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Old metric: max(||h||) / max(||h_0||, eps). False-positives on ViT-style
architectures because the cls token at layer 0 (right after patch_embed)
has anomalously small magnitude (~0.3-1.5), inflating the ratio even on
healthy BP-trained ViTs.
New metric: max_l(||h_{l+1}|| / ||h_l||) — the largest single-block
residual amplification. Architecture-invariant.
Calibration:
- BP-trained, late training: <5x per block
- BP ViT, early epochs (cls token resolving): 13-25x max
- DFA-trained ResMLP/ViT: 100-4000x per block
Threshold raised from 10 to 50 to sit cleanly between healthy-early-
training (max 25) and failure-regime (min 100).
Re-verifications:
- smoke test (BP/DFA/EP): all 3 verdicts unchanged
- random init (3 seeds): trustworthy on all 3
- 5-method audit table single-seed: identical verdicts
- decision-utility ablation: identical (still 0/5 by S1, 3/5 by S_full)
- temporal evolution 3-seed: (b) now fires first at ep 3-4, (a) at ep
8-11. Both well before training ends. The 'protocol fires ~92 epochs
early' story still holds.
- ViT temporal evolution: BP no longer false-fires; DFA fires (a) ep 1,
(b) ep 3 — protocol works on the second architecture.
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Codex round 15 #1 priority for the E&D-track paper:
- protocol/protocol.py: 4 diagnostics (residual norms, BP grad norms,
cross-batch direction stability, and a frozen-baseline comparator)
- protocol/report.py: DiagnosticReport with per-diagnostic verdicts and
pretty-printer
- protocol/smoke_test.py: validates BP/DFA/EP checkpoints produce the
expected verdicts (BP/EP trustworthy; DFA walked back via residual
explosion + BP grad at floor)
- protocol/README.md: usage, audit cases, threshold rationale
- protocol/CHECKLIST.md: 6 evaluation pipeline pitfalls (norm(-1),
cosine_similarity eps clamp, fp16 underflow, Bs reproducibility,
aggregation, layer-0 dominance)
- protocol/REPORTING_TEMPLATE.md: per-method fillable form for FA papers
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