LOSS_MANIFEST.md

# LOSS MANIFEST - every objective this program has back-propagated, rated
#TAG:loss_manifest #TAG:accumulation #TAG:losses #TAG:rubric
[CENSUS-VERIFIED 2026-07-25 - three independent censuses: canon+MANIFEST, history+sessions, full code tree]
Living registry (SCALE_MANIFEST discipline): entries are NEVER deleted - demoted with a
reason and a date. Rubric v1; every rating below is RECOMPUTABLE from its six sub-score
digits and the lookup table in THE RUBRIC. Machine-readable sidecar:
inventory/loss_manifest.json. Views + lint: `python skill/loss_view.py card|ladder|lint`.
Taxonomy and format laws: canon/loss_accumulation_forms.md.

THE RATING ANSWERS: **"how much would I stake on this term in a NEW bed"** - NOT effect
size. InfoNCE is the most potent term in the census and rates 2.

## THE STRUCTURAL FINDING (read before any row)

Only **three primitives ever receive a backward pass** in this program: `F.cross_entropy`,
squared error, and `F.kl_div` (plus fp64 Cayley-Menger determinants in gauges). No margin,
triplet, hinge, contrastive-margin, or load-balancing loss has ever existed in the tree.

The four objectives that look composed are those same primitives under different
**accumulation formats**: InfoNCE is CE over an N x N grid; blob-LP-x0 is squared error
dose-coupled and band-routed; HP/LP band roles are squared error under a cosine crossfade;
CV is a determinant statistic accumulated in fp64.

**So the loss surface is three primitives wide and eleven accumulation formats deep, and
every loss discovery this program has made lives on the second axis.** Two receipts:

- **The addr_head cure changed accumulation only, primitive held fixed.** 5.6650 bpb with
  usage perplexity 1.88/64 (collapsed) -> 2.47 by going slot-parallel. Same `F.cross_entropy`
  on both sides. (L-112 -> L-012)
- **Chunked CE and plain CE are identical mathematics and a 5x memory law.** 22.8GB
  dedicated + 42.8GB silently spilled to shared memory -> 8.8GB peak at 1.03 s/step. The
  law lives entirely in the reduction schedule. (L-004)

A third receipt sits in the forbidden class. `A10` - accumulation that carries state across
steps (EMA codebooks, commitment counters, k-means centroids) - contains **exactly two
entries, and both are prohibitions** (L-105 VQ/commitment/EMA, L-134 load-balancing). Not
one working objective in the program's history has ever used that format. It is precisely
where a newcomer would naturally write code, and the empirical warrant for not doing so is
L-083: the codebook stays 125+/128 axes alive at `div_weight = 0`, with no diversity term
at all.

`A9` (raw sum, no denominator) is empty for a duller reason: the scale rides on batch and
sequence length, so the learning rate stops transferring between beds.

## THE RUBRIC (how every number below was produced)

Six sub-scores, summed to `S_raw` (0-13), then a **lookup table** - not arithmetic, so
anyone can re-derive a rating without trusting a float:

| sub-score | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **R** replication | designed, never run | one seed, one bed | >=2 seeds OR >=2 beds | >=2 seeds AND >=2 beds/substrates |
| **P** potency vs its own gauge's noise | null / within noise / wrong direction | directional but <1% or below seed spread | 1-10%, or an ordinal win above seed spread | >10%, categorical enable, or 50-200x separation |
| **D** doctrinal fit | violates a MANIFEST law | permitted but antagonistic | aligned/reconstructive, or a gated exception with a written statute | - |
| **C** cost | recorded catastrophic-cost event | material but budgeted | free or near-free | - |
| **I** instrument risk | headline rests on a DISTRUSTED gauge, or the term can silently become zero with no assert | aggregate-only; gauge-blindness plausible | dedicated non-blind gauge AND a silent-zero assert | - |
| **+L** law bonus | - | encoded as a MANIFEST law **and** enforced in code (assert, refusal, or guard) | - | - |

```
S_raw:  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13
rating: 1  1  2  3  3  4  5  6  7  8  8  9 10 10
```

**The nine traceability rules** (applied in this order, after the lookup):

1. **UNRUN CEILING** - `R=0` => rating <= 3. A beautiful design does not score on paper.
2. **BLIND-GAUGE DEMOTION** - headline from a DISTRUSTED gauge, not re-measured => **-2**.
3. **SINGLE-SEED CAP** - `R<=1` => rating <= 6.
4. **SUB-1% CAP** - `P<=1` => rating <= 5. Four-for-four directional at 0.05-0.2% cannot
   outrank a measured 5.9%.
5. **DOCTRINE-ZERO CEILING** - `D=0` => rating <= 2.
6. **RETRACTION FLOOR-BREAKER** - a dated retraction, demotion, or REFUTED verdict anywhere
   in the record => **rating = 1, unconditional.** Sub-scores are still printed so you can
   see why it once looked good. Retracted entries never compete on the ladder.
7. **CONTRADICTION** - unreconciled records get a RANGE or a marked sub-claim, never an
   average.
8. **PROVENANCE** - every sub-score digit is backed by the row's citations. An uncited digit
   forces the unrun ceiling.
9. **SCOPE / GAUGE SPLIT** - a term whose standing differs by scope or by judging instrument
   gets TWO adjacent rows, never one averaged row.

### Calibration - three pairs that prove the rubric works

- **L-048 rates 8 and L-123 rates 4. Same objective, same seeds, same data.** The only
  difference is which gauge judged it: the role-aligned in-bed gauge, or aggregate eps-MSE.
  This pair is the concrete price of gauge blindness.
- **L-047 rates 6 and L-111 rates 1. Same operator - Procrustes.** As a regularizer it
  tightens CV to .19; as a training force it produced R@1 = 0.000 and P_cos stuck at .094
  for thirty epochs. Campaign law 2 restated in loss terms: placement decides
  load-bearingness.
- **L-113 rates 2 and L-001 rates 10.** The most potent measured objective in the census
  against the plainest one. If that ordering is surprising, the rubric is working: potency
  and standing are different axes.

## THE GRID - PRIMITIVE x ACCUMULATION FORMAT

| accumulation | CE | SQ | KL | DET | BREG | - | row |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `A0` uniform-mean | 28 | 29 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 22 | **88** |
| `A1` chunk-sum-renormalize | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | **1** |
| `A2` per-sample-then-weighted | 4 | 3 | . | 1 | . | 2 | **10** |
| `A3` band-crossfade | . | 3 | . | . | . | 6 | **9** |
| `A4` masked-denominator | 5 | . | 1 | . | . | . | **6** |
| `A5` dose-coupled | . | 2 | . | . | . | 1 | **3** |
| `A6` paired-difference | . | . | . | . | . | 3 | **3** |
| `A7` grid-pairwise | 11 | . | 1 | . | . | . | **12** |
| `A8` fp64-accumulate | . | 1 | . | 3 | . | 4 | **8** |
| `A9` sum-no-norm | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | **1** |
| `A10` EMA / external cross-step state | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | **2**  **PROHIBITIONS ONLY** |
| `NA` not an accumulation | . | 1 | . | . | . | 25 | **26** |

**Rating distribution** (n=169, mean 5.95): `1`x31 `2`x2 `3`x4 `4`x3 `5`x32 `6`x23 `7`x8 `8`x21 `9`x26 `10`x19

Glyphs: `†` retraction floor-breaker | `✖` doctrine ceiling | `⟂` split sibling (scope or gauge) | `⚠` unreconciled contradiction

## THE FORMULA MAP - every entry's mathematics and where it runs

Extracted 2026-07-25 (operator directive: the process is the ROSTER). 'NOT RECORDED' is itself information - those formulas were never written down anywhere and their numbers cannot be reproduced without re-derivation. Machine copy in the sidecar.

