top→ref gap)</td><td><span class="tag cluster">gate cluster</span> graded cliff, vocab-shifted</td><td>sharpness lever</td></tr>
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+ <tr><td><code>W</code> (window)</td><td>candidate gate, nats below the top</td><td><span class="tag cluster">gate cluster</span> sharp edge at high A</td><td>candidate gate</td></tr>
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+ <tr><td><code>s_m</code></td><td>mid-region slope (sharpen the middle)</td><td><span class="tag cluster">gate cluster</span> the coupling hub</td><td>coupled lever</td></tr>
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+ <tr><td><code>A</code> (shoulder)</td><td>highlight roll-off / top-token confidence</td><td><span class="tag free">orthogonal</span> doesn't move the floor</td><td>the <b>free</b> lever</td></tr>
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+ <tr><td><code>L_W</code></td><td>OOTF curvature (γ of the whole curve)</td><td><span class="tag curve">outside cluster</span> robust; walls at γ extremes</td><td>non-monotone, model-specific</td></tr>
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+ </tbody>
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+ </table>
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+ <h2><span class="n">4</span>The coherent basin</h2>
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+ <p>Sweeping the knobs two at a time produces a coherent <strong>basin</strong> walled by cliffs, with a diversity gradient inside it.
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+ The left panel is the <code>A × s_m</code> plane; the right is <code>target_gap × W</code>. Darker = more diverse; ✗ = the canary broke;
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+ green-outlined cells beat the default's diversity.</p>
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+ <h2><span class="n">5</span>The wall's geometry</h2>
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+ <p>Resolving every pairwise coherence boundary (two within-pair, four cross-pair) shows the wall is <strong>not</strong> a stack of
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+ <li><strong><code>A</code> is orthogonal to the wall.</strong> Crank it across four orders of magnitude and the gate cliffs barely move.
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+ Mechanism: the coherence floor is a <em>tail</em> phenomenon, and <code>A</code> only reshapes the <em>top</em> — it adds no tail mass, so it's free on coherence.</li>
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+ <li><strong><code>s_m</code> is the coupling hub.</strong> It trades off against both gates: a loose mid demands a tighter gate. At low <code>s_m</code>
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+ the cliff can vanish entirely; at high <code>s_m</code> it needs more gating to stay coherent.</li>
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+ <code>L_W</code> (below) sits outside it too. So the two diversity levers split by their relation to the wall — <code>A</code> is <em>free</em>, <code>s_m</code> is <em>coupled</em>.</li>
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+ <h2><span class="n">6</span>Does the geometry generalize?</h2>
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+ <p>The whole map above is one model. Re-running the cross-pair coherence boundary on <strong>12B</strong> (dense Gemma, same ~262k vocab)
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+ and <strong>CPM5</strong> (MiniCPM5-1B, Llama family, ~73k vocab) sorts the structure into what belongs to the <em>curve</em> versus the <em>vocab</em>.</p>
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+ <figure><svg viewBox="0 0 960 658" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" role="img" aria-labelledby="t d" font-family="ui-sans-serif,system-ui,sans-serif"><title id="t">HLG coherence geometry across three models</title><desc id="d">Cross-pair coherence grids for e4b, 12B and CPM5. The sharpness cluster (s_m×tg, A×tg) replicates across all three; the window axis (s_m×W, A×W) tracks vocab size — the two Gemmas agree, CPM5 diverges.</desc><text x="480" y="26" text-anchor="middle" font-size="17" font-weight="700" fill="var(--text-primary,#1f2937)">Does the geometry generalize? 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font-size="10" fill="#b91c1c">✗</text><rect x="281" y="541" width="17.5" height="17.5" rx="2" fill="var(--positive,#16a34a)" fill-opacity="0.22" stroke="var(--positive,#16a34a)" stroke-opacity="0.4"/><rect x="300" y="541" width="17.5" height="17.5" rx="2" fill="var(--positive,#16a34a)" fill-opacity="0.22" stroke="var(--positive,#16a34a)" stroke-opacity="0.4"/><rect x="319" y="541" width="17.5" height="17.5" rx="2" fill="var(--positive,#16a34a)" fill-opacity="0.22" stroke="var(--positive,#16a34a)" stroke-opacity="0.4"/><rect x="262" y="560" width="17.5" height="17.5" rx="2" fill="#ef4444" fill-opacity="0.34" stroke="#ef4444" stroke-opacity="0.4"/><text x="270.75" y="572.25" text-anchor="middle" font-size="10" fill="#b91c1c">✗</text><rect x="281" y="560" width="17.5" height="17.5" rx="2" fill="var(--positive,#16a34a)" fill-opacity="0.22" stroke="var(--positive,#16a34a)" stroke-opacity="0.4"/><rect x="300" y="560" width="17.5" height="17.5" rx="2" fill="var(--positive,#16a34a)" 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+ <table>
