Every metric name used to exist in four places: the dict keys each
StageTrainer returned, the hardcoded _metrics_fields() column list, the
~110-line metrics_row assembly in train(), and the tqdm/summary
formatting. The two had to be kept in exact correspondence by hand or
csv.DictWriter would raise.
Each metric is now declared once, as a MetricSpec on the trainer that
computes it. MetricsCollector derives the CSV header and W&B payload from
those declarations and owns all accumulation, so train() no longer carries
a running sum, and every isinstance(tr, WGANStageTrainer) branch is gone —
replaced by four trainer hooks (batch_loss, summary, val_objective,
supports_val_loss).
giant/train.py (1875 lines) becomes giant/training/:
trainers.py StageSpec + shared StageTrainer base + the two subclasses
metrics.py MetricSpec, MetricsCollector
stage2_inputs.py the pure AR/teacher-forcing tensor helpers, moved verbatim
loop.py train() (225 lines, was ~514) + graceful shutdown
checkpoint.py build/load, lifted out of train()'s closures
The trainers shared ~15 identical constructor arguments and copy-pasted
their cosine-warmup lambda, EMA setup, state_dict/load_state_dict,
resume_lr and train_mode/eval_mode. StageSpec resolves one stage's config
once (constructors go from 24 and 22 keyword arguments to (spec, model,
device)), the base class holds the rest, and build_stage_trainers drops
from ~100 lines to 15.
Metric columns are renamed to a uniform stage/split/metric scheme
(stage1/train/loss, stage2/train/d_loss, stage1/lr, stage1/router/entropy,
val/loss, ...). Old metrics.csv files and W&B history are not comparable.
The checkpoint format is unchanged.
BEHAVIOR CHANGE — WGAN best-checkpoint selection. The old code meant to
score a WGAN stage on its marginal KL, but the guard
`{n: kl for n in wgan_names if n not in val_loss_per_stage}` could never
fire: val_loss_per_stage was pre-seeded with 0.0 for every stage, so a
WGAN stage contributed a flat 0.0 and the KL was written to metrics.csv
without ever influencing best.pt. val_objective now returns it as
intended. On the test harness's default flow+wgan config val_loss went
from 2.182 (stage 1 only) to 15.137 (stage 1 + KL 12.954), and which epoch
won changed. Runs before this commit picked their best checkpoint on the
non-adversarial stages alone. Written up in docs/v0.3.0-followups.md.
Verified: 699 tests pass; ruff, ruff format and ty clean. Baseline-vs-
refactor metrics.csv compared across five configs (flow+wgan, AR+onehot,
routed, both-flow, AR-flow) — every comparable value bit-identical except
val/loss where the fix applies. Resume appends without a duplicate header
and reproduces a HEAD worktree's per-epoch losses and LRs exactly across
the resume boundary. A refactored last.pt loads through
cli.py:_load_model_weights in both raw and ema modes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the five separately-hyphenated uv entry points (steps-to-parquet,
steps-to-parquet-parallel, migrate-geant-steps, bump-dataset-version,
create-root-files) plus the unregistered hparam_scan.py with one `dwarf`
command exposing convert/migrate/bump-gen/bump-schema/status/
update-manifest/create-manifest/make-root/hparam-scan as subcommands.
Each scripts/*.py module now only holds argparse-free business logic;
scripts/dwarf.py wires it up with Typer, matching giant/cli.py's style.
`dwarf convert` merges the old serial/parallel conversion scripts behind
a --jobs flag (default 1: sequential with plain -o; >1: dataset-layout
fan-out via subprocess).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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