feat(nn): training options and in-memory batching

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Summary

Extends the PyTorch NN surrogate backend with:

1. Early stopping improvement threshold — early_stopping_min_delta on NNTrainerConfig. Validation loss must improve by at least this amount versus the previous best to reset patience (default 0.0: any strictly lower val loss counts).

2. L1 regularization — l1_penalty on NNTrainerConfig. When positive, training loss is MSE plus l1_penalty * sum(|theta|) over trainable parameters. Default 0.0 disables it. Validation and early stopping still use plain MSE.

3. Max training time — max_training_minutes on NNTrainerConfig (default None). When set, training stops once monotonic elapsed time from the start of the first training batch of the first epoch reaches that many minutes. The current epoch is abandoned without validation if the limit is hit mid-epoch. Uses time.monotonic().

4. In-memory batching — Training no longer uses DataLoader. Data stays as CPU torch tensors built from NumPy; each epoch uses np.random.permutation(n_samples) and batch indices with drop_last-equivalent batch count (n // batch_size). Validation uses sequential tensor slices with the same drop-last rule and no shuffle.

L2: Unchanged — Adam/SGD weight_decay remains the L2-style term on the optimizer.

Example (YAML)

early_stopping_min_delta: 1.0e-4
l1_penalty: 1.0e-5
max_training_minutes: 120
optimizer:
  optimizer: adam
  weight_decay: 1.0e-4  # L2-style

Testing

• uv run pytest — 5 passed

Notes

• Local commits may use -c commit.gpgsign=false when the SSH signing helper hits a GLIBC mismatch in this environment.