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scene-actor-extraction/scripts/optimizer/optimize.py
dtourolle 0bd2747069 docs: full data-grounded rewrite of the performance report
Replaces narrative claims with verified numbers across all report pages:

- Cross-model held-out validation (LVFace/mbf/r18, all 5 held-out
  films): LVFace wins every film outright, not just "consistent with"
  the training-set pick. r50 dropped from the detailed comparison
  (gallery has ~30% fewer reference images per actor than the other
  three models on identical source photos).
- Per-film training breakdown: LVFace does not win every training
  film (mbf beats it on Lord of War); the 75.3% macro figure hides a
  10.7pp spread.
- Gallery coverage computed per film (20.3%-78.6%) instead of one
  flat 67%-missing average.
- Found and fixed a real scoring bug in optimize.py: a candidate
  whose hardest film's replay timed out was averaged over survivors
  instead of penalized, silently rewarding partial coverage. Affected
  3 of 16 training combos; corrected throughout, and optimize.py now
  scores an incomplete evaluation f1=0.0 instead of averaging over
  whichever films happened to finish.
- Every FPI frame in the deep dive now comes from the proper montage
  renderer (Onscreen/Offscreen panel, ghosts never drawn as boxes),
  never the bare-box debug overlay used earlier.
- Every distinct out-of-cast name across all 9 films gets its own
  frame at its first appearance (9 names, 4 films), not a
  single-example spot check: 2 ground-truth gaps, 1 photograph
  misread as a person, 6 genuine lookalike confusions.
- New methodology.md: the scene-level-vs-per-second scoring mismatch
  that the rest of the report assumes, written out once.
- Cut the deadlock/gdb debugging narrative from the experiment log;
  kept the one fact that matters (KPN's node/network split lets the
  expensive GPU stage run once and the cheap stage replay against
  cached embeddings).
- Plain declarative style throughout, no em dashes, no blog voice.
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
optimize.py — Differential Evolution over pipeline thresholds, scored against X-Ray.
Replaces the coarse grid sweep with scipy's differential_evolution over the
continuous knob space. Each candidate config is a full-9-film replay (real KPN
nodes) scored against Amazon X-Ray presence, micro-averaged. The gallery is loaded
once per process (binding caches by path), so an evaluation is just N cheap replays.
Objective: **maximize micro-F1** (DE minimizes, so we return -F1). NOTE: X-Ray recall
is a face-vs-cast-in-scene ceiling (see [[xray-validation-results]]), so unconstrained
F1 tends to push prob_threshold DOWN to recover unreachable recall — trading real
precision for it. We therefore log precision/recall at every evaluation and print
them at the optimum so the trade-off is visible and you can pick another operating
point from the trajectory (--trajectory).
Usage:
python scripts/optimizer/optimize.py --manifest films.json \
--gallery gallery_arcface_w600k_r50.json \
--params prob_threshold:0.5:0.999 anneal_sec:1:30 extinction_sec:1:15 \
--popsize 20 --maxiter 25 --trajectory traj.json
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import sys
import time
from pathlib import Path
import numpy as np
from scipy.optimize import differential_evolution
REPO = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent.parent
sys.path.insert(0, str(REPO / "scripts" / "optimizer"))
sys.path.insert(0, str(REPO / "scripts" / "validation"))
import json as _json
import os
import subprocess
import tempfile
import threading
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
# Concurrent per-eval replays. Each replay is an isolated subprocess, so parallelism
# is deadlock-safe; with 9 films/eval, 8 workers replays nearly all at once. Tune via
# REPLAY_WORKERS (8 is the measured sweet spot on this 24GB GPU).
REPLAY_WORKERS = int(os.environ.get("REPLAY_WORKERS", "8"))
# DE-level parallelism: how many population candidates get evaluated concurrently
# (each spawning its own REPLAY_WORKERS film subprocesses). Total concurrent GPU
# replay processes ≈ DE_WORKERS × min(REPLAY_WORKERS, n_films). Threads, not
# multiprocessing — each objective() call just waits on subprocess.run, so threads
# share the GIL fine and avoid pickling the objective/gallery-key cache.
DE_WORKERS = int(os.environ.get("DE_WORKERS", "1"))
from second_score import score_seconds # noqa: E402 uniform per-second TPI/FPI scoring
from sample_eval import load_gallery_keys # noqa: E402
_GAL_KEYS: dict = {} # gallery path → key set (fair-recall FN mask), loaded once
_REPLAY_TIMEOUT = 45 # seconds per film; a wedged replay is killed, not left to hang
REPLAY_CLI = str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "replay.py")
def _gallery_keys(path):
if path not in _GAL_KEYS:
_GAL_KEYS[path] = load_gallery_keys(path)
return _GAL_KEYS[path]
def _replay_subprocess(dump, gallery, cfg, build_dir):
"""Run one replay in a SUBPROCESS with a timeout, returning its presence JSON.
