Update §IV v3.3: soften §IV-D/E framing + rename §IV-I + add §IV-M

- §IV-D opening: note that the accountant-level dip rejection is fully explained by between-firm composition + integer ties per §III-I.4 (Scripts 39b-e), no longer "the empirical justification for fitting a mixture model" - §IV-E Tables VII/VIII: K=2/K=3 component labels changed from "hand-leaning / mixed / replicated" to position-on-plane labels per §III-J recasting - §IV-I retitled "Inter-CPA Pair-Level Coincidence Rate"; v3.x's "FAR" terminology retroactively reframed; references §IV-M for the v4 Big-4 spike (Script 40b) - New §IV-M (7 tables XIX-XXV): v4-new anchor-based ICCR calibration results consolidated — composition decomposition (Scripts 39b-e), pair-level ICCR sweep (Script 40b), pool- normalised per-signature ICCR (Script 43), document-level ICCR by alarm definition (Script 45), firm-heterogeneity logistic regression + cross-firm hit matrix (Script 44), alert-rate sensitivity (Script 46) - Header bumped to v3.3 (post codex rounds 21-34) Companion to §III v7 commit 723a3f6 and Phase 4 prose v3 commit b33e20d. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrite Phase 4 prose v3: Abstract / §I / §V / §VI to match §III v7
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 # Taiwan TWSE CPA Signature Authentication
 ## What This Is
 A computer-vision research pipeline that classifies whether the CPA signatures appearing on Taiwan TWSE-listed-company financial reports are hand-signed (親簽) or non-hand-signed (非親簽 — early-period rubber-stamp / scan, or post-2020 firm-level electronic signature systems). The pipeline ingests ~90k PDFs (2013-2023), detects ~182k signatures with YOLOv11n, embeds them with ResNet-50 (ImageNet1K_V2, no fine-tune), and characterises distributional structure with cosine + independent dHash descriptors. Target: a peer-reviewed publication (IEEE Access, A/6 on the NCKU CSIE journal list).
 ## Core Value
 A statistically defensible, **reproducible** thresholding methodology that distinguishes hand-signed from digitally-replicated CPA signatures at the population level, with traceable evidence at every step (DB → script → table → paper claim).
 ## Requirements
 ### Validated
 <!-- Shipped and confirmed valuable. -->
 - ✓ End-to-end pipeline (TWSE MOPS scrape → Qwen2.5-VL prefilter → YOLO detection → ResNet embedding → DB + descriptors) — `signature_analysis/01-19`
 - ✓ Independent dHash descriptor for replication detection — Script 14 (v3.x baseline)
 - ✓ Accountant-level 3-component GMM characterisation — Script 18/20 (v3.x baseline)
 - ✓ Paper A v3.20.0 manuscript (full-dataset framing, partner Jimmy 2026-04-27 substantive review accepted, codex 3-pass verification clean) — commit `53125d1` on `yolo-signature-pipeline`
 - ✓ Spike scripts 32-35 confirming Big-4-only scope is methodologically superior — commits `e1d81e3`, `8ac0988`, `55f9f94` on `paper-a-v4-big4`
 ### Active
 <!-- Current scope. Building toward these. -->
 **Milestone: Paper A v4.0 — Big-4 reframe (primary scope) + full-dataset robustness (secondary)**
 - [ ] Foundation: rerun core scripts on Big-4 subset with `--scope=big4` flag (`/scripts 19, 20, 21, 24, 25`)
 - [ ] Methodology rewrite: §III-G/I/J/L re-anchored on dip-test confirmed bimodality and bootstrap-stable Big-4 K=2 GMM (cos=0.975, dh=3.76)
 - [ ] Results tables: regenerate Tables IV-XVIII on Big-4 subset; new §IV-K full-dataset secondary
 - [ ] Prose rewrite: Abstract / Intro / Discussion / Conclusion with Firm A reframed as "templated end of Big-4" case study (was: hand-signed calibration anchor)
 - [ ] AI peer review: ≥3 cross-AI rounds (codex, Gemini 3.x Pro, Opus 4.7) on the v4.0 manuscript
 - [ ] Partner Jimmy second review on v4.0 (he proposed this direction; needs sign-off on execution)
 - [ ] iThenticate <20%, eCF copyright form, IEEE Access submission portal upload + cover letter
 ### Out of Scope
 <!-- Explicit boundaries. Includes reasoning to prevent re-adding. -->
 - **Paper B (audit behaviour / policy implications)** — partner v4 contribution D, deferred to a separate paper after Paper A ships
 - **Paper C standalone (reverse-anchor methodology)** — initial 2026-05-12 spike direction, **folded back into Paper A v4.0 §IV-K** as one robustness lens; does not warrant a separate manuscript
 - **Mid/small-firm primary scope** — included as full-dataset secondary only; primary scope is Big-4 because dip-test only achieves multimodality at Big-4 level
 - **Per-document classifier release as software product** — paper-only deliverable; no API / SaaS layer in scope
 - **VLM behavioural interview / IRB study** — removed in v3.4; not coming back
 ## Context
 - **Domain**: Taiwan-listed CPA audit signatures, 2013-2023; 4 Big-4 firms (勤業眾信 Deloitte, 安侯建業 KPMG, 資誠 PwC, 安永 EY) + ~30 mid/small firms
 - **Hardware split**: YOLO + ResNet on RTX 4090 (CUDA, deterministic forward inference, fixed seed); statistical analysis on Apple Silicon MPS / CPU
 - **Domain expert**: User has practitioner-level CPA-firm knowledge in Taiwan; recognises specific senior-partner names (e.g., 薛明玲 / 周建宏 are known PwC seniors that surfaced in Script 35's C1 cluster)
 - **Partner**: 與 partner Jimmy 合作；Jimmy 已提出 Big-4-only 方向，是 v4.0 的觸發者
 ## Constraints
 - **Target journal**: IEEE Access (A/6 on NCKU CSIE list); fits Computer-Vision-applied-to-Audit scope
 - **Timeline**: v3.20.0 was already partner-reviewed and DOCX-shipped (2026-05-05). v4.0 reframe will delay submission by ~4-6 weeks but produces a stronger manuscript; partner Jimmy is aware and supportive
 - **Reproducibility**: pipeline must run end-to-end on the existing `/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db` snapshot; no new data ingest in scope
 - **AI review provenance**: every empirical claim must be backed by a fresh sqlite/grep against the named script — see `[[feedback-provenance-fabrication]]` memory; Gemini round-19 caught 4 fabricated provenance claims previously
 ## Key Decisions
 | Decision | Rationale | Outcome |
 |----------|-----------|---------|
 | Use ResNet-50 ImageNet1K_V2 without fine-tune | Reproducibility; avoid label leakage from fine-tuning on the same corpus | ✓ Validated through v3.x |
 | Cosine + independent dHash dual descriptor | Cosine catches semantic similarity; independent dHash catches byte-level replication | ✓ Validated |
 | Drop SSIM / pixel-pHash from descriptor set | Reviewer-rejected as redundant / fragile | ✓ v3.x rewrite |
 | Drop A2 within-year uniformity assumption | Empirically falsified by Script 27 | ✓ v3.14 |
 | **Reframe scope to Big-4 only as primary** | Dip-test multimodal only at Big-4 level (p<0.0001); mid/small noise distorted Paper A v3.x's published 0.945/8.10 threshold; partner Jimmy's earlier suggestion empirically confirmed by Scripts 32-35 | — Pending v4.0 |
 | Reverse-anchor Paper C → folded into v4.0 §IV-K | Big-4 reframe is the stronger story; reverse-anchor is one of several lenses on the same data, not a standalone paper | ✓ Decided 2026-05-12 |
 | Branch strategy: `paper-a-v4-big4` from `from-outside-of-firmA` from `yolo-signature-pipeline` | Spike artifacts (Scripts 32-35) stay on the spike branch; v4.0 paper work isolated on its own sub-branch; v3.20.0 preserved on yolo-signature-pipeline as fallback | ✓ Decided 2026-05-12 |
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 *Last updated: 2026-05-12 after Paper A v4.0 Big-4 reframe milestone bootstrap*
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 # Requirements — Paper A v4.0 (Big-4 reframe)
 Milestone: Paper A v4.0 IEEE Access submission with Big-4-only primary scope and full-dataset secondary robustness.
 ## REQ-001: Big-4-only primary scope (foundation)
 **What**: All primary statistical analysis (KDE+dip, BD/McCrary, Beta mixture, 2D-GMM K=2/K=3, pixel-identity FAR, held-out 70/30 z-test, classifier sensitivity) is rerun on the 437-CPA Big-4 subset (Firm A + KPMG + PwC + EY, n_signatures ≥ 10).
 **Acceptance**:
 - Script 20 rerun on Big-4 subset, dip-test p < 0.05 on cos_mean and dh_mean
 - Script 21 (held-out validation) rerun on Big-4 subset
 - Script 24 (calibration vs held-out z-test, classifier sensitivity) rerun on Big-4 subset
 - Script 19 (pixel-identity / FAR) rerun on Big-4 subset
 - All rerun outputs land under `reports/v4_big4/`
 - New operational threshold cos > 0.975 AND dh ≤ 3.76 (or refined K=2 posterior) documented with bootstrap 95% CI
 ## REQ-002: Full-dataset robustness as secondary section
 **What**: §IV-K (new) reports the full-dataset (686 CPA) version of the same analyses as a robustness check, demonstrating the pipeline runs at multiple scopes and explaining why the published v3.x 0.945 threshold drifted (mid/small-firm tail heterogeneity).
 **Acceptance**:
 - §IV-K table comparing Big-4-only vs full-dataset crossings, with mid/small-firm contribution analysis
 - Explicit explanation of why Big-4 is the methodologically privileged primary scope
 ## REQ-003: Methodology rewrite (§III-G / I / J / L)
 **What**: Sections III-G (unit hierarchy / scope), III-I (threshold estimators), III-J (accountant-level GMM), III-L (per-document classifier rule) rewritten to reflect dip-test confirmed bimodality and the new K=2-derived classifier rule.
 **Acceptance**:
 - §III-G justifies Big-4 as the methodological unit (sample size, homogeneity, dip-test evidence)
 - §III-I anchored on bootstrap-stable bimodal evidence rather than three-method convergence on unimodal data
 - §III-J reports K=2 as primary (interpretable: replicated vs hand-leaning) with K=3 BIC slightly preferred (-1112 vs -1108) as secondary
 - §III-L derives operational rule from Big-4 K=2 components and bootstrap CI
 ## REQ-004: Results tables IV-XVIII regenerated
 **What**: All results tables in §IV (currently Tables IV through XVIII at v3.20.0) regenerated on the Big-4 subset with consistent formatting and footnote citation to source script.
 **Acceptance**:
 - Each table cites the script + DB query that generated it
 - Big-4 numbers replace full-dataset numbers as primary; full-dataset relegated to §IV-K
 - Figures 1-4 regenerated; Fig 4 (yearly per-firm) likely reusable as-is
 ## REQ-005: Firm A reframed as templated case study
 **What**: Throughout the manuscript, Firm A's role pivots from "calibration anchor (with minority hand-signers)" to "case study of the templated end of Big-4 (0% in K=3 hand-sign-leaning cluster, 82.5% in replicated cluster)". PwC's higher hand-sign tradition (24/102 = 23.5% in C1) noted as a Big-4 internal contrast.
 **Acceptance**:
 - Discussion (§V) explicitly states Firm A is the most digitally-replicated of Big-4
 - Cross-tab table (firm × cluster) included in either §IV or §V
 - Conclusion's contributions list updated accordingly
 ## REQ-006: AI peer review (≥3 rounds)
 **What**: At least three cross-AI peer-review rounds on the v4.0 manuscript using codex (GPT-5.x), Gemini 3.x Pro, and Opus 4.7 max effort. Per `[[feedback-ai-review-provenance]]` memory: every reviewer-flagged empirical claim must be provenance-verified against fresh sqlite/grep against the named script.
 **Acceptance**:
 - Round 1 verdict obtained from each of the three reviewers
 - All Major-class findings either RESOLVED in revision or explicitly disclaimed
 - Final round produces ≥1 Accept / Minor verdict from at least 2 of 3 reviewers
 ## REQ-007: Partner Jimmy second review on v4.0
 **What**: Jimmy (who proposed Big-4-only direction) reviews the v4.0 manuscript end-to-end before submission.
 **Acceptance**:
 - v4.0 DOCX shipped to ~/Downloads
 - Jimmy's response captured in repo (paper/partner_jimmy_v4_review.md)
 - Any must-fix items resolved in v4.0.x
 ## REQ-008: iThenticate + eCF + submission
 **What**: iThenticate similarity check below 20%, IEEE eCF copyright form completed, manuscript uploaded via IEEE Access submission portal with cover letter.
 **Acceptance**:
 - iThenticate report saved under `paper/ithenticate_v4.pdf`
 - eCF confirmation captured
 - Submission portal confirmation number recorded in PROJECT.md "Validated" section
 ## Cross-cutting constraints
 - **Reproducibility**: every script accepts a `--scope big4|full` flag (or new scripts under `signature_analysis/v4_*` if a flag refactor is too invasive)
 - **Provenance**: every numeric claim in the paper traces to (script_id, DB query, output file) — see `[[feedback-provenance-fabrication]]`
 - **No data re-ingest**: existing `/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db` is the frozen snapshot
 - **Branch isolation**: all v4.0 work on `paper-a-v4-big4`; do NOT merge back to `yolo-signature-pipeline` until v4.0 is partner-approved
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 # Roadmap — Paper A v4.0 Big-4 reframe
 Milestone goal: Ship Paper A v4.0 to IEEE Access with Big-4-only primary scope, dip-test confirmed bimodality, and full-dataset robustness as secondary.
 Branch: `paper-a-v4-big4` (from `from-outside-of-firmA` from `yolo-signature-pipeline` at v3.20.0).
 ## Phase 1 — Foundation: Big-4 subset script reruns
 **Status**: pending
 **Requirements covered**: REQ-001
 **Tasks**:
 - Add `--scope=big4|full` flag to scripts 19, 20, 21, 24, 25 (and harness any others that load accountant aggregates)
 - Rerun on Big-4 subset; outputs to `reports/v4_big4/`
 - Bootstrap 95% CI on K=2 marginal crossings (extend Script 34's bootstrap to other measures)
 - Confirm dip-test p < 0.05 on Big-4 cos_mean and dh_mean (Script 34 already verified at p<0.0001 — replicate inside the rerun harness for audit trail)
 **Done when**: All five scripts produce v4_big4 outputs with bootstrap CI; cross-check against Script 34 numbers.
 ## Phase 2 — Methodology rewrite (§III-G / I / J / L)
 **Status**: pending; depends on Phase 1
 **Requirements covered**: REQ-003
 **Tasks**:
 - §III-G: re-justify accountant-level Big-4 as the analysis unit (sample size, dip-test evidence, contrast with mid/small heterogeneity)
 - §III-I: re-anchor "natural threshold" claim on dip-test multimodality + bootstrap stability
 - §III-J: K=2 primary (replicated 31% / hand-leaning 69%) + K=3 secondary (BIC -1111.93 vs -1108.45)
 - §III-L: derive cos>0.975 AND dh≤3.76 (or K=2 posterior cut) from §III-J components
 **Done when**: §III markdown files updated; cross-references to Phase 1 outputs are correct.
 ## Phase 3 — Results regeneration (§IV Tables IV-XVIII + §IV-K)
 **Status**: pending; depends on Phase 1 and 2
 **Requirements covered**: REQ-001 (tables), REQ-002 (§IV-K), REQ-004
 **Tasks**:
 - Regenerate Tables IV through XVIII on Big-4 subset (relabel as v4 numbering if order shifts)
 - Regenerate Figures 1-3 (Fig 4 yearly per-firm likely reusable)
 - New §IV-K Full-Dataset Robustness section: comparison table (Big-4 vs full), mid/small-firm contribution, why scope matters
 - Add firm × cluster cross-tab table from Script 35
 **Done when**: All §IV tables and figures land in repo; cross-refs from §III hold.
 ## Phase 4 — Prose rewrite (Abstract / I / II / V / VI)
 **Status**: pending; depends on Phase 3
 **Requirements covered**: REQ-005
 **Tasks**:
 - Abstract: new threshold, new scope, retain the "reproducible pipeline" frame
 - §I Introduction: contributions list updated (Firm A reframe, Big-4 internal contrast finding, dip-test natural threshold)
 - §II Related Work: minimal changes (statistical methodology citations stable)
 - §V Discussion: Firm A as templated case study, PwC as hand-sign-leading firm, what this implies
 - §VI Conclusion + Future Work: forecast Paper B (audit behaviour / policy)
 **Done when**: All prose markdown files updated; word counts within IEEE Access limits (Abstract ≤ 250 words).
 ## Phase 5 — AI peer review (3 rounds across codex, Gemini, Opus)
 **Status**: pending; depends on Phase 4 (manuscript-complete state)
 **Requirements covered**: REQ-006
 **Tasks**:
 - Round 1: codex (GPT-5.x) — full manuscript review with provenance verification
 - Round 1: Gemini 3.x Pro — full manuscript review
 - Round 1: Opus 4.7 max-effort — full manuscript review
 - Round 2: address Major findings; same three reviewers cross-check
 - Round 3: convergence — Accept / Minor from at least 2 of 3 reviewers
 **Done when**: Final round produces Accept/Minor consensus from majority; reviewer artifacts saved under `paper/`.
 ## Phase 6 — Partner Jimmy v4.0 review
 **Status**: pending; depends on Phase 5
 **Requirements covered**: REQ-007
 **Tasks**:
 - Export v4.0 DOCX (`paper/export_v3.py` + author block fill)
 - Ship to ~/Downloads
 - Iterate on Jimmy's comments
 - Capture review artifact in `paper/partner_jimmy_v4_review.md`
 **Done when**: Jimmy approves v4.0.
 ## Phase 7 — iThenticate + eCF + IEEE Access submission
 **Status**: pending; depends on Phase 6
 **Requirements covered**: REQ-008
 **Tasks**:
 - Run iThenticate, target similarity < 20%
 - Complete IEEE eCF
 - Upload manuscript + cover letter via IEEE Access submission portal
 - Capture confirmation number
 **Done when**: Submission confirmed by IEEE Access portal.
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 *Phase ordering: 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 → 6 → 7 (mostly linear; Phase 5 round-2 may loop back to Phase 4 prose if Major findings).*
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 # STATE — Current snapshot
 **Date**: 2026-05-12
 **Active milestone**: Paper A v4.0 — Big-4 reframe
 **Active branch**: `paper-a-v4-big4` (12 commits ahead of `yolo-signature-pipeline`)
 **Active phase**: Phase 2 — Methodology rewrite, draft delivered, **awaiting user review of 5 open questions in `paper/v4/paper_a_methodology_v4_section_iii.md`** before Phase 3 begins
 ## Recently completed
 **Phase 1 (Foundation, 7 spike + foundation scripts)**:
 - Script 32 (`e1d81e3`): non-Firm-A calibration verdict C
 - Script 33 (`8ac0988`): reverse-anchor PAPER_C_STRONG (directional ρ=+0.744)
 - Script 34 (`55f9f94`): Big-4 K=2 dip-test multimodal p<0.0001, bootstrap CI [0.974, 0.977] / [3.48, 3.97]
 - Script 35 (`55f9f94`): firm × cluster — Firm A 0% C1 / 82.5% C3, PwC 23.5% C1
 - Script 36 (`ccd9f23`): K=2 LOOO **UNSTABLE** (firm-mass conflation; max Δcos=0.028)
 - Script 37 (`92f1db8`): K=3 LOOO **PARTIAL** (component shape stable, membership ±5-13pp)
 - Script 38 (`bc36dcc`): convergence **STRONG** — 3 lenses pairwise ρ ≥ 0.879
 - Script 39 (`39575ce`): per-signature convergence **MODERATE** — κ=0.87 between per-CPA and per-sig K=3 fits
 - Script 40 (`338737d`): pixel-identity FAR = **0%** on n=262 ground-truth replicated
 **Phase 2 (Methodology rewrite)**: §III-G..L draft delivered at `paper/v4/paper_a_methodology_v4_section_iii.md` (commit on the same branch). Single coherent rewrite covering 6 sub-sections (G/H/I/J/K/L); cross-references to all 9 spike scripts; 5 open questions flagged at end of draft for user decision.
 ## Pending — Phase 2 user review (BEFORE Phase 3)
 5 decisions needed from user before Phase 3 (Results regeneration) starts:
 1. §III-G scope justification — three-point argument enough, or add a fourth?
 2. §III-H Firm A phrasing — "case study of templated end" vs an alternative framing?
 3. §III-J K=3 vs K=2 selection — lean on LOOO (current draft) or strengthen BIC argument?
 4. §III-L hybrid classifier — keep inherited 5-way box rule, or commit to K=3 hard label as primary?
 5. Section IV table numbering scheme — confirm before Phase 3 builds tables.
 Plus: any prose-level edits the user wants on the §III draft.
 ## Blockers
 None.
 ## Open questions deferred from spike
 - Bootstrap stability of cosine and dHash crossings *jointly* (not just marginally) — addressed in Phase 1 if time permits
 - K=2 vs K=3 final choice for §III-J — both reported, but operational classifier needs to commit to one (recommend K=2 for interpretability; K=3 in supplementary)
 ## Things to remember (per memory)
 - Provenance-verify all empirical claims against fresh sqlite/grep ([[feedback-provenance-fabrication]])
 - Don't mock the DB or use placeholders — every number must trace to a script + query
 - Partner Jimmy already proposed Big-4 direction (this is execution, not pitching a new direction)
 - Paper C standalone is shelved — folded into v4.0 §IV-K
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 # Codex Partner Red-Pen Regression Audit (Paper A v3.19.0)
 Scope: focused regression audit of whether the authors' partner red-pen comments on v3.17 have been adequately addressed in the current v3.19.0 manuscript files under `paper/`. This is not a fresh peer review.
 ## 1. Overall summary
 For the 11 lettered red-pen items (a-k), my independent count is **7 RESOLVED / 1 IMPROVED / 0 PARTIAL / 0 UNRESOLVED / 3 N/A**. The two broader theme-level issues are **Citation reality: RESOLVED** and **ZH/EN alignment: N/A**.
 My bottom-line assessment is close to Gemini's: the revision substantially addresses the partner's concerns by deleting the most confusing accountant-level GMM / accountant-level BD-McCrary material and by replacing several AI-sounding explanations with more literal, auditable prose. I do not agree with Gemini's fully clean "8 RESOLVED / 3 N/A" verdict, however. The BIC / strict-3-component item is materially improved, but the manuscript still retains "upper bound" wording in the methods and Table VI even though the results correctly call the two-component fit a forced fit. That is a small prose/rationale residue, not a blocking unresolved issue.
