""" Decisive test: can a low-rank / spectral summary of the order-1 byte transition matrix beat the raw empirical counts ("KV cache") at prediction? Claim: NO. The empirical conditional distribution is the MLE — it MINIMIZES cross-entropy on its own data. Any low-rank reconstruction (the regime the characteristic polynomial / eigen-summary lives in) has cross-entropy >= the empirical order-1 entropy. So the polynomial cannot add predictive information over the count matrix it is derived from. It can only match (full rank) or hurt. Also report order-0 and order-2 to show the REAL lever is context DEPTH, not rank. """ import os, sys, math import numpy as np def load_corpus(root, cap=1_500_000, max_files=3000): buf = bytearray() seen = 0 for dirpath, _, files in os.walk(root): for fn in files: if not (fn.endswith(".md") or fn.endswith(".txt")): continue seen += 1 if seen > max_files: break try: with open(os.path.join(dirpath, fn), "rb") as f: buf += f.read() except Exception: pass if len(buf) >= cap: return bytes(buf[:cap]) if seen > max_files or len(buf) >= cap: break return bytes(buf[:cap]) def order0_bits(data): c = np.bincount(np.frombuffer(data, dtype=np.uint8), minlength=256).astype(float) p = c / c.sum() nz = p > 0 return float(-(p[nz] * np.log2(p[nz])).sum()) def order1_counts(data): a = np.frombuffer(data, dtype=np.uint8).astype(np.int64) idx = a[:-1] * 256 + a[1:] C = np.bincount(idx, minlength=256*256).reshape(256, 256).astype(float) return C def cond_xent(C, Q): # cross-entropy of the data (weighted by true counts C) under model Q(j|i) N = C.sum() Q = np.clip(Q, 1e-12, None) return float(-(C * np.log2(Q)).sum() / N) def order1_empirical_bits(C): rs = C.sum(axis=1, keepdims=True) P = C / np.clip(rs, 1e-12, None) return cond_xent(C, P), P def lowrank_bits(C, k): # rank-k approximation of the conditional matrix, clipped & renormalized rs = C.sum(axis=1, keepdims=True) P = C / np.clip(rs, 1e-12, None) U, S, Vt = np.linalg.svd(P, full_matrices=False) Pk = (U[:, :k] * S[:k]) @ Vt[:k] Pk = np.clip(Pk, 0, None) Pk = Pk / np.clip(Pk.sum(axis=1, keepdims=True), 1e-12, None) return cond_xent(C, Pk) def order2_bits(data): a = np.frombuffer(data, dtype=np.uint8).astype(np.int64) if len(a) < 3: return float("nan") ctx = a[:-2] * 256 + a[1:-2+1] # pairs (b0,b1) ctx = a[:-2] * 256 + a[1:-1] nxt = a[2:] from collections import defaultdict cnt = defaultdict(lambda: np.zeros(256)) for c, n in zip(ctx.tolist(), nxt.tolist()): cnt[c][n] += 1 N = len(nxt) H = 0.0 for c, row in cnt.items(): rs = row.sum() p = row / rs nz = p > 0 H += (rs / N) * float(-(p[nz] * np.log2(p[nz])).sum()) return H def main(): root = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "/home/allaun/Research Stack/6-Documentation" data = load_corpus(root) print(f"corpus: {len(data)} bytes from {root}\n") h0 = order0_bits(data) C = order1_counts(data) h1, _ = order1_empirical_bits(C) print(f"order-0 entropy : {h0:6.3f} bits/byte") print(f"order-1 empirical (KV cache) : {h1:6.3f} bits/byte <-- MLE optimum for order-1") print(f"order-2 empirical (deeper ctx) : {order2_bits(data):6.3f} bits/byte <-- context DEPTH helps\n") print("rank-k reconstruction of the order-1 conditional matrix") print("(the regime the char-poly / eigen-summary lives in):") for k in [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 255, 256]: hk = lowrank_bits(C, k) flag = " >= order-1 (worse or equal)" if hk >= h1 - 1e-9 else " << BEATS order-1 (!)" print(f" rank {k:3d} : {hk:6.3f} bits/byte{flag}") main()