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paidf-anomalygen

>- Full PAIDF AnomalyGen pipeline — fine-tune on a new anomaly dataset, generate synthetic anomaly images (SDG), evaluate quality (nn_score), and search per-sample (guidance, crop_ratio) parameters. Three modes: full (Phase 0→7: finetune then generate), finetune_only (Phase 0→1: train only), inference_only (Phase 0, 2→7: generate from an existing checkpoint). Use when the user asks to "fine-tune AnomalyGen", "generate anomaly images", "run PAIDF SDG", "evaluate SDG output quality", "run per-sam…

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Version0.1.0
LicenseApache-2.0
CompatibilityRequires docker + nvidia-container-toolkit and a CUDA GPU. Pulls the `metropolis_sdg.paidf_anomalygen` image declared in `versions.yaml` at the skill bank root.
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SKILL.md

PAIDF AnomalyGen

Standalone install? If this session was not initialized by the TAO skill bank plugin, run the tao-setup skill first (host preflight, credentials, cross-skill discovery).

Multi-phase pipeline (0–7); the mode flag selects which phases run.

Phase What runs Mode(s)
0 Verify / download pretrained checkpoints all
1 Fine-tune on dataset_dir full, finetune_only
2 Prepare inference JSONL (AMP routing) full, inference_only
3 SDG — generate synthetic anomaly images → original/ full, inference_only
4 Eval original/ — emit persample.csv + eval.log, merge nnscore into SDG_result.csv full, inference_only
5 Per-sample (guidance, cropratio) search rounds → rounds/roundNN/ (each round runs SDG + eval) full, inference_only
6 Assemble best-of-rounds into searched/ (stitch only), plus rounds/search_summary.csv full, inference_only
7 Filter searched/ by nnthreshold (default 0.4), regen dropped samples, then canonical bucket eval → searched/{persample.csv, eval.log} full, inference_only

Run every phase through to completion without mid-run pauses. Collect all required parameters up front, and run every command from the repo root.

Shell setup. All ${ANOMALYGENSCRIPTS} references resolve to the packaged helper-script directory. Inside the container this is preset (ENV ANOMALYGENSCRIPTS=<dir>/scripts/utilities); on the host, export it once per shell:

export ANOMALYGEN_SCRIPTS="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/scripts/utilities"

python3 -m scripts.utilities.<name> invocations work from any CWD inside the container (PYTHONPATH is preset) and from the repo root on the host. When inside a product container (ANOMALYGENPRODUCTMODE=1), invoke anomalygen-guard before any GPU work; if it reports BLOCKED, fix the listed issues before continuing.

Quick Start

The pipeline runs inside the metropolissdg.paidfanomalygen container (declared in versions.yaml) or any host with the cosmos-predict2 conda env active. All phase commands assume that environment, at the repo root, with ANOMALYGEN_SCRIPTS exported.

Minimal end-to-end run (mode=full):

# 1. Set the shared variables (see "Shared variables" for the full set).
export ANOMALYGEN_SCRIPTS="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/scripts/utilities"
MODE=full
NAME=my_exp
DATASET_DIR=/data/uc1
DEFECT_DESC=assets/defect_spec_template.jsonl
NUM_SDG=20
MODEL_SIZE=2b

# 2. Phase 0 — verify / download checkpoints (~140 GB; needs HF_TOKEN).
${ANOMALYGEN_SCRIPTS}/check.sh || ${ANOMALYGEN_SCRIPTS}/download_checkpoints.sh

# 3. Walk Phases 1→7 in order (see each Phase section).

For mode=inferenceonly (reuse a checkpoint) also set CKPT/STEP and skip Phase 1. For mode=finetuneonly run only Phases 0–1.

Running in Docker — container launch, mounts & permissions

The paidf-anomalygen image runs as a non-root baked-in user (USER anomalygen, uid=10000), independent of your host uid. Docker does not remap uids on bind mounts, so a host directory owned by your uid is not writable by uid 10000 and the container fails the instant it tries to create a file there. Run as your host uid with --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" plus the mandatory /etc/passwd+/etc/group and HOME/cache-redirect companions, and run the fail-fast write preflight before Phase 0. See references/docker.md for the full docker run command, the load-bearing-flag table, the preflight snippet, and the uid-10000 chown/chmod fallback.

Reference files — read before executing phases

Read references/finetune.md before Phase 0/1 and references/inference.md before any of Phases 2–7; for mode=full read both before starting. The remaining references below are on-demand — read when troubleshooting or needing full detail for a specific phase.

