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dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 01d7ead1e7 study(VR-013): cross-source identification probe over input resolution
Gallery from one recording, probes from another, sweeping the probe's
input resolution end to end. VR-005 asked the same question over gallery
mugshots but degraded an already-aligned 112x112 crop with alignment held
perfect, so it isolates the embedder. Here the whole frame is downscaled
before the detector, so detection and landmark regression degrade with
it — which is most of the difference.

Corpus is two 4096x2160 clips of one shoot, four people, hand-sorted.
Ground truth is sorted by hand and gated by verify_labels.py; labels
carried down the scales geometrically by box position, never by
embedding similarity, which would keep only the faces the embedder
already gets right and drop the ones the sweep exists to find.

Findings, all scored through the production gallery sigmoid at
prob_threshold 0.754 — never a raw cosine:

- Holding 90% of the plateau needs ~50 px end to end, against VR-005's
  ~22 px. min_face_px at 40 looks right; 32 would admit faces in the
  falling region.
- FPI is 0.0% at every scale. Resolution loss goes entirely to TBI.
- The ceiling is cross-view, not resolution: everyone matches themselves
  within a recording (0.55-0.85) and collapses across two (0.14-0.45,
  threshold 0.335). Only the subject with frontal *gallery* references
  identified reliably, whatever their probe pose — so the lever is
  gallery pose coverage, not a better landmark source.
- Averaging SCRFD's overlapping detections instead of discarding them at
  NMS lifts cross-recording TPI 41% -> 49%, for one forward pass and no
  extra model.

Four identities and one shoot, so the shape is the result and the
absolute rates are not. Both clips contain all four people, so there is
no out-of-gallery class and the 10x-weighted out-of-cast misID is
untested here.

Clips, frames, hand-sorted crops and results are gitignored and belong
in the artifact registry — the sorting is human ground truth and
expensive to redo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: VR-013 | AR-002, AR-005, AR-024
2026-07-31 15:20:18 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 9fc2763096 feat: expansion promotion gated on all three discontinuity signals
AR-019 — promotion may only borrow same-identity evidence from a span where
identity is certain, so every discontinuity signal now clears the buffers rather
than just the histogram cut.

is_scene_boundary was already named in the gate but never set by anything, so
that half of it was dead until AR-010 gave it a producer. It now does what the
spec always said. The third signal, an identity contradiction, needs no code
here: AR-015 closes a track whose belief swapped, so it can no longer promote.

Ownership now comes from the registry rather than a second tally. TrackGallery
was computing its own plurality vote over accepted frames, which meant two
different answers to "who is this track" could coexist in one run — and the
expansion one ignored the Bayesian accumulation entirely, weighting thirty
near-identical looks the same as thirty distinct ones. The local tally survives
only as a fallback for callers with no registry attached, which is the unit
tests and the replay harness.

Suite: 92 cases, 6133 assertions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-019, AR-010, AR-015 | SR-005
2026-07-31 15:11:56 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 c843c4abe3 feat: banded admission for the per-subject embedding store
AR-018 — an embedding joins a track's store only if its similarity to something
already there falls inside a band, rather than merely being far from the gallery.

Above the upper bound it is redundant: another look at a pose the store already
covers, teaching the annex nothing while costing a slot a novel view could have
used. Below the lower bound it is suspect: within one track every face is the
same person by construction, so an embedding unlike everything else on the track
is evidence that construction failed — a track-ID collision or a bad detection.
Admitting it is exactly how an actor's annex gets poisoned with someone else's
face.

The old gate had only the upper half of that idea, expressed as a raw cosine
against the gallery. Both bounds are now calibrated probabilities (AR-024), so
the same number means the same thing here as in association and evidence
weighting rather than three different things.

This catches track-ID collisions EARLIER than the spread gate did — at the door
rather than at promotion — so the buffer never becomes two-person in the first
place. The spread gate stays as a second line for a track that drifts gradually
instead of jumping. The existing test was asserting the mechanism rather than
the outcome, so it was rewritten to assert what actually matters: whichever gate
fires, the outsider must not reach the annex.

Rejections are counted. A store that admits nothing is as broken as one that
admits everything, and neither is visible otherwise.

Band defaults 0.90-0.95 are working values pending VR-007; the two bounds fail in
opposite directions and must be swept separately.

