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Document how Batch cuts a tensor into minibatches - #69
Batch on a tensor shuffles the start positions and the parameter indices separately, takes their product in column order, and cuts this list into pieces of the batch size. So an epoch runs through the parameters one after the other, and a minibatch is not a uniform sample of the pairs (time, parameter). With n start positions per parameter and P parameters, a batch size b ≤ n leaves at most P - 1 batches with more than one parameter.
This pull request documents that behaviour and does not change it: no executable line of src/ changes.
Why the behaviour stays
No docstring or page of this package promises uniform batches. What they promise, that an epoch draws every pair once, holds. The manual of GeometricMachineLearning describes this product, with a figure. A change would alter the batches of every downstream training, so it is a design question. KNOWN_ISSUES.md holds it as K28, with the possible change.
The change
The docstring of Batch has a section on the minibatches of an epoch, and a doctest whose counts hold for every seed.
KNOWN_ISSUES.md has the entry K28, with the evidence, the consequence and the possible change. K16 to K27 are retired IDs, which the changelog cites.
scripts/batch_parameter_floor.jl checks the batch counts over 200 seeds, and the variance against closed forms.
CHANGELOG.md has an entry under [Unreleased].
Evidence
From scripts/batch_parameter_floor.jl, Julia 1.13.3:
6 time steps, 3 parameters, Batch(2, 1, 1): 8 batches
distinct parameters per batch: [1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
mean square difference from the epoch mean, n = 100, P = 10, 400 epochs
between-parameter term: 0.7963
b = 5: loader measured 0.9933, closed form 0.9942, uniform partition closed form 0.3641
b = 10: loader measured 0.89, closed form 0.89, uniform partition closed form 0.1811
b = 100: loader measured 0.7963, closed form 0.7963, uniform partition closed form 0.0165
The script uses a scalar for each sample, in place of one component of a gradient. No training was compared, so the effect on a trained model is not measured.
A tensor with autoencoder = true keeps both of its axes and has the same batches. Only a matrix, a vector or a (q, p) pair read as samples has an axis of length one, and only there, or for one trajectory, are the batches a uniform partition.
Pre-PR verification
Fixed: one line in scripts/batch_parameter_floor.jl: an @assert that could not fail, and that contradicted the header's statement that every assert compares the loader. The script output did not change.
Unresolved: none.
Pre-existing: the GeometricMachineLearning manual, page data_loader/data_loader.md, says "sample with replacement" at line 100, against "without replacement" at line 128. This is a nit for that repository.
Checked and clean:
Every line of the K28 output matches a run of the script, exit 0.
A uniform partition, swapped in memory, makes the script fail at its count assert.
The closed forms were derived by hand.
The three file:line citations are correct, and no other numbered citation of batch.jl exists.
K28 is a new ID: the history ends at K27.
The claims of the docstring were read against the code.
Aqua test_piracies passes.
The script's definitions infer concrete return types.
fatou lint and JuliaFormatter are clean.
The hunks hold no stale comment and no history phrase.
Tests: the 12 test files that the diff reaches pass, 4341 of 4341, and the doctests pass. A mutant of the count in the new doctest makes the doctest job fail, so the job reaches the new block.
Not checked: a full docs build, which CI's Documentation workflow reads. A local build cannot fetch the inventory of GeometricMachineLearning, and stops at the four names that fall back to it, all of them outside this diff. The script was not run on Julia 1.12. Its asserts do not depend on the seed.
An epoch of a tensor is the product of the shuffled start positions and the shuffled parameter indices, cut into pieces of the batch size. So the batches run through the parameters one after the other, and a minibatch is not a uniform sample of the pairs. A minibatch gradient then has a variance between the parameters that does not fall with the batch size.
No docstring or manual page promises uniform batches, and the behaviour is a design question, so the batches do not change. The docstring of Batch states the behaviour, with a doctest that holds for every seed. KNOWN_ISSUES.md records the question as K28, with the possible fix. scripts/batch_parameter_floor.jl checks the counts and the variance against closed forms.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mixed_batches counts over 1:(P - 1), so the bound P - 1 holds for it by construction, and the line read no loader. The assert before it compares the loader with the count. K28 also names the Julia version of its seeded output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The change documents how Batch forms minibatches and describes the resulting parameter composition and gradient-variance behavior. A new script checks batch counts, pair coverage, parameter composition, and variance formulas across seeded runs.
The Batch documentation and K28 describe independent shuffling of start positions and parameter indices, minibatch composition, and the stated gradient-variance behavior. The documentation includes a tensor example with eight minibatches, one of which contains multiple parameters.