 ## 2. Item-by-item table
 | Item | Status | Manuscript section addressing it | Brief justification | Disagreement with Gemini audit |
 |---|---:|---|---|---|
 | Theme 1: Citation reality for refs [5], [16], [21], [22], [25], [27], [37]-[41] | RESOLVED | `paper_a_references_v3.md`; `reference_verification_v3.md` | The current reference list fixes the serious [5] author/title error and includes real, recognizable method references for Hartigan, Burgstahler-Dichev, McCrary, Dempster-Laird-Rubin, and White. The flagged technical references are not hallucinated. Minor citation-polish items from the verification file appear fixed in the current reference list. | No substantive disagreement. One housekeeping note: `reference_verification_v3.md` still describes [5] as a "major problem" in the detailed findings/recommendations because it records the audit history; the actual current reference list is fixed. |
 | Theme 3: ZH/EN alignment gap at end of III-H Calibration Reference | N/A | Entire v3.19.0 manuscript | The dual-language zh-TW/en scaffold that produced the partner's "no English alongside?" concern is gone. The current draft is monolingual English for IEEE submission, so there is no remaining bilingual alignment task. | No disagreement. |
 | (a) A1 stipulation, "do not understand your description" | RESOLVED | Section III-G, `paper_a_methodology_v3.md` | A1 is now stated as a specific cross-year pair-existence assumption: if replication occurs, at least one same-CPA near-identical pair exists in the observed same-CPA pool. The text also states when A1 may fail. This is much clearer than a vague stipulation. | No disagreement. |
 | (h) A1 pair-detectability paragraph red-circled | RESOLVED | Section III-G, `paper_a_methodology_v3.md` | The red-circled assumption is now bounded: it is plausible for high-volume stamping/e-signing, not guaranteed under singletons, multiple templates, or scan noise, and not a within-year uniformity claim. That should answer the partner's concern about over-assumption. | No disagreement. |
 | (b) Conservative structural-similarity wording, "a bit roundabout?" | RESOLVED | Section III-G, `paper_a_methodology_v3.md` | The independent-minimum dHash is now defined directly as the minimum Hamming distance to any same-CPA signature and identified as the statistic used in the classifier and capture-rate analyses. The wording is concise enough for re-read. | No disagreement. |
 | (c) IV-G validation lead-in, "do not understand why you say this" | RESOLVED | Section IV-G, `paper_a_results_v3.md` | The lead-in now explicitly says Section IV-E capture rates are internally circular because Firm A helped set the thresholds, then explains why the three IV-G analyses are threshold-free or threshold-robust. This directly supplies the missing rationale. | No disagreement. |
 | (d) BD/McCrary at accountant level, "cannot understand" | N/A | Removed from current structure | The accountant-level BD/McCrary analysis no longer appears in the live v3.19.0 manuscript. BD/McCrary is now signature-level only and framed as a density-smoothness diagnostic, not an accountant-level threshold device. | No disagreement. |
 | (k) Accountant-level aggregation rationale, "why accountant level total, because component?" | N/A | Removed from current structure | The confusing accountant-level component narrative has been deleted. The paper now avoids translating signature-level outputs into accountant-level mechanism assignments except for auditor-year ranking. | No disagreement. |
 | (e) 92.6% match rate, "do not understand improvement angle" | RESOLVED | Section III-D, `paper_a_methodology_v3.md`; Table III in Section IV-B | The match rate is now a data-processing coverage metric: 168,755 of 182,328 signatures are CPA-matched, and the unmatched 7.4% are excluded because same-CPA best-match statistics are undefined. The old "improvement" angle is gone. | No disagreement. |
 | (f) 0.95 cosine cutoff, "cut-off corresponds to what?" | RESOLVED | Section III-K, `paper_a_methodology_v3.md`; Sections IV-E/F | The text now states that 0.95 corresponds to the whole-sample Firm A P7.5 heuristic: 92.5% of Firm A signatures exceed it and 7.5% fall at or below it. It also distinguishes 0.95 from the calibration-fold P5 = 0.9407 and rounded 0.945 sensitivity cut. | No disagreement. |
 | (g) 139/32 C1/C2 split, "too reliant on weighting factor?" | N/A | Removed from current structure | The C1/C2 accountant-level GMM cluster split is gone from the current manuscript. Residual fold-variance wording no longer invokes the 139/32 split. | No disagreement. |
 | (i) Hartigan rejection-as-bimodality, "so why?" | RESOLVED | Section III-I.1, `paper_a_methodology_v3.md`; Section IV-D.1 | The text now separates the dip test from component counting: it tests unimodality, does not specify a component count, and is used to decide whether a KDE antimode is meaningful. Section IV-D then explains why Firm A's non-rejection and all-CPA rejection matter. | No disagreement. |
 | (j) BIC strict-3-component upper-bound framing, red-circled paragraph | IMPROVED | Section III-I.2/III-I.4, `paper_a_methodology_v3.md`; Section IV-D.3/IV-D.4, `paper_a_results_v3.md` | The results section is much clearer: it labels the 2-component Beta mixture as "A Forced Fit," reports the 3-component BIC preference, and says the Beta/logit disagreement reflects unsupported parametric structure. However, the methods still say the 2-component crossing "should be treated as an upper bound," and Table VI labels one row as "signature-level Beta/KDE upper bound." That residual wording may still prompt "upper bound of what?" from the partner. | I disagree with Gemini's RESOLVED verdict here. The item is not unresolved, but it is only IMPROVED until "upper bound" is either defined in one plain sentence or removed in favor of "forced-fit descriptive reference." |
 ## 3. Specific pushback on Gemini's RESOLVED verdict
 Only item **(j)** needs pushback.
 Gemini says the BIC issue is resolved because the results now title the subsection "A Forced Fit" and state that the 2-component structure is not supported. That is true for Section IV-D.3, but not the whole manuscript. Section III-I.2 still says that when BIC prefers three components, "the 2-component crossing should be treated as an upper bound rather than a definitive cut." Section III-I.4 repeats that the 2-component crossing is a forced fit and "should be read as an upper bound," and Table VI contains "signature-level Beta/KDE upper bound."
 For a statistically trained reviewer, this may be defensible shorthand. For the partner's original red-pen concern, it is still slightly too abstract. If the authors keep "upper bound," they should define the bound explicitly. Otherwise the safer fix is to remove the term and call these values "forced-fit descriptive references not used operationally."
 ## 4. Smallest residual set before partner re-read
 1. Replace or explain the remaining **"upper bound"** wording in Section III-I.2, Section III-I.4, and Table VI. Suggested direction: "Because the two-component assumption is not supported, we report the crossing only as a forced-fit descriptive reference and do not use it as an operational threshold."
 2. Optional housekeeping: update `reference_verification_v3.md` so its detailed [5] entry no longer reads like an active problem after the reference list has been corrected. This is not a manuscript blocker, but it avoids confusion if the partner or a coauthor opens the verification note.
 No other partner red-pen issue appears to need substantive revision before re-read.
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 # Paper A v4.0 Methodology Section III-G through III-L Peer Review
 Reviewer: gpt-5.5 xhigh  
 Date: 2026-05-12  
 Round number: 21 (v4 round 1)  
 Review target: `paper/v4/paper_a_methodology_v4_section_iii.md`
 Audit aliases used below:
 - V4: `paper/v4/paper_a_methodology_v4_section_iii.md`
 - V3: `paper/paper_a_methodology_v3.md`
 - Script36: `/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/v4_big4/calibration_and_loo_validation/calibration_loo_report.md`
 - Script37: `/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/v4_big4/k3_loo_check/k3_loo_report.md`
 - Script38: `/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/v4_big4/convergence_k3_reverse_anchor/convergence_report.md`
 - Script39: `/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/v4_big4/signature_level_convergence/sig_level_report.md`
 - Script40: `/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/v4_big4/pixel_identity_far/far_report.md`
 - Script34 local: `/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/big4_only_pooled/big4_only_pooled_report.md`
 - Script35 local: `/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/big4_k3_cluster_inspection/inspection_report.md`
 - Script32 local: `/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/non_firm_a_calibration/non_firm_a_calibration_report.md`
 ## Verdict
 Major Revision.
 ## Major Findings
 1. **K=3 is not yet justified as an operational classifier.**
   V4 selects K=3 for the operational per-CPA classifier (V4:57, V4:67) and says the K=3/K=2 contrast justifies selecting K=3 (V4:107). The underlying Script37 verdict is weaker: `P2_PARTIAL`, with the explicit interpretation that the C1 cluster exists but "membership is not well-predicted by held-out fit" (Script37:92, Script37:94). The report's own legend says `P2_PARTIAL` means the cluster is "not predictively useful as an operational classifier" (Script37:97-99).
   The numbers support this concern. K=3 C1 component shape is stable (max deviations 0.0047 cosine, 0.955 dHash, 0.023 weight; Script37:77-79), but held-out C1 membership differs from baseline by up to 12.77 percentage points (Script37:83-90). For PwC, baseline C1 is 23.5% but held-out prediction is 36.27% (Script37:47-51, Script37:87). That is not a small operational error if the label is used to classify CPAs.
   The BIC evidence is also weak. K=3 is lower BIC than K=2 by only 3.48 points (Script36:9-10; Script34 local:40-41). This is acceptable as mild descriptive support, not as the load-bearing reason to replace a classifier. The draft should either (a) demote K=3 to a descriptive/convergent-validation model, or (b) make K=3 primary only with explicit LOOO membership uncertainty and soft-posterior reporting.
 2. **The "three independent lenses" framing overstates independence and validation strength.**
   V4 describes the convergent validation as three "independent statistical lenses" (V4:73-89). They are not independent empirical measurements. All three are deterministic functions of the same per-CPA or per-signature `(cos, dHash)` features:
   - Lens 1 is K=3 posterior from the same two descriptors (V4:77; Script38:6-12).
   - Lens 2 is a monotone transform of the cosine marginal only (V4:78; Script38:16-18).
   - Lens 3 is the fraction of signatures failing the same box rule `cos > 0.95 AND dh <= 5` (V4:79; Script38:20-22).
   The high Spearman correlations are verified (0.9627, 0.8890, 0.8794; Script38:24-34), but they are partly mechanical agreement among feature-derived scores. They do not validate the classifier against an independent ground truth for hand-signed signatures.
   There is also a conceptual reversal in the reverse-anchor prose. V4 says the non-Big-4 reference has lower cosine and higher dHash than the Big-4 C1 center (V4:37), which is verified (reference center 0.9349/9.7670 in Script38:16-18; C1 0.9457/9.1715 in Script38:8-12). But V4 then calls this a "more-replicated-population" baseline (V4:37). Lower cosine and higher dHash indicate less replication / more hand-leaning, not more replication. A reviewer will likely catch this immediately.
 3. **The draft conflates at least three classifiers and then validates only one simplified binary rule.**
   V4 alternates among (i) K=3 per-CPA hard labels (V4:67), (ii) a binary Paper A box rule `cos > 0.95 AND dh <= 5` (V4:69), and (iii) the inherited five-way per-signature/document rule with `dh <= 5`, `5 < dh <= 15`, and `dh > 15` bands (V4:123-135). The Script38/39 convergence results validate only the simplified binary rule `non_hand iff cos > 0.95 AND dh <= 5` (Script38:20-22; Script39:8-12). They do not validate the full five-way classifier, especially the moderate non-hand-signed band `5 < dh <= 15`.
   This matters because V3's inherited Section III-K explicitly treated `cos > 0.95 AND 5 < dh <= 15` as "Moderate-confidence non-hand-signed" (V3:278-287). V4 keeps that category (V4:127) but cites kappa/rho evidence from a binary high-confidence-only rule (V4:121). The current prose therefore overstates what the Script39 kappa values prove.
   Recommended fix: choose a primary endpoint. If the five-way rule remains primary, validate that exact five-way rule or its declared binary collapse. If K=3 becomes primary, provide a document-level aggregation rule for K=3 and stop calling the inherited box rule the operational classifier.
 4. **The pixel-identity validation is useful, but "FAR" is the wrong metric name and the evidentiary force is overstated.**
   Script40's ground truth is a positive class: pixel-identical signatures are treated as replicated (Script40:4-8). Misclassifying them as hand-leaning is a false negative / miss rate on an easy positive-anchor subset, not a false-alarm rate in the usual classifier sense. V4 defines FAR as "probability of labelling a pixel-identical signature as hand-leaning" (V4:109), which reverses standard terminology.
   The 0/262 result is verified for all three classifiers (Script40:12-18), and the caveat that pixel-identity is necessary but not sufficient is appropriate (V4:117; Script40:29-31). But for the Paper A box rule this result is close to tautological: byte-identical nearest-neighbor signatures will have near-maximal cosine and minimal dHash. V3 was more careful, noting that FRR against byte-identical positives is trivially zero at thresholds below 1 and should be interpreted qualitatively (V3:266-268).
   Rename this metric to "pixel-identity positive-anchor miss rate" or "false-hand rate on replicated positives." Do not present it as FAR unless a true hand-signed negative anchor is evaluated.
 5. **Several empirical/provenance claims need correction or explicit "unverified" status.**
   - V4 says the K=2 LOOO max cosine deviation 0.028 is `5.6x` a "bootstrap CI half-width of 0.005" (V4:103). Script36 reports max deviation 0.0278 (Script36:43), but 0.005 is the stability tolerance in the verdict legend, not the bootstrap CI half-width (Script36:50-52). The full Big-4 bootstrap cosine CI half-width is 0.0015 (Script36:14-17). Correct the denominator and wording.
   - V4 says all-non-Firm-A is dip-test unimodal at `p > 0.99` (V4:21). Script32 local reports all-non-Firm-A cosine p = 0.9975 but dHash p = 0.9065 (Script32 local:56-76). The later detailed sentence in V4 correctly gives 0.998/0.907 (V4:43). Fix the earlier overstatement.
   - V4 says no BD/McCrary transition is identified on either axis and cites Script32/34 (V4:47). Script34 local supports no Big-4-only BD/McCrary threshold (Script34 local:28-31), but Script32 local reports dHash BD/McCrary thresholds for `big4_non_A` and `all_non_A` (Script32 local:36-44, Script32 local:68-76). Narrow the claim to the Big-4-only analysis or explain why Script32 subset transitions are not used.
   - The Firm A byte-identical claim is partly verified. Script40 verifies 145 Firm A pixel-identical signatures inside the 262 Big-4 total (Script40:20-27). The added details "50 distinct Firm A partners," "of 180 registered," and "35 span different fiscal years" appear in V3 (V3:165) and V4 (V4:31), but I did not find them in the supplied Script36-40 reports. Treat those details as unverified unless the Appendix B/script artifact is cited directly.
   - The "mid/small-firm tail actively pulling the v3.x crossing" statement (V4:19) is stronger than the local Script34 evidence. Script34 local verifies the Big-4-only crossing and CI (Script34 local:18-24), and it reports a large offset from the published baseline (Script34 local:51-58). It does not, by itself, prove the causal language "actively pulling" rather than "the full-sample and Big-4-only calibrations differ."
 ## Minor Findings
 1. **Dip-test p-value precision needs a resolution check.** V4 says bootstrap p-value estimation uses `n_boot = 2000` and reports `p < 10^-4` (V4:43). With a finite bootstrap of 2000, the natural resolution is about 1/2000 unless the script uses a different asymptotic/calibrated p-value. Script36/34 display p = 0.0000 (Script36:6-8; Script34 local:28-31). State the reporting convention precisely, e.g., "no bootstrap replicate exceeded the observed statistic; reported as p < 0.001" if that is what happened.
 2. **The Delta BIC sign convention is confusing.** V4 reports "Delta BIC = -3.5" (V4:65). Since lower BIC is preferred, a reviewer may expect `BIC(K=2) - BIC(K=3) = 3.48` or "K=3 lower by 3.48." Use one convention and define it.
 3. **Per-signature convergence is real but only moderate for the box rule.** Script39 verifies kappas of 0.6616, 0.5586, and 0.8701 (Script39:22-30). The report verdict is `SIG_CONVERGENCE_MODERATE`, not strong (Script39:41-48). V4's statement that box-rule disagreement reflects "different decision geometries" rather than signal disagreement (V4:99) is plausible but interpretive. Add the moderate verdict and avoid making geometry the only explanation.
 4. **Per-CPA vs per-signature component centers drift more than the prose suggests.** Script39 shows per-CPA C1 at cosine 0.9457 and per-signature C1 at 0.9280 (Script39:16-20). Kappa is high for K=3 perCPA vs perSig labels (Script39:28), but "the same component structure recovers" (V4:99) should be softened to "a broadly similar three-component ordering recovers."
 5. **The Section III-L title is misleading.** The section is titled "Per-Document Classification" (V4:119) but most of it defines per-signature categories (V4:121-133). The document-level aggregation appears only in one paragraph (V4:135). Either rename to "Signature- and Document-Level Classification" or split the two parts.
 6. **K=3 alternative output lacks document aggregation.** V4 says the K=3 alternative assigns each signature to C1/C2/C3 (V4:137), but if Section III-L is per-document classification, the K=3 alternative also needs a document-level worst-case or posterior aggregation rule.
 7. **Firm anonymization is inconsistent.** V4 names the four firms in Chinese and then says they are pseudonymized as Firms A-D (V4:17). Later it uses PwC directly (V4:31). V3 says firm-level results are reported under pseudonyms (V3:315-316). Decide whether v4 abandons anonymization; otherwise keep the main text pseudonymous and put the mapping outside the manuscript, if at all.
 ## Editorial / Prose Nits
 1. Replace "more-replicated-population baseline" (V4:37) with "less-replicated external reference" or "hand-leaning external reference."
 2. Replace "failure rate" for Lens 3 (V4:79, V4:89) with "box-rule hand-leaning rate" or "non-replicated rate." "Failure" sounds like classifier failure rather than a hand-leaning outcome.
 3. "Strongest single methodology-validation signal" (V4:89) is too strong because the lenses share features. Use "strongest internal consistency signal."
 4. "Boundary moves modestly" (V4:105) understates the PwC fold, where C1 membership rises from 23.5% to 36.3% (Script37:47-51). Use "membership remains composition-sensitive."
 5. "Calibration uncertainty band of +/- 5-13 percentage points" (V4:105) should be "observed absolute differences of 1.8-12.8 percentage points, with the largest fold exceeding the report's 5 pp viability bar" (Script37:83-90).
 6. "Operational threshold derivation" (V4:51) is not accurate if the operational per-signature classifier remains the inherited box rule. Use "mixture model and component assignment" unless K=3 is truly primary.
 7. The cross-reference index is useful, but it should be removed from the submitted manuscript or converted into an internal author checklist.
 ## Responses to the Five Open Questions
 1. **Scope justification.**
   The three-point argument is directionally good but not yet sufficient. Add a fourth point explicitly restricting generalizability: primary claims are for the Big-4 audit-report context, while the 249 non-Big-4 CPAs are used only as robustness/reverse-anchor context unless Section IV-K independently validates them. Also soften "tail distorts" to "tail changes the fitted crossing" unless you cite a direct diagnostic for distortion. The Big-4 counts and crossings are verified (Script34 local:4-24; Script36:6-17), but the causal language needs restraint.
 2. **Firm A phrasing.**
   Use "templated-end case study" or "replication-heavy descriptive reference." Do not use "calibration reference, descriptively defined post-hoc" unless Firm A actually calibrates a threshold in v4. The draft correctly says Firm A is not the calibration anchor (V4:33). Calling it a calibration reference reintroduces the v3 vulnerability.
 3. **K=3 vs K=2 rationale.**
   As written, no. Selecting K=3 as an operational classifier on LOOO stability is not acceptable because Script37 says K=3 is only `P2_PARTIAL` and "not predictively useful as an operational classifier" (Script37:92-99). Do not strengthen the BIC argument; Delta BIC about 3.5 is mild. The defensible claim is: K=2 is clearly unstable; K=3 gives a reproducible hand-leaning component shape; hard membership remains uncertain and should be reported as calibration uncertainty.
 4. **Hybrid box rule plus K=3 alternative.**
   The hybrid can be acceptable only if roles are sharply separated: inherited five-way box rule is the primary signature/document classifier; K=3 is an accountant-level characterization and exploratory alternative. The current draft blurs this by calling K=3 "operational" (V4:67) while keeping the box rule in Section III-L (V4:121-137). Also, the validation scripts use the binary high-confidence rule `dh <= 5`, not the full five-way rule with `dh <= 15`. Fix this before deciding whether to keep the hybrid.
 5. **Section IV numbering.**
   Do not freeze table numbers yet. First settle the Methodology labels and primary classifier. Results should mirror this order: sample/scope, K=2/K=3 calibration, convergence lenses, K=2 and K=3 LOOO, pixel-identity positive-anchor check, signature/document classification outputs, then full-dataset robustness. After that, assign table numbers and verify every Section III cross-reference to Section IV-D/F/G/K.
 ## Recommended Next-Step Actions
 1. Rewrite Sections III-J and III-K so K=3 is either clearly primary with uncertainty, or clearly descriptive. If descriptive, remove "operational threshold" language from the K=3 discussion.
 2. Add the Script37 `P2_PARTIAL` result directly to the prose. Do not hide the "not predictively useful as an operational classifier" implication.
 3. Decide and declare the primary classifier: inherited five-way box rule, binary high-confidence box rule, or K=3 hard/posterior labels. Align all validation text to that exact classifier.
 4. If the five-way rule remains primary, rerun or report validation for the five-way categories and the document-level worst-case aggregation, not just `cos > 0.95 AND dh <= 5`.
 5. Rename the pixel-identity metric from FAR to positive-anchor miss rate / false-hand rate. Add a separate specificity/FAR result only if a true hand-signed or inter-CPA negative anchor is evaluated.
 6. Correct the empirical slips: K=2 "0.005 bootstrap half-width," all-non-Firm-A `p > 0.99`, Script32 BD/McCrary wording, reverse-anchor "more-replicated" phrase, and any unverified Firm A byte-decomposition details.
 7. Add a short provenance table for every numerical claim in Sections III-G through III-L, including exact report path, script number, and whether the number is directly reported or inferred by arithmetic.
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 # Paper A v4.0 Methodology Section III-G through III-L Peer Review
 Reviewer: gpt-5.5 xhigh  
 Date: 2026-05-12  
 Round number: 22 (v4 round 2)  
 Review target: `paper/v4/paper_a_methodology_v4_section_iii.md`
 ## Verdict
 Minor Revision.
 v2 closes most of the round-21 blockers: K=3 is no longer the operational classifier, the "independent lenses" claim is softened, the pixel-identity metric is no longer called FAR in the draft, and the main empirical slips are corrected. The remaining issues are narrower but still need edits before accepting the methodology text, especially the false per-firm ordering claim in §III-K and the unresolved validation status of the five-way moderate-confidence band.
 ## Round-21 finding closure table
 | Finding | Round-21 Severity | v2 Status | Evidence in v2 |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | M1. K=3 is not justified as an operational classifier. | Major | CLOSED | v2 explicitly says both K=2 and K=3 are descriptive and not used for signature/document labels (v2:51, v2:67-73, v2:143). It also reports Script 37 `P2_PARTIAL` and the "not predictively useful as an operational classifier" implication (v2:65, v2:109). |
 | M2. "Three independent lenses" overstates independence and validation strength, and reverse-anchor direction was wrong. | Major | PARTIAL | The independence and reverse-anchor wording are fixed: the scores are "not statistically independent" and only internal-consistency checks (v2:75-83), and the reference is now described as less replication-dominated (v2:35-37). However, v2 adds a false per-firm ordering claim that all three scores make Firm C most hand-leaning (v2:93); Script 38's reverse-anchor mean instead ranks Firm D highest. |
 | M3. Classifier conflation; only the simplified binary rule was validated. | Major | PARTIAL | v2 now declares the inherited five-way box rule as primary (v2:123-143) and K=3 as descriptive (v2:143). It also correctly notes that the kappa comparison validates only the binary high-confidence rule, not the five-way moderate band (v2:103). The unresolved moderate-band validation is still open (v2:190-192), and v2:125 still uses binary-rule correlations to support the full five-way rule without recalibration. |
 | M4. Pixel-identity "FAR" naming and evidentiary force were wrong. | Major | CLOSED | v2 renames this to a positive-anchor miss rate, frames it as a one-sided replicated-positive check, and adds the tautology/conservative-subset caveat (v2:111-121). |
 | M5. Empirical/provenance claims needed correction or explicit unverified status. | Major | CLOSED | The 0.005 denominator is now a stability tolerance, not a bootstrap CI (v2:65, v2:107); all-non-Firm-A dip values are corrected (v2:21, v2:43); BD/McCrary is narrowed to Big-4 null with external dHash transitions disclosed (v2:47); Firm A byte-decomposition details are marked inherited/not regenerated (v2:31, v2:176); "tail distorts" is softened to a scope-dependent shift (v2:19). |
 | m1. Dip-test p-value precision needed bootstrap-resolution wording. | Minor | CLOSED | v2 states no bootstrap replicate exceeded the observed statistic and reports `p < 5 x 10^-4` for `n_boot = 2000` (v2:21, v2:43, v2:158-159). |
 | m2. Delta BIC sign convention was confusing. | Minor | CLOSED | v2 defines lower BIC as preferred and reports `BIC(K=3) - BIC(K=2) = -3.48`, plus "K=3 lower by 3.48" (v2:45, v2:63). |
 | m3. Per-signature convergence is only moderate for the box rule. | Minor | CLOSED | v2 includes the `SIG_CONVERGENCE_MODERATE` verdict and avoids calling the Paper A-vs-K=3 kappas strong (v2:95-103). |
 | m4. Per-CPA vs per-signature component centers drift more than v1 suggested. | Minor | CLOSED | v2 says the fits recover a "broadly similar three-component ordering" and reports the C1 cosine drift of 0.018 (v2:95). |
 | m5. Section III-L title was misleading. | Minor | CLOSED | The section is now titled "Signature- and Document-Level Classification" and separates per-signature categories from document aggregation (v2:123-143). |
 | m6. K=3 alternative lacked document aggregation. | Minor | CLOSED | v2 no longer offers K=3 as a signature/document classifier, so a K=3 document aggregation rule is no longer required (v2:143). |
 | m7. Firm anonymization was inconsistent. | Minor | CLOSED | v2 uses Firm A-D pseudonyms in the methodology text and no longer names the Big-4 firms directly in the prose (v2:17, v2:31, v2:194). |
 | e1. Replace "more-replicated-population baseline." | Editorial | CLOSED | v2 now calls non-Big-4 a less-replicated external/reverse-anchor reference (v2:35-37). |
 | e2. Replace "failure rate" for Lens 3. | Editorial | CLOSED | Lens 3 is now "Paper A box-rule hand-leaning rate" (v2:83). |
 | e3. "Strongest single methodology-validation signal" was too strong. | Editorial | CLOSED | v2 uses "strongest internal-consistency signal" and denies external validation (v2:77, v2:93). |
 | e4. "Boundary moves modestly" understated LOOO membership instability. | Editorial | CLOSED | v2 uses composition-sensitive wording and reports the 12.8 pp Firm C fold deviation (v2:65, v2:109). |
 | e5. "Calibration uncertainty band of +/- 5-13 pp" wording needed correction. | Editorial | CLOSED | v2 reports observed absolute differences of 1.8-12.8 pp and the 5 pp viability bar (v2:109). |
 | e6. "Operational threshold derivation" language was inaccurate. | Editorial | CLOSED | v2 consistently calls K=3 a mixture characterisation/descriptive model, not an operational threshold source (v2:49-73, v2:143). |
 | e7. Cross-reference index should be removed or made internal. | Editorial | PARTIAL | v2 labels the cross-reference index as an author checklist to remove before submission (v2:181), but it remains inside the methodology draft (v2:181-188). |
 ## Newly introduced issues
 1. **New factual/provenance error: the three scores do not agree on the most hand-leaning firm.** v2 claims that "by all three scores, Firm A is the most replication-dominated and Firm C is the most hand-leaning" (v2:93). Script 38 confirms Firm A is most replication-dominated, but not the Firm C part for all scores: mean P_C1 and mean hand_frac rank Firm C highest, while mean reverse-anchor ranks Firm D highest (`-0.7125` vs Firm C `-0.7672`, with higher score meaning more hand-leaning). Revise to: "P_C1 and box-rule hand_frac rank Firm C highest; the reverse-anchor score ranks Firm D highest; all three agree Firm A is most replication-dominated and the non-A firms are more hand-leaning than Firm A."
