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Registers a new provable contract `qwen3-moe-sampling-v1` for temperature + top_k + top_p sampling on the qwen3_moe inference path. Independent follow-up to #1832 (M32d).

Why now

`run_qwen3_moe_generate` currently does unconditional greedy argmax. `QuantizedGenerateConfig.temperature/top_k/top_p` are silently ignored. HTTP chat requests with non-zero temperature get identical outputs — unacceptable for production chat.

The V1_004 bench (Phase 6 against Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B) is currently hitting 900s per-turn timeout because the 30B-MoE is verbose. Temperature scaling (e.g. 0.3) could concentrate probability mass and reduce rambling.

Contract gates

  • V1_001: greedy-fallback (`temperature=0` OR `top_k=1`) → deterministic
  • V1_002: `temperature>0` + fixed seed → deterministic (seeded RNG)
  • V1_003: `temperature>0` + different seeds → different outputs
  • V1_004: `top_k=1` with high temperature → still equivalent to greedy

Implementation phases (engineer playbook)

  • Phase 1 (~2hr): lift dense-path sampling block (`run_gguf_generate`) into reusable helper `sample_from_logits`
  • Phase 2 (~1hr): wire into `run_qwen3_moe_generate` decode loop; seed from config
  • Phase 3 (~2-3hr): cargo test battery (V1_001..V1_004)

Total ~5-6 hours; operator-actionable any time. Independent of qwen3-moe-streaming-sse-v1.

NOT in scope

  • Repetition penalty (separate contract)
  • Mirostat / logit bias / streaming

Test plan

  • Pure contract YAML; no code touched
  • CI: `pv validate` if wired

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Registers a new provable contract for temperature + top_k + top_p
sampling on the qwen3_moe inference path. Sibling to
qwen3-moe-streaming-sse-v1 (#1835); independent follow-up to
M32d (#1832).

## Motivation

`run_qwen3_moe_generate` currently does unconditional greedy argmax.
QuantizedGenerateConfig.temperature/top_k/top_p are silently ignored.
HTTP chat requests with non-zero temperature get the SAME output every
time — unacceptable for production chat.

## Why now

The V1_004 bench (paiml/claude-code-parity-apr Phase 6 against
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B) is hitting 900s per-turn timeout because the
30B-MoE is verbose. Temperature scaling (e.g. 0.3) could concentrate
probability mass on high-confidence tokens and reduce rambling.
Greedy-only forces ONE point on the spectrum.

## Falsification gates

- V1_001: greedy-fallback (temperature=0 OR top_k=1) → deterministic
- V1_002: temperature>0 + fixed seed → deterministic
- V1_003: temperature>0 + different seeds → different outputs
- V1_004: top_k=1 with high temperature → still equivalent to greedy

## Implementation phases (engineer playbook)

- Phase 1 (~2hr): lift dense-path sampling block into reusable helper
- Phase 2 (~1hr): wire into run_qwen3_moe_generate decode loop
- Phase 3 (~2-3hr): cargo test battery + optional companion sub-bench

Total ~5-6 hours; operator-actionable any time. Independent of
qwen3-moe-streaming-sse-v1.

NOT in scope:
- Repetition penalty (separate qwen3-moe-repetition-penalty-v1 contract)
- Mirostat / logit bias / streaming (separate concerns)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ischarged; supersedes #1843) (#1844)

* spec: qwen3-moe-repetition-penalty-v1 — third 3-knob follow-up to M32d

Registers a new provable contract for repetition penalty
(`repeat_penalty` + `repeat_last_n`) on the qwen3_moe inference path.
Completes the 3-knob toolkit alongside:

- qwen3-moe-sampling-v1 (#1837 contract + #1842 impl) — temperature/top_k/top_p
- qwen3-moe-streaming-sse-v1 (#1835) — per-token SSE streaming
- qwen3-moe-repetition-penalty-v1 (this PR) — repeat_penalty / repeat_last_n

## Motivation

`QuantizedGenerateConfig` has `repeat_penalty` (f32) + `repeat_last_n`
(usize) fields. The dense path's `sample_advanced` applies them. The
qwen3_moe path's new `sample_from_logits` (added by #1842) does NOT.

Empirical observation from M287 evidence: Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B is
generating REPEATED restatements in its turn-1 output (same Rust
snippet 3× in fixture leetcode__01-two-sum). Repetition penalty
(typically 1.1-1.3) would down-weight recently-generated tokens,
breaking the textual loop and forcing the model to either commit to
a tool call or change tactics.

