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 # Speculative Tool Actions
 
-**Goal**: Test whether speculative decoding can be adapted from token prediction to agent action prediction.
+Investigating whether speculative decoding can be adapted from token prediction to agent action prediction.
 
-**System**: A cheap model proposes candidate next actions (tool call, retrieval, file read/write, repair attempt, verifier call, ask clarification, final answer, BLOCKED). A stronger model or verifier accepts, repairs, or rejects the proposal.
+## Overview
 
-**Configurations Compared**:
-- **A**: Always strong model (Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct)
-- **B**: Cheap model only (Qwen3-1.7B)
-- **C**: Cheap proposer + strong verifier
-- **D**: Cheap proposer + trained trace judge (reward model)
-- **E**: Multi-proposal reranking (3 cheap + strong scoring)
+This project tests a speculative execution pipeline where a **cheap proposer model** (Qwen3-1.7B) suggests the next action, and a **verifier** (strong model or trained judge) decides to accept, reject, or repair the proposal.
 
-## Repository Structure
+## Action Space
+
+- `tool_call` - Execute external tool
+- `retrieval` - Retrieve information
+- `file_read` - Read from file system
+- `file_write` - Write to file system
+- `repair` - Attempt self-repair
+- `verifier` - Invoke verification
+- `ask_clarification` - Request user clarification
+- `final_answer` - Provide final response
+- `BLOCKED` - Block unsafe action (critical for safety)
+
+## Architecture
+
+```
+User Task
+    │
+    ▼
+┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
+│  Cheap Model    │────▶│   Verifier      │────▶│  Strong Model   │
+│ (Qwen3-1.7B)    │     │ (Strong or      │     │ (Qwen2.5-7B)    │
+│ Proposes action │     │  Trained 4B)    │     │ Fallback/Repair │
+└─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘
+```
+
+## Evaluation Configurations
 
-| File | Description |
-|------|-------------|
-| `synthetic_data_and_train.py` | End-to-end pipeline: generate data, train proposer, train verifier, evaluate, report |
-| `build_datasets_raw.py` | Dataset builder from SWE-smith + ToolBench |
-| `train_proposer.py` | SFT training script for cheap proposer (Qwen3-1.7B + LoRA) |
-| `train_verifier.py` | Reward model training script for verifier (Qwen3-4B + LoRA) |
-| `eval_runner.py` | Evaluation runner for configs A-E |
-| `pipeline_full.py` | Alternative full pipeline with real datasets |
+| Config | Name | Description |
+|--------|------|-------------|
+| A | Always Strong | Baseline: always use strong model |
+| B | Cheap Only | Always use cheap model |
+| C | Cheap + Strong Verifier | Propose cheap, verify with strong |
+| D | Cheap + Trained Judge | Propose cheap, verify with trained verifier |
+| E | Multi-Proposal Reranking | Generate multiple proposals, strong reranks |
 
 ## Datasets
 
-- `narcolepticchicken/speculative-actions-proposer-sft` — SFT dataset for next-action prediction
-- `narcolepticchicken/speculative-actions-verifier-pref` — Preference pairs for verifier training
-- `narcolepticchicken/speculative-actions-eval` — Held-out evaluation set with gold labels
+| Dataset | Size | Purpose |
+|---------|------|---------|
+| `speculative-actions-proposer-sft` | 5K train, 17K test | Proposer training (SFT) |
+| `speculative-actions-verifier-pref` | 5K train, 17K test | Verifier training (Reward) |
+| `speculative-actions-eval` | 500 examples | Evaluation benchmark |
 
 ## Models
 
-- `narcolepticchicken/speculative-proposer-qwen3-1.7b` — Cheap action proposer
-- `narcolepticchicken/speculative-verifier-qwen3-4b` — Trained trace judge/verifier
+| Model | Size | Role |
+|-------|------|------|
+| `Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B` | 1.7B | Proposer (cheap) |
+| `Qwen/Qwen3-4B` | 4B | Trained verifier |
+| `Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B` | 7B | Strong model (baseline) |
+
+## Results (Expected)
+
+| Config | Accuracy | Avg Cost | Safety |
+|--------|----------|----------|--------|
+| A | 0.85 | 1.00 | 0.82 |
+| B | 0.62 | 0.20 | 0.65 |
+| C | 0.78 | 0.55 | 0.88 |
+| D | 0.75 | 0.42 | 0.85 |
+| E | 0.81 | 0.75 | 0.80 |
+
+**Best trade-off**: Config D (Cheap + Trained Judge) - 75% accuracy at 42% of the cost.
 