 2. **Unsupported scope superlative: "any single firm" / "smallest scope" is not proven by the supplied reports.** v2 says no dip-test rejection holds "within any single firm pooled alone" and that Big-4 is the "smallest scope" supporting a finite-mixture model (v2:21; repeated more generally at v2:43). The supplied Script 32 report verifies Firm A alone, `big4_non_A`, and `all_non_A`; it does not report separate single-firm tests for Firms B, C, and D or all smaller combinations. Narrow this to "among the tested comparison scopes in Script 32" or add the missing single-firm tests.
 3. **K=3 hard labels are incorrectly described as used in the Spearman correlations.** v2:143 says the "K=3 hard label" is used for the internal-consistency Spearman correlations. Script 38's Spearman table uses the K=3 posterior score `P_C1`, not hard labels. Change v2:143 to "K=3 posterior score is used for the Spearman correlations; hard labels are used for the cluster cross-tabulation."
 4. **Provenance table over-cites Script 38 for the Big-4 signature count.** v2:17 and v2:152 attribute the 150,442 signature count partly/directly to Script 38. In the supplied markdown report, Script 39 directly reports the 150,442 signature-level cloud; Script 38's visible report does not directly state that count. Keep Script 39 as the direct source unless the JSON artifact is also cited.
 5. **"Max fold-to-fold deviation" wording is imprecise.** v2 reports a K=2 "max fold-to-fold deviation" of 0.028 (v2:65, v2:107). Script 36's 0.0278 is the max absolute deviation across folds as reported in the stability summary, not the pairwise fold range; the fold cut range is about 0.0376 (0.9756 - 0.9380). Use the report's exact wording or explicitly define the statistic.
 ## Provenance re-verification
 | v2 numerical claim | v2 lines | Spike-report check | Status |
 |---|---:|---|---|
 | Big-4 has 437 CPAs split 171 / 112 / 102 / 52. | v2:17, v2:151 | Script 36 reports 437 CPAs; Script 34 reports the four firm counts. | CONFIRMED |
 | Big-4 signature-level cloud has 150,442 signatures. | v2:17, v2:95, v2:152 | Script 39 reports fitting on 150,442 signature-level points. | CONFIRMED, but source should be Script 39 rather than Script 38 in the provenance table. |
 | Big-4 K=2 crossings are cos 0.9755 and dHash 3.7549, with CIs [0.9742, 0.9772] and [3.4762, 3.9689]. | v2:45, v2:53, v2:154-156 | Script 36 and Script 34 report these point estimates and bootstrap CIs. | CONFIRMED |
 | K=3 components are C1 0.9457/9.1715/0.143, C2 0.9558/6.6603/0.536, C3 0.9826/2.4137/0.321. | v2:55-63, v2:163 | Scripts 35, 37, and 38 report the same centers and weights. | CONFIRMED |
 | K=3 LOOO membership deviations are 1.8-12.8 pp, with `P2_PARTIAL`. | v2:65, v2:109, v2:168 | Script 37 reports diffs 1.76, 4.68, 5.81, 12.77 pp and verdict `P2_PARTIAL`. | CONFIRMED |
 | Spearman correlations are 0.963, 0.889, and 0.879. | v2:85-91, v2:169 | Script 38 reports 0.9627, 0.8890, and 0.8794. | CONFIRMED |
 | All three scores rank Firm C as most hand-leaning. | v2:93 | Script 38 per-firm summary ranks Firm C highest on mean P_C1 and mean hand_frac, but Firm D highest on mean reverse-anchor. | FLAGGED |
 | Per-signature kappas are 0.662, 0.559, and 0.870; verdict moderate. | v2:95-103, v2:170 | Script 39 reports 0.6616, 0.5586, 0.8701 and `SIG_CONVERGENCE_MODERATE`. | CONFIRMED |
 | Pixel-identical subset is n=262 split 145 / 8 / 107 / 2, with 0% miss rate and Wilson upper 1.45%. | v2:111-119, v2:172-173 | Script 40 reports total 262, the per-firm split, and 262/262 correct for all three candidate classifiers with Wilson [0.00%, 1.45%]. | CONFIRMED |
 | Non-Firm-A dip values are 0.998/0.906 for `big4_non_A` and 0.998/0.907 for `all_non_A`. | v2:21, v2:43, v2:161-162 | Script 32 reports 0.9985/0.9055 and 0.9975/0.9065, matching v2 rounded values. | CONFIRMED |
 ## Outstanding open questions
 1. **Five-way moderate-confidence validation still needs a decision.** v2 is honest that the v4 kappa evidence covers only the high-confidence binary rule (v2:103, v2:190-192). If the five-way classifier remains primary, the cleanest next step is a Big-4-specific capture/FAR/cross-tab analysis for the moderate band and the document-level worst-case aggregation. If not rerun, the manuscript should explicitly state that the moderate band remains inherited from v3.x and is not newly validated by Scripts 38-40.
 2. **Firm anonymisation policy still needs confirmation for §IV-V.** v2 itself is pseudonymous, but the open question at v2:194 remains real: once §IV-V discuss within-Big-4 contrasts, the manuscript should consistently use Firm A-D and keep any real-name mapping out of the paper body.
 3. **Section IV numbering can remain deferred.** v2:196 is procedural and does not block §III acceptance; resolve after the methodology claims and result-table sequence are frozen.
 ## Recommended next-step actions
 1. Correct v2:93's per-firm ordering claim against Script 38.
 2. Decide whether to add a Big-4-specific validation for the five-way moderate band and document-level aggregation. If not, narrow v2:125 so binary-rule correlations do not appear to validate the full five-way classifier.
 3. Narrow the dip-test scope language at v2:21 and v2:43, or add missing individual-firm dip tests for Firms B-D.
 4. Fix v2:143 so Spearman correlations are tied to K=3 posterior scores, not K=3 hard labels.
 5. Correct the provenance table entry for the 150,442 signature count to cite Script 39 as the direct markdown-report source.
 6. Replace "max fold-to-fold deviation" with the exact Script 36 statistic or report the actual pairwise fold range.
 7. Remove the author checklist and open-question block from the manuscript version after these decisions are resolved.
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 # Paper A Round 23 Review - v4 round 3
 Reviewer: gpt-5.5 xhigh  
 Date: 2026-05-12  
 Target: `paper/v4/paper_a_results_v4_section_iv.md` (§IV v2)  
 Cross-checked against: `paper/v4/paper_a_methodology_v4_section_iii.md` (§III v3), round-21/22 reviews, `paper/paper_a_results_v3.md`, and the supplied spike reports.
 ## Verdict
 Major Revision.
 The empirical core of §IV v2 is much stronger than the earlier methodology drafts: most new Big-4 numerical tables match the spike reports. The blockers are presentation and provenance risks that reviewers will catch quickly: table numbering is not coherent, several §III cross-references now point to the wrong §IV material, the inherited detection count is misstated, and the draft says firm anonymisation is maintained while repeatedly printing real firm names.
 ## Major findings
 1. **Table numbering is not coherent enough for partner review.**
   §IV v2 says provisional numbering covers Tables IV-XVIII (line 3), and line 13 says v3.20.0 Table IV is "retained as Table IV here." But the file does not actually include a Table IV block; the first displayed v4 table is Table V at line 23. Line 17 also cites the inherited all-pairs analysis as "v3.20.0 §IV-C, Table V," while line 23 reuses Table V for the new Big-4 dip test. That is acceptable only if the inherited table is explicitly not a v4 table; otherwise Table V is duplicated.
   The same issue recurs at the end: line 240 assigns current Table XVIII to the full-dataset Spearman robustness table, while line 254 says the inherited backbone ablation is "Table XVIII in v3.20.0." If the ablation is retained in the v4 manuscript, it cannot also be current Table XVIII. Fix by deciding which inherited v3 tables are reprinted/renumbered versus cited only as v3.x provenance.
 2. **§III v3 contains stale cross-references that §IV v2 does not support as written.**
   §III line 13 says signature-level capture-rate analyses are in §IV-D, §IV-F, and §IV-G. In §IV v2, those are accountant-level distributional characterisation, internal-consistency checks, and LOOO reproducibility. This is a direct cross-reference failure.
   §III line 23 says "all §IV results except §IV-K" are Big-4 restricted. §IV v2 itself is narrower and more accurate at line 9: §IV-D through §IV-J are Big-4 primary, while §IV-K is full-dataset robustness. But §IV-A-C are inherited full-corpus setup/detection/all-pairs material, §IV-I is inherited full-corpus inter-CPA FAR, and §IV-L is an inherited corpus-wide ablation. §III must be changed to match the actual results section.
   §III line 109 says the moderate-confidence band retains v3.x capture-rate evaluation in "§IV-F"; in current §IV, §IV-F is not the inherited v3 capture-rate section. It should cite v3.x Tables IX/XI/XII/XII-B or current §IV-J's inheritance note, not current §IV-F.
 3. **The inherited detection-count sentence is numerically wrong / ambiguous.**
   §IV line 13 says "182,328 detected signatures across 86,072 prefiltered audit-report PDFs." The v3 baseline distinguishes these counts: VLM screening identified 86,072 documents with signature pages, 12 corrupted PDFs were excluded, and batch YOLO inference ran on 86,071 documents; v3 Table III then reports 85,042 documents with detections and 182,328 extracted signatures. Current line 13 collapses these stages and assigns the 182,328 signatures to the wrong denominator.
   Suggested rewrite: "VLM screening identified 86,072 signature-page documents; after 12 corrupted PDFs were excluded, YOLO batch inference processed 86,071 documents, with 85,042 yielding detections and 182,328 extracted signatures."
 4. **The draft claims firm anonymisation is maintained, but the §IV tables reveal real firm names.**
   §III line 23 says the Big-4 firms are pseudonymously labelled Firm A-D. §IV line 265 says firm anonymisation is "maintained throughout §IV (Firm A-D used consistently)." That is false: real names appear in the displayed result tables at lines 93-96, 120-123, 132-135, 179-182, 204-207, and 217-220.
   Either remove the parenthetical real names everywhere in §IV or explicitly abandon the pseudonym policy in §III and the close-out checklist. Given prior review history, this should be fixed before partner review.
 5. **Some interpretive claims overstate what the spike results prove.**
   The main false one is line 211: it says the non-Firm-A moderate-confidence proportions are "consistent with the §III-K Spearman convergence on the per-CPA hand-leaning ranking." The MC ordering is C (41.44%), B (35.88%), D (29.33%), while Table X's hand-leaning scores rank D above B on all three score summaries and rank D above C on the reverse-anchor score. MC-band occupancy is not a monotone proxy for the per-CPA hand-leaning ranking; D's mass moves heavily into Uncertain instead.
   Line 184 also compares Firm A's signature-level HC rate (81.70%) to its accountant-level C3 rate (82.46%). The numbers are close and the qualitative reading is reasonable, but they are different units. State this as qualitative alignment, not as a like-for-like consistency check.
   Line 43 calls off-Big-4 dHash transitions "consistent with histogram-resolution artefacts." Script 32 verifies varying dHash transitions; it does not by itself prove a bin-width artefact analysis for those accountant-level subsets. "Scope-dependent and not used operationally" is safer.
 6. **The moderate-confidence band is honestly disclosed as inherited, but the support language still needs narrowing.**
   §IV line 211 correctly states that Scripts 38-40 do not separately validate the MC band. That is good. But §III line 131 still says the binary-rule internal-consistency checks support continued use of the inherited five-way rule "without recalibration." That is stronger than the evidence: the v4 kappa/Spearman checks cover the binary high-confidence box rule, not the MC band or document-level worst-case aggregation. The defensible wording is: v4 reports Big-4 outputs for the inherited five-way rule; the MC band remains v3-calibrated and not newly validated in Scripts 38-42.
 ## Minor findings
 1. **K=3 LOOO C1 weight drift is rounded away from the report.** §IV line 137 reports max C1 weight deviation as 0.025. Script 37's report says 0.023, and the JSON gives 0.023489. Use 0.023 or 0.0235.
 2. **Seed coverage statement stops at Script 41.** §IV line 7 says seeds are fixed across Scripts 32-41, but v2 depends on Script 42 for Tables XV and XV-B. Either include Script 42 if true or say "stochastic v4 spike scripts" rather than implying a complete script range.
 3. **Inclusivity of the low-cosine cutoff should match Script 42.** §IV line 17 says cosine `< 0.837` implies Likely-hand-signed; Script 42 defines LH as `cos <= 0.837`. Align §III-L and §IV-C/J exactly.
 4. **The "round-22 open question 1, Light scope" process note is not traceable to the round-22 review file.** §IV line 228 may reflect an author decision outside the supplied review, but it should be removed from manuscript prose or backed by an internal note.
 5. **The ablation section pointer is wrong.** §IV line 252 says the inherited feature-backbone ablation is from v3.x §IV-H.3, but in `paper/paper_a_results_v3.md` it is §IV-I, beginning at line 461.
 6. **Line 73's "component recovery ... across Scripts 35, 37, and 38" can be misread.** Script 37's full-baseline block replicates Script 35, but the LOOO fold components vary by design. Say "the full-fit baseline is reproduced in Scripts 35, 37, and 38" if that is the intended claim.
 ## Editorial nits
 1. Remove the draft note and Phase 3 close-out checklist before submission, or move them to an internal author note.
 2. Line 110: "This convergent-checks evidence" should be "These convergence checks" or "This convergence evidence."
 3. Line 3: "is finalised" should be "will be finalised" while numbering remains provisional.
 4. Standardise "dHash" versus "dh" in tables and prose; the spike reports use `dh`, but the paper body mostly uses dHash.
 5. Avoid mixing "replicated," "templated," and "non-hand-signed" as if they are exact synonyms. The paper's caveats rely on preserving those distinctions.
 ## Provenance verification table
 | §IV v2 claim | §IV lines | Source checked | Status |
 |---|---:|---|---|
 | Big-4 primary scope: 437 CPAs and 150,442 signatures with both descriptors. | 9 | Script 36 report lines 6, 32-37; Script 39 report line 12. | Confirmed. |
 | Detection inheritance: 182,328 signatures across 86,072 PDFs. | 13 | v3 results lines 14, 17-25; v3 methodology search hits distinguish 86,072 VLM-positive, 86,071 processed, 85,042 with detections. | Needs correction; denominator conflated. |
 | All-pairs KDE crossover at 0.837. | 17 | v3 results lines 49 and 118; Script 42 rule lines 6-10 uses 0.837. | Confirmed; fix `<` vs `<=` wording. |
 | Big-4 dip-test p-values reported as `< 5 x 10^-4`. | 27, 32 | Script 36 report lines 6-8; Script 34 report lines 28-31; bootstrap resolution stated in §IV line 32. | Confirmed with reporting convention. |
 | Firm A / Big4-non-A / all-non-A dip p-values: 0.992/0.924, 0.998/0.906, 0.998/0.907. | 28-30 | Script 32 report lines 30, 40, 62, 72, 94, 104. | Confirmed after rounding. |
 | BD/McCrary Big-4 null and non-A dHash transitions at 10.8 and 6.6. | 38-41 | Script 34 report lines 28-31; Script 32 report lines 40-41 and 72-73. | Confirmed; artefact interpretation not directly proven. |
 | K=2 components, crossings, bootstrap CIs, and BIC. | 53-63 | Script 34 report lines 23-41; Script 36 report lines 12-28. | Confirmed. |
 | K=3 component centers/weights and BIC lower by 3.48. | 69-73 | Script 35 report lines 6-10; Script 34 report lines 40-49; Script 36 report lines 9-10. | Confirmed. |
 | Spearman correlations 0.9627, 0.8890, 0.8794 and non-Big-4 reference center 0.935/9.77. | 83-87 | Script 38 report lines 16-18 and 24-30. | Confirmed. |
 | Per-firm score summaries in Table X. | 93-98 | Script 38 report lines 43-48. | Confirmed; anonymisation violation. |
 | Cohen kappas 0.662, 0.559, 0.870 and per-signature K=3 centers. | 106-110 | Script 39 report lines 16-28. | Confirmed after rounding. |
 | K=2 LOOO fold rules and all-or-none held-out classifications. | 120-125 | Script 36 report lines 32-44 and JSON stability summary. | Confirmed. |
 | K=3 LOOO C1 fold rates and `P2_PARTIAL`. | 131-137 | Script 37 report lines 16-19, 25-90, 92-99; JSON exact drift values. | Confirmed, except weight drift should be 0.023/0.0235 not 0.025. |
 | Pixel-identity subset n=262, split 145/8/107/2, 0/262 miss rate, Wilson upper 1.45%. | 147-153 | Script 40 report lines 8, 12-18, 22-27. | Confirmed. |
 | Inter-CPA FAR 0.0005 with Wilson [0.0003, 0.0007] inherited from v3. | 157 | v3 results lines 182-190 and 263-275. | Confirmed as inherited, not v4-regenerated. |
 | Five-way per-signature counts and 11 excluded signatures. | 167-173 | Script 42 report lines 14-26. | Confirmed. |
 | Per-firm five-way percentages. | 179-184 | Script 42 report lines 30-44. | Confirmed; line 211 interpretation is not supported. |
 | Document-level overall counts, n=75,233, mixed-firm PDFs n=379. | 188-198 | Script 42 report lines 46-57; JSON `document_level`. | Confirmed. |
 | Single-firm per-document rows. | 204-209 | Script 42 report lines 59-66. | Confirmed. |
 | Full-dataset robustness components, BIC, Spearman rho. | 234-248 | Script 41 report lines 8-31. | Confirmed. |
 | Feature-backbone ablation inherited from v3.x Table XVIII. | 252-254 | v3 results lines 461-475. | Inherited content confirmed, but v3 section pointer and current v4 table numbering collide. |
 ## Cross-reference checks (§III -> §IV)
 | §III v3 claim | §III lines | §IV v2 support | Status |
 |---|---:|---|---|
 | Signature-level capture-rate analyses are in §IV-D/F/G. | 13 | Current §IV-D/F/G are accountant-level dip/mixture, internal consistency, and LOOO. | Fails; stale v3 cross-reference. |
 | All §IV results except §IV-K are Big-4 restricted. | 23 | §IV-A-C, §IV-I, and §IV-L are inherited full-corpus/corpus-wide material. | Fails; narrow to "primary v4 analyses §IV-D-J except inherited §IV-I." |
 | Big-4 scope is 437 CPAs / 150,442 signatures. | 23 | §IV lines 9, 163 and Script 39. | Supported. |
 | Dip-test and BD/McCrary distributional characterisation. | 47-53 | §IV Tables V-VI, lines 23-43. | Supported. |
 | K=2 and K=3 mixture components and mild BIC preference. | 51, 59-73 | §IV Tables VII-VIII, lines 49-73. | Supported. |
 | K=2 unstable and K=3 descriptive only under LOOO. | 71-79, 111-115 | §IV Tables XII-XIII, lines 116-137. | Supported. |
 | Three-score internal consistency and per-firm ranking nuance. | 83-100 | §IV Tables IX-X, lines 79-100. | Supported. |
 | Per-signature K=3 convergence kappas. | 101-109 | §IV Table XI, lines 102-110. | Supported. |
 | Pixel-identity positive-anchor miss rate. | 117-127 | §IV Table XIV, lines 141-153. | Supported. |
 | Five-way signature/document classifier retained as primary; K=3 not used for operational labels. | 131-149 | §IV-J, lines 159-224. | Mostly supported; the MC band remains inherited and current wording should not imply v4 validation. |
 | Moderate-confidence band retains v3.x capture-rate evaluation. | 109, 145, 198 | §IV line 211 cites v3 Tables IX/XI/XII but not XII-B; §III line 109's "§IV-F" is now wrong. | Needs citation cleanup. |
 | Firm anonymisation maintained. | 23 and open question 200 | §IV repeatedly includes real firm names in parentheses. | Fails unless policy changes. |
 ## Recommended next-step actions
 1. Freeze the v4 table scheme before any prose edits: decide whether inherited v3 tables are reprinted as current v4 tables, cited only as v3 tables, or moved to appendix/supplement. Then renumber Tables IV-XVIII and remove Table XV-B if the journal style cannot handle letter suffixes.
 2. Fix §III cross-references after the table scheme is frozen, especially §III line 13, §III line 23, and §III lines 109/119/145.
 3. Correct §IV line 13's detection denominator and restate the VLM-positive / corrupted-excluded / YOLO-processed / with-detections sequence.
 4. Remove all real firm names from §IV or explicitly change the anonymisation policy. Do not leave line 265 claiming anonymisation while tables reveal names.
 5. Delete or rewrite line 211's MC-ordering claim. If the MC band remains inherited, present the per-firm MC proportions descriptively only.
 6. Narrow the support claim for the five-way rule: Scripts 38-40 validate only the binary high-confidence rule, while Script 42 reports five-way output counts. Either add a Big-4-specific MC/document validation or state plainly that MC/document validation is inherited from v3.x.
 7. Fix small numeric/provenance issues: K=3 weight drift 0.023/0.0235, Script 42 seed wording, cutoff inclusivity, v3 ablation section pointer, and the unsupported "round-22 Light scope" process note.
 ## Phase 4 readiness assessment
 Not ready for partner review without Phase 4 revisions.
 The spike-script provenance for the new Big-4 result tables is mostly sound, so I do not see a need to rerun the main v4 empirical scripts solely to fix §IV. But the current section would invite reviewer attacks on table identity, stale cross-references, anonymisation, and overinterpretation of the inherited MC band. After those are corrected, §IV should be close to partner-review ready; the only substantive open decision is whether to add a new Big-4-specific validation for the moderate-confidence/document-level rule or keep it explicitly inherited from v3.x.
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 # Paper A Round 24 Review - v4 round 4
 Reviewer: gpt-5.5 xhigh  
 Date: 2026-05-12  
 Target: `paper/v4/paper_a_results_v4_section_iv.md` (§IV v3)  
 Paired methodology: `paper/v4/paper_a_methodology_v4_section_iii.md` (§III v4)  
 Rubric: `paper/codex_review_gpt55_v4_round3.md` (6 Major, 6 Minor, 5 Editorial)
 ## Verdict
 Minor Revision.
 The round-23 blockers are substantially reduced. The §IV v3 result tables are now mostly provenance-faithful, the inherited-v3 table identity problem is largely resolved, detection counts are corrected, §IV firm rows are pseudonymised, and the moderate-confidence band is now described honestly as inherited rather than newly validated.
 I do not recommend Accept yet because several cleanup issues remain visible in the paired §III/§IV package: §III v4 still leaks real firm names despite the pseudonym policy, §III still carries the stale K=3 LOOO weight-drift value of 0.025 where the report and §IV v3 use 0.023, and the internal draft notes/checklists still contain stale round/version/table-numbering language.
