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Task: optimization-pac-bayes-bound

Task: PAC-Bayes Generalization Bound Optimization

Research Question

Design a tighter PAC-Bayes generalization bound by optimizing the bound formulation, prior/posterior parameterization, and KL divergence estimation for stochastic neural networks.

Background

PAC-Bayes theory provides non-vacuous generalization bounds for stochastic classifiers. Given a prior distribution P over hypotheses (chosen before seeing data) and a posterior Q (learned from data), PAC-Bayes bounds certify that with high probability (1-delta), the true risk of a stochastic classifier sampled from Q is bounded.

The key components of a PAC-Bayes bound are:

Empirical risk: estimated loss of the stochastic predictor on training data
KL divergence: KL(Q||P) measuring complexity of the posterior relative to the prior
Bound formula: how these terms combine to yield the final certificate

Standard bounds include:

McAllester/Maurer: risk + sqrt(KL_term / (2n)) -- simple but loose
Catoni/Lambda: risk/(1-lam/2) + KL_term/(nlam(1-lam/2)) -- tighter with tuned lambda
Quadratic: (sqrt(risk + KL_term) + sqrt(KL_term))^2 -- better at low risk

The bound can be further tightened through:

Optimizing the bound functional form (beyond classical inequalities)
Better training objectives that minimize the bound directly
Improved risk certificate evaluation (e.g., PAC-Bayes-kl inversion)
Data-dependent prior construction
Tighter KL estimation or alternative divergence measures

What to Implement

Implement the BoundOptimizer class in custom_pac_bayes.py. You must implement:

compute_bound(empirical_risk, kl, n, delta): The PAC-Bayes bound formula
train_step(model, data, target, device, n_bound, delta): Training objective
compute_risk_certificate(model, bound_loader, device, delta, mc_samples): Final certificate evaluation

Interface

model(x, sample=True/False): stochastic forward pass (sample=True) or posterior mean (sample=False)
get_total_kl(model): sum of KL divergence across all probabilistic layers
inv_kl(q, c): binary KL inversion -- find p such that KL(Ber(q)||Ber(p)) = c
compute_01_risk(model, loader, device, mc_samples): MC estimate of 0-1 risk
Available losses: F.nll_loss, F.cross_entropy on log_softmax outputs

Evaluation

The bound optimizer is tested on three settings:

MNIST-FCN: 4-layer fully connected network (784-600-600-600-10) on MNIST
MNIST-CNN: 4-layer CNN (2 conv + 2 fc) on MNIST
FashionMNIST-CNN: Same CNN architecture on FashionMNIST

Primary metric: risk_certificate (0-1 loss PAC-Bayes bound) -- lower is better (tighter bound).

Training uses data-dependent priors: 50% of training data trains a deterministic prior, 50% evaluates the bound.

Hints

The PAC-Bayes-kl bound (Langford-Seeger) is often tighter than closed-form alternatives for certificate evaluation
The training objective need not be the sa

