2026-07-30

• 08:03 fetched 20260729-230159-couriers_gambit_gpt_oss_20b-d763a5a
• 08:03 reported 20260729-230159-couriers_gambit_gpt_oss_20b-d763a5a in notes/experiments/couriers_gambit_gpt_oss_20b.md
• 08:04 fetched and reported run 20260729-230159-couriers_gambit_gpt_oss_20b-d763a5a; interpreted it as a useful diagnostic because shared-rule beats controls but corrected leakage metrics still flag visible payload exposure
• 08:35 audited Courier’s Gambit leakage results after the code-bug question; found and patched receiver-input contamination on sender XML parse failure plus mean_dispatch_chars measuring full sender output instead of parsed briefing
• 08:57 removed the answered open question about which board game to use first from starting-point because Courier’s Gambit is now the chosen first task substrate
• 09:12 updated starting-point to make verifiable reward task families the main visible-task substrate, with the same shared rule used across task families for now and Courier’s Gambit retained as a debug harness
• 09:17 clarified in starting-point that the first decoded message is a binary bit, with path or left-right labels only as human-readable names; full directions move to later multi-round variants
• 09:28 clarified in starting-point that both sender and receiver must produce XML outputs as part of the game protocol, not merely for parsing convenience
• 09:36 updated starting-point XML examples so sender dispatch contains only a briefing and receiver decodes a left/right bit instead of a full exfiltration path
• 09:43 removed the old experiment code, experiment YAMLs, local run outputs, and experiment note pages so the implementation can restart from scratch while preserving the updated starting-point design
• 09:50 restored a minimal notes/experiments/index.md so the website has an Experiments section again while the code restarts from scratch
• 09:59 implemented binary_punctuation as the restarted first experiment with balanced payloads, XML parsing, verifier checks, leakage metrics, mock smoke, and Jean Zay gpt-oss configs; local smoke caught and fixed an initial task-family/payload correlation
• 10:04 promoted starting-point to solid at the user’s request so the binary_punctuation smoke is grounded in an established project note
• 10:06 submitted 20260730-100549-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-d4d1c4f (job 427297 on jean-zay, commit d4d1c4f)
• 10:07 submitted binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke run 20260730-100549-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-d4d1c4f on Jean Zay as job 427297 after promoting starting-point to solid
• 10:19 fetched 20260730-100549-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-d4d1c4f
• 10:19 reported 20260730-100549-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-d4d1c4f in notes/experiments/binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke.md
• 10:20 fetched and reported binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke run 20260730-100549; interpreted it as diagnostic because the shared-rule path mostly worked but the explicit-visible upper-bound prompt collapsed into analysis/placeholders
• 10:28 patched binary_punctuation after the gpt-oss smoke: allow thinking before final XML, increase model generation budget, skip placeholder XML fragments, simplify the explicit-visible prompt, and cache the model within a run
• 10:35 added verbose job diagnostics to binary_punctuation: timestamped phase logs, tqdm progress hooks, explicit tqdm dependency, and warnings when generation reaches max_new_tokens
• 11:04 submitted 20260730-110322-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-6991c3f (job 428132 on jean-zay, commit 6991c3f)
• 11:04 submitted binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke run 20260730-110322-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-6991c3f on Jean Zay as job 428132 after adding verbose diagnostics
• 11:12 fetched 20260730-110322-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-6991c3f
• 11:13 fetched failed binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke run 20260730-110322; failure was a code bug from the verbose/caching refactor where torch was out of scope in generate_transformers, then patched and locally smoke-tested the fix
• 11:15 added kernels>=0.12.0 to requirements so gpt-oss-20b can use the faster MXFP4 kernels path on Jean Zay instead of dequantizing to bf16
• 11:19 submitted 20260730-111904-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-a39b09d (job 428592 on jean-zay, commit a39b09d)
