From 95b8fae2ef66d9c98be81b1fc33c2ae0f7c7662f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuren Hao Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:32:07 -0500 Subject: =?UTF-8?q?STANDING:=20looped=20line=20abandoned=20(user=20directi?= =?UTF-8?q?ve)=20=E2=80=94=20cascade-only=20default;=20looped=20=3D=20hist?= =?UTF-8?q?orical=20data=20for=20dynamics=20paper?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- docs/campaign/CASCADE_ABLATION_PLAN.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/campaign/CASCADE_ABLATION_PLAN.md b/docs/campaign/CASCADE_ABLATION_PLAN.md index 8483820..1196106 100644 --- a/docs/campaign/CASCADE_ABLATION_PLAN.md +++ b/docs/campaign/CASCADE_ABLATION_PLAN.md @@ -510,3 +510,12 @@ manual; hardware bonus = nudge amplitude free under multiplicative noise (r-indi engineering upside, NOT in the Ben cost baseline. Wall-1 physics predicted all of this (SNR ∝ beta/eps; bf16 eps ~8000x fp32): the fp32/bf16/analog-noise beta-epsilon scaling story now has a second measured point. + +## STANDING DIRECTIVE (user, 2026-07-11): LOOPED LINE ABANDONED. +The looped/weight-tied single-block line is retired as a research direction. Default everywhere: +cascade (tied, PCN-form energy over distinct standard blocks) is THE line. The looped record survives +ONLY as historical evidence inside the dynamics paper (Hopf phenomenology, dips, governor, eig +audits — valid data, past tense). Consequences: no new looped runs; looped-specific queue items +closed (adaptive-eps integrator, Pascal five-arm reg triage, S1-S3 looped ladder); report v3 +sections 7.1/8 to be reframed past-tense on the Overleaf pass ("a companion system we studied", not +"our companion product"); AsymEP machinery = dynamics-paper subject matter, not the training recipe. -- cgit v1.2.3