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3  "filename": "PBB/custom_pac_bayes.py",
4  "content": "class BoundOptimizer:\n    \"\"\"Consensus- and second-moment-aware PAC-Bayes optimizer.\n\n    Main ideas:\n    1. Train on a differentiable inverse-kl objective instead of the looser\n       McAllester square-root form.\n    2. Replace single-sample NLL with a two-sample consensus surrogate built\n       from the posterior predictive average, which is better aligned with the\n       final majority-vote certificate.\n    3. Add a second-moment (tandem-error) PAC-Bayes term. For a majority vote,\n       if the wrong-vote fraction is at least 1/2, then 1{error} <= 4 * wrong^2.\n       This yields a multiclass certificate based on the squared Gibbs loss.\n    \"\"\"\n\n    def __init__(self, learning_rate=0.001, momentum=0.95, prior_sigma=0.1,\n                 pmin=1e-5):\n        self.learning_rate = learning_rate\n        self.momentum = momentum\n        self.prior_sigma = prior_sigma\n        self.pmin = pmin\n\n        # Hard-coded algorithmic hyperparameters.\n        self.train_mc_samples = 2\n        self.margin_temperature = 0.25\n        self.direct_weight = 0.75\n        self.tandem_weight = 0.25\n\n        # Confidence split for taking the minimum of multiple certificates.\n        self.direct_delta_frac = 0.90\n        self.gibbs_delta_frac = 0.05\n        self.tandem_delta_frac = 0.05\n\n        self._eps = 1e-6\n        self._nll_scale = max(-math.log(self.pmin), 1.0)\n\n    def _loss_to_unit_interval(self, empirical_risk):\n        \"\"\"Map a generic surrogate to [0, 1].\n\n        Training passes already-bounded surrogates. For diagnostic metrics such\n        as NLL, we use the monotone transform 1 - exp(-loss), which corresponds\n        to a Bernoulli-style bounded proxy.\n        \"\"\"\n        if not torch.is_tensor(empirical_risk):\n            empirical_risk = torch.tensor(float(empirical_risk))\n        risk = torch.clamp(empirical_risk, min=0.0)\n        risk = torch.where(risk <= 1.0, risk, 1.0 - torch.exp(-risk))\n        return torch.clamp(risk, min=0.0, max=1.0 - self._eps)\n\n    def _kl_bernoulli_torch(self, q, p):\n        q = torch.clamp(q, self._eps, 1.0 - self._eps)\n        p = torch.clamp(p, q + self._eps, 1.0 - self._eps)\n        return q * torch.log(q / p) + (1.0 - q) * torch.log((1.0 - q) / (1.0 - p))\n\n    def _inv_kl_torch(self, q, c, iters=6):\n        \"\"\"Differentiable inverse-kl using quadratic warm start + Newton steps.\"\"\"\n        q = torch.clamp(q, self._eps, 1.0 - self._eps)\n        c = torch.clamp(c, min=0.0)\n\n        half_c = 0.5 * c\n        warm = (\n            torch.sqrt(torch.clamp(q + half_c, min=self._eps))\n            + torch.sqrt(torch.clamp(half_c, min=0.0) + self._eps)\n        ) ** 2\n        p = torch.clamp(warm, min=q + self._eps, max=1.0 - self._eps)\n\n        for _ in range(iters):\n            f = self._kl_bernoulli_torch(q, p) - c\n            df = (p - q) / torch.clamp(p * (1.0 - p), min=self._eps)\n            step = f / torch.clamp(df, min=self._eps)\n            p = torch.clamp(p - step, min=q + self._eps, max=1.0 - self._eps)\n\n        return torch.clamp(p, min=0.0, max=1.0)\n\n    def compute_bound(self, empirical_risk, kl, n, delta):\n        \"\"\"Exact-ish PAC-Bayes-kl inversion on a bounded surrogate.\n\n        Compared with the McAllester square-root form, directly optimizing an\n        inverse-kl approximation is typically tighter, especially at low risk.\n        \"\"\"\n        q = self._loss_to_unit_interval(empirical_risk)\n        if not torch.is_tensor(kl):\n            kl = torch.tensor(float(kl), device=q.device, dtype=q.dtype)\n        else:\n            kl = kl.to(device=q.device, dtype=q.dtype)\n        c = (kl + math.log(2.0 * math.sqrt(n) / delta)) / float(n)\n        return self._inv_kl_torch(q, c)\n\n    def train_step(self, model, data, target, device, n_bound, delta):\n        \"\"\"Optimize a consensus PAC-Bayes objective aligned with majority vote.\n\n        We average predictions from two posterior samples, then minimize an\n        inverse-kl bound on a bounded consensus surrogate. A second-moment term\n        penalizes tandem errors, encouraging concentrated posterior votes.\n        \"\"\"\n        probs_list = []\n        for _ in range(self.train_mc_samples):\n            logits = model(data, sample=True)\n            probs_list.append(F.softmax(logits, dim=1))\n\n        probs_stack = torch.stack(probs_list, dim=0)\n        avg_probs = probs_stack.mean(dim=0)\n\n        batch_idx = torch.arange(target.size(0), device=device)\n        true_prob_avg = avg_probs[batch_idx, target]\n\n        other_probs = avg_probs.clone()\n        other_probs[batch_idx, target] = 0.0\n        max_other_prob = other_probs.max(dim=1).values\n\n        # Majority-vote-aligned bounded surrogate.\n        soft_error = 1.0 - true_prob_avg\n        margin_surrogate = torch.sigmoid(\n            (max_other_prob - true_prob_avg) / self.margin_temperature\n        )\n        log_avg_probs = torch.log(avg_probs.clamp(min=self.pmin))\n        ensemble_nll = F.nll_loss(log_avg_probs, target) / self._nll_scale\n\n        proxy_risk = torch.clamp(\n            0.50 * soft_error.mean()\n            + 0.30 * margin_surrogate.mean()\n            + 0.20 * ensemble_nll,\n            min=0.0,\n            max=1.0,\n        )\n\n        # Second-moment proxy: soft tandem error from two independent samples.\n        true_prob_1 = probs_stack[0, batch_idx, target]\n        true_prob_2 = probs_stack[1, batch_idx, target]\n        tandem_proxy = torch.clamp(\n            ((1.0 - true_prob_1) * (1.0 - true_prob_2)).mean(),\n            min=0.0,\n            max=1.0,\n        )\n\n        kl = get_total_kl(model)\n        direct_obj = self.compute_bound(proxy_risk, kl, n_bound, delta)\n        tandem_obj = 4.0 * self.compute_bound(tandem_proxy, 2.0 * kl, n_bound, delta)\n        tandem_obj = torch.clamp(tandem_obj, max=1.0)\n\n        return self.direct_weight * direct_obj + self.tandem_weight * tandem_obj\n\n    def compute_risk_certificate(self, model, bound_loader, device, delta=0.025,\n                                 mc_samples=1000):\n        \"\"\"Evaluate multiple PAC-Bayes certificates and keep the tightest one.\n\n        Certificates:\n        - direct majority-vote kl inversion (baseline-style)\n        - Gibbs-to-majority conversion: R_MV <= 2 R_G\n        - second-moment tandem certificate: R_MV <= 4 E[(1{h wrong})^2]\n\n        The last certificate is the main novel component: it leverages vote\n        concentration and is especially useful when posterior samples agree.\n        \"\"\"\n        model.eval()\n        n_bound = len(bound_loader.dataset)\n\n        total_wrong = 0\n        total_nll = 0.0\n        total_samples = 0\n        total_gibbs_risk = 0.0\n        total_tandem_risk = 0.0\n\n        with torch.no_grad():\n            for data, target in bound_loader:\n                data, target = data.to(device), target.to(device)\n                batch_size = data.size(0)\n                votes = torch.zeros(batch_size, 10, device=device)\n                probs_sum = torch.zeros(batch_size, 10, device=device)\n\n                for _ in range(mc_samples):\n                    logits = model(data, sample=True)\n                    probs = F.softmax(logits, dim=1)\n                    preds = logits.argmax(dim=1)\n                    votes.scatter_add_(1, preds.unsqueeze(1),\n                                       torch.ones(batch_size, 1, device=device))\n                    probs_sum += probs\n\n                avg_probs = probs_sum / float(mc_samples)\n                total_nll += F.nll_loss(\n                    torch.log(avg_probs.clamp(min=self.pmin)),\n                    target,\n                    reduction=\"sum\",\n                ).item()\n\n                correct_vote_frac = votes.gather(1, target.unsqueeze(1)).squeeze(1)\n                correct_vote_frac = correct_vote_frac / float(mc_samples)\n                wrong_vote_frac = 1.0 - correct_vote_frac\n\n                final_preds = votes.argmax(dim=1)\n                total_wrong += (final_preds != target).sum().item()\n                total_samples += batch_size\n                total_gibbs_risk += wrong_vote_frac.sum().item()\n                total_tandem_risk += (wrong_vote_frac ** 2).sum().item()\n\n        emp_risk_01 = total_wrong / total_samples\n        emp_nll = total_nll / total_samples\n        emp_gibbs_risk = total_gibbs_risk / total_samples\n        emp_tandem_risk = total_tandem_risk / total_samples\n\n        with torch.no_grad():\n            dummy_data = next(iter(bound_loader))[0][:1].to(device)\n            model(dummy_data, sample=True)\n            kl = get_total_kl(model).item()\n\n        delta_direct = max(delta * self.direct_delta_frac, 1e-12)\n        delta_gibbs = max(delta * self.gibbs_delta_frac, 1e-12)\n        delta_tandem = max(delta * self.tandem_delta_frac, 1e-12)\n\n        c_direct = (kl + math.log(2.0 * math.sqrt(n_bound) / delta_direct)) / n_bound\n        risk_cert_direct = inv_kl(emp_risk_01, c_direct)\n\n        c_gibbs = (kl + math.log(2.0 * math.sqrt(n_bound) / delta_gibbs)) / n_bound\n        risk_cert_gibbs = min(1.0, 2.0 * inv_kl(emp_gibbs_risk, c_gibbs))\n\n        c_tandem = (2.0 * kl + math.log(2.0 * math.sqrt(n_bound) / delta_tandem)) / n_bound\n        risk_cert_tandem = min(1.0, 4.0 * inv_kl(emp_tandem_risk, c_tandem))\n\n        risk_cert_01 = min(risk_cert_direct, risk_cert_gibbs, risk_cert_tandem)\n\n        emp_nll_t = torch.tensor(emp_nll)\n        kl_t = torch.tensor(kl)\n        ce_bound = self.compute_bound(emp_nll_t, kl_t, n_bound, delta).item()\n\n        metrics = {\n            \"empirical_01_risk\": emp_risk_01,\n            \"empirical_nll\": emp_nll,\n            \"empirical_gibbs_risk\": emp_gibbs_risk,\n            \"empirical_tandem_risk\": emp_tandem_risk,\n            \"kl_divergence\": kl,\n            \"ce_bound\": ce_bound,\n            \"risk_cert_direct\": risk_cert_direct,\n            \"risk_cert_gibbs\": risk_cert_gibbs,\n            \"risk_cert_tandem\": risk_cert_tandem,\n        }\n\n        return risk_cert_01, metrics",
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   457| # ================================================================
   458| 
   459| 
   460  class BoundOptimizer:
   461      """Consensus- and second-moment-aware PAC-Bayes optimizer.
   462  
   463      Main ideas:
   464      1. Train on a differentiable inverse-kl objective instead of the looser
   465         McAllester square-root form.
   466      2. Replace single-sample NLL with a two-sample consensus surrogate built
   467         from the posterior predictive average, which is better aligned with the
   468         final majority-vote certificate.
   469      3. Add a second-moment (tandem-error) PAC-Bayes term. For a majority vote,
   470         if the wrong-vote fraction is at least 1/2, then 1{error} <= 4 * wrong^2.
   471         This yields a multiclass certificate based on the square

