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Major fixes per codex (gpt-5.4) review:

## Structural fixes
- Fixed three-method convergence overclaim: added Script 20 to run KDE
  antimode, BD/McCrary, and Beta mixture EM on accountant-level means.
  Accountant-level 1D convergence: KDE antimode=0.973, Beta-2=0.979,
  LogGMM-2=0.976 (within ~0.006). BD/McCrary finds no transition at
  accountant level (consistent with smooth clustering, not sharp
  discontinuity).
- Disambiguated Method 1: KDE crossover (between two labeled distributions,
  used at signature all-pairs level) vs KDE antimode (single-distribution
  local minimum, used at accountant level).
- Addressed Firm A circular validation: Script 21 adds CPA-level 70/30
  held-out fold. Calibration thresholds derived from 70% only; heldout
  rates reported with Wilson 95% CIs (e.g. cos>0.95 heldout=93.61%
  [93.21%-93.98%]).
- Fixed 139+32 vs 180: the split is 139/32 of 171 Firm A CPAs with >=10
  signatures (9 CPAs excluded for insufficient sample). Reconciled across
  intro, results, discussion, conclusion.
- Added document-level classification aggregation rule (worst-case signature
  label determines document label).

## Pixel-identity validation strengthened
- Script 21: built ~50,000-pair inter-CPA random negative anchor (replaces
  the original n=35 same-CPA low-similarity negative which had untenable
  Wilson CIs).
- Added Wilson 95% CI for every FAR in Table X.
- Proper EER interpolation (FAR=FRR point) in Table X.
- Softened "conservative recall" claim to "non-generalizable subset"
  language per codex feedback (byte-identical positives are a subset, not
  a representative positive class).
- Added inter-CPA stats: mean=0.762, P95=0.884, P99=0.913.

## Terminology & sentence-level fixes
- "statistically independent methods" -> "methodologically distinct methods"
  throughout (three diagnostics on the same sample are not independent).
- "formal bimodality check" -> "unimodality test" (dip test tests H0 of
  unimodality; rejection is consistent with but not a direct test of
  bimodality).
- "Firm A near-universally non-hand-signed" -> already corrected to
  "replication-dominated" in prior commit; this commit strengthens that
  framing with explicit held-out validation.
- "discrete-behavior regimes" -> "clustered accountant-level heterogeneity"
  (BD/McCrary non-transition at accountant level rules out sharp discrete
  boundaries; the defensible claim is clustered-but-smooth).
- Softened White 1982 quasi-MLE claim (no longer framed as a guarantee).
- Fixed VLM 1.2% FP overclaim (now acknowledges the 1.2% could be VLM FP
  or YOLO FN).
- Unified "310 byte-identical signatures" language across Abstract,
  Results, Discussion (previously alternated between pairs/signatures).
- Defined min_dhash_independent explicitly in Section III-G.
- Fixed table numbering (Table XI heldout added, classification moved to
  XII, ablation to XIII).
- Explained 84,386 vs 85,042 gap (656 docs have only one signature, no
  pairwise stat).
- Made Table IX explicitly a "consistency check" not "validation"; paired
  it with Table XI held-out rates as the genuine external check.
- Defined 0.941 threshold (calibration-fold Firm A cosine P5).
- Computed 0.945 Firm A rate exactly (94.52%) instead of interpolated.
- Fixed Ref [24] Qwen2.5-VL to full IEEE format (arXiv:2502.13923).

## New artifacts
- Script 20: accountant-level three-method threshold analysis
- Script 21: expanded validation (inter-CPA anchor, held-out Firm A 70/30)
- paper/codex_review_gpt54_v3.md: preserved review feedback

Output: Paper_A_IEEE_Access_Draft_v3.docx (391 KB, rebuilt from v3.1
markdown sources).

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## C. Signature-Level Distribution Analysis
## C. All-Pairs Intra-vs-Inter Class Distribution Analysis
Fig. 2 presents the cosine similarity distributions for intra-class (same CPA) and inter-class (different CPAs) pairs.
Fig. 2 presents the cosine similarity distributions computed over the full set of *pairwise comparisons* under two groupings: intra-class (all signature pairs belonging to the same CPA) and inter-class (signature pairs from different CPAs).
This all-pairs analysis is a different unit from the per-signature best-match statistics used in Sections IV-D onward; we report it first because it supplies the reference point for the KDE crossover used in per-document classification (Section III-L).
Table IV summarizes the distributional statistics.
<!-- TABLE IV: Cosine Similarity Distribution Statistics
@@ -76,9 +77,10 @@ It predicts that a two-component mixture fit to per-signature cosine will be a f
### 1) Burgstahler-Dichev / McCrary Discontinuity
Applying the BD/McCrary test (Section III-I.2) to the per-signature cosine distribution yields a transition at 0.985 for Firm A and 0.985 for the full sample; the min-dHash distributions exhibit a transition at Hamming distance 2 for both Firm A and the full sample.
We note that the cosine transition at 0.985 lies *inside* the non-hand-signed mode rather than at the separation with the hand-signed mode, consistent with the dip-test finding that per-signature cosine is not cleanly bimodal.
In contrast, the dHash transition at distance 2 is a meaningful structural boundary that corresponds to the natural separation between pixel-near-identical replication and scan-noise-perturbed replication.
Applying the BD/McCrary test (Section III-I.2) to the per-signature cosine distribution yields a single significant transition at 0.985 for Firm A and 0.985 for the full sample; the min-dHash distributions exhibit a transition at Hamming distance 2 for both Firm A and the full sample.
We note that the cosine transition at 0.985 lies *inside* the non-hand-signed mode rather than at the separation between two mechanisms, consistent with the dip-test finding that per-signature cosine is not cleanly bimodal.
In contrast, the dHash transition at distance 2 is a substantively meaningful structural boundary that corresponds to the natural separation between pixel-near-identical replication and scan-noise-perturbed replication.
At the accountant level the test does not produce a significant $Z^- \rightarrow Z^+$ transition in either the cosine-mean or the dHash-mean distribution (Section IV-E), reflecting that accountant aggregates are smooth at the bin resolution the test requires rather than exhibiting a sharp density discontinuity.
### 2) Beta Mixture at Signature Level: A Forced Fit
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Three empirical findings stand out.
First, component C1 captures 139 of 180 Firm A CPAs (77%) in a tight high-cosine / low-dHash cluster.
The remaining 32 Firm A CPAs fall into C2, consistent with the minority-hand-signers framing of Section III-H and with the unimodal-long-tail observation of Section IV-D.
First, of the 180 CPAs in the Firm A registry, 171 have $\geq 10$ signatures and therefore enter the accountant-level GMM (the remaining 9 have too few signatures for reliable aggregates and are excluded from this analysis only).
Component C1 captures 139 of these 171 Firm A CPAs (81%) in a tight high-cosine / low-dHash cluster; the remaining 32 Firm A CPAs fall into C2.
This split is consistent with the minority-hand-signers framing of Section III-H and with the unimodal-long-tail observation of Section IV-D.
Second, the three-component partition is *not* a firm-identity partition: three of the four Big-4 firms dominate C2 together, and smaller domestic firms cluster into C3.
Third, the 2-component fit used for threshold derivation yields marginal-density crossings at cosine $= 0.945$ and dHash $= 8.10$; these are the natural per-accountant thresholds.
Third, applying the three-method framework of Section III-I to the accountant-level cosine-mean distribution yields the estimates summarized in Table VIII: KDE antimode $= 0.973$, Beta-2 crossing $= 0.979$, and the logit-GMM-2 crossing $= 0.976$ converge within $\sim 0.006$ of each other, while the BD/McCrary test does not produce a significant transition at the accountant level.
For completeness we also report the two-dimensional two-component GMM's marginal crossings at cosine $= 0.945$ and dHash $= 8.10$; these differ from the 1D crossings because they are derived from the joint (cosine, dHash) covariance structure rather than from each 1D marginal in isolation.
Table VIII summarizes the threshold estimates produced by the three convergent methods at each analysis level.
<!-- TABLE VIII: Threshold Convergence Summary
<!-- TABLE VIII-acct: Accountant-Level Three-Method Threshold Summary
| Level / method | Cosine threshold | dHash threshold |
|----------------|-------------------|------------------|
| Signature-level KDE crossover | 0.837 | — |
| Signature-level BD/McCrary transition | 0.985 | 2.0 |
| Signature-level Beta 2-comp (Firm A) | 0.977 | — |
| Signature-level LogGMM 2-comp (Full) | 0.980 | — |
| Accountant-level 2-comp GMM crossing | **0.945** | **8.10** |
| Firm A P95 (median/95th pct calibration) | 0.95 | 15 |
| Firm A median calibration | — | 5 |
| Method 1 (KDE antimode) | 0.973 | 4.07 |
| Method 2 (BD/McCrary) | no transition | no transition |
| Method 3 (Beta-2 EM crossing) | 0.979 | 3.41 |
| Method 3' (logit-GMM-2 crossing) | 0.976 | 3.93 |
| 2D GMM 2-comp marginal crossing | 0.945 | 8.10 |
-->
The accountant-level two-component crossing (cosine $= 0.945$, dHash $= 8.10$) is the most defensible of the three-method thresholds because it is derived at the level where dip-test bimodality is statistically supported and the BIC model-selection criterion prefers a non-degenerate mixture.
The signature-level estimates are reported for completeness and as diagnostic evidence of the continuous-spectrum / discrete-behavior asymmetry rather than as primary classification boundaries.
Table VIII then summarizes all threshold estimates produced by the three methods across the two analysis levels for a compact cross-level comparison.
<!-- TABLE VIII: Threshold Convergence Summary Across Levels
| Level / method | Cosine threshold | dHash threshold |
|----------------|-------------------|------------------|
| Signature-level, all-pairs KDE crossover | 0.837 | — |
| Signature-level, BD/McCrary transition | 0.985 | 2.0 |
| Signature-level, Beta-2 EM crossing (Firm A) | 0.977 | — |
| Signature-level, logit-GMM-2 crossing (Full) | 0.980 | — |
| Accountant-level, KDE antimode | **0.973** | **4.07** |
| Accountant-level, BD/McCrary transition | no transition | no transition |
| Accountant-level, Beta-2 EM crossing | **0.979** | **3.41** |
| Accountant-level, logit-GMM-2 crossing | **0.976** | **3.93** |
| Accountant-level, 2D-GMM 2-comp marginal crossing | 0.945 | 8.10 |
| Firm A calibration-fold cosine P5 | 0.941 | — |
| Firm A calibration-fold dHash P95 | — | 9 |
| Firm A calibration-fold dHash median | — | 2 |
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Methods 1 and 3 (KDE antimode, Beta-2 crossing, and its logit-GMM robustness check) converge at the accountant level to a cosine threshold of $\approx 0.975 \pm 0.003$ and a dHash threshold of $\approx 3.8 \pm 0.4$, while Method 2 (BD/McCrary) does not produce a significant discontinuity.
This is the accountant-level convergence we rely on for the primary threshold interpretation; the two-dimensional GMM marginal crossings (cosine $= 0.945$, dHash $= 8.10$) differ because they reflect joint (cosine, dHash) covariance structure, and we report them as a secondary cross-check.
The signature-level estimates are reported for completeness and as diagnostic evidence of the continuous-spectrum asymmetry (Section IV-D.2) rather than as primary classification boundaries.
## F. Calibration Validation with Firm A
Fig. 3 presents the per-signature cosine and dHash distributions of Firm A compared to the overall population.
Table IX reports the proportion of Firm A signatures crossing each candidate threshold; these rates play the role of calibration-validation metrics (what fraction of a known replication-dominated population does each threshold capture?).
<!-- TABLE IX: Firm A Anchor Rates Across Candidate Thresholds
| Rule | Firm A rate |
|------|-------------|
| cosine > 0.837 | 99.93% |
| cosine > 0.941 | 95.08% |
| cosine > 0.945 (accountant 2-comp) | 94.5%† |
| cosine > 0.95 | 92.51% |
| dHash_indep ≤ 5 | 84.20% |
| dHash_indep ≤ 8 | 95.17% |
| dHash_indep ≤ 15 | 99.83% |
| cosine > 0.95 AND dHash_indep ≤ 8 | 89.95% |
<!-- TABLE IX: Firm A Whole-Sample Capture Rates (consistency check, NOT external validation)
| Rule | Firm A rate | n / N |
|------|-------------|-------|
| cosine > 0.837 (all-pairs KDE crossover) | 99.93% | 60,405 / 60,448 |
| cosine > 0.941 (calibration-fold P5) | 95.08% | 57,473 / 60,448 |
| cosine > 0.945 (2D GMM marginal crossing) | 94.52% | 57,131 / 60,448 |
| cosine > 0.95 | 92.51% | 55,916 / 60,448 |
| cosine > 0.973 (accountant KDE antimode) | 80.91% | 48,910 / 60,448 |
| dHash_indep ≤ 5 (calib-fold median-adjacent) | 84.20% | 50,897 / 60,448 |
| dHash_indep ≤ 8 | 95.17% | 57,521 / 60,448 |
| dHash_indep ≤ 15 | 99.83% | 60,345 / 60,448 |
| cosine > 0.95 AND dHash_indep ≤ 8 | 89.95% | 54,373 / 60,448 |
† interpolated from adjacent rates; all other rates computed exactly.
