student_agent_dev/TEST_OPTIMIZATION.md

Test Optimization Summary

Changes Made

1. Added tqdm Progress Bars ✅

Before: No progress indicators - tests appeared frozen After: Progress bars show:

• Training iterations progress
• Task processing status
• Time elapsed

Example output:

Testing learning capability...
   Generating eval set... Done
   Evaluating initial accuracy... 0.250
   Training on 15 tasks:
      Progress: 100%|████████| 15/15 [00:02<00:00]
   Evaluating final accuracy... 0.400
✅ Learning verified (improvement: +0.150)

2. Optimized Test Iterations

• Reduced training iterations: 30 → 15, 40 → 20
• Smaller eval sets: 10 → 5 tasks
• Faster forgetting: Shorter time advances

3. Better Progress Messages

• Clear status messages for each step
• Shows what's happening (generating, evaluating, training)
• Total time at the end

Why Tests Are Slow

Main cause: DistilBERT model loading

• Downloads ~260MB model (first time)
• Loads model weights into memory
• Can take 10-30 seconds per test

This is normal - not your laptop's fault! Neural networks are just large.

Performance Tips

1. First run is slowest (downloads model)

   • Subsequent runs use cached model (faster)

2. Install tqdm for progress bars:

   pip install tqdm
   

3. GPU would be faster but requires CUDA setup

4. Progress bars help even if slow - you see what's happening!

Test Output Example

============================================================
RUNNING STUDENT AGENT TESTS
============================================================

Testing student initialization... ✅ Student model initialized
Testing answer prediction... ✅ Student can answer tasks
Testing learning capability...
   Generating eval set... Done
   Evaluating initial accuracy... 0.250
   Training on 15 tasks:
      Progress: 100%|████████| 15/15 [00:02<00:00]
   Evaluating final accuracy... 0.400
✅ Learning verified (improvement: +0.150)
...

============================================================
🎉 All tests passed! (Total time: 45.32s)
============================================================

The progress bars make it clear what's happening even if it takes time!