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kemal 485affe956 Fix the runaway forecasts: refits accumulated, and annual terms fitted too early
Reported from a real station after 1.5 days: a six hour temperature forecast of
53 C in a 24 C room, and 9 C at one day, both carrying a plus or minus of 0.43.
Confidently wrong is the one failure this project is supposed to refuse.

Root cause. fit() replayed history into the live RLS on every retrain tick and
never reset, so 453 grid rows had produced 64,676 updates in a day and a half.
RLS with forgetting reads every update as fresh evidence, so the model believed
it had a hundred times the data it had: P collapsed, in-sample error looked
excellent, and the weights drifted without bound in directions the data never
excited. Measured: cond(P) 3.1e9 and ||theta|| 1680 against a median |theta| of
1.67. A refit now starts from the prior, which makes retraining idempotent.
Across 25 refits on the real data ||theta|| holds at 11.35, drifting 0.03, where
before it grew without limit.

The two largest weights were sin_doy and cos_doy at +1174 and +1191. Annual
harmonics were in the design matrix from the first sample, where they are
near-constant, near-collinear with each other and with the bias, and a
rank-deficient regressor is what RLS answers with enormous cancelling weights.
They are now held at zero until the record spans the same 120 days the
climatology fit already requires, because a day and a half of data says nothing
whatsoever about the season.

Also raised the standardiser's variance floor from 1e-8, which only caught a
bit-exactly constant column, to 1e-3. A feature that merely barely moves was
being divided by its own noise.

The conformal calibrators and Hedge weights are deliberately not reset by a
refit: those are earned from scored forecasts, not from this regression.

Backtest unchanged within noise, coverage still 89 to 91 across all 18 heads.
Four regression tests added, including that refitting the same history twice
must give the same model.
2026-08-17 08:15:45 +01:00