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### mnist-fcn (scripts/mnist_fcn.sh)
Training progress (last 5 steps):
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=5 loss=0.061557 accuracy=0.9810
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=10 loss=0.010002 accuracy=0.9971

### mnist-cnn (scripts/mnist_cnn.sh)
Training progress (last 5 steps):
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=5 loss=0.035216 accuracy=0.9888
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=10 loss=0.004570 accuracy=0.9989

### fmnist-cnn (scripts/fmnist_cnn.sh)
Training progress (last 5 steps):
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=5 loss=0.257176 accuracy=0.9047
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=10 loss=0.172643 accuracy=0.9365

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4  "content": "class BoundOptimizer:\n    \"\"\"Tempered ensemble-margin PAC-Bayes optimizer.\n\n    Main ideas:\n    1. Train with a bounded surrogate aligned with majority-vote error:\n       combine soft classification error and a smooth margin loss.\n    2. Penalize disagreement between a stochastic draw and the posterior mean\n       predictor so the learned posterior stays compression-friendly.\n    3. At evaluation, search a fixed tempering path from posterior to prior and\n       pick the certificate-optimal tempered posterior.\n    \"\"\"\n\n    def __init__(self, learning_rate=0.001, momentum=0.95, prior_sigma=0.1,\n                 pmin=1e-5):\n        self.learning_rate = learning_rate\n        self.momentum = momentum\n        self.prior_sigma = prior_sigma\n        self.pmin = pmin\n\n        # Hard-coded algorithmic hyperparameters.\n        self.margin_scale = 2.5\n        self.disagreement_weight = 0.10\n        self.anchor_weight = 0.05\n        self.temperature_grid = (0.0, 0.05, 0.15, 0.30, 0.50, 0.70, 1.0)\n        self.search_mc_samples = 32\n\n    def compute_bound(self, empirical_risk, kl, n, delta):\n        \"\"\"Hybrid PAC-Bayes envelope: min(McAllester, Quadratic).\"\"\"\n        complexity = (kl + math.log(2.0 * math.sqrt(n) / delta)) / (2.0 * n)\n        complexity = torch.clamp(complexity, min=0.0)\n        empirical_risk = torch.clamp(empirical_risk, min=0.0)\n\n        mcallester = empirical_risk + torch.sqrt(complexity)\n        quadratic = (\n            torch.sqrt(torch.clamp(empirical_risk + complexity, min=0.0))\n            + torch.sqrt(complexity)\n        ) ** 2\n        return torch.minimum(mcallester, quadratic)\n\n    def _probabilistic_layers(self, model):\n        return [m for m in model.modules() if hasattr(m, \"weight_rho\")]\n\n    def _softplus_inverse(self, x):\n        x = torch.clamp(x, min=1e-8)\n        return torch.log(torch.expm1(x) + 1e-12)\n\n    def _snapshot_posterior(self, model):\n        state = []\n        for m in self._probabilistic_layers(model):\n            state.append({\n                \"module\": m,\n                \"weight_mu\": m.weight_mu.detach().clone(),\n                \"bias_mu\": m.bias_mu.detach().clone(),\n                \"weight_rho\": m.weight_rho.detach().clone(),\n                \"bias_rho\": m.bias_rho.detach().clone(),\n            })\n        return state\n\n    def _apply_temperature(self, state, tau):\n        tau = float(tau)\n        with torch.no_grad():\n            for item in state:\n                module = item[\"module\"]\n                prior_sigma = module.prior_sigma\n\n                w_sigma = F.softplus(item[\"weight_rho\"])\n                b_sigma = F.softplus(item[\"bias_rho\"])\n\n                new_weight_mu = module.weight_prior_mu + tau * (\n                    item[\"weight_mu\"] - module.weight_prior_mu\n                )\n                new_bias_mu = module.bias_prior_mu + tau * (\n                    item[\"bias_mu\"] - module.bias_prior_mu\n                )\n\n                # Geometric interpolation in sigma gives a smooth path to the prior.\n                new_w_sigma = torch.exp(\n                    (1.0 - tau) * math.log(prior_sigma)\n                    + tau * torch.log(torch.clamp(w_sigma, min=1e-8))\n                )\n                new_b_sigma = torch.exp(\n                    (1.0 - tau) * math.log(prior_sigma)\n                    + tau * torch.log(torch.clamp(b_sigma, min=1e-8))\n                )\n\n                module.weight_mu.copy_(new_weight_mu)\n                module.bias_mu.copy_(new_bias_mu)\n                module.weight_rho.copy_(self._softplus_inverse(new_w_sigma))\n                module.bias_rho.copy_(self._softplus_inverse(new_b_sigma))\n\n    def _compute_model_kl(self, model, bound_loader, device):\n        with torch.no_grad():\n            dummy = next(iter(bound_loader))[0][:1].to(device)\n            model(dummy, sample=True)\n            return get_total_kl(model).item()\n\n    def train_step(self, model, data, target, device, n_bound, delta):\n        \"\"\"Bound-aware objective using ensemble margin and disagreement control.