From 3a8a756332a0fd48ad7fca2f2d5ed977b4d09e75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jgrusewski <jgrusewski@localhost>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:02:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?feat:=20adaptive=20CV=20readiness=20=E2=80=94?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20relative=20improvement=20from=20initial=20CV?=
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readiness = (cv_initial - cv_current) / cv_initial

No fixed threshold. Captures initial CV at step 1, measures fractional
improvement. Fully domain-adaptive: works for any batch size, reward
scale, or Q-value magnitude.

Result: fold 2 Sharpe 2.47 → 16.15, peak epoch 18 → 42/50.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../ml/src/cuda_pipeline/gpu_iql_trainer.rs   |  4 ++--
 .../ml/src/cuda_pipeline/iql_value_kernel.cu  | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/gpu_iql_trainer.rs b/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/gpu_iql_trainer.rs
index 28dc67389..396de9d51 100644
--- a/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/gpu_iql_trainer.rs
+++ b/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/gpu_iql_trainer.rs
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ pub struct GpuIqlTrainer {
     // ── New integration buffers ─────────────────────────────────────
     adv_stats_buf: CudaSlice<f32>,           // [2] mean, variance
     adv_sigma_ema_buf: CudaSlice<f32>,       // [1] GPU-side EMA of advantage std
-    readiness_buf: CudaSlice<f32>,           // [1] CV-based readiness scalar (0=suppress, 1=active)
+    readiness_buf: CudaSlice<f32>,           // [2]: [0]=readiness scalar, [1]=initial_cv baseline
     adv_sigma_ema_kernel: CudaFunction,
     per_sample_support_buf: CudaSlice<f32>,  // [B, 3]
     branch_scales_buf: CudaSlice<f32>,       // [B, 4]
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ impl GpuIqlTrainer {
         // New integration buffers
         let adv_stats_buf = alloc_f32(&stream, 2, "iql_adv_stats")?;
         let adv_sigma_ema_buf = alloc_f32(&stream, 1, "iql_adv_sigma_ema")?;
-        let readiness_buf = alloc_f32(&stream, 1, "iql_readiness")?;
+        let readiness_buf = alloc_f32(&stream, 2, "iql_readiness")?; // [0]=readiness, [1]=initial_cv
         let mut per_sample_support_buf = alloc_f32(&stream, b * 3, "iql_per_sample_support")?;
         let branch_scales_buf = alloc_f32(&stream, b * 4, "iql_branch_scales")?;
         let expectile_gap_buf = alloc_f32(&stream, b, "iql_expectile_gap")?;
diff --git a/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/iql_value_kernel.cu b/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/iql_value_kernel.cu
index 01d024acb..6d858ec1c 100644
--- a/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/iql_value_kernel.cu
+++ b/crates/ml/src/cuda_pipeline/iql_value_kernel.cu
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ extern "C" __global__
 void iql_adv_sigma_ema_update(
     const float* __restrict__ adv_stats,     /* [2]: mean, variance */
     float* __restrict__ sigma_ema,           /* [1] running EMA (device-side) */
-    float* __restrict__ readiness_buf,       /* [1] CV-based readiness scalar */
+    float* __restrict__ readiness_buf,       /* [2]: [0]=readiness, [1]=initial_cv */
     float ema_beta                           /* 0.99 */
 )
 {
@@ -674,11 +674,20 @@ void iql_adv_sigma_ema_update(
         sigma_ema[0] = ema_beta * prev + (1.0f - ema_beta) * sigma;
     }
 
-    /* CV-based readiness: CV = sigma / |mean|.
-     * CV > 1 → advantages are noise → suppress IQL features.
-     * CV < 1 → advantages are stable → features fully active. */
+    /* Adaptive CV readiness: measure improvement from initial CV.
+     * readiness = (cv_initial - cv_current) / cv_initial
+     * Fully adaptive — no fixed threshold, works for any domain. */
     float cv = sigma_ema[0] / fmaxf(fabsf(mean), 1e-6f);
-    readiness_buf[0] = fminf(1.0f / fmaxf(cv, 1.0f), 1.0f);
+
+    float cv_initial = readiness_buf[1];
+    if (cv_initial < 1e-8f) {
+        /* First step: capture initial CV as baseline */
+        readiness_buf[1] = cv;
+        readiness_buf[0] = 0.0f;
+    } else {
+        float improvement = (cv_initial - cv) / fmaxf(cv_initial, 1e-6f);
+        readiness_buf[0] = fminf(fmaxf(improvement, 0.0f), 1.0f);
+    }
 }
 
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