SOURCE_PROVENANCE — prior draft and identifier
Prior exploratory draft (handoff, dated 2026-10-28)
Supplied in ~/Downloads/WP28_UQO_Claude_Research_Brief/ (mandate CLAUDE.md, identical to ~/Downloads/CLAUDE-6.md):
references/PAMLE_Boucher_GPT-6.1.pdf— 16 pages, "Local Bias Correction versus Global Synchronization in Distributed Maximum Likelihood", authors listed as Simon-Pierre Boucher (UQO) and "GPT-6.1" (AI co-author designation). SHA256e81198b7…18cd.references/PAMLE_Boucher_GPT-6.1_LaTeX_and_Reproducibility.zip—pamle.tex,references.bib(5 entries),monte_carlo.py,simulation_summary.csv(21 rows),simulation_replicates.csv(10,500 rows = 3 designs × 500 replicates × 7 estimators),figures/mc_comparison.{pdf,png},README.md. SHA256613c6f8d…f850. Frozen read-only copy with per-file checksums:references/initial_pamle/(SHA256SUMS.txt). Never edited.
Replication status of every number in the prior draft (Gate 0)
| Item | Status |
|---|---|
| Monte Carlo (seed 20261028, N = 2^20, m ∈ {256, 64, 16}, B = 500, θ0 = 1) | replicated on the laptop (Python 3.14.4 / NumPy 2.4.4, 3.4 s); summary and all 10,500 replicate rows agree to ≤ 5e-13 absolute |
| Table 2 of the draft (mean scaled gaps) | replicated (identical to six decimals) |
| "≈ 0" entry for raw + 2 Newton at m = 256 | actual value −2.42e-07 (CSV); the draft rounds it to ≈ 0 — recorded, not an error |
| Figure 2 | regenerated by the same script (vector + png) |
| Exact Gamma moment identities (23)–(27), (28), (30), (41) | re-derived symbolically in Phase 2 (theory/symbolic_checks.py) |
| Boundary constant −4 θ0 c^4 | re-derived in Phase 2/5 and checked numerically |
Compilation of pamle.tex |
compiles with pdfLaTeX (16 pp.); 1 overfull box; duplicate hyperref destinations for tables/figures (cleveref + manual labels) |
| Replicate count | the draft says 500 — correct; the mandate warns not to call it 1,000 |
| Physical cluster benchmark | none in the prior draft (the README says so explicitly) |
Identifier: WP28
- The series index (
Recherche-UQO/README.md,HARMONISATION.md) stops at No. 27; nopaper/main.texin the series declares\WPnumber{28}. - Collision note. The database paper
finance/russell3000-strategic-project-databasewas informally called "WP 28 (next after 27)" in the assistant's session memory on 2026-10-28, but its manuscript and README carry the FIRC series number 0001, not 28. Nothing was renumbered or overwritten. If the principal researcher prefers to reserve No. 28 for the database paper, this manuscript can be renumbered by changing\WPnumber, the README, the BibTeXnumberfield and the spbgit remote name (wp28_uqo.git→wp29_uqo.git); all internal file names use the slug, not the number.