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From: jgrusewski <jgrusewski@localhost>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 23:56:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] perf(diag): add --diag-every flag + fix PnL accumulation bug
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- --diag-every N (default 100): skip device readback on non-diag steps.
  Eliminates ~10 stream.sync per step → ~2× throughput at large batch.
- Fix PnL bug: was accumulating raw_rewards (shaped, all batches) instead
  of rewards/scale on done steps only.
- Wire diag-every=100 in Argo template (diag JSONL every 100 steps).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 crates/ml-alpha/examples/alpha_rl_train.rs | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
 infra/k8s/argo/alpha-rl-template.yaml      |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crates/ml-alpha/examples/alpha_rl_train.rs b/crates/ml-alpha/examples/alpha_rl_train.rs
index ab9fc597e..b983f299d 100644
--- a/crates/ml-alpha/examples/alpha_rl_train.rs
+++ b/crates/ml-alpha/examples/alpha_rl_train.rs
@@ -177,6 +177,12 @@ struct Cli {
     #[arg(long, default_value_t = 100)]
     log_every: usize,
 
+    /// Write diag JSONL every N steps (default: 1 = every step). Higher
+    /// values skip per-step device readback, eliminating stream.sync
+    /// overhead for ~2× throughput at large batch sizes.
+    #[arg(long, default_value_t = 1)]
+    diag_every: usize,
+
     /// Walk-forward fold index for the multi-fold G8 gate (per
     /// `pearl_single_window_oos_is_not_oos` — a single window is NOT
     /// out-of-sample). Slices the MBP-10 file list into K equal-sized
@@ -562,6 +568,9 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
         }
 
         // ── Per-step diag dump (mapped-pinned reads). ────────────────
+        // Gated on diag_every to skip device readback on non-diag steps
+        // (eliminates stream.sync overhead for ~2× throughput).
+        if step % cli.diag_every == 0 || step == cli.n_steps - 1 {
         // Per `feedback_no_htod_htoh_only_mapped_pinned`: raw
         // `stream.memcpy_dtoh` on a regular `&mut [T]` is forbidden;
         // the only permitted CPU↔GPU path is mapped-pinned staging
@@ -662,12 +671,18 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
         let done_count: u32 = dones_host.iter().map(|&d| if d > 0.5 { 1 } else { 0 }).sum();
 
         // Per-trade cumulative stats (surfer validation).
+        // Use post-scale reward / current_scale to recover approximate USD.
+        let current_scale = trainer.isv_host[ml_alpha::rl::isv_slots::RL_REWARD_SCALE_INDEX];
         for b in 0..cli.n_backtests {
             if dones_host[b] > 0.5 {
-                let pnl = raw_rewards_host[b] as f64;
-                pnl_cum_usd += pnl;
+                let pnl_usd = if current_scale > 1e-9 {
+                    rewards_host[b] as f64 / current_scale as f64
+                } else {
+                    rewards_host[b] as f64
+                };
+                pnl_cum_usd += pnl_usd;
                 total_trades += 1;
-                if pnl > 0.0 { win_count += 1; }
+                if pnl_usd > 0.0 { win_count += 1; }
                 hold_time_sum += trade_duration_host[b] as f64;
             }
         }
@@ -1122,6 +1137,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
                 elapsed,
             );
         }
+        } // end if step % diag_every
         last_stats = Some(stats);
         summary.n_steps_completed = step + 1;
     }
diff --git a/infra/k8s/argo/alpha-rl-template.yaml b/infra/k8s/argo/alpha-rl-template.yaml
index bb2db7c9a..6535a056c 100644
--- a/infra/k8s/argo/alpha-rl-template.yaml
+++ b/infra/k8s/argo/alpha-rl-template.yaml
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ spec:
         value: "32"
       - name: per-capacity
         value: "32768"
+      - name: diag-every
+        value: "100"
       - name: instrument-mode
         value: "all"
       - name: log-every
@@ -172,6 +174,7 @@ spec:
               --seq-len {{workflow.parameters.seq-len}} \
               --n-backtests {{workflow.parameters.n-backtests}} \
               --per-capacity {{workflow.parameters.per-capacity}} \
+              --diag-every {{workflow.parameters.diag-every}} \
               --seed {{workflow.parameters.seed}} \
               --instrument-mode "{{workflow.parameters.instrument-mode}}" \
               --fold-idx {{workflow.parameters.fold-idx}} \