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Add opt-in choice_proportions_override to LogKDE

  • LogKDE derives the per-choice proportions that scale its labels from
    the raw counts of the RT arrays it is handed. A caller that pads or
    oversamples a choice group - disproportionate stratified sampling, which
    gives an under-represented choice a larger KDE support without changing
    its true marginal probability - has no way to keep those proportions
    truthful: the padding becomes choice probability.
  • Supplied as the constructor keyword alternate_choice_p, reusing the
    name and the positional convention kde_sample already uses for the
    same concept rather than adding a second differently-shaped mechanism.
    simulator_data keeps its documented simulator-output contract, so the
    override does not ride in on a dict key the simulator never emits.
  • Validated once before the loop: the sequence must have one entry per
    choice, ordered as np.unique(metadata['possible_choices']), and sum to
    1. The length message names the required ordering, since positional
      alignment is the whole contract.
  • Opt-in. None is the default and is byte-identical to the previous
    behaviour, verified as float hex across four thetas with displace_t
    both ways. No existing caller passes it.

Stacked on #349 (its commit is the first of this branch; review only the top commit). It shares tests/test_kde_class.py with #349, which is the reason for the stack rather than any code dependency; this PR shrinks to one commit once #349 merges.

Tests: four cases in tests/test_kde_class.py - proportions from counts, the override replacing them, length mismatch, and a non-normalised sequence - pass on current main (0edce94, v0.14.0). Fork CI has not been approved for this fork, so no check-runs appear here.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for custom choice proportions when generating KDE-based samples.
    • Zero-proportion choices are excluded from sampling and handled safely during density evaluation.
    • Improved response-time filtering to retain only valid, positive values with finite logarithms.
    • Choices without usable samples receive a flat fallback density.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected bandwidth selection for choices with a single usable response time.
    • Preserved choice groups when invalid response times are filtered out.
    • Added validation for custom choice proportions.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified LogKDE data requirements and fallback behavior in the tutorial.

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LogKDE now filters RT samples by sentinel, positivity, and finite logarithm checks. It supports validated alternate choice proportions. Tests and tutorial text cover filtering, fallback handling, bandwidth behavior, and proportion-based evaluation and sampling.

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RT filtering and fallback handling
ssms/support_utils/kde_class.py, docs/core_tutorials/kde_class.ipynb, tests/test_kde_class.py
The implementation retains only usable RT samples per choice. Documentation describes fallback behavior. Tests cover filtering, unchanged positive data, and singleton bandwidth handling.
Alternate choice proportions
ssms/support_utils/kde_class.py, tests/test_kde_class.py
LogKDE accepts iterable alternate_choice_p values, validates their length and values, and applies them by choice index. Tests cover default count-based proportions, supplied proportions, generators, validation errors, and zero-proportion handling.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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Choices with no usable reaction-time data can receive incorrect likelihoods, so the fallback proportion handling should be fixed before merging.

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🟠 Major · Apply the selected choice proportion in the fallback density. · kde_class.py:325-327

ssms/support_utils/kde_class.py:325-327
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Apply the selected choice proportion in the fallback density.

When filtering leaves a choice with no usable RTs, this branch returns 1 / (n_trials * max_t). It ignores self.data["choice_proportions"], including alternate_choice_p. A no-data choice therefore has the same likelihood under different overrides. Scale the fallback uniform density by the selected choice proportion and add a regression test.

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In `@ssms/support_utils/kde_class.py` around lines 325 - 327, Update the fallback
density assignment in the KDE evaluation path to multiply the uniform density by
the selected choice’s proportion from self.data["choice_proportions"], including
alternate_choice_p overrides. Add a regression test verifying that a choice with
no usable RTs produces likelihoods that change with its configured proportion.

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In `@ssms/support_utils/kde_class.py`:
- Line 499: Update the proportion validation in the KDE class before storing the
proportions: reject any negative elements in the alternate-choice proportions,
while preserving the existing length and sum checks for valid nonnegative
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🟠 Major · Apply the stored choice proportion in the no-base-data fallback. · kde_class.py:322-327

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Apply the stored choice proportion in the no-base-data fallback.

When filtering removes every RT for a choice, kde_eval() assigns 1 / (n_trials * max_t) and ignores choice_proportions. This gives a zero-proportion choice finite likelihood. It also disagrees with kde_sample(), which uses the stored proportion and samples no observations when it is zero, or samples uniformly on [0, max_t] when it is nonzero.

Compute the fallback as log(choice_proportion / max_t) and clamp the result to lb:

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                choice_p = self.data["choice_proportions"][
                    self.data["choices"].index(c)
                ]
                if choice_p == 0:
                    log_kde_eval[choice_idx_tmp] = lb
                else:
                    log_kde_eval[choice_idx_tmp] = max(
                        np.log(choice_p / self.simulator_info["max_t"]),
                        lb,
                    )
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In `@ssms/support_utils/kde_class.py` around lines 322 - 327, Update the
no-base-data fallback in kde_eval() to use the matching choice_proportions entry
rather than n_trials. For zero proportion, assign lb; otherwise compute the log
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🟠 Major · Apply alternate_choice_p in the no-data fallback. · kde_class.py:323-328

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Apply alternate_choice_p in the no-data fallback.

When a choice has no retained RT samples, this branch ignores self.data["choice_proportions"]. For example, an all-filtered choice with alternate_choice_p=[0.0, 1.0] receives a finite fallback likelihood instead of lb. This assigns probability to a choice configured as impossible. Use the configured proportion in this fallback and clamp a zero proportion to lb.

