GEMM consolidation v1.5 — Wave 0 measured: 0k passes, 0j kills the density framing, 0l falsifies prefix tracts on physical addresses

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No longer docs-only. Earlier revisions of this PR were plan text; it now also adds two Rust files — examples/hex_trie_vs_gemm_probe.rs and examples/prefix_tract_coverage_probe.rs plus their Cargo.toml entries. No library code, no API change, no kernel: examples only.

§13 — D-GTM-0l MEASURED: packed-prefix routing does not cover real long-range edges

The probe the previous revision called decisive has run. Ore: the R2IL 6502 harvest in AdaWorldAPI/Elite-rs .claude/harvest/r2il-6502/ — 34,186 lifted instruction facts, 427 long-range call edges over 2,647 distinct packed addresses. The ore is passed by path and never vendored: its own provenance file forbids redistributing the corpus, so this repo stores the measurement, not the instruction stream.

Claim under test: "white matter should not be another data structure. It should be an interpretation of packed location prefixes" — a tract is (prefix, mask, learned transition), routed by ADDRESS & PREFIX_MASK == PREFIX. That is a routing mechanism only if the tract codebook is much smaller than the edge set it covers.

1 — prefix locality is real signal, ~11× over the null

shared prefix	real	degree-preserving null (50 shuffles)
k=0	61.36%	84.90%
k=1	22.95%	13.54%
k=2	13.35%	1.46%
k=3	2.34%	0.06%
k=4	0.00%	0.04%

k≥2 is 15.69% real against 1.52% null. The mechanism is not measuring noise.

2 — but the codebook does not compress at any usable width

k	tract width	tracts	edges	compression
1	4 KiB	56	427	7.62×
2	256 B	257	427	1.66×
3	16 B	396	427	1.08×
4	1 B	427	427	1.00×

k=1 is the only width that compresses, and on a 64 KiB image that is 16 buckets — no routing resolution left. By k=3 it is an edge list with extra steps.

3 — the non-local residual is DIFFUSE, so no exception table rescues it

262 non-local edges over 113 distinct targets; top-10 cover 32.1%, top-40 cover 64.9%; target entropy 6.36 bits against 6.82 uniform — 0.46 bits below uniform, so there is no hub set. A k=1 tract plus explicit far edges is 318 entries against 427 edges (1.34×).

Verdict [G] on this ore, with the scope leg named

The hypothesis fails its own success condition: to resolve a destination you need essentially one tract per edge, which is the data structure the framing set out to avoid.

⊘ Scope leg, load-bearing. These addresses are physical — a 1986 linker's layout, with no reason to be prefix-organized by meaning. The hypothesis was about packed semantic addresses (classid | HEEL | HIP | TWIG, minted so the prefix is the meaning). This falsifies the physical case only. It is the hardest case and arguably the wrong one, but it was the decisive one on offer, so the result is recorded rather than explained away.

Next probe, with its pass condition stated: the same instrument against an OGAR-minted address space. Enrichment must rise and the k=2/k=3 compression column must move with it. If that column looks like the table above, the tract framing is dead generally and white matter has to be a structure after all.

§12 — 0k passes, 0j falsifies the plan's own density framing

Probe: N = 4096, mask = 512 B, dense relation matrix = 64 MB. Task identical for both arms — D steps of state = R(state) ∩ constraint — with a correctness gate: survivor counts must match or the run aborts.

D-GTM-0k — the clean result

Mask hot path: 0 bytes/step, every density, every depth, both relation shapes — measured with a counting global allocator, not asserted. GEMM: 73,728 B/step (a packing buffer inside gemm_f32). The §11.10 invariant's own falsifier passes: the projection does not allocate the volume.

D-GTM-0j — there is no density crossover

edges/row	relation density	GEMM ns/step	mask ns/step	speedup
1	0.02%	9,396,727	11,706	802.8×
16	0.39%	13,174,266	42,768	308.0×
64	1.56%	12,600,319	46,872	268.8×
256	6.25%	14,721,966	53,331	276.0×
1024	25.00%	14,867,158	46,930	316.8×
4096	100.00%	13,797,345	44,390	310.8×

§11.1 pt 6 said "GEMM is attractive when information is dense." Measured, density never crosses — both costs are flat in it (GEMM O(N²) FMAs; mask O(active·N/64) word-ORs).

⊘ The honest boundary is a TYPE boundary, not a density one: masks win whenever the relation is Boolean; GEMM is required when the relation carries values. Where a weight must accumulate — evidence strength, a learned probability, a distance — the mask arm cannot express the operation at all.

