{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp03_full320_20260801","cell_id":"invariant_mode_decomposition_design__archaeology_paleontology","trajectory_id":"R","attempt_index":0,"candidate_sha256":"98092222b6d2eb6a40b5cb1a3a858c39da4a3650d84a464b114309a54dd4ed26","gates":{"G1":{"status":"PASS","reason":"The taphonomic reconstruction problem is independently recognizable in the domain and is not manufactured merely to accommodate modal decomposition."},"G2":{"status":"PASS","reason":"The proposal maps a scoped coupled transition, response directions, gains, selection rules, residuals, drift, and validity limits into domain-specific counterparts while explicitly distinguishing paired singular directions from exact dynamical eigenmodes."},"G3":{"status":"PASS","reason":"Known-input calibration, held-out reconstruction, and outcome-sensitive mode selection provide a plausible route from coupled distortion estimation to improved abundance reconstruction, with superiority over ordinary and hierarchical rivals left empirically falsifiable."},"G4":{"status":"PASS","reason":"Every archetype component has an operational domain realization, and the selected mechanisms form a coherent chain from factorization through sensitivity, validation, bounded deployment, reporting, and monitoring."},"G5":{"status":"PASS","reason":"Unverified effectiveness, identifiability, transportability, and novelty are explicitly bounded; structural claims are labeled as hypotheses or inferences, and no unsupported empirical result or citation is asserted."},"G6":{"status":"PASS","reason":"The record separately falsifies the existence of consequential coupled distortion and the added value of the modal correction using blinded known-input cases and explicit comparators."},"G7":{"status":"PASS","reason":"The authorized pilot is read-only and governance-bounded, destructive and interpretively consequential actions are excluded, and halt conditions return analysis to the baseline."}},"scores":{"structural_fit":{"score":4,"reason":"The transformation, modal representation, gain interpretation, leverage selection, residual discipline, drift monitoring, and scope contract closely preserve the archetype's functional organization."},"domain_fidelity":{"score":4,"reason":"The proposal is grounded in taphonomic stages, recovery protocols, assemblage categories, compositional constraints, known-input actualistic evidence, repository authority, and interpretive governance."},"causal_plausibility":{"score":3,"reason":"The causal chain is coherent and testable, although historical deposited states are commonly latent and the correction depends on an identifiable, locally transportable empirical operator."},"component_translation":{"score":4,"reason":"The component map is complete, domain-specific, and supported by mechanism dispositions that explain both contributions and exclusions."},"adversarial_survival":{"score":4,"reason":"The candidate directly confronts nonlinearity, path dependence, sparse categories, covariance confounding, local validity, mode instability, and failure against a strong nonmodal rival."},"reframing_gain":{"score":3,"reason":"It usefully reframes preservation bias from independent category loss to coupled transformation modes, though hierarchical interaction models may capture part of the same practical structure."},"practicality_testability":{"score":3,"reason":"The proposed pilot, comparators, held-out cases, residual criteria, and rollback are executable, but suitable known-input transitions and adequate category support may be difficult to obtain."},"expected_value_risk":{"score":3,"reason":"A reversible analytical pilot offers meaningful interpretive value with controlled immediate risk, while erroneous correction or later reification remains consequential."},"novelty_evidence":{"score":0,"reason":"Prior art is explicitly unsearched, so distinctiveness from existing multivariate taphonomic correction and inverse-modeling approaches is unsupported."}},"weighted_total":85,"disposition":"DEEP_RESEARCH","fabrication_findings":[],"weak_dimensions":["novelty_evidence"],"actionable_critique":[{"priority":"MEDIUM","issue":"The proposal establishes structural distinctiveness but not literature-level novelty.","repair":"Conduct a scoped prior-art review covering multivariate taphonomy, inverse preservation models, experimental assemblage reconstruction, compositional latent-factor methods, and transport or transition models; then delimit any genuinely new contribution.","evidence_boundary":"Closed-book evaluation supports no conclusion about whether the method or its combination of elements is novel."},{"priority":"LOW","issue":"Operational success depends on learning a transition from deposited or earlier-stage states that are usually unavailable.","repair":"Before deployment, identify datasets with defensible known inputs, prespecify identifiability diagnostics, and demonstrate transfer to a genuinely held-out context.","evidence_boundary":"The candidate provides a sound test design but no observed evidence that an identifiable and transportable operator exists."}],"repairs":[],"improvement_attribution":{"kind":"NONE","reason":"This is an original attempt with no prior problem or causal-lever identifier and no supplied repairs to address."},"trajectory_replacement":false,"arm_guess":"MECHANISM_PACKET","recommendation":"SUCCESS","tester_summary":"The candidate is a structurally faithful, domain-aware, falsifiable, and safely bounded adaptation. Its principal unresolved limitation is absent prior-art evidence, while empirical operator identifiability and transportability remain appropriately framed as matters for the proposed pilot."}