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Remove checkpoint migration playbook after W&B checkpoint migration is complete #73
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Closing under the second of the two options @SoheylM offered in review of #75: record an
explicit decision not to migrate, update the supported-generator documentation, and close
or replace this issue.The decision: W&B-era checkpoints are not being migrated. It is a decision rather than
a deferral. A migrated checkpoint arrives without the two things the current layout exists
to provide — a config fingerprint identifying the hyperparameters that produced it, and a
content hash tying a leaderboard row to exact bytes. It could be stored, but never
canonically addressed and never verified, so no row could be ranked against it. Retraining
a model costs less than a provenance story nobody can check.Written up in
docs/checkpoint_layout.md§ Historical checkpoints (963fc02).Against this issue's done criteria:
- README no longer points to the playbook — done; no reference remains anywhere in the repo.
- The file is deleted — done in Generator contract, shared evaluation layer, and HF-hosted leaderboard #75.
- Historical checkpoint migration is complete — resolved by the decision above rather
than by performing it. This is the criterion the issue was really tracking, and leaving
it open would track work that is not going to happen.
Also fixed the reporting that made the gap look larger than it is.
--list-generators --check-availabilityqueried every registered generator regardless of design kind, so on
beams2dit reported 10 missing checkpoints and told the reader they could be trained and
evaluated — false for the seven that cannot serve a 2D problem at all. It now separates
does not fit the problem from nobody has published weights: 7 of 14 fitbeams2d, 4
have weights, 3 are actually owed —cgan_2d,gan_2d,pixel_cnn_pp_2d.Publishing those three, or narrowing the registry, is a separate project decision and not
what this issue was about. Happy to reopen if the non-migration decision should be revisited.
docs/checkpoint_migration_playbook.md is still useful during the HF transition, but it should be removed once the historical W&B checkpoint migration is completed and no longer needed.
Done criteria: