A12-A14 init_logit ablation: confirm frozen OLMo cannot benefit from sparse topologyHEADmain

- A12 (logit=3): NLL 2.76, A13 (logit=0): NLL 3.51, A14 (logit=1): NLL 3.26
- All worse than baseline (2.46). Lower init_logit = more deviation = worse NLL
- Confirms: gradient flows (gates move), but A=1 is global optimum for frozen model
- Added Dolma streaming retry logic (max 10 retries, 30s wait)
- Phase 1 frozen approach has fundamental limitation; Phase 2 (unfreeze) needed

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+# A14 — Init logit = 1.0 (compromise: A≈0.62, strong gradient, mild dense bias)
+# Purpose: σ(0.5)≈0.62, strong gradient with slight bias toward connectivity.
+#          Middle ground between A12 (too high?) and A13 (no bias at all).
+# Run: python scripts/train.py --config configs/a14_init_logit_1.yaml
+
+# Model
+olmo_model_id: "allenai/OLMo-2-0425-1B"
+qwen_model_id: "Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B"
+
+# Predictor
+predictor_hidden_dim: 1024
+predictor_rank: 32
+cascading_gate_k: 5.0
+input_norm: "none"
+init_logit: 1.0
+
+# Data
+dataset: "allenai/dolma"
+dataset_name: "v1_7"
+seq_len: 1024
+batch_size: 4
+micro_batch_size: 2
+qwen_input_prefix: ""
+
+# Eval
+eval_skip: 10000
+eval_size: 50
+
+# Training — ~50M tokens = 12500 steps
+total_steps: 12500
+lr: 3e-4
+weight_decay: 0.01
+optimizer: "adamw"
+
+# Schedules — constant tau=2 (same as S2), no sparsity
+tau_init: 2.0
+tau_final: 2.0
+tau_schedule: "cosine"
+lambda_max: 0.0
+lambda_warmup_frac: 0.2
+
+# Logging
+wandb_project: "dagformer"
+wandb_run_name: "a14-init-logit-1"
+log_every: 10
+eval_every: 500
+
+# Checkpointing
+save_every: 2500
+save_dir: "checkpoints/a14/"
+
+# Hardware
+num_gpus: 1