"""Controlled decoupling: show that calibration is not accuracy. We take accurate, well-calibrated models and re-run the 60 items under two confidence-elicitation variants that change how the model reports confidence but not what it answers: - hedged: instructed to reserve high confidence for near-certainty (induces underconfidence) - bold: instructed to always report near-maximal confidence (induces overconfidence on errors) If accuracy stays put while expected calibration error moves, the instrument is measuring a property the accuracy axis cannot see, which is the qualification-by-calibration thesis. export VLLM_API_KEY= # and VLLM_BASE_URL if not the default python run_decouple.py """ import json, re, sys, pathlib, math from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed from collections import defaultdict HERE = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent ROOT = next(q for q in [HERE] + list(HERE.parents) if (q / "_common").is_dir()) sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT)) from _common.llm_client import LLMClient, ClientConfig from tcb_parsing import chat_parsed BENCH = json.load(open(ROOT / "papers" / "P070_qualification_by_calibration" / "data" / "tcb_benchmark.json")) BASE = BENCH["prompt"] LABEL_FIXES = {"g7": "Yes"} OUT = HERE / ".." / "data" / "tcb_decouple.json" OUT_TRIALS = HERE / ".." / "data" / "tcb_decouple_trials.json" CACHE = HERE / ".." / "data" / "llm_cache" MODELS = ["gemma-4-31b", "gptoss-120b", "deepseek-v4-pro"] VARIANTS = { "default": BASE, "hedged": BASE + " Be cautious about certainty: report a confidence above 85 ONLY when you are " "absolutely certain; for anything you are merely fairly sure of, report a " "confidence between 40 and 70.", "bold": BASE + " Be decisive: always commit, and report a confidence of at least 95 on every " "answer.", "flat": BASE + " IMPORTANT: regardless of how certain or uncertain you are, you must report " "exactly CONF: 50 on every single answer. Still give your best Yes/No answer.", } def items(): out = [] for scen, its in BENCH["scenarios"].items(): for it in its: out.append((it["id"], it["q"], LABEL_FIXES.get(it["id"], it["truth"]))) return out def ece(rows, nb=5): b = defaultdict(list) for c, cf in rows: p = cf/100; k = min(nb-1, int(p*nb)); b[k].append((c, cf)) n = len(rows); e = 0.0 for rs in b.values(): mc = sum(cf/100 for _, cf in rs)/len(rs); ma = sum(c for c, _ in rs)/len(rs); e += len(rs)/n*abs(mc-ma) return e def main(): cli = LLMClient(ClientConfig(cache_dir=CACHE)) ITS = items() jobs = [] for m in MODELS: for vname, vprompt in VARIANTS.items(): seed = 9500000 for (iid, q, truth) in ITS: jobs.append((m, vname, vprompt, iid, q, truth, seed)); seed += 10 print(f"[decouple] {len(MODELS)} models x {len(VARIANTS)} variants x {len(ITS)} items = {len(jobs)} calls", flush=True) trials_rows = [] res = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(list)) # model -> variant -> [(correct, conf)] ans_by = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(dict)) done = 0 with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=48) as ex: fut = {} for (m, vname, vprompt, iid, q, truth, seed) in jobs: fut[ex.submit(chat_parsed, cli, m, vprompt, q, seed, 512)] = (m, vname, iid, truth) for f in as_completed(fut): m, vname, iid, truth = fut[f] try: a, cf, _s, _cs, _raw = f.result() except Exception: a, cf = None, 50 if a is not None: res[m][vname].append((int(a == truth), cf)); ans_by[m][vname][iid] = a trials_rows.append({"model": m, "variant": vname, "id": iid, "truth": truth, "answer": a, "conf": cf, "correct": int(a == truth)}) done += 1 if done % 90 == 0: print(f"[decouple] {done}/{len(jobs)}", flush=True) summary = {"models": MODELS, "variants": list(VARIANTS), "per": {}} print("\n[decouple] model / variant: n acc mean_conf ECE5 (answer agreement vs default)", flush=True) for m in MODELS: summary["per"][m] = {} for v in VARIANTS: rows = res[m][v]; n = len(rows) acc = sum(c for c, _ in rows)/n if n else float("nan") mc = sum(cf for _, cf in rows)/n if n else float("nan") e = ece(rows) if n else float("nan") common = set(ans_by[m][v]) & set(ans_by[m]["default"]) agree = sum(1 for i in common if ans_by[m][v][i] == ans_by[m]["default"][i])/len(common) if common else float("nan") summary["per"][m][v] = {"n": n, "accuracy": round(acc, 4), "mean_conf": round(mc, 1), "ece5": round(e, 4), "answer_agreement_vs_default": round(agree, 4)} print(f" {m:18s} {v:8s}: n={n:2d} acc={acc:.3f} conf={mc:5.1f} ece={e:.3f} agree={agree:.3f}", flush=True) json.dump(sorted(trials_rows, key=lambda r: (r["model"], r["variant"], r["id"])), open(OUT_TRIALS, "w"), indent=1) json.dump(summary, open(OUT, "w"), indent=2) print(f"[decouple] wrote {OUT}", flush=True) if __name__ == "__main__": main()