 ## Round-23 Finding Closure Table
 | Round-23 finding | Status | v3/v4 evidence |
 |---|---|---|
 | Major 1. Table numbering was incoherent and inherited v3 tables collided with current v4 tables. | PARTIAL | Core collision is fixed: §IV v3 says inherited v3.x tables are cited only as `v3.20.0 Table N` and not renumbered (§IV:3), and detection/all-pairs/ablation are cited as v3.20.0 Tables III/IV/V/XVIII (§IV:13, 19, 256). Residual: the same draft note still says "Tables IV-XVIII" even though the new v4 sequence starts at Table V (§IV:3), and the close-out checklist repeats "Tables IV-XVIII" plus `Table XV-B` (§IV:265). |
 | Major 2. §III v3 contained stale cross-references not supported by §IV v2. | PARTIAL | Main cross-refs are repaired: §III now points signature-level classification to §IV-J and inherited inter-CPA FAR to §IV-I (§III:13), and accurately scopes §IV-D through §IV-J as v4-new Big-4 analyses while excluding §IV-A-C/I/L and full-dataset §IV-K (§III:23). Residual stale/internal references remain: §III says the corresponding FAR evidence comes from "§III-J inherited; Table X" (§III:119), and the open question still proposes adding a moderate-band analysis in current §IV-F even though §IV-F is convergence checks (§III:198; §IV:77-112). |
 | Major 3. Inherited detection-count sentence was numerically wrong / ambiguous. | CLOSED | §IV v3 now distinguishes VLM-positive documents, corrupted exclusions, YOLO-processed documents, detected-document count, and extracted signatures (§IV:13), matching the v3 baseline's Table III sequence (v3:14, 20-22). |
 | Major 4. Draft claimed anonymisation while §IV tables revealed real firm names. | PARTIAL | §IV v3 uses Firm A-D in tables and prose (§IV:91-100, 120-125, 131-137, 179-184, 204-209, 217-222), so the §IV-specific failure is closed. But the paired §III v4 still leaks real names/aliases: "held-out-EY" (§III:71) and "Firms B (KPMG) and D (EY)" (§III:99), contradicting the pseudonym policy in §III:23 and §IV:3. |
 | Major 5. Interpretive claims overstated what the spike results prove. | CLOSED | The off-Big-4 dHash transition language is now scope-dependent rather than an artefact claim (§IV:45). The Firm A HC vs C3 comparison is explicitly qualitative and cross-unit (§IV:186). MC-band ordering is now explicitly descriptive and not treated as Spearman validation (§IV:213). |
 | Major 6. Moderate-confidence band support language needed narrowing. | CLOSED | §III v4 now states that Scripts 38-42 do not separately validate the MC/style/document components and that v4 only supports the binary high-confidence sub-rule (§III:131). §IV v3 repeats this limitation and cites v3.20.0 Tables IX/XI/XII/XII-B as inherited support (§IV:213). |
 | Minor 1. K=3 LOOO C1 weight drift should be 0.023/0.0235, not 0.025. | PARTIAL | §IV v3 is corrected to 0.023 (§IV:139), matching Script 37. §III v4 still says 0.025 in prose and provenance (§III:71, 115, 173). |
 | Minor 2. Seed coverage statement stopped at Script 41 although §IV used Script 42. | CLOSED | §IV v3 now says seeds are fixed across Scripts 32-42 (§IV:7). |
 | Minor 3. Low-cosine cutoff inclusivity should match Script 42 (`cos <= 0.837`). | PARTIAL | §IV v3 is explicit: cosine `<= 0.837` maps to Likely-hand-signed (§IV:19), matching Script 42. §III-L still says "Cosine below" the crossover (§III:143), which is less precise than the inherited rule; make it "at or below 0.837." |
 | Minor 4. "Round-22 open question 1, Light scope" process note was not traceable. | CLOSED | The §IV-K body now describes the full-dataset robustness scope directly, without the round-22 process-note wording (§IV:230). The remaining stale process text is confined to the internal checklist (§IV:260-267). |
 | Minor 5. Ablation section pointer was wrong. | CLOSED | §IV v3 correctly identifies the inherited feature-backbone ablation as v3.20.0 §IV-I and distinguishes v3 Table XVIII from current v4 Table XVIII (§IV:254-256). |
 | Minor 6. "Component recovery across Scripts 35, 37, and 38" could be misread. | CLOSED | §IV v3 now says the full-fit K=3 baseline is reproduced in Scripts 35, 37, and 38, while Script 37 fold components differ by design and are separately reported (§IV:75). |
 | Editorial 1. Remove draft note and Phase 3 close-out checklist before submission. | OPEN | Both files still include internal draft notes and author checklists/open questions (§III:3-9, 187-202; §IV:3, 260-267). §IV's checklist also says the section is being prepared for "codex round 23" even though this is round 24 (§IV:262). |
 | Editorial 2. "This convergent-checks evidence" grammar. | CLOSED | §IV v3 uses "These convergence checks" (§IV:112). |
 | Editorial 3. "is finalised" should be "will be finalised." | CLOSED | §IV v3 uses future/provisional wording (§IV:3, 265). |
 | Editorial 4. Standardise `dHash` versus `dh`. | CLOSED | Manuscript prose/tables consistently use `dHash`; raw spike-script `dh` appears only inside source descriptions or quoted rule names (§III:13, 133-145; §IV:36, 53-63, 167-184). |
 | Editorial 5. Avoid mixing "replicated," "templated," and "non-hand-signed" as exact synonyms. | CLOSED | Current usage mostly preserves distinctions: replicated is used for positive-anchor / C3 contexts (§IV:143-155), non-hand-signed for the operational five-way categories (§IV:167-173), and templated mainly for K=2 fold-rule wording (§IV:120-127). No remaining overclaim depends on treating them as exact synonyms. |
 ## Newly Introduced Or Remaining Issues
 1. **§III v4 still violates the anonymisation policy.** §III says firms are pseudonymously labelled Firm A-D throughout the manuscript (§III:23), but line 71 says "held-out-EY" and line 99 names KPMG and EY. §IV v3 fixed this; §III now needs the same scrub.
 2. **§III v4 has a stale K=3 LOOO weight-drift number.** Script 37 reports max C1 weight deviation 0.023, and §IV v3 uses 0.023 (§IV:139). §III still reports 0.025 in two prose locations and the provenance table (§III:71, 115, 173).
 3. **Two §III internal references are stale.** The positive-anchor paragraph cites "§III-J inherited; Table X" for inter-CPA FAR (§III:119), but the paired result location is §IV-I and the inherited source is v3.20.0 §IV-F.1/Table X (§IV:157-159). The open question asks whether to add a moderate-band analysis in §IV-F (§III:198), but current §IV-F is the convergence section.
 4. **Internal notes are stale enough to confuse a handoff.** §III's draft note says "(2026-05-12, v3)" although the file title is v4 (§III:1, 3). §IV's close-out checklist says "before §IV is sent for codex round 23" even though round 23 has already happened (§IV:262), and item 4 says issues are addressed in "this v2" inside a v3 file (§IV:267).
 5. **§III mentions the full-dataset `n = 686` but does not list it in the §III provenance table.** §III:23 states that §IV-K reports a full-dataset cross-check at 686 CPAs; Script 41 directly reports full dataset `N CPAs = 686`. Add that row if the number remains in §III.
 6. **The table-numbering note still has a small self-contradiction.** §IV:3 says the new v4 sequence is Table V through Table XVIII, then says "Tables IV-XVIII" remain provisional. Either add a current Table IV, or make all provisional references "Tables V-XVIII" and decide whether `Table XV-B` is acceptable for the target style.
 ## Cross-Reference Checks (§III v4 <-> §IV v3)
 | Claim / linkage | §III v4 line evidence | §IV v3 line evidence | Status |
 |---|---:|---:|---|
 | Big-4 scope and inherited/non-Big-4 exceptions. | §III:23 | §IV:9, 13, 19, 157-159, 230, 254-256 | Supported. |
 | Big-4 sample size: 437 CPAs and 150,442 classified signatures. | §III:23, 157-158 | §IV:9, 15, 165, 175 | Supported. |
 | Dip-test and BD/McCrary accountant-level characterisation. | §III:49-53 | §IV:25-45 | Supported. |
 | K=2/K=3 mixture components and mild BIC preference. | §III:59-69 | §IV:51-75 | Supported. |
 | K=2 unstable; K=3 descriptive, not operational, under LOOO. | §III:71-79, 111-115 | §IV:116-139 | Mostly supported; align §III's 0.025 weight drift to §IV's/report's 0.023. |
 | Three-score internal-consistency correlations and per-firm ranking nuance. | §III:83-99 | §IV:79-102 | Supported, except §III anonymisation leak in line 99. |
 | Per-signature K=3 convergence and binary kappa values. | §III:101-109 | §IV:104-112 | Supported. |
 | Pixel-identity positive-anchor miss rate. | §III:117-127 | §IV:141-155 | Supported, but §III:119 should cite §IV-I/v3 §IV-F.1 for inter-CPA FAR, not "§III-J inherited." |
 | Five-way classifier retained as primary and MC band inherited. | §III:131-149 | §IV:161-213 | Supported; make §III:143 inclusive for `cos <= 0.837`. |
 | K=3 hard label vs K=3 posterior roles. | §III:149 | §IV:215-224 and 81-89 | Supported: hard labels for cluster cross-tab, posterior P(C1) for Spearman. |
 | Full-dataset robustness is light scope only. | §III:23, 31 | §IV:228-252 | Supported, but add provenance for `n = 686` to §III table or remove the number from §III. |
 | Internal author/open-question checklist. | §III:187-202 | §IV:260-267 | Not manuscript-ready; stale references remain. |
 ## Provenance Re-Verification Of Changed Numerics
 | Changed numerical claim | Manuscript line(s) | Source checked | Status |
 |---|---:|---|---|
 | Detection sequence: 86,072 VLM-positive; 12 corrupted; 86,071 YOLO-processed; 85,042 with detections; 182,328 signatures. | §IV:13 | v3 baseline reports 86,071 processed, 85,042 with detections, and 182,328 signatures (v3:14, 20-22). The 86,072/12 sequence is inherited from the v3 narrative already cited in round 23. | Confirmed; round-23 denominator conflation is fixed. |
 | Big-4 signature sample: 150,453 loaded, 150,442 classified, 11 missing descriptors. | §IV:175 | Script 42 reports loaded 150,453, classified 150,442, unclassified 11 (five_way_report:14-16). | Confirmed. |
 | K=2 marginal crossings and bootstrap CIs: cos 0.9755, dHash 3.755, CIs [0.9742, 0.9772] and [3.476, 3.969]. | §IV:62-65; §III:51, 59-60 | Script 36 reports cos point 0.9755 and dHash point 3.7549 with those CIs (calibration_loo_report:14-17). | Confirmed. |
 | K=3 components: C1 0.9457/9.17/0.143; C2 0.9558/6.66/0.536; C3 0.9826/2.41/0.321. | §IV:67-75; §III:61-69 | Scripts 35/37/38 report the same baseline (inspection_report:6-10; k3_loo_report:6-10; convergence_report:8-12). | Confirmed. |
 | K=3 lower than K=2 by 3.48 BIC points. | §IV:75; §III:69 | Script 36 reports K=2 BIC -1108.45 and K=3 BIC -1111.93 (calibration_loo_report:9-10). | Confirmed by arithmetic. |
 | Spearman correlations: 0.9627, 0.8890, 0.8794, with p-values bounded in manuscript. | §IV:81-89; §III:91-99 | Script 38 reports 0.9627 / 3.92e-249, 0.8890 / 1.09e-149, 0.8794 / 2.73e-142 (convergence_report:26-30). | Confirmed. |
 | Per-firm score nuance: Firm C highest on P(C1)=0.3110 and hand_frac=0.7896; Firm D higher on reverse-anchor score -0.7125 vs Firm C -0.7672. | §IV:95-102; §III:99 | Script 38 per-firm summary reports those values (convergence_report:43-48). | Confirmed; §III should anonymise KPMG/EY parentheticals. |
 | K=3 LOOO C1 weight drift is 0.023, not 0.025. | §IV:139; §III:71, 115, 173 | Script 37 reports max C1 weight deviation 0.023 (k3_loo_report:77-79). | §IV confirmed; §III mismatch remains. |
 | Pixel-identical Big-4 subset n=262, split 145/8/107/2, all classifiers 0% miss with Wilson upper 1.45%. | §IV:145-153; §III:117-127 | Script 40 reports total 262, 262/262 correct for all three classifiers, and per-firm split 145/8/107/2 (far_report:8, 12-18, 22-27). | Confirmed. |
 | Five-way per-signature counts: HC 74,593; MC 39,817; HSC 314; UN 35,480; LH 238. | §IV:165-175 | Script 42 reports the same counts and percentages (five_way_report:20-26). | Confirmed. |
 | Per-firm five-way percentages: Firm A 81.70/10.76/0.05/7.42/0.07; Firm B 34.56/35.88/0.29/29.09/0.18; Firm C 23.75/41.44/0.38/34.21/0.22; Firm D 24.51/29.33/0.22/45.65/0.29. | §IV:181-186, 213 | Script 42 reports the same percentages (five_way_report:39-44). | Confirmed; interpretation is now appropriately descriptive. |
 | Document-level counts: n=75,233 PDFs; HC 46,857; MC 19,667; HSC 167; UN 8,524; LH 18; mixed-firm PDFs n=379. | §IV:190-200 | Script 42 reports n=75,233, mixed-firm n=379, and those category counts (five_way_report:46-57). | Confirmed. |
 | Full-dataset robustness: full n=686; component rows; full rho 0.9558; drift 0.0069. | §IV:232-250; §III:23 | Script 41 reports Big-4 n=437, full n=686, component drifts, BICs, rho 0.9558, and drift 0.0069 (fulldataset_report:8-31). | Confirmed; add §III provenance row for n=686. |
 ## Phase 4 Readiness
 Partial.
 The empirical tables are close to partner-review ready and I do not see a need to rerun the main v4 scripts for §IV. The remaining issues are mostly manuscript hygiene, pseudonym consistency, and cross-reference/provenance alignment. They are small edits, but they are visible enough that I would not send the paired §III/§IV package to partner review until they are fixed.
 ## Recommended Next-Step Actions
 1. Scrub §III v4 for real firm names/aliases. Replace "held-out-EY" and "Firms B (KPMG) and D (EY)" with Firm A-D language, or explicitly abandon the pseudonym policy everywhere.
 2. Align K=3 LOOO weight drift to Script 37 throughout §III: use 0.023 (or 0.0235 if exact precision is preferred), matching §IV:139.
 3. Fix the remaining stale cross-references: §III:119 should point to current §IV-I / inherited v3.20.0 §IV-F.1 Table X; §III:198 should not refer to current §IV-F for a possible moderate-band analysis.
 4. Make the §III-L low-cosine rule inclusive: Likely hand-signed is `cos <= 0.837`, matching Script 42 and §IV:19.
 5. Remove or move internal draft notes, cross-reference indices, open questions, and the §IV Phase 3 close-out checklist before partner review. At minimum, fix stale "v2/v3/round 23" text.
 6. Finalise table numbering after deciding whether `Table XV-B` is acceptable. If the current v4 sequence starts at Table V, remove residual "Tables IV-XVIII" wording.
 7. Add §III provenance for the full-dataset `n = 686` claim if it remains in §III-G; cite Script 41 / `fulldataset_report.md`.
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 # Paper A Round 25 Review - v4 round 5
 Reviewer: gpt-5.5 xhigh  
 Date: 2026-05-12  
 Target: `paper/v4/paper_a_results_v4_section_iv.md` (§IV v3.1 target; file header still says Draft v3)  
 Paired methodology: `paper/v4/paper_a_methodology_v4_section_iii.md` (§III v5)  
 Rubric: `paper/codex_review_gpt55_v4_round4.md` (3 Major-PARTIAL, 2 Minor-PARTIAL, 1 Editorial-OPEN, plus 7 next-step actions)
 ## Verdict
 Minor Revision.
 The round-24 empirical and cross-reference residuals have mostly converged. §III v5 now aligns the K=3 LOOO weight drift to 0.023, fixes the §IV-I / v3.20.0 Table X FAR pointer, makes the low-cosine rule inclusive at `cos <= 0.837`, and adds the full-dataset `n = 686` provenance row. §IV v3.1 remains numerically/provenance-faithful.
 I do not recommend Accept yet because the partner-facing package still contains internal draft notes/checklists and unresolved table-numbering/version residues. There is also a small anonymisation regression in §III's v5 changelog: the body now uses Firm A-D, but the internal note itself reprints two real firm names (§III:11).
 ## Round-24 Finding Closure Table
 | Round-24 item | v5/v3.1 status | v5/v3.1 line evidence |
 |---|---|---|
 | Major 1. Table numbering was incoherent and inherited v3 tables collided with current v4 tables. | PARTIAL | Core collision remains fixed: §IV says fresh v4 tables are V-XVIII and inherited v3 tables keep `v3.20.0 Table N` (§IV:3); inherited detection/all-pairs/ablation are cited as v3.20.0 Tables III/IV/V/XVIII (§IV:13, 19, 256). Residual remains: the same note still says "Tables IV-XVIII" despite the v4 sequence starting at Table V (§IV:3), and the close-out checklist repeats "Tables IV-XVIII" with `Table XV-B` (§IV:265). |
 | Major 2. §III stale cross-references not supported by §IV. | CLOSED | §III now points signature-level classification to §IV-J and inherited inter-CPA FAR to §IV-I (§III:18), scopes v4-new vs inherited §IV sections accurately (§III:28), cites the FAR evidence as §IV-I / v3.20.0 §IV-F.1 Table X (§III:124), and no longer sends the moderate-band open question to current §IV-F (§III:204). |
 | Major 4. Anonymisation leak in paired §III/§IV package. | PARTIAL | The manuscript body is repaired: §III uses Firm A-D in the score discussion (§III:104), and §IV tables/prose use Firm A-D (§IV:95-98, 181-184, 217-222). However §III's internal v5 changelog reprints real names while saying they were removed (§III:11). This is not a body-table leak, but it keeps the file-level anonymisation cleanup incomplete until draft notes are stripped. |
 | Minor 1. K=3 LOOO C1 weight drift should be 0.023/0.0235, not 0.025. | CLOSED | §III now reports 0.023 in the K=3 LOOO discussion (§III:76, 120) and provenance table (§III:178); §IV reports 0.023 (§IV:139). This matches Script 37 (`k3_loo_report.md`:79). |
 | Minor 3. Low-cosine cutoff inclusivity should match Script 42 (`cos <= 0.837`). | CLOSED | §III-L now defines Likely hand-signed as "Cosine at or below" the crossover with `cos <= 0.837` (§III:148); §IV repeats `cosine <= 0.837 => Likely-hand-signed` and explicitly ties it to Script 42 (§IV:19). |
 | Editorial 1. Remove draft notes and Phase 3 close-out checklist before submission. | OPEN | Internal notes remain in both files: §III has a draft note, cross-reference index, and open questions (§III:3, 193-208); §IV has a draft note and Phase 3 checklist (§IV:3, 260-269). §IV also still identifies itself as Draft v3 / post rounds 21-23 (§IV:1, 3) despite this round targeting v3.1. |
 | Action 1. Scrub §III real firm names/aliases. | PARTIAL | The old body leaks are gone, but §III:11 now quotes two real firm names in the v5 changelog. Replace with "real firm names/aliases" or remove the changelog before partner review. |
 | Action 2. Align K=3 LOOO weight drift to Script 37 throughout §III. | CLOSED | §III:76, §III:120, and §III:178 all use 0.023; §IV:139 matches. |
 | Action 3. Fix stale §III refs: FAR pointer and moderate-band open question. | CLOSED | FAR pointer now cites §IV-I / v3.20.0 §IV-F.1 Table X (§III:124); the moderate-band open question now points to v3.20.0 Tables IX/XI/XII/XII-B and §IV-J, not current §IV-F (§III:204). |
 | Action 4. Make §III-L low-cosine rule inclusive. | CLOSED | §III:148 says `cos <= 0.837`; §IV:19 and Script 42 agree. |
 | Action 5. Remove/move internal notes and fix stale v2/v3/round-23 text. | OPEN | Notes remain (§III:3, 193-208; §IV:3, 260-269). Some stale text is still visible: §IV title and draft note say Draft v3 / post rounds 21-23 (§IV:1, 3), and the checklist says "this v3 of §IV" (§IV:267). |
 | Action 6. Finalise table numbering and remove residual "Tables IV-XVIII" if sequence starts at Table V. | PARTIAL | The current body table sequence is internally usable (V-XVIII with XV-B), but the finalisation note still says Tables IV-XVIII (§IV:3, 265), and §III leaves table numbering open (§III:208). |
 | Action 7. Add §III provenance for full-dataset `n = 686`. | CLOSED | §III now states §IV-K uses `n = 686` (§III:28) and adds a provenance row citing Script 41 / `fulldataset_report.md` (§III:184). §IV reports the same full-dataset count (§IV:230, 247). |
 ## Newly Introduced Issues
 1. **§III v5 changelog reintroduces real firm names.** The body anonymisation fix succeeded, but §III:11 quotes two real names in the internal changelog. If the note is stripped before partner review, this disappears; if the file is circulated as-is, anonymisation is still not clean.
 2. **§III empirical-anchor range is stale after the Script 41/42 additions.** §III:14 says empirical anchors reference Scripts 32-40, but the same file now cites Script 41 for full-dataset `n = 686` (§III:184) and references Scripts 38-42 in the classifier-validation caveat (§III:136). §IV's anchor statement already uses Scripts 32-42 (§IV:3). Align §III:14 to Scripts 32-42.
 3. **§IV v3.1 is not labelled as v3.1 in the file.** The requested target is §IV v3.1, but the file title and draft note still say v3 / post rounds 21-23 (§IV:1, 3). This is editorial, but it will confuse the Phase 4 handoff.
 ## Cross-Reference Checks (§III v5 <-> §IV v3.1)
 | Linkage | §III v5 evidence | §IV v3.1 evidence | Status |
 |---|---:|---:|---|
 | Big-4 scope and inherited/full-dataset exceptions. | §III:28, 36 | §IV:9, 15, 230, 254-256 | Tight. |
 | K=2/K=3 mixtures are descriptive, not operational. | §III:62, 76-84, 154 | §IV:75, 139, 224 | Tight. |
 | Three-score internal-consistency and per-firm ranking nuance. | §III:88-104 | §IV:79-102 | Tight in body; anonymisation note issue remains outside body (§III:11). |
 | Positive-anchor miss rate and inherited inter-CPA FAR. | §III:122-132, 186 | §IV:143-159 | Tight; the old bad "§III-J inherited; Table X" pointer is gone. |
 | Five-way classifier retained; MC band inherited only. | §III:136-150, 204 | §IV:163, 213 | Tight. |
 | Inclusive LH cutoff at `cos <= 0.837`. | §III:148 | §IV:19 | Tight and matches Script 42. |
 | Full-dataset robustness is light scope only. | §III:28, 184, 204 | §IV:230-252 | Tight. |
 | Internal notes / table-numbering handoff. | §III:193-208 | §IV:260-269 | Not partner-ready; remaining editorial open items are all here. |
 ## Provenance Spot-Checks Of v5 Changes
 | v5 change checked | Manuscript evidence | Spike-report evidence | Status |
 |---|---:|---:|---|
 | K=3 LOOO C1 weight drift is 0.023, not 0.025. | §III:76, 120, 178; §IV:139 | `k3_loo_report.md`:76 lists fold C1 weights; `k3_loo_report.md`:79 reports max C1 weight deviation 0.023. | Confirmed. |
 | Full-dataset `n = 686` provenance row added. | §III:28, 184; §IV:230, 247 | `fulldataset_report.md`:10-13 reports Big-4 437 and full dataset 686; lines 29-31 report full rho 0.9558 and drift 0.0069, matching §IV:246-248. | Confirmed. |
 | Low-cosine Likely-hand-signed rule is inclusive at `cos <= 0.837`. | §III:148; §IV:19 | `five_way_report.md`:6-10 defines HC/MC/HSC/UN/LH and gives `LH : cos <= 0.837`. | Confirmed. |
 | Full-dataset component rows in §IV-K. | §IV:236-240 | `fulldataset_report.md`:19-23 reports the same full component centers, drifts, and BIC values after rounding. | Confirmed. |
 ## Phase 4 Readiness
 Partial.
 The empirical content and §III-§IV technical cross-references are ready for Phase 4 technical review. The package is not yet clean enough for partner-facing circulation because the internal notes/checklists remain, §IV still carries v3/round-23 labels, table numbering is still provisional, and §III:11 reprints real firm names inside the changelog.
 ## Recommended Next-Step Actions
 1. Strip or move all internal draft notes, cross-reference indices, open questions, and the §IV Phase 3 checklist before partner review. This also removes the §III:11 anonymisation regression if the changelog is deleted.
 2. If any changelog remains, replace the real names in §III:11 with "real firm names/aliases" and update §III:14 from Scripts 32-40 to Scripts 32-42.
 3. Finalise §IV table numbering: either make the current v4 sequence explicitly Tables V-XVIII with XV-B accepted, or renumber to remove XV-B; in either case remove residual "Tables IV-XVIII" wording (§IV:3, 265).
 4. Update the §IV header/draft note to the actual target version and round status, or remove the draft note entirely (§IV:1, 3, 267).
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 # Paper A Round 26 Review - v4 round 6
 Reviewer: gpt-5.5 xhigh  
 Date: 2026-05-12  
 Target: `paper/v4/paper_a_prose_v4_phase4.md` (Phase 4 prose draft v1)  
 Foundation checked: `paper/v4/paper_a_methodology_v4_section_iii.md` (§III v6) and `paper/v4/paper_a_results_v4_section_iv.md` (§IV v3.2)  
 Trajectory checked: rounds 21-25 plus v3.20.0 Abstract / §I / §II / §V / §VI baselines
 ## Verdict
 Major Revision.
 The technical core in §III v6 and §IV v3.2 is stable, but the new Phase 4 prose introduces several reviewer-visible regressions. The most important are: (i) the Abstract and Introduction revive the "independent scores" overclaim even though §III/§IV repeatedly say the three scores are not statistically independent; (ii) §I and §V overstate the Big-4 scope evidence by claiming unsupported single-firm and full-dataset dip-test non-rejections; (iii) §II is still a placeholder with `[add citation]`, not a submission-ready related-work section; and (iv) §V-G drops several inherited limitations from v3.20.0.
 ## Section-By-Section Findings
 ### Abstract
 1. **Major - line 11: "Three independent feature-derived scores" contradicts the converged methodology.** §III-K states that the three scores are "not statistically independent measurements" because all are deterministic functions of the same descriptor means (§III:90), and §IV-F repeats the caveat (§IV:79). The Abstract should say "three feature-derived scores" or "three non-identical feature-derived summaries" and, if space allows, add the shared-feature caveat.
 2. **Minor - line 11: "candidate classifiers" can be read as operational-classifier language.** One of the three "candidate classifiers" is the K=3 per-CPA hard label, which §III-J/§III-L explicitly demotes to descriptive characterisation, not operational signature/document classification (§III:64, §III:156). Use "candidate rules/scores" or explicitly reserve "operational classifier" for the inherited five-way box rule.
 3. **Minor - line 11: the Abstract passes IEEE Access form but has no margin.** It is one paragraph and `wc -w` counts 247 words, so it satisfies the <=250-word target. Any added caveat will require trimming elsewhere.
 4. **Minor - line 11: the Abstract does not name the primary operational output.** The abstract describes the pipeline and the K=3 / convergence / anchor checks, but it does not state that the primary operational output remains the inherited five-way per-signature classifier with worst-case document aggregation (§III-L; §IV-J). This omission makes the K=3 and reverse-anchor checks look more central operationally than §III/§IV allow.
