Phase 2 of the two-stop work. The L-C-A vector is a deterministic function of the
trace's offered metadata, so the convergence of prefix-vs-full L-C-A (the paper's
Fig. 9 curve) can be computed up front rather than monitored live, with identical
result and no per-request overhead.
- lca.find_convergence_prefix: earliest arrival-ordered prefix whose L and A family
similarities reach tau and the slow C family reaches the stricter tau_c for
stable_checks consecutive checkpoints. Self-similarity uses the raw log-feature
vector (same window -> identical per-dim spread; RobustScaler is reserved for the
cross-window Stop-C). If C never converges it reports the full set, which is the
C-gate: no early stop on a cold/under-warmed cache. The checkpoint sims double as
Phase 3 calibration data.
- spec.AdaptiveStopSpec (trace.adaptive_stop), disabled by default until the
thresholds are calibrated, so existing studies are unaffected.
- worker._adaptive_replay_set truncates each probe's replay to the convergence
prefix and records a certificate (converged, fraction, family similarity) into
probe history and probe_details. Offered request_rate at the threshold is
unchanged; only wall-clock replay shrinks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gahow Wang
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