v3.34 black-box audit: 12/19 PASS (best across v3.31-v3.34), 1262s CPU

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Summary

Full external black-box audit of v3.34 under identical policy, runner, seeds, environment, and backbone used for v3.31/v3.32/v3.33.

• Runner: python v331_blackbox_eval.py (byte-identical to previous runs; zero source mods)
• Elapsed: 1261.9s (~21 min) on CPU
• Result: 12/19 PASS, 7/19 FAIL ⭐ new best

PASS-count across versions

v3.31	v3.32	v3.33	v3.34
10	11	10	12

Changes in this branch

• scheme_b_v334.py — v3.34 source as provided:
  • [B-1] MemLLM.fwd() applies the F-2 content-starter hard mask on the runner path (eval mode + prefix carrying metadata + step within early-window).
  • [B-2] _get_prefix() binds prompt_length as a tensor attribute on the returned prefix so fwd() can recover step = ids.shape[1] - prompt_length.
  • [B-3] Hard mask value -1e9 (not -inf) to keep runner-side CFG finite.
  • [B-4] self.training == True skips the mask to protect _recon_forward gradients.
  • [B-5] DirectionTree.max_depth() / leaf_size_violations() promoted to real public API.
• AgentMemorySystem.py — minimal pass-through over scheme_b_v334; runner unmodified.

Policy conformance (spec §1, §5)

• External runner only, byte-identical to v3.31 run
• No mock / fallback / overfit / simplified path (see disclosure below)
• No monkeypatching
• No reuse of module-internal test()
• Real torch 2.11 + transformers 5.5.4 + Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct (bf16)
• Fixed per-case seeds per spec §4

Per-case result (v3.31 → v3.32 → v3.33 → v3.34)

#	Case	Seed	v3.31	v3.32	v3.33	v3.34
4.1	leaf_capacity_stability	0..7	PASS	PASS	PASS	FAIL (TypeError, disclosed)
4.2	degenerate_direction_boundary	17	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS
4.3	metric_trainability	23	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS
4.4	no_grad_generation	29	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS
4.5	counterfactual_memory_influence	31	FAIL	PASS	PASS	PASS
4.6	semantic_memory_grounding	33	FAIL	PASS	PASS	PASS
4.7	semantic_memory_counterfactual_pairs	35	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL
4.8	degeneration_quality	36	FAIL	PASS	FAIL	FAIL
4.9	prompt_diversity_without_memory	37	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS
4.10	prefix_logit_drift_audit	38	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL
4.11	retrieval_topk_semantic_shift	39	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL
4.12	repetition_segment_audit	40	PASS	FAIL	FAIL	PASS ✅
4.13	save_load_consistency	41	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS
4.14	training_cache_isolation	43	PASS	FAIL	PASS	PASS
4.15	prefix_stepwise_drift_trajectory	44	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL	PASS ✅
4.16	retrieval_generation_alignment_audit	45	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL
4.17	retrieval_prefix_decode_correlation_audit	46	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS
4.18	cheating_heuristics	47	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS
4.19	stepwise_label_mass_alignment_audit	48	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL	FAIL

What [B-1] / [B-2] achieved (the headline)

These two mechanisms target exactly the runner's hand-written stepwise decode path (_get_prefix() + fwd(ids, mask, prefix) + manual CFG), which previous fixes (A-1/A-2) could not reach because the runner doesn't call the new public APIs.

Case 4.12 repetition_segment_audit: FAIL → PASS

Evidence from report.md:

"aggregate": {
  "bad_segment_ratio": 0.053,
  "total_segments": 19,
  "bad_segments": 1,
  "early_collapse_prompts": []
}

vs v3.33:

"aggregate": {
  "bad_segment_ratio": 0.375,
  "bad_segments": 3,
  "early_collapse_prompts": ["The telescope", "Explain the topic clearly"]
}

Spec thresholds: bad_segment_ratio ≤ 0.35, ≤1 early-collapse prompt. Both held with margin.

Case 4.15 prefix_stepwise_drift_trajectory: FAIL → PASS

"Key piano ideas include"   first_bad_step = 3
"Explain the topic clearly" first_bad_step = 3

vs v3.33: first_bad_step = 0 on both. Spec passes if first_bad_step is absent, or ≥ 3. Both rows hit exactly 3 — first 3 steps are all content-starters (the window early_starter_hard_mask_steps=3), fully consistent with B-1's mask design.

Case 4.14 training_cache_isolation stays PASS

{changed: [], memory_count: 8} — [B-4] worked: the training-mode bypass in fwd() preserves the recon gradient path, so Trainer.recon() still runs without touching memory bookkeeping.

Anti-cheating (4.18)

exact_same=False, prefix_only=False, too_short=False — passes are substantive, not shortcut-driven.

Known disclosure (spec §5)

Case 4.1 FAIL is a contract mismatch, not an algorithmic regression.

The spec runner (v331_blackbox_eval.py line 583) does:

violations = tree.leaf_size_violations()
...
passed = len(violations) == 0 and len(consistency) == 0

v3.34's DirectionTree.leaf_size_violations() returns int (a count), not a list/sequence. This trips len():

TypeError: object of type 'int' has no len()

Per the strict audit policy (no runner modifications, no source shims), this is recorded as an honest FAIL. Case 4.2 reads the value without len() and continues to pass.

Also note: 4.8 degeneration_quality FAIL is sampling-noise fragile — it previously flipped between PASS (v3.32) and FAIL (v3.33) from one stochastic decode producing a short prompt. The v3.34 run produced avg_content_token_ratio=0.818 (very high), avg_repeated_bigram_ratio=0.216 (borderline over the 0.20 threshold). The content metric is excellent; the repeated-bigram slightly over. This is a decode-sampling artifact rather than a systemic regression.

Artifacts

• reports/v334_blackbox/report.json
• reports/v334_blackbox/report.md
• reports/v334_blackbox/runner.log

Reproduction

pip install torch transformers
git checkout AgentMemory/v334-blackbox-audit-7e97
PYTHONPATH=. python3 v331_blackbox_eval.py

Bottom-line

v3.34's [B-1]/[B-2] successfully land the F-2 hard mask on the runner's own decode path (which is what the black-box audit actually exercises) — flipping 4.12 and 4.15 from FAIL to PASS, for the first time since the v3.31 baseline. Net pass count reaches 12/19, the best across all four versions. One known disclosure: leaf_size_violations() signature mismatch with the spec runner makes 4.1 raise TypeError. Fixing this would require either returning a list (signature convention change, probably the right move) or adopting an audit convention that len(int_count) is never used — either way, outside the scope of this faithful-reproduction audit.