Files
sanderling/cmd/internal-tools/analyze/main.go
T
pj 1da0c3e118 fix(analyze): censor a clean run at the steps it ran, and refuse mismatched budgets
A run stops at whichever comes first, the step budget or --duration, so
a clean run that reached the wall clock exited with fewer steps than the
budget and was still credited with the whole of it. The model arm pays a
network call and a screenshot per step, so it reaches the wall sooner and
was handed exposure it never had.

Nothing checked that two arms shared a budget either. Thirty identical
clean runs under budgets of 400 and 100 read a12 0.000 and p 1.685e-14
from the rank-sum while the log-rank in the same report read p 1.0000.
groupArms already refused this within one arm.

The claims the old convention left in comments and report lines are
corrected rather than left standing beside the new behaviour.
2026-08-18 14:11:28 +05:30

122 lines
3.5 KiB
Go

// Command analyze reduces campaign directories to the statistics the
// evaluation reports. The primary outcome is steps to first violation, with
// clean runs right-censored where they stopped rather than discarded: defect
// yield per run is a binary that would need on the order of eighty runs an arm
// to separate, while survival analysis uses every run, including the clean ones.
package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"flag"
"fmt"
"io"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"time"
)
const usage = `analyze reports the statistics of a sanderling evaluation from campaign directories.
Usage:
analyze [--json <path>] <campaign-dir> [<campaign-dir> ...]
Each directory is one produced by the campaign tool and must hold campaign.json
and runs.jsonl. Directories sharing an arm label are pooled and must agree on
the step budget, and arms compared against each other must agree on it too.
One invocation is one research question: Holm corrects across the comparisons it
produces and across nothing else.
`
type stringList []string
func (list *stringList) String() string { return strings.Join(*list, ",") }
func (list *stringList) Set(value string) error {
if strings.TrimSpace(value) == "" {
return errors.New("empty campaign directory")
}
*list = append(*list, value)
return nil
}
func run(arguments []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) error {
flagSet := flag.NewFlagSet("analyze", flag.ContinueOnError)
flagSet.SetOutput(stderr)
flagSet.Usage = func() {
fmt.Fprint(stderr, usage)
flagSet.PrintDefaults()
}
var directories stringList
var jsonPath string
var question string
var paired bool
flagSet.Var(&directories, "campaign", "campaign directory to read; repeat for more, or pass them as arguments")
flagSet.StringVar(&jsonPath, "json", "", "write the machine-readable summary here, or - for stdout")
flagSet.StringVar(&question, "question", "", "the research question these campaigns answer; Holm corrects within one invocation, and this records which family that was")
flagSet.BoolVar(&paired, "paired", false, "the two arms ran the same seeds: contrast them seed by seed with the Wilcoxon signed-rank test instead of the rank-sum test")
if err := flagSet.Parse(arguments); err != nil {
return err
}
directories = append(directories, flagSet.Args()...)
if len(directories) == 0 {
return errors.New("no campaign directories given")
}
seen := map[string]bool{}
for _, directory := range directories {
resolved, err := filepath.Abs(directory)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("resolve %s: %w", directory, err)
}
if seen[resolved] {
return fmt.Errorf("campaign directory %s given twice: its runs would be counted twice", directory)
}
seen[resolved] = true
}
arms, err := groupArms(directories)
if err != nil {
return err
}
var result analysis
if paired {
result, err = analysePaired(arms, time.Now().UTC())
if err != nil {
return err
}
} else {
result, err = analyse(arms, time.Now().UTC())
if err != nil {
return err
}
}
result.Question = question
writeReport(result, stdout)
if jsonPath == "" {
return nil
}
body, err := json.MarshalIndent(result, "", " ")
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("marshal summary: %w", err)
}
body = append(body, '\n')
if jsonPath == "-" {
_, err = stdout.Write(body)
return err
}
return os.WriteFile(jsonPath, body, 0o644)
}
func main() {
if err := run(os.Args[1:], os.Stdout, os.Stderr); err != nil {
if errors.Is(err, flag.ErrHelp) {
return
}
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error: %v\n", err)
os.Exit(1)
}
}