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every reported quantity is the literal in-sample prediction MSE and theorem rate.", "source_locator": "source_main.tex:439-460", "executed_outputs": ["linear_safety.csv", "outlier_radius_sweep.csv", "optimization_diagnostics.csv"], "independent_evidence": ["pages/claim-1-safety/page.md", "outputs/linear_safety.csv", "outputs/outlier_radius_sweep.csv"], "destructive_or_boundary_control": "A single pooled estimator diverges by nine orders of magnitude while MTLR remains bounded as outlier radius reaches 100,000.", "result": "Across 216 configurations and 6,480 task risks, maximum MTLR MSE/rate is 1.409813; pooling reaches 3.672e9.", "limitation": "Finite native-scale ratios support the mechanism; the pinned theorem supplies the simultaneous universal probability statement and hidden constant.", "scope_boundary": "No finite grid is presented as a replacement proof.", "status": "supported" }, { "claim": 2, "literal_claim": "Theorem 2 also shows a transfer guarantee for inlier tasks when B ≲ min(1/ε, m): ℰⱼⁱⁿ(θ̂ⱼ) ≲ (Bd/mn + min(Bδ², d/n) + B²ε²d/n)ζ, achieved without knowing ε, δ, or the inlier set S (Section 5.1, Theorem 2).", "assessment": "verified", "evidence_tier": "literal_claim_experiment", "claim_object_match": "exact", "registered_system_executed": true, "paper_or_released_scale": true, "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true, "not_proxy_reason": "The registered estimator is executed while m, delta, and epsilon are varied independently; the reported response is literal inlier prediction MSE, not a formula grid.", "source_locator": "source_main.tex:450-482", "executed_outputs": ["transfer_m_scaling.csv", "transfer_delta_scaling.csv", "transfer_epsilon_scaling.csv"], "independent_evidence": ["pages/claim-2-transfer/page.md", "outputs/transfer_m_scaling.csv", "outputs/transfer_delta_scaling.csv", "outputs/transfer_epsilon_scaling.csv"], "destructive_or_boundary_control": "ITL has no 1/m gain, the zero-contamination floor is subtracted, and large heterogeneity saturates at the safety scale.", "result": "Measured slopes are -1.00868 for m, 2.00000 for delta, and 2.14748 for epsilon, all with R-squared above 0.998 except the epsilon fit at 0.99926.", "limitation": "The direct sweep targets the favorable B=1 submodel; the theorem supplies the all-finite-B statement.", "scope_boundary": "No nuisance parameter or inlier identity is supplied to the fit.", "status": "supported" }, { "claim": 3, "literal_claim": "Assumption 1 (Balancedness) replaces the classical Lower Boundedness of Second Moments condition ρI ⪯ Σⱼ with the one-sided condition Σⱼ ⪯ B·Σ_S, accommodating rank-deficient or decaying covariate spectra where prior eigenvalue-lower-bound approaches (e.g. Duan & Wang 2023, depending on 1/ρ²) fail (Section 4, Assumption 1).", "assessment": "verified", "evidence_tier": "literal_claim_experiment", "claim_object_match": "exact", "registered_system_executed": true, "paper_or_released_scale": true, "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true, "not_proxy_reason": "The exact covariance objects in Assumption 1 are enumerated, and Algorithm 1 is executed under the same prediction geometry as rho collapses to zero.", "source_locator": "source_main.tex:327-355", "executed_outputs": ["balancedness_examples.csv", "spectrum_collapse.csv", "infinite_B_controls.csv"], "independent_evidence": ["pages/claim-3-balancedness/page.md", "outputs/balancedness_examples.csv", "outputs/spectrum_collapse.csv", "outputs/infinite_B_controls.csv"], "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Disjoint covariance supports make B infinite, preventing an invalid extrapolation from rank deficiency to transferable coverage.", "result": "All 14,197 finite degenerate subset pairs match the closed form exactly; 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the predeclared C=2 intrinsic envelope has zero violations over 600 bounded-domain errors.", "limitation": "The finite intrinsic experiment reports C=2 explicitly and does not identify the theorem's optimal hidden constant.", "scope_boundary": "The covariance inequalities are exact for every executed error vector.", "status": "supported" }, { "claim": 5, "literal_claim": "Theorem 4 extends the same adaptive safety/transfer MSE guarantees to generalized linear models under bounded-domain assumptions (Section 6, Theorem 4).", "assessment": "verified", "evidence_tier": "literal_claim_experiment", "claim_object_match": "exact", "registered_system_executed": true, "paper_or_released_scale": true, "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true, "not_proxy_reason": "The registered logistic negative log-likelihood and matrix-weighted penalty are jointly optimized at m=20, n=160, d=12; the actual logistic model and literal GLM risks are measured.", "source_locator": "source_main.tex:549-608", "executed_outputs": ["glm_grid.csv", "glm_favorable_transfer.csv", "optimization_diagnostics.csv"], "independent_evidence": ["pages/claim-5-glm/page.md", "outputs/glm_grid.csv", "outputs/glm_favorable_transfer.csv"], "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Independent-task logistic regression loses the favorable-regime transfer gain; 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