Update logbook: Repro - NonZero: Interaction-Guided Exploration for Multi-Agent Monte Carlo Tree Search

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 {"type": "markdown", "id": "cell_535249793c31", "created_at": "2026-08-03T02:57:38+00:00", "title": "Implemented the asinh-GLM surrogate eta(theta,a) = casinh(alpha<theta,a) exactl…"}
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 Implemented the asinh-GLM surrogate eta(theta,a) = c*asinh(alpha*<theta,a>) exactly per Section 3.1, Eq. 2, plus the first-order (Eq. 3) and mixed second-order (Eq. 4) finite-difference operators. **Verified the paper's stated identity exactly**: eta(a^(u,v)) - eta(a) = Delta_u eta(a) + Delta_v eta(a) + Delta^2_{u,v} eta(a), confirmed to floating-point precision (error ~1.19e-7) via unit test. **[toy]** Verified the surrogate can learn real reward structure: trained on the 8-agent/10-action nonlinear MatGame environment, converged to R2=0.900 on held-out data, matching the theoretical ceiling set by the environment's injected noise variance (Gaussian sigma^2=4 + Uniform(-3,3)) -- essentially recovering all learnable signal. This used a simplified single-global-theta setup rather than the full state-conditioned hypernetwork architecture, so it validates the model family's expressiveness rather than the complete Claim 4 pipeline.
+
+
+---
+<!-- trackio-cell
+{"type": "code", "id": "cell_25405f4ab649", "created_at": "2026-08-03T03:00:14+00:00", "title": "Run: hf claim1_mechanism_test.py (exit 0)", "command": ["hf", "jobs", "uv", "run", "--flavor", "cpu-basic", "--secrets", "HF_TOKEN", "claim1_mechanism_test.py"], "exit_code": 0, "duration_s": 139.004}
+-->
+````bash
+$ hf jobs uv run --flavor cpu-basic --secrets HF_TOKEN claim1_mechanism_test.py
+````
+
+exit 0 · 139.0s
+
+
+````python title=claim1_mechanism_test.py
+# /// script
+# dependencies = ["torch", "numpy"]
+# ///
+"""
+Claim 1 -- toy-scale test of NonZero's actual proposal mechanism.
+
+The paper's real claim isn't just "the surrogate can fit rewards" -- it's
+that using the surrogate's first-order (single-agent) and second-order
+(two-agent) difference operators to PROPOSE candidate action changes finds
+good joint actions more efficiently than enumerating/random-sampling the
+full joint-action space (Section 3, Section 3.1).
+
+This script tests that directly: under an EQUAL evaluation budget, does
+NonUCT-style guided local search find better joint actions than random
+sampling, on the 8-agent/10-action nonlinear MatGame environment?
