{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp07_retrospective_selector60_20260803","cell_code":"E7C034","selector_replication":2,"assessments":[{"blind_id":"CANDIDATE_A","problem_reality_importance":84,"causal_archetype_fit":91,"distinctiveness_prior_art_resilience":69,"operational_specificity":94,"falsifiability_test_quality":95,"adopter_partner_path":85,"deployability_complexity":70,"authority_safety_reversibility":95,"strict_potential":84,"empirical_partner_potential":91,"scrutiny_priority":89,"biggest_visible_risk":"The local full-rate digitization, buffering, synchronization, audit, and fallback needed for safe reconstruction may leave little net capacity benefit over conventional compression or buffered event detection.","rationale":"The bandwidth problem is credible and the predictive-residual architecture is causally central, reconstructive, tightly scoped, and protected by independent raw audits and explicit fallback. Its preregistered offline comparison can decisively test protected-event preservation and total resource savings. The main scrutiny issue is whether the architecture solves a truly binding stage of the acquisition path after counting all edge-side costs, and whether the remaining contrast survives familiar predictive coding and event-buffer rivals."},{"blind_id":"CANDIDATE_B","problem_reality_importance":88,"causal_archetype_fit":82,"distinctiveness_prior_art_resilience":48,"operational_specificity":92,"falsifiability_test_quality":93,"adopter_partner_path":90,"deployability_complexity":74,"authority_safety_reversibility":94,"strict_potential":72,"empirical_partner_potential":89,"scrutiny_priority":81,"biggest_visible_risk":"Layout-conditioned image subtraction and defect triage look close to the proposal's strongest rivals, so the reconstructive residual channel may add governance and synchronization cost without leaving a meaningful contrastive advantage.","rationale":"Nanoscale defect inspection is consequential, the actors and authority are concrete, and a fabrication partner could run the bounded shadow replay on existing tiles. Raw-tile audits, protected classes, and equal-budget testing are strong. However, the causal contribution of the full predictive-code architecture is less clear because design-aware comparison and residual-based review already appear natural to the task; scrutiny must determine whether reconstruction and synchronized suppression materially improve decisions."},{"blind_id":"CANDIDATE_C","problem_reality_importance":68,"causal_archetype_fit":79,"distinctiveness_prior_art_resilience":60,"operational_specificity":91,"falsifiability_test_quality":93,"adopter_partner_path":80,"deployability_complexity":60,"authority_safety_reversibility":95,"strict_potential":67,"empirical_partner_potential":82,"scrutiny_priority":74,"biggest_visible_risk":"The proposal does not establish that complete-spectrum transport or display is sufficiently capacity-constrained to justify a complex synchronized hierarchical codec rather than ordinary multivariate monitoring.","rationale":"The bounded recipe, read-only first step, complete-data fallback, and comprehensive held-out comparison make the core uncertainties experimentally resolvable. Signed spectral residuals also preserve richer evidence than endpoint thresholds. Still, the problem statement is weaker than the others: spectra may be inexpensive to retain and process, while chemist attention can potentially be triaged without reconstructive compression. The hierarchy and regime-posterior machinery may therefore be useful monitoring rather than causally necessary architecture."},{"blind_id":"CANDIDATE_D","problem_reality_importance":91,"causal_archetype_fit":96,"distinctiveness_prior_art_resilience":62,"operational_specificity":94,"falsifiability_test_quality":96,"adopter_partner_path":87,"deployability_complexity":55,"authority_safety_reversibility":93,"strict_potential":81,"empirical_partner_potential":94,"scrutiny_priority":92,"biggest_visible_risk":"Command-correlated tip–sample interactions may be inseparable from predicted self-response, causing the cancellation model to remove precisely the small consequential signals it is intended to expose.","rationale":"This is the strongest causal use of the archetype: an efference copy directly predicts self-generated sensing, and the residual is the hypothesized external-interaction signal. The proposal names latency, over-cancellation, protected bypasses, and a non-actuating replay/HIL test that can change the deployment decision. Prior-art vulnerability and live-control complexity are substantial because feedforward cancellation and innovation filtering are close rivals, but a willing instrument partner can resolve the decisive separability and latency questions safely."}],"rank_order":["CANDIDATE_D","CANDIDATE_A","CANDIDATE_B","CANDIDATE_C"],"top_choice":"CANDIDATE_D","portfolio_observation":"All four proposals are unusually specific, reversible, and falsifiable, but they differ chiefly in whether residual prediction is causally necessary and whether the constrained resource is genuinely binding. D has the clearest causal separation and partner-resolvable uncertainty; A offers the strongest safer codec trial; B faces the greatest standard-practice adjacency; C has the weakest demonstrated capacity problem.","confidence":"HIGH"}