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# Round 19: Crucio Evaluation & Golden Config
**Goal:** Quantify whether Crucio-inspired changes (distributional clustering,
decomposition forest) actually improved grammar quality. Define the "golden config"
with best heuristic values.
**Open questions:**
1. Do the 21 RAGSAK / 22 FastAPI / 11 kotlinx patterns that survive `min_structure=0.5`
actually match their input sequences?
2. Did decomposition improve pattern quality, or just create more patterns?
3. Did distributional clustering help when it differs from first-symbol?
4. What's the compression ratio (grammar size vs input size)?
---
## Experiment 1: Match Rate Audit
**What:** For each YAML entry, check what fraction of input sequences the grammar
actually accepts via `_matches()`.
**Method:**
1. Run pipeline with golden config on all 3 codebases
2. For each surviving pattern (min_structure=0.5), reproduce the input sequences
3. Check `_matches(grammar, seq)` for each input sequence
4. Report: match rate, grammar size, compression ratio
**Metrics:**
- `match_rate` = sequences accepted / total sequences (1.0 = perfect)
- `compression` = len(grammar) / total_input_chars (< 1.0 = good)
- `structure_score` = grammar_structure_score(grammar)
---
## Experiment 2: Decomposition A/B
**What:** Compare pipeline output WITH decomposition ON vs OFF.
**Method:**
1. Run with `--decompose --max-seq-length 4` (current config)
2. Run without `--decompose`
3. Compare: pattern count, avg match rate, avg structure score, avg compression
**Hypothesis:** Decomposition helps diverse codebases (RAGSAK, FastAPI) but
hurts already-structured ones (kotlinx.coroutines).
---
## Experiment 3: Distributional vs First-Symbol A/B
**What:** Compare `--cluster-method distributional` vs `--cluster-method first-symbol`.
**Method:**
1. Run with `--cluster-method distributional`
2. Run with `--cluster-method first-symbol` (current default)
3. Compare on the groups where they differ
**Hypothesis:** Distributional clustering doesn't help because the contexts
are already too specific per-package.
---
## Experiment 4: Decomposition Fragment Quality
**What:** Are decomposition fragments meaningful sub-patterns or noise?
**Method:**
1. Take decomposed fragments from a diverse package (e.g., RAGSAK agents/rag/embabel)
2. Check match rate of each fragment's grammar
3. Check if fragments capture real sub-patterns (e.g., "return path" vs "error path")
---
## Golden Config
The "golden config" captures our best-known heuristic values:
```python
GOLDEN_CONFIG = {
# Core pipeline
"min_coverage": 0.05, # BEX outlier threshold (was 0.8, too aggressive)
"min_methods": 3, # Min methods per group (was 5, lost too many)
"method": "langsize", # Scoring: Language Size (Bex et al.)
# Grouping
"slice": "package", # Per-directory (not flat, not reduce)
"split_mixed": True, # Recursive split by first symbol
"max_depth": 3, # Max recursion depth for split
"cluster_method": "first-symbol", # Split method (distributional = no improvement)
# Quality filter
"min_structure": 0.5, # Drop flat bags (noise)
"max_mdl": 200.0, # Drop high-score grammars
# Decomposition (Crucio Phase 2)
"decompose": True, # Break long sequences into fragments
"max_seq_length": 4, # Max fragment length (5 = too aggressive, 4 = sweet spot)
# Algorithms
"crx_method": "standard", # Standard CRX (refined = trivial on large groups)
"include_kore": False, # kORE = slow, no improvement
"include_idregex": False, # iDRegEx = slow, rare benefit
"idregex_refine": False, # iDRegEx refinement = rare benefit
}
```
**Rationale for each value:**
- `min_coverage=0.05`: At 0.8, almost all symbols filtered out. 0.05 sees real vocabulary.
- `min_methods=3`: At 5, lost 9 FastAPI grammars. 3 is safe minimum.
- `min_structure=0.5`: Below this, patterns are flat bags (noise).
- `decompose=True`: Helps RAGSAK 7×, FastAPI 1.8×. Hurts kotlinx.coroutines.
- `max_seq_length=4`: At 5, fragments too short. 4 captures meaningful sub-patterns.
- `cluster_method="first-symbol"`: Distributional clustering showed no improvement.
- `crx_method="standard"`: Refined CRX produces trivial output 36% of the time.
---
## Execution Order
1. Write plan + golden config → commit
2. Experiment 1: Match rate audit (all 3 codebases)
3. Experiment 2: Decomposition A/B
4. Experiment 3: Distributional vs first-symbol A/B
5. Experiment 4: Decomposition fragment quality
6. Update golden config if needed
7. Summarize results and implications