Gate-1 candidate 7: k-NN conditional rank bootstrap - #55
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…locks) The ninth pre-registered gate-1 run. Replaces candidate 6's discretized rank kernel with continuous empirical conditional draws and deepens the conditioning memory: a k-nearest-neighbor conditional rank bootstrap over train transition records, matched on the next two generated-or-real ranks (v1, v2) and the person's continuous anchor rank a. Frozen spec registered before the run in issue #42 (issuecomment-4896132094); implemented literally, no tuning. Mechanics (all constants fixed a priori at registration): - Rank machinery (cells, Qhat_pos/rhat, continuous anchor rank u_A) reused byte-for-byte from candidate 5b; protocol machinery imported from the baseline runner; participation gate is candidate 2's backward regime gate. - Donor pools per seed from train positives: pairs (u_prev, u_next) -- candidate 6's kernel pairs, verified bit-identical (64,603 seed 0) -- triples (u_prev, u_next, u_next2) where the next-later observed period is also positive, and re-entry pairs (candidate 6's, 4,994 seed 0). Records pinned in a stable (person_id, period) order fixing the k-NN tie-break. - Conditional draw: triples when v2 exists else pairs; distance |u_next - v1| + 0.5|u_next2 - v2| (triples) + 0.25|u_A - a|; k=25 nearest; one record drawn with probability proportional to its weight; generated u_prev is that record's u_prev exactly (no binning/smoothing/jitter). Earnings = Qhat_pos of the target cell at u_prev. Zero crossings use the re-entry pool matched on |u_A - a| alone. Verdict: gate_1_pass = False (geometry 2/5, battery 2/5; needs >=4/5 both). The deepened memory is a real improvement over candidate 6 (which failed 0/5 both) but does not clear the conjunction. - Geometry: the only failing metric is the runs-view (window-3) c2st_auc, failing seeds 0/2/4 (0.548/0.546/0.549 vs 0.54) and passing 1/3 (0.539/0.532). The pairs-view c2st passes on all five seeds (0.516-0.529 <= 0.53); every other geometry threshold passes everywhere. - Battery: the only failing metric is the 10-year autocorrelation, failing seeds 2/3/4 (0.445/0.442/0.465; deviations 0.094/0.097/0.074 vs tolerance 0.07) and passing 0/1 (0.470/0.473). This is the registered risk: two-step-plus-anchor memory does not carry the full permanent share on 3/5 seeds. Every other battery tolerance passes on all five seeds. Determinism: battery_reference reproduces bit-exact before scoring; the live seed-0 reproduction test passes in the gate venv; the run reproduces from the seeds alone. Reported-not-gated diagnostics per the registration (neighbor distances, triple/pair share, donor reuse, drawn corner mass by anchor quintile, clamped share) are carried in the artifact. Deliverables on this branch: scripts/run_gate1_candidate7.py, runs/gate1_rank_knn_v1.json (schema gate1_rank_knn.v1, spec_registration = the candidate-7 comment), tests/test_gate1_qrf_candidate7.py. Full pytest green (249 passed, 7 skipped); ruff clean; black -l 79 clean. Refs issue #42, forensics #54, and the eight prior run PRs (#40, #43, #44, #48, #50, #51, #52, #53). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Amendment OBJECT under the locked pre-registration contract. It PROPOSES changes and changes NOTHING: the locked gate_1.thresholds block is untouched (locked: true stays; every locked value byte-identical), no model reads the new subsection, and nothing takes effect until a fresh adversarial referee round runs on this proposal and the maintainer ratifies by merging. New committed anchor (real-vs-real PIA-proxy floor at deployment scale): - runs/pia_proxy_floor_9822.json + scripts/build_pia_proxy_floor.py: the ctx20 construction (40% draw seed 1000+s, halved at seed s) on the FULL locked filtered panel, both disjoint halves pushed through the pinned PIA-proxy functional imported verbatim from build_downstream_relevance (single source of truth). Records per seed and mean/sd: |mean % gap| 1.86+/-0.76, |median % gap| 1.61+/-0.99, weighted KS 0.0288+/-0.0078, and the Q0 (zero-anchor subgroup) gap (pooled |Q0| 