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vvsandClaude Opus 5 1eb2c1664f Revision 3: exact-zero stop in section 4; Table 12 with the post hoc Lagouanelle variant (branch m>=2: corpus 4 5568, six corpora 18372, multiple/fractional 6540, APS 2960; A' 178/34/28), the controls' missing exit in its caption; the reading of Table 12 restated in 7.1, 6.6 and the conclusion - the analogy order transfers to the classical frame and works better there than in A's split (2809 vs 4042 on multiple roots), and A's layer as a whole (detector with exit) earns its place (+1233 vs -3934). Server: verify 548 OK / 0 BAD, regression x2 1239 passed, PDF 32 pages, 0 errors, 0 overfull.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-22 09:31:40 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 34b2a30d6c K3 outcome (PREREG_estimated_transform, Linux run): the 6.6 claim stands. Corpus 4: A' 3656 vs Chandrupatla on sign(f)|f|^(1/m_hat) with the analogy order 3806 (A' 126/38/76, p=5e-4) and with Lagouanelle 7526; six corpora 13032 vs 15733 and 30991. On multiple/fractional roots the analogy order inside Chandrupatla closes 59%, 58%, 31% of the A'->oracle gap (CHA 322 vs 654, corpus 1 721 vs 1229, corpus 4 1766 vs 2159) and pays on simple roots (APS 3453 vs 2595); Lagouanelle on Chandrupatla's side-alternating triples reads a fractional order on 115 of 154 simple APS roots.
simroot/transformed.py: Chandrupatla on G(f) with m_hat estimated in the run; bit-identical to chandrupatla with no estimate (test). Bug found and pinned by a test: |f|^(1/m_hat) overflowed with an OverflowError on the fractional branch; now inf and the step halves.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-22 08:50:37 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 60294e84d9 Controls K1/K2: code and two PREREG amendments, committed before the full run.
simroot/pure.py: flatlagmempt / flatbandmempt / flatflagmempt - A' with only the flat detector
swapped (Lagouanelle without declining outside (0,1), with memory; Chandrupatla's band; none).
A' itself is untouched: bit-identical to the compiled simbracket on all 868 problems (x2).
sweep_controls.py: K2 through sweep_fourth's harness, K1 with the oracle order m*.
Amendment 1: m* <= 0 is undefined (aps.15.22-30, C0.04 crashed the first full attempt).
Amendment 2 (after the smokes; only corpus-level K1 sums and corpus-4 K2 sums were seen): each
side's slope rounded to 0.01, m* defined only when both sides show a zero (jumps C0.03,
aps.15.21), group 'multiple/fractional' = m* >= 2 or m* <= 2/3, the branches of section 8.1
(simple roots measured at 0.99999 fell under the registered 'm* < 1').
tests/test_article_numbers.py: the verifier test runs on Linux only (the paper's numbers are a
Linux run; libm's last digit differs elsewhere, e.g. 4461 vs 4462).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-22 07:37:41 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 37c81b027a PREREG_modab outcome (server): M1 PASSED - A' ahead of ModAB (authors' package pymodab 1.0.9, same stopping rule, counts equal to the library's own counter). Corpus 4: A' 3656 vs ModAB 5535, per problem 183/23/34 p=7e-26. Paper protocol: APS 2438 vs 2914 (118/11/25), CHA 2005 vs 2436 (32/9/4). Six corpora: 13032 vs 16657, significant on every one. ModAB's own benchmark (Roots.jl f01-f91): all 91 - 1507 vs 1588 (56/13/22 p=1.5e-4); 78 - 1371 vs 1446. ModAB breaks the 2x-bisection bound on 9 problems (1 on corpus 1, 8 on corpus 4), A' on none. ModAB wired outside the published grid (EXTRA_BASELINES), which stays at 264.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 21:35:36 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 2c458c51dc Fix: _local_order divided by fp*fp that underflows to 0 for a tiny nonzero slope (ZeroDivisionError, caught by the sweep harness and charged as a failure - this is what had moved Table 6's order cells after the sign fix). Pinned by a test that fails on the old code. Every sweep file regenerated on the server (run_all_sweeps.sh). verify_article: skip result files that are not grid lists (it crashed on the out-of-sample dicts). Verifier now completes: 224 OK, 57 stale numbers in the paper to update (Table 6 again 7 of 7).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 20:34:19 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 8027d7f5ef A' code frozen BEFORE the corpus-4 run (PREREG_close_sub): close (borrowed Dekker/Brent tolerance step, only after a kept promise) and sub (overshoot branch m <= 2/3; the shallow memory is not cleared by the exit - amendment documented). Development on the five seen corpora (uniform sign-change criterion): A' below A everywhere; vs Chandrupatla APS 103/31, CHA 31/10, new-1 109/65, Roots.jl 44/20 p=0.004, applied 48/32 p=0.09 with total 1382 vs 1380. Tests: 1223 passed (full), 358 (gate files).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 20:02:43 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 bbb16ec81c PREREG_half_contra outcome: ACCEPTED (server = smoke in every projection cell; 0 violations in the guaranteed family).