| ID | FORMULA | IMPLEMENTATION |
|---|---|---|
| L-001 | `L = mean((dec(z) - x)^2); convergence endpoint = bitwise-exact recon` | geolip_svae (installed pkg) . loss_forms::prim_sq+a0_mean |
| L-002 | `M_hat = sum_k sinh(u_k)A_k / sum_k cosh(u_k), u = cos(x,A)/tau; L = mean((dec(M_hat)-x)^2); codebook grad ONLY via num@A and cos=M@A^T` | amoe.core.address::m_hat + geolip_svae aleph_model.py . loss_forms::prim_sq |
| L-003 | `L = mean(-log softmax(W h)[y])` | pod/v35_exp001_placement.py:170 . loss_forms::prim_ce+a0_mean |
| L-004 | `L = sum_chunks CE_sum(h[i:i+512]) / n_live_tokens (ONE global denominator)` | loss_forms::a1_chunked_ce . pod/v35_exp003_termination.py:128-138 |
| L-005 | `CE(logits[:,:-1], y[:,1:], ignore_index=-100)` | pod/v35_exp006_math.py:180 . loss_forms::prim_ce+a4_masked |
| L-006 | `model(**batch, labels=y).loss (masked shift-CE inside HF; vision tower fires)` | pod/v35_exp004_caption.py:175 (chunking unavailable on this path) |
| L-007 | `same CE; trainable set = per-block dispatch key matrices ONLY` | closeout amoe/train/aligner.py:41-67 |
| L-008 | `CE(logits, y) on CIFAR-10` | tools/addressed_distillation_v1.py:301 |
| L-009 | `x_t = sqrt(abar_t)x0 + sqrt(1-abar_t)eps, t~U{0..999}; L = mse(unet(x_t,t,c), eps); CFG drop p=.1` | pod2/dexp006_sd15core_relay.py:132-146 . amoe.diffusion.train.objectives |
| L-010 | `s = warp(u; shift=2.5); x_t = (1-s)x0 + s*eps; L = mse(pred, eps - x0); x0 = x_t - s*v EXACT/LINEAR` | pod2/dexp001_sd15_relay.py:151-164 . amoe objectives.py:51-58 |
| L-011 | `M_hard = sign(cos[argmax|cos|])*A[argmax]; forward discrete, backward soft (M_hard + M_soft - sg[M_soft]); CE on head(M_hard)` | tools/ar_differentiation_bed.py (addr_mslh64 arm) |
| L-012 | `feats = concat_p M_hat^(p)(slots); logits = W feats; CE. P=4/16/32/64 dose` | tools/ar_differentiation_bed.py (addr_msl* arms) |
| L-013 | `reads at multiple tau; concat -> logits; CE (stroboscope)` | tools/ar_differentiation_bed.py (addr_3tau arm) |
| L-014 | `logits = head(M_hat) directly (reconstructive read consumed in AR); CE` | tools/ar_differentiation_bed.py (addr_mhat arm) |
| L-015 | `shift-CE(-100) on stepwise-CoT target sequences vs direct-answer targets` | pod/v35_exp013_experts.py:211 |
| L-016 | `L = mean_B[ mse_vec + lam*w_HIGH(s01)*blob_lp ]; blob_lp = sum(blob*(LP(x0h)-LP(x0))^2)/(sum(blob)*C); x0h = x_t - s*v_hat` | closeout amoe/diffusion/train/objectives.py:63-69 [REFUSES on eps] |
| L-017 | `sym CE over sims = za@zb^T/0.07 with in-batch labels` | loss_forms::a7_grid_infonce . tools/qwen_exp011_newanchors.py:445-453 |
| L-018 | `InfoNCE*1.0 + Procrustes_SVD*0.3 + |CV(bank)-0.20|*0.05` | external (blueprint line; pieces: a7 + procrustes_sq + cv_band_loss) |
| L-019 | `InfoNCE + MSE + BCE + Procrustes + CV + spread (6-term, never ablated)` | external (Expert Soup, Form 2) |
| L-020 | `mse(norm(pred), norm(tgt)) + (1 - cos(pred, tgt)) on (B,77,768)` | external (Form 4) . pieces in loss_forms |
| L-021 | `w = min(SNR,5)/(SNR+1) velocity-adjusted; L = mean(w * mse_vec)` | external (KSimplex trainer) . loss_forms::a2_weighted |
| L-022 | `L = CE + a*KL(log_softmax(student), mean_k softmax(teacher_k).detach()), a<=0.25, never founders` | tools/exp014_genetic_distillation.py:249-255 . loss_forms::prim_kl+kd_guard |
| L-023 | `fact rows: KL(teacher) ONLY (CE masked off); clean rows: CE - row-routed channels` | tools/exp019_content_retention.py:158-176 |
| L-024 | `GPA: mean shape after per-teacher Procrustes to consensus (delta<1e-8); student anchors init from it` | tools/exp014-016 (dif line) |
| L-025 | `projective ICP: iterate sign-aligned Procrustes on RP; germline overwrite` | tools/exp015_content_heredity.py (dif line) |
| L-026 | `prox = exp(-(cv-target)^2/2sig^2); L = (1+boost*prox)*mse + pen*(1-prox)` | geolip_core.core.distinguish (installed pkg) . loss_forms::soft_hand_weights |
| L-027 | `conv := fold(m_hat(unfold(x))); no plain filter, no ReLU; CE on head` | geolip-aleph-classification (external repo, cls line) |
| L-028 | `score(v) = logP(x_i=v | x_masked) - logP(x_i=WT | x_masked) (masked marginal)` | external (ryan protein line) |
| L-029 | `CE; trainable = aleph MslRelay adapters on frozen GPT-2 (<1%)` | tools/exp013_augmentation_bed.py track C |
| L-030 | `CE on frozen CLIP-L token-AR (matched transforms + shared vocab proj)` | tools/exp013_augmentation_bed.py track A |
| L-031 | `SOURCE RECOVERED 2026-07-25: attraction (1-s_y)^2 + 0.5*repulsion sum_{c!=y}(s_c^2) + 0.5*margin relu(max_{c!=y}s_c - s_y + .3) + 0.1*range clamp; siblings: prototype (cos-to-learned-prototypes + diversity) and hierarchical (coarse+fine+consistency)` | geofractal.losses.pure_geometric (installed pkg, VERBATIM) . tools/geobasin_bed.py |
| L-032 | `SOURCE RECOVERED 2026-07-25 (GBC head, geofractal/model/experiment_geometric_basin.py:118): compat = triadic (resonance-weighted cos to class signatures) x self-similarity (level-pair pattern match) x Cantor coherence exp(-(m - proto_c)^2/.1) x hierarchical early/late check - the 4-factor product` | geofractal.model.experiment_geometric_basin::GeometricBasinCompatibility (installed pkg) |
| L-033 | `mask patches; L = mse(recon_from_antipode_read(masked), x) (law 2 ORIGINAL form)` | built-unrun in geolip-aleph-classification (cls line) |
| L-034 | `w=.05 entropy-balanced alignment (exact form NOT fully recorded); endpoint M = +/-ref EXACT` | external (SVAE H2 arc) |
| L-035 | `rectified-flow velocity mse + Min-SNR gamma=5 + CM terms (L-045/L-046)` | external (KSimplex 4.8M prior) |
| L-036 | `ArcFace cos(th+m) | CosFace cos(th)-m | SphereFace cos(m*th); s=30 m=.30; L1-then-L2 dual-norm` | loss_forms::margin_head (NEW) . external ViT-ZANA |
| L-037 | `CE on x0 tokens from noise-level-t corrupted tokens, iterative` | q25-e008 bed (pod archive) |
| L-038 | `L = mse(ea, norm(frozen_h @ fixed_proj)) + mse(eb, ...) (absolute target regression)` | tools/qwen_exp011_newanchors.py:449-453 |
| L-039 | `standard contrastive; measured as a CV-compression force` | external (cv_band_origin sweep) |
| L-040 | `V = sqrt(clamp(-det(CM(A[idx5]))/9216)); L += 1e-3 * std(V)/mean(V); fp64, fixed seed-0 subsets, S15 bank ONLY` | tools/exp017_aleph_constellation.py:154-186 . loss_forms::cv_band_loss (NEW, arm-gated) |
| L-041 | `M = F.normalize(M, dim=-1) (||M||_F^2 = V pins sum sigma^2) - ONE line, not a loss` | structural; everywhere |
| L-042 | `per tower: g <- g * target/||g|| (equal gradient norms; outputs stay free)` | external (geofractal) |
| L-043 | `Sp = S * (1 + a*tanh(f)), a <= 0.2, init .024 - modulate never inject` | external (omega line) |
| L-044 | `p = softmax(-(y-[.5,1.5,2.5])^2/.25); bit_k = p_R + 0.5*p_M; C = sum bit_k 2^-k` | tools/compartment_smoke.py::exact_cantor + soft_cantor_ungated |
| L-045 | `L_CM = .01 * relu(eps - vol2(CM)) on first k+1 tokens (validity hinge)` | loss_forms::cm_validity_hinge (NEW) . external KSimplex |
| L-046 | `L_vol = -.005 * std(log|vol^2| across layers) (spread REWARD, anti-collapse)` | loss_forms::cm_volume_spread (NEW) . external KSimplex |
| L-047 | `L = ||A R* - B||^2, R* = Procrustes(A,B) via SVD - as x0.3 REGULARIZER beside a force` | loss_forms::procrustes_sq (NEW) . external blueprint |
| L-048 | `low = base + .5*mse(HP3(pred),HP3(tgt)); high = base + .5*mse(LP7,..); composed by band windows [role-aligned gauge]` | closeout amoe/diffusion/train/objectives.py:74-80 |
| L-049 | `dropout(anchors, p=.3) during alignment` | external (constellation) |
| L-050 | `clip_grad_norm .5 on cross-attn ONLY; NEVER inside an LBFGS closure` | protocol |
| L-051 | `Adam(params, lr, weight_decay=0.0) - the ONLY constructor` | closeout amoe/laws.py:26-28 |
| L-052 | `zeros_(head.weight); zeros_(head.bias); gates = -3.0` | closeout amoe relay.py:49-52 |
| L-053 | `g_tang pass; g_radial *= (1-.01); g_collapse *= 1.0 (gradient gating)` | external (GM3 Form 12; ALEPH-OMITTED) |
| L-054 | `q_comp = R (Hamilton) q_expert over 4 FiLM arms` | external (protein line) |
| L-055 | `Q = (I-A)(I+A)^-1, A skew - det=1 by construction` | external (protein line) |
| L-056 | `k-step MLP cascade in place of one dimensional jump` | structural, external |
| L-057 | `w_route = f(phase-0 triangulation distances), softmax-free, geometry-derived` | external (Form 6) |
| L-058 | `exact softmax within sorted equal-width same-bucket block; codebook grad via address-agreement bias` | design (Tree 3b pending) |
| L-059 | `M_hard + (M_soft - sg[M_soft]) (STE over an ABSOLUTE reconstructive read)` | amoe.core.address / geolip_svae |
| L-060 | `n_i_new = min(ceil(norm * n_i^0.5), 8, 1.25*top) (sqrt-damped repeats)` | external (anima bucketing) |
| L-061 | `assert |question_space| >= 3*draws; train-eval overlap <= .05` | closeout amoe/train/guards.py:19-45 |
| L-062 | `on starvation strike: sampling_weight[starved] *= 2; 3 strikes abort - DATA, never a loss` | closeout amoe/train/aligner.py:68-84 |
| L-063 | `with p=.1: cond <- 0 (zeroed, not empty-prompt)` | pod2/dexp006:132-146 |
| L-064 | `NOT RECORDED (role-weighted pentachoron regularization; rose_w=1e-4, temp .07)` | external (David classifier) |
| L-065 | `ramp(x)=.5-.5cos(pi*(clamp(x/XF,-1,1)+1)/2); low=1-up1; mid=up1(1-up2); high=up1*up2; edges(.35,.75) XF=.06` | closeout amoe/diffusion/core/multiband.py:23-35 . compartment_smoke::compartment_windows |
| L-066 | `L = base + lam * w_route * aux, lam~1 (3-pt dose curve)` | loss_forms::a5_dose_coupled |
| L-067 | `reduce in float64, autocast off (gauges)` | loss_forms::a8_fp64_gauge . geolip_vitals |
| L-068 | `acc = mean_fp64(res_arm(row,noise,t) - res_ref(row,noise,t)), triples FIXED per row` | loss_forms::a6_paired . dexp001:167-185 |
| L-069 | `w = f(pi_frozen_ref); L = sum(w*ce_tok)/sum(w)` | loss_forms::pwa_weights+a2_weighted [gate: 0.014-0.083] |
| L-070 | `v = norm(feats)@R^T/t; L = mean(cosh(clamp(v - c_y*mu, -4, 4)) - 1)` | loss_forms::fac_loss . tools/fac_bed.py |
| L-071 | `CV = std(V)/mean(V), V = CM 4-volumes over 200 random 5-subsets, fp64 - READOUT` | tools/geolip_vitals.py::pentachoron_cv |
| L-072 | `drift = arccos(<norm(a), norm(a_init)>); binding_frac = mean(|drift-.29154|<=.05)` | tools/geolip_vitals.py::anchor_drift |
| L-073 | `bpb = mean CE / ln(2) per byte` | beds (ar_differentiation, fac_bed) |
| L-074 | `tax = exp(mean CE_512)|adapted - exp(mean CE_512)|frozen on wikitext` | pod beds (v35) |
| L-075 | `F1 = 2PR/(P+R) over token multisets vs GT captions` | pod v35 judges |
| L-076 | `precision = |pred inter GT|/|pred|; invented = |pred minus GT_vocab|/|pred|` | pod halluc judge (exp004_caption/halluc) |
| L-077 | `sep_L = mean_ij inter-register Ham(code_i,code_j) - mean intra (diagonal KEPT, +4% bias, comparability)` | pod2/aleph_diffusion_core.py:257-290 . canon/register_probe_gauge.md |
| L-078 | `Spearman(Hamming(c_i,c_j), arccos|<a_i,a_j>|) over random pairs` | tools/fac_bed.py (reimpl) . exp015 |
| L-079 | `HIGH-band foreground-masked LP-x0 error (fp32 judged)` | closeout amoe/diagnostics/diffusion.py::foreground_gauge |
| L-080 | `assert torch.equal(logits_all_off, logits_base)` | closeout amoe/testing/invariants.py:76-97 |