+"""
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import numpy as np
+
+
+class MatgameNonZeroEnv:
+    def __init__(self, n_agents=8, n_actions=10, reward_type="nonlinear",
+                 noise_std=2.0, noise_uniform_range=3.0, seed=None):
+        self.n_agents = n_agents
+        self.n_actions = n_actions
+        self.reward_type = reward_type
+        self.noise_std = noise_std
+        self.noise_uniform_range = noise_uniform_range
+        self._rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
+
+    def joint_reward(self, actions):
+        base = float(np.sum(actions))
+        if self.reward_type == "linear":
+            return base
+        u = self._rng.normal(0.0, self.noise_std)
+        v = self._rng.uniform(-self.noise_uniform_range, self.noise_uniform_range)
+        return base + u + v
+
+
+class AsinhGLMSurrogate:
+    def __init__(self, n_agents, n_actions, c=1.0, alpha=1.0):
+        self.n_agents, self.n_actions = n_agents, n_actions
+        self.nd = n_agents * n_actions
+        self.c, self.alpha = c, alpha
+
+    def one_hot(self, agent_actions):
+        agent_actions = torch.as_tensor(agent_actions, dtype=torch.long)
+        oh = torch.nn.functional.one_hot(agent_actions, num_classes=self.n_actions)
+        return oh.reshape(*agent_actions.shape[:-1], self.nd).float()
+
+    def eta(self, theta, a):
+        return self.c * torch.asinh(self.alpha * (theta * a).sum(dim=-1))
+
+    def neighbor(self, a, agent_idx, new_action):
+        a = a.clone()
+        s = agent_idx * self.n_actions
+        a[..., s:s + self.n_actions] = 0.0
+        a[..., s + new_action] = 1.0
+        return a
+
+    def neighbor_pair(self, a, agent_i, action_i, agent_j, action_j):
+        a = self.neighbor(a, agent_i, action_i)
+        a = self.neighbor(a, agent_j, action_j)
+        return a
+
+
+def fit_surrogate(env, surrogate, n_samples=4000, n_epochs=1500, rng=None):
+    actions = rng.integers(0, env.n_actions, size=(n_samples, env.n_agents))
+    rewards = torch.tensor([env.joint_reward(a) for a in actions], dtype=torch.float32)
+    a_enc = surrogate.one_hot(torch.tensor(actions, dtype=torch.long))
+
+    theta = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(surrogate.nd))
+    log_c, log_alpha = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(())), nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(()))
+    opt = torch.optim.Adam([theta, log_c, log_alpha], lr=0.05)
+    sched = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(opt, T_max=n_epochs)
+
+    def predict(a_batch):
+        return torch.exp(log_c) * torch.asinh(torch.exp(log_alpha) * (theta * a_batch).sum(dim=-1))
+
+    for _ in range(n_epochs):
+        opt.zero_grad()
+        loss = ((predict(a_enc) - rewards) ** 2).mean()
+        loss.backward()
+        opt.step()
+        sched.step()
+    return theta.detach()
+
+
+def nonuct_guided_search(env, surrogate, theta, eval_budget, rng):
+    n_agents, n_actions = env.n_agents, env.n_actions
+    current = rng.integers(0, n_actions, size=n_agents)
+    best_reward = env.joint_reward(current)
+    evals_used = 1
+
+    while evals_used < eval_budget:
+        cur_enc = surrogate.one_hot(torch.tensor(current, dtype=torch.long))
+        cur_eta = surrogate.eta(theta, cur_enc).item()
+
+        best_candidate, best_delta, best_kind = None, -float("inf"), None
+        for agent_idx in range(n_agents):
+            for new_action in range(n_actions):
+                if new_action == current[agent_idx]:
+                    continue
+                cand_enc = surrogate.neighbor(cur_enc, agent_idx, new_action)
+                delta = (surrogate.eta(theta, cand_enc) - cur_eta).item()
+                if delta > best_delta:
+                    best_delta, best_candidate, best_kind = delta, (agent_idx, new_action), "first"
+
+        for i in range(n_agents):
+            for j in range(i + 1, n_agents):
+                for ai in range(n_actions):
+                    if ai == current[i]:
+                        continue
+                    for aj in range(n_actions):
+                        if aj == current[j]:
+                            continue
+                        cand_enc = surrogate.neighbor_pair(cur_enc, i, ai, j, aj)
+                        delta = (surrogate.eta(theta, cand_enc) - cur_eta).item()
+                        if delta > best_delta:
+                            best_delta, best_candidate, best_kind = delta, (i, ai, j, aj), "second"
+
+        if best_candidate is None or evals_used >= eval_budget:
+            break
+
+        candidate_actions = current.copy()
+        if best_kind == "first":
+            agent_idx, new_action = best_candidate
+            candidate_actions[agent_idx] = new_action
+        else:
+            i, ai, j, aj = best_candidate
+            candidate_actions[i] = ai
+            candidate_actions[j] = aj
+
+        real_reward = env.joint_reward(candidate_actions)
+        evals_used += 1
+
+        if real_reward > best_reward:
+            current = candidate_actions
+            best_reward = real_reward
+        else:
+            break
+
+    return best_reward, evals_used
+
+
+def random_search(env, eval_budget, rng):
+    best_reward = -float("inf")
+    for _ in range(eval_budget):
+        actions = rng.integers(0, env.n_actions, size=env.n_agents)
+        r = env.joint_reward(actions)
+        if r > best_reward:
+            best_reward = r
+    return best_reward
+
+
+def main():
+    print("=" * 70)
+    print("NonZero reproduction -- Claim 1 mechanism test (toy scale)")
+    print("Testing: does surrogate-guided proposal beat random search")
+    print("under an EQUAL real-environment evaluation budget?")
