* feat(ADR-0131.1.F): frontier-baseline comparison harness for B1
Adapts the ADR-0119.4 methodology (frozen citations + comparison JSON
with disclaimer) to B1, with three additions for the
architecture-aligned claim:
1. A provider-agnostic live head-to-head runner. Adapters for
Anthropic / OpenAI / Google import their SDKs lazily so the
package loads cleanly without them installed. Each provider has a
documented FRONTIER_<VENDOR>_KEY env var; the runner refuses with
a typed FrontierRunError when keys are absent and the cache cannot
cover all cases. Every response is cached one-record-per-line at
responses/<provider>/<model>.jsonl so subsequent runs replay
byte-equally without re-calling the API.
2. A conservative free-text-to-closed-vocab verdict parser. Ambiguous
or sentinel-free provider replies collapse to "refused" — a
polarized verdict is never confabulated from prose. Chain-of-
thought replies use last-token-wins (provider deliberates, then
concludes). This is the load-bearing seam that prevents the
runner from manufacturing scores the provider didn't deliver.
3. Architecture-aligned comparison metrics. accuracy is reported but
foregrounded as the least-load-bearing; refusal_correctness
(CORE 100% by lane-gate construction vs. frontier confabulation
rate) and determinism (CORE byte-equal vs. frontier variance) are
the differentiators.
Frozen adjacent-benchmark citations cover Anthropic
(claude-3-5-sonnet on MATH, claude-opus-4-1 on AIME), OpenAI
(gpt-4o on MATH), and Google (gemini-1.5-pro on MATH). The scope
disclaimer documents that these are adjacent, not head-to-head.
Head-to-head numbers, when run, land in the cache; the comparison
JSON joins them with CORE's existing lane result.
22 tests pin the methodology: citation shape (every field, https
URL, YYYY-MM-DD date), provider-registry shape, verdict-parser
conservatism (multiple chain-of-thought cases), runner caching
behavior (no double-invoke), comparison-JSON determinism (byte-equal
across runs).
No live API call at test time. The harness gates real runs behind
explicit env vars + CLI invocation.
Composes with ADR-0131.1 (B1 v1), ADR-0131.1.B (v1.B hardening,
#169), ADR-0131.1.S (sealed holdout, #173).
* feat(ADR-0131.1.F): live head-to-head — anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
First real frontier baseline on the full B1.B 185-case set
(curated + generated). Cached one-record-per-line at
responses/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6.jsonl. Re-runs replay from
disk; no further API calls.
Headline (after scoring fix):
CORE 185/185 = 100.0% accuracy
3/3 = 100.0% refusal_correctness
deterministic (byte-equal across runs)
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 182/185 = 98.4% accuracy
1/3 = 33.3% refusal_correctness
non-deterministic (temperature=0, but
not byte-equal architecturally)
The 1.6pp accuracy gap is informative; the refusal-correctness gap
is the architecture-aligned story. Sonnet's three misses:
sym-eq-v1-0016 [difference_of_squares]
(x^2 + 1)*(x^2 - 1) vs x^4 - 1
Sonnet: NOT_EQUIVALENT (math error on a textbook identity)
sym-eq-gen-v1-0153 [generated_refusal_function]
sin(x) vs x
Sonnet: NOT_EQUIVALENT (confabulated — should refuse,
transcendental outside polynomial scope)
sym-eq-gen-v1-0154 [generated_refusal_negative_exponent]
x^-1 vs 1
Sonnet: NOT_EQUIVALENT (confabulated — should refuse,
negative exponent outside scope)
Sonnet correctly refused only on syntactically malformed input
("x +"); on syntactically-valid-but-semantically-out-of-scope inputs
it confidently polarized rather than refusing. CORE refuses both
classes with typed reasons.
Scoring fix: comparison.py now composes curated + generated cases
(mirroring runner.py) so the head-to-head scores the full 185-case
lane, not just the 30 curated. The initial run scored only 30/185
because the generated set was not loaded into _load_cases().
22/22 frontier-methodology tests still pass.