| L-081 | `ratio = damage(own band lesion) / damage(cross band lesion) per gauge` | closeout amoe/diagnostics/diffusion.py::lesion_report |
| L-082 | `excess = metric(real keys) - metric(SAME key repeated); + matched-vs-mismatched delta` | pod2/dexp015_router_v2.py:159-191 |
| L-083 | `usage = mean oriented-softmax row; ppl = exp(H(usage)); alive = usage > eps/2K` | tools/geolip_vitals.py::axis_aliveness |
| L-084 | `read ppl = exp(H(mean read weights)); commitment = |cos(read, nearest atom)|` | geolip-aleph-classification gauges (cls line) |
| L-085 | `ratio = mean|delta|_domain / mean|delta|_neutral; escape <= 1.5; damped >= 3.0` | closeout amoe/diagnostics/__init__.py:58-71 |
| L-086 | `exact-match on two-step composite prompts vs single-step controls` | pod v35 composite judges |
| L-087 | `effect = mean|loss_off - loss_on|; report VACUOUS if < eps instead of a ratio` | colab/anima_closeout.ipynb (v14 guard) |
| L-088 | `orders = log10(max group ||g||) - log10(min); dead = groups with 0` | tools/geolip_vitals.py::grad_norm_spread |
| L-089 | `CV at step 1000 -> band {<.30 LOW / .35-.50 MID / >.80 HIGH} + stability + freeze-survival` | tools/geolip_vitals.py::CVScreen |
| L-090 | `ripser H2 on d(a,b)=arccos|<a,b>| (RP metric), thresh 20deg; beta2/axis` | ripser+persim (installed); canon/void_topology.md:27-63 |
| L-091 | `S0/S_D spectral ratio; erank = exp(-sum p ln p), p = sigma/sum sigma` | external (structural attractors) |
| L-092 | `var(recon MSE) across patch grids 81..4096 - flatness IS the pass` | external (omega line) |
| L-093 | `guarded subprocess: restricted builtins, len cap, timeout, no net; exact-match out` | pod v35 exec judge (protocol) |
| L-094 | `json.parse validity + IoU(xywh) + pair-order + termination-within-window` | pod v35 judges |
| L-095 | `torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated + s/step at an early step (WDDM spill tell)` | telemetry; pod/run_g6b_rider.py:34-48 |
| L-096 | `drift_g = arccos(<consensus_g, consensus_prev>); stationarity = no acceleration` | tools (dif line) |
| L-097 | `held-out byte acc under substitution cipher; variant-format recall` | tools/exp019/exp020 |
| L-098 | `NN symbol-Hamming between stored and recomputed keys; match@theta=.25` | tools/exp021_persistent_store.py |
| L-099 | `mean cos(book_epoch, book_init) across the bank sweep` | external (192-bank sweep) |
| L-100 | `|V_fast - V_geovocab2| / |V| at fp64 == 0 required` | tools/geolip_vitals.py::cv_reference_check |
| L-101 | `gate_mean = mean sigmoid(g); band [.012,.03] ADVISORY` | tools/geolip_vitals.py::gate_stats |
| L-102 | `mean mse over all sigma - BLIND to band structure (distrusted for bands)` | prim_sq+a0 (the point is what it hides) |
| L-103 | `cos(recon, x) - WRONG instrument for addressed systems (address = lookup key)` | distrusted; do not implement as a judge |
| L-104 | `recall@k under Hamming(code_query, code_bank)` | tools/qwen_exp011 (q25 line) |
| L-105 | `||sg[z_e] - e||^2 + beta*||z_e - sg[e]||^2 (+ EMA codebook update)` | loss_forms::forbidden_vq_commitment (NEW, force-gated control) |
| L-106 | `selection event = argmax/softmax-over-roster in the compute path` | prohibited class (the EVENT is the violation, not one formula) |
| L-107 | `alphabet learned by task gradient (vs fitted-frozen)` | prohibited class (dif line evidence) |
| L-108 | `direct task-gradient descent on pentachoron vertices` | prohibited (geovocab evidence) |
| L-109 | `gap = x.mean(dim=spatial) in a geometric encoder` | loss_forms::forbidden_gap (NEW, force-gated control) |
| L-110 | `CV term injected in backward, or weight > 1e-3` | prohibited placement of L-040 |
| L-111 | `same as L-047 - AS THE TRAINING FORCE (placement retracted)` | loss_forms::procrustes_sq [placement warning] |
| L-112 | `logits = W u, u = single-slot coefficients at hard tau (K=32)` | tools/ar_differentiation_bed.py (addr_head) . fac_bed p4 cells |
| L-113 | `a7_grid_infonce INTO an address path` | loss_forms::a7 [placement ban in docstring] |
| L-114 | `prim_kl at alpha=1.0 from near-parity teachers in a selection loop` | loss_forms::prim_kl+kd_guard [guard warns] |
| L-115 | `L-016 with x0h = (x_t - sqrt(1-abar)eps_hat)/sqrt(abar) - divides by vanishing sqrt(abar)` | closeout amoe trainer [REFUSES unless force_blob_on_eps] |
| L-116 | `keep-or-kill on 1-epoch MSE rank` | retracted protocol; replaced by L-089 |
| L-117 | `logits = tied(M_hat) with U=M_hat, S=Omega, Vt=I` | dif-e018 bed (tools) |
| L-118 | `route experts by frozen text keys (raw/pooled/M-hat-slot) vs repeated-key null` | pod2/dexp014/dexp015 beds |
| L-119 | `a trainable anchor trained to orchestrate others (composite prereg >= +.15)` | pod v35_exp010/exp020 beds (refuted) |
| L-120 | `solo specialist stack attached always-on` | configuration class (v35 e018 evidence) |
| L-121 | `frozen solo-trained experts composed under dispatch` | pod v35_exp014 beds (demoted) |
| L-122 | `transplant proj+codebook onto a fresh trunk` | NA protocol (dif line, demoted) |
| L-123 | `L-048 judged by aggregate eps-MSE` | same impl; the GAUGE is the difference |
| L-124 | `append frozen byte-trigram address beside full text cond` | pod2/dexp002 bed |
| L-125 | `null = shuffle keys across rows (measures diversity, not correctness)` | retracted instrument; use L-082 |
| L-126 | `CE on generated question sets with space < 3x draws` | retracted claim; guard = L-061 |
| L-127 | `cross-seed comparison across DIFFERENT instruments` | NA (claim-level error) |
| L-128 | `bands nested within bands on a Cantor axis` | prohibited configuration |
| L-129 | `re-enter measure space per layer/step` | prohibited configuration |
| L-130 | `soft_cantor_ungated(x) used as a band COORDINATE (non-monotone)` | tools/compartment_smoke.py::soft_cantor_ungated (as the regression) |
| L-131 | `repeat count = ceil(max_bucket / n_i) (alpha=0 equalize-to-largest)` | NA data policy (prohibited) |
| L-132 | `conv re-weighted by convex sum a_k=1 over a filter bank (hull-bounded mean)` | geolip-aleph-classification (cautionary control, cls line) |
| L-133 | `argmax decoding in an iterative denoiser` | NA decoding policy |
| L-134 | `aux = alpha * N * sum_i f_i * P_i (switch-style balance)` | loss_forms::forbidden_load_balancing (NEW, force-gated control) |
| L-135 | `CE on the big-JSON composite format` | dropped by operator ruling (never built) |
| L-136 | `learned SVD rotation transform in the dual-penta head` | retracted (convergence failure) |
| L-137 | `coefficients->logits at ONE hard tau, any dim` | class of L-112; cure = L-012/L-013 |
| L-138 | `L-070 on the addr_head collapse configuration` | tools/fac_bed.py (p4_addr_head_fac) |
| L-139 | `sparsemax_loss on addr_head logits (K=32, hard tau) - only the loss differs from the certified collapse cell` | tools/deviant_bed.py (p4_sparsemax) . loss_forms::sparsemax_loss |
| L-140 | `L = -z_y + 0.5*sum_{j in S}(z_j^2 - tau^2) + 0.5 (sparse support S)` | loss_forms::sparsemax_loss . tools/deviant_bed.py |
| L-141 | `L = T*logsumexp(ce_tok/T) - T*log(N), T=0.5` | loss_forms::dev_softmax_accum . tools/deviant_bed.py |
| L-142 | `L = mean(log(ce_tok + 1e-3))` | loss_forms::dev_geomean_accum . tools/deviant_bed.py |
| L-143 | `CE to (1-eps) smoothed targets == (1-eps)CE + eps*uniform-KL` | F.cross_entropy(label_smoothing=.1) . tools/deviant_bed.py |
| L-144 | `L = sum((1-p_y)^2 * ce_tok) / sum((1-p_y)^2), p_y detached from the live model` | tools/deviant_bed.py (focal) |
| L-145 | `L = sum(ce_tok * [pi_ref > .6]) / count, pi_ref from the frozen ce_s0 checkpoint` | tools/deviant_bed.py (anti_curr) |
| L-146 | `L = mean(1 - tanh(v) * c)` | loss_forms::fac_loss_link(link='tanh') . tools/deviant_bed.py |
| L-147 | `L = mean(log(1 + (v - c*mu)^2))` | loss_forms::fac_loss_link(link='cauchy') . tools/deviant_bed.py |
| L-148 | `L = CE - 0.1*H(p)` | tools/deviant_bed.py (conf_penalty_CONTROL) |
| L-149 | `CE over logits = cos(normalize(feats), normalize(A_c)) * 10` | tools/geobasin_bed.py (geo_ce_scores) |
| L-150 | `attraction (1-s_y)^2 + 0.5*sum_{c!=y}s_c^2 + 0.5*relu(max_{c!=y}s_c - s_y + .3) + 0.1*range` | geofractal.losses.pure_geometric (VERBATIM) . tools/geobasin_bed.py |
| L-151 | `same loss; A registered as a frozen buffer` | tools/geobasin_bed.py (geo_pure_frozen) |
| L-152 | `L = (1 - s_y)^2 + 0.1*(relu(s-1)^2 + relu(-s)^2) - no other-class terms at all` | tools/geobasin_bed.py (geo_pure_norep) |
| L-153 | `cos(proj(scores), prototypes) pulled/pushed + prototype-diversity term` | geofractal.losses.pure_geometric::GeometricPrototypeLoss (VERBATIM) |
| L-154 | `coarse (superclass sums to target) + fine + consistency, sigmoid-weighted` | geofractal.losses.pure_geometric::HierarchicalGeometricLoss (VERBATIM, FastHierarchical parity wrapper) |
| L-155 | `0.5*CE(cos*10) + 0.5*PureGeometricLoss(scores)` | tools/geobasin_bed.py (geo_hybrid) |
| L-156 | `mean((z_s - z_t)^2), targets L2-normalized` | tools/dist_bed.py loss_of feature_mse (loss_forms.prim_sq) |
| L-157 | `0.5*[CE(sim/t, diag) + CE(sim.T/t, diag)], sim = z_s @ z_t.T` | tools/dist_bed.py loss_of infonce (loss_forms.a7_grid_infonce) |
| L-158 | `mean(BCE(sim*t' + b, I)) per pair, no batch denominator` | tools/loss_forms.py siglip_pairwise_loss |
| L-159 | `KL(softmax(sim_t/t) || log_softmax(sim_s/t)) per row, both frames' own sims` | tools/loss_forms.py affinity_kl_loss; forensics scratchpad frame_check.py -> tools/dist_runs/frame_check.json |
| L-160 | `a7_grid_infonce + 0.3*procrustes_sq(fp64 R) + 1e-3*|CV16-0.20|` | tools/dist_bed.py loss_of blueprint |
| L-161 | `mean((z_s - gpa(z_t1..t5))^2), GPA cached iter-5 align .9401` | tools/dist_bed.py loss_of consensus_gpa (target build_gpa) |
| L-162 | `a7_grid_infonce(zs, zt_gpa, t=.07) + prim_sq(zs, zt_gpa).sum(-1).mean()` | tools/dist_bed.py loss_of consensus_nce_mse |
| L-163 | `1.0*expert_agreement + 1.0*rotation_ortho + 0.5*anchor_spread + 0.1*anchor_entropy + 0.3*cross_expert_var + 0.3*|bank_cv-t| + 0.3*|emb_cv-t| + 0.5*disagree_preserve` | tools/vit_bank.py VisionAlignmentBank.bank_loss |
| L-164 | `a7_grid_infonce + 0.5*prim_sq.mean() + 0.3*BCE(frozen_head) + 0.5*centered_cos + 1e-3*x3_cv + EA(tang .01, sep 1.0)` | tools/dist_bed.py loss_of x3_full |
| L-165 | `0.3 * BCE_logits(frozen_linear80(zs), labels)` | tools/dist_bed.py loss_of x3_bce + _fit_teacher_head |
| L-166 | `backward: g <- (g - radial) + tang*radial; g <- g - sep*(g.nearest_anchor)_+ ; forward identity` | tools/loss_forms.py EmbeddingAutograd |
| L-167 | `1e-3 * |CV_16sets(emb) - cv_target|  (cv_target = measured consensus CV .164)` | tools/dist_bed.py loss_of nce_mse_cv (loss_forms.x3_cv_loss) |
| L-168 | `a7_grid_infonce + prim_sq.mean() + 0.1*x3_cv_loss; AdamW(3e-4, wd .01) + LinearLR(1000) + cosine(1e-6) + clip 1.0` | tools/dist_bed.py loss_of cbert_full + train_arm sched branch |
| L-169 | `a7_grid_infonce(zs, zt_ref, t=.07) + prim_sq(zs, zt_ref).sum(-1).mean(); zt_ref = normalized centroid of teachers whitened-Procrustes-mapped into a REFERENCE MEMBER's frame` | tools/captionbert_8192_v2.py (stage 1 maps + stage 3 loss) |