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In `@ssms/support_utils/kde_class.py` around lines 323 - 328, Update the
no-base-data fallback in the KDE evaluation branch to incorporate the
corresponding self.data["choice_proportions"] value, returning lb when that
proportion is zero and otherwise computing the fallback likelihood with the
configured proportion. Preserve the existing n_trials and
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eitan_perlin@brown.edu and others added 2 commits September 25, 2026 13:33
A genuinely negative or zero RT - real and expected for models whose
non-decision-time kernel has unbounded support (e.g. a Normal(t, st)
kernel), and distinct from the omission sentinel - produces
log(non-positive) = NaN in the log-RT array. A single NaN poisons
np.std() over the entire choice group inside bandwidth_silverman, which
then fails the 'bandwidth > 0' check and silently discards the whole
group as 'no_base_data'. Measured directly: 1 negative RT out of 198,865
samples collapsed its entire choice group, flattening that group's
density to a theta-independent floor in the training labels.

Extend the validity mask to require rt > 0 and finite log(rt), applied
to the final (possibly displace_t-shifted) RTs.

- The mask stays after the log rather than at it: with displace_t,
  measured 10 of 200 strictly-positive input RTs become non-positive
  only after the shift, so an earlier-only mask misses them. The
  RuntimeWarning from the earlier log is left unsuppressed - it reports
  real data.
- All three mask terms are load-bearing, measured over 2M draws at the
  displace_t boundary: 3 cases where rt - t > 0 but the log path
  underflows to -inf (caught only by isfinite) and 1 in the reverse
  direction (caught only by rt > 0); rt = +inf is caught only by
  isfinite. != filter_rts is kept because filter_rts is a documented
  parameter and rt > 0 subsumes it only for negative sentinels.
- No input existed for which the old code produced a finite bandwidth
  that this changes: contamination always forced no_base_data. Verified
  byte-identical (float hex) bandwidths and log_rts for clean data
  across ddm, ddm_st, full_ddm and ddm_sdv, at n=200 and n=5000.
- Filtering can now leave a choice group with a single sample, where
  bandwidth_silverman returns its std_n_1 fallback of ~10.59 instead of
  collapsing. That is an improvement on a flat fallback but not a
  meaningful bandwidth, so it is documented on the class and pinned by a
  test. Raising the len(log_rts) == 0 floor to < 2 would also change
  pre-existing n=1 behavior and is left as a separate change.
- Retention contract, the pre-filter basis of choice_proportions, and
  the n=1 limitation are now in the LogKDE class docstring, which is
  what the API docs render; the stale caller-precondition sentence in
  the kde_class tutorial is corrected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Callers that pad or oversample the per-choice RT arrays before KDE
fitting (e.g. disproportionate stratified sampling that gives an
under-represented choice group a larger KDE support without changing its
true marginal probability) previously had no way to keep the training
labels' choice proportions truthful: the proportions were always derived
from the (padded) raw counts.

simulator_data['choice_proportions_override'] now supplies the true
per-choice proportions, keyed by choice value. The key is absent for
every existing caller, so default behavior is byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- Supplied as the constructor keyword alternate_choice_p, reusing the name and
  the positional convention kde_sample already uses for the same concept,
  rather than adding a second differently-shaped mechanism. simulator_data
  keeps its documented simulator-output contract.
- Validated once before the loop: the sequence must match the number of choices
  and sum to 1. The length message names the required ordering, since positional
  alignment is the contract.
- Default behaviour is byte-identical to before, verified as float hex across
  four thetas with displace_t both ways.
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The implementation is careful: the default is byte-identical to main (I compared choice proportions, per-choice RTs, bandwidths, kde_eval and kde_sample as raw bytes across four θ × displace_t), the validation is thorough, the 8 tests pass, and both CodeRabbit inline points are fixed in 95431e4. My hesitation is scope, not code.

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  • Low (scope): ssms/support_utils/kde_class.py:66. The new public keyword has no caller.
  • Low: kde_class.py:506-509. A Mapping is silently accepted and its keys become the proportions. {0: 0.3, 1: 0.7} becomes [0.0, 1.0] on a {0,1} model and passes every check. That is an easy mistake, because the commit message still describes a keyed-by-choice design. Please reject Mapping (and str, which today fails only by accident inside the float conversion) with a TypeError.
  • Low: kde_class.py:332-335. For a choice with no usable RTs, kde_eval ignores the override while kde_sample honours it. The fallback is still -log(n_trials * max_t), whereas kde_sample(use_empirical_choice_p=True) allocates that choice's share from the stored, overridden proportions. Document it, or apply the override in that fallback only when one was supplied. CodeRabbit's proposed log(choice_p / max_t) would change the default labels too.
  • Low (description): the commit subject, its second paragraph and the PR title describe simulator_data["choice_proportions_override"] keyed by choice value; the code adds a positional constructor keyword alternate_choice_p. The body says "four cases" where there are 8 tests. The Co-Authored-By trailer is not the last line of the message, so git does not parse it as a trailer, and the commit author email is a cluster-node address.

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Opt-in alternate_choice_p on LogKDE. The code is sound, but it is unused API: draft until its consumer exists, and rebase onto main then.

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@EItanm1999 this draft conflicts with main again. Could you rebase it and either mark it ready for review or close it? @cpaniaguam and @digicosmos86 are requested as reviewers for when it is ready.

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Closing per Alex's 10-14 note. No caller exists: the stratified/padded sampling that motivated it was shelved once 300 training files fixed the sparsity it targeted. If a stratified-sampling option is added to the generator, this can return together with that consumer, rebased onto main (git rebase --onto main be7a030) with the Mapping/str TypeError, the empty-choice kde_eval fallback and the description fixes from the 10-08 review.

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