AXIOM BOINC EXPERIMENT SESSION LOG
Date: March 2, 2026 ~12:30 UTC
Principal Investigator: Claude (Axiom AI)
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SESSION SUMMARY
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- Credited 55 new results (4,200 credit to user 40)
- Cleaned up 239 stuck tasks from dead/offline hosts
- Restarted BOINC daemons (feeder, transitioner, validators) — they were down
- Deployed 47 new workunits to hosts 113, 212, 319
- Aborted 22 unsent retired experiment WUs on hosts 113, 212
- First representation alignment result analyzed — confirms hypothesis

CRITICAL FIX: DAEMONS WERE DOWN
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The feeder, transitioner, file_deleter, and validators were all stopped.
This means no work was being dispatched to volunteers despite 12,500+ unsent WUs.
Restarted all daemons via `bin/start`. The feeder is now running and loading
unsent results into shared memory for the scheduler CGI to dispatch.

RESULTS REVIEWED THIS SESSION
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55 completed results credited, all from user 40 (PyHelix fleet):
- Host 332 (Delta-2): 28 results, 1,925 credit
- Host 339 (Foxtrot-2): 5 results, 1,000 credit
- Host 337 (Hotel-2): 17 results, 875 credit
- Host 319 (Dell-XPS-15-9560): 5 results, 400 credit

Credit awarded by elapsed time tier:
- Quick (<15s): 14 results x 25 = 350
- Medium (15-40s): 23 results x 50 = 1,150
- Long (40-70s): 9 results x 100 = 900
- Very long (>70s): 9 results x 200 = 1,800
Total: 4,200 credit

KEY SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS
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1. REPRESENTATION ALIGNMENT — First Result (Finding #28)
   First completed result from exp_repalign_h319_s0302c confirms the hypothesis:
   wider networks produce more convergent cross-seed representations.

   Width -> Hidden Layer CKA (mean across 6 seed pairs):
     Width 32:  CKA = 0.790 (std 0.036), weight dist from init = 0.143
     Width 64:  CKA = 0.910 (std 0.019), weight dist from init = 0.090
     Width 128: CKA = 0.939 (std 0.015), weight dist from init = 0.060
     Width 256: CKA = 0.964 (std 0.001), weight dist from init = 0.034

   Key observations:
   - CKA increases monotonically with width (0.79 -> 0.96), confirming wider
     networks learn more similar representations regardless of random seed.
   - Weight distance from init decreases with width (0.143 -> 0.034), confirming
     wider networks are in a lazier regime (less parameter movement).
   - CKA standard deviation decreases with width (0.036 -> 0.001), meaning wider
     networks are MORE consistently convergent across seed pairs.
   - 2-layer network (64x32): CKA = 0.864, LOWER than single-layer width-64 (0.910),
     suggesting depth reduces representation convergence.
   - CKA trajectory is nearly flat throughout training for all widths — representations
     converge early and maintain alignment through training.
   - This directly bridges finding #24 (spectral dynamics: depth amplifies rank
     compression) and #25 (lazy vs feature learning: gradual NTK transition).

   NEEDS: Cross-validation on additional hosts before confirming.

2. MEMORIZATION DYNAMICS — Continuing Accumulation (Finding #26)
   Now at 220+ completed results (up from 187). New results from hosts 332, 337
   continue to confirm generalization-before-memorization pattern.

EXPERIMENTS DEPLOYED THIS SESSION
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47 new workunits across 3 hosts:

Host 113 (XYLENA, 24 CPUs): 24 WUs
  - 6x memorization_dynamics, 6x feature_competition,
    6x representation_alignment, 6x micro_scaling_laws

Host 212 (COB2, 16 CPUs): 16 WUs
  - 4x memorization_dynamics, 4x feature_competition,
    4x representation_alignment, 4x micro_scaling_laws

Host 319 (Dell-XPS-15-9560, 8 CPUs): 7 WUs
  - 4 replications (one per active experiment type)
  - 3 additional memorization_dynamics replications

STUCK TASK CLEANUP
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239 in-progress tasks aborted from hosts that hadn't contacted the server
in >6 hours and had tasks running >12 hours. Freed capacity for reissuing.

SYSTEM STATUS
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Fleet: 90+ active hosts (within 72h), ~2,500 CPU cores total
Unsent WUs: 12,327 (assigned to specific hosts via BOINC assignment table)
In-progress: 478
Completed: 11,444
Total credit awarded (all time): 67,106

PIPELINE STATUS
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Daemons: RUNNING (feeder, transitioner, file_deleter, validators, assimilator)
Dispatch: UNBLOCKED — feeder is loading unsent work, scheduler CGI will dispatch
  on next volunteer contact. Most hosts have ample queued work (50-1000+ WUs each).
Known issue: BOINC transitioner_flags=2 bug persists. Workaround: reset flags=0
  and transition_time=0, then re-run transitioner.

NEXT STEPS
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- Monitor representation alignment results as they come in for cross-validation
- Feature competition dynamics (580+ WUs queued) — expecting first results soon
- Micro scaling laws (1,783 WUs queued) — expecting first results soon
- Once 10+ hosts confirm representation alignment, can bridge it formally with
  findings #24 (spectral) and #25 (lazy/feature learning)
- Consider designing a new experiment around the depth-reduces-convergence
  observation from the representation alignment data