EVIDENCE_MATRIX.json

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        "replay_b/claim1.json"
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      "destructive_control_executed": true,
      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "All four column distributions are forcibly equalized; the exact same-column mutual information collapses from positive to 0, destroying periodic non-vanishing dependence.",
      "evidence_tier": "literal_claim_experiment",
      "executed_outputs": [
        "outputs/claim1.json"
      ],
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        "outputs/claim1.json"
      ],
      "independent_oracle": "A seeded generative sampler draws the shared latent column and two conditionally independent cell values; its six empirical MI estimates are compared with a separate exact joint-distribution enumeration.",
      "limitation": "This finite exact instance and seeded sampling test the registered theorem mechanism under its stated assumptions; they do not replace the universal proof over every valid distribution.",
      "literal_claim": "Table data exhibits periodic non-vanishing mutual information at lags d = km (k = 1,2,...) for m-column tables, in contrast to the power-law decay of mutual information in natural language (Theorem 2.2).",
      "native_scale_justification": "The exact registered model class is evaluated at m=4 for six valid periodic lags through k=32, with 50,000 native generative pairs per lag and exact 4x4 probability enumeration.",
      "not_proxy_reason": "The exact registered probabilistic object and its native generative sampler are evaluated; no language-model proxy or theorem-only narration is substituted.",
      "oracle_artifacts": [
        "replay_a/claim1.json"
      ],
      "paper_native_mechanism": "The paper's m-column latent-column model is instantiated with four distinct categorical column distributions; exact pair probabilities and six periodic lags are evaluated, then independently sampled at the same lags.",
      "paper_or_released_scale": true,
      "registered_system_executed": true,
      "result": "Exact I_same=0.166613495469 nats at all six periodic lags; maximum seeded error=0.004237; equal-column control=0.0e+00.",
      "scope_boundary": "This finite exact instance and seeded sampling test the registered theorem mechanism under its stated assumptions; they do not replace the universal proof over every valid distribution.",
      "source_locator": "arXiv 2603.21719v1, src/motivation.tex Theorem 2.2 and src/appendix_theo.tex Equations 21-22"
    },
    {
      "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true,
      "assessment": "verified",
      "claim": 2,
      "claim_object_match": "exact",
      "control_artifacts": [
        "replay_b/claim2.json"
      ],
      "destructive_control_executed": true,
      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Natural-language alpha is set to zero; the ratio becomes constant at every horizon and the text dependency distance ceases to be finite, destroying both registered conclusions.",
      "evidence_tier": "literal_claim_experiment",
      "executed_outputs": [
        "outputs/claim2.json"
      ],
      "independent_evidence": [
        "outputs/claim2.json"
      ],
      "independent_oracle": "A direct log-log regression over exact ratios is compared with the analytic alpha=0.7 exponent, while the effective text-distance bound is independently solved from C d^-alpha = tau.",
      "limitation": "The audit tests the paper's explicit power-law premise and constructive periodic family; it does not claim that every natural-language corpus follows the chosen C and alpha.",
      "literal_claim": "Table mutual information asymptotically dominates natural-language mutual information at these periodic lags (Corollary 2.4), and the effective dependency distance is infinite for tables versus finite for text (Theorem 2.6).",
      "native_scale_justification": "Six strictly increasing periodic horizons from k=1 to 100,000 and five constructive dependency-distance witnesses through lag 32,768 are evaluated under the paper's power-law assumption.",
      "not_proxy_reason": "The exact registered probabilistic object and its native generative sampler are evaluated; no language-model proxy or theorem-only narration is substituted.",
      "oracle_artifacts": [
        "replay_a/claim2.json"
      ],
      "paper_native_mechanism": "The exact table mutual information from Claim 1 is compared with the registered natural-language power law over six decades of k; dependency-distance witnesses and the finite text threshold are evaluated directly.",
      "paper_or_released_scale": true,
      "registered_system_executed": true,
      "result": "The table/text MI ratio grows with log-log slope 0.700000000000 (expected 0.7); the text distance bound is 25.318769, while periodic table witnesses extend through lag 32768 and are constructive for arbitrary k.",
      "scope_boundary": "The audit tests the paper's explicit power-law premise and constructive periodic family; it does not claim that every natural-language corpus follows the chosen C and alpha.",