\"\"\"\n        sample_logits = model(data, sample=True)\n        kl = get_total_kl(model)\n        mean_logits = model(data, sample=False)\n\n        sample_probs = F.softmax(sample_logits, dim=1)\n        mean_probs = F.softmax(mean_logits, dim=1)\n        ensemble_probs = 0.5 * (sample_probs + mean_probs)\n        ensemble_logits = 0.5 * (sample_logits + mean_logits)\n\n        true_probs = ensemble_probs.gather(1, target.unsqueeze(1)).squeeze(1)\n        soft_error = (1.0 - true_probs).mean()\n\n        mask = F.one_hot(target, num_classes=ensemble_logits.size(1)).bool()\n        true_logits = ensemble_logits.gather(1, target.unsqueeze(1)).squeeze(1)\n        other_logits = ensemble_logits.masked_fill(mask, -1e9).max(dim=1).values\n        margin = true_logits - other_logits\n        margin_risk = torch.sigmoid(-margin / self.margin_scale).mean()\n\n        disagreement = ((sample_probs - mean_probs) ** 2).sum(dim=1).mean()\n        anchor_error = (\n            1.0 - mean_probs.gather(1, target.unsqueeze(1)).squeeze(1)\n        ).mean()\n\n        surrogate_risk = 0.5 * soft_error + 0.5 * margin_risk\n        bound = self.compute_bound(surrogate_risk, kl, n_bound, delta)\n        return (\n            bound\n            + self.disagreement_weight * disagreement\n            + self.anchor_weight * anchor_error\n        )\n\n    def _select_temperature(self, model, bound_loader, device, delta, mc_samples):\n        state = self._snapshot_posterior(model)\n        n_bound = len(bound_loader.dataset)\n        log_const = math.log(2.0 * math.sqrt(n_bound) / delta)\n        search_mc = min(self.search_mc_samples, mc_samples)\n\n        best_tau = 1.0\n        best_cert = float(\"inf\")\n        for tau in self.temperature_grid:\n            self._apply_temperature(state, tau)\n            emp_risk = compute_01_risk(\n                model, bound_loader, device, mc_samples=search_mc\n            )\n            kl = self._compute_model_kl(model, bound_loader, device)\n            cert = inv_kl(emp_risk, (kl + log_const) / n_bound)\n            if cert < best_cert:\n                best_cert = cert\n                best_tau = tau\n\n        self._apply_temperature(state, best_tau)\n        return best_tau\n\n    def compute_risk_certificate(self, model, bound_loader, device, delta=0.025,\n                                 mc_samples=1000):\n        \"\"\"Evaluate a temperature-optimized PAC-Bayes-kl certificate.\"\"\"\n        model.eval()\n        n_bound = len(bound_loader.dataset)\n\n        best_tau = self._select_temperature(\n            model, bound_loader, device, delta, mc_samples\n        )\n\n        emp_risk_01 = compute_01_risk(model, bound_loader, device,\n                                      mc_samples=mc_samples)\n        kl = self._compute_model_kl(model, bound_loader, device)\n\n        total_nll = 0.0\n        total_samples = 0\n        with torch.no_grad():\n            for data, target in bound_loader:\n                data, target = data.to(device), target.to(device)\n                output = model(data, sample=False)\n                log_probs = F.log_softmax(output, dim=1)\n                nll = F.nll_loss(log_probs, target, reduction=\"sum\")\n                total_nll += nll.item()\n                total_samples += target.size(0)\n        emp_nll = total_nll / total_samples\n\n        c = (kl + math.log(2.0 * math.sqrt(n_bound) / delta)) / n_bound\n        risk_cert_01 = inv_kl(emp_risk_01, c)\n\n        emp_nll_t = torch.tensor(emp_nll)\n        kl_t = torch.tensor(kl)\n        ce_bound = self.compute_bound(emp_nll_t, kl_t, n_bound, delta).item()\n\n        metrics = {\n            \"empirical_01_risk\": emp_risk_01,\n            \"empirical_nll\": emp_nll,\n            \"kl_divergence\": kl,\n            \"ce_bound\": ce_bound,\n            \"selected_temperature\": best_tau,\n        }\n\n        return risk_cert_01, metrics",
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   457| # ================================================================
   458| 
   459| 
   460  class BoundOptimizer:
   461      """Tempered ensemble-margin PAC-Bayes optimizer.
   462  
   463      Main ideas:
   464      1. Train with a bounded surrogate aligned with majority-vote error:
   465         combine soft classification error and a smooth margin loss.
   466      2. Penalize disagreement between a stochastic draw and the posterior mean
   467         predictor so the learned posterior stays compression-friendly.
   468      3. At evaluation, search a fixed tempering path from posterior to prior and
   469         pick the certificate-optimal tempered posterior.
   470      """
   471  
   472      def __init__(self, learning_rate=0.001, momentum=0.95, prior_sigma=0.1,
   473