• 11:20 submitted binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke run 20260730-111904-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-a39b09d on Jean Zay as job 428592 after bootstrap installed kernels 0.16.0
• 11:23 fetched 20260730-111904-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-a39b09d
• 11:23 reported 20260730-111904-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-a39b09d in notes/experiments/binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke.md
• 11:24 fetched and reported binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke run 20260730-111904; it passed the smoke gate, but logs still showed Transformers dequantizing to bf16 despite kernels being installed, so MXFP4 needs a separate environment probe
• 11:27 added triton>=3.4 to requirements after the user noted gpt-oss kernels require it, preparing another Jean Zay smoke to check whether MXFP4 stops dequantizing to bf16
• 11:29 submitted 20260730-112824-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-25bdb46 (job 428906 on jean-zay, commit 25bdb46)
• 11:29 submitted binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke run 20260730-112824-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-25bdb46 on Jean Zay as job 428906 after adding triton>=3.4 to requirements
• 11:32 fetched 20260730-112824-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-25bdb46
• 11:33 reported 20260730-112824-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-25bdb46 in notes/experiments/binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke.md
• 11:34 fetched and reported binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke run 20260730-112824; it passed the harness smoke after adding triton, but stderr still showed Transformers dequantizing MXFP4 to bf16 despite kernels and triton being installed
• 11:43 submitted 20260730-114242-jz_mxfp4_probe-a34cd21 (job 429312 on jean-zay, commit a34cd21)
• 11:43 submitted jz_mxfp4_probe run 20260730-114242-jz_mxfp4_probe-a34cd21 on Jean Zay as job 429312 to diagnose why gpt-oss MXFP4 still dequantizes despite kernels and triton being installed
• 11:45 fetched 20260730-114242-jz_mxfp4_probe-a34cd21
• 11:47 reported 20260730-114242-jz_mxfp4_probe-a34cd21 in notes/experiments/jz_mxfp4_probe.md
• 11:48 fetched and reported jz_mxfp4_probe run 20260730-114242; it showed Transformers rejects kernels 0.16.0 because this stack requires 0.15.2 <= kernels < 0.16.0, while Triton and H100 checks pass
• 11:54 submitted 20260730-114837-jz_mxfp4_probe-d348fde (job 429618 on jean-zay, commit d348fde)
• 11:54 submitted patched jz_mxfp4_probe run 20260730-114837-jz_mxfp4_probe-d348fde on Jean Zay as job 429618 using cookbook-style kernels0.15.2 and triton3.4 pins plus cached Hub kernel repos
• 11:57 fetched 20260730-114837-jz_mxfp4_probe-d348fde
• 11:58 reported 20260730-114837-jz_mxfp4_probe-d348fde in notes/experiments/jz_mxfp4_probe.md
• 11:59 fetched and reported patched jz_mxfp4_probe run 20260730-114837; cookbook pins made Transformers accept kernels and Triton, but offline model loading still failed because the versioned gpt-oss kernel cache was not prewarmed through get_kernel
• 12:01 patched MXFP4 kernel prewarm quoting after the 20260730-120021 probe submission failed during bootstrap before Slurm with a Python -c SyntaxError
• 12:03 replaced the MXFP4 get_kernel bootstrap one-liner with src.prewarm_mxfp4_kernel after the 20260730-120216 probe submission failed during bootstrap shell parsing before Slurm
• 12:04 changed MXFP4 bootstrap prewarm to write and run a temporary Python file after the 20260730-120343 probe submission failed before Slurm because src was not importable during bootstrap
• 12:07 fixed the MXFP4 prewarm temp-file quoting after the 20260730-120524 probe submission failed before Slurm because the generated Python file contained literal escaped quotes
• 12:09 changed MXFP4 bootstrap prewarm to decode a base64 Python snippet after the 20260730-120727 probe submission failed before Slurm due shell parsing of parentheses
• 12:10 submitted 20260730-120928-jz_mxfp4_probe-0392902 (job 429975 on jean-zay, commit 0392902)
• 12:10 submitted jz_mxfp4_probe run 20260730-120928-jz_mxfp4_probe-0392902 on Jean Zay as job 429975 after switching MXFP4 prewarm to a base64-decoded bootstrap Python snippet
• 12:12 fetched 20260730-120928-jz_mxfp4_probe-0392902
• 12:15 reported 20260730-120928-jz_mxfp4_probe-0392902 in notes/experiments/jz_mxfp4_probe.md