Check minibatch counts and variance scripts/batch_parameter_floor.jl, CHANGELOG.md
The script checks batch counts, coverage of all time/parameter pairs, parameter composition, and measured variance against loader-specific and uniform-partition formulas. The changelog records the documentation and script.
The documentation can mislead users about minibatch sampling and variance in specific cases. These claims should be qualified, but no executable behavior changes.
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- Line 39: Qualify the variance claim in the changelog, the Batch docstring, and
K28 so it applies only to parameter-homogeneous batches; keep any formula claim
within the condition validated by the script, where b divides n.
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title: when b = 1, each individual minibatch contains a uniformly distributed
pair because start positions and parameter indices are shuffled independently,
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Limit the variance claim to parameter-homogeneous batches.
With n = 3, P = 2, and constant per-parameter gradients of 0 and 1, increasing b from 1 to 2 reduces the mean square difference from 1/4 to 1/6: one batch mixes the parameters. Qualify this claim here, in the Batch docstring, and in K28. The script checks the formula only when b divides n. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Qualify the variance claim in the changelog, the Batch docstring, and K28 so it
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The functor shuffles the start positions and the parameter indices separately, takes their product in column order and cuts this list into minibatches of the batch size. Every pair of a time index and a parameter index appears once, and the start positions of every parameter come in the same order. So an epoch runs through the parameters one after the other, and a minibatch is not a uniform sample of the pairs.
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Qualify the uniform-sampling claim.
With b = 1, each minibatch contains a uniformly distributed pair: its start position and parameter index are independently shuffled. The minibatches are still correlated across the epoch. Please distinguish that ordering from the distribution of an individual minibatch. The title of K28 has the same qualification.
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Review comment at @src/data_loader/batch.jl at line 16:
Qualify the sampling description for the batch functor and the K28 title: when b
= 1, each individual minibatch contains a uniformly distributed pair because
start positions and parameter indices are shuffled independently, while
minibatches remain correlated across the epoch. Distinguish the
individual-minibatch distribution from the epoch ordering.
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Summary
Batchon a tensor shuffles the start positions and the parameter indices separately, takes their product in column order, and cuts this list into pieces of the batch size. So an epoch runs through the parameters one after the other, and a minibatch is not a uniform sample of the pairs (time, parameter). Withnstart positions per parameter andPparameters, a batch sizeb ≤ nleaves at mostP - 1batches with more than one parameter.This pull request documents that behaviour and does not change it: no executable line of
src/changes.Why the behaviour stays
No docstring or page of this package promises uniform batches. What they promise, that an epoch draws every pair once, holds. The manual of GeometricMachineLearning describes this product, with a figure. A change would alter the batches of every downstream training, so it is a design question.
KNOWN_ISSUES.mdholds it as K28, with the possible change.The change
Batchhas a section on the minibatches of an epoch, and a doctest whose counts hold for every seed.KNOWN_ISSUES.mdhas the entry K28, with the evidence, the consequence and the possible change. K16 to K27 are retired IDs, which the changelog cites.scripts/batch_parameter_floor.jlchecks the batch counts over 200 seeds, and the variance against closed forms.CHANGELOG.mdhas an entry under[Unreleased].Evidence
From
scripts/batch_parameter_floor.jl, Julia 1.13.3:The script uses a scalar for each sample, in place of one component of a gradient. No training was compared, so the effect on a trained model is not measured.
A tensor with
autoencoder = truekeeps both of its axes and has the same batches. Only a matrix, a vector or a(q, p)pair read as samples has an axis of length one, and only there, or for one trajectory, are the batches a uniform partition.Pre-PR verification
Fixed: one line in
scripts/batch_parameter_floor.jl: an@assertthat could not fail, and that contradicted the header's statement that every assert compares the loader. The script output did not change.Unresolved: none.
Pre-existing: the GeometricMachineLearning manual, page
data_loader/data_loader.md, says "sample with replacement" at line 100, against "without replacement" at line 128. This is a nit for that repository.Checked and clean:
file:linecitations are correct, and no other numbered citation ofbatch.jlexists.test_piraciespasses.fatou lintand JuliaFormatter are clean.Tests: the 12 test files that the diff reaches pass, 4341 of 4341, and the doctests pass. A mutant of the count in the new doctest makes the doctest job fail, so the job reaches the new block.
Not checked: a full docs build, which CI's Documentation workflow reads. A local build cannot fetch the inventory of GeometricMachineLearning, and stops at the four names that fall back to it, all of them outside this diff. The script was not run on Julia 1.12. Its asserts do not depend on the seed.
Release: no bump needed.
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