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### mnist-fcn (scripts/mnist_fcn.sh)
Training progress (last 5 steps):
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=10 loss=0.010002 accuracy=0.9971
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=5 train_obj=0.049939 kl=10.45
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=10 train_obj=0.050265 kl=10.28
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=15 train_obj=0.050039 kl=11.28
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=20 train_obj=0.050230 kl=10.90
Results (mnist-fcn):
  risk_certificate: 0.032493
  test_error: 0.025100
  kl_divergence: 5.340000
  ce_bound: 0.131539
  empirical_01_risk: 0.027067

### mnist-cnn (scripts/mnist_cnn.sh)
Training progress (last 5 steps):
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=10 loss=0.005050 accuracy=0.9988
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=5 train_obj=0.025347 kl=9.15
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=10 train_obj=0.025176 kl=10.32
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=15 train_obj=0.025135 kl=10.91
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=20 train_obj=0.024947 kl=10.89
Results (mnist-cnn):
  risk_certi

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2  "op": "replace",
3  "filename": "PBB/custom_pac_bayes.py",
4  "content": "        # Hard-coded algorithmic hyperparameters.\n        self.margin_scale = 2.5\n        self.disagreement_weight = 0.10\n        self.anchor_weight = 0.05\n        self.temperature_grid = (0.0, 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 0.35, 0.60, 1.0)\n        self.search_mc_samples = 48\n\n    def compute_bound(self, empirical_risk, kl, n, delta):\n        \"\"\"Hybrid PAC-Bayes envelope: min(McAllester, Quadratic).\"\"\"\n        complexity = (kl + math.log(2.0 * math.sqrt(n) / delta)) / (2.0 * n)\n        complexity = torch.clamp(complexity, min=0.0)\n        empirical_risk = torch.clamp(empirical_risk, min=0.0)\n\n        mcallester = empirical_risk + torch.sqrt(complexity)\n        quadratic = (\n            torch.sqrt(torch.clamp(empirical_risk + complexity, min=0.0))\n            + torch.sqrt(complexity)\n        ) ** 2\n        return torch.minimum(mcallester, quadratic)\n\n    def _probabilistic_layers(self, model):\n        return [m for m in model.modules() if hasattr(m, \"weight_rho\")]\n\n    def _softplus_inverse(self, x):\n        x = torch.clamp(x, min=1e-8)\n        return torch.log(torch.expm1(x) + 1e-12)\n\n    def _snapshot_posterior(self, model):\n        state = []\n        for m in self._probabilistic_layers(model):\n            state.append({\n                \"module\": m,\n                \"weight_mu\": m.weight_mu.detach().clone(),\n                \"bias_mu\": m.bias_mu.detach().clone(),\n                \"weight_rho\": m.weight_rho.detach().clone(),\n                \"bias_rho\": m.bias_rho.detach().clone(),\n            })\n        return state\n\n    def _apply_temperature(self, state, tau):\n        tau = float(tau)\n        with torch.no_grad():\n            for item in state:\n                module = item[\"module\"]\n                prior_sigma = module.prior_sigma\n                prior_rho = math.log(math.exp(prior_sigma) - 1.0)\n\n                if tau <= 1e-12:\n                    module.weight_mu.copy_(module.weight_prior_mu)\n                    module.bias_mu.copy_(module.bias_prior_mu)\n                    module.weight_rho.fill_(prior_rho)\n                    module.bias_rho.fill_(prior_rho)\n                    continue\n\n                if abs(tau - 1.0) <= 1e-12:\n                    module.weight_mu.copy_(item[\"weight_mu\"])\n                    module.bias_mu.copy_(item[\"bias_mu\"])\n                    module.weight_rho.copy_(item[\"weight_rho\"])\n                    module.bias_rho.copy_(item[\"bias_rho\"])\n                    continue\n\n                w_sigma = F.softplus(item[\"weight_rho\"])\n                b_sigma = F.softplus(item[\"bias_rho\"])\n\n                new_weight_mu = module.weight_prior_mu + tau * (\n                    item[\"weight_mu\"] - module.weight_prior_mu\n                )\n                new_bias_mu = module.bias_prior_mu + tau * (\n                    item[\"bias_mu\"] - module.bias_prior_mu\n                )\n\n                # Geometric interpolation in sigma gives a smooth path to the prior.\n                new_w_sigma = torch.exp(\n                    (1.0 - tau) * math.log(prior_sigma)\n                    + tau * torch.log(torch.clamp(w_sigma, min=1e-8))\n                )\n                new_b_sigma = torch.exp(\n                    (1.0 - tau) * math.log(prior_sigma)\n                    + tau * torch.log(torch.clamp(b_sigma, min=1e-8))\n                )\n\n                module.weight_mu.copy_(new_weight_mu)\n                module.bias_mu.copy_(new_bias_mu)\n                module.weight_rho.copy_(self._softplus_inverse(new_w_sigma))\n                module.bias_rho.copy_(self._softplus_inverse(new_b_sigma))",
