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+# Visual contract: digital CLLN scaling pilot
+
+- **Artifact:** three-panel quantitative result figure.
+- **Target venue / format:** ICLR two-column paper, full-width figure.
+- **Core claim:** local innovation subtraction preserves digital coupled
+ learning under fixed component imperfection as the lattice grows.
+- **Reviewer question:** does SDIL retain a task-level advantage at large
+ system size, and is the result stronger than static calibration or matched
+ zero-mean noise?
+- **Evidence layer:** main scaling result, currently labelled exploratory.
+- **Source data:**
+ `results/coupled_ladder/p1_imperfection_pilot.json` and
+ `results/coupled_ladder/p1_bias_baseline_pilot.json`.
+- **Statistics / uncertainty:** component draws are averaged within task;
+ tasks are the bootstrap unit. The pilot has five task clusters and one
+ component draw per task and size. Error bars are percentile 95% intervals.
+- **Figure prototype:** coordinated small-multiple lines.
+- **Panel map:**
+ - (a) final classification error against learnable edge count;
+ - (b) fraction of runs that reach zero error and remain there through the
+ training horizon;
+ - (c) mean classification error over epochs at 2,048 edges.
+- **Exact label inventory:** Clean, same-RMS noise, raw imperfection, static
+ calibration, SDIL, learnable edges, classification error, stable zero-error
+ runs, training epoch.
+- **Caption role:** state the paired protocol, distinguish fixed bias from
+ matched noise, and label the evidence as a five-task pilot.
+- **Manuscript placement:** Part 2, immediately after the digital CLLN and
+ component-imperfection definitions.
+- **Output formats:** editable SVG, vector PDF, PNG preview, analysis JSON,
+ and source CSV.
+- **Traceability:** every plotted aggregate is regenerated by
+ `experiments/analyze_coupled_ladder_scaling.py` from the two JSON files.
+- **Constraint:** the figure reports an error-growth slope comparison only
+ when the static-calibration slope is positive. Raw imperfection is allowed
+ to show a high non-monotonic floor rather than a forced power law.
+