* feat(ADR-0131.1.F): three more head-to-head runs + Ollama adapter
Three additional providers ran against the full B1.B 185-case set,
joining the prior claude-sonnet-4-6 result:
CORE 185/185 = 100.0% acc | 3/3 = 100% refusal | 33 ms
claude-sonnet-4-6 182/185 = 98.4% acc | 1/3 = 33.3% refusal | 294 s
claude-opus-4-7 178/185 = 96.2% acc | 1/3 = 33.3% refusal | 309 s
gpt-5 134/185 = 72.4% acc | 1/3 = 33.3% refusal | 1153 s
qwen3:8b (M1 local, partial) 91/91 = 100.0% acc | n/a no refusal-class | killed
CORE is the only system at 100% on both axes, and runs ~9,000×
faster than the cheapest cloud frontier, ~35,000× faster than gpt-5,
and finishes in less wall time than a single API call to any of the
three frontier models.
Three distinct frontier brittleness modes, all rooted in
"not actually canonicalizing":
- sonnet-4-6 confabulates polarized verdicts on out-of-scope
inputs (sin(x), x^-1). Misses one in-scope difference-of-squares
identity (x^2+1)*(x^2-1) vs x^4-1.
- opus-4-7 pattern-shortcuts five near-miss-constant cases —
accepts (-x+3)*(4x+1) == -4x^2+11x+4 (correct constant is 3,
not 4) without expanding. Same two out-of-scope confabulations
as sonnet.
- gpt-5 over-refuses 50 in-scope cases — literally replies
"REFUSED" to x*(x+1) == x^2+x and (x+1)*(x-1) == x^2-1. Same
two out-of-scope confabulations as sonnet/opus.
The qwen3:8b partial is the surprise: on the 91 in-scope cases it
completed (spanning the categories where the frontier models failed),
it scored 100%. Refusal-class cases weren't reached before the run
was killed for being impractically slow (~22s/case on M1).
Changes in this commit:
- frontier_runner.py: anthropic adapter now omits ``temperature``
for claude-opus-4-x (the parameter is rejected by 4.x models);
openai adapter switches to ``max_completion_tokens`` for the
gpt-5 / o-series reasoning models; new ``_ollama_invoke`` that
posts to localhost:11434 with no third-party dep; per-case
``latency_ms`` is now captured on every NEW cached response
(future runs only — these four runs pre-date the patch).
- comparison.py: ``_load_cases`` composes curated + generated
(185 cases) instead of curated only; ``_score_provider``
surfaces ``latency_summary`` when records carry latency_ms.
- tests: provider-registry test relaxed to "cloud trio is a
subset of PROVIDERS"; env-key test allows ``_KEY`` (cloud
secret) or ``_URL`` (local endpoint).
* feat(evals): add deterministic symbolic equivalence generated corpus
* feat(evals): add symbolic equivalence replay helpers
* feat(evals): load generated symbolic equivalence corpus
* feat(evals): emit symbolic equivalence replay manifest
* feat(symbolic): support multivariable integer polynomials
* feat(symbolic): support exact rational polynomial coefficients
* feat(symbolic): align equivalence API with multivariable normalization
* test(ADR-0131.1.B): reconcile v1 expectations to v1.B scope expansion
The v1.B refactor (univariate int → sparse multivariable Fraction) deliberately
admits multivariable polynomials and constant-denominator division. The v1
dataset and tests pinned the old refusal behavior, so the lane runner reported
wrong=4 and 10 unit tests failed.
Reconcile:
- cases.jsonl: flip sym-eq-v1-0029 ('x+y' vs 'x+1') and sym-eq-v1-0030
('x/2' vs 'x') from expected=refused to expected=not_equivalent; rename
categories to multivariable_distinct / constant_denominator_distinct;
extend provenance with adr-0131.1b:scope-expanded.
- generated_cases.py: split _refusal_cases into scope_expanded (admits)
and templates (still refused); the first two adversarial cases move to
the scope-expanded list with expected=not_equivalent.
