Codex gpt-5.4 round-5 (codex_review_gpt54_v3_5.md) verdict was Minor
Revision - all v3.4 round-4 PARTIAL/UNFIXED items now confirmed
RESOLVED, including line-by-line recomputation of Table XI z/p
matching the manuscript values. This commit cleans the remaining
quick-win items:
Table IX numerical sync to Script 24 authoritative values
- Five count corrections: cos>0.837 (60,405->60,408), cos>0.945
(57,131/94.52% -> 56,836/94.02%, was 295 sigs / 0.50 pp off),
cos>0.973 (48,910/80.91% -> 48,028/79.45%, was 882 sigs / 1.46 pp
off), cos>0.95 (55,916->55,922), dh<=8 (57,521->57,527),
dh<=15 (60,345->60,348), dual (54,373->54,370).
- Threshold label cos>0.941 -> cos>0.9407 (use exact calib-fold P5
rather than rounded value).
- "dHash_indep <= 5 (calib-fold median-adjacent)" relabeled to
"(whole-sample upper-tail of mode)" to match what III-L explains.
- Added "(operational dual)" / "(style-consistency boundary)" labels
for unambiguous mapping into III-L category definitions.
- Removed circularity-language footnote inside the table comment.
Circularity overclaim removed paper-wide
- Methodology III-K (Section 3 anchor): "we break the resulting
circularity" -> "we make the within-Firm-A sampling variance
visible".
- Results IV-G.2 subsection title: "(breaks calibration-validation
circularity)" -> "(within-Firm-A sampling variance disclosure)".
- Combined with the v3.5 Abstract / Conclusion edits, no surviving
use of circular* anywhere in the paper.
export_v3.py title page now single-anonymized
- Removed "[Authors removed for double-blind review]" placeholder
(IEEE Access uses single-anonymized review).
- Replaced with explicit "[AUTHOR NAMES - fill in before submission]"
+ affiliation placeholder so the requirement is unmissable.
- Subtitle now reads "single-anonymized review".
III-G stale "cosine-conditional dHash" sentence removed
- After the v3.5 III-L rewrite to dh_indep, the sentence at
Methodology L131 referencing "cosine-conditional dHash used as a
diagnostic elsewhere" no longer described any current paper usage.
- Replaced with a positive statement that dh_indep is the dHash
statistic used throughout the operational classifier and all
reported capture-rate analyses.
Abstract trimmed 247 -> 242 words for IEEE 250-word safety margin
- "an end-to-end pipeline" -> "a pipeline"; "Unlike signature
forgery" -> "Unlike forgery"; "we report" passive recast; small
conjunction trims.
Outstanding items deferred (require user decision / larger scope):
- BD/McCrary either substantiate (Z/p table + bin-width robustness)
or demote to supplementary diagnostic.
- Visual-inspection protocol disclosure (sample size, rater count,
blinding, adjudication rule).
- Reproducibility appendix (VLM prompt, HSV thresholds, seeds, EM
init / stopping / boundary handling).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
