Workflow smoke-test-z2kt7 on commit 26343cd57 succeeded in 22m57s.
test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; finished in 473.88s.
Positive recovery signal — sharpe_ema trajectory:
epoch 1: -24.05 (cold start)
epoch 2: -9.12
epoch 3: +6.97
epoch 4: +16.14 (positive territory)
Aux head bootstrapped from 6% to ~60% accuracy (above 50% random
baseline). Layer B forward wire feeds aux signal into direction
Q-head as designed.
GRAD_CLIP_OUTLIER count: 455 (vs 1109 pre-fix Smoke A → 59% reduction)
A.1's inv_a_std floor lift (1e-6 → 1e-3) bounded the amplifier.
EGF GATE BUGS IDENTIFIED (Layer B follow-ups, not kill criteria):
L1 — gate1 never opens: Schmitt trigger never fires "open" even
when aux_dir_acc reached 0.62 (above target+0.03=0.58). The
gate1_state slot (391) reads as 0 throughout the entire smoke.
Possible causes: stale aux read, inverted threshold, slot
corruption.
L2 — post_open_min slot corrupted: Should be in [0, 1] but observed
values 9.491, 27.981, 46.102. Slot 394 reads pulling garbage,
likely typo or fold-reset misfire.
Net effect: EGF is wired but behaviorally inactive — gate1 never
opens, gradient_hack circuit breaker never fires, α_smoothed pinned
at β_max via rate-limiter holding prior state. Wire-col scale at
B.10 effectively passes through 95% of the gradient.
Layer A's stability fixes were sufficient for the smoke to pass
and produce a positive sharpe trajectory. Layer B's behavioral
protection is currently a no-op pending L1 + L2 bug fixes.
User's underlying hypothesis VALIDATED: the model learns the
directional signal. Aux long_ema climbed from 0.06 to 0.61 in 4
epochs. The path from -24 to +16 sharpe validates the training
mechanics enabled by A.1+A.2+A.3 + B forward wire.
Recommendation: defer 30-epoch full validation until L1 + L2 are
fixed, so EGF actually gates and the val numbers reflect real
architectural protection.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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