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# Copyright 2026 Kemal Yaylali
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"""The learners: RLS, adaptive conformal, and the Zambretti prior.
The covariance-cap test is the important one in this file. Unbounded P growth
through an unexcited subspace is the most common way a field RLS deployment
dies, and it dies silently until the first excited sample.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import numpy as np
import pytest
from ashvale.models.precip import zambretti
from ashvale.models.rls import AdaptiveConformal, RecursiveLeastSquares
# ---------------------------------------------------------------- RLS
def test_rls_recovers_known_coefficients():
rng = np.random.default_rng(3)
truth = np.array([0.5, -1.25, 2.0, 0.0])
m = RecursiveLeastSquares(n_features=4, forgetting=0.999)
for _ in range(4000):
x = rng.normal(size=4)
m.update(x, float(truth @ x))
assert np.allclose(m.theta, truth, atol=0.02)
def test_rls_covariance_trace_never_exceeds_the_cap():
"""A quiet regressor is exactly what inflates P. It must not run away."""
m = RecursiveLeastSquares(n_features=8, forgetting=0.99, p_max=1e4)
quiet = np.zeros(8)
quiet[0] = 1.0 # only one direction ever excited
for _ in range(50000):
m.update(quiet, 1.0)
tr = float(np.trace(np.asarray(m.P, dtype=float)))
assert np.isfinite(tr)
assert tr <= 1e4 * (1.0 + 1e-6)
def test_rls_covariance_stays_symmetric():
rng = np.random.default_rng(5)
m = RecursiveLeastSquares(n_features=6, forgetting=0.995)
for _ in range(5000):
m.update(rng.normal(size=6), float(rng.normal()))
P = np.asarray(m.P, dtype=float)
assert np.allclose(P, P.T, atol=1e-9)
def test_rls_survives_a_non_finite_sample_without_poisoning_theta():
m = RecursiveLeastSquares(n_features=3, forgetting=0.99)
for _ in range(100):
m.update(np.array([1.0, 0.5, -0.2]), 1.0)
good = m.theta.copy()
m.update(np.array([np.nan, 1.0, 1.0]), 1.0)
assert np.all(np.isfinite(m.theta)), "a NaN sample must not poison the weights"
m.update(np.array([1.0, 1.0, 1.0]), float("inf"))
assert np.all(np.isfinite(m.theta))
assert good.shape == m.theta.shape
def test_rls_forgetting_gives_the_documented_effective_memory():
m = RecursiveLeastSquares(n_features=2, forgetting=0.9985)
assert 1.0 / (1.0 - m.lam) == pytest.approx(666.67, rel=1e-3)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------- conformal
def test_conformal_coverage_tracks_the_target_on_stationary_noise():
ac = AdaptiveConformal(alpha=0.1, gamma=0.02)
rng = np.random.default_rng(17)
inside = 0
n = 4000
for i in range(n):
err = float(rng.normal())
q = float(ac.quantile())
covered = bool(np.isfinite(q) and abs(err) <= q)
if i > 400 and covered:
inside += 1
ac.observe(err, covered)
assert 0.84 <= inside / (n - 400) <= 0.96
def test_conformal_alpha_is_clamped():
ac = AdaptiveConformal(alpha=0.1, gamma=0.2)
for _ in range(5000):
ac.observe(1e9, False) # always a miss, alpha should rise then stop
assert 0.005 <= ac.alpha <= 0.75
def test_conformal_widens_after_misses_and_narrows_after_hits():
"""Mind the sign. The update is
alpha <- alpha + gamma * (alpha_target - 1[miss])
so a hit adds +gamma*alpha_target and a miss subtracts gamma*(1-alpha_target).
Since the band is the (1-alpha) quantile, a *rising* alpha is a *narrowing*
band. Hits therefore push alpha up and misses push it down, which reads
backwards until you follow it through.
"""
ac = AdaptiveConformal(alpha=0.1, gamma=0.05)
for _ in range(200):
ac.observe(0.1, True)
a_hits = ac.alpha
assert a_hits > 0.1, "a run of hits should raise alpha, narrowing the band"
for _ in range(200):
ac.observe(1e6, False)
assert ac.alpha < a_hits, "a run of misses should lower alpha, widening the band"
# ---------------------------------------------------------------- zambretti
def test_zambretti_ordering_rising_is_never_worse_than_falling():
"""Z increases toward bad weather, so falling must not score below rising."""
for p in [980.0, 1000.0, 1013.0, 1030.0]:
rising = zambretti(p, +1.2, 6)["z"]
steady = zambretti(p, 0.0, 6)["z"]
falling = zambretti(p, -1.2, 6)["z"]
assert rising <= steady <= falling, f"ordering broken at {p} hPa"
def test_zambretti_z_decreases_with_pressure_within_a_branch():
for tend in (-1.2, 0.0, 1.2):
zs = [zambretti(p, tend, 6)["z"] for p in (985.0, 1000.0, 1015.0, 1030.0)]
assert all(a >= b for a, b in zip(zs, zs[1:])), f"not monotonic for tend={tend}"
def test_zambretti_stays_on_the_26_point_scale():
for p in (940.0, 1050.0):
for tend in (-5.0, 0.0, 5.0):
assert 1 <= zambretti(p, tend, 6)["z"] <= 26
def test_zambretti_rain_prior_rises_with_z():
settled = zambretti(1035.0, 1.5, 6)
stormy = zambretti(960.0, -2.5, 6)
assert stormy["prior_rain_prob"] > settled["prior_rain_prob"]
# ---------------------------------------------------------------- refit safety
def test_rls_reset_returns_to_the_prior():
m = RecursiveLeastSquares(n_features=5, forgetting=0.999, delta=100.0)
rng = np.random.default_rng(9)
for _ in range(500):
m.update(rng.normal(size=5), float(rng.normal()))
assert m.n_updates == 500
m.reset()
assert m.n_updates == 0
assert np.allclose(m.theta, 0.0)
assert np.allclose(m.P, np.eye(5) * 100.0)
def test_rls_delta_survives_serialisation():
"""A refit after a restart must return to the same prior it started from."""
m = RecursiveLeastSquares(n_features=4, forgetting=0.99, delta=100.0)
m.update(np.ones(4), 1.0)
back = RecursiveLeastSquares.from_dict(m.to_dict())
back.reset()
assert np.allclose(back.P, np.eye(4) * 100.0), "reload lost the prior"
def test_repeated_refits_do_not_accumulate():
"""Refitting the same history must be idempotent, not cumulative.
This is the bug that put a 53 C six-hour forecast on a real station in a
24 C room. fit() replayed history into a live filter on every retrain tick
and never reset, so 453 grid rows had produced 64,676 updates in a day and a
half. RLS with forgetting reads each update as fresh evidence, so P
collapsed and the weights drifted without bound in the directions the data
never excited.
"""
from ashvale.config import CONFIG
from ashvale.models.nowcast import NowcastEnsemble
rng = np.random.default_rng(3)
n = 400
g = CONFIG.model.grid_s
ts = np.arange(n) * g + 1.7554e9
cols = {
"temperature": 22 + 2 * np.sin(np.arange(n) / 40.0) + 0.2 * rng.normal(size=n),
"humidity": 50 + 5 * np.cos(np.arange(n) / 33.0),
"pressure": 1013 + np.sin(np.arange(n) / 77.0),
"lux": np.clip(300 * np.sin(np.arange(n) / 120.0), 0, None),
}
X = rng.normal(size=(n, 33))
X[:, 0] = 1.0
valid = np.ones(n, dtype=bool)
ens = NowcastEnsemble(CONFIG.model.targets, CONFIG.model.horizons_s, CONFIG.model)
head = ens.heads[("temperature", 21600)]
ens.fit(X, valid, cols, None, ts)
first_norm = float(np.linalg.norm(head.model.theta))
first_updates = head.model.n_updates
for _ in range(15):
ens.fit(X, valid, cols, None, ts)
assert head.model.n_updates == first_updates, "updates accumulated across refits"
assert float(np.linalg.norm(head.model.theta)) == pytest.approx(first_norm, rel=0.05)
def test_annual_harmonics_are_zero_until_the_record_spans_a_season():
"""Two near-constant, near-collinear columns are a rank-deficient regressor.
Left on from day one, sin_doy and cos_doy carried +1174 and +1191 on a real
station whose median weight was 1.67. Zero is the honest value: a day and a
half of data says nothing whatsoever about the season.
"""
from ashvale.features import FEATURE_NAMES, build_features
n = 450
ts = np.arange(n) * 300.0 + 1.7554e9 # about 1.5 days
t = 22 + 2 * np.sin(np.arange(n) / 40.0)
h = 50 + 5 * np.cos(np.arange(n) / 33.0)
p = 1013 + np.sin(np.arange(n) / 77.0)
lux = np.clip(300 * np.sin(np.arange(n) / 120.0), 0, None)
si, ci = FEATURE_NAMES.index("sin_doy"), FEATURE_NAMES.index("cos_doy")
X, _ = build_features(ts, t, h, p, lux, 300, 52.2, 0.12, min_days_annual=120.0)
assert np.all(X[:, si] == 0.0) and np.all(X[:, ci] == 0.0)
# A record that does span the year keeps them.
ts_long = np.arange(n) * (200 * 86400.0 / n) + 1.7554e9
X2, _ = build_features(ts_long, t, h, p, lux, 300, 52.2, 0.12, min_days_annual=120.0)
assert X2[:, si].std() > 0.1, "annual terms should return once the record is long enough"