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kemal 41a46ae14a Take model tuning from config too, not from the saved state
The companion to the Kalman fix. RecursiveLeastSquares.from_dict and
AdaptiveConformal.from_dict restore lambda, delta, alpha, gamma and the
conformal window alongside their data, and load_dict replaces the
config-built heads with those, so every one of those knobs was immutable on
any station that already had state. Editing config.yaml and restarting looks
exactly like a change with no effect, which is the failure mode that cost real
time on the Kalman side of this before it was found.

Only the estimate is state now. Weights, covariances and conformal scores are
restored; tuning is re-applied from config on every load. The conformal deques
are rebuilt when the configured window changes, preserving their contents.

load_dict also skips heads for a target or horizon this build no longer has,
rather than resurrecting them from a stale file.

Found while implementing a damped-trend ensemble member, which was then
abandoned: see the following note.
2026-08-19 19:31:03 +01:00

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# Copyright 2026 Kemal Yaylali
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"""The learning core: exponentially-weighted recursive least squares.
Why RLS rather than an off-the-shelf gradient learner:
* It is the exact minimiser of the exponentially weighted squared error
at every step, not an approximation, so it converges in far fewer
samples than SGD. On a station that produces 288 rows a day, sample
efficiency is not a nicety.
* The covariance `P` is a genuine parameter-uncertainty estimate, free.
* One matrix of size (d, d) with d ~ 33 is 8 kB. The whole model bank
fits in L2 cache on a Cortex-A53.
* Forgetting factor `lambda` gives principled adaptation to season and
to sensor ageing without any retraining schedule.
Directional forgetting is used: `P` is only inflated along directions
that were actually excited by data. Plain forgetting blows `P` up
exponentially during quiet nights when the regressor is nearly constant,
and the model then detonates on the first sunrise. This is the single
most common way an RLS deployment fails in the field.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from collections import deque
from typing import Deque, Dict, Optional
import numpy as np
class RecursiveLeastSquares:
def __init__(self, n_features: int, forgetting: float = 0.999,
delta: float = 100.0, p_max: float = 1e6):
self.d = int(n_features)
self.lam = float(forgetting)
self.p_max = float(p_max)
self.delta = float(delta) # kept so a refit can return to the prior
self.theta = np.zeros(self.d)
self.P = np.eye(self.d) * self.delta
self.n_updates = 0
self.ewma_sq_error = 0.0
def predict(self, x: np.ndarray) -> float:
return float(np.dot(self.theta, np.asarray(x, dtype=float).ravel()))
def predict_many(self, X: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
return np.asarray(X, dtype=float) @ self.theta
def predict_std(self, x: np.ndarray, noise_var: float = 1.0) -> float:
"""Parameter-uncertainty contribution to predictive spread."""
x = np.asarray(x, dtype=float).ravel()
return float(np.sqrt(max(noise_var * (1.0 + x @ self.P @ x), 1e-12)))
def update(self, x: np.ndarray, y: float, weight: float = 1.0) -> float:
"""One RLS step. Returns the a-priori residual (the honest error)."""
x = np.asarray(x, dtype=float).ravel()
if not (np.all(np.isfinite(x)) and np.isfinite(y)):
return 0.0
Px = self.P @ x
denom = self.lam + weight * float(x @ Px)
if denom < 1e-12:
return 0.0
residual = float(y) - float(self.theta @ x)
gain = (weight * Px) / denom
self.theta = self.theta + gain * residual
self.P = (self.P - np.outer(gain, Px)) / self.lam
# directional forgetting guard: cap the spectral growth of P
self.P = 0.5 * (self.P + self.P.T) # enforce symmetry
trace = float(np.trace(self.P))
if trace > self.p_max:
self.P *= self.p_max / trace
np.fill_diagonal(self.P, np.maximum(np.diag(self.P), 1e-9))
self.n_updates += 1
self.ewma_sq_error = 0.99 * self.ewma_sq_error + 0.01 * residual ** 2
return residual
def fit_batch(self, X: np.ndarray, y: np.ndarray, passes: int = 1) -> "RecursiveLeastSquares":
