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- **pilot**: Controlled iteration (commits 0b9ebb2, 7baf7ae)
- **frozen**: Code at commit 0b9ebb2 for all reported results
-## Status: PHASE 9A FULL — BLEND(0.75) OUTPERFORMS DFA BY +1.5%
+## Status: PHASE 9 COMPLETE — OFFLINE PREFIT + BLEND IS THE KEY
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@@ -522,5 +522,31 @@ DFA stabilizes the trajectory while Vec adds learned corrections.
Higher Vec fraction (0.75) outperforms lower (0.25, 0.5) at t0=5,10.
Pure Vec handoff still fails at all t0.
+### Phase 9B: Periodic Refit — FAILED
+
+K=5 (refit every 5 epochs), R=1 (1 epoch refit), alpha=0.75: **14.0%** (vs DFA 31.2%).
+Vec starts random, periodic 1-epoch refits aren't enough. Without offline pretraining
+(as in 9A), the cold-start problem remains unsolved.
+
+### Phase 9C: Top-Down Curriculum — NEUTRAL
+
+| Config | final acc | diff vs DFA |
+|--------|-----------|-------------|
+| DFA_only | 0.312 | — |
+| last1_vec (blend 0.75) | 0.308 | -0.4% |
+| last2_vec (blend 0.75) | 0.311 | -0.1% |
+
+Vec for last 1-2 blocks ≈ DFA. No improvement, no degradation.
+Same cold-start problem: Vec can't learn useful credit online even for 1 block.
+
+### Phase 9 Overall Conclusion
+
+Only **offline prefit + blend handoff** (9A) works. Both online periodic refit (9B)
+and top-down curriculum (9C) fail because they don't pre-train Vec on frozen features.
+
+The +1.5% gain from 9A's blend(0.75) at t0=5 is the project's best online result.
+
### Experiment IDs (Phase 9)
- `checkpointed_handoff/`: Phase 9A checkpointed handoff with branches
+- `periodic_refit/`: Phase 9B periodic refit
+- `topdown_curriculum/`: Phase 9C top-down curriculum