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   457| # ================================================================
   458| 
   459| 
   460  class BoundOptimizer:
   461      """Tempered ensemble-margin PAC-Bayes optimizer.
   462  
   463      Main ideas:
   464      1. Train with a bounded surrogate aligned with majority-vote error:
   465         combine soft classification error and a smooth margin loss.
   466      2. Penalize disagreement between a stochastic draw and the posterior mean
   467         predictor so the learned posterior stays compression-friendly.
   468      3. At evaluation, search a fixed tempering path from posterior to prior and
   469         pick the certificate-optimal tempered posterior.
   470      """
   471  
   472      def __init__(self, learning_rate=0.001, momentum=0.95, prior_sigma=0.1,
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4  "content": "    def _select_temperature(self, model, bound_loader, device, delta, mc_samples):\n        state = self._snapshot_posterior(model)\n        n_bound = len(bound_loader.dataset)\n        log_const = math.log(2.0 * math.sqrt(n_bound) / delta)\n        search_mc = min(self.search_mc_samples, mc_samples)\n\n        best_tau = 1.0\n        best_cert = float(\"inf\")\n        for tau in self.temperature_grid:\n            self._apply_temperature(state, tau)\n            emp_risk = compute_01_risk(\n                model, bound_loader, device, mc_samples=search_mc\n            )\n            kl = 0.0 if tau <= 1e-12 else self._compute_model_kl(\n                model, bound_loader, device\n            )\n            cert = inv_kl(emp_risk, (kl + log_const) / n_bound)\n            if cert < best_cert:\n                best_cert = cert\n                best_tau = tau\n\n        self._apply_temperature(state, best_tau)\n        return best_tau\n\n    def compute_risk_certificate(self, model, bound_loader, device, delta=0.025,\n                                 mc_samples=1000):\n        \"\"\"Evaluate a temperature-optimized PAC-Bayes-kl certificate.\"\"\"\n        model.eval()\n        n_bound = len(bound_loader.dataset)\n\n        best_tau = self._select_temperature(\n            model, bound_loader, device, delta, mc_samples\n        )\n\n        emp_risk_01 = compute_01_risk(model, bound_loader, device,\n                                      mc_samples=mc_samples)\n        kl = 0.0 if best_tau <= 1e-12 else self._compute_model_kl(\n            model, bound_loader, device\n        )\n\n        total_nll = 0.0\n        total_samples = 0\n        with torch.no_grad():\n            for data, target in bound_loader:\n                data, target = data.to(device), target.to(device)\n                output = model(data, sample=False)\n                log_probs = F.log_softmax(output, dim=1)\n                nll = F.nll_loss(log_probs, target, reduction=\"sum\")\n                total_nll += nll.item()\n                total_samples += target.size(0)\n        emp_nll = total_nll / total_samples\n\n        c = (kl + math.log(2.0 * math.sqrt(n_bound) / delta)) / n_bound\n        risk_cert_01 = inv_kl(emp_risk_01, c)\n\n        emp_nll_t = torch.tensor(emp_nll)\n        kl_t = torch.tensor(kl)\n        ce_bound = self.compute_bound(emp_nll_t, kl_t, n_bound, delta).item()\n\n        metrics = {\n            \"empirical_01_risk\": emp_risk_01,\n            \"empirical_nll\": emp_nll,\n            \"kl_divergence\": kl,\n            \"ce_bound\": ce_bound,\n            \"selected_temperature\": best_tau,\n        }\n\n        return risk_cert_01, metrics",
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[Current file: PBB/custom_pac_bayes.py | editable: 460–671 | total: 861 lines]
   457| # ================================================================
   458| 
   459| 
   460  class BoundOptimizer:
   461      """Tempered ensemble-margin PAC-Bayes optimizer.
   462  
   463      Main ideas:
   464      1. Train with a bounded surrogate aligned with majority-vote error:
   465         combine soft classification error and a smooth margin loss.
   466      2. Penalize disagreement between a stochastic draw and the posterior mean
   467         predictor so the learned posterior stays compression-friendly.
   468      3. At evaluation, search a fixed tempering path from posterior to prior and
   469         pick the certificate-optimal tempered posterior.
   470      """
   471  
   472      def __init__(self, learning_rate=0.001, momentum=0.95, prior_sigma=0.1,
   473                   p