## Falsification gates

- V1_001: `repeat_penalty == 1.0` is a no-op (backwards compat)
- V1_002: `repeat_penalty > 1.0` down-weights repeated tokens
- V1_003: `repeat_last_n` bounds the window correctly
- V1_004: companion-side bench with penalty produces a measurably
  different outcome distribution than the greedy baseline

## Implementation phases (engineer playbook)

- Phase 1 (~1hr): extend `sample_from_logits` signature with
  `recent_tokens: &[u32]` parameter; apply penalty as Step 1
- Phase 2 (~30min): plumb `&tokens` through decode loop
- Phase 3 (~2hr): unit tests + companion-side bench env-var plumbing

Total ~3-4 hours; operator-actionable any time post-M32d-merge.

## NOT in scope

- Mirostat / DRY / other penalty schemes
- Per-token logit biases
- Dynamic per-position penalty
- Companion-side bench env-var plumbing (separate companion PR;
  this contract is aprender-side only)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: qwen3-moe-repetition-penalty-v1 implementation (V1_001-V1_003 discharged)

Implements the qwen3-moe-repetition-penalty-v1 contract. Bumps the
contract v1.0.0 → v1.1.0 with status_history. Supersedes #1843
(which was contract-only).

## Implementation

`crates/aprender-serve/src/infer/qwen3_moe_generate.rs`:

- `sample_from_logits` signature extended with `recent_tokens: &[u32]`
  parameter
- Repetition penalty applied as **Step 1** (BEFORE temperature scaling)
- Mirrors Candle's `apply_repeat_penalty` semantics (PMAT-383/384,
  dense path's `sample_advanced` in `gguf/inference/fails.rs:100`):
  - For positive logits: `logits[idx] /= repeat_penalty`
  - For negative logits: `logits[idx] *= repeat_penalty`
- Window: last `repeat_last_n` tokens from `recent_tokens`
- No-op when `repeat_penalty == 1.0` OR `repeat_last_n == 0`
- Decode loop passes `&tokens` slice (cheap borrow; no allocation per token)

## Test results

12/12 tests pass in `cargo test sample_from_logits_tests`:

- 4 original sampling tests (V1_001 greedy fallback, V1_002 seeded RNG,
  V1_003 seed divergence, V1_004 top_k=1 forces greedy)
- 5 NEW rep-penalty tests:
  - V1_001a: repeat_penalty=1.0 no-op
  - V1_001b: repeat_last_n=0 no-op
  - V1_002a: positive-logit branch (division)
  - V1_002b: negative-logit branch (multiplication; Candle convention)
  - V1_003: repeat_last_n window bounds (n=0/n=2/n=8 different effects)
- 3 edge cases (empty logits error, top_p=1 no-op, signature
  compatibility)

## V1_004 (operator-coordinated bench discharge)

Operator can dispatch companion-side bench with
APR_AGENT_REPEAT_PENALTY=1.2 + APR_AGENT_REPEAT_LAST_N=64 once
companion-side env-var plumbing (Phase 3 of #1843) lands. Bench
script + analyzer already pass through `gen_config` to
`run_qwen3_moe_generate` — this PR makes that pass-through actually
apply repetition penalty.

## Stacked on

#1842 (qwen3-moe-sampling-v1 implementation; the
`sample_from_logits` helper this PR extends).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
noahgift added a commit that referenced this pull request May 20, 2026
…(all 4 falsifiers discharged) (#1842)

* test(distill): fixture-driven integration tests for ShardBatchSource (F-DISTILL-SHARD-BATCH-001/002)

Closes the cross-component contract gap that the Blackwell cascade
post-mortem (lesson #2) identified: cache machinery is silent on
divergences between producer and consumer, until live dispatch
surfaces the failure. Same risk class for ShardBatchSource: its
wrap-around / cursor / chunk semantics need fixture-driven verification.

Adds two tests gated on `shard-batch-source` feature:

  F-DISTILL-SHARD-BATCH-001 — happy path
    Writes a tiny .bin shard with [0, 1, ..., 4095] tokens, opens via
    ShardBatchSource::from_dir, asserts:
      - batch shape (4 rows × 16 tokens)
      - all returned tokens lie in [0, 4096) (fixture range)
      - labels in same range
    Catches: any cursor-off-by-one or layout swap that produces
    garbage outside the fixture range.

