Two wrong-scale assumptions in the test made it unachievable on the
RTX 3050 Ti / 4 GB laptop this smoke is meant to run on:
1. `train_baseline_rl` was invoked without `--training-profile`, so it
defaulted to `dqn-production`: batch_size=16384, buffer=500k,
num_atoms=52, hidden_dim_base=256. Fused-CUDA init OOMs at
`kan_d_coeff_per_elem alloc` on 4 GB, leaving `fused_ctx = None` and
every subsequent fold failing with "GPU experience collector MUST be
active for CUDA training". Fix: pass `--training-profile=dqn-smoketest`.
2. Default walk-forward windows (12 train / 3 val / 3 test / 3 step) only
yield 2 folds in the 24-month baseline dataset — fold 2's test-end
lands one month past `data_end`. The test's pass-gate is "≥2/3 folds
produce a checkpoint", so a test that can only ever generate 2 folds
is degenerate. Fix: explicit shorter windows (6 / 2 / 2, step 2) that
yield all 3 folds (`6 + 2*2 + 2 + 2 = 14 ≤ 24`, comfortable margin).
Also drops `--epochs 20` → `--epochs 5`. Each fold runs ~5500 batches at
~33 s/epoch on this GPU; 20 × 3 folds ≈ 33 min was exceeding the smoke
budget (kill observed around the 10-minute mark). 5 epochs is ample for
the checkpoint gate — `best_sharpe` saves on the first improving epoch
(epoch 1 in practice), so more epochs add no pass/fail signal, only
wall-clock.
Verified locally: 3/3 folds produce `dqn_fold{N}_best.safetensors`,
total wall-clock ~7 min.
[MULTI_FOLD] fold 0 checkpoint OK
[MULTI_FOLD] fold 1 checkpoint OK
[MULTI_FOLD] fold 2 checkpoint OK
test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed ... finished in 416.36s
Docstring updated to reflect new sizing and call out the 4 GB / 24-month
constraints explicitly so the next person reading this can see why the
numbers are what they are.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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