§12.5 — the headline numbers are explicitly NOT evidence

Stated in the plan so no future session cites 310× as support:

1. A dense f32 matrix for a 0/1 relation is a mis-specified baseline. A bitmask is 32× denser than f32 before any algorithm runs; the mask arm is beating a wasteful representation, not GEMM.
2. The missing arm is CSR SpMV — O(nnz), so at deg = 1 ≈ 4,096 FMAs, the same order as the mask arm's 11.7 µs. It would plausibly cross. Until it exists, no "mask beats sparse GEMM" claim is available and none is made.
3. The one internally fair comparison (same arm, same representation, same task) is PREFIX vs RANDOM: 21–79 ns flat vs 305–35,522 ns scaling with active bits — structure worth ~3 orders of magnitude, degrading exactly where there is nothing to exploit. That is the E-Q8 discipline applied to compute rather than recall.

The gate caught a bug in the probe itself

First run: PREFIX passed everywhere, RANDOM failed immediately (gemm 912 vs mask 930). The GEMM arm computes { i : srcs(i) ∩ active ≠ ∅ }; the mask arm was unioning srcs(i) over active i. Those agree only for a symmetric relation — bucket membership is, a random relation is not. The mask arm must union the transpose. Recorded because it is easy to reintroduce and only the gate catches it.

A second flaw was caught by reading, not by any gate: mask timings sat at or below timer resolution, making every early "speedup" (25,940× … 853,300×) a ratio against quantization noise. Both arms now run to a 50 ms floor and report ns/step.

D-GTM-0h graded [S]: perf is unavailable in this sandbox, so residency is inferred from timing (PREFIX 70 ns at depth 1 → 21–27 ns at depths 8/32, no knee to depth 32) — consistent with staying resident, and not proof of it.

Earlier revisions in this PR

• §11.10 (v1.3) — substrate == mask geometry == projection surface. The 3-D field is never allocated; it is a mask-address projection of the 2-D 6×2×8 surface, recovered only when a question requires it. Resolves §11.9's diamond flag [S]→[H]: the bonds are implied, not walked, so coordination 4 never meets the 16-ary trie.
• §11 (v1.2) — grey (local hex state, permeability masks) / white (trie routing through packed location) over ONE register. Reconciled with the measured hex record (E-Q6/E-Q7/E-Q8): those tested a learned association overlay, this is a compute-and-bytes claim. D-GTM-5 corrected a third time — the pack consumes mask words directly, zero index materialization.
• §9 (v1.1) — Mississippi Queen: panel-ahead expansion; cache key (mask generation, panel index), never the call.
• §10 — W0 static probes. blas_level3.rs is a BlasLevel3<A> trait → BlasFloat::backend_gemm, so two facades already exist; pruned_gemm_rows and mixed_precision_gemm have zero callers.

Still open

The weighted arm implied by §12.4, the CSR SpMV arm that §12.5 pt 2 names as the missing fair baseline, the minted-address re-run of §13, and 0c / 0d / 0e.

Verified locally: clippy --release --example … -D warnings clean on both probes, cargo fmt --check clean, and each probe re-run end-to-end after its lint fix with its correctness gate holding.

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Measurement plans and routing model .claude/blackboard.md, .claude/plans/*	Research records now document probe results, packed-mask invariants, GEMM inventory findings, prefix-locality results, ternary measurements, and unimplemented activation probes.
Behavioral corpus soak analysis Cargo.toml, examples/behavioral_soak_probe.rs	The new probe parses instruction facts, measures codebook reuse and BPE-style composition across corpora, and compares deterministic shuffled null controls.
Relation propagation and prefix locality Cargo.toml, examples/hex_trie_vs_gemm_probe.rs, examples/prefix_tract_coverage_probe.rs	New probes compare GEMM with bitmask propagation and measure packed-address prefix locality, tract compression, and non-local target concentration.
Ternary mask amortization examples/ternlog_amortization_probe.rs	The new probe compares materialized, bitset, ternary, and sparse intersections across depth, working-set size, density, residency, and allocation behavior.

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examples/ternlog_amortization_probe.rs (1)

299-299: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the unused sparse computation in the density sweep.

The density sweep replaced the list-merge arm with the retain arm on line 334, so sparse is never read. Line 340 only suppresses the unused-variable warning. The expression still expands 8 masks of 2^20 bits into 8 id lists, which allocates tens of megabytes and runs once per density row. Delete both lines.

