Evaluation
Greedy held-out evaluation produced:
- 100% strict JSON and 100% observation-legal actions;
- 98% useful signalling, 1% redundant signalling, and 98% correct signal payloads;
- 98% informed-recipient accuracy and 99.5% visible-food override accuracy;
- 100% safe-share accuracy, 0.4% unsafe-reserve sharing, and no unnecessary sharing;
- 99.7% exact accuracy on the 1,000-example survival counterfactual suite.
In 16 matched simulator layouts, the recipient foraged in 93.75% of normal-channel worlds,
0% with delivery blocked, and 6.25% with corrupted coordinates. The normal-minus-blocked causal
effect was +93.75 percentage points.
The complete methodology, gates, baselines, hashes, limitations, and commands are in the
V4 results report.
Use
from peft import PeftModel
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
base_id = "Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base"
adapter_id = "Xnizzorg/pondllm-qwen3.5-0.8b-base-v4-simulator-native"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(base_id)
base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(base_id, device_map="auto")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, adapter_id)
Use PondLLM's prompt builder and strict action parser rather than treating this as a general chat
adapter. Generation evaluation used greedy decoding.
Training
The adapter was trained fresh for two epochs on 27,014 records with seed 7, 4-bit NF4 base-model
loading, BF16 compute, completion-only loss, LoRA rank 8 and alpha 16 over all linear layers,
learning rate 2e-4, micro-batch size 16, and gradient accumulation 2. Training took 10,399
seconds on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti.
Dataset SHA-256:
9BDE22C42DC62B66B26449857C8005E41CE5ABEBF9BEA6C16ED72467CBAEF7EE
Adapter SHA-256:
E0B76547781DB57F94D19175A9791430362BC9B5355EA7B221F67B5C4477E82B
Limitations
This is a narrow research action policy, not a general-purpose language model. Controlled
two-agent communication succeeds, but an ordinary four-seed probe found no spontaneous signals
in 13 richer multi-agent opportunities. Two low-energy offspring also pursued food they could not
reach before exhaustion. These are explicit V4.1 targets. Results cover short fixed-seed
simulations and do not establish population fitness, open-ended evolution, or emergent language.
This is supervised adapter training only. Population-scale reinforcement learning remains
intentionally deferred.