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+ <thead><tr><th>Cross-pair</th><th>e4b (Gemma 262k)</th><th>12B (Gemma 262k)</th><th>CPM5 (Llama ~73k)</th><th>Generalizes?</th></tr></thead>
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+ <tr><td><code>s_m × target_gap</code></td><td>diagonal — low s_m tolerates low tg</td><td>same diagonal</td><td>same diagonal (shifted threshold)</td><td><b style="color:var(--positive)">yes</b></td></tr>
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+ <tr><td><code>A × target_gap</code></td><td>gate cliff A-independent</td><td>same</td><td>same</td><td><b style="color:var(--positive)">yes</b></td></tr>
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+ <tr><td><code>s_m × W</code></td><td>s_m≥2 breaks at W=5</td><td>same</td><td>fully clean (decoupled)</td><td><b style="color:var(--danger)">vocab</b></td></tr>
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+ <tr><td><code>A × W</code></td><td>W cliff A-independent</td><td>similar</td><td>high-A / wide-W break</td><td><b style="color:var(--danger)">vocab</b></td></tr>
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+ <div class="callout terrain">
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+ <h4>Result (terrain)</h4>
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+ The <strong>sharpness coupling — <code>s_m ↔ target_gap</code> coupled, <code>A</code> orthogonal — replicates across all three models and both
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+ architectures.</strong> That's a property of the HLG curve, not the model. The <strong>window axis is vocab-sensitive</strong>: the two
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+ same-vocab Gemmas behave identically, only CPM5 (less tail to inflate) diverges. 12B was the control, and it tracked e4b, not CPM5.
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+ <h2><span class="n">7</span>L_W — the curvature knob</h2>
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+ <p>The <code>out_scale</code> derivation pins the top→reference anchor to <code>target_gap</code>, so <code>L_W</code> doesn't move the anchor — it bends
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+ the <strong>curvature</strong> of the mid/tail. Swept across six orders of magnitude (γ from −0.06 to 2.46):</p>
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+ <figure><svg viewBox="0 0 800 480" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" role="img" aria-labelledby="t d" font-family="ui-sans-serif,system-ui,sans-serif"><title id="t">L_W (OOTF γ) — diversity curve</title><desc id="d">Diversity vs OOTF gamma for the L_W knob; coherent band shaded, walls at gamma below 0 and above ~2.4, interior diversity peak near gamma 1.</desc><text x="400" y="28" text-anchor="middle" font-size="16" font-weight="700" fill="var(--text-primary,#1f2937)">L_W across 3 models — a coherence-robust curvature knob; diversity response differs</text><text x="400" y="46" text-anchor="middle" font-size="11.5" fill="var(--text-secondary,#6b7280)">x = OOTF γ (= 1.2 + 0.42·log₁₀(L_W/1000)) · y = diversity (1−self-BLEU) · 3 models · coherent across ~5 decades, walls only at the extremes</text><rect x="165.78947368421052" y="70" width="466.66666666666663" height="326" fill="var(--positive,#16a34a)" fill-opacity="0.06"/><text x="399.12280701754383" y="84" text-anchor="middle" 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+ <li><strong>Not a gate.</strong> Coherent across <code>L_W ∈ [3, 10⁵]</code> — five decades — versus the gates' tight unit-scale breaks. It
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+ walls only at the <em>extremes</em>: low (γ&lt;0 inverts the token ranking → junk; universal) and high (γ≳2.4 over-sharpens → junk; Gemma-only, CPM5's smaller vocab passes).</li>
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+ <li><strong>Diversity: a retracted win.</strong> At K=6, e4b's curve looked like an interior peak that <em>beat</em> its default. At K=20
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+ (§9) that evaporates — every <code>L_W</code> setting sits well below the default. The honest read: <strong>L_W's diversity is uniformly below the
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+ recommended recipe</strong>; the apparent e4b win was small-sample noise. <code>L_W</code>'s real character is its coherence robustness, not a diversity gain.</li>
