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Managing a Shared Model Population for S&P 500 Options Sequences

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Summary

This notebook runs the NLinear member of a declared three-model sequence-learning population for S&P 500 options. It resolves the requests and checkpoints for the full population before fitting this member, so later notebooks can execute the LSTM and PatchTST models against the same snapshot. The device is treated as part of training identity because CPU and GPU computations may produce different fitted weights; a noncanonical device therefore requires its own population name.

The workflow emphasizes reproducibility and completeness: it records population membership, checks that the NLinear request is unique, and verifies that the returned checkpoint is complete. The sequence construction is described as gap-safe, with persisted fitted state, restart support, and checks on eligible keys. This document does not report model performance, compare architectures, or establish trading value. It explains execution and identity controls for a modeling workflow, with model analysis and backtesting left to subsequent work.

Key ideas

  • The full configuration and checkpoint population is resolved before the NLinear member runs.
  • Training device is included in model identity because CPU and GPU runs can produce different weights.
  • A population snapshot helps preserve declared membership when one model run fails or is refreshed.
  • The notebook checks that the NLinear request is unique and its checkpoint is complete.
  • Performance and trading conclusions are outside this notebook’s scope.

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# 09_deep_learning.py


```py
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# %% [markdown]
# # S&P 500 Options: NLinear
#
# This notebook snapshots the complete three-model sequence population before fitting its NLinear
# member. `09a_lstm` and `09b_patchtst` execute the other declared members against the same
# immutable population. Every configured checkpoint remains eligible for model analysis and
# backtesting.
#
# Prerequisites: `03_financial_features`, `04_model_based_features`, and `05_evaluation`.

# %%
"""Fit NLinear within the declared S&P 500 options sequence population."""

import polars as pl

from case_studies.research import supersedes_for_run
from case_studies.sp500_options.research_workflow import (
    ALL_LABELS,
    declared_dl_device,
    model_request_catalog,
    open_study,
    published_dl_device,
    resolve_model_requests,
    resolved_model_plan,
    run_official_model_subset,
    run_resolved_model_requests,
    snapshot_official_model_catalog,
)

# %% tags=["parameters"]
EXECUTION_TIER = "canonical"
WORKSPACE: str = ""
PREVIEW_REDUCTIONS: dict = {}
DEVICE: str = ""

SEQUENCE_CONFIGS = ("nlinear", "lstm_h64", "patchtst")
POPULATION_NAME: str = ""
SUPERSEDES_POPULATION: str = "7a9dc8881c9e"

# %% [markdown]
# ### The device the population was fitted on
#
# A network trained on a GPU and the same network trained on a CPU accumulate their sums in a
# different order and reach different weights, so the device is part of what the fitted model is
# and sits inside the training identity rather than beside it. The device this population was
# fitted on is declared once, in `modeling.dl.device` in `config/setup.yaml`, and read from there
# by all four deep-learning notebooks rather than retyped in each. On a machine with no NVIDIA
# card the run stops here rather than quietly training something else: set `DEVICE="cpu"` and pass
# a `POPULATION_NAME` to fit the same requests there, under a name of their own.

# %%
CANONICAL_POPULATION_NAME = "sp500-options-sequence-validation-v1"

published_device = published_dl_device()
device = declared_dl_device(DEVICE)
population_name = POPULATION_NAME or CANONICAL_POPULATION_NAME
if device != published_device and population_name == CANONICAL_POPULATION_NAME:
    raise ValueError(
        f"this run fits on {device!r}, not the published {published_device!r}, so its "
        f"identities are not the ones {CANONICAL_POPULATION_NAME!r} holds; pass "
        f"POPULATION_NAME to give them a population of their own"
    )
print(f"training device: {device} (declared: {published_device})")

# %% [markdown]
# ## Complete sequence request population
#
# The case-wide table is resolved before the first member executes. Canonical execution snapshots
# all configuration-checkpoint identities so a failed member cannot disappear from later analysis.
#
# **A name holds one generation at a time**, and this notebook is the only one that writes this
# population - `09a_lstm` and `09b_patchtst` execute members of a snapshot that already exists.
# Anything that moves a training identity moves every prediction hash with it, so the members
# this run computes are no longer the members an earlier snapshot under the same name declared,
# and those two notebooks then refuse their own work as undeclared. `SUPERSEDES_POPULATION`
# names the snapshot such a run retires, and the value is part of what the population is hashed
# over. The value here names the snapshot this run retires; it is empty only for the first
# snapshot under a name.
#
# `create` refuses a changed member list under an existing name unless this names the current
# snapshot, so the parameter is what makes refreshing this population possible at all. Without
# it the refit stops at the write with the hash it needs, which is the right failure but not
# one this notebook could act on.

# %%
study = open_study(execution_tier=EXECUTION_TIER, workspace=WORKSPACE or None)
all_requests = model_request_catalog(
    "deep_learning",
    labels=ALL_LABELS,
    config_names=SEQUENCE_CONFIGS,
)
all_resolved = resolve_model_requests(
    study,
    all_requests,
    execution_tier=EXECUTION_TIER,
    overrides={"device": device},
    preview_reductions=PREVIEW_REDUCTIONS,
)
resolved_model_plan(all_resolved)

# %% [markdown]
# ## Execute NLinear
#
# NLinear shares the gap-safe sequence construction, fold boundaries, fitted-state persistence,
# restart, and exact eligible-key checks used by the other sequence configurations.

# %%
nlinear_resolved = tuple(
    request for request in all_resolved if request.spec["config_name"] == "nlinear"
)
if len(nlinear_resolved) != 1:
    raise ValueError("the sequence population must contain exactly one NLinear request")

if EXECUTION_TIER == "canonical":
    population = snapshot_official_model_catalog(
        study,
        all_requests,
        population_name=population_name,
        resolved_requests=all_resolved,
        supersedes=supersedes_for_run(
            study,
            population_name=population_name,
            declared=SUPERSEDES_POPULATION or None,
            execution_tier=EXECUTION_TIER,
        ),
    )
    execution, population = run_official_model_subset(
        study,
        nlinear_resolved,
        population=population,
    )
else:
    if not WORKSPACE or not PREVIEW_REDUCTIONS:
        raise ValueError("preview execution requires WORKSPACE and PREVIEW_REDUCTIONS")
    execution = run_resolved_model_requests(study, nlinear_resolved)
    population = None

# %% tags=["results"]
catalog = execution.catalog_rows.select(
    "family",
    "label",
    "config_name",
    "checkpoint_kind",
    "checkpoint_value",
    "execution_tier",
    "complete",
    "training_hash",
    "prediction_hash",
).sort("checkpoint_value")
if catalog.filter(~pl.col("complete")).height:
    raise RuntimeError("NLinear execution returned a partial checkpoint")
catalog

# %% [markdown]
# The NLinear checkpoint artifacts are complete. The official sequence population remains open
# until `09a_lstm` and `09b_patchtst` publish their declared members.

```

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