Brings the 4-commit work from wip/adaptive-learning-rootcause into main:
24f96ab78 fix(n1): distillation now actually pulls weights during collapse
f21a7d661 test(e1): 20-epoch smoke test + raw-q_gap assertion + disable early-stop
a3fd02a95 fix(early-stop): log real training epoch, not internal call counter
9dbd8d7e9 docs(design): unify training and validation environments
Key outcomes:
- Distillation mechanism now actually pulls weights during collapse (fixed
three bugs: epoch-boundary grad_buf erasure, CUDA-graph scalar baking,
wrong q_gap signal at snapshot gate). E1 smoke test passes deterministically.
- Design doc lays out the next step: unifying training and validation env
kernels so validation Sharpe tracks training Sharpe (currently diverges
catastrophically by ~-150 absolute).
- Incidental: early-stopping log now reports the real training epoch
instead of its internal call counter.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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