Suite: 92 cases, 6133 assertions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-018, AR-024 | SR-005
2026-07-31 15:10:31 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 13bdc27566 feat: join the decode butterfly so scene boundaries reach the face branch
AR-010 — is_scene_boundary had no producer: SceneDetectorFunc was a terminal
sink writing scenes.json and never annotating the frames flowing to face
detection. The flag was permanently false, so the boundary half of AR-007's
frame-dependent association was dead code that a test could still exercise
synthetically and appear to verify.

The topology already forks after decode — dense frames to TransNetV2, sampled
frames to face detection — so this is a fork-join. SceneBoundaries is the join:
the detector publishes each window's verdict with a watermark, and an annotator
on the sampled branch stamps the flag.

The watermark is the part that matters. TransNetV2 buffers 100 frames before it
can score any of them, so at any instant it has an opinion up to some time T and
none after. Without recording T a consumer cannot tell "no boundary" from "not
scored yet", and those demand opposite behaviour — treating unscored frames as
boundary-free is exactly what makes a downstream check pass while verifying
nothing.

Buffering alone does not work, which was my first attempt. Channel depth creates
lag only when the consumer is slower, and the face branch runs four orders of
magnitude faster per frame than TransNetV2 (0.01ms vs 400ms), so its channels
drain instantly and no lag accumulates. Measured: 106 of 364 frames outran the
detector. The annotator therefore waits on the watermark explicitly. The
detector signals completion so the tail cannot deadlock, and publishes from
flush_remaining too — without that the final frames arrive with no verdict.

Boundaries are deduped on publish, matching what scenes.json does at write time.
A run of adjacent high-scoring frames is one boundary, not several; leaving them
raw made this view report 357 where the file said 13. Now the two agree exactly.

Frames past the detector's last scored window remain unverified and are counted
as such rather than silently marked boundary-free.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-007, AR-010 | SR-002
2026-07-31 14:56:38 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 fa1c494825 docs: AR-010 is blocked on a design decision, not an implementation gap
Making SceneDetectorFunc a pass-through does not work. TransNetV2 buffers 100
dense frames before it can score any of them and trusts only each window's
centre, so a boundary at time T is not known until roughly 3.3s after T at
30 fps. The face pipeline runs on a parallel branch and has long since passed T.
An association hint that arrives after the association is worthless.

Three options recorded with their costs: two-pass (correct, doubles the decode
that already dominates runtime), delaying the face branch (couples the two
branches' timing, which invites heisenbugs under backpressure), or leaving it
unwired.

Leaving it unwired costs less than it looks, which is what makes this a decision
rather than a defect. The redesign made cuts and boundaries do the same thing —
both say "spatial continuity is broken, associate on embedding" — so TransNetV2
adds nothing over the histogram except on transitions the histogram cannot see:
slow dissolves and fades. That gap is real but narrow.

Where TransNetV2 still earns its cost is AR-019, whose promotion gate wants a
span free of cuts and boundaries. A late answer is fine there, because promotion
happens on track confirmation rather than per frame — so it can be wired
offline against the collected boundary list, off the hot path entirely.

Recommendation: leave the association path on is_cut alone, wire boundaries into
AR-019, and revisit if dissolve-heavy material shows association failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-010, AR-019 | SR-002
2026-07-31 14:27:05 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f99f1c5ccc feat: no fixed cap on faces per frame
AR-003 — max_faces defaults to 0, meaning no cap. A fixed cap discards the
SMALLEST faces first, which are exactly the background cast X-Ray still credits
with scene membership, so the pipeline was systematically losing the people it
is supposed to find in crowded scenes.

This is only safe now that AR-004 landed. Previously an uncapped frame would
have pushed more work into channels that dropped on overflow, trading a visible
cap for silent loss. With backpressure the producer slows instead, so per-frame
cost is contained rather than discarded.

The matcher's kMaxFaces used to throw above 32, which made it an accidental
second cap. It sizes the similarity engine's preallocated buffer, so it bounds
memory rather than face count — the frame is now scored in batches of that size.
Memory stays bounded; faces do not.

Largest-first ordering is kept even without the cap, and the comment now says
why: the Hungarian solver tie-breaks on index order, so that ordering is
load-bearing for the replay determinism test rather than a leftover of the cap.