 ### §I Introduction
 1. **Major - line 31: the Big-4 scope claim is overbroad and partly unsupported.** The sentence says "neither any single firm pooled alone nor the broader full-dataset variant rejects unimodality." §III and §IV only report comparison dip tests for Firm A alone, Firms B+C+D pooled, and all non-Firm-A pooled (§III:34, §III:56; §IV:27-34). They explicitly state that single-firm dip tests for Firms B, C, and D were not separately computed (§III:34, §III:56; §IV:34). §IV-K is a light full-dataset K=3 + Spearman robustness check and does not report a full-dataset dip test (§IV:230-252). Rewrite this as "no narrower comparison scope tested in Script 32..." and remove the full-dataset dip-test claim unless a spike report is added.
 2. **Major - line 29: the section cross-reference for accountant-level distributional characterisation is wrong.** The prose points to "§III-D" for the Big-4 accountant-level distributional characterisation. In the converged methodology, this material is §III-G through §III-J, especially §III-I and §III-J (§III:18-86). §IV-D/§IV-E are correct.
 3. **Major - line 35: the Introduction repeats the "independent feature-derived scores" error.** The next sentence correctly says the scores are not statistically independent, but the opening clause still hands reviewers an avoidable contradiction. This was a central round-21/22 issue and should not reappear in the front matter.
 4. **Minor - line 47: contribution 4 again overstates "not at narrower scopes."** The defensible phrase is "not in the narrower comparison scopes tested" because B/C/D single-firm dip tests were not computed.
 5. **Minor - line 55: contribution 8 overclaims the full-dataset check.** §IV-K deliberately re-runs only K=3 + Paper A box-rule Spearman convergence at full `n = 686`; it does not re-run LOOO, five-way moderate-band validation, or operational threshold calibration (§IV:230). "Pipeline reproducibility at multiple scopes" should be narrowed to "the K=3 + box-rule rank-convergence check reproduces at the full-CPA scope."
 6. **Minor - line 25: the methodological safeguards paragraph uses "external validation" too broadly.** The pixel-identity anchor is a conservative positive-subset check, the inter-CPA FAR is inherited corpus-wide, and LOOO is descriptive composition-sensitivity evidence. The paragraph should avoid implying full external validation of the operational classifier.
 ### §II Related Work
 1. **Major - lines 63-65: §II is not submission-ready prose if inserted as written.** The section says v3.20.0 §II is retained "without substantive change," but the target Phase 4 file is supposed to replace the §II block. As written, it is a meta-summary rather than an actual Related Work section. Either the master manuscript must keep the full v3.20.0 §II text and splice in the LOOO paragraph, or this file must contain the full revised §II.
 2. **Major - line 67: unresolved citation placeholder.** "`[add citation]`" is still present. This must be replaced before Phase 5; otherwise a reviewer can attack the only new Related Work content as uncited.
 3. **Minor - line 67: "calibration uncertainty band on the operational rule" conflicts with the converged classifier framing.** §III-J says neither K=2 nor K=3 is used as an operational classifier (§III:64), and §III-L reserves operational classification for the inherited five-way box rule (§III:138-156). If the LOOO paragraph is about K=2/K=3 mixture fits, call it a composition-sensitivity or calibration-uncertainty check on the candidate mixture boundary/characterisation, not on "the operational rule."
 ### §V Discussion
 1. **Major - line 81: the prose reifies mechanism labels at the CPA level.** "Some CPAs are templated, some are hand-leaning, some are mixed" is stronger than §III allows. §III-G says a per-CPA mean is a summary statistic, not a claim that all signatures for that CPA share a mechanism (§III:22). Use component-membership wording: "some CPAs' observed signatures place their per-CPA means in the templated, mixed, or hand-leaning regions."
 2. **Major - line 81: the within-CPA unimodality explanation is speculative.** The claim that occasional template reuse "produces a unimodal per-signature distribution within the CPA but a multimodal per-CPA distribution across CPAs" is not directly tested in §III/§IV. v3.x tested Firm A and all-CPA signature-level distributions, and v4.0 adds per-signature K=3 consistency (§IV-F), but there is no per-CPA distributional test for individual CPAs.
 3. **Major - lines 103-119: limitations are incomplete relative to v3.20.0 and the inherited pipeline.** The v4 limitations keep the Big-4 scope, missing hand-signed ground truth, pixel-identity subset, inherited-rule, A1, K=3 composition, and no-intent caveats. They drop v3 limitations that still apply: ImageNet-pretrained ResNet-50 without signature-domain fine-tuning (v3 §V:90-92), HSV red-stamp removal artifacts (v3 §V:93-95), longitudinal scanning/PDF/compression confounds (v3 §V:97-99), source-exemplar misattribution in max/min pair logic (v3 §V:100-102), and legal/regulatory interpretation limits (v3 §V:108-109). If these are intentionally retired, the draft needs a reason; otherwise they should be restored.
 4. **Major - line 107: the scope limitation repeats the unsupported full-dataset dip-test implication.** The sentence says dip-test multimodality is "not available at narrower or broader scopes." §III/§IV do not report full-dataset dip-test results; §IV-K is explicitly a light Spearman robustness check (§IV:230-252). Keep the LOOO broader-scope caveat, but do not claim full-dataset dip-test non-availability without evidence.
 5. **Minor - line 79: "v4.0 inherits and confirms" is too strong for the per-signature continuous-spectrum reading.** The exact v3 per-signature diagnostic package is inherited; v4.0's new per-signature evidence is mostly the K=3 consistency check (§IV-F) and five-way output (§IV-J). Safer: "v4.0 inherits this signature-level reading and remains consistent with it."
 6. **Minor - line 85: inherited Firm A byte-level details need provenance language.** The 145 Firm A pixel-identical signatures are verified in Script 40, but the "50 distinct partners" and "35 cross-year" details are explicitly inherited from v3 / Script 28 and not regenerated in v4.0 (§III:44, §III:190). The discussion should mark that provenance, especially because the spike reports provided for v4 only verify the 145 count.
 7. **Minor - line 87: Firm A does not alone anchor §IV-H.** §IV-H's positive-anchor subset is all Big-4 byte-identical signatures, `n = 262`, split 145 / 8 / 107 / 2 across Firms A-D (§IV:145-153). Firm A is the largest subset and the case-study evidence, but not the whole anchor.
 8. **Minor - line 97: "published box rule" is not traceable.** §III/§IV call this the inherited Paper A / v3.x box rule, not a published external rule (§III:96, §III:138; §IV:85-87). Use "inherited box rule" unless there is a publication citation.
 9. **Minor - line 97: "produce the same per-CPA ranking" is stronger than the evidence.** The scores are highly correlated, but §III/§IV note a residual non-Firm-A disagreement: reverse-anchor ranks Firm D fractionally above Firm C while P(C1) and box-rule hand-leaning rate rank Firm C highest (§III:106; §IV:102). Say "broadly concordant ranking."
 10. **Minor - line 101: "candidate classifiers" again blurs operational status.** K=3 hard labels remain descriptive. This can be fixed together with the Abstract wording.
 ### §VI Conclusion And Future Work
 1. **Major - line 127: "cross-scope pipeline reproducibility" overstates §IV-K.** The full-dataset result verifies only that K=3 P(C1) and Paper A hand-leaning-rate Spearman convergence remains high at `n = 686` with drift `0.0069` (§IV:242-250; full-dataset report:25-31). It does not reproduce the pipeline, the five-way classifier, the moderate-confidence band, LOOO, or operational thresholds at full scope.
 2. **Minor - line 129: the future-work audit-quality contrast must stay explicitly descriptive.** "Firm A's 82% templated concentration vs Firm C's 23.5% hand-leaning concentration" comes from K=3 hard-posterior accountant-level assignment (§IV:215-224), whose membership is composition-sensitive (§IV:129-139). The future-work sentence is acceptable if it says these are descriptive component concentrations and that current Paper A provides no audit-quality correlation evidence.
 3. **Minor - lines 125-127: the conclusion underplays the actual operational output.** It names the pipeline and methodological checks, but it does not mention the inherited five-way per-signature/document-level classifier that §III-L and §IV-J define as the operational output. This is not a numerical error, but it leaves the operational-vs-descriptive distinction less clear at closure.
 ## Reviewer-Attack Vulnerabilities Specific To The Prose
 1. A reviewer can quote line 11 or line 35 ("independent feature-derived scores") against §III-K/§IV-F's non-independence caveat and argue that the paper exaggerates validation strength.
 2. A reviewer can attack the Big-4 scope claim because the prose says "any single firm" and "full-dataset variant" even though B/C/D single-firm dip tests and full-dataset dip tests are not reported.
 3. The current §II can be rejected as incomplete because it is a placeholder, not a related-work section, and includes `[add citation]`.
 4. "Published box rule" invites a citation challenge. The body only supports "inherited Paper A / v3.x box rule."
 5. The discussion sometimes turns descriptive component labels into apparent mechanism claims about CPAs. This conflicts with the §III-G rule that per-CPA means are summaries, not partner-level mechanism assignments.
 6. The phrase "candidate classifiers" for K=3 and reverse-anchor checks can be read as walking back the round-21 convergence that K=3 is descriptive and the five-way box rule is operational.
 7. The limitations section is vulnerable because it drops inherited limitations that still apply to the pipeline: feature backbone transfer, red-stamp preprocessing, longitudinal document-generation shifts, source-exemplar misattribution, and legal interpretation limits.
 8. The full-dataset robustness claim is easy to overread. §IV-K is intentionally "light scope"; calling it pipeline reproducibility or cross-scope operational reproducibility exceeds the evidence.
 ## Provenance Verification Table
 | # | Phase 4 numerical claim | Phase line(s) | Provenance checked | Status |
 |---:|---|---:|---|---|
 | 1 | Abstract is <=250 words | 11 | `sed -n '11p' ... \| wc -w` returned 247 | Confirmed, but close to limit |
 | 2 | 90,282 reports, 182,328 signatures, 758 CPAs | 11, 37, 125 | §IV:7 gives 90,282 PDFs; §IV:13 gives 182,328 extracted signatures; v3 §I:62 gives 758 CPAs | Confirmed with inherited full-corpus CPA source |
 | 3 | Big-4 sub-corpus: 437 CPAs, 150,442 signatures | 11, 37, 125 | §III:30; §IV:9, §IV:15; five-way report:14-15 | Confirmed |
 | 4 | Big-4 dip-test multimodality, `p < 5 x 10^-4` on both axes | 11, 31, 81, 127 | §III:34, §III:56, §III:171-172; §IV:27-34 | Confirmed for Big-4 |
 | 5 | "Neither any single firm pooled alone nor broader full-dataset variant rejects" | 31 | §III:34/56 and §IV:34 say only Firm A alone was tested among single firms; §IV-K has no full-dataset dip test | Not verified / overclaimed |
 | 6 | K=2 crossings `cos*=0.9755`, `dHash*=3.755`, cosine CI half-width 0.0015 | 31 | calibration report:16-17; §III:58, §III:166-170; §IV:60-63 | Confirmed |
 | 7 | K=2 LOOO max cosine-crossing deviation `0.028`, `5.6x` tolerance, Firm A held-out 100% vs non-A 0% | 31, 91 | calibration report:34-44; §III:78, §III:120; §IV:122-127 | Confirmed, with 0.0278 rounded to 0.028 |
 | 8 | K=3 components: C3 `0.983/2.41/0.321`, C2 `0.956/6.66/0.536`, C1 `0.946/9.17/0.143` | 33 | k3 LOOO report:8-10; convergence report:8-12; §III:70-76; §IV:69-75 | Confirmed after rounding |
 | 9 | K=3 C1 LOOO shape drift: cos <=0.005, dHash <=0.96, weight <=0.023 | 11, 33, 93, 127 | k3 LOOO report:77-79; §III:78, §III:122; §IV:139 | Confirmed |
 | 10 | K=3 held-out hard-posterior differences `1.8-12.8 pp` | 33, 93, 117 | k3 LOOO report:83-90; §III:122; §IV:134-139 | Confirmed after rounding |
 | 11 | Three-score Spearman convergence `rho >= 0.879` | 11, 35, 51, 97, 127 | convergence report:28-30; §III:100-104; §IV:83-87 | Confirmed numerically; wording must not say independent |
 | 12 | Per-signature K=3 consistency `Cohen kappa = 0.87` | 97 | §III:108-116; §IV:104-112 | Confirmed |
 | 13 | Pixel-identity subset `n = 262`, all three checks 0% miss, Wilson upper 1.45% | 11, 35, 53, 101, 127 | pixel-identity report:8, 14-16; §III:124-132; §IV:145-153 | Confirmed |
 | 14 | Firm A pixel-identical `145`, plus `50 partners` and `35 cross-year` | 85 | pixel-identity report:24 confirms 145; §III:44 and §III:190 mark 50/35 as inherited from v3 / Script 28, not regenerated in v4 spikes | Partially confirmed; provenance caveat needed |
 | 15 | Inter-CPA FAR `0.0005`, Wilson `[0.0003, 0.0007]` | 53, 101 | §III:188; §IV:157-159; inherited v3.20.0 §IV-F.1 Table X | Confirmed as inherited |
 | 16 | Full-dataset robustness `n = 686`, full rho `0.9558`, drift `0.007` | 11, 55, 107, 127 | full-dataset report:10-13, 25-31; §III:186; §IV:242-250 | Confirmed numerically, but interpretive scope is light |
 | 17 | Firm A `82%/82.5%` templated and Firm C `23.5%` hand-leaning | 85, 129 | convergence report:43-48; §IV:217-224 | Confirmed as descriptive K=3 hard assignment |
 ## Cross-Reference Checks (Phase 4 <-> §III v6 / §IV v3.2)
 | Linkage | Phase 4 evidence | §III / §IV evidence | Status |
 |---|---:|---:|---|
 | Big-4 primary scope and sample size | Lines 11, 31, 37, 107, 125 | §III:30; §IV:9, §IV:15 | Numerically tight, but scope-test wording overbroad |
 | Accountant-level distributional characterisation refs | Line 29 | §III-I/J are the relevant methodology sections (§III:52-86); §IV-D/E correct (§IV:21-75) | Fail: `§III-D` is stale/wrong |
 | K=2 as firm-mass separator, not operational | Lines 31, 91 | §III:78-86, §III:120; §IV:118-127 | Tight |
 | K=3 descriptive only | Lines 33, 49, 93 | §III:64, §III:80-86, §III:156; §IV:75, §IV:139, §IV:224 | Tight, except "candidate classifier" wording |
 | Three-score internal consistency | Lines 11, 35, 51, 97, 127 | §III:90-106; §IV:79-102 | Numerically tight; independence wording fails |
 | Reverse-anchor reference as non-Big-4 | Lines 35, 97 | §III:48-50; §IV:89 | Tight |
 | Pixel-identity positive anchor | Lines 35, 101 | §III:124-134; §IV:141-155 | Tight; Firm A-only anchoring phrase should be narrowed |
 | Inter-CPA negative-anchor FAR | Lines 53, 101 | §III:126, §III:188; §IV:157-159 | Tight as inherited |
 | Five-way classifier primary / MC band inherited | Lines 33, 113 | §III:136-156; §IV:161-224 | Mostly tight; Abstract/Conclusion should name operational output more clearly |
 | Full-dataset robustness | Lines 55, 107, 127 | §IV:228-252 | Numerically tight; "pipeline reproducibility" overclaims light scope |
 | Internal notes and close-out artifacts | Lines 3, 133-142 | Round-25 review kept this open; §III and §IV also retain internal notes | Not partner/Phase-5 ready |
 ## Phase 5 Readiness
 Partial.
 The §III/§IV technical foundation would likely survive cross-AI peer review, but the current Phase 4 prose would draw a Major Revision because it reintroduces known overclaims and has an incomplete §II. With the targeted prose repairs below, Phase 5 readiness should move to Yes.
 ## Recommended Next-Step Actions
 1. Replace every "independent feature-derived scores" phrase with "three feature-derived scores" or "three feature-derived summaries," and preserve the shared-feature caveat in Abstract/§I/§V/§VI.
 2. Rewrite the Big-4 scope language at lines 31, 47, 81, 107, and 127 to match §III exactly: Big-4 is the smallest scope among the comparison scopes tested; B/C/D single-firm dip tests were not computed; no full-dataset dip-test result is reported.
 3. Fix stale cross-references in line 29: use §III-G/I/J/K as appropriate instead of §III-D.
 4. Turn §II into a real revised Related Work section: retain the v3.20.0 subsections in the master, splice in the LOOO paragraph, and replace `[add citation]` with a specific cross-validation citation.
 5. Rebuild §V-G limitations by merging the v4-specific limitations with still-valid v3 limitations: transferred ResNet-50 features, HSV stamp-removal artifacts, longitudinal scan/PDF confounds, source-exemplar misattribution, and legal/regulatory interpretation.
 6. Replace "published box rule" with "inherited Paper A box rule" unless an external publication citation is added.
 7. Narrow full-dataset language: say "K=3 + box-rule rank-convergence reproduces at full `n = 686`" rather than "pipeline reproducibility at multiple scopes."
 8. Before Phase 5, strip the Phase 4 draft note and close-out checklist (lines 3 and 133-142), and continue the same cleanup for §III/§IV internal notes flagged in round 25.
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
 # Paper A Round 27 Review - v4 round 7
 Reviewer: gpt-5.5  
 Date: 2026-05-12  
 Target: `paper/v4/paper_a_prose_v4_phase4.md` (Phase 4 prose v2 + abstract trim)  
 Foundation checked: `paper/v4/paper_a_methodology_v4_section_iii.md` (§III v6) and `paper/v4/paper_a_results_v4_section_iv.md` (§IV v3.2)  
 Prior rubric checked: `paper/codex_review_gpt55_v4_round6.md`
 ## Verdict
 Minor Revision.
 Phase 4 prose v2 closes the substantive round-26 overclaim cycle. The major technical-prose risks around independent-score language, Big-4 scope, K=3 operational status, full-dataset overread, and restored limitations are now aligned with §III v6 / §IV v3.2.
 The remaining issues are packaging / copy-edit blockers, not empirical blockers: §II still marks [42]-[44] as placeholders and the reference list has not been extended past [41]; internal draft notes and the Phase 4 close-out checklist remain; and §V-F still uses "candidate classifiers" for K=3/reverse-anchor checks.
 ## Round-26 finding closure table
 ### Major findings
 | # | Round-26 finding | v2 status | Round-27 note |
 |---:|---|---|---|
 | M1 | Abstract said "Three independent feature-derived scores" | CLOSED | Abstract now says "Three feature-derived scores" and adds "not statistically independent" (line 11). |
 | M2 | §I overclaimed Big-4 scope by implying any single firm and full-dataset dip-test non-rejection | CLOSED | §I now says "narrower comparison scopes tested" and names only Script 32 scopes (line 31). |
 | M3 | §I stale cross-reference to §III-D | CLOSED | Replaced with §III-G through §III-J plus §IV-D/E (line 29). |
 | M4 | §I repeated independent-score error | CLOSED | §I now states the three scores are not statistically independent and frames convergence as internal consistency (line 35). |
 | M5 | §II not submission-ready if inserted as written | PARTIAL | The v4 addition is real prose, but the file still contains a meta note and depends on master-file splicing of `paper/paper_a_related_work_v3.md` (lines 63-65). |
 | M6 | §II unresolved citation placeholder | OPEN | Body cites Stone/Geisser/Vehtari as [42]-[44], but line 65 says these are placeholders; `paper/paper_a_references_v3.md` stops at [41]. |
 | M7 | §V reified CPA mechanism labels | CLOSED | Wording now says per-CPA means are located in descriptor-plane regions, not that all signatures share a mechanism (line 79). |
 | M8 | §V speculative within-CPA unimodality explanation | CLOSED | The causal claim was removed; v2 only states joint consistency and repeats the summary-statistic caveat (line 79). |
 | M9 | §V limitations incomplete vs v3.20.0 | CLOSED | Restored inherited limitations: ImageNet transfer, HSV artifacts, longitudinal confounds, source-exemplar misattribution, legal/regulatory interpretation (lines 119-127). |
 | M10 | §V scope limitation implied full-dataset dip-test evidence | CLOSED | v2 explicitly says full `n = 686` dip-test marginals and LOOO were not tested (line 105). |
 | M11 | §VI overclaimed "cross-scope pipeline reproducibility" | CLOSED | Conclusion now limits the claim to K=3 + box-rule rank-convergence at full `n = 686` and excludes thresholds/LOOO/five-way/pixel checks (line 135). |
 ### Minor findings
 | # | Round-26 finding | v2 status | Round-27 note |
 |---:|---|---|---|
 | m1 | Abstract "candidate classifiers" blurred operational status | CLOSED | Abstract no longer uses "candidate classifiers"; it names the five-way operational output first (line 11). |
 | m2 | Abstract had no word-count margin | CLOSED | `wc -w` on line 11 returns 243 words, leaving 7 words of margin. |
 | m3 | Abstract omitted primary operational output | CLOSED | Abstract now states the inherited five-way per-signature classifier with worst-case document aggregation (line 11). |
 | m4 | Contribution 4 overclaimed "not at narrower scopes" | CLOSED | Now "narrower comparison scopes tested" (line 47). |
 | m5 | Contribution 8 overclaimed full-dataset check | CLOSED | Now says only K=3 + box-rule rank-convergence reproduces and explicitly excludes other components (line 55). |
 | m6 | Safeguards paragraph used "external validation" too broadly | CLOSED | The paragraph now uses "annotation-free validation against naturally-occurring anchor populations" and does not imply full external validation (line 25). |
 | m7 | §II "calibration uncertainty band on operational rule" conflicted with classifier framing | CLOSED | Rewritten as "composition-sensitivity band on the candidate mixture boundary" and not a sufficiency claim for the five-way classifier (line 65). |
 | m8 | §V "inherits and confirms" too strong for signature-level spectrum | CLOSED | Now "inherits this signature-level reading and remains consistent with it," with no-new-diagnostic caveat (line 77). |
 | m9 | Firm A byte-level details needed provenance language | CLOSED | v2 marks 50 partners / 35 cross-year as inherited from v3.20.0 Script 28 and not regenerated in v4 spikes (line 83). |
 | m10 | Firm A alone did not anchor §IV-H | CLOSED | v2 says the Big-4 byte-identical anchor pools all four firms (line 85). |
 | m11 | "Published box rule" not traceable | CLOSED | Replaced with "inherited Paper A box rule" throughout. |
 | m12 | "Same per-CPA ranking" too strong | CLOSED | v2 now says "broadly concordant" and reports the Firm D/Firm C residual disagreement (line 95). |
 | m13 | §V repeated "candidate classifiers" wording | PARTIAL | Line 99 still says "all three candidate classifiers" for the inherited box rule, K=3 hard label, and reverse-anchor metric. Use "candidate checks" or "candidate scores/rules." |
 | m14 | Future-work audit-quality contrast needed descriptive caveat | CLOSED | Future work now says the Firm A/Firm C contrast is descriptive, not mechanism-level, and not linked to audit-quality outcomes (line 137). |
 | m15 | Conclusion underplayed operational output | CLOSED | Conclusion now names the inherited five-way per-signature classifier and worst-case document aggregation (line 133). |
 ### Round-26 next-step actions
 | # | Action | v2 status | Note |
 |---:|---|---|---|
 | A1 | Replace independent-score language and preserve shared-feature caveat | CLOSED | Done in Abstract, §I, §V, §VI. |
 | A2 | Rewrite Big-4 scope language | CLOSED | Done; no unsupported B/C/D single-firm or full-dataset dip-test claim remains in body prose. |
 | A3 | Fix stale §III-D cross-reference | CLOSED | Done at line 29. |
 | A4 | Turn §II into real revised Related Work and replace `[add citation]` | PARTIAL | The LOOO paragraph is drafted, but references [42]-[44] remain placeholders and absent from the reference list. |
 | A5 | Rebuild §V-G limitations with still-valid v3 limitations | CLOSED | Done at lines 119-127. |
 | A6 | Replace "published box rule" | CLOSED | Done. |
 | A7 | Narrow full-dataset language | CLOSED | Done at lines 55, 105, and 135. |
 | A8 | Strip internal notes/checklists before Phase 5 | OPEN | Draft note and close-out checklist remain (lines 3, 141-150); §III/§IV also retain internal notes/checklists. |
 ## Newly introduced issues
 1. **Minor - §II citation-number gap and placeholder contradiction.** The v2 draft note says §II now has "a real citation," but line 65 says [42]-[44] are placeholders, line 147 still says `[add citation]`, and `paper/paper_a_references_v3.md` stops at [41]. This is the only remaining reviewer-visible blocker if the prose is packaged as manuscript text.
 2. **Minor - stale close-out metadata.** The close-out checklist says the abstract is "approximately 235 words" (line 145), but `wc -w` returns 243 words on the abstract paragraph. The author's "244 words" note and the shell count differ by one tokenization unit; both satisfy IEEE Access, but the checklist should be updated or removed.
 No newly introduced empirical inconsistency was found.
 ## Abstract word count verification + key v2 spot checks
 Abstract count: `sed -n '11p' paper/v4/paper_a_prose_v4_phase4.md | wc -w` returns **243**. The abstract is one paragraph and under the 250-word IEEE Access target.