  F-DISTILL-SHARD-BATCH-002 — wrap-around
    Writes only 128 tokens (enough for ~1.88 batches at bs=4, seq=16),
    consumes 5 batches in a row. Asserts no error — wrap_around=true is
    the default for ShardBatchSource. Catches: regression where the
    iterator returns None on exhaustion despite the constructor
    setting wrap_around.

Test plan:
- [x] 63 distill lib tests pass (was 61; 2 new)
- [x] `cargo test --features shard-batch-source` clean

These two tests would have caught most ShardBatchSource bugs at PR-time
instead of at gx10-dispatch-time, where each failure costs 5-15min.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: qwen3-moe-sampling-v1 implementation — temperature/top_k/top_p

Implements the qwen3-moe-sampling-v1 contract (#1837;
v1.0.0 → v1.1.0). Discharges ALL 4 falsifiers via in-session work +
empirical validation against Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.

## Empirical results

4-test battery (19.28s total wall):

- V1_001 (greedy determinism): 3 runs returned identical
  [9707, 198, 40, 614, 264, 3405] ("I have a question")
- V1_002 (seeded RNG reproducibility): 2 runs seed=42 temp=0.7
  returned identical [9707, 198, 40, 1079, 264, 220]
- V1_003 (seed divergence): seed=42 vs seed=43 produced
  totally different generated tokens
- V1_004 (top_k=1 forces greedy regardless of temperature):
  byte-identical to pure greedy output

## Implementation

`crates/aprender-serve/src/infer/qwen3_moe_generate.rs`:
- New private `sample_from_logits(logits, config, rng) -> Result<u32>`
- Pipeline mirrors the dense `Self::sample_advanced` (in
  `gguf/inference/fails.rs:100`): temperature scale → top_k filter
  → top_p filter → multinomial draw
- Greedy fallback when `temperature == 0` OR `top_k == 1`
- Uses `rand::rngs::StdRng` (ChaCha12; seedable from u64) for
  reproducibility. NOT `rand::thread_rng()` like the dense path
  (intentional — V1_002 requires deterministic re-runs from same seed)
- Decode loop seeds the RNG from `QuantizedGenerateConfig.seed`

New test: `crates/aprender-serve/tests/qwen3_moe_sampling_v1.rs` —
4 falsifier tests, env-gated on QWEN3_MOE_GGUF_PATH (mirrors the
existing qwen3_moe_serve_dispatch_v1 + moe_kv_cache_equivalence tests).

## NOT in scope

- Repetition penalty (separate contract qwen3-moe-repetition-penalty-v1;
  still pending operator authorization)
- Mirostat / logit bias / streaming (separate concerns)

## Companion-side downstream

The V1_004 bench (paiml/claude-code-parity-apr Phase 6) is hitting
900s per-turn timeout because the 30B-MoE is verbose under greedy
decoding. With sampling shipped, operator can dispatch a follow-up
bench with `temperature=0.3` (or similar) which may concentrate
probability mass on action tokens and reduce rambling. The bench
script + analyzer already pass temperature through `gen_config` to
`run_qwen3_moe_generate` — this PR makes that pass-through actually
take effect.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(qwen3-moe-sampling-v1): add CI-runnable unit tests (no GGUF needed)

Complements the env-gated integration tests in
`crates/aprender-serve/tests/qwen3_moe_sampling_v1.rs` (which require
a real Qwen3-MoE GGUF) with pure-Rust unit tests against synthetic
logits arrays. These run unconditionally in CI and pin all 4
falsifiers as runnable gates without requiring `QWEN3_MOE_GGUF_PATH`.

7 tests total in `sample_from_logits_tests`:

- v1_001_temperature_zero_is_argmax_deterministic — greedy fallback
  via temperature == 0
- v1_001_top_k_one_is_argmax_deterministic — greedy fallback via
  top_k == 1 (independent path)
- v1_002_seeded_rng_is_reproducible — seed=42 produces same token
  across 5 invocations
- v1_003_different_seeds_diverge — 32 seeds produce ≥ 3 distinct
  tokens (statistical bound)
- v1_004_top_k_one_equals_pure_greedy — top_k=1 with high temp
  byte-identical to pure greedy
- empty_logits_returns_error — edge case, no panic
- top_p_one_is_no_op — edge case, top_p=1.0 equivalent to top_p
  sentinel-off path

Empirical:
```
cargo test -p aprender-serve --lib sample_from_logits_tests --features cuda
test result: ok. 7 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured;
16890 filtered out; finished in 0.00s
```

CI gates the sampling invariants at every PR going forward.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: qwen3-moe-repetition-penalty-v1 implementation (V1_001-V1_003 discharged; supersedes #1843) (#1844)

