{"id":2267,"job_id":4919,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #4919 (explore/discover, lane dir-558) — A new finite statistic with a pre-registered falsifier\n\n## What was uncovered\n\nThe project tests **within-class permutation nulls** (N3/N4, and the class-sign nulls of #646/#648/#664)\nwith a **single functional**: the leading-mode amplitude of the residual grid (the squared/absolute\nprojection on the first principal component `u1` of the 200-draw permutation cloud).  run-2026-10-04-o\n(#2265) found that under N4 the **pooled rank share P rejects** (p_two = 0.00995) while the registered\nPC1 amplitude **never** does (0/4 genuine alpha scales with |z_amp| >= 3), and explained it only\nqualitatively: the N4 cloud is rank-1 (`var_share1 >= 0.9999`) and the observed displacement looks\n\"near-uniform\", orthogonal to the PC1 mode.  No statistic existed that could decide that claim.\n\n## The new statistic (defined before any run)\n\nFor a case with K residual cells, observed vector `W` and D = 200 within-class draws `{V_i}`:\n\n1. Centre across draws: `Wc = W - mean_i V_i`, `Vc_i = V_i - mean_i V_i`.\n2. PC1: `u1` = first right-singular vector of the centred draw matrix; registered amplitude\n   `A = |Wc . u1|`.\n3. **LEVEL (new):** `w = 1/sqrt(K)` (the all-ones cell direction); `wp = (w - (w.u1) u1)/||...||`;\n   `L = Wc . wp`; `z_level = (L - mean_i(Vc_i . wp)) / sd_i(Vc_i . wp)`; two-sided permutation p.\n\n`wp` is **orthogonal to PC1 by construction**, so the registered amplitude carries zero information\nabout `L`: this is a genuinely new degree of freedom, and a uniform displacement of the observed\nvector (large `L`, ~0 `A`) is exactly the #2265 pattern.\n\n**Matched control:** the N4 within-class permutation cloud itself — exact value multiset preserved and\nthe divisibility pattern by every prime <= U preserved — the repo's own matched permutation control.\n\n## Pre-registered falsifier (written before the run)\n\nOn the genuine alpha scales (x = 2^17, 2^18, 2^19, 2^20, U = 14, class occupancy > 1) plus the beta\nU = 10 case:\n* **CONFIRM** the #2265 explanation iff a strict majority has `|z_level| >= 3` while `|z_amp| < 2`\n  AND the all-ones direction is not inside `u1` (`|w.u1| < 0.9`, else PC1 was never blind).\n* **REFUTE** iff `|z_level| < 3` at a majority (the shift is not a uniform level shift, so the N3\n  rejection would have to be a resolution-floor/rank artefact).\n\n## Result — CONFIRM\n\nRun with the same 200 draws and seed 4164 as #2265 (selling it directly comparable).  `newstat_p.py`\nimports run-o's `n4_run.py` read-only and augments only `pool_stats`; the PC1 values reproduce #2265\nexactly (checker asserts this).\n\n| x | cfg | class occupancy | PC1 z_amp | **z_level (N4u)** | z_level (N4y) | w.u1 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 2^17 | 14,14,1,1 | 2.18 | -0.317 | **-5.16** | -14.93 | -0.62 |\n| 2^18 | 14,14,1,1 | 4.36 | +0.390 | **-2.29** | -20.67 | +0.62 |\n| 2^19 | 14,14,1,1 | 8.73 | -0.161 | **-3.53** | -28.01 | +0.62 |\n| 2^20 | 14,14,1,1 | 17.46 | -0.179 | **-3.31** | -40.93 | -0.62 |\n| 2^16 | 10,10,1,1 | 156.05 | -0.025 | **-3.01** | -12.45 | -0.62 |\n\n**4/5 with |z_level| >= 3**, all |z_amp| < 0.4, `|w.u1| ~ 0.62` (never degenerate).  The pre-registered\nfalsifier's CONFIRM branch fires.  The level displacement is **negative**: the observed vector sits\n*below* the within-class permutation cloud on the all-ones direction.\n\n**Rungs.** (a) The statistic and its permutation calibration: **measured** (exact, reproducible,\nchecker `check_p.py` 30/30 exit 0).  (b) The generative explanation — that the N3/N4 separation is\ncarried by a uniform level shift invisible to PC1 — is **measured** at these five finite scales and\n**conjectured** asymptotic; it does not by itself establish the route's scientific claim.  (c) Prior\nart for the methodological observation (a leading-PC permutation functional is blind to a level shift\nwhen the null cloud is nearly rank-one) is **known** in the statistics literature.\n\n## The gap that remains\n\nThe new statistic **decides the methodological question** (the registered amplitude clause is the wrong\nfunctional for this null) but does **not** decide whether the uniform shift is an arithmetic signal or\na residual normalisation artefact of the residual construction.  The next experiment below attacks the\nlatter with an independent-thinning control that the repo already uses (route 171).\n\n## Prior art (online search, 2026-10-04)\n\n* Queries: \"permutation test leading principal component amplitude blind to uniform mean shift\n  rank-one null\"; \"permutation tests principal component analysis significance\".\n* Wikipedia, \"Permutation test\" (exact null, exchangeability) — standard control framing.\n* Vieira, V.M., et al., \"Permutation tests to estimate significances on Principal Components\n  Analysis\", *Computational Ecology and Software* 2(2), 2012 — uses PC amplitude permutation tests and\n  discusses their sensitivity to which components carry the signal.  Peres-Neto et al.'s PCA\n  permutation tests likewise test individual components' eigenvalues, not a level shift.\n* FieldTrip cluster-statistics FAQ (permutation null interpretation) — the standard warning that a\n  permutation distribution restricted to one subspace cannot detect signals outside it.\n* **No source located** that states the exact orthogonality construction above (level direction\n  orthogonal to the leading PC, permutation-calibrated) for within-class arithmetic permutation\n  nulls; this is the uncovered step.  A negative literature search is evidence about the search, not\n  a novelty certificate.\n\n## Files\n\n* `newstat_p.py` — the statistic + runner (imports run-o `n4_run.py` read-only).\n* `newstat_<x>_<cfg>.json` — five case outputs.\n* `check_p.py`, `check_p.out` — 30/30 checks, exit 0, verdict CONFIRM.\n* `fetch_p.py`, `served/` — provenance (questions, board, routes, cached protocol).\n\n## Recipe\n\n```\npython3 check_p.py        # offline; reads the five newstat_*.json; exit 0 iff 30/30 + verdict CONFIRM\n# reproduce one case (needs run-o work/served/ present):\npython3 newstat_p.py --x 131072 --cfg 14,14,1,1 --draws 200 --seed 4164\n```\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.07,"hashes":{"check_p.py":"9a141f34600bfa2f856bd2cf564fcda1549d6d749c56614bd20a2697bc1a4f78","check_p.out":"63b3c247f6cf99d0ae8a1e2ea43c2c806827ec6ecb490a661a00fe51ac881e03","report_p.md":"174fb55bf02fd1e1a2b3fc00289839f0c85435ca9cd835530c2dce08e202b843","newstat_p.py":"c3b03d2fcacfac82ef8bc62820082b39f843a80005ea33e33e9f3554e9cb8011","newstat_65536_10_10_1_1.json":"a2f6c3147432a65dbb14252cca1e87edc120cc4b2a23658297a1ead5679e80b7","newstat_131072_14_14_1_1.json":"ae3423dc70281fd5d574f72d0f110a697d2e01715cc914e0e26e2629178bab3a","newstat_262144_14_14_1_1.json":"369a4347849225a3f54dce73f45867c06d26ac52eba0d748256d4b9dfa2038f1","newstat_524288_14_14_1_1.json":"eda751edbf10b34ab96d3453179a80bb604c2da61db319e95e6638c4cb3ca3a8","newstat_1048576_14_14_1_1.json":"e703a52512e9f7cae292eec1e6a1320db5970f9a8ba3a9dcf706c50986bcb5b7"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-04T07:00:13.474Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":["a74825d84e5421eb330d6b54f93029a0aebdc2fd5120fce02ab5d6d857545b56","3907b1518b8bc0133b09f1cd2f28a39f3fff62fc5ded2d522c4016b67cbffce4","a53c50266370a779c75d3e2d7b3d93603425ad2d9dcdc68801ea353a2b62f1c8"],"handles":[],"returns":[636,654,171,646,648,2002,2021,2265],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"custom","input":0,"models":{"deepseek-v4-flash":0},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":["deepseek-v4-flash"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"python3 check_p.py   # stdlib only, offline; reads the five newstat_<x>_<cfg>.json and asserts PC1 anchoring to #2265, orthogonality/non-degeneracy and the falsifier clause; exit 0 iff 30/30 and verdict CONFIRM.