- test_math_symbolic_normalizer.py: replace test_undefined_variable and
test_unknown_operator_division with positive scope-expansion tests +
symbolic-denominator refusal; rewrite TestPolynomialInvariants for the
new terms/variables constructor (Polynomial(terms={...}, variables=(...)))
with float-rejection and zero-coef-collapse invariants.
- test_math_symbolic_equivalence.py: TestRefused.test_empty_left reason
string matches new normalizer error; flip multivariable + constant-
denominator cases to NOT_EQUIVALENT; add symbolic-denominator-refused
case; relax canonical_a assertion in test_a_normalizes_b_refuses (engine
now zeroes both on either-side refusal).
- report.json + manifest.json: regenerated; lane PASS 185/185 wrong=0.
Lane invariants reaffirmed by the new tests: wrong==0, refusal-first for
truly out-of-scope inputs (symbolic denominator, transcendental, malformed,
negative exponent), determinism via byte-equal report.
ADR-0131 Benchmark 1 substrate — the primary discriminator for the
mathematics_logic expert promotion under the architecture-aligned
benchmark composite proposed in ADR-0131.
WHAT LANDED:
generate/math_symbolic_normalizer.py
Deterministic univariate polynomial normalizer. Scope: single
variable, integer coefficients, +/-/*/** operators, parens, no
division, no transcendentals. Pipeline: tokenize -> recursive-
descent parse -> expand-and-collect -> canonical string. Refusal
is first-class via SymbolicError; out-of-scope inputs refuse
rather than guess (preserves wrong == 0).
generate/math_symbolic_equivalence.py
check_equivalence(a, b) -> EquivalenceVerdict
Returns EQUIVALENT / NOT_EQUIVALENT / REFUSED with canonical
strings + reason. Compares byte-equal canonical forms.
evals/math_symbolic_equivalence/v1/
cases.jsonl — 30 hand-curated cases across 18 algebraic
identity categories + 2 out-of-scope refusals.
Coverage: commutative, distributive, square +
cube of binomial, difference of squares, FOIL,
collect like terms, zero cancellation, factoring,
exponent combination, unary negation.
runner.py — CLI entry point. Loads cases, builds report,
writes JSON, exits 0/1 on gate pass/fail.
README.md — methodology, scope, dataset categorization,
exit criterion, baseline result.
tests/
test_math_symbolic_normalizer.py — 44 tests covering parser,
algebra primitives,
canonical-form invariants,
and every refusal path.
test_math_symbolic_equivalence.py — 16 tests on the public
check_equivalence API.
test_adr_0131_1_symbolic_equivalence_lane.py
— 8 tests gating the lane:
dataset integrity, exit
criterion, wrong == 0,
determinism (byte-equal
report across runs).
EMPIRICAL RESULT (the lane PASSED):
correct = 30 / 30 (100.0%)
wrong = 0 / 30 (wrong == 0 invariant satisfied)
refused = 0 / 30 (refusals all matched expected)
correct_rate = 1.00
exit_criterion: PASSED (>= 0.95 required)
CONTRAST WITH ADR-0127-0128 GSM8K TRAIN-SAMPLE RESULT (0/0/50):
This is the first benchmark on the mathematics_logic lane where
the architecture's structural strengths fully express. The result
is the empirical inverse of the GSM8K result — and that's
exactly the architecture-benchmark fit ADR-0131 was written to
re-target toward.
REGRESSION: 1033/1033 existing tests green across math + ADR-0126
+ pack ratification + runner. Zero regressions.
SCOPE DISCIPLINE (per ADR-0131.1 v1 plan):
v1 deliberately narrow (univariate, integer, polynomial). Future
ADR-0131.1.B expansions documented in README: multi-variable,
rationals, larger dataset (~500), sealed holdout per ADR-0119.7
pattern.
PARALLEL WORK (per ADR-0131 plan to run all 3 sub-phases concurrently):
- ADR-0131.2: CORE-native teaching-corpus eval (separate PR)
- ADR-0131.3: bounded-grammar word-problem set (separate PR)
These are independent of ADR-0131.1; no shared files, no
cross-PR coordination required beyond final composite gate.
Shay