#!/usr/bin/env python3 """One prompt, three scales. Why the same weights score 40 or 92.""" import matplotlib; matplotlib.use("Agg") import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.patches import FancyArrowPatch, Rectangle S={"surface":"#fcfcfb","ink":"#0b0b0b","ink2":"#52514e","grid":"#e4e4e1"} RED,AMB,BLU="#b3243b","#eb6834","#12508f" fig,(ax,bx)=plt.subplots(2,1,figsize=(12.6,8.6),facecolor=S["surface"], gridspec_kw={"height_ratios":[1.15,1],"hspace":.42}) # ---- top: the squeeze ------------------------------------------------------- ax.set_facecolor(S["surface"]); ax.axis("off") ax.set_xlim(0,100); ax.set_ylim(0,100) ax.text(0,96,"ONE prompt of 16,360 tokens. Same model file. Only YARN_SCALE changes.", fontsize=12.5,color=S["ink"],weight="bold",va="top") # the familiar band for y,(s,pos,sc,col) in zip((66,40,14),((4,4090,40,RED),(8,2045,67,AMB),(16,1022,92,BLU))): ax.add_patch(Rectangle((14,y-4),62,8,fc="#f0f0ee",ec=S["grid"])) ax.text(13,y,f"x{s}",fontsize=11,color=col,ha="right",va="center",weight="bold") # familiar / rare split at 4096 -> the bar spans 0..4096 perceived frac=pos/4096.0 ax.add_patch(Rectangle((14,y-4),62*frac,8,fc=col,alpha=.30,ec="none")) ax.plot([14+62*frac],[y],"o",color=col,ms=11) if s == 4: ax.text(14+62*frac-2,y-7.0,f"last token perceived\nat position {pos:,}", fontsize=8.4,color=col,ha="right",va="top") else: ax.text(14+62*frac,y+7.0,f"last token perceived\nat position {pos:,}", fontsize=8.4,color=col,ha="center",va="bottom") ax.text(78,y,f"scores {sc}",fontsize=11,color="white",va="center", bbox=dict(fc=col,ec="none",pad=3.4)) ax.plot([76,76],[8,72],color=S["ink2"],lw=1.2,ls="--") ax.text(78.5,80,"position 4,096\nedge of pretraining",fontsize=8.4,color=S["ink2"],ha="left") ax.text(14,4,"position 0",fontsize=8.4,color=S["ink2"],ha="center") ax.text(45,-1,"the 4,096-position range the model was pretrained on", fontsize=9,color=S["ink2"],ha="center",style="italic") # ---- bottom: where the pretraining data actually was ------------------------ bx.set_facecolor(S["surface"]) for s in bx.spines.values(): s.set_color(S["grid"]) bx.grid(True,color=S["grid"],lw=.7,alpha=.9); bx.tick_params(colors=S["ink2"],labelsize=9) import math xs=list(range(0,4097,32)) # schematic doc-length survival curve: p90 = 2,721 dens=[100*math.exp(-(x/2721.0)**1.7) for x in xs] bx.fill_between(xs,dens,color="#9dc3ea",alpha=.55) bx.plot(xs,dens,color=BLU,lw=2) for pos,sc,col,lab,ha,dx in ((4090,40,RED,"x4","right",-60),(2045,67,AMB,"x8","center",0), (1022,92,BLU,"x16","center",0)): bx.axvline(pos,color=col,lw=2,ls="--") bx.text(pos+dx,95,lab,color=col,fontsize=10.5,ha=ha,weight="bold",va="top") bx.text(pos+dx,86,f"scores {sc}",color="white",fontsize=9,ha=ha,va="top", bbox=dict(fc=col,ec="none",pad=2.2)) bx.axvline(2721,color=S["ink2"],lw=1.2) bx.text(2721,52," p90 document\n length 2,721",fontsize=8.4,color=S["ink2"]) bx.set_xlim(0,4096); bx.set_ylim(0,100) bx.set_xlabel("perceived position",color=S["ink2"],fontsize=10) bx.set_ylabel("how often pretraining\nreached this position (%)",color=S["ink2"],fontsize=10) bx.set_title("Why: past ~2,700 the model has almost no experience", color=S["ink"],fontsize=11.5,loc="left",pad=9) fig.text(.005,.005,"Verified numerically: token 16,360 at x16 and token 1,022 unscaled differ by 1.4e-4 radians " "in the interpolated dims -- indistinguishable to the model. Document-length curve is schematic, anchored on the measured p90 of 2,721.", fontsize=7.8,color=S["ink2"]) fig.savefig("results_2026-09-16/why_scale_works.png",dpi=150,bbox_inches="tight") print(" wrote results_2026-09-16/why_scale_works.png")