| Age | Commit message (Expand) | Author |
| 2026-04-08 | Add vanilla DFA early-epoch checkpoint training (round 19 disambiguation) | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-08 | Add null calibration script: training-Bs vs fresh-Bs cos on penalized DFA | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-08 | Add penalty lambda 3-seed summary script + checkpoint save in penalty test | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-07 | Add fast direction-quality measurement on existing DFA checkpoints | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-07 | Add ViT-Mini DFA training script that saves checkpoint + Bs | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-07 | Add DFA direction-quality direct test (codex round 13 option c) | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-03 | Fix CNN compute_bp_grads: remove inter-layer detach so gradients flow to all ... | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-03 | Add checkpoint saving to ep_synthetic.py | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-03 | Fix EP credit sign in cnn_baseline.py | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-02 | Fix EP credit sign: negate (h_nudge - h_free)/β to align with BP grad direction | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-02 | Add --d_hidden arg to ep_baseline.py for d=512 support | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-02 | Fix ep_synthetic: bp dict needs L+1 entries for EP credit comparison | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-02 | Add EP synthetic ladder script | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-02 | Fix CNN state bridge: use custom CNNStateBridge for variable input dims | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-02 | Add SB and CB methods to cnn_baseline.py | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-02 | Fix gelu_ablation.py: compute method-specific Gamma instead of hardcoded 1.0 | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-02 | Add GELU/ReLU ablation script for CIFAR MLP | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-02 | Add CNN baseline: SmallCNN with BP/DFA/EP on CIFAR-10 | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-02 | Add EP baseline implementation (Scellier & Bengio 2017) for CIFAR MLP | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-01 | Add d512_sparsity.py: support sparsity for d=512 checkpoints | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-01 | Add cifar_d512_confirmatory.py: L=4 d=512 with checkpoint saving | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-01 | Add clean_sparsity_persample.py: per-sample gradient stats | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-01 | Add clean_sparsity_full.py: independent-process full sparsity analysis | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-01 | Add clean gradient check: independent Python process per method, GPU 1 | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-01 | Add confirmatory supplement: T1-T4 from checkpoints (no retraining) | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-01 | Add extended sparsity analysis: A4 per-layer, B1 snapshots, B2 active subset,... | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-04-01 | Add BP support sparsity analysis: threshold sweep + gradient histograms | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-31 | Update naive StateErr v3: L2 norm ratio formula, with checkpoints saved | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-31 | Add BP supplement for A2 CIFAR: 10 seeds with acc, Gamma, rho, naive_StateErr | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-31 | Add naive state prediction baseline for A1 and A2 | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-30 | Add confirmatory paper experiments: A1-A4, all 10 seeds complete | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-27 | Add Phase 10A.8C: 3-seed replication — scaffold gains are marginal | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-27 | Add Phase 10A.8: freeze-with-decay confirms stale aux is main freeze failure ... | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-27 | Add Phase 10A.7: minimal aux compression — continuous trainability is essen... | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-26 | Add Phase 10A.6: gain requires trainable depth-aware aux, not semantic credit | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-26 | Add Phase 10A.5: blend gain is implicit regularization, not learned credit | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-26 | Add Phase 10A: no prefit threshold — even random Vec blend beats DFA by +1.3% | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-26 | Add Phase 9B+9C: periodic refit fails, top-down curriculum neutral | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-25 | Add Phase 9A: checkpointed handoff — blend(Vec+DFA) outperforms pure DFA | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-25 | Add Phase 8: schedule timing test — online co-learning is the remaining bot... | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-25 | Add Phase 7A: snapshot time sweep shows early snapshots have positive held-ou... | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-25 | Add Phase 6.5A: same-batch linesearch REVISES Phase 6A conclusion | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-24 | Add Phase 6: snapshot exploitability reveals local update rule is the bottleneck | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-24 | Add Phase 5: vector field audit, frozen CIFAR transfer, online pilot | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-24 | Add Phase 4 diagnostic dissection: frozen credit recovery, online shallow sca... | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-24 | Add CIFAR deltaL test (failed) and pivot design memo | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-24 | Add exploration visualization: CIFAR depth scan, boundary ablation, synth vs ... | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-24 | Add Phase 3 boundary-condition ablation results and combined memo | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-23 | Add Phase 2 explore experiments: synthetic nonlinearity ladder + CIFAR depth ... | YurenHao0426 |
| 2026-03-23 | Add final report, plots, experiment guide, and complete NOTE.md | YurenHao0426 |