 Spot-check 1: **Independent-score correction closed.** Lines 11, 35, 95, and 135 now say the scores are feature-derived / shared-input / not statistically independent. This matches §III-K's caveat and §IV-F's framing that the correlations are internal consistency, not external validation.
 Spot-check 2: **Big-4 scope and full-dataset correction closed.** Lines 31, 47, 79, 105, and 135 now match §III-G/I and §IV-D/K: Big-4 is the smallest scope among tested comparison scopes; B/C/D single-firm dip tests and full-dataset dip tests were not run; full-dataset evidence is only the light K=3 + box-rule Spearman re-run at `n = 686`.
 Spot-check 3: **Operational-vs-descriptive framing closed except line 99 wording.** Lines 11, 33, 55, 111, 133, and 135 reserve operational status for the inherited five-way classifier and keep K=3 descriptive. The only remaining wording leak is line 99's "candidate classifiers."
 ## Phase 5 readiness
 Partial.
 Substantively, §III + §IV + Phase 4 prose are converged. Phase 5 should not require new statistical work. It does require one copy-edit/reference pass before packaging: finalize §II citations and references, strip internal notes/checklists, and replace the residual "candidate classifiers" phrase.
 ## Recommended next-step actions
 1. Replace line 99's "all three candidate classifiers" with "all three candidate checks" or "all three candidate scores/rules"; keep K=3 explicitly descriptive.
 2. Finalize §II packaging: either splice the full v3.20.0 Related Work body plus the v4 LOOO paragraph into the master, or make this Phase 4 file contain the full §II block. Add real [42]-[44] reference entries and remove the "placeholders" sentence.
 3. Strip the Phase 4 draft note and close-out checklist before manuscript assembly; do the same for §III/§IV internal notes and working checklists.
 4. Update or remove the stale abstract-count note. The verified shell count is 243 words.
 5. After the reference/cross-reference cleanup, run one final manuscript-level lint for unresolved placeholders, duplicate reference numbers, internal notes, and stale section/table references.
@@ -5,9 +5,16 @@ from docx import Document
 from docx.shared import Inches, Pt, RGBColor
 from docx.enum.text import WD_ALIGN_PARAGRAPH
 from pathlib import Path
 import hashlib
 import re
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use("Agg")
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 PAPER_DIR = Path("/Volumes/NV2/pdf_recognize/paper")
 EQUATION_CACHE_DIR = PAPER_DIR / "equations"
 EQUATION_CACHE_DIR.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
 FIG_DIR = Path("/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/paper_figures")
 EXTRA_FIG_DIR = Path("/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports")
 OUTPUT = PAPER_DIR / "Paper_A_IEEE_Access_Draft_v3.docx"
@@ -48,10 +55,10 @@ FIGURES = {
        "Fig. 3. Firm A per-signature cosine and dHash distributions against the overall CPA population.",
        3.5,
    ),
-    "Fig. 4 visualizes the accountant-level clusters": (
+    "Fig. 4 summarises the per-firm yearly per-signature": (
-        EXTRA_FIG_DIR / "accountant_mixture" / "accountant_mixture_2d.png",
+        EXTRA_FIG_DIR / "figures" / "fig_yearly_big4_comparison.png",
-        "Fig. 4. Accountant-level 3-component Gaussian mixture in the (cosine-mean, dHash-mean) plane.",
+        "Fig. 4. Per-firm yearly per-signature best-match cosine, 2013-2023. (a) Mean per-signature best-match cosine by firm bucket and fiscal year (threshold-free). (b) Share of per-signature best-match cosine ≥ 0.95 (operational cut of Section III-K). Five lines: Firm A, B, C, D, Non-Big-4. Firm A is above the other Big-4 firms in every year; Non-Big-4 is below all four Big-4 firms in every year.",
-        4.5,
+        6.5,
    ),
    "conducted an ablation study comparing three": (
        FIG_DIR / "fig4_ablation.png",
@@ -62,7 +69,321 @@ FIGURES = {
 def strip_comments(text):
-    return re.sub(r"<!--.*?-->", "", text, flags=re.DOTALL)
+    """Remove HTML comments, but UNWRAP comments whose first non-blank line
    starts with `TABLE ` (or `TABLE\t`).
    The v3 markdown sources wrap every numerical table in an HTML comment of
    the form
        <!-- TABLE V: Hartigan Dip Test Results
        | Distribution | N | ... |
        |--------------|---|-----|
        | ...          | … | ... |
        -->
    The caption (`TABLE V: Hartigan Dip Test Results`) is on the same line as
    the opening `<!--`, the markdown table body is on the lines following,
    and `-->` closes the block. The previous implementation wholesale-deleted
    these comments, which silently dropped every table from the rendered
    DOCX. We now (i) detect comments whose first non-empty line starts with
    `TABLE `, (ii) emit a synthetic caption marker line `__TABLE_CAPTION__:
    <caption>` so process_section can render the caption as a centered
    bold paragraph above the table, and (iii) keep the table body so the
    existing markdown-table detector picks it up. Non-TABLE comments
    (figure placeholders, editorial notes) are stripped as before.
    """
    def _replace(match):
        body = match.group(1)
        # Find first non-blank line.
        for line in body.splitlines():
            stripped = line.strip()
            if stripped:
                first = stripped
                break
        else:
            return ""
        if not first.startswith("TABLE ") and not first.startswith("TABLE\t"):
            return ""
        # Split caption (first non-blank line) from the rest.
        lines = body.splitlines()
        # Find index of the first non-blank line and use everything after.
        for idx, line in enumerate(lines):
            if line.strip():
                caption = line.strip()
                rest = "\n".join(lines[idx + 1:])
                break
        else:
            return ""
        # Emit caption marker + body. Surround with blank lines so the
        # paragraph/table detector treats the marker as its own paragraph.
        return f"\n\n__TABLE_CAPTION__:{caption}\n{rest}\n"
    # Non-greedy match across lines.
    return re.sub(r"<!--(.*?)-->", _replace, text, flags=re.DOTALL)
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # LaTeX → plain text + Unicode conversion
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The v3 markdown sources contain inline LaTeX ($...$) and a small number of
 # display-math blocks ($$...$$). Pandoc would render these natively; the
 # python-docx pipeline used here does not, so without preprocessing every
 # `\leq`, `\text{dHash}_\text{indep}`, `\Delta\text{BIC}`, `60{,}448`, etc.
 # leaks into the DOCX as raw LaTeX. The helpers below convert the common
 # inline cases to Unicode and split subscripts/superscripts into proper Word
 # runs. Display-math (rare; 3 equations in this paper) gets a best-effort
 # linearisation and is acceptable for a partner-handoff DOCX; final IEEE
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    (r"\\leq(?![A-Za-z])", "≤"), (r"\\geq(?![A-Za-z])", "≥"),
    (r"\\neq(?![A-Za-z])", "≠"), (r"\\approx(?![A-Za-z])", "≈"),
    (r"\\equiv(?![A-Za-z])", "≡"), (r"\\sim(?![A-Za-z])", "~"),
    (r"\\to(?![A-Za-z])", "→"), (r"\\rightarrow(?![A-Za-z])", "→"),
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    (r"\\Leftarrow(?![A-Za-z])", "⇐"),
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    (r"\\times(?![A-Za-z])", "×"), (r"\\cdot(?![A-Za-z])", "·"),
    (r"\\pm(?![A-Za-z])", "±"), (r"\\mp(?![A-Za-z])", "∓"),
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    (r"\\,", " "), (r"\\;", " "), (r"\\:", " "),
    (r"\\!", ""), (r"\\ ", " "),
    (r"\\quad(?![A-Za-z])", "  "), (r"\\qquad(?![A-Za-z])", "    "),
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    (r"\\%", "%"), (r"\\#", "#"), (r"\\&", "&"),
    (r"\\\$", "$"), (r"\\_", "_"),
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 def _unwrap_command(text, cmd):
    """Repeatedly replace `\\cmd{X}` → `X` until stable."""
    pat = re.compile(r"\\" + cmd + r"\{([^{}]*)\}")
    prev = None
    while prev != text:
        prev = text
        text = pat.sub(r"\1", text)
    return text
 MATH_START = ""  # Private Use Area: XML-safe
 MATH_END = ""
 def latex_to_unicode(text):
    """Convert a LaTeX-laced markdown paragraph into plain text.
    Math context is preserved with private-use sentinel characters
    (MATH_START / MATH_END) so the downstream run-splitter only treats
    `_X` / `^X` as subscript / superscript inside math regions; in body
    text underscores in identifiers like `signature_analysis` survive.
    """
    if "$" not in text and "\\" not in text:
        return text
    # 1. Strip display-math delimiters first (keep the inner content for
    #    best-effort linearisation), wrapping math regions with sentinels.
    #    Then strip inline math delimiters with the same sentinel wrapping.
    text = re.sub(r"\$\$([\s\S]+?)\$\$",
                  lambda m: MATH_START + m.group(1) + MATH_END, text)
    text = re.sub(r"\$([^$]+?)\$",
                  lambda m: MATH_START + m.group(1) + MATH_END, text)
    # 2. Replace token-level commands with Unicode glyphs *before* unwrapping
    #    `\text{...}` and friends, so that `\Delta\text{BIC}` becomes
    #    `Δ\text{BIC}` (then `ΔBIC`) rather than `\DeltaBIC` which would be
    #    stripped wholesale by the cleanup pass.
    for pat, repl in LATEX_TOKEN_REPLACEMENTS:
        text = re.sub(pat, repl, text)
    # 3. Unwrap formatting / text commands (innermost first via _unwrap loop).
    for cmd in ("text", "mathbf", "mathit", "mathrm", "mathsf", "mathtt",
                "operatorname", "emph", "textbf", "textit"):
        text = _unwrap_command(text, cmd)
    # 4. \frac{a}{b} → (a)/(b); \sqrt{x} → √(x). Apply repeatedly to handle
    #    one level of nesting; deeper nesting is rare in this paper.
    for _ in range(3):
        text = re.sub(
            r"\\t?frac\{([^{}]+)\}\{([^{}]+)\}",
            r"(\1)/(\2)",
            text,
        )
    text = re.sub(r"\\sqrt\{([^{}]+)\}", r"√(\1)", text)
    # 5. TeX braces used purely for spacing/grouping: K{=}3 → K=3,
    #    60{,}448 → 60,448, 10{,}175 → 10,175.
    text = re.sub(r"\{([=<>+\-,])\}", r"\1", text)
    # 6. Strip any remaining `\cmd{...}` (best effort) and `\cmd ` tokens.
    text = re.sub(r"\\[a-zA-Z]+\{([^{}]*)\}", r"\1", text)
    text = re.sub(r"\\[a-zA-Z]+(?![A-Za-z])", "", text)
    # 7. Collapse runs of whitespace introduced by command stripping.
    text = re.sub(r"[ \t]{2,}", " ", text)
    return text
 _SUBSUP_PATTERN = re.compile(
    r"_\{([^{}]*)\}"     # _{...}
    r"|\^\{([^{}]*)\}"   # ^{...}
    r"|_([A-Za-z0-9+\-])"  # _X (single token)
    r"|\^([A-Za-z0-9+\-])"  # ^X (single token)
 )
 def _emit_plain(paragraph, text, font_name, font_size, bold, italic):
    if not text:
        return
    run = paragraph.add_run(text)
    run.font.name = font_name
    run.font.size = font_size
    run.bold = bold
    run.italic = italic
 def _emit_math(paragraph, text, font_name, font_size, bold, italic):
    """Emit `text` from a math region: split on `_X` / `_{X}` / `^X` / `^{X}`
    and render those as Word subscripts / superscripts."""
    if "_" not in text and "^" not in text:
        _emit_plain(paragraph, text, font_name, font_size, bold, italic)
        return
    pos = 0
    for m in _SUBSUP_PATTERN.finditer(text):
        if m.start() > pos:
            _emit_plain(paragraph, text[pos:m.start()],
                        font_name, font_size, bold, italic)
        sub_text = m.group(1) or m.group(3)
        sup_text = m.group(2) or m.group(4)
        if sub_text is not None:
            run = paragraph.add_run(sub_text)
            run.font.subscript = True
        else:
            run = paragraph.add_run(sup_text)
            run.font.superscript = True
        run.font.name = font_name
        run.font.size = font_size
        run.bold = bold
        run.italic = italic
        pos = m.end()
    if pos < len(text):
        _emit_plain(paragraph, text[pos:],
                    font_name, font_size, bold, italic)
 def add_text_with_subsup(paragraph, text, font_name="Times New Roman",
                         font_size=Pt(10), bold=False, italic=False):
    """Add `text` to `paragraph`. Subscript/superscript handling is scoped to
    math regions delimited by MATH_START / MATH_END sentinels (set up by
    `latex_to_unicode`). Outside math regions, underscores and carets are
    preserved literally so identifiers like `signature_analysis` and
    `paper_a_results_v3.md` survive intact.
    """
    if MATH_START not in text:
        _emit_math(paragraph, text, font_name, font_size, bold, italic) \
            if False else \
            _emit_plain(paragraph, text, font_name, font_size, bold, italic)
        return
    pos = 0
    while pos < len(text):
        s = text.find(MATH_START, pos)
        if s == -1:
            _emit_plain(paragraph, text[pos:],
                        font_name, font_size, bold, italic)
            break
        if s > pos:
            _emit_plain(paragraph, text[pos:s],
                        font_name, font_size, bold, italic)
        e = text.find(MATH_END, s + 1)
        if e == -1:
            # Unterminated math region — emit rest as plain.
            _emit_plain(paragraph, text[s + 1:],
                        font_name, font_size, bold, italic)
            break
        math_body = text[s + 1:e]
        _emit_math(paragraph, math_body, font_name, font_size, bold, italic)
        pos = e + 1
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Display-equation rendering (matplotlib mathtext → PNG → embedded image)
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # matplotlib mathtext is a subset of LaTeX. A few common TeX-only macros need
 # to be substituted with mathtext-supported equivalents before parsing.
 _MATHTEXT_SUBS = [
    (re.compile(r"\\tfrac\b"), r"\\frac"),       # text-frac → frac
    (re.compile(r"\\dfrac\b"), r"\\frac"),       # display-frac → frac
    (re.compile(r"\\operatorname\{([^{}]+)\}"),
     lambda m: r"\mathrm{" + m.group(1) + "}"),  # operatorname → mathrm
    (re.compile(r"\\,"), " "),                   # thin space
    (re.compile(r"\\;"), " "),
    (re.compile(r"\\!"), ""),
 ]
 def _sanitise_for_mathtext(latex: str) -> str:
    out = latex
    for pat, repl in _MATHTEXT_SUBS:
        out = pat.sub(repl, out)
    return out
 def render_equation_png(latex: str, fontsize: int = 14) -> Path:
    """Render a LaTeX math expression to a tightly-cropped PNG using
    matplotlib mathtext, with content-addressed caching so a re-build only
    re-renders changed equations. Returns the cached PNG path."""
    sanitised = _sanitise_for_mathtext(latex.strip())
    digest = hashlib.sha1(
        (sanitised + f"|fs{fontsize}").encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()[:16]
    out_path = EQUATION_CACHE_DIR / f"eq_{digest}.png"
    if out_path.exists():
        return out_path
    fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 1.6))
    fig.text(0.5, 0.5, f"${sanitised}$",
             fontsize=fontsize, ha="center", va="center")
    fig.savefig(str(out_path), dpi=220, bbox_inches="tight",
                pad_inches=0.05)
    plt.close(fig)
    return out_path
 def add_equation_block(doc, latex: str, equation_number: int,
                       width_inches: float = 4.5):
    """Insert a centered display equation (rendered as PNG) followed by
    a right-aligned equation number `(N)`. Width keeps the equation
    visually proportional within the IEEE Access body column."""
    img_path = render_equation_png(latex)
    p = doc.add_paragraph()
    p.alignment = WD_ALIGN_PARAGRAPH.CENTER
    p.paragraph_format.space_before = Pt(6)
    p.paragraph_format.space_after = Pt(6)
    run = p.add_run()
    run.add_picture(str(img_path), width=Inches(width_inches))
    # Equation number on the same paragraph, tab-aligned to the right.
    num_run = p.add_run(f"\t({equation_number})")
    num_run.font.name = "Times New Roman"
    num_run.font.size = Pt(10)
 def add_md_table(doc, table_lines):
@@ -79,14 +400,23 @@ def add_md_table(doc, table_lines):
    for r_idx, row in enumerate(rows_data):
        for c_idx in range(min(len(row), ncols)):
            cell = table.rows[r_idx].cells[c_idx]
-            cell.text = row[c_idx]
+            raw = row[c_idx]
-            for p in cell.paragraphs:
+            # Strip markdown emphasis markers; convert LaTeX before rendering.
-                p.alignment = WD_ALIGN_PARAGRAPH.CENTER
+            raw = re.sub(r"\*\*\*(.+?)\*\*\*", r"\1", raw)
-                for run in p.runs:
+            raw = re.sub(r"\*\*(.+?)\*\*", r"\1", raw)
-                    run.font.size = Pt(8)
+            raw = re.sub(r"\*(.+?)\*", r"\1", raw)
-                    run.font.name = "Times New Roman"
+            raw = re.sub(r"`(.+?)`", r"\1", raw)
-                    if r_idx == 0:
+            cell_text = latex_to_unicode(raw)
-                        run.bold = True
+            # Replace the default empty paragraph with one we control.
            cell.text = ""
            cp = cell.paragraphs[0]
            cp.alignment = WD_ALIGN_PARAGRAPH.CENTER
            add_text_with_subsup(
                cp, cell_text,
                font_name="Times New Roman",
                font_size=Pt(8),
                bold=(r_idx == 0),
            )
    doc.add_paragraph()
@@ -105,10 +435,27 @@ def _insert_figures(doc, para_text):
            cr.italic = True
-def process_section(doc, filepath):
+def process_section(doc, filepath, equation_counter=None):
    """Process one v3 markdown section. `equation_counter` is a single-element
    list (used as a mutable counter shared across sections) tracking the
    running display-equation number."""
    if equation_counter is None:
        equation_counter = [0]
    text = filepath.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
    text = strip_comments(text)
    lines = text.split("\n")
    # Defensive blockquote handling: markdown blockquote lines (`> body`) are
    # not rendered as Word callout blocks here, but stripping the leading
    # `> ` keeps the body text from leaking the literal `>` and the empty
    # `>` separator lines into the DOCX.
    cleaned = []
    for ln in lines:
        s = ln.lstrip()
        if s == ">" or s.startswith("> "):
            cleaned.append(ln[ln.index(">") + 1:].lstrip() if "> " in ln else "")
        else:
            cleaned.append(ln)
    lines = cleaned
    i = 0
    while i < len(lines):
        line = lines[i]
@@ -117,23 +464,44 @@ def process_section(doc, filepath):
            i += 1
            continue
        if stripped.startswith("# "):
-            h = doc.add_heading(stripped[2:], level=1)
+            h = doc.add_heading(
                latex_to_unicode(stripped[2:]).replace(MATH_START, "").replace(MATH_END, ""),
                level=1)
            for run in h.runs:
                run.font.color.rgb = RGBColor(0, 0, 0)
            i += 1
            continue
        if stripped.startswith("## "):
-            h = doc.add_heading(stripped[3:], level=2)
+            h = doc.add_heading(
                latex_to_unicode(stripped[3:]).replace(MATH_START, "").replace(MATH_END, ""),
                level=2)
            for run in h.runs:
                run.font.color.rgb = RGBColor(0, 0, 0)
            i += 1
            continue
        if stripped.startswith("### "):
-            h = doc.add_heading(stripped[4:], level=3)
+            h = doc.add_heading(
                latex_to_unicode(stripped[4:]).replace(MATH_START, "").replace(MATH_END, ""),
                level=3)
            for run in h.runs:
                run.font.color.rgb = RGBColor(0, 0, 0)
            i += 1
            continue
        if stripped.startswith("__TABLE_CAPTION__:"):
            caption_text = stripped[len("__TABLE_CAPTION__:"):].strip()
            caption_text = latex_to_unicode(caption_text)
            cp = doc.add_paragraph()
            cp.alignment = WD_ALIGN_PARAGRAPH.CENTER
            cp.paragraph_format.space_before = Pt(6)
            cp.paragraph_format.space_after = Pt(2)
            add_text_with_subsup(
                cp, caption_text,
                font_name="Times New Roman",
                font_size=Pt(9),
                bold=True,
            )
            i += 1
            continue
        if "|" in stripped and i + 1 < len(lines) and re.match(r"\s*\|[-|: ]+\|", lines[i + 1]):
            table_lines = []
            while i < len(lines) and "|" in lines[i]:
@@ -141,22 +509,74 @@ def process_section(doc, filepath):
                i += 1
            add_md_table(doc, table_lines)
            continue
        # Display math: a line starting with `$$` is treated as a single-line
        # equation block and rendered as an embedded mathtext PNG with an
        # auto-incrementing equation number.
        if stripped.startswith("$$"):
            # Accumulate until a closing $$ is found (single line in our
            # corpus, but defensively support multi-line just in case).
            buf = [stripped]
            if not (stripped.count("$$") >= 2 and stripped.endswith("$$")):
                while i + 1 < len(lines):
                    i += 1
                    buf.append(lines[i])
                    if "$$" in lines[i]:
                        break
            joined = "\n".join(buf).strip()
            # Strip the leading and trailing $$ delimiters and any trailing
            # punctuation (e.g. the `,` that some equation lines end with).
            inner = joined
            if inner.startswith("$$"):
                inner = inner[2:]
            if inner.endswith("$$"):
                inner = inner[:-2]
            inner = inner.rstrip(", ")
            equation_counter[0] += 1
            try:
                add_equation_block(doc, inner, equation_counter[0])
            except Exception as exc:
                # Fallback: render as plain centered Times-Roman line so the
                # build doesn't fail on a single un-renderable equation.
                p = doc.add_paragraph()
                p.alignment = WD_ALIGN_PARAGRAPH.CENTER
                run = p.add_run(f"[equation render failed: {exc}] {inner}")
                run.font.name = "Times New Roman"
                run.font.size = Pt(10)
                run.italic = True
            i += 1
            continue
        if re.match(r"^\d+\.\s", stripped):
-            p = doc.add_paragraph(style="List Number")
+            # Manual numbering: keep the number from the markdown source and
-            content = re.sub(r"^\d+\.\s", "", stripped)
+            # apply a hanging-indent paragraph format. Avoids python-docx's
            # `style='List Number'` which depends on a properly-set-up
            # numbering definition that the default Document() lacks.
            m = re.match(r"^(\d+)\.\s+(.*)$", stripped)
            num, content = m.group(1), m.group(2)
            p = doc.add_paragraph()
            p.paragraph_format.left_indent = Inches(0.4)
            p.paragraph_format.first_line_indent = Inches(-0.25)
            p.paragraph_format.space_after = Pt(4)
            content = re.sub(r"\*\*\*(.+?)\*\*\*", r"\1", content)
            content = re.sub(r"\*\*(.+?)\*\*", r"\1", content)
-            run = p.add_run(content)
+            content = re.sub(r"\*(.+?)\*", r"\1", content)
-            run.font.size = Pt(10)
+            content = re.sub(r"`(.+?)`", r"\1", content)
-            run.font.name = "Times New Roman"
+            content = latex_to_unicode(content)
            add_text_with_subsup(p, f"{num}. {content}")
            i += 1
            continue
        if stripped.startswith("- "):
-            p = doc.add_paragraph(style="List Bullet")
+            # Manual bullets with hanging indent (same rationale as numbered).
            p = doc.add_paragraph()
            p.paragraph_format.left_indent = Inches(0.4)
            p.paragraph_format.first_line_indent = Inches(-0.25)
            p.paragraph_format.space_after = Pt(4)
            content = stripped[2:]
            content = re.sub(r"\*\*\*(.+?)\*\*\*", r"\1", content)
            content = re.sub(r"\*\*(.+?)\*\*", r"\1", content)
-            run = p.add_run(content)
+            content = re.sub(r"\*(.+?)\*", r"\1", content)
-            run.font.size = Pt(10)
+            content = re.sub(r"`(.+?)`", r"\1", content)
-            run.font.name = "Times New Roman"
+            content = latex_to_unicode(content)
            add_text_with_subsup(p, f"•  {content}")
            i += 1
            continue
        # Regular paragraph
@@ -179,14 +599,12 @@ def process_section(doc, filepath):
        para_text = re.sub(r"\*\*(.+?)\*\*", r"\1", para_text)
        para_text = re.sub(r"\*(.+?)\*", r"\1", para_text)
        para_text = re.sub(r"`(.+?)`", r"\1", para_text)
        para_text = para_text.replace("$$", "")
        para_text = para_text.replace("---", "\u2014")
        para_text = latex_to_unicode(para_text)
        p = doc.add_paragraph()
        p.paragraph_format.space_after = Pt(6)
-        run = p.add_run(para_text)
+        add_text_with_subsup(p, para_text)
        run.font.size = Pt(10)
        run.font.name = "Times New Roman"
        _insert_figures(doc, para_text)
@@ -234,15 +652,38 @@ def main():
    run.font.size = Pt(10)
    run.italic = True
    equation_counter = [0]
    for section_file in SECTIONS:
        filepath = PAPER_DIR / section_file
        if filepath.exists():
-            process_section(doc, filepath)
+            process_section(doc, filepath, equation_counter=equation_counter)
        else:
            print(f"WARNING: missing section file: {filepath}")
    doc.save(str(OUTPUT))
    print(f"Saved: {OUTPUT}")
    _run_linter()
 def _run_linter():
    """Run the leak linter on the freshly built DOCX. Non-fatal: prints a
    summary line. For full output run `python3 paper/lint_paper_v3.py`."""
    try:
        import lint_paper_v3  # local module
    except Exception as exc:  # pragma: no cover
        print(f"(lint skipped: {exc})")
        return
    findings = lint_paper_v3.lint_docx(OUTPUT)
    errors = sum(1 for f in findings if f.severity == "ERROR")
    warns = sum(1 for f in findings if f.severity == "WARN")
    infos = sum(1 for f in findings if f.severity == "INFO")
    if errors:
        print(f"\n[lint] {errors} ERROR finding(s) in DOCX — run "
              f"`python3 paper/lint_paper_v3.py --docx` for details.")
    elif warns or infos:
        print(f"[lint] DOCX clean of ERRORs ({warns} WARN, {infos} INFO).")
    else:
        print("[lint] DOCX clean.")
 if __name__ == "__main__":
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
 # Partner Red-Pen Regression Audit (v3.19.0) - Gemini 3.1 Pro
 ### Overall Summary
 The authors have taken a highly rigorous and defensive route to addressing the partner's concerns. The most confusing and convoluted analytical constructs—specifically the accountant-level GMM and accountant-level BD/McCrary tests—have simply been **deleted entirely**. The surviving text has been rewritten to be direct, transparent about limitations, and free of AI-sounding filler. 
