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16 hoursTest the new instruments; fix an O(1/n) bias in the degree decompositionYurenHao0426
Four tests around today's additions. Two failed on first run and both were worth having. The degree decomposition left an O(1/n) residual on a field that is purely additive: excluding the diagonal makes the two-way design unbalanced, so one pass of row and column means does not remove a pure degree effect. Swept to convergence instead. At N=256 the correction moves the reported variance shares by under 0.001, so the refutation of the hubness hypothesis stands unchanged -- but the instrument that produced it now does what it claims. The other failure was the test's own scale: two random 16-dimensional subspaces of R^64 overlap above 0.7 by chance, which is why the real measurements are made at N=256 where the null sits at 1.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
16 hoursRetire the correlation gate: the shared spectrum governs recoveryYurenHao0426
A controlled truncation refutes the project's central go/no-go rule. Projecting the recovering synthetic fields to rank r holds the field correlation at 0.902-0.929 while recovery moves 6.2% -> 12.9% -> 95.6% across ranks 4, 8, 16. A field past the supposed 0.9 threshold recovers 13%, so correlation neither predicts nor forbids recovery and the width of the shared spectrum is what moves it. The gate becomes a joint condition on correlation and shared width, measured by principal angles against a scene-shuffled null. Neither suffices alone: 18 shared directions at 0.508 fails, 11 at 0.902 fails. With the old gate retired, natural data was finally searched: 0.0000 against 0.0039 chance. The old verdict was right, its reasoning was not. Also closes route D by measurement. rho_IT ~ sqrt(4 log N / N) rises as N falls, and at N = 16 through 96 the deepest state a strong searcher reaches is deeper than the truth in 3/3 replicates at every size. Free gains: eigenvalue-weighted projection over a wide basis with 128-dim text vectors takes the correlation 0.656 -> 0.716 and shared width 10 -> 16. Hubness refuted as an inflation hypothesis. Moving the per-image segmentation eigendecomposition onto the GPU cut batch time from 130s to 1.9s. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
18 hoursLandscape reshaping does not substitute for field correlationYuren Hao
A rank-truncation ladder from four to full rank returns chance accuracy at the natural-data correlation of 0.656, as does full-rank spectral initialisation with refinement. Coarse-to-sharp smoothing widens basins and thins decoys, and recovers nothing, so below the polynomial threshold the deficit is information the algorithm class cannot use rather than a basin it cannot find. Solver-side candidates should wait on the correlation instead of competing with it. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
18 hoursCandidate register: five factors, ordered by expected movementYuren Hao
The natural-data obstruction decomposes into field correlation, landscape shape, search strength, problem size, and orthogonal signal, and every candidate attacks exactly one. Records what is measured, what is running, and what is specified but unstarted, so branches can be eliminated in cost order rather than by preference. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
18 hoursAugmentation orbits do not substitute for multiple photographsYuren Hao
Four random resized crops per Visual Genome image, segmented independently with their fields averaged, leave the correlation at 0.6559. Closed-world re-renders resample layout, which is nuisance by construction, so averaging removes modality-private variation; random crops perturb framing that self-supervised patch features already absorb, leaving nothing to cancel. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
18 hoursWorld Alignment: unpaired cross-modal correspondence by relational ↵Yuren Hao
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>