* spec: qwen3-moe-repetition-penalty-v1 — third 3-knob follow-up to M32d

Registers a new provable contract for repetition penalty
(`repeat_penalty` + `repeat_last_n`) on the qwen3_moe inference path.
Completes the 3-knob toolkit alongside:

- qwen3-moe-sampling-v1 (#1837 contract + #1842 impl) — temperature/top_k/top_p
- qwen3-moe-streaming-sse-v1 (#1835) — per-token SSE streaming
- qwen3-moe-repetition-penalty-v1 (this PR) — repeat_penalty / repeat_last_n

## Motivation

`QuantizedGenerateConfig` has `repeat_penalty` (f32) + `repeat_last_n`
(usize) fields. The dense path's `sample_advanced` applies them. The
qwen3_moe path's new `sample_from_logits` (added by #1842) does NOT.

Empirical observation from M287 evidence: Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B is
generating REPEATED restatements in its turn-1 output (same Rust
snippet 3× in fixture leetcode__01-two-sum). Repetition penalty
(typically 1.1-1.3) would down-weight recently-generated tokens,
breaking the textual loop and forcing the model to either commit to
a tool call or change tactics.

## Falsification gates

- V1_001: `repeat_penalty == 1.0` is a no-op (backwards compat)
- V1_002: `repeat_penalty > 1.0` down-weights repeated tokens
- V1_003: `repeat_last_n` bounds the window correctly
- V1_004: companion-side bench with penalty produces a measurably
  different outcome distribution than the greedy baseline

## Implementation phases (engineer playbook)

- Phase 1 (~1hr): extend `sample_from_logits` signature with
  `recent_tokens: &[u32]` parameter; apply penalty as Step 1
- Phase 2 (~30min): plumb `&tokens` through decode loop
- Phase 3 (~2hr): unit tests + companion-side bench env-var plumbing

Total ~3-4 hours; operator-actionable any time post-M32d-merge.

## NOT in scope

- Mirostat / DRY / other penalty schemes
- Per-token logit biases
- Dynamic per-position penalty
- Companion-side bench env-var plumbing (separate companion PR;
  this contract is aprender-side only)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: qwen3-moe-repetition-penalty-v1 implementation (V1_001-V1_003 discharged)

Implements the qwen3-moe-repetition-penalty-v1 contract. Bumps the
contract v1.0.0 → v1.1.0 with status_history. Supersedes #1843
(which was contract-only).

## Implementation

`crates/aprender-serve/src/infer/qwen3_moe_generate.rs`:

- `sample_from_logits` signature extended with `recent_tokens: &[u32]`
  parameter
- Repetition penalty applied as **Step 1** (BEFORE temperature scaling)
- Mirrors Candle's `apply_repeat_penalty` semantics (PMAT-383/384,
  dense path's `sample_advanced` in `gguf/inference/fails.rs:100`):
  - For positive logits: `logits[idx] /= repeat_penalty`
  - For negative logits: `logits[idx] *= repeat_penalty`
- Window: last `repeat_last_n` tokens from `recent_tokens`
- No-op when `repeat_penalty == 1.0` OR `repeat_last_n == 0`
- Decode loop passes `&tokens` slice (cheap borrow; no allocation per token)

## Test results

12/12 tests pass in `cargo test sample_from_logits_tests`:

- 4 original sampling tests (V1_001 greedy fallback, V1_002 seeded RNG,
  V1_003 seed divergence, V1_004 top_k=1 forces greedy)
- 5 NEW rep-penalty tests:
  - V1_001a: repeat_penalty=1.0 no-op
  - V1_001b: repeat_last_n=0 no-op
  - V1_002a: positive-logit branch (division)
  - V1_002b: negative-logit branch (multiplication; Candle convention)
  - V1_003: repeat_last_n window bounds (n=0/n=2/n=8 different effects)
- 3 edge cases (empty logits error, top_p=1 no-op, signature
  compatibility)

## V1_004 (operator-coordinated bench discharge)

Operator can dispatch companion-side bench with
APR_AGENT_REPEAT_PENALTY=1.2 + APR_AGENT_REPEAT_LAST_N=64 once
companion-side env-var plumbing (Phase 3 of #1843) lands. Bench
script + analyzer already pass through `gen_config` to
`run_qwen3_moe_generate` — this PR makes that pass-through actually
apply repetition penalty.

## Stacked on

#1842 (qwen3-moe-sampling-v1 implementation; the
`sample_from_logits` helper this PR extends).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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