World Alignment: unpaired cross-modal correspondence by relational identifiability

Method: scene states are sets of part states; relation fields are built
within each modality and are invariant to how each side labels its own
features; the cross-modal bridge is a coupling searched under an energy
that is a closed-form functional of one matrix; solving is spectral
initialisation followed by exact local refinement.

Evidence: in a procedurally generated closed world, blind recovery of a
hidden image-caption correspondence reaches 95.3% at 256 scenes against
0.39% chance, and the recovered pairs transfer to 200 held-out scenes at
93.0% exact retrieval with random-pair and shuffled-image controls at or
near chance. Cross-modal value correspondence is derived from disjoint
corpora rather than declared. On Visual Genome the field correlation
reaches 0.656 against the 0.9 that polynomial recovery needs, with the
deficit attributed away from segmentation and discretisation.

Protocol: no image-text pair enters any objective, optimiser,
initialisation, or model selection; hidden pairs score orderings only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+"""Blind recovery on synthetic set-kernel fields: the end-to-end test.
+
+Builds the connected-component descriptor field and the phrase
+bag-of-words field, hides the text order behind a shuffle, and runs
+parallel tempering on the relational energy alone. Recovery accuracy
+against the hidden truth is the first end-to-end measurement of world
+matching in the closed world.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import torch
+from tqdm import tqdm
+
+from .blind_recovery import arm_tempering, permutation_energy_batch
+from .common import read_json, seed_everything, write_json
+from .manifold_gate import standardize_relation
+from .synth_cc_battery import (
+    component_descriptors,
+    moment_field,
+    onehot_descriptors,
+    phrase_bow_sets,
+)
+from .synth_set_battery import set_similarity_field
+from .synth_towers import load_image
+
+
+def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--data-dir", default="artifacts/synth_v0")
+    parser.add_argument("--split", choices=["val", "test"], default="test")
+    parser.add_argument("--samples", type=int, default=512)
+    parser.add_argument("--merge-distance", type=float, default=30.0)
+    parser.add_argument("--vision-views", type=int, default=4)
+    parser.add_argument("--replicas", type=int, default=8)
+    parser.add_argument("--tempering-rounds", type=int, default=60000)
+    parser.add_argument("--temp-high", type=float, default=3e-3)
+    parser.add_argument("--temp-low", type=float, default=1e-5)
+    parser.add_argument("--exchange-every", type=int, default=20)
+    parser.add_argument("--unary-weight", type=float, default=0.0)
+    parser.add_argument("--init", default="random")
+    parser.add_argument("--residualize-size", action="store_true", default=False)
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--features", choices=["descriptors", "onehot"], default="onehot"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("--kernel", choices=["matching", "moment"], default="moment")
+    parser.add_argument("--device", default="cuda:3")
+    parser.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=20260731)
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--output", default="artifacts/synth_v0/recovery_end_to_end.json"
+    )
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def residualize(field: torch.Tensor, sizes: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Regress the set-size nuisance out of a matching-value field.
+
+    Set sizes are unimodal observables; their sum, difference, and product
+    explain a size-driven component that differs between modalities and
+    is exploitable by counterfeit assignments.
+    """
+    n = len(field)
+    mask = ~torch.eye(n, dtype=torch.bool)
+    features = torch.stack(
+        [
+            (sizes[:, None] + sizes[None, :])[mask],
+            (sizes[:, None] - sizes[None, :]).abs()[mask],
+            (sizes[:, None] * sizes[None, :])[mask],
+            torch.ones(int(mask.sum()), dtype=torch.float64),
+        ],
+        dim=1,
+    )
+    values = field.double()[mask]
+    solution = torch.linalg.lstsq(features, values[:, None]).solution
+    residual = values - (features @ solution).squeeze(1)
+    output = field.double().clone()
+    output[mask] = residual
+    output.fill_diagonal_(0.0)
+    return output.float()
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    args = parse_args()
+    seed_everything(args.seed)
+    manifest = read_json(Path(args.data_dir, "manifest.json"))
+    captions = read_json(Path(args.data_dir, "captions.json"))["captions"]
+    rows = manifest[args.split][: args.samples]
+    image_dir = Path(manifest["image_dir"])
+
+    import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+    per_view_fields = []
+    for view in range(args.vision_views):
+        raw_sets = []
+        for row in tqdm(rows, desc=f"cc v{view}"):
+            image = load_image(image_dir / f"scene{row:06d}_v{view}.png")
+            sprites, _ = component_descriptors(image, args.merge_distance)
+            raw_sets.append(sprites)
+        if args.features == "onehot":
+            vision_sets = [
+                F.normalize(v, dim=-1) for v in onehot_descriptors(raw_sets)
+            ]
+        else:
+            vision_sets = [F.normalize(v, dim=-1) for v in raw_sets]
+        if args.kernel == "moment":
+            per_view_fields.append(moment_field(vision_sets))
+        else:
+            per_view_fields.append(set_similarity_field(vision_sets))
+    visual_field = torch.stack(per_view_fields).mean(0)
+    text_sets = phrase_bow_sets(rows, captions, manifest["vocabulary"])
+    if args.kernel == "moment":
+        text_field = moment_field(text_sets)
+    else:
+        text_field = set_similarity_field(text_sets)
+
+    if args.residualize_size:
+        vision_sizes = torch.tensor(
+            [len(s) for s in vision_sets], dtype=torch.float64
+        )
+        text_sizes = torch.tensor([len(s) for s in text_sets], dtype=torch.float64)
+        visual_field = residualize(visual_field, vision_sizes)
+        text_field = residualize(text_field, text_sizes)
+
+    device = torch.device(args.device)
+    size = len(rows)
+    generator = torch.Generator().manual_seed(args.seed)
+    hidden = torch.randperm(size, generator=generator)
+    truth = torch.argsort(hidden)
+    text_input = text_field[hidden][:, hidden]
+
+    text_standardized = standardize_relation(text_input.double())[0].float().to(device)
+    visual_standardized = (
+        standardize_relation(visual_field.double())[0].float().to(device)
+    )
+    true_energy = float(
+        permutation_energy_batch(
+            text_standardized, visual_standardized, truth[None].to(device)
+        )[0]
+    )
+    report = {
+        "protocol": (
+            "Set-kernel fields from released renders and captions; text "
+            "order hidden behind a shuffle; tempering sees no truth. "
+            "Hidden truth scores the outcome only."
+        ),
+        "split": args.split,
+        "samples": size,
+        "true_energy": true_energy,
+        "chance_accuracy": 1.0 / size,
+        "tempering": arm_tempering(
+            text_standardized,
+            visual_standardized,
+            truth,
+            true_energy,
+            args,
+            generator,
+            unary=None,
+        ),
+    }
+    best = max(
+        report["tempering"]["replicas"] + [report["tempering"]["best"]],
+        key=lambda c: c["accuracy"],
+    )
+    by_energy = min(
+        report["tempering"]["replicas"] + [report["tempering"]["best"]],
+        key=lambda c: c["energy"],
+    )
+    report["summary"] = {
+        "best_accuracy": best["accuracy"],
+        "best_accuracy_energy_over_true": best["energy_over_true"],
+        "lowest_energy_accuracy": by_energy["accuracy"],
+        "lowest_energy_over_true": by_energy["energy_over_true"],
+    }
+    print(json.dumps({"summary": report["summary"]}))
+    write_json(args.output, report)
+    print(f"Wrote {args.output}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()