In-process replay intermittently DEADLOCKS at network teardown — a KPN worker
stuck mid-rocBLAS GEMM inside the ROCm driver makes ~PyNode's jthread.join() hang
forever (root-caused via gdb, 2026-07-15). Isolating each replay means a wedged
GPU thread only kills that subprocess; the sweep continues. Returns None on
timeout/failure (the caller drops that film from the average)."""
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("r", suffix=".json", delete=False) as tf:
out = tf.name
argv = [sys.executable, REPLAY_CLI, "--dump", dump, "--gallery", gallery,
"--out", out, "--build-dir", build_dir]
for k, v in cfg.items():
if isinstance(v, bool): # store_true flags: pass the flag, not a value
if v:
argv.append(f"--{k.replace('_', '-')}")
else:
argv += [f"--{k.replace('_', '-')}", str(v)]
try:
subprocess.run(argv, timeout=_REPLAY_TIMEOUT, capture_output=True, check=True)
return _json.loads(Path(out).read_text())
except (subprocess.TimeoutExpired, subprocess.CalledProcessError,
FileNotFoundError, ValueError) as e:
print(f"[opt] replay failed for {Path(dump).name}: {type(e).__name__}",
file=sys.stderr)
return None
finally:
try:
Path(out).unlink()
except OSError:
pass
def evaluate(cfg, films, build_dir, step=None):
"""Objective = MACRO-mean over films of each film's duration-weighted per-scene F1.
Each film's replay runs in a subprocess (timeout-guarded) to survive the
intermittent ROCm teardown deadlock. If ANY film's replay times out, this
evaluation is scored f1=0.0 (see below) rather than averaging over the
survivors — a partial-coverage eval must never look better than a complete
one, or DE will converge onto configs that make the hardest film time out.
(An earlier version averaged over survivors, which silently rewarded
truncation; the rep4 `mbf_full_noexp` winner was one such corrupted eval.)
UNIFORM PER-SECOND scoring (second_score.py): every second of the film is sampled;
GT(t) = the cast of the X-Ray scene containing t, Pred(t) = actors whose presence
window covers t. Counts instances — TPI / FPI / FN — with FPI weighted 10× when the
named actor isn't in the film's cast at all (a real misID vs a timing slip). FN
counts only gallery-known actors (fair recall). Reports agreement_rate = mean
per-second Jaccard (the "% of on-screen actors we agree with X-Ray about, over
time"). Objective = macro-mean across films of the per-second weighted F1.
expand_gallery: controlled by env SAE_EXPAND (default on). Set SAE_EXPAND=0 to run
the no-expansion arm — the overnight matrix tests both to quantify what expansion buys.
The 9 films' replays run CONCURRENTLY (REPLAY_WORKERS) — each is an isolated
subprocess, so parallelism is safe (a wedged one only kills itself)."""
if os.environ.get("SAE_EXPAND", "1") == "1":
cfg = {**cfg, "expand_gallery": True}
def _one(film):
pj = _replay_subprocess(film["dump"], film.get("gallery"), cfg, build_dir)
if pj is None:
return None
return score_seconds(pj, film["xray"],
gallery_keys=_gallery_keys(film.get("gallery")))
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=REPLAY_WORKERS) as ex:
per_film = [m for m in ex.map(_one, films) if m is not None]
n = len(per_film)
n_expected = len(films)