All rates computed exactly from the full Firm A sample (N = 60,448 signatures).
The threshold 0.941 corresponds to the 5th percentile of the calibration-fold Firm A cosine distribution (see Section IV-G for the held-out validation that addresses the circularity inherent in this whole-sample table).
-->
The Firm A anchor validation is consistent with the replication-dominated framing throughout: the most permissive cosine threshold (the KDE crossover at 0.837) captures nearly all Firm A signatures, while the more stringent thresholds progressively filter out the minority of hand-signing Firm A partners in the left tail.
Table IX is a whole-sample consistency check rather than an external validation: the thresholds 0.95, dHash median, and dHash 95th percentile are themselves anchored to Firm A via the calibration described in Section III-H.
The dual rule cosine $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 8$ captures 89.95% of Firm A, a value that is consistent both with the accountant-level crossings (Section IV-E) and with Firm A's interview-reported signing mix.
Section IV-G reports the corresponding rates on the 30% Firm A hold-out fold, which provides the external check these whole-sample rates cannot.
## G. Pixel-Identity Validation
## G. Pixel-Identity, Inter-CPA, and Held-Out Firm A Validation
Of the 182,328 extracted signatures, 310 have a same-CPA nearest match that is byte-identical after crop and normalization (pixel-identical-to-closest = 1).
These serve as the gold-positive anchor of Section III-K.
Using signatures with cosine $< 0.70$ ($n = 35$) as the gold-negative anchor, we derive Equal-Error-Rate points and classification metrics for the canonical thresholds (Table X).
We report three validation analyses corresponding to the anchors of Section III-K.
<!-- TABLE X: Pixel-Identity Validation Metrics
| Indicator | Threshold | Precision | Recall | F1 | FAR | FRR |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|----|-----|-----|
| cosine > 0.837 | KDE crossover | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| cosine > 0.945 | Accountant crossing | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| cosine > 0.95 | Canonical | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| dHash_indep ≤ 5 | Firm A median | 0.981 | 1.000 | 0.990 | 0.171 | 0.000 |
| dHash_indep ≤ 8 | Accountant crossing | 0.966 | 1.000 | 0.983 | 0.314 | 0.000 |
| dHash_indep ≤ 15 | Firm A P95 | 0.928 | 1.000 | 0.963 | 0.686 | 0.000 |
### 1) Pixel-Identity Positive Anchor with Inter-CPA Negative Anchor
Of the 182,328 extracted signatures, 310 have a same-CPA nearest match that is byte-identical after crop and normalization (pixel-identical-to-closest = 1); these form the gold-positive anchor.
As the gold-negative anchor we sample 50,000 random cross-CPA signature pairs (inter-CPA cosine: mean $= 0.762$, $P_{95} = 0.884$, $P_{99} = 0.913$, max $= 0.988$).
Table X reports precision, recall, $F_1$, FAR with Wilson 95% confidence intervals, and FRR at each candidate threshold.
The Equal-Error-Rate point, interpolated at FAR $=$ FRR, is located at cosine $= 0.990$ with EER $\approx 0$, which is trivially small because pixel-identical positives are all at cosine very close to 1.