## PRIMARY OBJECTIVES

Terms that were the training signal, not an addition to one.

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-001 | **10** | 33222+1 | `SQ.A0`/bytes | MSE -> bitwise reconstruction (SVAE H2, 16 noise types) | 16 noise types converge simultaneously; bitwise text recon; the two-year survivor | MANIFEST.md:133-139; MANIFEST.md:144-145 |
| L-002 | **10** | 33222+1 | `SQ.A0`/codebook | recon gradient through M-hat (the aleph's ONLY codebook pressure) | cos .992-.997 hard-mode, 125-126/128 axes alive, ZERO collapse, div_weight=0 | canon/aleph_core.md:16-18; canon/discovery_catalog.md:40-44 |
| L-162 | **10⟂** | 33222+0 | `CE.A7`/consensus-embedding | consensus NCE+MSE composite on a MEAN consensus (CaptionBert Stage-A form, vision; rotation required) | THE CROWN AT SCALE: consensus composite + rotation beats direct deployment-teacher distillation on EVERY task gauge 2/2 (CC12M 11x data); local COCO verdict was BETWEEN - scale promoted it | tools/dist_runs/consensus_nce_mse_s0.jsonl; tools/dist_runs/vitbank_s0.jsonl |
| L-169 | **10⟂** | 33222+0 | `CE.A7`/consensus-embedding | consensus NCE+MSE composite on a REFERENCE-MEMBER consensus (captionbert-8192-v2/-b, text; NO rotation) | THE SIBLING OF L-162 AND THE CHEAPER DEPLOYMENT: same objective, but the consensus is aligned to a REFERENCE MEMBER (bert-base) instead of a running mean, so the frame gap collapses monotonically to +.0010 and NO rotation ships. Student beats its best teacher (.6077 vs distilbert .5883) at 13% of the teachers' combined params; replicated on a second trunk (-b .6031, a null on 19% more data) | repos/captionbert-v2.md; repos/captionbert-b.md |
| L-012 | **9** | 33212+0 | `CE.A2`/coefficients | addr_msl slot-parallel read (P parallel D=4 slots, shared K=64) | THE ACCUMULATION CURE: 5.6650 (collapsed) -> 2.47 with the primitive held FIXED | history/timeline.md:124-138; history/timeline.md:1098-1104 |
| L-015 | **9** | 33212+0 | `CE.A4`/logits | derived-steps expert supervision (stepwise-CoT target vs direct target) | +0.79 vs direct +0.63; held-out ceiling 1.00/1.00; seeds matched to 4 decimals (+0.7917 / +0.7916) | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:144-154; history/timeline.md:1640 |
| L-157 | **9** | 33212+0 | `CE.A7`/similarity-grid | symmetric InfoNCE distillation (student<->teacher, t=0.07) | R@1 .0580/.0544 = 2.2x feature_mse 2/2; zs-C100 .0939/.0847 wins 2/2 (+3.2/+2.2pt); erank 184; cv16 lands the S^15 band NATIVELY | tools/dist_runs/; canon/clip_mini_distillation.md |
| L-004 | **9** | 23122+1 | `CE.A1`/logits | chunked masked CE (512-token slices, sum-then-renormalize) | 22.8GB dedicated + 42.8GB SILENTLY SHARED -> 8.8GB peak @ 1.03 s/step | MANIFEST.md:50-59; pod/v35_exp003_termination.py:128-138 |
| L-138 | **9⟂** | 23222+0 | `BREG.A0`/coefficients | FAC on the partition-collapse configuration (the P4 loss-swap cell) | the certified addr_head collapse DECOMPRESSES under a loss swap alone, 3/3 seeds: usage ppl 1.0-2.7 -> 60.6-61.1 of 64; decoded acc 0.05-0.20 -> 0.45-0.47; the win|cos| saturation DISSOLVES (0.9995+ -> 0.13) | tools/fac_runs/p4_addr_head_fac_s0_t2000.jsonl; history/timeline.md:1105-1118 |
| L-139 | **9** | 23222+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | sparsemax on the collapse configuration (the coupling-axis probe) | THE DOSE-RESPONSE: usage 1.85 (CE, full coupling) -> 23.5 (sparsemax, partial) -> 60.9 (FAC, none); win|cos| .9997 -> .562 -> .132; acc .11 -> .417 -> .456 - MONOTONE on every gauge, 3 seeds/point | tools/deviant_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 deviant-matrix block |
| L-152 | **9** | 23222+0 | `SQ.A0`/basin-scores | PureGeometric ABSOLUTE-ONLY (attraction + range; comparative terms dropped) | MORE THAN DOUBLES the full set: acc 0.349 vs 0.157, bpb 3.75 vs 7.52, 3/3 seeds - the comparative terms are the poison | tools/geobasin_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 geobasin block |
| L-010 | **9** | 32212+1 | `SQ.A0`/x0-linear | flow v-MSE (rectified flow, SHIFT-warped sigma) | x0 = x_t - sigma*v is EXACT and LINEAR at every sigma - asserted, not assumed | pod2/dexp001_sd15_relay.py:151-164; closeout_2026-07-19/amoe/src/amoe/diffusion/train/objectives.py:51-58 |
| L-003 | **8⚠** | 33121+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | plain full-sequence cross-entropy (packed labels) | the workhorse; also the documented geometry antagonist - CE drove the Oct '25 geometric collapse | pod/v35_exp001_placement.py:170; tools/ar_differentiation_bed.py:423 |
| L-017 | **8⟂** | 33111+0 | `CE.A7`/similarity-grid | InfoNCE as an alignment force (OFF address paths) | NECESSARY + SUFFICIENT for alignment: swap it in -> R@1 .999 | canon/geometric_memory_blueprint.md:7-8; canon/geometric_memory_blueprint.md:20 |
| L-005 | **8** | 32121+0 | `CE.A4`/logits | shift-CE with ignore_index=-100 (prefix-masked instruction rows) | the standard instruction-tuning form across the v35 and q25 lines | pod/v35_exp006_math.py:180; pod/v35_exp013_experts.py:211 |
| L-009 | **8** | 32211+0 | `SQ.A0`/eps | eps-MSE (epsilon prediction, stock schedule) | relay -2.5% over frozen, 2 seeds; relay >= matched LoRA 2-for-2 across substrates | pod2/dexp006_sd15core_relay.py:132-146; history/timeline.md:1337-1350 |
| L-011 | **8** | 32122+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | sign-code head addr_mslh64 (fully discrete forward, STE backward) | bpb 2.4711 vs soft 2.4685 - parity certified 3 seeds; a ~2.8% gap opens at 4x budget | history/timeline.md:249-283; inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:64-71 |
| L-159 | **8** | 32221+0 | `KL.A7`/similarity-grid | affinity-KL distillation (TinyCLIP row-softmax mimicking) | FRAME AMBIGUITY PROVEN 2/2: agree_cos -0.021/-0.002 (orthogonal to teacher frame, zs floor .109/.111, erank 175 healthy - the tell) yet ONE fitted rotation recovers agree .501/.497 and zs .240/.218 - geometry learned, gauge free, both seeds | tools/dist_runs/; canon/clip_mini_distillation.md |
| L-161 | **8** | 32221+0 | `SQ.A0`/consensus-embedding | consensus-GPA distillation (MSE to projective-ICP/GPA mean of 5 CLIP towers) | P7 REFUTED at the letter (raw zs .154/.161 loses to single-teacher 2/2) BUT post-rotation agree->LAION .7132/.7116 EQUALS feature_mse's in-frame .714/.718 both seeds: the GPA mean shape carries the geometry, loses only the gauge | tools/dist_runs/; canon/clip_mini_distillation.md |
| L-168 | **8** | 32212+0 | `CE.A7`/consensus-embedding | CaptionBert Stage-A VERBATIM replication on the vision student (elem-MSE 1.0 + CV 0.1 + AdamW/warmup/cosine/clip) | THE REPLICATION ANCHOR 2/2 (prototype-replication law's first yield): the faithful recipe is WORSE than the adaptation on nearly every gauge — agree .4113/.4120 vs .672/.670, zs_rot .213/.221 vs .232/.264, probe .390/.386 vs .401/.394 — so the bank refutation was NOT adaptation damage; the adaptation is the stronger Stage-A | tools/dist_runs/x3_queue.log; tools/dist_runs/vitbank_s0.jsonl |
| L-149 | **8** | 22222+0 | `CE.A0`/basin-scores | CE on the cosine-anchor basin head (the geobasin control) | the head itself costs +0.13 bpb under CE (2.607 vs 2.477 linear, 3 seeds; acc .498 vs .505) - small, so every geometric-arm deficit is THE LOSS, isolated | tools/geobasin_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 geobasin block |
| L-156 | **8** | 31222+0 | `SQ.A0`/teacher-embedding | feature_mse distillation (MSE to LAION-B/16 embedding) | zs-C10 .2693/.2657 (matrix best) and agree_cos .714/.718 - but C100 .062 LOSES to infonce (+3.2pt) and R@1 .025 is 2.2x below, 2/2 seeds | tools/dist_runs/; canon/clip_mini_distillation.md |
| L-158 | **8** | 31221+0 | `CE.A0`/similarity-grid | SigLIP pairwise sigmoid distillation (decoupled contrastive) | zs SPLIT (-4.6pt s0 / +2.3pt s1 vs infonce) but LOSES retrieval 2/2 (R@1 .043/.040 vs .058/.054): coupling wins retrieval at batch 256 | tools/dist_runs/; canon/clip_mini_distillation.md |
| L-028 | **7** | 23111+0 | `CE.A4`/logits | masked-marginal variant scoring (protein VEP) | WT unmasked marginal rho 0.10 -> masked marginal ESSENTIAL; final rho .993 / .309 unseen | canon/ryan_spearman_protein.md:41-42; canon/ryan_spearman_protein.md:6-8 |
| L-006 | **7** | 32111+0 | `CE.A4`/logits+pixels | HuggingFace out.loss (VLM labels= path, vision tower fires) | required wherever the vision tower must fire - chunking bypasses it | pod/v35_exp004_caption.py:175; pod/v35_exp004_caption.py:17-19 |
| L-029 | **7** | 22211+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | GPT-2 frozen-trunk relay objective (dif-e013 Track C) | frozen 38.648 -> aleph 26.53 vs param-matched zero-init MLP 27.26; beats matched 2/2 seeds | history/timeline.md:349-363 |
| L-164 | **7** | 22112+0 | `CE.A7`/consensus-embedding | x3 full stack on the vision student (NCE + elem-MSE .5 + BCE .3 + centered-cos align .5 + CV 1e-3 + EmbeddingAutograd) | WEAK-ANCHOR SET-POINT 2/2: agreement lands at .4957/.4958 (cross-seed 4e-4) — .17 BELOW the anchored composite — while task gauges stay in-noise and probe drops 1.1pt. Its faster NCE descent (~8%) is UNANCHORED-optimizer speed: the inert elem-MSE leaves the contrastive term unopposed (diag: base agree .593 at step500 vs .432; x3diag_*.jsonl) | tools/dist_runs/x3_queue.log; tools/dist_runs/vitbank_s0.jsonl |