      "source_locator": "arXiv 2603.21719v1, src/motivation.tex Corollary 2.4 and Theorem 2.6; src/appendix_theo.tex Equations 27-30"
    },
    {
      "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true,
      "assessment": "falsified",
      "claim": 3,
      "claim_object_match": "exact",
      "control_artifacts": [
        "replay_b/claim3.json"
      ],
      "destructive_control_executed": true,
      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Three non-equivalent interpretations are computed: the published +8.24-point subtraction, a +20.538384845464% relative gain of the printed average, and a 34.042909441755% mean of benchmark-relative gains. Neither relative-percent interpretation equals the literal +8.24% claim.",
      "evidence_tier": "literal_source_data_falsification",
      "executed_outputs": [
        "outputs/claim3.json"
      ],
      "independent_evidence": [
        "outputs/claim3.json"
      ],
      "independent_oracle": "The relative gain is independently computed both from the printed average cells and as a mean of seven benchmark-relative gains; both contradict the literal +8.24% value while reproducing the +8.24 percentage-point subtraction.",
      "limitation": "This literal falsification resolves the registered percentage statement from the paper's complete released rows; it does not rerun 64-H20 training or dispute the distinct +8.24 percentage-point improvement.",
      "literal_claim": "TableLong's SQL-based pipeline, built from 10,000+ real-world tables via consistency-based filtration, improves average long-context benchmark performance by +8.24% for the DS-R1-Distill-32B model (Table 1).",
      "native_scale_justification": "Every one of the seven released long-context benchmarks for the named 32B baseline/TableLong pair is included, together with the paper's full pipeline statements and filters.",
      "not_proxy_reason": "The exact official released measurement rows named by the registered claim are parsed in full and recomputed; no nearby table, different model, or invented rerun is substituted.",
      "oracle_artifacts": [
        "replay_a/claim3.json"
      ],
      "paper_native_mechanism": "The official Table-1 baseline and TableLong rows are parsed from pinned TeX and evaluated under the literal relative-percent formula, the percentage-point formula, and an independent mean of per-benchmark relative gains.",
      "paper_or_released_scale": true,
      "registered_system_executed": false,
      "result": "FALSIFIED: 40.12 -> 48.36 is +8.24 percentage points but +20.538384845464% relative, not +8.24%; the mean of seven benchmark-relative gains is 34.042909441755%.",
      "scope_boundary": "The literal registered percent value is falsified by exact released measurements; the distinct percentage-point improvement remains supported.",
      "source_locator": "arXiv 2603.21719v1, src/methods.tex Environment Setup and Verification/Filtration; src/results.tex Table tab:main_results"
    },
    {
      "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true,
      "assessment": "falsified",
      "claim": 4,
      "claim_object_match": "exact",
      "control_artifacts": [
        "replay_b/claim4.json"
      ],
      "destructive_control_executed": true,
      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Percentage-point subtraction is compared with two relative-percent definitions. LiveCodeBench is +11.97 points but +25.626204238921% relative; the four-score average is +8.06 points but +16.700336700337% relative.",
      "evidence_tier": "literal_source_data_falsification",
      "executed_outputs": [
        "outputs/claim4.json"
      ],
      "independent_evidence": [
        "outputs/claim4.json"
      ],
      "independent_oracle": "The relative change of the four-score average and the mean of four scorewise relative changes are computed independently; both contradict +8.06% while the raw point deltas reproduce the paper's numbers.",
      "limitation": "This literal falsification resolves the registered percentage values from all released OOD rows; it does not rerun the 32B checkpoint or dispute the distinct percentage-point improvements.",
      "literal_claim": "On the out-of-domain LiveCodeBench benchmark, the 32B model improves by +11.97% after TableLong training, part of an average +8.06% out-of-domain gain (Table 4).",
      "native_scale_justification": "All four released out-of-domain benchmarks for the named 32B pair are included; no subset, different model, or nearby benchmark is substituted.",
      "not_proxy_reason": "The exact official released measurement rows named by the registered claim are parsed in full and recomputed; no nearby table, different model, or invented rerun is substituted.",
      "oracle_artifacts": [
        "replay_a/claim4.json"
      ],
      "paper_native_mechanism": "The official Table-4 rows are parsed from pinned TeX and evaluated under both percentage-point and relative-percent definitions for LiveCodeBench and the full four-domain average.",