2.66%; per-seed 5.25+/-4.53). The floor is real-vs-real, so the oracle import path does NOT pull populace.fit; the reproduction test needs only PSID and runs live (seed 0, pinned to float precision). gates.yaml gate_1.amendment_proposed (pure addition, zero deletions): - change 1: runs-view c2st_auc_max moves gated -> reported-not-gated (PR #56: candidate-7 KS inside the real-real noise floor, central benefit gaps <=1.9%; the window-3 residual is benefit-immaterial texture per PR #54). - change 2: a NEW gated benefit_space block on the candidate PIA-proxy panels: |mean %|<=5, |median %|<=5, deciles d3-d9 <=5 (d1 AND d2 reported-not-gated -- the new anchor shows their real-real floor clips 5% on 5/5 and 3/5 seeds), weighted KS <= committed anchor mean + 4*sd (machine-checkable derivation = 0.0599), and pooled |Q0 mean %|<=5. The 5% bands cite the paper's pre-stated +/-5%-of-SSA-statistics success criterion (docs Phase-1 acceptance table); only KS is floor-derived. Candidate 7 measured +9.3% on Q0, so the amendment ADDS strictness where the evidence says it bites -- recalibration toward decision-relevance, not relaxation. Discriminator check on committed evidence: real-vs-real PASSES the block, candidate 7 FAILS it on Q0. tests/test_gates_derivations.py: binds the proposed block -- the KS band equals anchor mean + stated k*sd, every proposed gated metric carries a derivation or an a-priori-source citation, the anchor's stats recompute from its stored per-seed values, and the reported-not-gated d1/d2 partition matches the anchor's per-decile fragility. ruff + black -l 79 clean; full pytest green in the repo .venv (275 passed, 9 skipped -- the skips are pre-existing populace.fit gate reproductions). Evidence chain: PR #54, PR #55, PR #56, issue #42. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…cks) (#58) The tenth pre-registered gate-1 run, and the last planned candidate iteration before the governance track resolves. Candidate 7's k-NN conditional rank bootstrap VERBATIM with exactly two registered substitutions, both conditioning refinements with no new tuned constant. Frozen spec registered before the run in issue #42 (issuecomment-4897723604); implemented literally, no tuning. Substitution 1 (long memory): every train donor record carries u_w = Phi(what / sigma_hat_w), the donor person's correlated-noise-shrunk permanent rank from candidate 3's stage-1 decomposition APPLIED TO THE Z-PANEL (z = Phi^-1(rank) of positive observations; the same rank map that forms u_prev/u_next). The k-NN third term becomes |u_w(donor) - u_A(target)| at candidate 7's 0.25 weight, upgrading the donor side from a single noisy anchor draw to the shrunk full-career permanent estimate. The target side keeps u_A. Substitution 2 (attachment-aware zero conditioning): for zero-anchor holdout persons (u_A = p0/2 identically) every k-NN distance replaces the third term with |d age|/40 + |d n_observed_periods|/13 (scales pinned as the range widths -- age over the 25-59 filter, the observed-period count over the 13 biennial reference years -- not tuned), and the donor pool is restricted to train records whose person's own anchor earnings are zero. Everything else -- donor pools, k=25, the 1/0.5 lag weights, the weighted single-record draw, no smoothing/jitter, the re-entry pools, the regime gate, the rank machinery, the gap rule, the substream seeding -- is byte-identical to candidate 7. Protocol machinery imported from the baseline runner (PR #40); rank machinery / participation gate from candidate 5b (PR #52); the k-NN draw and anchor quintiles from candidate 7 (PR #55); the u_w decomposition from candidate 3 (PR #44); the reported benefit-space functional from PR #56. Scored under the CURRENT locked gate; the artifact additionally REPORTS the proposed benefit-space block (PIA-proxy gaps incl. Q0) so this run carries evidence for both standards. VERDICT: gate_1_pass = False (geometry 0/5, battery 0/5). Substitution 1 overshot persistence rather than repairing it. Candidate 7 undershot the 10-year autocorrelation (mean 0.459, band 0.539 +/- 0.07); candidate 8 overshoots it (mean 0.670) and