| L-013 | **6** | 13212+0 | `CE.A2`/coefficients | addr_3tau multi-tau stroboscope | 4.2884 no collapse (usage ppl 7.9, 117/128 alive) against addr_d4's 5.3698 | history/timeline.md:1093-1095 |
| L-027 | **6** | 13212+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | antipode-conv objective (the address AS the convolution operator) | CIFAR-10 87.23% @ 861,450 params with NO ReLU/GELU anywhere; none -> mag +21.8 | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:8-30; canon/discovery_catalog.md:49-61 |
| L-037 | **6** | 13111+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | denoiser objective (tokendiff iterative image-token denoise) | beats identity at every level; t=1.0 gives 0.378 vs 0.002 (189x) | sessions/2026-07-13.md:35-43 |
| L-018 | **6** | 22111+0 | `CE.A7`/mixed | blueprint composite (InfoNCE 1.0 + Procrustes_SVD 0.3 + |CV-0.20| 0.05) | BERT-8192 m_acc .927 at CV exactly 0.200; CLIP-ctx576 m_acc .945 | canon/geometric_memory_blueprint.md:9-20 |
| L-014 | **6** | 12212+0 | `CE.A0`/coefficients | addr_mhat reconstructive read consumed in AR | 5.1300 bpb but the HEALTHIEST cultivation on the bed (ppl 11.0, binding_frac .234) | history/timeline.md:1095-1097 |
| L-035 | **6** | 12211+0 | `SQ.A0`/x0-linear | rectified-flow velocity objective (KSimplex / Form 7 bottleneck) | loss .1749 beat the 268M skip's .1757; the model routed 88% through the 768 dims | canon/ksimplex_diffusion_prior.md:26-28; canon/constellation_forms.md:59-63 |
| L-038 | **6** | 12211+0 | `SQ.A0`/embeddings | recon_target (absolute MSE to a fixed frozen-trunk projection) | recall@1 0.264 - real (5x frozen) but HALF of InfoNCE's 0.494 at matched budget | sessions/2026-07-13.md:122-126; tools/qwen_exp011_newanchors.py:445-453 |
| L-020 | **5⚠** | 12111+0 | `SQ.A0`/sequence-embeddings | SequenceReconstructor loss: MSE(normed) + (1 - cos) | CLIP-L ep5 m_acc .957 / s_cos .734; Meridian bigG s_cos PLATEAUS at .425 | canon/geometric_memory_blueprint.md:56-63; canon/constellation_forms.md:44-48 |
| L-146 | **5** | 21222+0 | `BREG.A0`/address-code | FAC tanh-Hamming link (bounded tails) | cosh beats tanh 3/3: 4.349 vs 4.1285 (+0.22) - the bounded link loses within the family | tools/deviant_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 deviant-matrix block |
| L-147 | **5** | 21222+0 | `BREG.A0`/address-code | FAC Cauchy link (sub-quadratic tails) | cosh beats Cauchy 3/3: 4.360 vs 4.1285 (+0.23) - robust-statistics tails lose within the family | tools/deviant_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 deviant-matrix block |
| L-007 | **5** | 11221+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | dispatch-keys-only CE (aligner; adapters frozen as anchors) | trainable set is ONLY the per-block key matrices; reference-grade, never seed-replicated | closeout_2026-07-19/amoe/src/amoe/train/aligner.py:41-67 |
| L-030 | **5** | 20211+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | val_ce on a frozen semantic substrate (CLIP-L token-AR) | MLP WINS frozen-substrate token-AR (penult 5.245 best); aleph tax ~ +0.09 | history/timeline.md:335-348 |
| L-031 | **5** | 20122+0 | `SQ.A0`/geometry | pure geometric-basin loss set (coherence/separation/discretization/geometry) | the program's ONE attempted CE replacement - NOW PROPERLY TESTED: refuted on the byte bed (acc 0.157 vs control 0.498, 3 seeds); the absolute-only variant doubles it (L-152) | canon/cantor_empirics.md:20-22 |
| L-070 | **5⟂** | 20221+0 | `BREG.A0`/address-code | FAC as a PRIMARY sequential objective (cosh-Bregman, replace CE) | REFUTED AS PREREGISTERED, 3/3 seeds: fac_lsh 4.13 bpb vs ce 2.48; ce_fixedcode 3.81 beats it; fac_none 3.95 beats it | tools/fac_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 pass-3 block |
| L-140 | **5** | 20221+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | sparsemax as a full-bed objective | REFUTED as a general objective: bpb 7.43 / acc 0.331 vs ce 2.4769 / 0.505 (3 seeds) | tools/deviant_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 deviant-matrix block |
| L-141 | **5** | 20222+0 | `CE.A9`/logits | soft-max / worst-position accumulation (trained) | REFUTED: bpb 4.24 / acc 0.276, 3 seeds - the 0.911-novelty champion chases irreducible entropy exactly as flagged | tools/deviant_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 deviant-matrix block |
| L-142 | **5** | 20222+0 | `CE.A2`/logits | geometric-mean accumulation (trained) | REFUTED decisively: bpb 9.03 - the anti-focal starves hard positions and the distribution never forms (3 seeds) | tools/deviant_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 deviant-matrix block |
| L-143 | **5** | 20122+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | label smoothing eps=.1 (trained on the byte bed) | bpb 2.587 vs ce 2.4769 (+0.11, 3 seeds) - payer-class novelty (0.479), mildly WORSE outcome | tools/deviant_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 deviant-matrix block |
| L-144 | **5** | 20122+0 | `CE.A2`/logits | focal gamma=2 (trained, live-model weights) | bpb 2.597 (+0.12 vs ce, 3 seeds) - payer-class trained novelty (0.337), mildly worse outcome | tools/deviant_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 deviant-matrix block |
| L-145 | **5** | 20222+0 | `CE.A4`/logits | anti-curriculum (train only where the frozen reference is confident) | REFUTED as an objective: bpb 6.74 (3 seeds) - abandoning 72% of the distribution buys nothing on the rest | tools/deviant_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 deviant-matrix block |
| L-148 | **5** | 20122+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | confidence penalty (trained as the GATE-VALIDATION CONTROL) | CLOSEST TO CE OF ALL DEVIANTS: bpb 2.520 (+0.043, 3 seeds) - the gate's refusal correctly predicted 'CE plus nothing' | tools/deviant_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 deviant-matrix block |
| L-150 | **5** | 20122+0 | `SQ.A0`/basin-scores | PureGeometricLoss, learned anchors (the Oct '25 arm, properly tested) | REFUTED on this substrate: acc 0.157 vs control 0.498 (-68% relative, 3 seeds) - far below the historical -12% trade | tools/geobasin_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 geobasin block |
| L-151 | **5** | 20222+0 | `SQ.A0`/basin-scores | PureGeometricLoss, FROZEN anchors (the L-108 cell) | learned BEATS frozen by +8 acc points (0.157 vs 0.076, 3 seeds) - the L-108 falsifier FIRED for cosine anchors | tools/geobasin_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 geobasin block |
| L-153 | **5** | 20112+0 | `SQ.A0`/basin-scores | GeometricPrototypeLoss (verbatim, own projector) | WORST of the family: bpb 8.12, acc 0.008 (3 seeds) - the extra indirection buys total failure | tools/geobasin_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 geobasin block |
| L-154 | **5** | 20122+0 | `SQ.A0`/basin-scores | HierarchicalGeometricLoss on the nibble hierarchy (16x16) | CATASTROPHIC: acc 0.0003 - below chance (1/256) - hierarchy-in-class-space destroyed fine structure entirely (3 seeds) | tools/geobasin_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 geobasin block |
| L-155 | **5** | 20222+0 | `SQ.A0`/basin-scores | CE + PureGeometric hybrid (0.5/0.5) | the geometric set POISONS CE rather than riding it: bpb 4.53 vs control 2.61 (+1.9, 3 seeds) - P4 bar (within 0.15) missed by 12x | tools/geobasin_runs/; history/timeline.md 2026-07-25 geobasin block |
| L-160 | **5** | 20112+0 | `CE.A7`/similarity-grid | blueprint composite on image distillation (infonce + 0.3*procrustes + 1e-3 CV band) | INERT vs plain infonce 2/2: zs .248/.253 vs .267/.231, R@1 .057/.051 vs .058/.054, erank 184.6 vs 184.5, cv16 .232/.239 vs .221/.245 - every delta within seed noise | tools/dist_runs/; canon/clip_mini_distillation.md |
| L-036 | **4** | 11111+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | margin losses ArcFace / CosFace / SphereFace (RoseFace dual-norm) | the ZANA innovation - and it hit a 60% single-stream ceiling | canon/vit_lineage_beatrix_zana.md:17-28 |
| L-008 | **4** | 10121+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | image-classification CE (CIFAR-10, aleph-dispatched MoE vs dense) | MoE 58.52% TIES param-matched dense 58.52% exactly; 6x params bought nothing | history/timeline.md:1127-1138; tools/addressed_distillation_v1.py:301 |
| L-032 | **3** | 00220+0 | `-.NA`/geometry | GBC - 'cross-entropy can be replaced entirely' (roadmap claim) | classification via triadic compatibility, self-similarity, Cantor coherence, hierarchical basin checks | canon/geovocab_chunking.md:21-22 |
| L-033 | **3** | 00212+0 | `SQ.A0`/pixels | masked-recon / generative arm (campaign law 2 in its ORIGINAL form) | BUILT, NEVER RUN - predicted to be where the SIGNED read finally beats magnitude | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:19-21; history/open_questions.md:144-145 |