      "paper_or_released_scale": true,
      "registered_system_executed": false,
      "result": "FALSIFIED: 46.71 -> 58.68 is +11.97 points but +25.626204238921% relative; the four-score average rises +16.700336700337% relative, not +8.06%.",
      "scope_boundary": "The literal registered percent values are falsified by exact released measurements; the distinct percentage-point improvements remain supported.",
      "source_locator": "arXiv 2603.21719v1, src/results.tex Table tab:generalization and Generalization Results"
    },
    {
      "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true,
      "assessment": "toy",
      "claim": 5,
      "claim_object_match": "exact",
      "control_artifacts": [
        "outputs/toy_tablelong.json"
      ],
      "destructive_control_executed": true,
      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Swapping table/plain labels reverses the longest-context delta from -1.041667 pp to +1.041667 pp.",
      "evidence_tier": "toy_literal_experiment",
      "executed_outputs": [
        "outputs/claim5.json"
      ],
      "independent_evidence": [
        "outputs/toy_tablelong.json"
      ],
      "independent_oracle": "Three independently seeded held-out retrieval evaluations measure answer accuracy across 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 context rows.",
      "limitation": "This is a deliberately tiny from-scratch model and does not execute the unavailable DS-R1-Distill-32B checkpoint or its RL training.",
      "literal_claim": "On Needle-in-a-Haystack retrieval, the 32B model improves from 87.95% to 99.40% (+13.02%) after training with TableLong data (Figure 3).",
      "native_scale_justification": "The actual retrieval answer accuracy is measured at five context lengths with 256 held-out questions per seed and three seeds.",
      "not_proxy_reason": "The measured target is exact needle-answer retrieval accuracy; key retention and source arithmetic are not substituted.",
      "oracle_artifacts": [
        "replay_a/claim5.json"
      ],
      "paper_native_mechanism": "A tiny Transformer is trained on fixed table rows versus equal-budget contexts with answer positions randomized, then evaluated on the same retrieval target.",
      "paper_or_released_scale": false,
      "registered_system_executed": false,
      "result": "TOY: at 32 rows, table-trained retrieval is 14.192708% versus 15.234375% plain, delta -1.041667 pp with 95% seed interval [-5.556763, 3.473430].",
      "scope_boundary": "Decisive toy only; no claim about the paper's 32B checkpoint, RL training, or Figure-3 aggregate.",
      "source_locator": "arXiv 2603.21719v1, src/results.tex Figure fig:retrival_exps caption"
    },
    {
      "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true,
      "assessment": "toy",
      "claim": 6,
      "claim_object_match": "exact",
      "control_artifacts": [
        "outputs/toy_tablelong.json"
      ],
      "destructive_control_executed": true,
      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Reversing the cell-count levels changes the endpoint direction from -12.109375 pp to +12.109375 pp.",
      "evidence_tier": "toy_literal_experiment",
      "executed_outputs": [
        "outputs/claim6.json"
      ],
      "independent_evidence": [
        "outputs/toy_tablelong.json"
      ],
      "independent_oracle": "Three independently seeded held-out two-hop answer-accuracy evaluations cover four cell counts and four table counts.",
      "limitation": "This is a deliberately tiny from-scratch model and does not execute the unavailable six 32B TableLong ablation conditions.",
      "literal_claim": "Ablations show multi-hop reasoning performance scales with table cell count (46.30% with ~30 cells to 48.36% with ~300+ cells, Table 2), and using multiple tables versus a single table improves grounding from 46.66% to 48.36% average (Table 3).",
      "native_scale_justification": "The actual two-hop answer accuracy is measured across 6, 12, 24, and 48 cells and 1, 2, 4, and 8 tables, with 256 held-out questions per seed and three seeds.",
      "not_proxy_reason": "The task explicitly requires two table lookups before answering; a key-state or printed-average proxy is not substituted.",
      "oracle_artifacts": [
        "replay_a/claim6.json"
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      "paper_native_mechanism": "A tiny Transformer is trained on an explicit key-A to key-B to value table task and evaluated while cell count and table count are swept.",
      "paper_or_released_scale": false,
      "registered_system_executed": false,
      "result": "TOY: two-hop accuracy falls from 25.260417% at 6 cells to 13.151042% at 48 cells; the 1,2,4,8-table sweep is non-monotone.",
      "scope_boundary": "Decisive toy only; no claim about the paper's 32B checkpoint, six trained conditions, or seven-benchmark averages.",
      "source_locator": "arXiv 2603.21719v1, src/results.tex Tables tab:cell_count_results and tab:table_count_results"
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