\section{Ablations}
\label{sec:ablations}
The ablation grid of the protocol (predictor $\times$ depth $\times$ budget $\times$ policy $\times$ placement $\times$
transport $\times$ kernels $\times$ batch) is executed gate by gate. In this version only the single-node factors have logs:
\begin{itemize}
  \item \textbf{Install path} (per-miss synchronisation vs lazy batched installs): $+80$ to $+90\,\%$ decode throughput at 16 slots
    (Section~\ref{sec:implementation}).
  \item \textbf{Fast path} (device-side slot map when a layer is complete): 203 $\to$ 489~\tps{} at 64 slots.
  \item \textbf{Eviction policy} (LRU vs LFU): within 0.01 hit rate at every capacity in simulation.
  \item \textbf{Predictor} (none / prev-rank / transition$_d$ / probe / oracle) and \textbf{depth}: Table~\ref{tab:sim}, \textsc{pending} until the v2
    simulation and its online confirmation complete.
\end{itemize}