+    print("=" * 70)
+
+    n_trials = 200
+    eval_budget = 15
+
+    rng_fit = np.random.default_rng(0)
+    env_fit = MatgameNonZeroEnv(n_agents=8, n_actions=10, reward_type="nonlinear", seed=1)
+    surrogate = AsinhGLMSurrogate(8, 10)
+    theta = fit_surrogate(env_fit, surrogate, rng=rng_fit)
+    print(f"\nSurrogate fit complete (theta trained on 4000 samples).")
+
+    guided_rewards, random_rewards = [], []
+    for trial in range(n_trials):
+        rng = np.random.default_rng(1000 + trial)
+        env = MatgameNonZeroEnv(n_agents=8, n_actions=10, reward_type="nonlinear", seed=2000 + trial)
+
+        g_reward, g_evals = nonuct_guided_search(env, surrogate, theta, eval_budget, rng)
+        guided_rewards.append(g_reward)
+
+        env2 = MatgameNonZeroEnv(n_agents=8, n_actions=10, reward_type="nonlinear", seed=2000 + trial)
+        rng2 = np.random.default_rng(1000 + trial)
+        r_reward = random_search(env2, eval_budget, rng2)
+        random_rewards.append(r_reward)
+
+    guided_mean, guided_std = np.mean(guided_rewards), np.std(guided_rewards)
+    random_mean, random_std = np.mean(random_rewards), np.std(random_rewards)
+    improvement = (guided_mean - random_mean) / abs(random_mean) * 100
+
+    print(f"\n[Results over {n_trials} trials, eval_budget={eval_budget}]")
+    print(f"  Surrogate-guided search: {guided_mean:.2f} +/- {guided_std:.2f}")
+    print(f"  Random search (baseline): {random_mean:.2f} +/- {random_std:.2f}")
+    print(f"  Improvement: {improvement:+.1f}%")
+
+    print("\n" + "=" * 70)
+    print("SUMMARY")
+    if guided_mean > random_mean:
+        print(f"  PASS: surrogate-guided proposal outperforms random search")
+        print(f"  by {improvement:.1f}% under equal evaluation budget.")
+        print(f"  This supports Claim 1's core mechanism at toy scale.")
+    else:
+        print(f"  FAIL: surrogate-guided proposal did NOT outperform random search")
+        print(f"  in this toy setting.")
+    print("=" * 70)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
+
+````
+
+
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+======================================================================
+NonZero reproduction -- Claim 1 mechanism test (toy scale)
+Testing: does surrogate-guided proposal beat random search
+under an EQUAL real-environment evaluation budget?
+======================================================================
+
+Surrogate fit complete (theta trained on 4000 samples).
+
+[Results over 200 trials, eval_budget=15]
+  Surrogate-guided search: 73.19 +/- 2.59
+  Random search (baseline): 51.04 +/- 4.58
+  Improvement: +43.4%
+
+======================================================================
+SUMMARY
+  PASS: surrogate-guided proposal outperforms random search
+  by 43.4% under equal evaluation budget.
+  This supports Claim 1's core mechanism at toy scale.
+======================================================================
+
+````

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