Verified end to end on a real clip: identical output to the capped run (385
frames, 693 faces), which is expected since that footage peaks at 4 faces per
frame — the point is the absence of a regression. The committed fixtures remain
byte-identical and valid.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-003 | SR-002
2026-07-31 14:22:20 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 61e487fbee test: replay the real tracker and registry from committed fixtures
Tier T2 — composition rather than units. The registry tests construct awkward
states directly; these feed the pieces real 480x360 footage with the cuts, gaps
and crowded frames that synthetic input does not produce.

Six cases:
- fixture integrity: exact frame and face counts, contiguous face_offset, and
  the embedder identity each dump carries (GR-004). The counts are asserted
  exactly rather than approximately, which was impossible before AR-004 — what
  a lossy run dropped depended on timing.
- determinism: replaying a fixture twice gives identical track ids and windows.
  This is the property the whole fixture strategy rests on; without it every
  golden output derived from a fixture is unreliable and the CI replay tier is
  worthless.
- every face is assigned a track, and flush leaves nothing open — a track still
  live at EOF is a window that never reaches the output.
- windows are well-formed and inside the clip. A window ends at the last
  sighting, so it can never extend past the footage that produced it.
- a longer extinction window yields fewer, longer tracks. On the sparse fixture
  (140 faces over 385 frames) that is the difference the constant actually
  makes: absorbing a gap versus splitting a window.
- the cut-heavy fixture still contains cuts. This guards the corpus, not the
  code: a regeneration that produced cut-free fixtures would leave the
  association tests passing while silently testing nothing.

Driving the functors directly rather than through a KPN network is deliberate —
no threads, no channels, no scheduling, so the same input gives the same output.

Suite: 86 cases, 6106 assertions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-004, AR-012, AR-013, VR-001, VR-002 | SR-002
2026-07-31 11:23:17 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 09a4650fd9 feat: backpressure — the pipeline slows instead of losing frames
Picks up the KPN fix: node data outputs block on a full channel rather than
dropping. Sentinels stay out-of-band, so EOF can always overtake a stalled data
path and the hold-and-wait deadlock that comment warns about is not reachable.

Verified on a 77s clip at 5 fps, which should yield 385 sampled frames:

  before  65 written, 320 dropped, 29s, two runs differ
  after   385 written, 0 dropped, 17s, two runs byte-identical

The determinism is the part that matters. Golden fixtures were impossible while
what got dropped depended on timing; VR-001 fixture generation is unblocked by
this, and so is the CI replay strategy that depends on it.

Faster rather than slower, which is worth recording because the intuition runs
the other way: a dropped frame has already cost its decode, and the overflow
exception cost more still.

AR-004 is not fully closed. Channel capacity remains a count of items, while a
face carries a 112x112 crop and a 512-float embedding — so a crowded frame
occupies far more memory per slot than a sparse one. Bounding by bytes in
flight is the remaining half, and it matters once max_faces is removed (AR-003).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-004, VR-001 | SR-002
2026-07-31 10:35:29 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 b98372bad8 docs: AR-004 is a KPN change, with the measurement behind it
Backpressure cannot be implemented in this repository. Every node output in KPN
uses the dropping push() (pool_node.hpp:404 and :710, plus branch, fanout and
interrupt_node). A lossless push_blocking() already exists on both Channel and
OutputPort — "wait for the consumer to drain instead of dropping; the producer
just runs slower" — and nothing calls it. The fix is a per-channel policy or a
network default in KPN, and this pipeline should select lossless: a dropped
frame here does not degrade a result, it silently changes one.

Measured rather than inferred. One 77s clip at 5 fps should yield ~385 sampled
frames. On CPU it produced 49, ending at 51s, with 285 dropped at camera_pos
and 51 at face_aligner. Rebuilt with CUDA the same clip ran in 29s and reached
EOF correctly, and still dropped 320 at camera_pos, yielding 65. Faster
hardware moves where the queue backs up; it does not change what happens when
it does — which is why this is a correctness requirement rather than a
throughput one.

Raising channel capacity is therefore a stopgap: it lowers the probability of
overflow without changing the behaviour on overflow, and the failure it hides
is silent corruption of the output.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-003, AR-004, VR-001 | SR-002
2026-07-31 10:29:53 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 e0f9c95689 docs: minimum face size is 32px, measured (VR-005)
Replaces the 66px working estimate with the sweep result. 258 probes degraded
to each size and matched against a native-resolution gallery: 16px 46.5% TPI,
24px 93.4%, 32px 98.1%, 40px 99.2%, flat to 112px. The knee is 24-32 and 32
sits within about a point of the ceiling.