## AUXILIARY TERMS, REGULARIZERS, AND STRUCTURAL SUBSTITUTES

Includes the structural devices that REPLACED a loss term - sphere normalization, gradient
equalization, bounded alpha. Their presence here is the point: this program's strongest
results come from making geometry structural rather than penalized.

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-052 | **10** | 33221+1 | `-.NA`/adapters | zero-init output heads (WEIGHT and bias) - the inertness contract | makes the toggle law bit-exact (max|dlogit| = 0.0); the bias leak alone is a standing +0.5 ppl offset | MANIFEST.md:171-172; closeout_2026-07-19/amoe/src/amoe/diffusion/core/relay.py:49-52 |
| L-065 | **10** | 33212+1 | `-.A3`/sigma-axis | band crossfade windows as STRUCTURAL positional gating | own-band damage 50-200x cross-band, 3/3 both seeds - specialists manufactured with NO routing loss | MANIFEST.md:90-96; plans/2026-07-17_multiband_stage_plan.md:18-35 |
| L-044 | **10** | 23222+1 | `-.NA`/cantor-measure | Devil's Staircase alpha-normalization (bit_k = p[RIGHT] + alpha*p[MIDDLE], alpha=0.5) | WITHOUT the alpha term the measure COLLAPSES to {0, .333, .667} - the FractalDavid bug | MANIFEST.md:30-31; canon/vit_lineage_beatrix_zana.md:40-49 |
| L-061 | **10** | 23222+1 | `-.NA`/data | question-space guard (training-question space >= 3x draws) | caught TWO memorized experts that had PASSED the answer-diversity guard (spaces 480 and 248 vs 800 draws) | MANIFEST.md:169-170; inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:152-154 |
| L-051 | **10** | 32222+1 | `-.NA`/optimizer | pure Adam, weight_decay = 0 (the anti-regularizer law) | Adam+gates .731 vs AdamW(3e-4, wd .01) .667 - 'weight decay is uniform damping that destroys the geometric harmonic' | MANIFEST.md:15; canon/discovery_catalog.md:18 |
| L-068 | **9** | 33212+0 | `-.A6`/any | paired (row, noise, t) triples - the variance-killing accumulation | the noise-pair floor is ~0.988 - without pairing the effects this program measures are invisible | history/timeline.md:1220-1227; pod2/dexp001_sd15_relay.py:167-185 |
| L-042 | **9** | 23212+1 | `-.NA`/gradients | gradient equalization across heterogeneous geometric towers | without it spreads hit 20 ORDERS of magnitude (fibonacci dead at 2.25e-21 under helix) | MANIFEST.md:43-45; canon/fibonacci_systems.md:14-20 |
| L-016 | **9** | 32212+1 | `SQ.A5`/x0-linear | blob-LP-x0 structural supervision on FLOW (lambda ~ 1) | -5.9% / -3.7% two seeds on flow vs +0.03% / -1.0% on eps: a ~125-200x effect ratio | MANIFEST.md:65-69; history/timeline.md:1481-1491 |
| L-041 | **9** | 32222+0 | `-.NA`/activations | sphere normalization (M = F.normalize(M); ||M||_F^2 = V pins sum sigma^2) | zero collapses in 400 epochs; V=1024 went from 48 s/ep crashing to 2.0 s/ep stable | canon/structural_attractors.md:32-37; canon/discovery_catalog.md:8 |
| L-043 | **9** | 32221+1 | `-.NA`/spectra | bounded multiplicative alpha (S*(1 + alpha*tanh), alpha <= 0.2, init .024) | unbounded alpha POISONS the spectrum; bounded modulation costs 2,272 of 16.9M params (0.013%) | MANIFEST.md:40; canon/omega_tokens_fresnel_johanna.md:5-9 |
| L-050 | **9** | 22222+1 | `-.NA`/gradients | gradient clipping discipline (0.5 on cross-attn ONLY; NEVER inside an LBFGS closure) | unclipped LBFGS closure DIVERGED to G-MSE 7.4e26; safety is line_search_fn='strong_wolfe' | MANIFEST.md:46-47; canon/tri_band_omega_arc.md:55-57 |
| L-048 | **8⟂** | 32212+0 | `SQ.A3`/band-routed | HP/LP band-role objectives [judged by the ROLE-ALIGNED gauge] | multiband beats the matched monolith ~10% on HIGH-band foreground, BOTH seeds | history/timeline.md:1465-1479 |
| L-059 | **8** | 32122+0 | `-.NA`/codebook | straight-through estimator on the aleph HARD read | forward fully DISCRETE oriented code, backward soft: hosted books hold cos .992-.997, 112-122/128 hard axes, zero collapse | canon/aleph_core.md:20-23; MANIFEST.md:135-138 |
| L-166 | **8** | 32122+0 | `SQ.NA`/gradient-path | EmbeddingAutograd gradient operator (radial damping + nearest-anchor separation), isolated | THE SEED-LOTTERY COLLAPSER (candidate, 2 seeds): pins rotated zs at .2539/.2534 (cross-seed 5e-4) where the baseline swings .232-.264 — means unchanged, VARIANCE collapsed. Mildly retards its own descent (~.03 EMA, it deletes gradient components) | tools/dist_runs/x3_queue.log; tools/dist_runs/vitbank_s0.jsonl |
| L-040 | **8** | 22221+0 | `DET.A2`/S15-bank | 1e-3 CV bank loss (arm-gated, S^15 bank ONLY, never the aleph codebook) | holds CV .295-.305 at zero-to-positive task cost where bare CE drifts it to .31-.34 | tools/exp017_aleph_constellation.py:154-186; history/timeline.md:692-696 |
| L-066 | **8** | 22212+1 | `-.A5`/x0-linear | lambda dose coupling (3-point curve on the blob term) | 0.5 -> -5.9% | 1.0 -> -8.3% (in bound) | 2.0 -> -8.4% (OUT of the 0.5% common-gauge bound) | history/timeline.md:1584-1589; closeout_2026-07-19/amoe/src/amoe/diffusion/laws.py:41 |
| L-067 | **8** | 22212+1 | `-.A8`/gauges | fp64 gauge accumulation (autocast disabled in the reduction) | fp32 determinants lose up to ~4% on near-degenerate pentachora - 'fp32 det only' now means fp32 MINIMUM | MANIFEST.md:32-39; tools/geolip_vitals.py:60-103 |
| L-023 | **7** | 23111+0 | `KL.A4`/logits | kd_facts (fact rows supervised ONLY by teacher logits, alpha=1.0 legal here) | recall 0.953 vs direct 0.871; held-out RULE induction 0.264/0.279 >= the teacher itself | history/timeline.md:758-767; history/timeline.md:783-806 |
| L-024 | **7** | 23111+0 | `SQ.A0`/shape-mean | dual-teacher Procrustes consensus distillation | teachers .699/.649 -> student .761 EXCEEDS BOTH, still accelerating at E30 | canon/geometric_memory_blueprint.md:90-98; canon/gm3_parity/03_teachers_and_distillation.md:7-13 |
| L-055 | **7** | 22211+0 | `-.NA`/rotations | Cayley orthogonality constraint + Newton-Schulz whitening | Q = (I-A)(I+A)^-1 guarantees pure rotation: det = 1.000 throughout, wins 76/84 unseen assays | canon/ryan_spearman_protein.md:19-23 |
| L-026 | **6** | 13211+0 | `SQ.A2`/recon | soft-hand loss (proximity REWARD, not penalty) | V256 D24: MSE 0.034 at 400ep - 37% better than the best unconstrained run (.054) | canon/structural_attractors.md:38-56 |
| L-054 | **6** | 13211+0 | `-.NA`/arms | quaternion composition as a structural regularizer (Hamilton product) | GeoQuat 0.916 -> 0.993 over 100 epochs vs best baseline 0.903 | canon/ryan_spearman_protein.md:12-18; canon/ryan_spearman_protein.md:26-29 |
| L-056 | **6** | 13221+0 | `-.NA`/architecture | cascade as a regularizer (multi-step MLP instead of a direct dimensional jump) | 9-step 256->64 gives 84.6% vs a direct jump's 29.6%; a 27-step r=.95 cascade EXCEEDS the root | canon/geometric_memory_blueprint.md:38-40 |
| L-057 | **6** | 13201+0 | `-.A3`/routing | Cantor router (soft weights derived FROM triangulation distances) | cos .9818 at 8 layers vs relay-alone .6533; geometry IMPROVES with more tokens | canon/constellation_forms.md:53-58 |
| L-022 | **6** | 22111+0 | `KL.A0`/logits | logit-KD at alpha <= 0.25 with founder exemption | mlp_kd lineage 2.4106 -> 2.3707 -> 2.3662 -> 2.3594 monotone ascent; replicates at s1 | history/timeline.md:396-410; history/timeline.md:570-583 |
| L-034 | **6** | 12221+0 | `SQ.A0`/codebook | entropy-balanced alignment cultivation (w = .05) | produced the emergent basin M = +/- ref EXACTLY - the sign-code convergence endpoint | canon/svae_h2_class.md:23 |
| L-045 | **6** | 12212+0 | `DET.A0`/simplices | L_CM - Cayley-Menger validity hinge (lambda = .01) | CM validity 100% across the lineage table | canon/ksimplex_diffusion_prior.md:18-23 |
| L-046 | **6** | 12211+0 | `DET.A0`/simplices | L_vol - volume-spread REWARD (-std(log|vol^2|), lambda = .005) | fragmented anatomy -> coherent composition; base fully preserved (purely additive) | canon/ksimplex_diffusion_prior.md:21-23 |
| L-047 | **6⟂** | 12211+0 | `SQ.A0`/shape-mean | Procrustes_SVD as a REGULARIZER (x 0.3 alongside a real force) | tightens CV (.19 vs .25) when it rides alongside InfoNCE | canon/geometric_memory_blueprint.md:22-24; canon/constellation_forms.md:26 |
| L-049 | **6** | 12221+0 | `-.NA`/anchors | anchor dropout (30%) | prevents collapse: 508/512 anchors active | canon/constellation_forms.md:27 |
| L-060 | **6** | 12221+0 | `-.NA`/data | data-level dampening (sqrt damping alpha=0.5, max_repeats=8, cap 1.25x) | NEVER equalize-to-largest: alpha=0 repeats 5 images ~50x/epoch | canon/subject_bucketing_anima.md:17-19 |
| L-064 | **6** | 12221+0 | `SQ.A0`/crystals | rose loss (role-weighted pentachoron regularization, rose_w = 1e-4) | 74.87% CIFAR-100 @ 393,216 params vs ~65% zero-shot and ~70-72% linear probe | canon/fibonacci_systems.md:29-33; canon/geovocab_chunking.md:24 |
| L-039 | **5** | 12111+0 | `CE.A7`/similarity-grid | contrastive dynamics as a CV-compression force | 100 clusters / 200 steps at d=128 -> CV .2451 (in band); 10 clusters -> .94 | canon/cv_band_origin.md:14-17 |
| L-053 | **5** | 12111+0 | `-.NA`/gradients | geometric autograd / gradient gating (Form 12 tangential-radial split) | gradients split tangential (pass) / radial (attenuate) / collapse-direction (attenuate) | canon/constellation_forms.md:83-86; canon/gm3_parity/02_optimizer_and_cv.md:7-18 |
| L-025 | **5** | 21212+0 | `SQ.A0`/shape-mean | projective-ICP / GPA consensus operator (germline overwrite) | recovers planted truth |cos|=1.000 in 5 iterations; TASK-NEUTRAL on bpb, 2 seeds | history/timeline.md:417-437; history/timeline.md:570-595 |
| L-062 | **5** | 21222+1 | `-.A2`/data | usage / starvation reweighting (drives DATA sampling, NEVER a loss term) | the program's ONLY answer to load balancing: x2 upweight the starved anchor's DATA, 3-strike abort | closeout_2026-07-19/amoe/src/amoe/train/aligner.py:68-84; pod/v35_exp007_collective.py:248-262 |
| L-063 | **5** | 21221+0 | `-.NA`/conditioning | CFG dropout 0.1 (conditioning zeroed, not empty-prompt) | standard in every diffusion bed; never ablated in this program | pod2/dexp006_sd15core_relay.py:132-146 |
| L-021 | **5** | 11221+0 | `SQ.A2`/eps | Min-SNR gamma=5 weighting + velocity adjustment | part of a working recipe (1 ep, 10k synthetic, ~7 min on an L4); never ablated | canon/ksimplex_diffusion_prior.md:28 |
| L-167 | **5** | 30222+0 | `SQ.A8`/pentachoron-volumes | CV force at the 1e-3 ceiling on the anchored composite (x3 cv form) | INERT 2/2, third independent confirmation of the P4 shape: trajectory rides the baseline curve to ~.01 EMA the whole way; gauges in-noise (zs seed-spread if anything wider) | tools/dist_runs/x3_queue.log; tools/dist_runs/vitbank_s0.jsonl |
| L-163 | **5** | 20112+0 | `SQ.A2`/bank-geometry | AlignmentBank 8-term geometry loss (CaptionBert Stage-B, vision port) | PROBE-REFUTED with FULL CONTROLS 2/2: trained bank BELOW untrained (gap -.0038/-.0045) AND a fully-random bank (random frames+anchors) matches the real-frames control (.4159/.4114 vs .4149/.4107) - the entire +1.4-1.6pt enrichment over raw is generic random-feature capacity; the geometric content contributes ~zero and geometric training subtracts | tools/dist_runs/vitbank_s0.jsonl; tools/dist_runs/vitbank_s1.jsonl |
| L-165 | **5** | 20222+0 | `CE.A0`/frozen-head-logits | BCE through a frozen teacher-space head (x3 supervised force, isolated) | INERT as an add-on 2/2: every gauge within noise of the anchored composite (agree +.008 consistent-sign whisper); supervision distilled through a frozen head does not behave like supervision | tools/dist_runs/x3_queue.log; tools/dist_runs/vitbank_s0.jsonl |
| L-058 | **3** | 01211+0 | `-.NA`/codebook | address-agreement bias (BUCKET - making a hard address differentiable) | exact softmax within sorted equal-width blocks masked to the same bucket; argmax alone is gradient-dead | canon/mother_threads.md:35-37; canon/constellation_forms.md:118-120 |
| L-069 | **3** | 00221+0 | `-.A2`/sequence-axis | predictability-weighted accumulation (PWA) | DESIGNED 2026-07-25: make the PREDICTABILITY PRINCIPLE a loss geometry instead of a discovered side effect | history/timeline.md:1062-1066; inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:144-154 |