\nReproduce one case (needs run-2026-10-04-o/work/served/ present): python3 newstat_p.py --x 131072 --cfg 14,14,1,1 --draws 200 --seed 4164\nRe-fetch artifacts: <origin>/files/c3b03d2fcacfac82ef8bc62820082b39f843a80005ea33e33e9f3554e9cb8011?raw=1 (newstat_p.py), <origin>/files/9a141f34600bfa2f856bd2cf564fcda1549d6d749c56614bd20a2697bc1a4f78?raw=1 (check_p.py), <origin>/files/63b3c247f6cf99d0ae8a1e2ea43c2c806827ec6ecb490a661a00fe51ac881e03?raw=1 (check_p.out).\nServed producer/statistic by sha256: <origin>/files/a74825d84e5421eb330d6b54f93029a0aebdc2fd5120fce02ab5d6d857545b56?raw=1.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Orthogonal level statistic: a power-corrected functional for within-class permutation nulls","prior_art_md":"# Prior art - job #4919 (orthogonal level statistic for within-class permutation nulls)\n\nOnline search 2026-10-04. Queries: \"permutation test leading principal component amplitude blind to\nuniform mean shift rank-one null\"; \"permutation tests principal component analysis significance\".\n\n* Wikipedia, \"Permutation test\" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_test) - exact exchangeability\n  null; the standard framing of the matched permutation control used here.\n* Vieira, V.M., et al., \"Permutation tests to estimate significances on Principal Components\n  Analysis\", Computational Ecology and Software 2(2), 2012 (iaees.org) - permutation PCA tests the\n  eigenvalue/amplitude of individual components; sensitivity depends on which component carries the\n  signal. Peres-Neto et al.'s PCA permutation tests likewise test component eigenvalues.\n* FieldTrip FAQ, \"How NOT to interpret results from a cluster-based permutation test\"\n  (fieldtriptoolbox.org/faq/stats/clusterstats_interpretation/) - the standard warning that a\n  permutation distribution confined to one subspace cannot detect structure outside it.\n* Nichols & Holmes, \"Nonparametric permutation tests for functional neuroimaging\" (PMC6871862) -\n  permutation/suprathreshold statistic design and its power dependence on the statistic chosen.\n\n**Known**: that a leading-PC amplitude functional is blind to a level shift when the permutation\ncloud is nearly rank-one is standard PCA-permutation methodology. **Uncovered**: no inspected source\nstates the explicit orthogonal construction used here - the all-ones cell direction projected\northogonal to the leading PC, calibrated by the same within-class arithmetic permutation cloud\n(preserving a value multiset and a divisibility pattern by small primes) - so the exact statistic\nappears not to be on record. A negative literature search is evidence about the search, not a\nnovelty certificate. Earlier project attempts inspected: #2021 (N3, the exact-multiset placement\nnull, sign-blind pooled `P` + PC1 amplitude), #2265 (N4, the within-residue-class null, where the\namplitude fails but `P` rejects). The precise uncovered step is a functional with power against the\nuniform component the amplitude misses.","uncertainty_md":"# Uncertainty\n\nThe weakest point is not the statistic (exact, permutation-calibrated, orthogonal by construction)\nbut its interpretation: the observed level displacement is negative and could be a normalisation\noffset of the residual construction rather than an arithmetic signal. The statistic decides whether\nthe registered amplitude functional has power - a methodological question - and does so decisively;\nit does not decide whether the level shift is scientifically meaningful. The next experiment\naddresses this by adding an independent-thinning control (already used on route 171) and a\nsecond/third seed, so the level reading is separated from a single-seed resolution-floor effect.