File Read when
references/finetune.md Before Phase 0/1: env check, checkpoint download, dataset validation, config generation, training commands, best-checkpoint selection
references/finetune-commands.md Exact Phase 1 Step 1–4 commands and CKPT/STEP derivation
references/inference-commands.md Exact Phase 5 runround.sh and Phase 7 filterwith_regen commands
references/inference.md Before Phases 2–7: AMP routing, JSONL validation, SDG flags, eval interpretation, search loop, filtering
references/setup.md Checkpoint download fails; first-time setup; HF_TOKEN / disk issues
references/datasets.md User needs to prepare or obtain a UC1 / UC2 / UC3 dataset; dataset_dir doesn't exist yet
references/prep-testcase.md AMP fails; need full param table, helper script descriptions, allocation invariant
references/sdg-inference.md NCCL hang; checkpoint validation error; multi-GPU VRAM question; full step list
references/eval.md Unexpected scores; FID column order confusion; eval output format reference
references/sdg-refine.md draws.json alignment; re-AMP heuristics; search output layout
references/guard-and-custom-counts.md Full guard preflight command; --per-defect-counts example
references/docker.md Container launch command, mount-permission flags, write preflight, uid-10000 fallback
references/output-layout.md Full results/<name>/ directory tree with per-file annotations; post-run Verification checklist
references/error-handling.md Pipeline-level failure modes: missing mask dirs, short/empty AMP, mid-round resume, off-boundary step

Required parameters

numSDG allocation depends on preptestcase.sh --mode: inference (default, Phase 2) is uniform across defect types, override per-defect via --per-defect-counts; validation (Phase 1's validation JSONL) is proportional to training mask counts (largest-remainder rounding) and enforces ≥1 per defect. See references/prep-testcase.md for the full mode table.

Parameter Description
mode full (Phase 0→7), inferenceonly (skip Phase 1), or finetuneonly (Phase 0→1 only).
name Experiment label.
dataset_dir Training/reference dataset root. Drives mask-count allocation, AMP submask templates, and holds semanticsegmentationlabels.json for cad defects.
defect_spec JSONL tagging each defect spatialdependency as free/text/cad. text entries need roipromptdefectlocation. Template: assets/defectspectemplate.jsonl.
num_SDG Total output samples per bucket. (Ignored when mode=finetune_only.)

Conditionally required

Parameter Required when Description
checkpoint_dir / step mode=inference_only Pre-existing fine-tuned model. In mode=full these are auto-derived after Phase 1; passing them is an error. In mode=finetune_only silently ignored — Phase 1 always trains from scratch (no resume-from-checkpoint support). Both must be present together — supplying only one is an error.

Optional parameters

Parameter Default Description
clean_dir dataset_dir Clean images. Set only when they live outside the training dataset. Forwarded as --clean-dir to prep-testcase and --clean-image-path to finetune.
validation_jsonl auto-generated Pre-built validation JSONL for Phase 1. When supplied, preflight verifies every defect_spec type appears and paths exist.
numsearchrun 3 Per-sample search budget for Phase 5. 0 skips search (only original/). (Ignored when mode=finetune_only.)
nn_threshold 0.4 nnscore cutoff for Phase 7 (DINOv2 correspondence to real defects — key KPI). Samples below are regenerated; final searched/ always has numSDG. 0 disables filtering.
max_iter 75000 Phase 1 only. Total fine-tune iterations.
save_iter 5000 Phase 1 only. Checkpoint save interval.
validation_iter 5000 Phase 1 only. Validation (nn_score) logging interval.
num_gpus 1 Forwarded to Phase 1 (finetune) and Phase 3 (SDG). Eval and search rounds stay single-GPU.
model_size 2b 2b or 14b. Used by finetune and SDG. On-disk checkpoint path encodes in upper-case (2b2B, 14b14B).
lr 0.02 Phase 1 only. Learning rate.
batch_size 2 Phase 1 only. Per-GPU batch size.
image_size 512 Phase 1 only. Training resolution (square).
guidance_range 1.5 10.0 Phase 5 search draw range for guidance.
cropratiorange 1.5 10.0 Phase 5 search draw range for crop_ratio.