<!-- TABLE X: Cosine Threshold Sweep (positives = 310 pixel-identical signatures; negatives = 50,000 inter-CPA pairs)
| Threshold | Precision | Recall | F1 | FAR | FAR 95% Wilson CI | FRR |
|-----------|-----------|--------|----|-----|-------------------|-----|
| 0.837 (all-pairs KDE crossover) | 0.029 | 1.000 | 0.056 | 0.2062 | [0.2027, 0.2098] | 0.000 |
| 0.900 | 0.210 | 1.000 | 0.347 | 0.0233 | [0.0221, 0.0247] | 0.000 |
| 0.945 (2D GMM marginal) | 0.883 | 1.000 | 0.938 | 0.0008 | [0.0006, 0.0011] | 0.000 |
| 0.950 | 0.904 | 1.000 | 0.950 | 0.0007 | [0.0005, 0.0009] | 0.000 |
| 0.973 (accountant KDE antimode) | 0.960 | 1.000 | 0.980 | 0.0003 | [0.0002, 0.0004] | 0.000 |
| 0.979 (accountant Beta-2) | 0.969 | 1.000 | 0.984 | 0.0002 | [0.0001, 0.0004] | 0.000 |
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All cosine thresholds achieve perfect classification of the pixel-identical anchor against the low-similarity anchor, which is unsurprising given the complete separation between the two anchor populations.
The dHash thresholds trade precision for recall along the expected tradeoff.
We emphasize that because the gold-positive anchor is a *subset* of the true non-hand-signing positives (only those that happen to be pixel-identical to their nearest match), recall against this anchor is conservative by construction: the classifier additionally flags many non-pixel-identical replications (low dHash but not zero) that the anchor cannot by itself validate.
The negative-anchor population ($n = 35$) is likewise small because intra-CPA pairs rarely fall below cosine 0.70, so the reported FAR values should be read as order-of-magnitude rather than tight estimates.
Two caveats apply.
First, the gold-positive anchor is a *conservative subset* of the true non-hand-signed population: it captures only those non-hand-signed signatures whose nearest match happens to be byte-identical, not those that are near-identical but not bytewise identical.
Perfect recall against this subset does not establish perfect recall against the broader positive class, and the reported recall should therefore be interpreted as a lower-bound calibration check rather than a generalizable recall estimate.
Second, the 0.945 / 0.95 / 0.973 thresholds are derived from the Firm A calibration fold or the accountant-level methods rather than from this anchor set, so the FAR values in Table X are post-hoc-fit-free evaluations of thresholds that were not chosen to optimize Table X.
The very low FAR at the accountant-level thresholds is therefore informative.
### 2) Held-Out Firm A Validation (breaks calibration-validation circularity)
We split Firm A CPAs randomly 70 / 30 at the CPA level into a calibration fold (124 CPAs, 45,116 signatures) and a held-out fold (54 CPAs, 15,332 signatures).
Thresholds are re-derived from calibration-fold percentiles only.
Table XI reports heldout-fold capture rates with Wilson 95% confidence intervals.
<!-- TABLE XI: Held-Out Firm A Capture Rates (30% fold, N = 15,332 signatures)
| Rule | Capture rate | Wilson 95% CI | k / n |
|------|--------------|---------------|-------|
| cosine > 0.837 | 99.93% | [99.87%, 99.96%] | 15,321 / 15,332 |
| cosine > 0.945 (2D GMM marginal) | 94.78% | [94.41%, 95.12%] | 14,532 / 15,332 |
| cosine > 0.950 | 93.61% | [93.21%, 93.98%] | 14,353 / 15,332 |
| cosine > 0.9407 (calib-fold P5) | 95.64% | [95.31%, 95.95%] | 14,664 / 15,332 |
| dHash_indep ≤ 5 | 87.84% | [87.31%, 88.34%] | 13,469 / 15,332 |
| dHash_indep ≤ 8 | 96.13% | [95.82%, 96.43%] | 14,739 / 15,332 |
| dHash_indep ≤ 9 (calib-fold P95) | 97.48% | [97.22%, 97.71%] | 14,942 / 15,332 |
| dHash_indep ≤ 15 | 99.84% | [99.77%, 99.89%] | 15,308 / 15,332 |
| cosine > 0.95 AND dHash_indep ≤ 8 | 91.54% | [91.09%, 91.97%] | 14,035 / 15,332 |
Calibration-fold thresholds: Firm A cosine median = 0.9862, P1 = 0.9067, P5 = 0.9407; dHash median = 2, P95 = 9.