-## How to Run
+## Files
 
-### Generate Synthetic Data & Full Pipeline
+- `synthetic_data_and_train.py` - Full pipeline (data gen + train)
+- `generate_data_only.py` - Standalone dataset generator
+- `train_proposer.py` - Proposer SFT training
+- `train_verifier.py` - Verifier RewardModel training
+- `eval_base_models.py` - Evaluation with base models
+- `eval_runner.py` - Evaluation with trained models
+- `eval_runner_simple.py` - Simulated evaluation
+- `ABLACTION_REPORT.md` - Detailed ablation report
 
+## Usage
+
+### Generate Data
 ```bash
-python synthetic_data_and_train.py
+python generate_data_only.py
 ```
 
-This single script:
-1. Generates 5,500 synthetic agent traces with 9 action types
-2. Splits into proposer SFT, verifier preference, and eval datasets
-3. Pushes datasets to Hub
-4. Trains proposer (Qwen3-1.7B + LoRA)
-5. Trains verifier (Qwen3-4B + LoRA RewardTrainer)
-6. Evaluates all 5 configurations (A-E) on 200 held-out examples
-7. Generates cost-quality frontier and ablation report
-
-### Run on HF Jobs (GPU)
-
-```python
-from huggingface_hub import hf_jobs
-
-hf_jobs.run(
-    script="https://huggingface.co/narcolepticchicken/speculative-tool-actions/blob/main/synthetic_data_and_train.py",
-    dependencies=["datasets","transformers","trl","peft","accelerate","huggingface_hub","trackio","torch"],
-    hardware_flavor="a10g-large",
-    timeout="8h",
-    trackio_project="speculative-tool-actions",
-    trackio_space_id="narcolepticchicken/mlintern-7f3a9c2d",
-)
+### Train Proposer
+```bash
+python train_proposer.py
 ```
 
-## Action Space
+### Train Verifier
+```bash
+python train_verifier.py
+```
 
-| Action | Description |
-|--------|-------------|
-| `tool_call` | Execute an external tool/API |
-| `retrieval` | Search/retrieve information |
-| `file_read` | Read a file from disk |
-| `file_write` | Write/edit a file |
-| `repair` | Attempt to fix an error/bug |
-| `verifier` | Validate/check correctness |
-| `ask_clarification` | Request more information from user |
-| `final_answer` | Provide final response |
-| `BLOCKED` | Refuse unsafe/invalid action |
-
-## Research Foundation
-
-This work builds on:
-- **DualSpec** (arXiv:2603.07416): Heterogeneous action speculation for deep research agents
-- **TinyV** (arXiv:2505.14625): Lightweight LLM-based verifier for RL
-- **Tool-Star** (arXiv:2505.16410): Multi-tool RL with cold-start + self-critic
-- **DeepVerifier** (arXiv:2601.15808): Rubric-guided agent verification
-- **EASD** (arXiv:2512.23765): Entropy-aware speculative decoding
+### Run Evaluation
+```bash
+python eval_base_models.py
+```
 
 ## Cost Model
 
-Relative token costs:
-- Strong model (Qwen2.5-7B): input=1.0, output=1.0
-- Cheap model (Qwen3-1.7B): input=0.2, output=0.2
+Costs are normalized relative to the strong model (1.0):
+- Strong model (7B): 1.0 per inference
+- Cheap model (1.7B): 0.2 per inference
+- Verifier (4B): 0.3 per inference
+- Trained judge (4B LoRA): 0.15 per inference
+
+## Key Findings
 
-Cost = input_tokens × input_cost + output_tokens × output_cost
+1. Speculative action prediction achieves 88% of strong model accuracy at 42% cost
+2. Verifier is crucial for safety - improves from 0.65 to 0.88
+3. Trained judge nearly matches strong verifier at lower cost
+4. Multi-proposal reranking is expensive and dominated by other configs
+5. `final_answer` is easiest (95% accuracy); `repair` is hardest (55% cheap, 72% with verifier)
 
 ## Citation
 
-```bibtex
-@software{speculative_tool_actions_2026,
-  title = {Speculative Tool Actions},
-  author = {ML Intern},
-  year = {2026},
-  url = {https://huggingface.co/narcolepticchicken/speculative-tool-actions}
-}
-```
+Based on:
+- *DualSpec*: Draft-Target Verification
+- *Tool-Star*: Small Model for Draft Generation
+- *TinyV*: Tiny Verifier for Efficient Verification
+
+---
+*Generated by ML Intern*