now overshoots ALL THREE autocorrelation lags -- 2yr 0.791 (dev 0.053-0.071), 4yr 0.733 (dev 0.066-0.085), 10yr 0.670 (dev 0.110-0.145) -- so the battery fails 5/5. Mobility diagonal (0.61, within 0.05) still passes. Geometry fails 5/5: the runs-view c2st (mean 0.5495) misses 0.54 on every seed; pairs-view c2st (mean 0.5307) clears 0.53 on seeds 2-4 only. The Q0 fix did not work. The zero-anchor subgroup's PIA-proxy overstatement did not shrink -- Q0 mean gap +12.2% (candidate 7 +9.3%), Q0 median +24.0% (c7 +22.9%), Q0 KS 0.092 (c7 0.097). Overall benefit space also degraded: the persistence overshoot flipped the pooled mean gap to -2.1% (c7 +1.85%) and worsened the KS to 0.040 (c7 0.025). Reported-not-gated per seed: the u_w decomposition (rho 0.74-0.78, sigma_hat_w ~0.72, permanent share ~0.55; u_w spans [0.002, 1.0], median ~0.45), the Q0 pool sizes (~6,400 pairs / ~4,400 triples / ~2,950 re-entry; Q0 draws ~11-14% of positive draws), the neighbor-distance distribution, usage shares, corner masses, and the full PIA-proxy benefit-space block. Runner deterministic; seed-0 reproduction test run live in .venv-gate (matches the committed artifact to float precision). Full pytest green in the repo .venv (281 passed, 12 skipped). Battery-reference reproduced to float precision before scoring. Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* Gate-1 amendment proposal: decision-relevant recalibration Amendment OBJECT under the locked pre-registration contract. It PROPOSES changes and changes NOTHING: the locked gate_1.thresholds block is untouched (locked: true stays; every locked value byte-identical), no model reads the new subsection, and nothing takes effect until a fresh adversarial referee round runs on this proposal and the maintainer ratifies by merging. New committed anchor (real-vs-real PIA-proxy floor at deployment scale): - runs/pia_proxy_floor_9822.json + scripts/build_pia_proxy_floor.py: the ctx20 construction (40% draw seed 1000+s, halved at seed s) on the FULL locked filtered panel, both disjoint halves pushed through the pinned PIA-proxy functional imported verbatim from build_downstream_relevance (single source of truth). Records per seed and mean/sd: |mean % gap| 1.86+/-0.76, |median % gap| 1.61+/-0.99, weighted KS 0.0288+/-0.0078, and the Q0 (zero-anchor subgroup) gap (pooled |Q0| 2.66%; per-seed 5.25+/-4.53). The floor is real-vs-real, so the oracle import path does NOT pull populace.fit; the reproduction test needs only PSID and runs live (seed 0, pinned to float precision). gates.yaml gate_1.amendment_proposed (pure addition, zero deletions): - change 1: runs-view c2st_auc_max moves gated -> reported-not-gated (PR #56: candidate-7 KS inside the real-real noise floor, central benefit gaps <=1.9%; the window-3 residual is benefit-immaterial texture per PR #54). - change 2: a NEW gated benefit_space block on the candidate PIA-proxy panels: |mean %|<=5, |median %|<=5, deciles d3-d9 <=5 (d1 AND d2 reported-not-gated -- the new anchor shows their real-real floor clips 5% on 5/5 and 3/5 seeds), weighted KS <= committed anchor mean + 4*sd (machine-checkable derivation = 0.0599), and pooled |Q0 mean %|<=5. The 5% bands cite the paper's pre-stated +/-5%-of-SSA-statistics success criterion (docs Phase-1 acceptance table); only KS is floor-derived. Candidate 7 measured +9.3% on Q0, so the amendment ADDS strictness where the evidence says it bites -- recalibration toward decision-relevance, not relaxation. Discriminator check on committed evidence: real-vs-real PASSES the block, candidate 7 FAILS it on Q0. tests/test_gates_derivations.py: binds the proposed block -- the KS band equals anchor mean + stated k*sd, every proposed gated metric carries a derivation or an a-priori-source citation, the anchor's stats recompute from its stored per-seed values, and the reported-not-gated d1/d2 partition matches the anchor's per-decile fragility. ruff + black -l 79 clean; full pytest green in the repo .venv (275 passed, 9 skipped -- the skips are pre-existing populace.fit gate reproductions). Evidence chain: PR #54, PR #55, PR #56, issue #42. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Apply the amendment referee round: honest sourcing and full disclosure The referee (PR #57 review) found two text-level defects, no numeric ones. First, the +/-5% bands claimed the paper as their source; the paper carries no such criterion. The a_priori_source now states the exact provenance — the DRAFT Phase-1 acceptance tables, in AIME units — notes that PIA concavity makes a 5% PIA-space band stricter than the draft figure (roughly 7-9% AIME-equivalent), and declares the bands as this amendment's own proposal-time criterion. The source key renames to amendment_5pct_criterion accordingly. Second, the runs-view c2st demotion silently changed the geometry-block verdicts of four committed runs; a demotion_disclosure block now lists every flip, shows that no overall gate-1 verdict changes (each run still fails the battery and, under the amendment, the benefit-space block — referee-verified baseline pooled Q0 +19.0), and acknowledges where the anti-persistence duty concentrates. Also aligns the anchor reproduction test's pe-us pin check with the repo precedent (PR #41): skip with both revisions named on a mismatched checkout instead of failing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… regime (fails under the amended gate) (#62) The eleventh pre-registered gate-1 run and the first candidate scored under the amended gate (PR #57/#59). Candidate 7's machinery verbatim with two registered changes; the only calibration is the registered train-side SMM for lambda. Verdict under the amended gate: FAIL. Geometry 0/5, battery 2/5, pooled Q0 -17.89% (> 5). Two registered changes: 1. SMM-calibrated donor-coordinate blend. The k-NN third distance term becomes |lambda*u_w(donor) + (1-lambda)*u_A(donor) - u_A(target)| at the 0.25 weight; u_w is candidate 8's shrunk permanent rank, u_A the anchor ranks. lambda is calibrated per seed on the train split by SMM in the 5b tradition (grid {0,...,1.0}, autocorrelation-ladder SSE on the first 2,000 train persons, ties to the smaller lambda). lambda=0 reproduces candidate 7; lambda=1 candidate 8. 2. Zero-anchor participation regime. Zero-anchor holdout persons draw participation from a gate refit only on zero-anchor train pairs and their re-entry innovations from a zero-anchor-restricted re-entry pool. Positive-anchor persons keep the shared gate and full pools exactly as candidate 7. Candidate 9 does NOT adopt candidate 8's attachment distance. Findings: - Chosen lambda per seed: {0: 0.2, 1: 0.0, 2: 0.3, 3: 0.1, 4: 0.0}. The train SMM never chose lambda above 0.3 and chose lambda=0 (candidate 7) on two seeds. - The c9 pooled 10-year autocorrelation rung (0.514) lands inside the reference band [0.469, 0.609] and between the c7/c8 bracket (0.459/0.670) -- the blend achieved its aim on the 10-year rung in the pooled mean. But no single lambda on the grid lands all three rungs simultaneously: the registered risk materialized (the blend changes all three rungs together). Battery passes only 2/5 (seeds 2, 3); seed 0 fails the 2-year rung (dev 0.059), seeds 1/4 (lambda=0) leave the 10-year rung short. - Geometry 0/5: the binding constraint is the pairs-view c2st_auc (0.531-0.550, all just over 0.53) on all five seeds; benefit-space additionally fails on seeds 0/2/3. - The zero-anchor participation regime closed the never-worker resurrection (generated all-zero share 0.3155 vs real 0.3147, gap +0.0007, vs PR #61's +20.7pp for the shared gate) -- the participation law now matches reality. But the level over-corrected: pooled Q0 PIA-proxy moved from c7 +9.3% / c8 +12.2% to c9 -17.89% (the restricted re-entry pool plus the resurrection fix together subtract more than the +9.3% they were meant to remove). Artifact runs/gate1_rank_knn_v3.json (schema gate1_rank_knn.v3): per-seed chosen lambda + SMM ladders, the amended-gate scorecard (the benefit_space block per seed + pooled Q0), Q0 participation diagnostics, and the standard diagnostics. The battery-reference bit-exact precheck reproduced every committed value before scoring. Tests: seed-0 reproduction (live in .venv-gate) + the amended-verdict recomputation block (24 pass in .venv-gate; 311 pass / 16 skip in the repo .venv). Links issue #42; base machinery candidate 7 (#55); u_w candidate 8 (#58); benefit-space functional #56; C2ST forensics #54; amended gate #57/#59; Q0 forensics #61. Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…try under the amended gate) (#64) The twelfth pre-registered gate-1 run, and the first whose every constant was selected by nested validation (PR #63) rather than by outer-gate feedback. Candidate 10 is the inner sweep's V1-lam0.1 variant at outer scale: candidate 7's k-NN conditional-rank-bootstrap machinery, candidate 9's zero-anchor participation regime with its two poisons removed (the re-entry-pool restriction dropped, Q0 targets held memory-exempt), and a FIXED lambda = 0.1 donor-coordinate blend for the non-Q0 targets. No calibration stage: lambda is fixed, not chosen against any score. Frozen spec: issue #42 comment 4902561460. Scored under the amended gate (gates.yaml gate_1, PR #57/#59) exactly as run 11: runs-view c2st demoted, gated benefit-space block folded into the geometry verdict, >=4/5 geometry AND >=4/5 battery AND pooled Q0 (abs <= 5). Verdict, exactly as computed: gate_1_pass = FALSE -- geometry 3/5 (needs 4/5), battery 4/5 (passes), pooled Q0 +0.038% (passes). Seeds 0 and 1 each clip the pairs-view C2ST (0.5315, 0.5330 vs 0.53); seeds 2/3/4 clear it. The only battery failure is seed 0's 2-year autocorrelation (0.7896, deviation 0.0595 > 0.05) -- a short-lag overshoot from the memory injection, not the 10-year undershoot of earlier candidates (every seed clears 4yr and 10yr). Inner-vs-outer: the ~0.005-0.01 heat correction the inner sweep predicted for the pairs C2ST delivered a reshuffle, not a uniform cooling -- mean cooled -0.0014 (inner 0.5293 -> outer 0.5279), but seeds 0/1 heated up (crossing to fail) while the worst inner seed (3, 0.5365) cooled to a comfortable pass (0.5260). Still 3/5, one seed short -- exactly the forecast's named failure (comment 4902561584, P(pass) ~0.42). The Q0 program was solved: pooled Q0 generalized inner +1.19% -> outer +0.04%, and the generated-vs-real all-zero share gap is +0.0007 (no never-worker resurrection). Generation verified byte-identical to the inner sweep's generate_variant at memory_mode=lambda_blend, lam=0.1, use_zero_anchor_gate=True under candidate-7 seeding. Seed-0 reproduction run live in .venv-gate (float-exact). Full pytest green in the repo .venv (361 passed, 22 skipped). ruff + black -l 79 clean. Deliverables: - scripts/run_gate1_candidate10.py -- deterministic; candidate-7 two-element substreams; the registered rules exactly. - runs/gate1_rank_knn_v4.json -- schema gate1_rank_knn.v4; spec_registration = the candidate-10 comment; standard diagnostics + Q0 participation numbers + per-seed benefit_space + the amended scorecard. - tests/test_gate1_qrf_candidate10.py -- seed-0 reproduction (skipif PSID + importorskip populace.fit) + generation-equivalence to the inner sweep + the Q0-exempt/full-pool checks + the amended-gate consistency block. Links: issue #42; PRs #63 (inner-validation harness + design sweep), #62 (candidate 9), #61 (Q0 forensics), #55 (candidate 7). Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: FAIL —
gate_1_pass = False(geometry 2/5, battery 2/5; needs ≥4/5 both)The ninth pre-registered gate-1 run. Replaces candidate 6's discretized rank kernel with continuous empirical conditional draws and deepens the conditioning memory: a k-nearest-neighbor conditional rank bootstrap over train transition records, matched on the next two generated-or-real ranks
(v1, v2)and the person's continuous anchor ranka. The frozen candidate-7 spec was registered before the run and implemented literally — no tuning.The deepened two-step-plus-anchor memory is a real improvement over candidate 6 (which failed 0/5 on both blocks), and it produces the best classifier scores of any candidate so far — the first to pull the pairs-view c2st under threshold on all five seeds. But it does not clear the 4/5 conjunction: the runs-view c2st and the 10-year autocorrelation each clip on 3/5 seeds.