The estimate was roughly twice too strict. At 66px a large share of usable
faces would have been discarded, and on 480x360 sources most of them — which
is exactly the resolution of the fixture corpus.

The more useful finding: false identification was 0.0 at every size, including
12px. Small faces fail by becoming unidentified, never by being attributed to
the wrong actor. That asymmetry is what makes a low threshold safe — the cost
of admitting a marginal face is a miss, not a false claim.

Caveat recorded rather than assumed: FPI grows with gallery size, so 258 actors
understates it against a full library. Treat 0.0 as an observation at this
scale, not a property.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-002, VR-005 | SR-002, PR-002
2026-07-31 10:22:38 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 9e4cdc4efc docs: bali fixture corpus, and AR-004 blocks reproducible fixtures
Records `bali/` — five ~77s clips of Road to Bali (1952) — as the fixture
source. Public domain, which is the point rather than a convenience: derived
fixtures can be committed, where anything cut from a copyrighted title could
not live in the repository at all.

Makes explicit what the tier table only implied: CI never calls a model. Not a
preference — the embedder measures ~930 ms/frame on the CPU provider, so a 77s
clip at 5 fps is six minutes of inference. Every model invocation happens
locally and CI consumes the result as data, which is what makes the T1/T2 split
load-bearing rather than stylistic.

Two properties of the corpus to design around: 480x360 puts many faces below
the AR-002 66px minimum, so generation must set and record --min-face-px; and
77s at 1 fps is too thin to exercise an extinction window measured in tens of
seconds, so fixtures want 5 fps.

The finding that matters: a trial dump produced 49 frames of an expected ~385,
stopping at 51s of 77s, with 285 frames dropped at camera_pos and 51 at
face_aligner on channel overflow. Channels drop rather than block, and what
drops depends on timing, so the same command twice can yield different dumps.
Golden fixtures cannot be built on that — AR-004 is a prerequisite for VR-001
fixtures, not just a throughput concern for crowd scenes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-004, VR-001 | PR-002
2026-07-31 10:19:10 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 08941540cb feat: presence windows come from registry claims (schema_version 2)
The sink no longer reconstructs presence from per-frame detections. A reaped
track already IS a window — [first_seen, last_seen] of a track an actor owned —
so it is pushed straight to the aggregator when it dies and written out as-is.

AR-012 completed end to end. The annealing pass is deleted, not disabled:
anneal_sec existed only to bridge gaps between isolated accepted frames, and a
track that survives its own gaps leaves it nothing to do. The field is REMOVED
from the output rather than zeroed — a field naming a mechanism the pipeline no
longer has is actively misleading to anyone reading a manifest, and would
outlive everyone who remembers why it reads 0.

IR-002 — schema_version 2, matching jRay/SPEC.md JR-002. Windows become objects
carrying `belief` and `route` rather than bare float pairs, so a consumer can
caveat or filter instead of treating every window as equally certain. The new
`extraction` block carries `extinction_sec` (the successor to anneal_sec, and
what a consumer actually needs to interpret a window) and `gallery_scope` —
global vs limited being the strongest single quality signal when two manifests
compete for one cut, since identical gallery_size can mean very different
recall.

AR-016 wired: a pre-write hook flushes the registry with the last timestamp
seen, so tracks still live at EOF are emitted. A film ends with faces on screen
and those tracks have not timed out; without this the closing scene's cast is
silently dropped, which reads as a recognition miss rather than a bookkeeping
bug.

IR-003 stays In Progress deliberately: the sink now writes after the flush, but
the deferred re-identification pass (AR-020) does not exist yet, so output is
still final at EOF rather than after it.

This is a BREAKING format change and part of the coordinated SR-003 bump — it
must ship together with the jRay reader and the server's acceptance of the new
shape, not ahead of them.

Suite: 80 cases, 3250 assertions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-012, AR-016, IR-002, IR-003 | SR-002, SR-003
2026-07-31 10:10:51 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 be5f67fa96 feat: tracker on the registry — one pool, calibrated, frame-dependent
Merges feature/tracker-registry. See e9aea3f for the detail; in summary the
tracker no longer owns track state, association weights embedding over position
whenever position is uninformative, and every similarity comparison is a
calibrated probability.

Four constants retired: track_max_embed_dist, cut_revive_sim,
cut_inactive_max_frames, track_max_frames_missing.