X = np.atleast_2d(np.asarray(X, dtype=float))
y = np.asarray(y, dtype=float).ravel()
for _ in range(max(int(passes), 1)):
for i in range(X.shape[0]):
self.update(X[i], y[i])
return self
@property
def noise_var(self) -> float:
return float(max(self.ewma_sq_error, 1e-9))
def reset(self) -> None:
"""Return to the prior, keeping the configuration.
A batch refit has to start from here rather than continuing, because
replaying the same history into a live filter is not the same as seeing
new data. RLS with forgetting treats every update as fresh evidence, so
feeding it the same rows on each retrain tick makes it believe it has
many times the data it has: P collapses, and the weights in directions
the data never excites drift without anything to pull them back.
"""
self.theta = np.zeros(self.d)
self.P = np.eye(self.d) * self.delta
self.n_updates = 0
self.ewma_sq_error = 0.0
def to_dict(self) -> Dict:
return {"d": self.d, "lam": self.lam, "p_max": self.p_max,
"delta": self.delta,
"theta": self.theta.tolist(), "P": self.P.tolist(),
"n": self.n_updates, "ewma": self.ewma_sq_error}
@classmethod
def from_dict(cls, s: Dict) -> "RecursiveLeastSquares":
# delta must survive the round trip or a refit after a restart would
# return to the wrong prior.
m = cls(s["d"], s["lam"], s.get("delta", 100.0), s.get("p_max", 1e6))
m.theta = np.array(s["theta"], dtype=float)
m.P = np.array(s["P"], dtype=float)
m.n_updates = s.get("n", 0)
m.ewma_sq_error = s.get("ewma", 0.0)
return m
class AdaptiveConformal:
"""Distribution-free prediction intervals that self-correct their coverage.
Split conformal gives you a valid interval only if the data are
exchangeable. Weather is not: a front arrives and yesterday's
residual quantile becomes a fantasy. Adaptive conformal inference
(Gibbs and Candes) fixes this by feeding realised coverage back into
the working alpha:
alpha_{t+1} = alpha_t + gamma * (alpha_target - err_t)
The interval widens after each miss and narrows after each hit, so
long-run coverage tracks the target whatever the distribution does.
"""
def __init__(self, alpha: float = 0.10, window: int = 400, gamma: float = 0.01):
self.alpha_target = float(alpha)
self.alpha = float(alpha)
self.gamma = float(gamma)
self.scores: Deque[float] = deque(maxlen=int(window))
self.hits: Deque[int] = deque(maxlen=int(window))
def quantile(self) -> float:
if len(self.scores) < 20:
return float("nan")
a = float(np.clip(self.alpha, 0.005, 0.75))
return float(np.quantile(np.asarray(self.scores), 1.0 - a, method="higher"))
def interval(self, mu: float, fallback_sigma: float = 1.0) -> tuple[float, float]:
q = self.quantile()
if not np.isfinite(q):
q = 1.645 * fallback_sigma # gaussian 90% until we know better
return float(mu - q), float(mu + q)
def observe(self, residual: float, covered: Optional[bool] = None) -> None:
r = abs(float(residual))
if not np.isfinite(r):
return
if covered is None:
q = self.quantile()
covered = bool(r <= q) if np.isfinite(q) else True
self.scores.append(r)
self.hits.append(1 if covered else 0)
err = 0.0 if covered else 1.0
self.alpha = float(np.clip(self.alpha + self.gamma * (self.alpha_target - err),
0.005, 0.75))
def retune(self, alpha: float, gamma: float, window: int) -> None:
"""Re-apply configured tuning, keeping the observed scores.
from_dict restores alpha_target, gamma and the window alongside the
data, so editing any of them in config.yaml did nothing on a station
that already had state: the file put the old values straight back.
"""
self.alpha_target = float(alpha)
self.gamma = float(gamma)
window = int(window)
if self.scores.maxlen != window:
self.scores = deque(self.scores, maxlen=window)
self.hits = deque(self.hits, maxlen=window)
@property
def empirical_coverage(self) -> float:
return float(np.mean(self.hits)) if self.hits else float("nan")
def to_dict(self) -> Dict:
return {"alpha_target": self.alpha_target, "alpha": self.alpha,
"gamma": self.gamma, "maxlen": self.scores.maxlen,
"scores": list(self.scores), "hits": list(self.hits)}
@classmethod
def from_dict(cls, s: Dict) -> "AdaptiveConformal":
c = cls(s["alpha_target"], s.get("maxlen", 400) or 400, s["gamma"])
c.alpha = s["alpha"]
c.scores = deque(s["scores"], maxlen=c.scores.maxlen)
c.hits = deque(s["hits"], maxlen=c.hits.maxlen)
return c