# Research Spec: GNN Code Generation Failure Analysis # # Systematic investigation of why GNNs fail at code generation. # Tests loss functions, decoder architectures, embedding dimensions. # # Launch: # ratiocinator research specs/gnn_generation.yaml # # Requires pre-collated data (.pt files). Either stage via rsync # or generate on-instance from the JSONL files in the branch. # What to research topic: "Systematic analysis of why Graph Neural Networks fail at code generation from ASTs. Testing hypotheses: (1) MSE vs cross-entropy loss on node types, (2) different decoder GNN architectures (GCN/GAT/GIN/SAGE), (3) embedding dimension (64/128/256). Baseline: 0% syntactic validity with GAT decoder, MSE loss, 64D embeddings." goal_metric: syntactic_validity_pct maximize: true # Target codebase repo_url: https://github.com/timlawrenz/jubilant-palm-tree.git repo_branch: experiment/ratiocinator-gnn-study runner_script: scripts/run_generation_arm.sh # Infrastructure — decoder models ~850K params, moderate training hardware: gpu: "RTX 4090" num_gpus: 1 min_cpu_ram_gb: 32 min_inet_down: 1000.0 min_cuda_version: 12.0 max_dph: 0.40 disk_gb: 50.0 image: pytorch/pytorch:2.7.0-cuda12.8-cudnn9-runtime data: source: none # Dataset is in the repo branch; pre-collation done on-instance deps: pre_install: - "apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq git-lfs > /dev/null 2>&1 || true" - "cd /workspace/experiment && git lfs install && git lfs pull" - "pip install torch-geometric torch-scatter torch-sparse -f https://data.pyg.org/whl/torch-2.7.0+cu128.html" - "pip install pandas tqdm sentence-transformers nltk scikit-learn numpy" requirements: requirements.txt exclude_from_requirements: - torch - torchvision - torch_geometric verify: "python -c \"import torch_geometric; print(f'PyG {torch_geometric.__version__}')\"" metrics: protocol: json_line json_prefix: "METRICS:" # Budget — longer training per arm (~10-20 min) max_iterations: 2 max_dollars: 15.00 train_timeout_s: 2400 download_timeout_s: 600 # Output paper_title: "What Graph Neural Networks Can and Cannot Learn About Code: A Systematic Empirical Study on Ruby AST Analysis"