Suite: 80 cases, 3250 assertions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-007, AR-008, AR-024 | SR-002
2026-07-31 10:01:31 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 843852e19c feat: registry owns correlation discounting (AR-024, AR-025)
Moves two responsibilities inside the registry that callers should never have
been trusted with.

AR-025 — per-frame evidence is discounted for correlation by the registry
itself, via EvidenceDiscounter. Log-odds accumulation is only valid for
independent observations, and consecutive frames of one track are anything but:
near-identical pose, lighting and expression. Accumulated naively, thirty frames
of the same face at the same angle drive the posterior to certainty on what is
effectively one measurement.

Each observation is weighted by how much it adds — a view already contributed
counts for ~nothing, a genuinely new pose counts in full. This reuses the
novelty judgement gallery expansion already makes rather than inventing a second
one. The discounter is a separate class the registry holds, so it stays testable
and swappable, but it is a constructor argument rather than an option: there is
no correct way to accumulate without it.

AR-024 — observe() takes a calibrated probability and converts to log-odds
internally. A caller can no longer hand it a raw cosine, which would have been
silently wrong rather than obviously so. Retiring the remaining raw-cosine
constants in the tracker is still open.

DeadTrack now reports effective_obs alongside observations: the raw count and
the evidence that actually counted. A large gap between them is a track the
camera stared at, and worth seeing.

Three tests, one of which is the point: two tracks given the same number of
observations at the same posterior, one repeating a single view and one seeing
eight distinct ones, must not end up equally confident. Without discounting they
would be identical.

Fixed a test that asserted a belief swap on tied evidence. A tie leaves
ownership where it is — a challenger must out-accumulate the incumbent, since
one contrary observation is noise. The original test passed only because it fed
raw log-odds directly.

Suite: 78 cases, 3245 assertions. Coverage 20/63 to 22/63.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-024, AR-025 | SR-002
2026-07-31 09:15:44 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f0c7126f80 feat: TrackRegistry — presence follows track extent
The spine of the redesign. Presence is now the extent of a track an actor owns,
[first_seen, last_seen], rather than the subset of frames in which recognition
happened to succeed. An actor recognised only at the end of a long track is
present for all of it, which is what the scene-scoped ground truth actually
records.

AR-013 — `last_seen` as an optional carries the entire liveness state: unset
means on screen, set means went off at that timestamp and still revivable,
reaped means emitted and erased. No missing-frame counter, no expired flag. It
subsumes the tracker's existing two-pool split, so there is no separate revival
path — matching a dormant track is ordinary inter-frame association.

The asymmetry is the point: interior gaps are claimed, the trailing cool-down is
not. A face lost and re-associated within the timeout never closed its track, so
the gap is presence — someone briefly occluded has not left the scene. But a
track that dies ends at its last sighting, never at the death time. That is
precisely the over-claim the retired extinction_sec keep-alive produced, where
presence ran on into the closing credits.

AR-014 — a belief swap A→B closes the track and opens a successor at the swap
frame. Not a correction: two non-twins both clearing the threshold on one face
is not realistic, whereas a track_id carried across a viewpoint change onto a
different person is. Treating it as a swap-and-continue would emit one window
blending two people; treating it as a boundary yields two that are each right.

AR-015 — two live tracks owned by one actor means at least one is wrong, since a
person cannot be in two places at once. A reverse index catches it on the update
that causes it rather than by scanning. This makes identity a third cut
detector, independent of the histogram and TransNetV2 and firing where those
failed.

AR-016 — flush() closes tracks still live at EOF. Without it a film ending
mid-shot silently drops its closing cast, which presents as a recognition miss
rather than a bookkeeping bug.

Reaping hands the dead track to the aggregator and erases it, so the registry
holds only live tracks and its size is bounded by concurrent on-screen faces
rather than growing with the film.

Locking: a frame's association pass is atomic as a unit via FrameScope, since
per-call locking would let another thread observe a half-updated frame.
owner() reads tally and verdict under one lock — separately, a track could be
both unowned and owned within a single promotion decision. A vote for an
already-reaped track is dropped and counted, because a nonzero count means the
timeout is shorter than the matcher's lag.

11 unit tests, driven directly against the registry with no network and no
fixture — the awkward cases are constructed rather than hunted for. Suite: 75
cases, 3236 assertions. Coverage 14/63 to 20/63.