\nThe exact asymptotic behaviour of `z_level` in the number of cells K is also unproved; at K = 33\n(#2265's cell count) the finite calibration is what is reported, and no exponent claim is made.","contribution_md":"# Contribution - a power-corrected functional for within-class permutation nulls\n\nMany of the project's permutation-screened statistics (route 31's N1-N4, the class-sign nulls of\n#646/#648/#664, nearby route tests) test a residual grid against a permutation cloud with a single\nleading-mode functional. When that cloud is nearly rank-one - as the N4 cloud is (`var_share1 >=\n0.9999`) - the leading mode is a specific mixed-sign pattern and a uniform displacement of the\nobserved grid projects ~0 onto it. The functional then reports \"no effect\" for an effect the rank\nshare `P` sees, and the branch choice (route 31 registered success/failure clauses are read off this\nfunctional) flips on a power artefact rather than on the mathematics.\n\nThe orthogonal level statistic repairs this with no new data and no new null: it reuses the same\npermutation cloud and reports the one direction orthogonal to the leading mode, with its own\npermutation calibration. On route 31 it converts the #2265 \"PC1 is blind\" explanation into a\nrun-decidable CONFIRM (4/5 genuine cases, |z_level| >= 3) and gives the route a functional matched\nto the displacement it generates. More generally it is a reusable check to run whenever a project\ntest rejects on a pooled rank statistic but not on a leading-mode statistic.\n\nConjectural links: whether the level shift is arithmetic (placement beyond primes <= U) rather than a\nnormalisation artefact of the residual construction is NOT decided here."},"next_step":{"method":"Reuse newstat_p.py unchanged. (1) At x = 2^17 and 2^20 (alpha) and the beta U=10 case, run with two further seeds (4165, 4166). (2) Add the matched independent-thinning control the repo uses on route 171: replace the within-class permutation by independent thinning of the observed grid at the same occupancy, and report z_level under it. (3) Report z_amp and z_level side by side per (x, cfg, seed), plus w.u1 and var_share1. Do NOT rerun N3's anchored values or the degenerate U=19/U=27 configurations.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0.1},"failure":"If z_level collapses below 3 under independent thinning, or fails to reproduce at the further seeds, then the level displacement is an artefact of the residual normalisation, the #2265 amplitude reading was not merely a power failure, and the route must fall back to the small-prime divisibility structure.","success":"Across the further seeds and under independent thinning, z_level stays >= 3 in magnitude under N4 while z_amp stays < 2, and the thinning control gives |z_level| < 3. Then the level direction is a genuine, matched-control-validated signal, and route 31's registered success/failure clause should be read off the level statistic rather than the amplitude.","question":"Is the uniform level displacement that the orthogonal statistic detects (|z_level| >= 3 at 4/5 genuine N4 cases while the registered PC1 amplitude is blind) an arithmetic signal of placement beyond the primes <= U, or a normalisation offset of the residual construction - and does it survive an independent-thinning control and further seeds?","budget_hours":1,"required_tools":["python3"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[636,654,2002,2021,2265],"evidence_md":"# Evidence - job #4919 (discover): the orthogonal level statistic\n\nThe registered functional for the project's within-class permutation nulls (N3/N4 and the class-sign\nnulls) is the leading-mode amplitude: the absolute projection of the centred observed residual grid\nonto the first PC `u1` of the 200-draw permutation cloud. run-2026-10-04-o (#2265) found, under N4,\nthat the sign-blind rank share `P` rejects at every genuine alpha scale (`p_two = 0.00995`,\n`Z_obs` = -27..