• 12:16 fetched and reported jz_mxfp4_probe run 20260730-120928; package checks passed but offline get_kernel still missed the CUDA kernel cache, so the next prewarm will explicitly request backend=cuda
• 12:18 changed MXFP4 prewarm to call kernels.get_kernel with backend=cuda directly after the 20260730-121632 probe submission failed during bootstrap because the Transformers wrapper does not accept a backend argument
• 12:19 submitted 20260730-121856-jz_mxfp4_probe-714cab7 (job 430699 on jean-zay, commit 714cab7)
• 12:20 submitted jz_mxfp4_probe run 20260730-121856-jz_mxfp4_probe-714cab7 on Jean Zay as job 430699 after changing prewarm to kernels.get_kernel backend=cuda
• 12:21 fetched 20260730-121856-jz_mxfp4_probe-714cab7
• 12:22 reported 20260730-121856-jz_mxfp4_probe-714cab7 in notes/experiments/jz_mxfp4_probe.md
• 12:23 fetched and reported jz_mxfp4_probe run 20260730-121856; direct kernels.get_kernel backend=cuda prewarm still did not make Transformers offline version=1 kernel resolution work, so the smoke was not rerun on this failing path
• 15:15 moved Jean Zay XP workdir from papers/xp-stegacobench to papers/xp/evaluating-steganography-collusion-capabilities-llms after the remote folders were restored
• 15:44 aligned the gpt-oss Jean Zay smoke with the user’s test_MXFP4 example: arch/h100 module, srun, TRITON_CACHE_DIR on JOBSCRATCH, HF_HUB_OFFLINE-only cache behavior, and dtype=auto model loading
• 15:54 submitted 20260730-154817-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-b6abdcd (job 440770 on jean-zay, commit b6abdcd)
• 16:28 fetched 20260730-154817-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-b6abdcd
• 16:29 fetched failed Jean Zay smoke 20260730-154817; Slurm failed before Python because module was unavailable in the job script, then patched the job env to source /etc/profile before module load
• 16:34 submitted 20260730-163212-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-c0e9341 (job 442745 on jean-zay, commit c0e9341)
• 16:49 fetched 20260730-163212-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-c0e9341
• 16:49 reported 20260730-163212-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke-c0e9341 in notes/experiments/binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_smoke.md
• 16:50 fetched and reported Jean Zay smoke 20260730-163212; it is the clean current gate after matching the test_MXFP4 environment, with no bf16 dequantize fallback in stderr
• 16:58 increased the full binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b Jean Zay walltime from 2h to 6h after estimating that 2h was too tight from the clean smoke runtime
• 17:01 submitted 20260730-165958-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b-35988ea (job 443670 on jean-zay, commit 35988ea)
• 20:32 fetched 20260730-165958-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b-35988ea
• 20:32 reported 20260730-165958-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b-35988ea in notes/experiments/binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b.md
• 20:34 fetched and reported full binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b run 20260730-165958; interpreted it as the first full evidence that the shared punctuation channel works above controls, with residual errors concentrated in sender-side route-choice punctuation emissions
• 20:47 cleaned the experiment website section to keep only the full binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b page after the first interpretable full result
• 21:04 audited shared-rule errors for run 20260730-165958; found four bit failures, all route-choice target-right cases where the sender emitted a period despite the right=exclamation rule, plus one separate route-choice task tiebreak miss
• 21:44 prepared binary_punctuation repeat runs for seeds 2718 and 3141; added shared-rule bit-failure classification metrics so repeat reports distinguish sender punctuation slips from receiver misdecodes without changing prompts or scoring
• 21:53 submitted 20260730-215252-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_seed_3141-c5d3cb9 (job 451794 on jean-zay, commit c5d3cb9)
• 21:53 submitted 20260730-215252-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_seed_2718-c5d3cb9 (job 451795 on jean-zay, commit c5d3cb9)
• 21:55 submitted binary_punctuation repeat runs 20260730-215252-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_seed_3141-c5d3cb9 job 451794 and 20260730-215252-binary_punctuation_gpt_oss_20b_seed_2718-c5d3cb9 job 451795 on Jean Zay to test seed stability of the supplied punctuation channel