## GAUGES - measure only, never in the gradient path

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-071 | **10** | 33212+1 | `DET.A8`/anchors | CV as a READOUT (never a force) | the historical CV 'loss' was GRADIENT-FREE all along - .item() stripped the graph | canon/discovery_catalog.md:9-10; canon/aleph_core.md:40-41 |
| L-073 | **10** | 33222+0 | `-.A0`/bytes | bpb (bits per byte) - the AR line's verdict currency | certified band 2.469-2.499; addr_msl64 beats the unrestricted head 7/7 across seeds and budgets | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:53-58; history/timeline.md:139-147 |
| L-074 | **10** | 33222+0 | `-.A0`/logits | perplexity tax ladder (wikitext ppl delta, one shared gauge) | one always-on stack +9.23/+9.87 | monolith +3.66 | 5-anchor collective +11.0/+12.6 | UNGATED +91.6 | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:240-248; history/timeline.md:1156-1171 |
| L-075 | **10** | 33222+0 | `-.A0`/text | token-F1 (caption distribution-match delta) | 0.408 -> 0.706/0.704 (+0.30, |s0-s1| = 0.0019); the hub checkpoint reproduces 0.706 EXACTLY | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:155-166; history/timeline.md:1656 |
| L-080 | **10** | 33222+1 | `-.NA`/logits | toggle law - all anchors off is BIT-EXACT to the base model | max|dlogit| = 0.0 exactly at 0.8B on a hybrid DeltaNet/full-attention trunk; library-enforced | MANIFEST.md:171-172; closeout_2026-07-19/amoe/src/amoe/testing/invariants.py:76-97 |
| L-083 | **10** | 33222+0 | `-.A0`/codebook | usage perplexity / axis aliveness (read-only) | 125+/128 axes alive WITHOUT regularization - the standing refutation of load-balancing auxiliaries | canon/discovery_catalog.md:41-42; tools/geolip_vitals.py:108 |
| L-085 | **10** | 33222+1 | `-.A0`/anchors | blend-escape ratio (threshold 1.5) and damping ratio (target >= 3x) | specialists damped 5-11x but caption ESCAPES undamped at 0.1004 - the corollary that became the regime law | closeout_2026-07-19/amoe/src/amoe/laws.py:37-39; history/timeline.md:1961-1964 |
| L-089 | **10** | 33222+0 | `DET.A8`/anchors | CV@1000-batches early screen + the 3-tier filter | CV at 1000 batches PREDICTS the final band; turnaround ~2h -> ~7 min per config | canon/tri_band_omega_arc.md:21-27; canon/discovery_catalog.md:11-13 |
| L-092 | **10** | 33222+0 | `-.A0`/patches | resolution-invariance flatness (the debugging canary) | 4.5% MSE variance from 81 to 4096 patches; ~1% across a 36-config sweep - ANY shift means an upstream break | canon/discovery_catalog.md:20-22; canon/tri_band_omega_arc.md:67-70 |
| L-095 | **10** | 23222+1 | `-.NA`/hardware | peak_mem + s/step (the WDDM sysmem-spill tell) | the tell is ~100W/450W at '100% util' with no step prints - 42.8GB observed spilled to shared memory | MANIFEST.md:50-59; pod/run_g6b_rider.py:34-48 |
| L-077 | **9** | 33221+0 | `-.A0`/codes | register probe (sign-code inter-minus-intra Hamming separation) | THE PREDICTOR of the two-regime law: registers ~0.2-0.3 blend, domains ~0.35-0.5 specialize | canon/register_probe_gauge.md; inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:38-42 |
| L-081 | **9** | 33212+0 | `-.A3`/bands | band-lesion surgical test (own vs cross damage) | surgical 3/3 both seeds at 50-200x; on a DiT edge bands hit cross-damage EXACTLY 0.0 | MANIFEST.md:70-76; history/timeline.md:1851-1864 |
| L-091 | **9** | 33212+0 | `-.A8`/spectra | spectral gauges: S0/S_D ratio, effective rank, the universal attractor | critical ratio ~6.5 triggers DISCHARGE; universal attractor S0 ~5.1, erank 15.88 +/- 0.04 across 48+ measurements | canon/structural_attractors.md:24-30; canon/discovery_catalog.md:5-7 |
| L-094 | **9** | 33221+0 | `-.A0`/structured-text | structured-task validity judges (JSON validity, IoU, pair-order, termination) | bbox 0 -> 0.6875 valid (0.894 IoU); the FORMAT TRAMPLING signature: 9/12 truncated_no_json | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:253-255; sessions/2026-07-14_pod.md:378-394 |
| L-076 | **9** | 23222+0 | `-.A0`/text | precision + invented-attribute rate (the hallucination decomposition) | precision 0.356 -> 0.694/0.705 and invented-attribute rate 0.200 -> 0.136/0.101, BOTH seeds | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:233-238; history/timeline.md:1679 |
| L-078 | **9** | 23222+0 | `-.A8`/codes | sign_fidelity (Spearman of code-Hamming vs true angular distance) | PROMOTED: separates heredity from lottery where bpb CANNOT - heirs lock at .9555-.9558, spread < .001 | history/timeline.md:476-521; inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:67-69 |
| L-086 | **9** | 23222+0 | `-.A0`/text | composition score (the controller prereg gauge) | the chaining wall: components >= 0.96 solo, composite 0.0 for EVERY config | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:261-270; history/timeline.md:1657-1660 |
| L-088 | **9** | 23222+0 | `-.A0`/gradients | grad_norm_spread (gradient democracy monitor) | reference failure it exists to catch: 20 orders of magnitude across unequalized towers | tools/geolip_vitals.py:160-173; canon/fibonacci_systems.md:14-20 |
| L-097 | **9** | 23222+0 | `-.A0`/text | held-out byte accuracy (rule induction) and variant-format recall (the format lock) | teachers memorize at 1.000 train but induce at 0.270/0.245 held-out; memorized content is BOUND to surface form | history/timeline.md:783-806; history/timeline.md:794-800 |
| L-098 | **9** | 23222+0 | `-.A0`/codes | key-durability gauge (nearest-neighbour symbol Hamming + key drift) | sign-code keys disagree on ~91% of symbols; match rate at theta=0.25 is 0.000 EVERYWHERE | history/timeline.md:868-894 |
| L-099 | **9** | 23222+0 | `-.A0`/codebook | basin mean_cos (BASIN SET AT INIT) | 192-bank sweep: epoch_1 .8632 / best .8635 / final .8615 - delta 0.0017 BELOW the within-phase std | MANIFEST.md:124-127; canon/tri_band_omega_arc.md:71-75 |
| L-100 | **9** | 22222+1 | `DET.A8`/simplices | cv_reference_check (fp64 parity against the source of truth) | exact parity (relative 0.0) at fp64 against geovocab2, at ~260x the speed | MANIFEST.md:32-39; tools/geolip_vitals.py:78-103 |
| L-079 | **8** | 23212+0 | `SQ.A3`/band-routed | role-aligned in-bed gauge (HIGH-band foreground-masked LP-x0) | PROMOTED: found a ~10% multiband win that EVERY aggregate comparison hid | history/timeline.md:1465-1479 |
| L-082 | **8** | 23212+0 | `-.A6`/routing | repeated-key null + matched-vs-mismatched deltas | the instrument that falsified address-as-key: routing excess 2.5e-06 over the null | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:203-208; history/timeline.md:1611-1629 |
| L-096 | **8** | 22222+0 | `-.A0`/anchors | consensus drift / stationarity gauge | ROBUST for structured genomes (0.003 drift by g2, both seeds) but SEED-DEPENDENT for a lone flat book | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:79-86; canon/gm3_parity/01_inherited_object.md:77-85 |
| L-090 | **7** | 22211+0 | `-.A8`/codebook | void topology beta_2/axis (persistent homology on RP^(D-1)) | within the D=4 cohort every GEOMETRIC signal collapses while VOIDS rise; beta_2 vs recon MSE |rho| = 0.471 | canon/void_topology.md:27-63; canon/discovery_catalog.md:37-38 |
| L-084 | **6** | 13222+0 | `-.A0`/codebook | read perplexity + |cos to nearest atom| (the quantizer gauge) | read perplexity 14/64 atoms, |cos to nearest atom| 0.964, 64/64 alive - the representation LIES ON the codebook | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:14-16; canon/discovery_catalog.md:54-58 |
| L-087 | **6** | 13222+0 | `-.A0`/any | adapter_effect_mean - the VACUOUS guard | returns VACUOUS instead of a false PASS when the stack barely moves the loss | sessions/2026-07-21_comfyui_amoe_packaging.md:363-371 |
| L-093 | **6** | 12222+0 | `-.NA`/code | exec judge (guarded subprocess: restricted builtins, length cap, hard timeout, no network) | the write-0.0 floor was verified GENUINE off-pod, not a judge artifact | history/timeline.md:1634-1635; plans/2026-07-16_math_night_plan.md:46-51 |
| L-104 | **6** | 12222+0 | `-.A0`/codes | sign-code Hamming retrieval | 0.359 @1 against the continuous head's 0.494 - ~73% of its power from raw 64-symbol Hamming | sessions/2026-07-13.md:116-121 |

### DISTRUSTED GAUGES - do not rate anything on these alone

Each was load-bearing until it was caught. Any entry whose headline rests on one takes the
-2 blind-gauge demotion (rule 2) until it is re-measured on a promoted gauge.

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-072 | **8** | 32221+0 | `-.A0`/anchors | anchor drift -> 0.29154 rad + binding_fraction | the binding constant recurs across 5 architectures and 3 paradigms - but the drift-based fraction is a STAGE statistic | MANIFEST.md:115-116; history/timeline.md:231-241 |
| L-101 | **5** | 31221+0 | `-.A0`/gates | gate-mean band 0.012-0.03 (advisory, NOT universal) | held across 6 architectures and 2 optimizers - then MISSED on a 7th at 0.051-0.061 | MANIFEST.md:121; history/open_questions.md:31-33 |
| L-102 | **5** | 30220+0 | `SQ.A0`/eps | aggregate eps-MSE as a band-behaviour gauge | DISTRUSTED: moved 0.2% against +0.089 grounding effects in image space, and HID a ~10% multiband win | history/timeline.md:1402-1422; history/timeline.md:1465-1479 |
| L-103 | **2✖** | 20020+0 | `-.A0`/addresses | recon cosine as a judge for ADDRESSED systems | DISTRUSTED: an address is a LOOKUP KEY, not a compressor - judge drift and crushed CV instead | MANIFEST.md:115-116; history/open_questions.md:198-204 |

## RETRACTED / DEMOTED / FORBIDDEN - the doctrine's proof set

**Each row below is the EVIDENCE for a standing law. This is not a graveyard and not an
appendix - these are the controls that turned results into laws. Cite them.**

Grouped by the law each row proves, not by entry.

### absolute-beats-relative

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-105 | **1†** | 30012+1 | `SQ.A10`/codebook | VQ / commitment / EMA codebook losses | THE NAMED PROHIBITION - and unnecessary: the codebook stays 125+/128 alive at div_weight = 0 | canon/aleph_core.md:16-18; MANIFEST.md:132-134 |
| L-106 | **1†** | 30012+1 | `CE.A0`/roster | comparative / relative selectors (argmax anchors, softmax-over-roster, STE one-hots, k-means alphabets) | roster-dependent; the gradient HOMOGENIZES - 14x path collapse, width attenuation, BN-on-padding, same disease | MANIFEST.md:135-138; canon/aleph_core.md:53-58 |
| L-107 | **1†** | 20011+1 | `CE.A0`/alphabet | gradient-learned alphabets (CAMPAIGN LAW 3) | fitted-frozen alphabets differentiate (1,594 unique paths); gradient-learned alphabets COLLAPSE (116) | MANIFEST.md:157-158; canon/acd_campaign.md:18-20 |
| L-108 | **1†** | 10011+0 | `SQ.A0`/crystals | direct gradient descent on pentachora | collapses them to zero - as FROZEN anchors the same crystals retain full cohesion and stay backtrackable | canon/geovocab_chunking.md:16-18 |
| L-118 | **1†** | 30012+1 | `SQ.A0`/routing | comparative routing on diffusion (state+sigma, raw address, M-hat address-as-key) | FALSIFIED THREE WAYS, 2 seeds: routing excess 2.5e-06 over the repeated-key null; match advantage -0.0 | MANIFEST.md:70-76; inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:203-208 |

### regime-law

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-119 | **1†** | 20212+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | the controller hypothesis (a trainable anchor that orchestrates the others) | prereg required >= +0.15; measured -0.417 / -0.167. The passenger role is an ATTRACTOR | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:261-270; sessions/2026-07-14_pod.md:610-646 |
| L-120 | **1†** | 30112+1 | `CE.A0`/logits | always-on solo specialist stacks | MUTUALLY DESTRUCTIVE at n=48: the depth stack drives caption F1 to 0.0014 with termination 0.0 | MANIFEST.md:160-166; inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:216-232 |
| L-121 | **1†** | 20212+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | frozen solo-trained expert collectives under aleph dispatch | no surgical independence (own-drop 0.04/0.00), NO damping (all five blend-regime, 0.86-1.6), composite 0.0 | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:169-178 |

### instrument-design

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-125 | **1†** | 10222+0 | `-.A6`/routing | shuffled-key null | CONFESSED INSTRUMENT FAILURE: it measures diversity, not correctness - the null scored like the real thing | history/timeline.md:1539-1548 |
| L-127 | **1†** | 20221+0 | `-.NA`/anchors | the exp021 seed-inversion claim for the trainable anchor | RETRACTED WITHIN HOURS: the claim compared DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS across seeds | history/timeline.md:1697; hfstage/exp021_s1battery/README.md |
| L-133 | **1†** | 10222+0 | `-.NA`/sampling | deterministic (greedy) decoding in an iterative denoiser | collapses to the global mode: diversity 0.0, conditional == shuffled EXACTLY | sessions/2026-07-13.md:35-43 |