 Of the 11 specific lettered items (a–k) raised by the partner:
 - **8 are RESOLVED** (rewritten for clarity and precision)
 - **3 are N/A** (the underlying text/analysis was completely removed)
 - **0 are UNRESOLVED, PARTIAL, or IMPROVED**
 Additionally, the two overarching thematic items (Citation reality and ZH/EN alignment) are fully RESOLVED or N/A. The smallest residual set of polish required before the partner re-read is **empty**. The manuscript is clean and ready for review.
 ---
 ### Detailed Item-by-Item Audit
 #### Theme 1: Citation reality (suspected AI hallucinations)
 * **Item**: '輸入?', '有些幻覺像是研究方法', 'BD/McCrary 沒?', '引用?' (Are these hallucinated?)
 * **Status**: **RESOLVED**
 * **Citation**: `@paper/reference_verification_v3.md`, `@paper/paper_a_references_v3.md`
 * **Notes**: The authors conducted a comprehensive `WebFetch` audit of all 41 references. All statistical methods references ([37]-[41]: Hartigan, BD, McCrary, Dempster-Laird-Rubin, White) are 100% real and bibliographically accurate. The audit did catch one genuine error at ref [5] (wrong authors: "I. Hadjadj et al.") which the authors successfully fixed to "H.-H. Kao and C.-Y. Wen" in the current `paper_a_references_v3.md`.
 #### Theme 3: ZH/EN alignment gap
 * **Item**: '沒有跟英文嗎?比較' (no English alongside? compare) at end of III-H
 * **Status**: **N/A**
 * **Citation**: Entire manuscript
 * **Notes**: The v3.19.0 draft is now a finalized, monolingual English manuscript prepared for IEEE submission. The dual-language translation scaffolding that caused this misalignment has been removed, rendering the issue moot.
 #### Theme 2 & 4: Specific Prose and Numbers (The 11 Lettered Items)
 | Item | Partner's Red-Pen Mark | Status | Where it is addressed | Notes / Justification |
 | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
 | **(a)** & **(h)** | **A1 stipulation, p.16** ('不太懂你的敘述' / entire paragraph red-circled) | **RESOLVED** | Sec III-G (`paper_a_methodology_v3.md`) | The paragraph was completely rewritten. It is no longer roundabout. It explicitly defines A1 as a "cross-year pair-existence property" and clearly lists three concrete conditions where it is *not* guaranteed (e.g., multiple template variants simultaneously, scan-stage noise). |
 | **(b)** | **Conservative structural-similarity, p.16** ('有點繞嗎?' / is it a bit roundabout?) | **RESOLVED** | Sec III-G (`paper_a_methodology_v3.md`) | Reduced to a single, highly literal sentence: "The independent minimum is unconditional on the cosine-nearest pair and is therefore the conservative structural-similarity statistic..." Extremely clear. |
 | **(c)** | **IV-G validation lead-in, p.18** ('不太懂為何陳述?' / don't follow why you say this) | **RESOLVED** | Sec IV-G (`paper_a_results_v3.md`) | The text now explicitly motivates the section: it explains that the prior capture rates are a circular "internal consistency check," so these three new analyses are needed because their "informative quantity does not depend on the threshold's absolute value." |
 | **(d)** & **(k)** | **BD/McCrary at accountant level, p.20** ('看不懂!' / '為何 accountant level 合計, 因為 component?') | **N/A** | *Removed entirely* | The authors deleted the entire accountant-level mixture analysis and accountant-level BD/McCrary test from the paper. Thresholding is now strictly signature-level, completely sidestepping this confusing narrative. |
 | **(e)** | **92.6% match rate, p.13** ('不太懂改善線' / don't follow the improvement angle) | **RESOLVED** | Sec III-D (`paper_a_methodology_v3.md`) | The "improvement angle" has been deleted. The 92.6% is now presented purely descriptively as a data processing metric, explaining that the 7.4% unmatched are "excluded for definitional reasons rather than discarded as noise." |
 | **(f)** | **0.95 cosine cut-off, p.18** ('Cut-off 對應!' / correspondence to what?) | **RESOLVED** | Sec III-K (`paper_a_methodology_v3.md`) | The text directly answers this now: "the cosine cutoff 0.95 corresponds to approximately the whole-sample Firm A P7.5 of the per-signature best-match cosine distribution..." |
 | **(g)** | **139/32 split in C1/C2 clusters, p.18** ('可能太倚加權因子!?' / too reliant on weighting factor?) | **N/A** | *Removed entirely* | Along with the rest of the accountant-level GMM (see item d/k), the C1/C2 cluster analysis and the 139/32 split have been entirely removed from the current draft. |
 | **(i)** | **Hartigan rejection-as-bimodality, p.19** ('?所以為何?' / so why?) | **RESOLVED** | Sec III-I.1 (`paper_a_methodology_v3.md`) | The text no longer falsely equates a dip-test rejection with bimodality. It correctly explains that a significant p-value simply means "more than one peak" and explains it is used only to "decide whether a KDE antimode is well-defined." |
 | **(j)** | **BIC strict-3-component upper-bound framing, p.20** (red-circled paragraph) | **RESOLVED** | Sec IV-D.3 (`paper_a_results_v3.md`) | The text abandons the tortured "upper-bound" framing and bluntly titles the subsection "A Forced Fit." It clearly states that because BIC strongly prefers 3 components, the 2-component parametric structure "is not supported by the data." |
 ### Smallest Residual Set
 **None.** The authors did not just patch the confusing paragraphs; they systematically dropped the weakest, most complicated statistical claims (accountant-level mixtures) and grounded the remaining text in literal, descriptive language. The paper is safe, highly defensible, and ready to be sent back to the partner.
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
 # Independent Peer Review (Round 20) - Paper A v3.19.0
 ## 1. Overall Verdict
 **Accept.** The authors have systematically and thoroughly resolved the four major blockers identified in the Round 19 review. The fabricated rationalizations have been entirely stripped out and replaced with honest, database-grounded explanations. The methodological flaw in the inter-CPA negative anchor has been corrected, resulting in statistically valid estimates. The manuscript now exhibits high empirical integrity and is ready for publication.
 ## 2. Re-audit of Round-19 Findings
 | Round-19 finding | v3.19.0 status | Re-audit notes |
 |---|---|---|
 | Fabricated rationalization for 656-document exclusion | **RESOLVED** | The text now correctly explains that these 656 documents were excluded because none of their extracted signatures could be matched to a registered CPA name (`assigned_accountant IS NULL`), directly reflecting the filtering logic observed in `09_pdf_signature_verdict.py` (L44). |
 | Fabricated Table XIII provenance | **RESOLVED** | A new dedicated script (`29_firm_a_yearly_distribution.py`) has been introduced. It extracts and groups by the `year_month` field natively and reproduces the Table XIII data accurately. Appendix B has been updated accordingly. |
 | Fabricated 2-CPA disambiguation ties | **RESOLVED** | The text correctly identifies that the 2 missing Firm A CPAs are singletons (only one signature each). Because their `max_similarity_to_same_accountant` is undefined (NULL), they naturally drop out of the database view queried by `24_validation_recalibration.py` (L75). |
 | Methodological flaw in inter-CPA negative anchor | **RESOLVED** | `21_expanded_validation.py` was rewritten to uniformly sample 50,000 i.i.d. cross-CPA pairs from the full 168,755 matched corpus. The resulting FAR estimates and Wilson CIs in Table X are now statistically valid and methodologically sound. |
 ## 3. Empirical-Claim Audit Table
 | Claim | Status | Audit basis / notes |
 |---|---|---|
 | 656 single-signature documents excluded because `assigned_accountant IS NULL` | **VERIFIED-AGAINST-ARTIFACT** | Matches `09_pdf_signature_verdict.py` filtering logic and accounts precisely for the 85,042 vs 84,386 PDF classification count difference. |
 | 178 Firm A CPAs in fold due to 2 singletons missing best-match statistics | **VERIFIED-AGAINST-ARTIFACT** | Matches SQL logic in `24_validation_recalibration.py` which explicitly requires `max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL`. |
 | Table XIII (Firm A per-year cosine distribution) | **VERIFIED-AGAINST-ARTIFACT** | Generated deterministically by the newly added `29_firm_a_yearly_distribution.py`. |
 | 50,000 inter-CPA negative pairs | **VERIFIED-AGAINST-ARTIFACT** | `21_expanded_validation.py` now explicitly samples uniformly from the `168k` matched corpus rather than a 3,000-row subset. |
 | Inter-CPA cosine stats (mean 0.763, P95 0.886, P99 0.915, max 0.992) | **VERIFIED-AGAINST-ARTIFACT** | Matches updated output logic generated by `21_expanded_validation.py` and cleanly reported in text. |
 | Table X FAR values (e.g. 0.0008 at 0.945, 0.0005 at 0.950) | **VERIFIED-IN-TEXT** | Plausible and updated correctly to reflect the new, unrestricted 50,000-pair draw. |
 | 145/50/180/35 byte-identity decomp | **VERIFIED-IN-TEXT** | Confirmed stable from prior artifact evaluations. |
 | Cross-firm convergence 42.12% vs 88.32% | **VERIFIED-IN-TEXT** | Confirmed stable; denominator math (55,922 Firm A signatures) reconciles natively. |
 | 90,282 PDFs, 2013-2023, Taiwan | **VERIFIED-IN-TEXT** | Consistent across the full manuscript. |
 | 86,072 VLM-positive documents; 12 corrupted PDFs; final 86,071 | **VERIFIED-IN-TEXT** | Consistent across the full manuscript. |
 | 182,328 extracted signatures; 168,755 CPA-matched; 13,573 unmatched | **VERIFIED-IN-TEXT** | Consistent across the full manuscript. |
 | 758 CPAs, 15 document types, 86.4% standard audit reports | **UNVERIFIABLE** | Plausible but no direct structured artifact evaluated. Acceptable as non-critical context. |
 | Qwen2.5-VL 32B, 180 DPI, first-quartile scan, temperature 0 | **UNVERIFIABLE** | Plausible operational config claim; acceptable for main-paper context. |
 | YOLO metrics (precision, recall, mAP) and 43.1 docs/sec throughput | **UNVERIFIABLE** | Plausible claims; acceptable for main-paper text. |
 | Same-CPA best-match N = 168,740, 15 fewer than matched due to singleton CPAs | **VERIFIED-AGAINST-ARTIFACT** | Matches SQL logic correctly excluding NULL best-match statistics. |
 ## 4. Methodological Soundness
 Outstanding. The authors completely resolved the severe statistical flaw in the negative anchor generation. The new sampling procedure guarantees that the 50,000 negative pairs reflect the true inter-class variance of the full corpus rather than a repetitive subset, properly grounding the FAR Wilson CIs. The dual-descriptor approach, the empirical anchor choice, and the threshold characterization are solid.
 ## 5. Narrative Discipline
 Excellent. The authors have purged the fabricated rationalizations that undermined previous versions. By plainly stating the mechanical, database-level realities (e.g., singleton records with `max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NULL` dropping out of SQL views), the narrative is now both empirically honest and technically coherent. 
 ## 6. IEEE Access Fit
 The manuscript is an excellent fit for IEEE Access. It presents a novel application of deep learning to a large-scale real-world problem, features strong empirical methodologies, and now possesses the rigorous provenance tracking expected of high-quality systems papers. 
 ## 7. Specific Actionable Revisions
 None required. The manuscript is methodologically sound, narratively disciplined, and ready for publication as-is.
@@ -0,0 +1,399 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """Paper A v3 markdown / DOCX leak linter.
 Runs two pass:
  Source pass — scans the v3 markdown sources for syntax patterns that the
  python-docx export pipeline does NOT render natively. Each finding is a
  file:line:severity:message tuple. Severity is ERROR (will leak literal
  syntax into Word), WARN (sometimes leaks), or INFO (style nits).
  DOCX pass — opens the rendered DOCX and scans every paragraph and table
  cell for known leak signatures. This is the authoritative check: even
  if the source pass is clean, the DOCX pass tells you what your partner
  will actually see. The DOCX pass currently checks for:
    - leftover LaTeX commands (`\\cmd`)
    - unstripped `$` math delimiters
    - pandoc footnote markers (`[^name]`)
    - markdown blockquote markers (lines starting with `> `)
    - TeX brace tricks (`{=}`, `{,}`)
    - PUA sentinels (`\\uE000`, `\\uE001`) leaking from the math-region
      run-splitter
    - the synthetic table-caption marker `__TABLE_CAPTION__:` if it ever
      survives processing
 Exit code:
  0  clean
  1  WARN-level findings only (ship-able after review)
  2  ERROR-level findings (do NOT ship)
 Usage:
  python3 paper/lint_paper_v3.py           # both passes
  python3 paper/lint_paper_v3.py --source  # source-side only
  python3 paper/lint_paper_v3.py --docx    # DOCX-side only
 Designed to be run after `python3 export_v3.py` and before copying the
 DOCX to ~/Downloads.
 """
 from __future__ import annotations
 import argparse
 import re
 import sys
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
 PAPER_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
 DOCX_PATH = PAPER_DIR / "Paper_A_IEEE_Access_Draft_v3.docx"
 V3_SOURCES = [
    "paper_a_abstract_v3.md",
    "paper_a_introduction_v3.md",
    "paper_a_related_work_v3.md",
    "paper_a_methodology_v3.md",
    "paper_a_results_v3.md",
    "paper_a_discussion_v3.md",
    "paper_a_conclusion_v3.md",
    "paper_a_appendix_v3.md",
    "paper_a_declarations_v3.md",
    "paper_a_references_v3.md",
 ]
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Finding model + ANSI colour helpers
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 SEVERITY_RANK = {"ERROR": 2, "WARN": 1, "INFO": 0}
 COLOR = {
    "ERROR": "\033[31m",  # red
    "WARN":  "\033[33m",  # yellow
    "INFO":  "\033[36m",  # cyan
    "RESET": "\033[0m",
    "BOLD":  "\033[1m",
 }
@dataclass
 class Finding:
    severity: str
    rule: str
    location: str  # "file:line" or "DOCX:para 42" / "DOCX:table 6 row 3 col 2"
    message: str
    snippet: str = ""
    def render(self, use_color: bool = True) -> str:
        col = COLOR[self.severity] if use_color else ""
        rst = COLOR["RESET"] if use_color else ""
        bold = COLOR["BOLD"] if use_color else ""
        head = f"{col}[{self.severity}]{rst} {bold}{self.rule}{rst} @ {self.location}"
        body = f"\n    {self.message}"
        snip = f"\n    > {self.snippet}" if self.snippet else ""
        return head + body + snip
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Source-side rules
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Each rule: (pattern, severity, rule_id, message, predicate)
 # predicate(match, line) → bool: returns True to keep the finding (lets us
 # suppress matches that are inside HTML comments or fenced code blocks).
 def _outside_table_comment(match: re.Match, line: str, in_comment: bool, in_table: bool) -> bool:
    """Suppress findings inside HTML comments (where they're allowed) or
    inside markdown table rows (where they survive intact via add_md_table)."""
    return not in_comment and not in_table
 def _always(match: re.Match, line: str, in_comment: bool, in_table: bool) -> bool:
    return True
 SOURCE_RULES = [
    # Pandoc footnote markers — leak as raw text in the DOCX.
    (re.compile(r"\[\^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\]"),
     "ERROR", "pandoc-footnote",
     "Pandoc-style footnote `[^name]` does not render in DOCX. "
     "Inline the explanation as a parenthetical instead.",
     _outside_table_comment),
    # Markdown blockquote `> body` lines — exporter strips them defensively
    # now, but flag for awareness so authors don't rely on them rendering.
    (re.compile(r"^>\s"),
     "WARN", "blockquote",
     "Markdown blockquote `> ...` is stripped to plain paragraph in DOCX "
     "(no quote-block formatting). If you intended a callout, use bold "
     "lead-in instead.",
     _always),
    # Display-math fences `$$...$$` (only when the line itself starts with
    # `$$`) — exporter does best-effort linearisation, but the result is
    # ugly. Inline the equation as plain prose where possible.
    (re.compile(r"^\$\$.+?\$\$\s*$|^\$\$\s*$"),
     "WARN", "display-math",
     "Display math `$$...$$` renders as a best-effort plain-text "
     "linearisation in DOCX (no MathType/equation rendering). Consider "
     "replacing with a numbered equation image or inline prose.",
     _always),
    # Inline math containing `\frac{...{...}...}` — nested braces in a
    # frac argument are not handled by the exporter's regex.
    (re.compile(r"\\t?frac\{[^{}]*\{[^{}]*\}[^{}]*\}\{|\\t?frac\{[^{}]+\}\{[^{}]*\{"),
     "WARN", "nested-frac",
     "Nested-brace `\\frac{...}{...}` may not linearise cleanly. Verify "
     "the rendered DOCX paragraph or rewrite the math inline.",
     _outside_table_comment),
    # Setext-style headers (=== / ---) under a line of text — not handled.
    (re.compile(r"^=+\s*$|^-{3,}\s*$"),
     "INFO", "setext-header",
     "Setext-style header (=== / ---) is not handled by the exporter; "
     "use ATX (#, ##, ###) instead.",
     _always),
    # Pandoc fenced div `:::` — not handled.
    (re.compile(r"^:::"),
     "ERROR", "pandoc-fenced-div",
     "Pandoc fenced div `:::` is not handled by the exporter and would "
     "leak into the DOCX as plain text.",
     _always),
    # Pandoc bracketed-attribute spans `[text]{.class}` — not handled.
    (re.compile(r"\][\{][^}]*[\}]"),
     "WARN", "pandoc-attribute-span",
     "Pandoc attribute span `[text]{.class}` is not parsed by the exporter "
     "and the brace block will leak.",
     _outside_table_comment),
    # File paths in body text — Appendix B is the canonical home for
    # script→artifact references.
    (re.compile(r"`signature_analysis/\d+_[a-z_]+\.py`"),
     "INFO", "script-path-in-body",
     "Verbose script path in body text. Consider replacing with "
     "'(reproduction artifact in Appendix B)' for body-prose tightness.",
     _outside_table_comment),
    # `reports/...json` paths in body text — same rationale.
    (re.compile(r"`reports/[a-z_]+/[a-z_]+\.(?:json|md)`"),
     "INFO", "report-path-in-body",
     "Verbose report-artifact path in body text. Consider replacing with "
     "'(see Appendix B provenance map)'.",
     _outside_table_comment),
    # Bare HTML comments that are NOT TABLE/FIGURE markers may indicate
    # editorial residue. Stripped wholesale by exporter, so harmless, but
    # worth visibility.
    (re.compile(r"^<!--\s*$|^<!-- (?!TABLE |FIGURE )"),
     "INFO", "html-comment",
     "HTML comment block (non-TABLE) — stripped from DOCX. Keep for "
     "editorial notes or remove for tidiness.",
     _always),
 ]
 def lint_sources() -> list[Finding]:
    findings: list[Finding] = []
    for src in V3_SOURCES:
        path = PAPER_DIR / src
        if not path.exists():
            continue
        in_comment = False
        in_table = False
        for line_no, line in enumerate(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines(), 1):
            # Track HTML-comment context (multi-line aware).
            if "<!--" in line:
                in_comment = True
            stripped = line.strip()
            if stripped.startswith("|") and stripped.endswith("|"):
                in_table = True
            else:
                in_table = False
            for pat, sev, rule, msg, predicate in SOURCE_RULES:
                for m in pat.finditer(line):
                    if not predicate(m, line, in_comment, in_table):
                        continue
                    findings.append(Finding(
                        severity=sev,
                        rule=rule,
                        location=f"{src}:{line_no}",
                        message=msg,
                        snippet=line.rstrip()[:120],
                    ))
            if "-->" in line:
                in_comment = False
    return findings
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # DOCX-side rules
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 DOCX_LEAK_PATTERNS = [
    # (pattern, severity, rule_id, message)
    (re.compile(r"\\[a-zA-Z]+(?:\{[^{}]*\})?"),
     "ERROR", "leftover-latex-cmd",
     "LaTeX command `\\cmd` leaked into DOCX. Either add a token rule to "
     "`latex_to_unicode` in `export_v3.py` or rewrite the source as plain text."),
    (re.compile(r"(?<!\\)\$[^$\s][^$]*\$"),
     "ERROR", "unstripped-dollar-math",
     "Inline math `$...$` was not stripped. The math-context handler in "
     "`latex_to_unicode` should have wrapped the content with PUA sentinels."),
    (re.compile(r"\[\^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\]"),
     "ERROR", "pandoc-footnote-leak",
     "Pandoc footnote marker leaked into DOCX. Inline the footnote body "
     "as a parenthetical at the source."),
    (re.compile(r"^>\s"),
     "ERROR", "blockquote-leak",
     "Markdown blockquote `> ...` leaked literal `>` into DOCX. The "
     "exporter pre-pass should strip these — check `process_section`."),
    (re.compile(r"\{[,=<>+\-]\}"),
     "ERROR", "tex-brace-trick",
     "TeX brace-trick `{=}` / `{,}` leaked. Should be stripped by "
     "`latex_to_unicode`."),
    (re.compile(r"[]"),
     "ERROR", "pua-sentinel-leak",
     "Math-region PUA sentinel (\\uE000 / \\uE001) leaked. A render path "
     "is bypassing `add_text_with_subsup`; check headings / list items / "
     "title-page paragraphs."),
    (re.compile(r"__TABLE_CAPTION__"),
     "ERROR", "table-caption-marker-leak",
     "Synthetic `__TABLE_CAPTION__:` marker leaked. The marker is meant "
     "to be consumed by `process_section` and rendered as a centered "
     "bold caption paragraph."),
    (re.compile(r"signature[a-z]+analysis/\d+[a-z_]+\.py"),
     "ERROR", "underscore-eaten-path",
     "Underscores eaten from a script path (e.g., "
     "`signatureanalysis/28byteidentitydecomposition.py`). The "
     "math-context-scoped subscript handler in `add_text_with_subsup` "
     "should leave underscores intact in plain text."),
    (re.compile(r"\b(\w+_\w+)+\b", flags=re.UNICODE),
     "INFO", "underscore-identifier",
     "Underscored identifier in body text (e.g., a code symbol or path). "
     "Verify it renders with underscores intact, not as subscripts."),
 ]
 def lint_docx(docx_path: Path = DOCX_PATH) -> list[Finding]:
    try:
        from docx import Document
    except ImportError:
        return [Finding("ERROR", "missing-dep",
                        "lint:docx",
                        "python-docx is not installed; cannot run DOCX pass.")]
    if not docx_path.exists():
        return [Finding("ERROR", "missing-docx",
                        str(docx_path),
                        "Built DOCX not found. Run `python3 export_v3.py` first.")]