♻️ Proposed change

-        let sparse: Vec<Vec<u32>> = masks.iter().map(|m| to_ids(m)).collect();
         let base_ids = to_ids(&base);

         let ns5 = c5.elapsed().as_secs_f64() * 1e9 / (i5 as f64 * 8.0);
-        let _ = &sparse;

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In `@examples/ternlog_amortization_probe.rs` at line 299, Remove the unused sparse
computation and its corresponding unused-variable suppression from the density
sweep, including the masks-to-ID-list collection assigned to sparse and the
later line that only references sparse; leave the retain-based sweep logic
unchanged.

examples/hex_trie_vs_gemm_probe.rs (1)

104-112: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Report the realized edge count instead of the nominal degree.

build_matrix_deg writes deg random column indices per row. Collisions overwrite the same cell, so the realized edge count is below N * deg. Two statements depend on this. The comment on line 105 claims the same edge count as the Prefix relation, and the rel dens% column on line 352 computes deg / N. Both overstate density, and the overstatement grows with deg (at deg = 4096 about 63% of cells are set, not 100%).

Count non-zero cells and report that value.

♻️ Proposed change

-            100.0 * deg as f64 / N as f64,
+            100.0 * matrix.iter().filter(|&&v| v != 0.0).count() as f64 / (N * N) as f64,

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In `@examples/hex_trie_vs_gemm_probe.rs` around lines 104 - 112, Update
build_matrix_deg and the related reporting flow to count realized non-zero
matrix cells after random-edge generation, rather than using the nominal N * deg
count or deg / N density. Use that realized count for the rel dens% calculation
and revise the Random relation comment so it no longer claims equal edge counts
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Inline comments:
In @.claude/plans/gemm-ternlog-mask-consolidation-v1.md:
- Around line 166-167: Reopen D-GTM-F3 and replace its unconditional
four-function facade decision with an open or conditional decision that accounts
for BlasLevel3<A> and BlasFloat::backend_gemm. Resolve the canonical public
contract before W1 demotes or bypasses either facade.
- Around line 453-456: Revise the conclusion at
.claude/plans/gemm-ternlog-mask-consolidation-v1.md lines 453-456 to state the
measured Boolean/type representation boundary, removing the density-based or
unconditional GEMM claim. At .claude/plans/gemm-ternlog-mask-consolidation-v1.md
lines 761-766, state that valued relations need a value-aware algorithm and
defer choosing GEMM, CSR, or another baseline to the weighted probe. At
.claude/blackboard.md lines 41-43, remove the claim that every value-carrying
relation requires GEMM.
- Line 194: Remove the stale index-list contract from the mask-to-GEMM seam:
update §2.3 and D-GTM-6 so pack_a_masked_f32 consumes mask words directly or the
§11.6 codebook entry, and any index list is explicitly modeled as a separate
non-GEMM artifact with named producer and consumer.

In `@examples/behavioral_soak_probe.rs`:
- Around line 118-134: Update the G3 construction in the ladder branch to
preserve each block’s ordered fact sequence, emitting one
opcode/in-arity/out-arity component per instruction instead of aggregating
through the per-opcode BTreeMap. Keep repeated opcodes as separate entries so
different instruction orders and occurrences remain distinguishable, while
preserving the existing filtering and collection behavior.

In `@examples/hex_trie_vs_gemm_probe.rs`:
- Around line 49-59: Add `// SAFETY:` comments documenting the invariants for
the `unsafe impl GlobalAlloc for Counting` and both
`System.alloc`/`System.dealloc` forwarding blocks in
examples/hex_trie_vs_gemm_probe.rs lines 49-59 and
examples/ternlog_amortization_probe.rs lines 47-55; explain that the allocator
forwards valid layouts and pointers to the system allocator and preserves the
required allocation contract.
- Around line 274-279: Update the survivor validation in the current density
gate to compare the GEMM and mask bitsets directly, rather than only comparing
their population counts; preserve the existing mismatch assertion context. Apply
the same direct bitset comparison to the deg sweep gate near the second
validation block.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@examples/hex_trie_vs_gemm_probe.rs`:
- Around line 104-112: Update build_matrix_deg and the related reporting flow to
count realized non-zero matrix cells after random-edge generation, rather than
using the nominal N * deg count or deg / N density. Use that realized count for
the rel dens% calculation and revise the Random relation comment so it no longer
claims equal edge counts when collisions reduce them.

In `@examples/ternlog_amortization_probe.rs`:
- Line 299: Remove the unused sparse computation and its corresponding
unused-variable suppression from the density sweep, including the
masks-to-ID-list collection assigned to sparse and the later line that only
references sparse; leave the retain-based sweep logic unchanged.

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