EVIDENCE_MATRIX.json

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      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "The same loss/data budget is evaluated with non-adaptive random two-measurement sensing; its error is materially worse, so merely running Oja cannot pass the gate.",
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      "independent_oracle": "A separately coded general projected-update identity is reduced to Algorithm 1 and agrees across 160 cells to machine precision while unit norms are checked independently.",
      "limitation": "Finite seeded executions establish the registered mechanism on the declared paper-native grid; they do not replace the universal proof outside that grid.",
      "literal_claim": "Theorem 1 (informal) shows the adaptive sensing algorithm reaches constant-level alignment with the true eigenvector after O(λ₁λ₂d²/Δ²) iterations, after which the sine-squared alignment error decays as O(λ₁λ₂d²/(Δ²t)) (Theorem 1).",
      "native_scale_justification": "The direct run uses d=16, a dimension used by the paper, 64 independent trials and 403,843 iterations per trial.",
      "not_proxy_reason": "The exact Gaussian eigenvector model and Algorithm 1 update registered by the theorem are executed; no unrelated PCA dataset or displayed upper bound substitutes for measured errors.",
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      "rate_measurement": "Across 6 increasing post-warmup times and 64 trials per time, actual sine-squared error decays with exponent 1.116244 (R²=0.991884).",
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      "result": "Mean error crosses 0.5 at step 9,520, before t0=16770.7; the measured post-warmup decay exponent is 1.116244 with R²=0.991884.",
      "scope_boundary": "The verdict is limited to the literal registered statement and the pinned arXiv-v2 mechanism, parameters, or source object named in that statement.",
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      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "The gate evaluates the boundary checkpoint t0 itself; stopping at half t0 leaves a substantially larger mean error and cannot be substituted for the named phase boundary.",
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      "limitation": "Finite seeded executions establish the registered mechanism on the declared paper-native grid; they do not replace the universal proof outside that grid.",
      "literal_claim": "Theorem 2 (formal) specifies a warmup phase of t₀ = (4S+1)log(d/2) iterations after which the expected squared sine alignment satisfies E[1-(ūᵀu_{t₀})²] ≤ 0.5, followed by a distinct local convergence phase (Theorem 2).",
      "native_scale_justification": "The independent warmup run uses d=16 and 256 seeded paper-native trials through 1.5 times the theorem's complete t0 horizon.",
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      "result": "Across 256 independent trials, the mean sine-squared error at t0=16,771 is 0.119758, directly below the registered 0.5 threshold.",
      "scope_boundary": "The verdict is limited to the literal registered statement and the pinned arXiv-v2 mechanism, parameters, or source object named in that statement.",
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      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Replacing adaptive directions by independent random orthonormal directions produces a gap that grows across the dimension sweep, directly testing the claimed compression penalty.",
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      "independent_oracle": "The general Appendix-A.1 projected update is independently reduced to the adaptive special case to machine precision, separating implementation correctness from performance comparisons.",
      "limitation": "Finite seeded executions establish the registered mechanism on the declared paper-native grid; they do not replace the universal proof outside that grid.",
      "literal_claim": "The paper's rate matches the minimax lower bound Ω(λ₁λ₂/Δ² · d/t) from Li et al. (2018) up to an extra factor of d, which is attributed to the cost of compressive (two-measurement) sampling (Section 3, Theorem 2).",
      "native_scale_justification": "The four-dimension sweep d=4,8,12,16 uses 48 independent trials and 180,000 complete updates per mechanism and dimension.",
      "not_proxy_reason": "All three PCA sensing mechanisms and the paper's N(0,I+ūūᵀ) model are executed directly; no comparison of theorem formulas is counted as empirical support.",
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      "rate_repetitions_per_horizon": 48,
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      "result": "The non-adaptive/adaptive error ratio grows 7.889999× from d=4 to d=16; its fitted dimension exponent is 1.468149 with R²=0.990664.",
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      "source_locator": "arXiv 2505.10882v2, sections/main_results.tex and sections/experiments.tex, adaptive/non-adaptive compression comparison"
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      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Both too-small and too-large step sizes produce larger measured steady-state error than an interior step in the real drifting mechanism.",
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      "independent_oracle": "Independent differentiation evaluates the first and second derivatives of the paper's steady-state expression on five velocities and exactly recovers η-hat and x-star.",
      "limitation": "Finite seeded executions establish the registered mechanism on the declared paper-native grid; they do not replace the universal proof outside that grid.",
      "literal_claim": "Section 5.1 ('Tracking a Moving Eigenvector') derives a closed-form optimal step size η̂ = √(V/S) and fixed point x* = V + √(VS) for the non-stationary tracking setting (Section 5.1).",
      "native_scale_justification": "The tracking execution uses the paper's d=10 model, 80 trials, 45,000 time steps, two drift velocities and seven step multipliers per velocity.",
      "not_proxy_reason": "The paper's own rotating-eigenvector Gaussian mechanism and adaptive sensing algorithm execute at d=10; the calculus check is supplementary rather than substituted for that run.",
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      "result": "Five calculus cells reproduce η̂ and x* with maximum formula residual 0.000e+00; both real drift sweeps have a measured interior optimum.",
      "scope_boundary": "The verdict is limited to the literal registered statement and the pinned arXiv-v2 mechanism, parameters, or source object named in that statement.",
      "source_locator": "arXiv 2505.10882v2, sections/main_results.tex Section 4.1 and sections/experiments.tex Figure 3"
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      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Substituting Figure 3 for Figure 1 makes all three registered values match, proving the claim conflates two different figures rather than suffering a rounding error.",
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      "limitation": "This falsifies the registered Figure-1 description, not the paper's internally consistent Figure 1 experiment or its broader convergence result.",
      "literal_claim": "Figure 1 empirically validates the theoretical convergence rate of Algorithm 1 using d=10, Δ=1 across 20 trials, reporting 20th/80th percentile error bars (Figure 1).",
      "native_scale_justification": "The complete arXiv-v2 Figure 1 and Figure 3 captions are pinned; all three registered experimental descriptors are compared without sampling or truncation.",
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