Mode validation (fail fast before any phase)

  • mode unset → halt: "mode is required (full | inferenceonly | finetuneonly)."
  • mode=inferenceonly missing either checkpointdir or step → halt: "inferenceonly requires both checkpointdir and step."
  • mode=full with checkpointdir or step supplied → halt: "full mode runs finetune; use mode=inferenceonly to reuse an existing checkpoint."

Shared variables

Set once before Phase 0:

MODE=<full|inference_only|finetune_only>
NAME=<exp>
DATASET_DIR=<dataset_dir>
CLEAN_DIR=${clean_dir:-${DATASET_DIR}}
CKPT=<checkpoint_dir>      # required iff MODE=inference_only; auto-derived after Phase 1 when MODE=full
STEP=<iter>                # required iff MODE=inference_only; auto-derived after Phase 1 when MODE=full
NUM_SDG=<N>
DEFECT_DESC=<defect_spec.jsonl>
DEFECTS=(T+A T+B)          # TEXTURE+TYPE names. For mode=inference_only, derive from ${CKPT}/ag_config.yaml → dataloader_train.dataset.anomaly_types (also printed by validate_checkpoint.py in Phase 0). For mode=full, take from DEFECT_DESC entries. See references/inference.md §Phase 0.
NUM_SEARCH_RUN=${num_search_run:-3}
NN_THRESHOLD=${nn_threshold:-0.4}
MODEL_SIZE=<2b|14b>
NUM_GPUS=${num_gpus:-1}
MAX_ITER=${max_iter:-75000}
SAVE_ITER=${save_iter:-5000}
VALIDATION_ITER=${validation_iter:-5000}
LR=${lr:-0.02}
BATCH_SIZE=${batch_size:-2}
IMAGE_SIZE=${image_size:-512}
VALIDATION_JSONL=${validation_jsonl:-}  # optional; set by Phase 1 Step 2 if not user-supplied

BASE=results/${NAME}
JSONL=ag_inference/${NAME}/testcase.jsonl
ORIGINAL=${BASE}/original
SEARCHED=${BASE}/searched
ROUNDS=${BASE}/rounds
REGENS=${BASE}/regens

Guard preflight (product mode only)

When ANOMALYGENPRODUCTMODE=1, run .agents/skills/anomalygen-guard/scripts/preflight.py before any GPU work and fix any BLOCKED issues. --validation-jsonl is forwarded only when the user supplied one; for MODE=finetuneonly omit --num-sdg if not supplied. See references/guard-and-custom-counts.md for the full preflight command with all forwarded flags and the validation-JSONL / allocatesamples.py 0-entry checks.


Phase 0 — checkpoints

Read references/finetune.md §Phase 0 for HF_TOKEN requirements and what gets downloaded (~140 GB). Verify first; download only what is missing.

${ANOMALYGEN_SCRIPTS}/check.sh \
    || ${ANOMALYGEN_SCRIPTS}/download_checkpoints.sh

Phase 1 — fine-tune (skip when MODE=inference_only)

Read references/finetune.md §Phase 1 for dataset structure, config template details, and best-checkpoint selection. Four steps: (1) validate dataset / derive anomaly types, (2) generate the validation JSONL (skip if user supplied VALIDATIONJSONL), (3) generate the training config — show it to the user and confirm before writing — (4) launch training in the background. Then derive CKPT (path encodes upper-case MODELSIZE) and STEP (highest nnscore step from validation logs). If MODE=finetuneonly, stop after training. See references/finetune-commands.md for the exact Step 1–4 commands and the CKPT/STEP derivation snippet.


Phase 2 — prep-testcase (skip when MODE=finetune_only)

Read references/inference.md §Phase 2 for AMP routing detail and nseeds sizing. Do NOT pass --seeds — it is auto-computed and is not a recognized flag. preptestcase.sh defaults to --mode inference (uniform allocation across defect types, no KPI floor), which Phase 2 always uses.

${ANOMALYGEN_SCRIPTS}/prep_testcase.sh \
    --name ${NAME} --num-sdg ${NUM_SDG} \
    --dataset-dir ${DATASET_DIR} \
    --clean-dir ${CLEAN_DIR} \
    --defect-spec ${DEFECT_DESC} \
    --amp-output-dir ag_inference/${NAME}/amp \
    --output-jsonl ${JSONL}

Custom per-defect counts: when the user specifies counts per defect type, translate to --num-sdg plus a --per-defect-counts JSON dict (types absent from the dict get 0; sum should equal --num-sdg, else the script warns on stderr and uses the override sum). Confirm the allocation when intent is ambiguous. See references/guard-and-custom-counts.md for the full --per-defect-counts command example and the ambiguity-handling detail.