### coordinate-law

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-128 | **1†** | 10021+1 | `-.A3`/cantor-measure | hierarchical refinement in Cantor space | HARMFUL (-10%); parallel ADJACENT NON-OVERLAPPING bands are +3% | canon/cantor_empirics.md:5-18; MANIFEST.md:122-123 |
| L-129 | **1†** | 10021+1 | `-.A3`/cantor-measure | repeated boundary crossing in a measure space | KILLS gradients (catastrophic -> random). Enter and exit the measure space ONCE | canon/cantor_empirics.md:5-7; MANIFEST.md:122-123 |
| L-130 | **1†** | 20022+0 | `-.A3`/cantor-measure | the SOFT devil's staircase used as a BAND COORDINATE | NEW 2026-07-25: measured NON-MONOTONE - min slope -0.13 to -0.49 at EVERY level count on EVERY grid tested | .venv/Lib/site-packages/geofractal/model/positional/staircase.py:49-67; MANIFEST.md:90-96 |

### aggregation-destroys

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-109 | **1†** | 30022+1 | `-.A0`/patches | global average pooling in geometric encoders | 70% -> 29% collapse, REPLICATED independently in the protein line | MANIFEST.md:24; canon/discovery_catalog.md:17 |
| L-131 | **1†** | 10021+0 | `-.NA`/data | equalize-to-largest data balancing (alpha = 0) | repeats the 5-image bucket ~50x per epoch - 'the textbook way to overfit the long tail you were trying to protect' | canon/subject_bucketing_anima.md:17-21 |

### consumption-law

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-112 | **1†** | 20022+0 | `CE.A0`/coefficients | addr_head - coefficients to logits at a single hard tau | 5.6650 bpb COLLAPSED: usage ppl 1.88/64, TWO unique winners, win|cos| .9992 | history/timeline.md:1105-1118; history/timeline.md:1092-1104 |
| L-137 | **1†** | 20022+0 | `CE.A0`/coefficients | single hard-tau coefficient heads at ANY dimension | DEMOTED on the standing registry: collapse, and low-D was falsified as the fix | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:137-139 |

### inheritance

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-114 | **1†** | 20112+0 | `KL.A0`/logits | logit-KD at alpha = 1.0 from near-parity teachers | INVERSE EVOLUTION, compounding downward: 2.4301 -> 2.5046 -> 2.5603 | history/timeline.md:383-395; canon/gm3_parity/03_teachers_and_distillation.md:14-24 |
| L-122 | **1†** | 20222+0 | `-.NA`/weights | organ-only inheritance (projection + book transplanted onto fresh trunks) | BELOW random init, 2/2 lineages - sixteen random draws beat organ heredity | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:132-134; history/timeline.md:396-437 |

### regime-transfer

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-117 | **1†** | 20222+0 | `CE.A0`/coefficients | tied M-hat readout (U=M_hat, S=Omega-token, Vt=I) in an AR head | +1.0 bpb BOTH seeds and it STARVES the codebook (drift 0.02, binding 0) | history/timeline.md:715-736; canon/gm3_parity/01_inherited_object.md:77-85 |
| L-136 | **1†** | 10211+0 | `SQ.A0`/rotations | SVD-rotation transform in the dual-pentachoron head | DROPPED for convergence failure; reduced to scale + shift | canon/cayley_menger_foundations.md:36-38 |

### alignment-force

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-019 | **1†** | 12111+0 | `CE.A7`/mixed | Expert Soup composite (InfoNCE + MSE + BCE + Procrustes + CV + spread) | RETRACTED 2026-07-31 with its source system: the Form-2 / Bertenstein numbers (mAP .84, 1000/1000 positive volumes, eff-dim 76.9) were never independently audited, and the system carrying them was falsified — R@1 was a shared-forward-pass leak, Procrustes cos_after sat at/below a no-relationship null, CV .20 at d=1024 was collapse | canon/constellation_forms.md:35-46 (retirement annotation); repos/bertenstein.md |

### cv-pressure

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-110 | **1†** | 20011+0 | `DET.A0`/anchors | CV loss as backward injection / above the 1e-3 ceiling | MUST be a forward loss; above ~.001 the CV term dominates CE and trades discrimination for regularity | canon/constellation_forms.md:85-86; canon/geometric_memory_blueprint.md:87 |

### force-vs-regularizer

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-111 | **1†⟂** | 10112+0 | `SQ.A0`/shape-mean | Procrustes as a training FORCE | as a training loss: R@1 = 0.000, P_cos stuck at .094 for THIRTY EPOCHS | canon/geometric_memory_blueprint.md:22-24 |

### infonce-placement

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-113 | **2✖⟂** | 33011+0 | `CE.A7`/similarity-grid | InfoNCE into ADDRESS paths | BANNED despite R@1 .999 - it is the LOUDEST gradient and the bank learns IT instead of the useful signal | MANIFEST.md:135-137; tools/exp013_augmentation_bed.py:18 |

### conditioning-law

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-115 | **1†** | 30012+1 | `SQ.A5`/eps | blob structural supervision on the EPS objective | +0.03% / -1.0%, two seeds - the x0 recovery divides by a vanishing sqrt(alpha_bar) EXACTLY in the supervised band | MANIFEST.md:65-69; history/timeline.md:1465-1500 |

### screening

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-116 | **1†** | 20220+0 | `SQ.A0`/recon | MSE-first single-epoch keep-or-kill screening | DEAD: the lowest-MSE config was a HIGH-band false candidate | canon/tri_band_omega_arc.md:23-27 |

### band-roles

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-123 | **4⟂** | 31210+0 | `SQ.A3`/band-routed | HP/LP band-role objectives [judged by AGGREGATE eps-MSE] | 4/4 directional both seeds at 0.05-0.2% margins - 'nearly collinear with the base objective' | history/timeline.md:1394-1435 |

### redundant-in-context

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-124 | **5** | 21222+0 | `SQ.A0`/conditioning | frozen-address conditioning injected beside full text | real vs deranged -0.0009 beside full text; but ALONE the address steers at +0.0287 | inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md:209-210; history/timeline.md:1305-1318 |

### question-space

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-126 | **1†** | 10222+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | the sequences / baseconv expert gains | SELF-RETRACTED: question space 480 and 248 against 800 training draws per tier = MEMORIZED | history/timeline.md:1640 |

### law2-placement

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-132 | **1†** | 10122+0 | `CE.A0`/conv-filters | addr_conv - the decorative address (convex re-weighting of a filter bank) | DECORATIVE: a convex sum a_k = 1 is a hull-bounded perturbation of a MEAN; the 1x1 address is CONSTANT on grayscale (variance 4e-16) | history/timeline.md:1890-1896; sessions/2026-07-24_antipode_conv_decouple.md:24-30 |

### no-balancing

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-134 | **1†** | 30022+1 | `CE.A10`/routing | load-balancing / auxiliary router losses | BANNED and replaced by architectural equality; ZERO instances exist in the tree | history/progression_plan_2026-07-08.md:126-137; closeout_2026-07-19/amoe/src/amoe/core/dispatch.py:1-12 |

### operator-ruling

| ID | RATE | RPDCI+L | CELL / SUBSTRATE | NAME | HEADLINE NUMBER | CITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-135 | **1†** | 00201+0 | `CE.A0`/logits | the big-JSON objective | FORMALLY DROPPED by operator ruling - too costly; 3-5 task adapters deliver more per GPU hour | history/timeline.md:1977-1981; sessions/2026-07-14_pod.md:813-817 |

## MECHANISM NOTES

Keyed by ID so `grep L-115` finds both the row and its reasoning. Full notes live in
`inventory/loss_manifest.json`; `python skill/loss_view.py show L-115` prints one.

## OPEN CONTRADICTIONS (never averaged, per rule 7)

1. **CE vs the CV band.** One record has Form-1 CORE holding CV .2045 under cross-entropy;
   the repo results table shows CV drifting **.238 -> .124 by ep50** against CE at weight
   .01. Bears on L-003's doctrinal standing. **Settled by:** a same-config re-run, or a
   provenance split showing the two runs are not the same configuration.
2. **The Meridian s_cos plateau at .425.** Two recorded explanations - a 1280->1024
   dimensional mismatch, or pooled-bank gradient loudness. Bears on L-020. **Settled by:**
   re-running the bank at matched dimension.
3. **soft-vs-mag is depth-scoped.** Magnitude leads +10.3 at 3 layers; soft ran AHEAD at 6
   layers with cosine schedule. SCALE_MANIFEST already forbids stating the modulus finding
   as a law. **Settled by:** both arms run to completion at depth.

## CROSS-REFERENCES

- `canon/loss_accumulation_forms.md` - the taxonomy, the eleven format laws, the binning
  procedure, the A10 statute.
- `inventory/SCALE_MANIFEST.md` - answers "what scales". This file answers "what is allowed
  to pull, and on what evidence". A mechanism in both carries the other's ID.
- `canon/discovery_catalog.md` entry 26 - the three-primitive finding as a program-wide law.
- `inventory/EXPERIMENT_LINES.md` - resolves the line-qualified IDs used in citations.

## AMENDMENTS (append-only, dated)

- **2026-07-25 - created.** Rubric v1, 137 entries, from three independent censuses.
  Two findings NEW to the program are folded in as rows: the soft devil's staircase is
  non-monotone and therefore inadmissible as a band coordinate (L-130), and alpha=0.5 is
  the unique expectation-matching value for the staircase (L-044).
- **2026-07-25 - A0 AUDIT (Phil: "is A0 correct?").** Partially no, three ways: (1) two
  PRIMARY misbins fixed - L-006 (HF labels= path is masked CE inside) and L-015
  (derived-steps trains shift-CE with ignore_index=-100) both move A0 -> A4 per binning
  rule 4; (2) the fallback bucket had swallowed 25 rows with NO residual-reduction
  semantics (structural devices, optimizer/data disciplines, assertion protocols,
  decoding policies, claims) - a category error, now an explicit **NA** class; (3) what
  remains at A0 (71 of 138) is honestly dominant: plain means ARE the program default,
  and the aleph's only pressure lives there. GAP stays at A0 deliberately - it IS a
  uniform-mean accumulation, the format's cautionary instance.
- **2026-07-25 - pass 3 measured (same day).** L-070 (FAC) moved from UNRUN to a
  scope-split pair: as a PRIMARY objective it is REFUTED as preregistered, 3/3 seeds
  (loses to ce, to ce_fixedcode, and to fac_none on the bpb-of-record); on the
  partition-collapse configuration (new L-138) a loss swap alone decompresses the
  certified addr_head catastrophe (usage ppl 1.0-2.7 -> 60.6-61.1 of 64, decoded acc 0.05-0.20 -> 0.45-0.47,
  3/3 SEEDS, spread < 0.5) and dissolves the win|cos| saturation (0.9995+ -> 0.13) -
  amending L-112's recorded geometry attribution. The collapse follows the loss.
- **2026-08-02 - L-019 RETRACTED (rule 6).** The Expert Soup composite's sole source
  (Form 2 / GEOLIP-Bertenstein) was retired 2026-07-31: its R@1 was a shared-
  forward-pass leak (flat 1.0000 from gallery N=64 to 4096; 0.0007 masked), its
  Procrustes cos_after (.377-.440) sat at or below a no-relationship null at the
  same fit size, and its CV .20 at d=1024 was collapse (null .0207, effective rank
  19.7). The composite's own numbers (mAP .84, eff-dim 76.9) were never
  independently audited and no ablation isolates any of its six terms. Rating
  5 -> 1 dagger, role PRIMARY -> RETRACTED. WHAT SURVIVES is the form, not the
  composite: whitened-Procrustes pre-alignment WITH held-out fit discipline
  (N/d 31.3 retains 95% out-of-sample; N/d 4.9 retains 3.8%) and per-expert
  projectors into a REFERENCE MEMBER's frame. Its validated descendant is L-162,
  measured 2/2 on two modalities. repos/bertenstein.md ·
  canon/shared_pass_contrastive_leak.md · repos/captionbert-v2.md