baselines-diagnostics
D4 flow audit
Replays the reference on used games and records each board, decision, and search value for behavioral analysis.
support-onlyreads: diagnostic
Diagnostics
Measuring instruments, harnesses and probes; none of these is a way to play.
Measuring instruments
Tools that take a reading from games already played or from positions: where the points come from, which discs can never clear, how fast discs must clear to keep up, and what a perfect-information solver would have done.
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Tie-breaking
When two columns are worth the same, their order chooses between them. This measures the effect over a whole game.
support-onlyreads: public - baselines-diagnostics
Trajectory throughput
Runs a player that can see hidden numbers beside public-information players on the same games, then compares their boards every five moves to show what self-sustaining play looks like.
completedreads: oracle - lifetime-objective
Entombed discs: the 3 that can never clear
Measures how often low numbered discs become impossible to clear, when death follows, and whether the evaluator notices.
completedreads: teacher - lifetime-objective
Is the required clearing rate reachable at all?
Lets a privileged planner test whether any policy can remove discs as fast as the game adds them.
completedreads: oracle - lifetime-objective
Where the points actually come from
Attributes every point to its source and shows that Hardcore score mostly measures survival time.
completedreads: diagnostic - oracle-curriculum
Stage D0: the fair value of oracle-visited boards
Measures whether the boards a clairvoyant oracle chooses to stand on are still good boards when the future is replaced by ordinary public randomness, by re-valuing them and matched fair-search boards under the same 32 independent public futures.
completedreads: teacher - oracle-curriculum
Perfect-information oracle
Show a planner the whole future to measure what the simulator makes possible. It is never a deployable policy.
completedreads: oracle
Harnesses and benchmarks
The fixed scaffolding that runs policies side by side under one set of conditions, and the checks on the benchmark itself.
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Heuristic benchmark
Runs simple hand-written players on paired games so differences reflect policy rather than luck.
support-onlyreads: public - baselines-diagnostics
Phase benchmark
Plays complete games with the shared hand-written policy and reports score, clears, reveals, board height, search work, and early stops.
support-onlyreads: public - heuristic-search
Policy comparison
The shared harness that makes two hand-built policies play the same games, so that a difference between them is about the policies and not about which one got luckier discs.
support-onlyreads: public - lifetime-objective
Testing the benchmark instead of the policy
Ranks nine policies on 128 saved positions, compares that ranking with complete games, and retires the benchmark when they disagree.
rejectedreads: diagnostic - terminal-policy-iteration
Deployment panel
A locked set of 477 positions labels every legal column through long play-forwards, creating a reusable move-ranking test bench.
rejectedreads: diagnostic
Model probes
Small experiments that ask what a network of a given size can hold, before a training run is paid for.
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Cover-throughput probe
Asks whether telling a simple player to care much more about breaking open gray discs makes it live longer, and finds that turning that dial up barely moves anything.
rejectedreads: public - lifetime-objective
Is the small survival network as accurate as it can be?
Retrains the small board evaluator at several sizes and settings to test whether more capacity predicts lifetime better.
completedreads: teacher - lifetime-objective
Can a leaf-sized network hold the four-ply search's ordering?
Trains the smallest network that could run inside a search leaf on the exact values the four-ply search gives every sibling move, and asks whether it ranks those moves the way the search does.
completedreads: diagnostic