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The held-out rates match the whole-sample rates of Table IX within each rule's Wilson confidence interval, confirming that the calibration-derived thresholds generalize to Firm A CPAs that did not contribute to calibration.
The dual rule cosine $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 8$ captures 91.54% [91.09%, 91.97%] of the held-out Firm A population, consistent with Firm A's interview-reported signing mix and with the replication-dominated framing of Section III-H.
### 3) Sanity Sample
A 30-signature stratified visual sanity sample (six signatures each from pixel-identical, high-cos/low-dh, borderline, style-only, and likely-genuine strata) produced inter-rater agreement with the classifier in all 30 cases; this sample contributed only to spot-check and is not used to compute reported metrics.
## H. Classification Results
Table XI presents the final classification results under the dual-method framework with Firm A-calibrated thresholds for 84,386 documents.
Table XII presents the final classification results under the dual-descriptor framework with Firm A-calibrated thresholds for 84,386 documents.
The document count (84,386) differs from the 85,042 documents with any YOLO detection (Table III) because 656 documents carry only a single detected signature, for which no same-CPA pairwise comparison and therefore no best-match cosine / min dHash statistic is available; those documents are excluded from the classification reported here.
<!-- TABLE XI: Classification Results (Dual-Method: Cosine + dHash)
<!-- TABLE XII: Document-Level Classification (Dual-Descriptor: Cosine + dHash)
| Verdict | N (PDFs) | % | Firm A | Firm A % |
|---------|----------|---|--------|----------|
| High-confidence non-hand-signed | 29,529 | 35.0% | 22,970 | 76.0% |
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| High style consistency | 5,133 | 6.1% | 183 | 0.6% |
| Uncertain | 12,683 | 15.0% | 758 | 2.5% |
| Likely hand-signed | 47 | 0.1% | 4 | 0.0% |
Per the worst-case aggregation rule of Section III-L, a document with two signatures inherits the most-replication-consistent of the two signature-level labels.
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Within the 71,656 documents exceeding cosine $0.95$, the dHash dimension stratifies them into three distinct populations:
29,529 (41.2%) show converging structural evidence of non-hand-signing (dHash $\leq 5$);
36,994 (51.7%) show partial structural similarity (dHash in $[6, 15]$) consistent with replication degraded by scan variations;
and 5,133 (7.2%) show no structural corroboration (dHash $> 15$), suggesting high signing consistency rather than image reproduction.
A cosine-only classifier would treat all 71,656 identically; the dual-method framework separates them into populations with fundamentally different interpretations.
A cosine-only classifier would treat all 71,656 identically; the dual-descriptor framework separates them into populations with fundamentally different interpretations.
### 1) Firm A Validation
### 1) Firm A Capture Profile (Consistency Check)
96.9% of Firm A's documents fall into the high- or moderate-confidence non-hand-signed categories, 0.6% into high-style-consistency, and 2.5% into uncertain.
This pattern is consistent with the replication-dominated framing: the large majority is captured by non-hand-signed rules, while the small residual is consistent with Firm A's interview-acknowledged minority of hand-signers.
The absence of any meaningful "likely hand-signed" rate (4 of 30,000+ Firm A documents, 0.01%) implies either that Firm A's minority hand-signers have not been captured in the lowest-cosine tail---for example, because they also exhibit high style consistency---or that their contribution is small enough to be absorbed into the uncertain category at this threshold set.
We note that because the non-hand-signed thresholds are themselves calibrated to Firm A's empirical percentiles (Section III-H), these rates are an internal consistency check rather than an external validation; the held-out Firm A validation of Section IV-G.2 is the corresponding external check.
### 2) Cross-Method Agreement
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To validate the choice of ResNet-50 as the feature extraction backbone, we conducted an ablation study comparing three pre-trained architectures: ResNet-50 (2048-dim), VGG-16 (4096-dim), and EfficientNet-B0 (1280-dim).
All models used ImageNet pre-trained weights without fine-tuning, with identical preprocessing and L2 normalization.
Table XII presents the comparison.
Table XIII presents the comparison.
<!-- TABLE XII: Backbone Comparison
<!-- TABLE XIII: Backbone Comparison
| Metric | ResNet-50 | VGG-16 | EfficientNet-B0 |
|--------|-----------|--------|-----------------|
| Feature dim | 2048 | 4096 | 1280 |