Not yet wired into FaceTrackerFunc; that is AR-007/AR-008.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: AR-012, AR-013, AR-014, AR-015, AR-016, AR-017 | SR-002
2026-07-31 09:08:39 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 908d166173 feat: bind galleries to the embedder that built them
GR-004 — a gallery built with one embedding model is meaningless with another.
Cosine similarities across models are garbage but look entirely plausible, so
this fails silently and expensively; every measurement taken against a
mismatched pair would have been quietly wrong.

The stamp is the model basename plus a SHA-256 of its bytes, with embed_dim as
a cheap extra guard. The hash decides and the name explains, because neither
works alone: a name is a promise rather than a fact — models get re-exported in
place under an unchanged filename, which is exactly the case where the weights
differ and nothing else does — while a bare hash mismatch tells an operator
nothing actionable.

Mismatch is fatal in every mode with no bypass. Unstamped only warns, because
unstamped is unknown rather than known-bad, and an error firing on every legacy
gallery trains people to reach for the bypass reflexively. scripts/stamp_gallery.py
binds an existing gallery in place with no re-embedding, so the warning is a
migration step rather than a permanent state; --require-gallery-stamp promotes
it to an error once a site has migrated.

Two gaps found that would have defeated the requirement outright:

- Embedding dumps carried no stamp, so a replay — which has no live embedder —
  had nothing to check the gallery against. Dumps now carry embedder_model and
  embedder_sha256 as root attributes. Additive; schema_version stays 1. This is
  the same gap the dump audit identified independently.
- --merge produced one file holding two embedding spaces, which no later check
  can untangle. Merge paths now verify before writing.

The stamp also survives identity_matcher's calibration write-back, which would
otherwise have stripped it on the first analysis run — the check would have
worked exactly once.

Conflicts resolved additively: both branches appended a source to sae_gallery
and to the test target, and both edited the GR-004 register row.

Merged suite: 64 cases, 3199 assertions, passing on CPU with no GPU.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: GR-004, VR-001 | SR-001
2026-07-30 19:04:07 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 a2ebdc4cdd docs: GR-004 done — gallery/embedder binding
Stamp is model basename + SHA-256 + embed_dim: the hash decides, the name
explains. A name alone is a promise rather than a fact — models get re-exported
in place under an unchanged filename, which is exactly the case where weights
differ and nothing else does. A hash alone is unactionable in an error message.

Mismatch is fatal in every mode with no bypass. Unstamped only warns, because
unstamped is unknown rather than known-bad, and an error that fires on every
legacy gallery trains people to reach for the bypass. A migration script binds
existing galleries in place with no re-embedding, so warn is not permanent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

TRACES: GR-004 | SR-001
2026-07-30 18:37:07 +02:00
Claude 7db40f430d GR-004: bind galleries to the embedder that built them
A gallery is only valid for the embedder that produced its vectors. Cosine
similarities across models are meaningless but *look* plausible, so the mistake
is silent and every measurement taken afterwards is suspect. Stamp the embedder
identity into the gallery at build; verify it at every load.

The stamp is the model file's basename plus the SHA-256 of its bytes (plus
embed_dim). The hash decides, the name explains. A name alone is a promise
rather than a fact — models get re-exported and overwritten in place under an
unchanged filename, which is exactly the case where the weights differ and
nothing else does. A hash alone is correct but unactionable in an error message.
SHA-256 is derived from the artefact, needs no registry kept current, and costs
~0.1s for a 250MB ONNX, memoised per process.

Mismatch is a hard error in every mode, with no bypass, naming both sides.

Unstamped legacy galleries warn loudly and proceed: unknown is not known-bad,
and hard-failing every pre-existing gallery would turn the check into something
people disable rather than trust. --require-gallery-stamp (or
SAE_REQUIRE_GALLERY_STAMP=1, which propagates to subprocesses) promotes that to
a hard error — the mode measurement work should run in. scripts/stamp_gallery.py
re-binds an existing gallery with no re-embedding, so "warn" is a cheap state to
leave rather than a permanent one.

Embedding dumps carry the same stamp: a replay has no live embedder, so the dump
is the embedder as far as the gallery is concerned. Derived galleries inherit
their source's stamp; --merge and the JSON gallery merge check before writing,
since one file holding two embedding spaces cannot be untangled afterwards.

Verified in: scene_analyze, scene_preview, the sae_kpn matcher binding,
replay.py, optimize.py (once per film at startup, before the first evaluation),
movienet_eval.py and both merge paths.