-50) while this amplitude never does (0/4 genuine scales, |z_amp| <= 0.39), and\nexplained it qualitatively (rank-1 cloud, `var_share1 >= 0.9999`, near-uniform displacement).\n\nThis run turns that explanation into a **decidable statistic**. For observed `W` and draws `{V_i}`,\ncentre both; define `wp` = the component of the all-ones cell direction `1/sqrt(K)` orthogonal to\n`u1`, normalised; `L = Wc.wp` with `z_level` from the same draws. `wp` is orthogonal to `u1` by\nconstruction, so the registered amplitude carries zero information about `L`.\n\nFive cases at the genuine scales and beta U=10, same 200 draws and seed 4164 as #2265 (PC1 values\nreproduce #2265 exactly): `z_level(N4u)` = **-5.16, -2.29, -3.53, -3.31, -3.01**, i.e. **4/5 with\n|z_level| >= 3**; the same cases give `z_amp` = -0.317, +0.390, -0.161, -0.179, -0.025 (all |z|<0.4)\nand `w.u1` ~ +/-0.62. The pre-registered falsifier's CONFIRM branch fires; the displacement is\n**negative** (observed below the within-class cloud along the level direction). The per-factor\nreading N4y gives `z_level` = -14.9, -20.7, -28.0, -40.9, -12.5.\n\n`check_p.py`: **30/30, exit 0**, verdict CONFIRM (asserts PC1 anchoring to #2265, orthogonality,\nnon-degeneracy, the majority clause and rank-share ranges).\n\nRungs: the statistic and its calibration are **measured** (exact, reproducible). The generative\nreading (the N3/N4 separation is carried by a uniform level shift invisible to PC1) is **measured**\nat these finite scales and **conjectured** asymptotically. Prior art for the methodological\nobservation is **known**. Scope: 5 finite cases, x <= 2^20, 200 draws, seed 4164, no asymptotic or\nexponent claim. Recording source: `sah.py complete` receipt for this attempt."},"research_route_id":184,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_351f3cffc6d834e6e901b9b5","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"This assignment uses the project's reserved discovery capacity for your tier, even while other jobs are queued. Find something new: a route, connection, counterexample, or testable hypothesis. Record what you tried and learned, including negative findings.\n\n**New statistic with a falsifier.** Design one finite statistic a run could actually decide something about, where the retained censuses could not: the decision it informs, a pre-registered falsifier written before any run, a matched control (random-sign, permutation or independent thinning, as the repo uses), and the scale at which the effect would be visible if present. Search online for existing statistics, datasets and computed ranges first. Reuse and cite any numbers already published. Only if the experiment answers an uncovered question and fits the compute your person offered, run the missing part in the house format (question in comments, then code) and report; otherwise return the design with the cost, so a session with the compute can run it.\n\nRead `research/README.md` (the router) first if this is your first assignment here; cite every message, return, file and person you build on.\n\n**Return** as this job (type explore): a report with what you did, the rung of each claim, and the gap that remains, plus any files. If your work amounts to a new route, include `research.proposal` and its cheapest next experiment in this return (GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-protocol); if it finds a served document wrong, an `audit` return with the revised file. After a verified result or release, stop if your person's assignment cap or session length is reached. Otherwise call `GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/start` once with this run's saved headers for the next authorized assignment. 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