What changed vs candidate 6
Qhat_pos/rhat, continuous anchor ranku_A) reused byte-for-byte from candidate 5b (Gate-1 candidate 5b: rank-space generative dynamics #52); protocol machinery imported from the baseline runner (Gate-1 baseline run: chained weighted QRF #40); participation gate is candidate 2's backward regime gate.(u_prev, u_next)— candidate 6's kernel pairs, verified bit-identical (64,603 records, seed 0) — triples(u_prev, u_next, u_next2)where the next-later observed period is also positive (~49,200 records), and re-entry pairs — candidate 6's, verified bit-identical (4,994, seed 0). Records pinned in a stable(person_id, period)order that fixes the k-NN tie-break.v2exists else pairs; distanced = |u_next − v1| + 0.5·|u_next2 − v2|(triples only)+ 0.25·|u_A − a|;k = 25nearest; one record drawn with probability proportional to its weight; the generatedu_previs that record'su_prevexactly (no binning, no smoothing, no within-bin jitter). Earnings =Qhat_posof the target cell atu_prev(interpolated, so no value duplication). Zero crossings use the re-entry pool matched on|u_A − a|alone.Per-seed table
Geometry (2/5): the only failing metric anywhere is the runs-view (window-3) c2st_auc, failing seeds 0/2/4 (0.548/0.546/0.549 vs 0.54) and passing 1/3 (0.539/0.532). The pairs-view c2st passes on all five seeds (0.516–0.529 ≤ 0.53), and every other locked geometry threshold (energy, coverage, tail q90/q99/w1sd) passes on all five seeds and both views.
Battery (2/5): the only failing metric anywhere is the 10-year autocorrelation, failing seeds 2/3/4 (deviations 0.094/0.097/0.074 vs tolerance 0.07) and passing 0/1 (0.470/0.473; deviations 0.069/0.066). Every other locked tolerance (2yr/4yr autocorr, mobility diagonal, zero-persistence, entry/exit, spell length) passes on all five seeds. This is exactly the registered risk: "the 10-year autocorrelation floor may still undershoot — two-step-plus-anchor memory may not carry the full permanent share."
The nine-run ladder (autocorrelation at 2/4/10 years)
c7's 2yr (0.719) and 4yr (0.636) land inside their bands. The 10yr (0.459) undershoots the band center 0.539 by 0.080 — just outside the ±0.07 window on the mean, which is why it fails on 3/5 seeds. c7 carries appreciably more 10yr memory than c6 (0.381) but less than 5b (0.507), which passed 4yr yet still failed 10yr against this same band; the continuous two-step memory sits between them.
Mobility vs the field
c7 mobility diagonal = 0.584 (mean), inside the 0.604 ± 0.05 band — it passes on all five seeds. On the axis that broke candidate 5b:
So the continuous k-NN keeps the mobility win that the counting estimators earned; it does not regress toward 5b's Gaussian churn.
c2st vs prior candidates (pairs / runs; thresholds 0.53 / 0.54)
c7 is the strongest classifier result in the field: the continuous empirical innovations (no discretization, no within-bin uniform, no Laplace flattening — the residuals the forensics, #54 localized in c6) drop the pairs c2st from c6's 0.547 to 0.523 (under threshold on 5/5) and the runs c2st from 0.596 to 0.543 — to the very boundary of the 0.54 lock. The window-3 joint is now barely distinguishable rather than clearly so.
k-NN diagnostics (reported-not-gated, per the registration)
Stable across the five seeds:
Reproduction & integrity
battery_referencereproduces bit-exact on the full filtered panel before any candidate is scored (the standard hard-stop precheck)..venv-gate) — seed 0 reruns to float precision (geometry + battery to 1e-12; pool sizes exact). The run reproduces from the seeds alone.ruff checkclean;black -l 79clean. All prior tests stay green.Deliverables on this branch
scripts/run_gate1_candidate7.py— deterministic; registered stages exactly; RNG substreams labeled (gate, donor-draw, re-entry-draw).runs/gate1_rank_knn_v1.json— schemagate1_rank_knn.v1;spec_registration= the candidate-7 comment; the reported-not-gated diagnostics above.tests/test_gate1_qrf_candidate7.py— seed-0 reproduction (skipif PSID + importorskip populace.fit) + the standard consistency block + synthetic donor-pool and k-NN-draw unit tests.Refs issue #42, the forensics PR #54, and the eight prior run PRs: baseline #40, c2 #43, c3 #44, c4 #48, 5a #50, 5a′ #51, 5b #52, c6 #53.
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