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{
  "generated": "2026-03-26",
  "per_objective_correlation": {
    "contrastive": {"n": 3, "rho": -0.500, "p": 0.667, "mean_tau": 0.514},
    "self_supervised": {"n": 15, "rho": -0.685, "p": 0.005, "mean_tau": 0.142},
    "supervised": {"n": 36, "rho": -0.152, "p": 0.375, "mean_tau": 0.367},
    "note": "SSL shows strongest within-objective bitrate effect (rho=-0.685, p=0.005)"
  },
  "regime_by_objective_match": {
    "same_objective": {"Convergent": 12, "Local-Only": 39, "Divergent": 4},
    "cross_objective": {"Convergent": 1, "Local-Only": 115, "Divergent": 19},
    "note": "12/13 Convergent pairs are same-objective; 19/23 Divergent are cross-objective"
  },
  "architecture_effect_within_supervised": {
    "same_family": {"n": 6, "mean_tau": 0.479},
    "cross_family": {"n": 30, "mean_tau": 0.345},
    "mann_whitney_p": 0.067,
    "note": "Architecture has marginal effect (p=0.067) within same objective"
  },
  "vit_mae_anomaly": {
    "note": "vit_base_patch16_224.mae is Divergent with ALL models (tau<0.005) including same-architecture supervised ViT-B. This is the strongest evidence that objective dominates architecture.",
    "pairs_divergent": 17,
    "max_tau_with_any_model": 0.005
  },
  "variance_decomposition": {
    "total_tau_variance": 0.0323,
    "between_objective_variance": 0.0140,
    "fraction_explained_by_objective": 0.433,
    "note": "Objective match alone explains 43.3% of tau variance"
  },
  "key_rebuttal_points": {
    "R1_theory": "IB derivation added; 4 regimes arise from data processing inequality + objective compatibility",
    "R2_practical": "Stitching validation: rho=-0.90 (p=0.002) between tau and accuracy drop",
    "R3_detail": "k-NN stable 93.3% across k={3..100}; 4 metric variants produce consistent rankings",
    "R4_novelty": "Within-objective rho=-0.685 for SSL proves bitrate is NOT tautological. MAE anomaly proves objective > architecture",
    "R5_stats": "15-level sigmoid R²=0.97, permutation p<0.001, BIC-preferred 9/10"
  }
}