From 898b52edcb47bcb3e9d6106e74ca73e74ea01e70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sillylaird Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 00:33:59 +0000 Subject: import live www.sillylaird.ca webroot --- .../examples/example-results-report.md | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .agents/skills/results-report/examples/example-results-report.md (limited to '.agents/skills/results-report/examples/example-results-report.md') diff --git a/.agents/skills/results-report/examples/example-results-report.md b/.agents/skills/results-report/examples/example-results-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..603bf59 --- /dev/null +++ b/.agents/skills/results-report/examples/example-results-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +--- +type: results-report +date: 2026-03-18 +experiment_line: freezing +round: 3 +purpose: transfer-summary +status: active +source_artifacts: + - analysis-output/analysis-report.md + - analysis-output/stats-appendix.md + - analysis-output/figure-catalog.md +linked_experiments: + - Experiments/Freezing-vs-Adapter.md +linked_results: + - Results/Adapter-Improves-Transfer.md +--- + +# Freezing / Round 3 / transfer-summary / 2026-03-18 + +## Executive Summary +- Round 3 tested whether a subject adapter recovers the performance lost by freezing most of the encoder. +- Across 5 seeds per condition, the adapter reduced mean WER by **3.8 absolute points** relative to the frozen encoder baseline. +- The current evidence supports keeping the adapter branch active, while pure freezing should be deprioritized. + +## Experiment Identity and Decision Context +- Experiment line: freezing +- Round: 3 +- Purpose: resolve whether the freezing gap is best handled by lightweight adaptation or by abandoning the freezing branch. +- Decision pressure: choose the next transfer branch before scheduling the next low-resource run block. + +## Setup and Evaluation Protocol +- Same subject pool and split as rounds 1-2. +- 5 seeds per condition. +- Primary metric: WER (lower is better). +- Compared methods: Full fine-tuning, Subject Adapter, Frozen Encoder. +- Statistical unit: seed-level final WER. + +## Main Findings +- Subject Adapter: **27.6 ± 1.0 WER**, 95% CI **[26.4, 28.8]**. +- Frozen Encoder: **31.4 ± 1.5 WER**, 95% CI **[29.6, 33.2]**. +- Full fine-tuning: **25.9 ± 0.8 WER**, 95% CI **[24.9, 26.9]**. +- Adapter beats Frozen Encoder in all 5 paired seed comparisons. + +## Statistical Validation +- Adapter vs Frozen Encoder: paired Wilcoxon signed-rank test, **p = 0.031**, Holm-corrected **p = 0.047**, matched-rank biserial effect size **r = 0.90**. +- Full fine-tuning vs Adapter: paired t-test, **p = 0.11**, Cohen's **d = 0.64**. +- Interpretation: the adapter gain over pure freezing is supported at current `n = 5`; the gap to full fine-tuning is directionally consistent but still underpowered. +- Unsupported claim boundary: this report does **not** claim generalization beyond the current subject pool or low-resource regime. + +## Figure-by-Figure Interpretation +### Figure 1 — Main comparison +- Why included: this is the core decision figure. +- Evidence carried in: mean WER, 95% CI, and paired-seed comparisons. +- Supported interpretation: lightweight subject adaptation closes most of the freezing gap. +- Decision implication: future transfer experiments should center on adapter design, not frozen-only variants. + +### Figure 2 — Training dynamics +- Why included: to explain stability differences. +- Evidence carried in: per-epoch validation traces across seeds. +- Supported interpretation: the frozen baseline oscillates more after epoch 8, matching its wider uncertainty interval. +- Decision implication: branch weakness is not only lower final accuracy but also worse optimization stability. + +## Failure Cases / Negative Results / Limitations +- Full fine-tuning still leads in absolute WER. +- The evidence is limited to one subject pool and 5 seeds. +- No low-resource stress test or out-of-domain subject split has been run yet. +- Adapter width was fixed in this round, so capacity trade-offs remain unresolved. + +## What Changed Our Belief +- Before round 3, it was plausible that freezing should be abandoned entirely. +- After round 3, the better hypothesis is that freezing alone is too rigid, but freezing plus lightweight adaptation remains viable. + +## Next Actions +- Run one low-resource robustness check for the adapter branch. +- Add a width ablation around the current best adapter size. +- Update the canonical result note for adapter-improves-transfer. + +## Artifact and Reproducibility Index +- `analysis-output/analysis-report.md` +- `analysis-output/stats-appendix.md` +- `analysis-output/figure-catalog.md` +- `analysis-output/figures/figure-01-main-comparison.pdf` +- `analysis-output/figures/figure-02-training-dynamics.pdf` -- cgit v1.2.3