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project: modelmap
document: candidate_01 — Weight-only pre-screen
author: Simon-Pierre Boucher
contact: contact@spboucher.ai
website: https://modelmap.io
created: 2026-08-12
status: draft
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# candidate_01 — Weight-only pre-screen

Assigned by Phase 4 (`research/candidate_ranking.md`). Core gaps: G06 (+G08 anchor, G03/G09 extensions).

**First falsifier:** super-weight causal catalog on 2 models; then Pythia-410M weight-features-vs-probe-maps regression, kill at cross-validated R² < 0.2.

Status: assigned — prototyping starts after the mandatory substrate
(expH capture-cost frontier, expA/expD noise floors, map-cards v0).
Hypothesis will be registered in `hypothesis.md` before any run (charter §10).