'half': the step promises the root in the half near x (S >= 1/2) while the bracket line puts it in the far half (smaller |f| at the far end) -> halve.
  half alone                                  APS 2806 -> 2564 (!)  CHA 3220 -> 3202
  G2 + contra + rem + point + exp + half      APS 2773 -> 2559  CHA 2073 -> 2047  both 4606 (all of H1-H4; goal kept)
     per problem vs Chandrupatla: APS 98/17/38 p=2.7e-7, CHA 27/6/7 p=8e-4
  contra + rem + point + exp + half (no G2)   APS 2551  CHA 2044  both 4595 (H2 fails by 24)
  with defect it does not combine (APS 2531 -> 2651): the two refuse overlapping steps.
fun9: 77 -> 68 (Chandrupatla 55); fun9.5 24 -> 16.
Server regression x2: 1204 passed, 1 failed = the paper-number check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 19:24:31 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 baa93963cf PREREG_flat_exp_limit outcome: ACCEPTED (server numbers equal to the smoke in every projection cell; 0 violations in the guaranteed family).
Translation limit of the analogy (f shrank, x-scale did not -> m = inf):
  defect + remembered + point + exp        APS 2531  CHA 1972  both 4503
  G2 + defect + remembered + point + exp   APS 2588  CHA 1997  both 4585
  G2 + contra + remembered + point + exp   APS 2773  CHA 2073  both 4846
  Chandrupatla                             APS 2787  CHA 2441  both 5228
Per problem against Chandrupatla now SIGNIFICANT ON BOTH SETS: G2+contra+rem+pt+exp APS 98/18/37 p=1.5e-7, CHA 28/3/9 p=0.0026; defect+rem+pt+exp APS 86/20/47 p=9e-4, CHA 27/3/10 p=0.0076.
NOT where predicted: fun9 only -1..-3; the gain is on the flat families (x^9 177 -> 161, x^19 339 -> 167).
Server regression x2: 1179 passed, 1 failed = the paper-number check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 18:44:23 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 08863c170c PREREG_flat_order_point outcome: ACCEPTED, and the GOAL is reached - below Chandrupatla on BOTH sets (server numbers, all projection cells equal to the smoke).
Splitting in the flat regime at the point from the analogous pair's order (t = |FA|^(1/m) / (|FA|^(1/m) + |FB|^(1/m))) instead of the midpoint:
  G2 + analogy + order point         APS 2780  CHA 2221  both 5001   (P1-P4 all hold; vs Chandrupatla 2787 / 2441 / 5228)
  G2 + contra + remembered + point   APS 2775  CHA 2119  both 4894   (P3 fails by 2 against its midpoint twin)
  defect + remembered + point        APS 2532  CHA 2164  both 4696   (P3 fails by 2)
Flat fun3-6: 1234 -> 847 (analogy), 1151 -> 743 (remembered) - below pure bisection 1044 and Chandrupatla 1068.
Per problem on the wide set vs Chandrupatla now 20-24 wins / 13-17 losses (p 0.1-0.7, not significant); on the canonical set the edge is kept (95/20/38 p=8e-7).
Guarantee: 0 violations and >= 193 solved in every project/safe/credit cell.