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[Test #2] (1 test remaining; call submit(n=2) to submit this result)

### mnist-fcn (scripts/mnist_fcn.sh)
Training progress (last 5 steps):
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=10 loss=0.010002 accuracy=0.9971
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=5 train_obj=0.049939 kl=10.45
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=10 train_obj=0.050265 kl=10.28
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=15 train_obj=0.050039 kl=11.28
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=20 train_obj=0.050230 kl=10.90
Results (mnist-fcn):
  risk_certificate: 0.033745
  test_error: 0.025200
  kl_divergence: 1.330000
  ce_bound: 0.131598
  empirical_01_risk: 0.029000

### mnist-cnn (scripts/mnist_cnn.sh)
Training progress (last 5 steps):
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=10 loss=0.005362 accuracy=0.9987
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=5 train_obj=0.025554 kl=10.31
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=10 train_obj=0.025476 kl=11.63
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=15 train_obj=0.025473 kl=11.99
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=20 train_obj=0.025253 kl=11.91
Results (mnist-cnn):
  risk_certi

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2  "n": 1
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Tool ResultStep 6

[submit] Submitting result from test #1 as final.

### mnist-fcn (scripts/mnist_fcn.sh)
Training progress (last 5 steps):
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=10 loss=0.010002 accuracy=0.9971
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=5 train_obj=0.049939 kl=10.45
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=10 train_obj=0.050265 kl=10.28
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=15 train_obj=0.050039 kl=11.28
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=20 train_obj=0.050230 kl=10.90
Results (mnist-fcn):
  risk_certificate: 0.032493
  test_error: 0.025100
  kl_divergence: 5.340000
  ce_bound: 0.131539
  empirical_01_risk: 0.027067

### mnist-cnn (scripts/mnist_cnn.sh)
Training progress (last 5 steps):
TRAIN_METRICS prior_epoch=10 loss=0.005050 accuracy=0.9988
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=5 train_obj=0.025347 kl=9.15
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=10 train_obj=0.025176 kl=10.32
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=15 train_obj=0.025135 kl=10.91
TRAIN_METRICS posterior_epoch=20 train_obj=0.024947 kl=10.89
Results (mnist-cnn):
  risk_certificate: 0.015149
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