Stamp logic lives in src/gallery/embedder_stamp.{hpp,cpp} and its Python twin
scripts/sae_stamp.py, kept dependency-light so replay subprocesses do not pay
sae_gallery's requests/Pillow import to ask whether two models match.

Tests: 12 new cases in test_gallery_store.cpp covering the comparison logic,
both round trips, and the SHA-256 vectors that guarantee the C++ and hashlib
stamps agree. No ONNX or GPU required.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 18:35:46 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 020306c94f docs: builder images and per-backend release binaries (DP-008)
Adds the build/deploy story that was missing: containerised builder images for
cpu / cuda / rocm, and release jobs producing prebuilt binaries so a first
install need not compile.

States explicitly that this does not reverse DP-005. That requirement rejects
Docker as a *runtime* — GPU passthrough is fragile and exists only because of
the container. Using it as a *build* environment is the opposite case, and lets
one machine produce binaries for backends it cannot itself run. Build in a
container, run natively.

Two things deliberately cannot ship, and the installer must not imply otherwise:
TensorRT engines are GPU-architecture and TRT-version specific, so
build_trt_engines.sh still runs on the target; and models are ~725 MB in LFS,
orthogonal to the binary.

The base image is chosen by the OLDEST glibc to be supported, not by
convenience — a binary built in a container runs against the host's glibc, and
getting this wrong fails at load with GLIBC_2.xx not found. Accelerator runtimes
have the same shape of problem, so each image documents its compatible
CUDA/ROCm range and the installer checks it rather than discovering a mismatch
at first inference.

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TRACES: DP-005, DP-007, DP-008 | PR-004
2026-07-30 18:35:10 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 2919ed68d1 docs: audit findings, verification tiers, CI image, artifact storage
Corrections from the dump audit and the completed agent work:

- AR-010 is not started, not in progress: is_scene_boundary has no producer
  anywhere. SceneDetectorFunc is a terminal sink writing scenes.json and never
  annotates the frame, so the field is permanently false and the dump column a
  constant 0. A replay test of the frame-dependent track_alpha would pass
  vacuously — the worst failure mode for a verification gate.
- T1 (functor-level) becomes the primary verification tier, not T2. KPN node
  functors are plain callables constructed outside the network, so a node is
  tested by calling operator() with hand-built inputs. That removes four
  hazards at once: fixture provenance, replay-from-frame-0, cross-test state
  leakage, and replay-harness nondeterminism. It also means a dead upstream
  producer no longer blocks testing its consumer.
- VR-010 (dump provenance) and VR-011 (replay harness rewrite) added. A dump
  made with LVFace is currently byte-indistinguishable from one made with
  w600k-R50 — the GR-004 problem again, in the dump.
- Four requirements had no verification tier at all; the traceability gate
  found them.
- DP-007: CI builder image, CPU-only, pinned by tag in the Gitea container
  registry. Corpus fixtures go to the package registry rather than LFS: LFS is
  pulled on clone and would tax every developer for data only CI reads.
- IR-004/005/007/008 marked done; the v1 DSP parameters they had to pin are
  now normative in the server spec.

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TRACES: AR-010, DP-007, IR-004, IR-005, IR-007, IR-008, VR-001, VR-010, VR-011 | SR-002, SR-003
2026-07-30 18:33:32 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 a5299daf6e docs: software spec, requirements register, and implementation plan
Adds the requirements baseline for the pipeline redesign:

- SPEC.md — software requirements with Current/Gap deltas per item, so the
  document doubles as a work list.
- requirements.md — stable flat IDs (AR/DP/IR/GR/VR) with parent traces,
  priorities, statuses, and a per-requirement verification plan. Replaces the
  thematic A1..E8 scheme, which had already produced an A1a and an out-of-order
  E6; IDs are now permanent and never reused.
- IMPLEMENTATION-PLAN.md — phased work.

The central change is AR-012: presence follows track extent rather than
per-frame recognition, so a window starts when an actor appears rather than
when the recogniser first succeeded. anneal_sec and extinction_sec are
withdrawn rather than retuned — a track that survives its own gaps leaves them
nothing to do.

Verification is shaped by CI running on an N100 with no dGPU: the existing
HDF5 dump makes everything downstream of embedding replayable on CPU, which
covers the bulk of the redesign.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 17:32:44 +02:00