Server regression x2: 1150 passed, 1 failed = the paper-number check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 18:13:10 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 3d9287ec2c PREREG_defect_contra_flat outcome (smoke, all 199 problems). Goal (below Chandrupatla on both) NOT reached by any cell: best CHA 2537 vs 2441. Best total: defect+flatanalogmem APS 2530 / CHA 2561 = 5091 < Chandrupatla 5228 (first time), C1-C3 hold; ablation: defect earns APS +284 (costs CHA 9), remembered analogy earns CHA +649 (costs APS 7). contra earned without defect (APS 2806 -> 2785, CHA 3220 -> 3198; with the remembered analogy 2792 / 2537, the best CHA), redundant with defect (defect+contra = defect). fun9: 105 -> 81 (Chandrupatla 55). Remaining CHA gap 120: flat +88, fun1 +20, fun9 +26. Server regression x2: 1116 passed, 1 failed = the paper-number check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 15:57:15 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 441373800b PREREG_flat_analogy_mem outcome (decided on the smoke, all 199 problems): NOT accepted. Remembering the analogy until the next flag: CHA 2635 -> 2552 (G2: 2625 -> 2548; flat fun3-6 1234 -> 1151, M4 holds) but APS 2806 -> 2814 (G2: 2782 -> 2787 = Chandrupatla, M2 fails) - the extra false entries. Server regression x2: 1069 passed, 1 failed = the expected paper-number check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 15:06:37 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 1842eb0765 Flat regime: exit by midpoint similarity (flatstickexit), one judgment at entry and exit (flatjudge), entry by analogy (flatanalog).
PREREG_flat_exit: NOT accepted - APS 2806 -> 3125, CHA 3220 -> 2503 (the exit is earned: APS 6897 without it).
PREREG_flat_judge: NOT accepted (smoke) - APS 3009, CHA 2486: at the model's point f is small by construction, the judgment cannot tell flat from simple there.
PREREG_flat_analogy: ACCEPTED with G2. Entry = unkept promise AND the (xi, phi) configuration nearer to its own past than to the line AND the pair's similarity exponent m >= 2. Projection + G2: APS 2782 -> 2780 (below Chandrupatla 2787, per problem 95/20/38 p=8e-7), CHA 3169 -> 2625, guarantee holds. Without G2: APS 2806 -> 2807 (fails by one call), CHA 2635. Simple roots are spared exactly (cost unchanged); flat families 1823 -> 1238, entry comes late. Goal (below Chandrupatla on both) NOT met: CHA 2625 vs 2441, per problem 9/6/25.
Server regression x2: 1052 passed, 1 failed = the expected paper-number check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 14:55:45 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 f8c17c4ed1 PREREG_flat_stick outcome: NOT accepted. Sticky regime under the projection: CHA 3220 -> 3019 (W1 holds), flat fun3-6 1823 -> 1057 (W4, near pure bisection 1044), guarantee holds (W3), but APS 2806 -> 6781 (W2 fails): the unkept-promise flag enters on 134/154 APS problems and 20/25 non-flat CHA problems, and a false entry now sticks to the end of the run. W6 fails: the order read from the promise is m = inf in 163/174 entries (r >= 1/e; our step is not a pure tangent), so the derived split equals the midpoint on CHA (3019 both). Audit bug fixed and pinned: an infinite |f| at an end made the split nan. Server regression x2: 999 passed, 1 failed = the expected paper-number check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 14:14:35 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 5a1edffcfc PREREG_flat_creep outcome: NOT accepted. Unkept promise AND creep under the projection: APS 2806 -> 2878 (V2 fails), CHA 3220 -> 3354 (V1 fails), flat fun3-6 1823 -> 1991 (V4 fails), guarantee holds (V3). With G2: 2782 -> 2842, 3169 -> 3318. Under safe CHA 3390 -> 3149, weaker than the single flag (3037). None of the three flat-regime gates pays under the projection: its budget already does their work. Server regression x2: 952 passed, 1 failed = the expected paper-number check (46 numbers after the signfix, pending the paper decision).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 13:55:37 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 9884b21204 PREREG_flat_twice outcome: stage 1 passed (twice-in-a-row fires on 27.8% of model steps on the flat families, 8.7% on APS, 4.3% on fun1; flat/APS ratio 3.20 against the single flag's 2.47), stage 2 FAILED: under the projection APS 2806 -> 2803 (W2 holds, the per-problem edge over Chandrupatla kept at 83/28/42) but CHA 3220 -> 3341 and the flat families 1823 -> 1975 (W1, W4 fail); with G2 the same. Under safe/step the twice gate is inert (3390 -> 3388) where the single one gave 3037.
Mechanism: the flat cycle is undershoot, undershoot, crossing, near-empty step. The single flag fires after the first undershoot and replaces the second - a useless step; the twice flag fires after the second and replaces the CROSSING, the one step of the cycle that collapses the bracket. The second undershoot's r is ~0.26, next to the 1/4 threshold, so the pair often does not even form. Again a detectability gain that did not carry to run cost. Next candidate (not pre-registered): the unkept promise AND a creep - the same step moving the same way as the previous one.