# Incomplete coverage (a replay timed out) is scored as a failure, not
# averaged over survivors: dropping the hardest film would otherwise inflate
# the score and let DE reward exactly the configs that cause timeouts. We
# still record the real survivor counts so a truncated eval is diagnosable
# in the trajectory (f1=0.0, films_scored < films_expected).
if n < n_expected:
agg = {"precision": 0.0, "recall": 0.0, "f1": 0.0, "agreement": 0.0,
"TPI": sum(m["TPI"] for m in per_film),
"FPI": sum(m["FPI"] for m in per_film),
"FPI_misid": sum(m["FPI_misid"] for m in per_film),
"FN": sum(m["FN"] for m in per_film)}
agg["films_scored"] = n
agg["films_expected"] = n_expected
return agg
return {"precision": sum(m["precision"] for m in per_film) / n,
"recall": sum(m["recall"] for m in per_film) / n,
"f1": sum(m["f1"] for m in per_film) / n,
"agreement": sum(m["agreement_rate"] for m in per_film) / n,
"TPI": sum(m["TPI"] for m in per_film),
"FPI": sum(m["FPI"] for m in per_film),
"FPI_misid": sum(m["FPI_misid"] for m in per_film),
"FN": sum(m["FN"] for m in per_film),
"films_scored": n,
"films_expected": n_expected}
def main():
p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
p.add_argument("--manifest", required=True)
p.add_argument("--gallery", help="default gallery if not per-film")
p.add_argument("--params", nargs="+", required=True,
help="knob:lo:hi (e.g. prob_threshold:0.5:0.999). Int knobs kept float, rounded in cfg.")
p.add_argument("--build-dir", default=str(REPO / "build"))
p.add_argument("--step", type=float, default=5.0)
p.add_argument("--popsize", type=int, default=20)
p.add_argument("--maxiter", type=int, default=25)
p.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=0)
p.add_argument("--trajectory", help="write every evaluation here (JSON lines)")
p.add_argument("--out", help="write best config + metrics")
args = p.parse_args()
films = json.loads(Path(args.manifest).read_text())
for f in films:
f.setdefault("gallery", args.gallery)
if not Path(f["dump"]).exists():
sys.exit(f"[opt] missing dump for {f['name']}: {f['dump']}")
names, bounds = [], []
int_knobs = {"track_max_frames_missing", "cut_inactive_max_frames"}
for spec in args.params:
k, lo, hi = spec.split(":")
names.append(k); bounds.append((float(lo), float(hi)))
print(f"[opt] DE over {names} bounds={bounds}", file=sys.stderr)
print(f"[opt] {len(films)} films, popsize={args.popsize}, maxiter={args.maxiter}", file=sys.stderr)
traj = []
evals = [0]
t0 = time.time()
traj_lock = threading.Lock()
def vec_to_cfg(x):
cfg = {}
for k, v in zip(names, x):
cfg[k] = int(round(v)) if k in int_knobs else float(v)
return cfg
def objective(x):
cfg = vec_to_cfg(x)
m = evaluate(cfg, films, args.build_dir, args.step)
with traj_lock:
evals[0] += 1
rec = {"eval": evals[0], "config": cfg, **m, "t": round(time.time() - t0, 1)}
traj.append(rec)
print(f"[opt] eval {evals[0]:3d} thr={cfg['prob_threshold']:.2f} "
f"ann={cfg['anneal_sec']:.0f} ext={cfg['extinction_sec']:.1f} → "
f"F1={m['f1']*100:.1f}% P={m['precision']*100:.1f}% R={m['recall']*100:.1f}% "
f"agree={m.get('agreement', 0)*100:.1f}% misID={m.get('FPI_misid', 0)}",
file=sys.stderr)
if args.trajectory:
with open(args.trajectory, "a") as tf:
tf.write(json.dumps(rec) + "\n")
return -m["f1"]
de_kwargs = dict(
popsize=args.popsize, maxiter=args.maxiter,
seed=args.seed, polish=False, tol=1e-4, mutation=(0.5, 1.0), recombination=0.7,
init="sobol")
if DE_WORKERS > 1:
pool = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=DE_WORKERS)
de_kwargs["workers"] = pool.map
result = differential_evolution(objective, bounds, **de_kwargs)
best_cfg = vec_to_cfg(result.x)
best = evaluate(best_cfg, films, args.build_dir, args.step)
print("\n══ DE optimum (by F1) ═══════════════════════════")
print(f" config : {best_cfg}")
print(f" F1 : {best['f1']*100:.2f}%")
print(f" precision: {best['precision']*100:.2f}% recall: {best['recall']*100:.2f}%")
print(f" TP/FP/FN: {best['TP']}/{best['FP']}/{best['FN']}")
print(f" evaluations: {evals[0]} time: {time.time()-t0:.0f}s")
# Also surface the highest-precision config seen (the ship-safe operating point).
if traj:
hp = max(traj, key=lambda r: (r["precision"], r["recall"]))
print("\n── highest-precision config seen (ship-safe) ──")
print(f" config : {hp['config']}")
print(f" P={hp['precision']*100:.2f}% R={hp['recall']*100:.2f}% F1={hp['f1']*100:.2f}%")
if args.out:
Path(args.out).write_text(json.dumps(
{"best_by_f1": {"config": best_cfg, **best}, "n_evals": evals[0]}, indent=2))
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()