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+ </ul>
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+ <h2><span class="n">8</span>Resolving the cliffs</h2>
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+ <p>The coarse maps stepped <em>over</em> the steepest features. Stepping <code>target_gap</code> and <code>W</code> at unit resolution (with the
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+ junk% gradient, not just pass/fail) reveals two qualitatively different cliff <em>shapes</em>.</p>
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+ <figure><svg viewBox="0 0 920 450" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" role="img" aria-labelledby="t d" font-family="ui-sans-serif,system-ui,sans-serif"><title id="t">HLG cliff resolution — two shapes</title><desc id="d">Fine junk% gradient through the target_gap cliff (a graded ramp, position shifts by vocab) and the W lower edge at high A (a sharp model-invariant edge near 7.5), three models.</desc><text x="460" y="30" text-anchor="middle" font-size="16.5" font-weight="700" fill="var(--text-primary,#1f2937)">Fine cliff resolution — the coarse grid jumped over two different shapes</text><text x="460" y="49" text-anchor="middle" font-size="11.5" fill="var(--text-secondary,#6b7280)">unit steps · mean canary junk% (K=5 seeds) · the transition the 8/12 and 5/10 jumps hid</text><text x="244" y="42" text-anchor="middle" font-size="14" font-weight="700" fill="var(--text-primary,#1f2937)">target_gap cliff — a graded ramp</text><text x="244" y="58" text-anchor="middle" font-size="10.5" 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+ <li><strong><code>target_gap</code> is a graded ramp</strong>, not a step — a 2–3-step slope. Its <em>position</em> shifts by vocab (CPM5 coherent earliest, e4b latest).</li>
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+ <li><strong><code>W</code> at high <code>A</code> is a sharp edge</strong> — a high plateau then an abrupt close at W=8 in all three models. The <em>edge position is model-invariant</em>; only the plateau height varies by vocab.</li>
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+ <div class="callout rock">
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+ <h4>A disconfirmed prediction (logged, not buried)</h4>
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+ We expected 12B's <code>target_gap</code> cliff to be the <em>steepest</em>. It is not — e4b's is at least as steep. 12B's genuine
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+ "sensitivity" is in <em>diversity</em> (the L_W suppression), a different axis. The prior was a rock; it's recorded as a data point and we moved on.
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+ <h2><span class="n">9</span>K=20 deep-dive — settling the noise</h2>
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+ <p>Four experiments re-run at K=20, where the noisy diversity metric finally settles. Two mixed variables to resolve how
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+ the cliffs bend; two re-measured the diversity claims that sat within K=6 noise.</p>
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+ At K=6, e4b's <code>L_W</code> curve appeared to peak <em>above</em> its default (0.76 vs 0.70). At K=20 it does not — the default
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+ is 0.633 and every <code>L_W</code> point sits at 0.42–0.45. The peak was noise. This brings e4b in line with what K=6 already
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+ showed for 12B and CPM5 (both below their defaults): across the board, <strong>HLG's curvature knob does not beat the recommended recipe on diversity.</strong>
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+ <code>A</code> is the genuine <strong>free diversity lever</strong>: diversity falls cleanly and monotonically as <code>A</code> tightens
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+ Modest, but real and reproducible. <span style="color:var(--text-tertiary)">(The A sweep was cut at A=0.7 when the batch was stopped; the monotone trend and the diversity ceiling are captured.)</span>
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+ <p>Zooming sub-unit into the transitions (K=20, tracking break-<em>rate</em> and max, not just the mean) shows the "cliffs" are not
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+ <li><strong>The gate cliffs (<code>tg</code>, <code>W</code>) are <em>statistical</em> edges.</strong> Per seed it's bimodal — clean or hard-break (max stays
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+ 43–88% mid-ramp) — so the smooth "ramp" is really the declining <em>fraction</em> of seeds that wander into junk, not a softening failure.</li>
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+ <li><strong>The <code>L_W</code> low wall is a <em>hard</em> threshold at γ=0</strong> — a sign flip of the ranking, deterministic. Every sampled γ≥0 is clean.</li>