Removed a vacuous pin I had written (s2 <= max(s1, s2)). Regression on the branch: 935 pass twice; the only red test is the paper-number check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 13:45:20 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 e7e74d71e5 Flat regime (PREREG_flat_regime): the unkept-promise flag - after a model step that did not cross the root, r = f_new/f_old >= 1/4, the tangent-versus-halving break-even at m = 2 - RECOGNISES the regime (stage 1: 53.6% of model steps flagged on the flat families against 21.6% on APS and 17.0% on fun1; recall ten times the m>=2 estimator's 5.8%) and cuts the wide-bracket set by 350-490 wherever the budget does not already bind: safe 3390 -> 3037, step 3524 -> 3037, unguarded 4104 -> 3198.
NOT accepted into the proposed rule by the stop rule: under the projection the flat families are already budget-bound (CHA 3220 -> 3198 only) while the false flags on APS cost 2806 -> 3029 (Z2 fails); with G2 both sets fail. The per-problem edge over Chandrupatla on APS turns into 26/72/55. Guarantee intact in every cell. Next candidate, not pre-registered: require the promise to fail twice in a row.

Regression on the branch: 918 pass (twice); the one red test is the paper-number check awaiting the paper update.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 13:25:56 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 68df1d25db Sign tests by product underflowed: FIXED everywhere (branch, not master - the paper is not yet updated). FA * fnew < 0.0 with FA ~ -1e-200, fnew ~ 1e-150 is -0.0 and '-0.0 < 0.0' is False, so on flat functions (x^19) the bracket update moved the wrong end, the root left the bracket and the run still reported convergence - the proposed rule returned 4.9e-9, bisection 3.5e-9, ITP 1.6e-8 with a claimed 1e-12 bracket; the 1e-6 harness scored them solved. Same defect in our bisection, false-position family, Ridders, Brent, ITP and twelve copies in stage scripts, simroot/sim.py and one test; all replaced by _opposite / _same_sign, pinned by test_sign_underflow.
Impact, every sweep regenerated: the paper's key configurations are unchanged to the evaluation (proposed 2806/3220, credit 3568/3020, Chandrupatla, TOMS 748, Brent, bisection); 46 stated numbers move (ITP CHA 2857 -> 2896, ITP oracle 2611 -> 2647, record CHA figures by 14-18, the grid means by ~1%) and one finding weakens: the measured-order exponent of section 7.1 was cheaper in 29 of 60 far cells and 7 of 7 safeguards; with the fix 12 of 61 and 6 of 7, and on the wide-bracket set it now loses in every safeguard and drops 5 problems.

PREREG G1-G3 outcome on the fixed code: G2 (repeating step pattern, period from the data) PASSES Y1-Y4 and is ACCEPTED by the stop rule - proposed rule APS 2806 -> 2782 (below Chandrupatla's 2787), CHA 3220 -> 3169, both 6026 -> 5951, per problem vs Chandrupatla on APS 95/20/38 p = 8e-7. G1 fails Y1/Y2 (its Y3 miss was the sign bug), G3 fails Y2, A fails Y2. Regression 887 pass; the two red tests are the paper-number check (awaiting the paper update) and test_blend (fixed since, copy in stage16).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 12:49:01 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 99be33a632 A in the method (extrapolate='steps', default 'none' = published bit for bit): NOT accepted into the proposed rule by the declared stop rule - X2 fails. Proposed rule without -> with A: APS 2806 -> 2967 (X2 FAIL), CHA 3220 -> 2925 (X1 pass), flat fun3-6 1823 -> 1524 (X4 pass), guarantee intact, 0 violations in 39 family cells (X3 pass). The per-problem edge over Chandrupatla on APS is lost (87/24/42, p=9e-5 -> 42/62/49, p=0.53).
X5: dissimilar+slope with A reaches 2859+2545 = 5404 over both sets, the best total this line has measured (was 5511; Chandrupatla 5228) - but again by trading the canonical set (2726 -> 2859) for the wide brackets (2785 -> 2545). The one-step replay (APS no harm) did not carry over: its bracket-halving metric rewards overshooting the root, which on a simple root costs superlinear convergence in the full run - the declared one-step limitation, now measured. Among the nine functions A helps only the tent (6026 -> 5892) and slightly ratio_soft.