Phase 3 — SDG → original/

Read references/inference.md §Phase 3 for JSONL validation against the checkpoint, multi-GPU caveats, and output verification.

python3 -m scripts.utilities.validate_checkpoint ${CKPT} --step ${STEP}
python3 -m scripts.utilities.validate_jsonl ${CKPT} ${JSONL}

${ANOMALYGEN_SCRIPTS}/run_sdg.sh \
    --checkpoint_dir ${CKPT} --step ${STEP} \
    --input_jsonl ${JSONL} --output_dir ${ORIGINAL} \
    --model_size ${MODEL_SIZE} --num_gpus ${NUM_GPUS}

${ANOMALYGEN_SCRIPTS}/verify_output.sh ${JSONL} ${ORIGINAL}

Phase 4 — eval original/

Read references/inference.md §Eval for score interpretation and feature-count explanation. runeval.sh writes persample.csv and eval.log inside original/ and merges nnscore into SDGresult.csv.

${ANOMALYGEN_SCRIPTS}/run_eval.sh \
    --real-path ${DATASET_DIR} --generated-path ${ORIGINAL} \
    --anomaly-types ${DEFECTS[@]}

Phase 5 — per-sample search rounds

Read references/inference.md §Phase 5 for draw strategy, ranges, and re-AMP guidance. For r in 1..NUMSEARCHRUN:

  1. Read prior round's persample.csv (or ${ORIGINAL}/persample.csv for r=1).
  2. Write ${ROUNDS}/round${r}/draws.json with selected (guidance, cropratio) per sample.
  3. Run round via ${ANOMALYGENSCRIPTS}/runround.sh (SDG + eval; the round dir

gets its own sdg/{SDGresult.csv, persample.csv, eval.log}). See references/inference-commands.md §Phase 5 for the full command and flags.

NUMSEARCHRUN=0 is valid — skip this phase entirely and let Phase 6 clone original/ into searched/.


Phase 6 — assemble searched/ (stitch only)

Always run assemble (works with 0 rounds — searched/ clones original/, so downstream always reads searched/ regardless of numsearchrun). Stitch-only: copies winning images per sample-index into searched/ and carries over per-sample nnscore / mnnscore from each pick's source-round per_sample.csv. No eval — Phase 7 emits the canonical searched/eval.log.

mkdir -p ${ROUNDS}
python3 -m scripts.utilities.assemble_searched \
    --original-dir ${ORIGINAL} --original-csv ${ORIGINAL}/per_sample.csv \
    --rounds-dir ${ROUNDS} --searched-dir ${SEARCHED}

Phase 7 — filter + regen + eval (default nn_threshold=0.4)

Phase 7 runs by default (nnthreshold=0.4) on every mode=full and mode=inferenceonly invocation; pass nnthreshold=0 to skip it. It filters searched/ by nnthreshold, regenerates dropped samples via re-AMP (fresh (clean, submask) pairing in the same defect type) for up to 5 attempts, then falls back to best-scoring non-passing regens and finally to dropped originals, so the final bucket always equals num_SDG.

Run python3 -m scripts.utilities.filterwithregen. It runs the final runeval.sh internally — the only eval against searched/. Read references/inference.md §Phase 7 for regen mechanics, source-column tracing, and the regens/regensummary.csv schema; see references/inference-commands.md §Phase 7 for the full command and flags.


Output layout

Every bucket that gets eval'd carries the same triad of files: SDGresult.csv (generation params + nnscore), persample.csv (per-sample nn + mnn), and eval.log (aggregate FID / per-defect avg). Buckets live under results/<name>/ as original/ (Phase 3+4), searched/ (Phase 6 stitch + Phase 7 filter+regen+eval), rounds/roundNN/ (Phase 5, plus searchsummary.csv), and regens/regenNN/ (Phase 7, plus regen_summary.csv).

See references/output-layout.md for the full directory tree with per-file annotations and the post-run Verification checklist (image counts per bucket, searchsummary.csv / regensummary.csv row checks, and the per-type nnscore / mnnscore / fid fields in each eval.log).

Error handling

Common pipeline failure modes (missing mask dirs, short/empty AMP output and the 0 entries written halt, mid-round SDG failure resume, off-boundary step) are covered in references/error-handling.md; see also references/finetune.md and references/inference.md for phase-specific error handling.