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+ <li><strong>The <code>L_W</code> high wall is barely there</strong> — the coarse "REJECT" was a small-sample artifact.</li>
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+ <div class="callout">
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+ <h4>Play with it</h4>
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+ Two interactive companions: <strong><a href="hlg-explorer.html">hlg-explorer.html</a></strong> — drag the sliders and watch the
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+ transfer curve and the token distribution reshape live (a faithful port of the shaper; its top-1/entropy readout <em>predicts</em>
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+ coherence — a config whose HLG top-1 collapses below raw will salad). And <strong><a href="hlg-ab.html">hlg-ab.html</a></strong> —
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+ the same prompts sampled by the default recipe vs HLG-base vs HLG-loose-A, side by side, so the diversity differences are readable as text.
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+ <h2><span class="n">10</span>Where it stands</h2>
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+ <p class="lead">A map, held loosely. The durable structural results:</p>
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+ <ul class="clean">
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+ <li>The coherence wall is a <strong>coupled <code>tg</code>/<code>W</code>/<code>s_m</code> cluster</strong>; <strong><code>A</code> is an orthogonal, free diversity lever</strong>;
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+ <strong><code>L_W</code> is a coherence-robust curvature knob</strong> outside the cluster.</li>
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+ <li>The <strong>sharpness coupling is invariant</strong> across models and architectures; the <strong>window axis is vocab-sensitive</strong>.</li>
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+ <li>Cliffs come in <strong>two shapes</strong>: <code>target_gap</code> a vocab-shifted ramp, <code>W</code>@highA a model-invariant sharp edge.</li>
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+ <li>Diversity wins are <strong>marginal</strong>, and K=20 trimmed them further: the only place HLG clears a model's default is the
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+ loosest <code>A</code> (+0.03), and <code>L_W</code> shaping sits below default everywhere. The value here is the <em>geometry</em>, not a diversity gain.</li>
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+ <li>The curve <strong>shape is secondary to the final sharpness</strong> (<code>out_scale</code>, set by <code>target_gap</code>). A heavily
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+ reshaped curve with <code>target_gap≈4</code> flattens the distribution (HLG top-1 25% vs raw 50%, entropy <em>up</em>) and salads on every seed —
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+ so the distribution's top-1/entropy, not the curve's looks, is the coherence oracle. The interactive explorer makes this checkable before you ever run the model.</li>
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+ <p>Open threads: a blind external-judge read of the actual text (the one instrument not yet collected); the <code>A</code> diversity
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+ <p><strong>Run index.</strong> Logs preserved under <code>docs/investigations/hlg-runs/</code>; full write-up in
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+ <code>docs/investigations/hlg-sampling-investigation.md</code>. Generators: <code>hlg-map</code>, <code>hlg-cross</code>, <code>hlg-lw</code>,
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+ <code>hlg-cliff</code>, <code>hlg-grid2</code>, <code>hlg-peak</code> (+ the <code>*-viz</code> figure builders).</p>
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+ <div class="runidx">
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+ <div><code>run0–O</code> — pivots, passes 1–4 (e4b)</div>
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+ <div><code>runP/Q/R</code> — A×s_m, tg×W grids, blind</div>
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+ <div><code>runS</code> — cross-pair coherence (e4b)</div>
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+ <div><code>runT/U</code> — cross-pair on CPM5 / 12B</div>
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+ <div><code>runV/W/X</code> — L_W sweep on e4b / 12B / CPM5</div>
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+ <div><code>runY/Z/AA</code> — cliff resolution, 3 models</div>
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+ <div><code>runAB/AC</code> — K=20 grids / peaks (e4b)</div>
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