Also: pin 'strictly fewer evaluations on every flat problem' was wrong for 6(x-2)^5 on [0,10] - both runs are budget-bound (90 of the guaranteed 91); corrected to the measured claim. verify_article 286/286, 836 tests pass twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 12:11:06 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 1b6c626f67 Valeri's decisions (1) competitors from the library, (2) variant a. (1) Chandrupatla is scipy.optimize.elementwise.find_root, Brent is brentq, no more per-problem best_of. Our Chandrupatla stopped on a bracket twice as wide as every other method (the factor the protocol corrects for ITP); fixed (+0.5*xtol) in baselines.py and in the two copies found by grep (stage16_blend, stage19_modern) and the traced mirror, and pinned: ours == library on every problem. Regenerating sweep_full.json changed exactly three rows - chandrupatla APS 2785->2787, CHA 2423->2441, brent CHA 4099->4115 - and nothing else (diff_sweeps.py: 0 unexpected).
(2) The proposed method is again the scheduled projection (2806/3220/6026), its budget multiplier DECLARED as the one free constant: the canonical total is the same for every multiplier 1.25-4, the wide-bracket one is not. The earned projection is the constant-free variant (3568/3020/6588). What the old tables hid: problem by problem the proposed rule beats Chandrupatla on the canonical set 87/24/42, exact sign test p = 9e-5, while trailing him by 0.7% in total; on the wide-bracket set he is genuinely stronger (26 to 9, p = 0.006). Gap decomposition recomputed with the library: 244 (was 262), 160 of it on the flat families (two thirds), fun1 58 (a quarter, not a third as the abstract said).

Also corrected on the way: the 'subsumed by Chandrupatla' pin claimed he is better on the worst single problem - true only with the looser tolerance (84 against the credit rule's 83 once fixed); §8.3 still called zero slack degenerate, which Table 1a refutes; §5.2's Brent figure is our pure-Python implementation and now says so. verify_article.py 286/286, 802 tests pass twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 10:53:00 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 f5d036c9d8 Why the wide-bracket gap remains, taken apart on the SAME evaluations: 'order of the model' explains only a third. Of the 262 evaluations lost on 33 problems, 178 sit on fun3-fun6 - pure powers of order 3, 5, 9, 19 - where no interpolating model works (our step 0.41-0.81 bracket halvings per evaluation, IQI from our own points 0.01-0.17) and Chandrupatla wins by BISECTING 93-100% of his steps; our step is slower than bisection there and our 2x-bisection guarantee licenses it. His band inside our step confirms it per family: fun4/5/6 573/456/456 -> 296/239/235 against his 293/228/228, while +164/+111/+170/+144 on fun1/2/8/9 where it refuses good steps - slot 2's total was two opposite effects summed. Only fun1 (58) is model order: IQI from our three points 10.37 halvings against our 0.62; a convex two-point step cannot carry IQI's negative weight (428/428 non-degenerate states; five underflowed to -0.0).
The flat regime is not detectable by the three-point order estimate: m >= 2 (the exact condition for a tangent step to lose to a halving) fires on 0.2% of APS states and on only 5.8% of states of pure powers of order 3-19. Paper corrected where it said the whole gap is model order (widelimit, decision, abstract, future work - the refuted log transform removed). WARNING recorded in FINDINGS_model_order.md: article/sim_numerics.tex has carried a STALE header since the first commit (current text = sim_numerics.md, unchanged since 08-24); every paper edit of 09-20/21 went into the .tex, the .md has none of them. Which file is canonical is Valeri's call. The new text numbers trace to results_diag_*.txt but are not yet machine-checked by verify_article.py. Trace hook in pure_root is behaviour-neutral and pinned; 762 pass on the server twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 07:38:16 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 2357379c2d Slot 2, the decision place: Chandrupatla's own acceptance band, put inside our step rule as an instrument, does NOT close the gap - CHA 3066 (project) / 2899 (credit) against his 2423, while APS doubles 2806 -> 5432, and the band is not idle (63.6% refusals). The fifth independent test of one conclusion: the remaining gap is the ORDER of the model the step is built on, not the place the similarity is read in. By the declared stop rule (M1 and M2 both false) the 'where is the similarity read' line is closed: all four places measured.
Not empty-handed: our own parameter-free reading 'defect' - refuse when |phi - xi| > min(xi, 1 - xi) - sets a new canonical best, APS 2523 at 153/154 (previous 2527, Chandrupatla 2785), guarantee intact (0 of 135 family cells), refusing on 7.0% of steps. It is a second point on the same trade, not a replacement: 5733 over both sets against 5511, because CHA gives back 3210. Also: _shape_ratios crashed on a missing third point, which evaluate would have turned into a silent sweep of zeros; the slope-gate pin was anchored on line spelling; and the server copy had drifted (stale relax/sor.py, test_relaxation.py absent - 746 tests instead of 755). All synced, 92/92 files identical by content, 755 pass on the server.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 06:58:59 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 15b94242e0 Valeri's second point measured: the similarity function belongs to the PLACE it is read in, not to the method. False position's three-century stall is a similarity read at order one on an approach of order m: with sigma = |f(far)| the residual ratio is (e/E)^m, so raising it to the measured 1/m recovers the distance ratio exactly. Paired inside each cell, the correction is cheaper in 7 of 7 safeguards for S = 1/(1+z) - the one function that makes that place exact inverse interpolation - and in only 29 of 60 cells over all nine functions, i.e. a coin. It does NOT beat Chandrupatla (2884 against 2683 and 2423), it HARMS the slope reading (2806 -> 2854), and it does not cure false position: 127/154 and 10676 become 128/154 and 10043, where Illinois buys 153/154 and 7045 with one constant. Estimator bias measured and stated: a pure cube reads 2.830, not 3
Also fixes a real regression from cc2c499: the derived3_cap branch was inserted in front of the derived3_m note and swallowed its division, so derived3_m silently became derived3 (2806 against 2806) and a refutation recorded in the paper stopped being reproducible. The full pin caught it; a cheap pin now guards it too. And \label{sec:method} never existed while the table on page 7 referenced it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 01:17:25 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 cc2c499f63 Valeri's objection measured: the principle is right (a similarity step should be large far away and small near), and our sigma = |f'|D defeats it — at x=1e4 on a 2e4 bracket the normalised residual is 0.167, so S=0.833 'similar' and the step is small five thousand step-lengths from the root. Selecting sigma = min(|f'|D, max|f| at the ends) — no new constant — improves 403 to 390 on eight hand-picked wide problems but is WORSE over the grid: APS 3288 vs 2726, CHA 3111 vs 2683, so the mode is rejected by its pre-registered rule. Its extra solves are two fun7 problems landing inside the flat zero region, i.e. the scoring artefact and not a capability. Written into Negative results as the answer to the natural objection
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 00:19:03 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 04ee5c89b9 two more places for similarity: points='shape' (WHICH triple the model uses, argmin |phi-xi| over declared candidates — select, never weight) and direction='dissimilar' (the far end read by |f| rather than by distance); defaults bit-identical, P1-P5 pinned (7 green), inertness counters make an inert mode a failed EXPERIMENT rather than a pass; each grid writes to its own file
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 23:39:41 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 e4769be9a3 slope-stability gate: the PROJECT'S OWN target is met for the first time — 5922 < 6026 over both sets at 193/199 with the guarantee intact (slope.ratio.derived3.project: APS 2848 + CHA 3074), CHA improves 4516 -> 2903 (x1.56), repairs 77.5% -> 55.3%. Honest cost: APS 2806 -> 2848, which moves us from 1st to 3rd on the canonical set (chandrupatla 2785, toms748 2820), so my stricter S1 fails while the project target passes — a positioning decision, recorded not resolved. Refusal CURRENCY is what decides: bracket progress 4449 vs model shape 2848, a 1601-evaluation difference for the same 'refuse before the step' idea
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 23:27:43 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 0617243ed4 pre-step gate: prestep='none'|'progress' (default bit-identical), refuse the similarity step BEFORE spending an evaluation when it promises less progress than bisection — two lengths already in hand, no new constant; R1-R4 pinned by tests/test_prestep_gate.py (6 green); the gate grid writes to its OWN sweep_gate.json
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 23:12:34 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 a9060b3dcc logarithmic space mode: pure_root gains space='x'|'log' (default reproduces the published grid bit-for-bit), u = sign(x-c)*log1p(|x-c|/xtol) with c = the end of smaller |f| and s = xtol fixed by derivation; gates G1/G2' pinned by tests/test_log_space.py (7 green); sweep writes the log grid to its OWN sweep_log.json so the verified sweep_full.json is untouched
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 22:52:58 +01:00
vvsandClaude Opus 5 4a23aacf96 baseline: the published sim-numerics artifact as it stands (490 tests, verify_article.py checks all 72 paper numbers against sweep_full.json)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 22:38:17 +01:00