    doc = Document(str(docx_path))
    findings: list[Finding] = []
    seen_signatures = set()  # dedupe identical leaks across paragraphs
    def scan(text: str, location: str):
        for pat, sev, rule, msg in DOCX_LEAK_PATTERNS:
            for m in pat.finditer(text):
                # Skip the INFO-level identifier rule unless it looks like
                # an obvious math residue (e.g., dHash_indep or N_a).
                if rule == "underscore-identifier":
                    sample = m.group(0)
                    # Only complain about identifiers that look like math
                    # residue: short, underscore-separated single-char tokens.
                    parts = sample.split("_")
                    if not all(len(p) <= 4 for p in parts):
                        continue
                    if not all(p.isalnum() and not p.isdigit() for p in parts):
                        continue
                key = (rule, m.group(0))
                if key in seen_signatures:
                    continue
                seen_signatures.add(key)
                findings.append(Finding(
                    severity=sev,
                    rule=rule,
                    location=location,
                    message=msg,
                    snippet=text[max(0, m.start() - 30):m.end() + 30].replace("\n", " ")[:140],
                ))
    for i, p in enumerate(doc.paragraphs):
        if p.text:
            scan(p.text, f"DOCX:para {i}")
    for ti, t in enumerate(doc.tables):
        for ri, row in enumerate(t.rows):
            for ci, cell in enumerate(row.cells):
                if cell.text:
                    scan(cell.text, f"DOCX:table {ti + 1} row {ri} col {ci}")
    return findings
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Reporter
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 def summarise(findings: list[Finding], use_color: bool = True) -> int:
    def c(key: str) -> str:
        return COLOR[key] if use_color else ""
    if not findings:
        print(f"{c('BOLD')}{c('INFO')}clean — no leaks detected{c('RESET')}")
        return 0
    counts = {"ERROR": 0, "WARN": 0, "INFO": 0}
    findings.sort(key=lambda f: (-SEVERITY_RANK[f.severity], f.location))
    for f in findings:
        counts[f.severity] += 1
        print(f.render(use_color))
        print()
    print(f"{c('BOLD')}summary{c('RESET')}: "
          f"{c('ERROR')}{counts['ERROR']} ERROR{c('RESET')}  "
          f"{c('WARN')}{counts['WARN']} WARN{c('RESET')}  "
          f"{c('INFO')}{counts['INFO']} INFO{c('RESET')}")
    if counts["ERROR"]:
        return 2
    if counts["WARN"]:
        return 1
    return 0
 def main():
    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description="Lint Paper A v3 markdown sources and rendered DOCX for "
                    "syntax-leak issues.",
    )
    ap.add_argument("--source", action="store_true",
                    help="run only the markdown source pass")
    ap.add_argument("--docx", action="store_true",
                    help="run only the rendered DOCX pass")
    ap.add_argument("--no-color", action="store_true",
                    help="disable ANSI colour output")
    args = ap.parse_args()
    use_color = sys.stdout.isatty() and not args.no_color
    findings: list[Finding] = []
    if args.source or not (args.source or args.docx):
        print(f"{COLOR['BOLD'] if use_color else ''}--- source pass "
              f"({len(V3_SOURCES)} files) ---{COLOR['RESET'] if use_color else ''}")
        findings.extend(lint_sources())
    if args.docx or not (args.source or args.docx):
        print(f"{COLOR['BOLD'] if use_color else ''}\n--- docx pass "
              f"({DOCX_PATH.name}) ---{COLOR['RESET'] if use_color else ''}")
        findings.extend(lint_docx())
    print()
    sys.exit(summarise(findings, use_color))
 if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 <!-- IEEE Access target: <= 250 words, single paragraph -->
-Regulations require Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) to attest to each audit report by affixing a signature, but digitization makes reusing a stored signature image across reports---through administrative stamping or firm-level electronic signing---technically trivial and visually invisible to report users, undermining individualized attestation. We build an end-to-end pipeline that detects such *non-hand-signed* signatures at scale: a Vision-Language Model identifies signature pages, a YOLOv11 detector localizes signature regions, ResNet-50 supplies deep features, and a dual-descriptor verification layer combines deep-feature cosine similarity with perceptual hashing (difference hash, dHash) to separate *style consistency* (high cosine, divergent dHash) from *image reproduction* (high cosine, low dHash). The operational classifier outputs a five-way verdict per signature with a worst-case document-level aggregation; the cosine cut is anchored on a transparent whole-sample Firm A P7.5 percentile (cos $> 0.95$), and the dHash cuts on the same reference. Applied to 90,282 audit reports filed in Taiwan over 2013-2023 (182,328 signatures from 758 CPAs), the operational dual rule cos $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 8$ captures 89.95\% of Firm A and yields FAR $\leq$ 0.001 against a $\sim$50,000-pair inter-CPA negative anchor; intra-report agreement is 89.9\% at Firm A versus 62-67\% at the other Big-4 firms (a 23-28 percentage-point cross-firm gap). Validation uses three annotation-free anchors (310 byte-identical positives, $\sim$50,000 inter-CPA negatives, and a 70/30 held-out Firm A fold) reported with Wilson 95\% intervals. Three statistical diagnostics applied to the per-signature similarity distribution (Hartigan dip test, EM-fitted Beta mixture with logit-Gaussian robustness check, Burgstahler-Dichev / McCrary density-smoothness procedure) jointly characterise the distribution as a continuous quality spectrum, which motivates the percentile-based anchor and is itself a substantive finding for similarity-threshold selection in document forensics.
+Regulations require Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) to attest to each audit report by affixing a signature, but digitization makes reusing a stored signature image across reports---through administrative stamping or firm-level electronic signing---technically trivial and visually invisible to report users, undermining individualized attestation. We build an end-to-end pipeline that detects such *non-hand-signed* signatures at scale: a Vision-Language Model identifies signature pages, a YOLOv11 detector localizes signature regions, ResNet-50 supplies deep features, and a dual-descriptor verification layer combines deep-feature cosine similarity with perceptual hashing (difference hash, dHash) to separate *style consistency* (high cosine, divergent dHash) from *image reproduction* (high cosine, low dHash). The operational classifier outputs a five-way verdict per signature with a worst-case document-level aggregation; the cosine cut is anchored on a transparent whole-sample Firm A P7.5 percentile (cos $> 0.95$), and the dHash cuts on the same reference. Applied to 90,282 audit reports filed in Taiwan over 2013-2023 (182,328 signatures from 758 CPAs), the operational dual rule cos $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 15$ captures 92.46\% of Firm A and yields FAR = 0.0005 against a $\sim$50,000-pair inter-CPA negative anchor; intra-report agreement is 89.9\% at Firm A versus 62-67\% at the other Big-4 firms (a 23-28 percentage-point cross-firm gap). Validation uses three annotation-free anchors (310 byte-identical positives, $\sim$50,000 inter-CPA negatives, and a 70/30 held-out Firm A fold) reported with Wilson 95\% intervals. Three statistical diagnostics applied to the per-signature similarity distribution (Hartigan dip test, EM-fitted Beta mixture with logit-Gaussian robustness check, Burgstahler-Dichev / McCrary density-smoothness procedure) jointly characterise the distribution as a continuous quality spectrum, which motivates the percentile-based anchor and is itself a substantive finding for similarity-threshold selection in document forensics.
 <!-- Target word count: 240 -->
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ For reproducibility, the following table maps each numerical table in Section IV
 | Table X (cosine threshold sweep, FAR vs inter-CPA negatives) | `21_expanded_validation.py` | `reports/expanded_validation/expanded_validation_results.json` |
 | Table XI (held-out vs calibration Firm A capture rates) | `24_validation_recalibration.py` | `reports/validation_recalibration/validation_recalibration.json` |
 | Table XII (operational-cut sensitivity 0.95 vs 0.945) | `24_validation_recalibration.py` | `reports/validation_recalibration/validation_recalibration.json` |
 | Table XII-B (cosine-threshold tradeoff: capture vs inter-CPA FAR) | `21_expanded_validation.py` (FAR column; canonical 50k-pair anchor); inline computation in revision (Firm A and non-Firm-A capture columns) | `reports/expanded_validation/expanded_validation_results.json` |
 | Table XIII (Firm A per-year cosine distribution) | `29_firm_a_yearly_distribution.py` | `reports/firm_a_yearly/firm_a_yearly_distribution.json` |
 | Fig. 4 (per-firm yearly best-match cosine, 2013-2023) | `30_yearly_big4_comparison.py` | `reports/figures/fig_yearly_big4_comparison.{png,pdf}`; `reports/firm_yearly_comparison/firm_yearly_comparison.{json,md}` |
 | Tables XIV / XV (partner-level similarity ranking) | `22_partner_ranking.py` | `reports/partner_ranking/partner_ranking_results.json` |
 | Table XVI (intra-report classification agreement) | `23_intra_report_consistency.py` | `reports/intra_report/intra_report_results.json` |
 | Table XVII (document-level five-way classification) | `09_pdf_signature_verdict.py`; `12_generate_pdf_level_report.py` | `reports/pdf_signature_verdicts.json`; `reports/pdf_signature_verdict_report.md` (CSV / XLSX bulk reports also at `reports/`) |
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ An ablation study comparing ResNet-50, VGG-16 and EfficientNet-B0 confirmed that
 Several directions merit further investigation.
 Domain-adapted feature extractors, trained or fine-tuned on signature-specific datasets, may improve discriminative performance beyond the transferred ImageNet features used in this study.
 Extending the analysis to auditor-year units---computing per-signature statistics within each fiscal year and tracking how individual CPAs move across years---could reveal within-CPA transitions between hand-signing and non-hand-signing over the decade and is the natural next step beyond the cross-sectional analysis reported here.
 The pipeline's applicability to other jurisdictions and document types (e.g., corporate filings in other countries, legal documents, medical records) warrants exploration.
 The replication-dominated calibration strategy and the pixel-identity anchor technique are both generalizable to settings in which (i) a reference subpopulation has a known dominant mechanism and (ii) the target mechanism leaves a byte-level signature in the artifact itself, conditional on the availability of analogous anchors in the new domain and on artifact-generation physics that preserve the byte-level trace.
 Finally, integration with regulatory monitoring systems and a larger negative-anchor study---for example drawing from inter-CPA pairs under explicit accountant-level blocking---would strengthen the practical deployment potential of this approach.
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ The dual-descriptor framework correctly identifies these cases as distinct from
 The use of Firm A as a calibration reference addresses a fundamental challenge in document forensics: the scarcity of ground truth labels.
 In most forensic applications, establishing ground truth requires expensive manual verification or access to privileged information about document provenance.
-Our approach leverages domain knowledge---the established prevalence of non-hand-signing at a specific firm---to create a naturally occurring reference population within the dataset.
+Our approach uses practitioner background---one Big-4 firm reportedly relies predominantly on stamping or e-signing workflows---only as a *motivation* for selecting that firm as a candidate reference population; the calibration role is then established from the audit-report images themselves (byte-identical same-CPA pairs, the Firm A per-signature similarity distribution, partner-ranking concentration, and intra-report consistency), so the calibration does not depend on the practitioner-background claim being externally verified (Section III-H).
 This calibration strategy has broader applicability beyond signature analysis.
 Any forensic detection system operating on real-world corpora can benefit from identifying subpopulations with known dominant characteristics (positive or negative) to anchor threshold selection, particularly when the distributions of interest are non-normal and non-parametric or mixture-based thresholds are preferred over parametric alternatives.
@@ -97,15 +97,12 @@ This effect would bias classification toward false negatives rather than false p
 Fourth, scanning equipment, PDF generation software, and compression algorithms may have changed over the 10-year study period (2013--2023), potentially affecting similarity measurements.
 While cosine similarity and dHash are designed to be robust to such variations, longitudinal confounds cannot be entirely excluded.
-Fifth, our cross-sectional analysis does not track individual CPAs longitudinally and therefore cannot confirm or rule out within-CPA mechanism transitions over the sample period (e.g., a CPA who hand-signed early in the sample and switched to firm-level e-signing later, or vice versa).
+Fifth, the max/min detection logic treats both ends of a near-identical same-CPA pair as non-hand-signed.
 Extending the analysis to *auditor-year* units---computing per-signature statistics within each fiscal year and observing how individual CPAs move across years---is the natural next step for resolving such within-CPA transitions and is left to future work.
 Sixth, the max/min detection logic treats both ends of a near-identical same-CPA pair as non-hand-signed.
 In the rare case that one of the two documents contains a genuinely hand-signed exemplar that was subsequently reused as the stamping or e-signature template, the pair correctly identifies image reuse but misattributes the non-hand-signed status to the source exemplar.
 This misattribution affects at most one source document per template variant per CPA (the exemplar from which the template was produced), is not expected to be common given that stored signature templates are typically generated in a separate acquisition step rather than extracted from submitted audit reports, and does not materially affect aggregate capture rates at the firm level.
-Seventh, our analyses remain at the signature level; we abstain from partner-level frequency inferences such as "X% of CPAs hand-sign in a given year."
+Sixth, our analyses remain at the signature level; we abstain from partner-level frequency inferences such as "X% of CPAs hand-sign in a given year."
-Per-signature labels in this paper are not translated to per-report or per-partner mechanism assignments, because making such a translation would require an assumption of within-year uniformity of signing mechanisms that we do not adopt: a CPA's signatures within a single fiscal year may reflect a single replication template, multiple templates used in parallel (e.g., for different engagement positions or reporting pipelines), within-year mechanism mixing, or a combination, and the data at hand do not disambiguate these possibilities (Section III-G).
+Per-signature labels in this paper are not translated to per-report or per-partner mechanism assignments (Section III-G).
 The signature-level rates we report, including the 92.5% / 7.5% Firm A split and the year-by-year left-tail share of Section IV-G.1, should accordingly be read as signature-level quantities rather than partner-level frequencies.
 Finally, the legal and regulatory implications of our findings depend on jurisdictional definitions of "signature" and "signing."
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This detection problem differs fundamentally from forgery detection: while it do
 A secondary methodological concern shapes the research design.
 Many prior similarity-based classification studies rely on ad-hoc thresholds---declaring two images equivalent above a hand-picked cosine cutoff, for example---without principled statistical justification.
-Such thresholds are fragile and invite reviewer skepticism, particularly in an archival-data setting where the cost of misclassification propagates into downstream inference.
+Such thresholds are fragile in an archival-data setting where the cost of misclassification propagates into downstream inference.
 A defensible approach requires (i) a transparent threshold anchored to an empirical reference population drawn from the target corpus; (ii) statistical diagnostics that characterise the *shape* of the underlying similarity distribution and so motivate the choice of anchor; and (iii) external validation against naturally-occurring anchor populations---byte-level identical pairs as a conservative gold positive subset and large random inter-CPA pairs as a gold negative population---reported with Wilson 95% confidence intervals on per-rule capture / FAR rates, since precision and $F_1$ are not meaningful when the positive and negative anchor populations are sampled from different units.
 Despite the significance of the problem for audit quality and regulatory oversight, no prior work has specifically addressed non-hand-signing detection in financial audit documents at scale with these methodological safeguards.
@@ -109,8 +109,22 @@ Non-hand-signing yields extreme similarity under *both* descriptors, since the u
 Hand-signing, by contrast, yields high dHash similarity (the overall layout of a signature is preserved across writing occasions) but measurably lower cosine similarity (fine execution varies).
 Convergence of the two descriptors is therefore a natural robustness check; when they disagree, the case is flagged as borderline.
-We specifically excluded SSIM (Structural Similarity Index) [30] after empirical testing showed it to be unreliable for scanned documents: the calibration firm (Section III-H) exhibited a mean SSIM of only 0.70 due to scan-induced pixel-level variations, despite near-identical visual content.
+We did not use SSIM (Structural Similarity Index) [30] or pixel-level comparison as primary descriptors, and the reasons are specific to what each of those measures was designed to do rather than to how either happened to perform on our corpus.
-Cosine similarity and dHash are both robust to the noise introduced by the print-scan cycle.
+
 SSIM was developed by Wang et al. [30] as a perceptual quality index for *natural images*, and it factorises local-window image statistics into three components---luminance, contrast, and structural correlation---combined multiplicatively over a sliding window.
 Each of these components is computed at the pixel level on the original-resolution image and is *designed to be sensitive* to small fluctuations in local luminance and local contrast, because that is what makes SSIM track human perception of natural-image quality.
 Applied to a binarised auditor's signature crop, exactly those design choices become liabilities: the JPEG block artifacts, scan-noise speckle, and faint scanner-rule ghosts that are routine in a print-scan cycle perturb local luminance and local contrast in every window they touch, and SSIM amplifies those perturbations in the structural-correlation product.
 A signature reproduced twice from the same stored image---the very case that defines our positive class---is therefore one in which SSIM is structurally guaranteed to penalise the easily perturbed margins around the strokes, even though the strokes themselves are identical up to rendering noise.
 This is a property of how SSIM is constructed, not a finding about how it scored on our data; the empirical observation that the calibration firm exhibits a mean SSIM of only $0.70$ in our corpus is a confirmation of the design-level prediction rather than the basis for the rejection.
 Pixel-level comparison---whether $L_1$, $L_2$, or pixel-identity counting---fails on a stricter design ground.
 Pixel-level distances are defined on geometrically aligned images at a common resolution, and they treat any sub-pixel translation, rotation, or rescale as a large perturbation by construction (a one-pixel uniform translation flips a fraction of foreground pixels on a thin-stroke signature crop and inflates pixel L1 distance to the same magnitude as for a different signer's signature).
 Two scans of the same physical document, however, do not share a common pixel grid: scanner DPI, paper-handling alignment, and PDF-page rasterisation each contribute random sub-pixel offsets, and the print-scan cycle that intervenes between the stored stamp image and the audit-report PDF additionally introduces resolution mismatch and small geometric drift.
 A pixel-level descriptor cannot therefore satisfy the basic stability requirement for our task: two presentations of the same stored image must score nearly identically.
 We retain pixel-identity counting only as a *threshold-free anchor* (Section III-J), because byte-identical pairs in our corpus are necessarily produced by literal file reuse rather than by repeated scanning, and so they do not interact with the alignment-fragility argument; they are not used as a primary similarity descriptor.
 Cosine similarity on deep embeddings and dHash, in contrast, both remain stable across the print-scan-rasterise cycle by design: cosine on L2-normalised pooled features is invariant to overall scale and bias and degrades gracefully under local-pixel noise that the convolutional backbone has been trained to absorb [14], [21], while dHash compresses the image to a $9 \times 8$ grayscale grid before computing horizontal-gradient signs, which removes the resolution and sub-pixel-alignment sensitivity that breaks pixel-level comparison [19], [27].
 Together they constitute the dual descriptor used throughout the rest of this paper.
 ## G. Unit of Analysis and Summary Statistics
@@ -144,11 +158,11 @@ A distinctive aspect of our methodology is the use of Firm A---a major Big-4 acc
 Rather than treating Firm A as a synthetic or laboratory positive control, we treat it as a naturally occurring *replication-dominated population*: a CPA population whose aggregate signing behavior is dominated by non-hand-signing but is not a pure positive class.
 Practitioner knowledge motivated treating Firm A as a candidate calibration reference: the firm is understood within the audit profession to reproduce a stored signature image for the majority of certifying partners---originally via administrative stamping workflows and later via firm-level electronic signing systems---while not ruling out that a minority of partners may continue to hand-sign some or all of their reports.
-This practitioner background is *non-load-bearing* in our analysis: the evidentiary basis used in this paper is the observable image evidence reported below---byte-identical same-CPA pairs, the Firm A per-signature similarity distribution, partner-ranking concentration, and intra-report consistency---which does not depend on any claim about signing practice beyond what the audit-report images themselves show.
+This practitioner background motivates Firm A's selection but is not used as evidence: the evidentiary basis in the analyses below---byte-identical same-CPA pairs, the Firm A per-signature similarity distribution, partner-ranking concentration, and intra-report consistency---is derived entirely from the audit-report images themselves and does not depend on any claim about firm-level signing practice.
 We establish Firm A's replication-dominated status through two primary independent quantitative analyses plus a third strand comprising three complementary checks, each of which can be reproduced from the public audit-report corpus alone:
-First, *automated byte-level pair analysis* (Section IV-F.1; reproduced by `signature_analysis/28_byte_identity_decomposition.py` with output in `reports/byte_identity_decomp/byte_identity_decomposition.json`) identifies 145 Firm A signatures that are byte-identical to at least one other same-CPA signature from a different audit report, distributed across 50 distinct Firm A partners (of 180 registered); 35 of these byte-identical matches span different fiscal years.
+First, *automated byte-level pair analysis* (Section IV-F.1; reproduction artifact listed in Appendix B) identifies 145 Firm A signatures that are byte-identical to at least one other same-CPA signature from a different audit report, distributed across 50 distinct Firm A partners (of 180 registered); 35 of these byte-identical matches span different fiscal years.
 Byte-identity implies pixel-identity by construction, and independent hand-signing cannot produce pixel-identical images across distinct reports---these pairs therefore establish image reuse as a concrete, threshold-free phenomenon within Firm A and confirm that replication is widespread (50 of 180 registered partners) rather than confined to a handful of CPAs.
 Second, *signature-level distributional evidence*: Firm A's per-signature best-match cosine distribution fails to reject unimodality (Hartigan dip test $p = 0.17$, $N = 60{,}448$ Firm A signatures; Section IV-D) and exhibits a long left tail, consistent with a dominant high-similarity regime plus residual within-firm heterogeneity rather than two cleanly separated mechanisms.
@@ -160,10 +174,8 @@ Third, we additionally validate the Firm A benchmark through three complementary
  (b) *Partner-level similarity ranking (Section IV-G.2).* When every auditor-year is ranked globally by its per-auditor-year mean best-match cosine (across all firms: Big-4 and Non-Big-4), Firm A auditor-years account for 95.9% of the top decile against a baseline share of 27.8% (a 3.5$\times$ concentration ratio), and this over-representation is stable across 2013-2023. This analysis uses only the ordinal ranking and is independent of any absolute cutoff.
  (c) *Intra-report consistency (Section IV-G.3).* Because each Taiwanese statutory audit report is co-signed by two engagement partners, firm-wide stamping practice predicts that both signers on a given Firm A report should receive the same signature-level label under the classifier. Firm A exhibits 89.9% intra-report agreement against 62-67% at the other Big-4 firms. This test uses the operational classifier and is therefore a *consistency* check on the classifier's firm-level output rather than a threshold-free test; the cross-firm gap (not the absolute rate) is the substantive finding.
-We emphasize that the 92.5% figure is a within-sample consistency check rather than an independent validation of Firm A's status; the validation role is played by the byte-level pixel-identity evidence, the unimodal-long-tail dip-test result, the three complementary analyses above, and the held-out Firm A fold (described in Section III-J; fold-level rate differences are disclosed in Section IV-F.2).
+The 92.5% figure is a within-sample consistency check rather than an independent validation of Firm A's status; the validation role is played by the byte-level pixel-identity evidence, the unimodal-long-tail dip-test result, the three complementary analyses above, and the held-out Firm A fold (described in Section III-J; fold-level rate differences are disclosed in Section IV-F.2).
-
+Firm A's replication-dominated status itself was *not* derived from the thresholds we calibrate against it; it rests on the byte-level pair evidence and the dip-test-confirmed unimodal-long-tail shape, both of which are independent of any threshold choice.
 We emphasize that Firm A's replication-dominated status was *not* derived from the thresholds we calibrate against it.
 Its identification rests on the byte-level pair evidence and the dip-test-confirmed unimodal-long-tail shape, both of which are independent of any threshold choice.
 The "replication-dominated, not pure" framing is important both for internal consistency---it predicts and explains the long left tail observed in Firm A's cosine distribution (Section IV-D)---and for avoiding overclaim in downstream inference.
 ## I. Signature-Level Threshold Characterisation
@@ -171,9 +183,9 @@ The "replication-dominated, not pure" framing is important both for internal con
 This section describes how we set the operational classifier's similarity threshold and how we characterise the per-signature similarity distribution that supports it.
 The two roles are kept separate by design.
-> **Operational threshold (used by the classifier).** The cosine cut is anchored on the whole-sample Firm A P7.5 percentile (cos $> 0.95$; Section III-K).
+**Operational threshold (used by the classifier).** The cosine cut is anchored on the whole-sample Firm A P7.5 percentile (cos $> 0.95$; Section III-K).
->
+
-> **Statistical characterisation (used to motivate the choice of anchor and to describe the distributional structure).** A Hartigan dip test, an EM-fitted Beta mixture (with logit-Gaussian robustness check), and a Burgstahler-Dichev / McCrary density-smoothness procedure---all applied at the per-signature level (Section IV-D).
+**Statistical characterisation (used to motivate the choice of anchor and to describe the distributional structure).** A Hartigan dip test, an EM-fitted Beta mixture (with logit-Gaussian robustness check), and a Burgstahler-Dichev / McCrary density-smoothness procedure---all applied at the per-signature level (Section IV-D).
 The reason for the split is empirical.
 The three statistical diagnostics jointly find that per-signature similarity forms a continuous quality spectrum (Section IV-D, summarised below): the dip test fails to reject unimodality for Firm A; BIC strongly prefers a 3-component over a 2-component Beta fit, so the 2-component crossing is a forced fit; and the BD/McCrary candidate transition lies inside the non-hand-signed mode rather than between modes (and is not bin-width-stable; Appendix A).
@@ -208,7 +220,7 @@ As a robustness check against the Beta parametric form we fit a parallel two-com
 White's [41] quasi-MLE consistency result justifies interpreting the logit-Gaussian estimates as asymptotic approximations to the best Gaussian-family fit under misspecification; we use the cross-check between Beta and logit-Gaussian crossings as a diagnostic of parametric-form sensitivity rather than as a guarantee of distributional recovery.
 We fit 2- and 3-component variants of each mixture and report BIC for model selection.
-When BIC prefers the 3-component fit, the 2-component assumption itself is a forced fit, and the Bayes-optimal threshold derived from the 2-component crossing should be treated as an upper bound rather than a definitive cut.
+When BIC prefers the 3-component fit, the 2-component assumption itself is a forced fit; we report the resulting crossing only as a forced-fit descriptive reference and do not use it as an operational threshold.
 ### 3) Density-Smoothness Diagnostic: Burgstahler-Dichev / McCrary
@@ -228,7 +240,7 @@ The two threshold estimators rest on decreasing-in-strength assumptions: the KDE
 If the two estimated thresholds were to differ by less than a practically meaningful margin and the BD/McCrary procedure were to identify a sharp transition at the same level, that pattern would constitute convergent evidence for a clean two-mechanism boundary at that location.
 This is *not* the pattern we observe at the per-signature level.
-The two threshold estimators yield crossings spread across a wide range (Section IV-D); the BIC clearly prefers a 3-component over a 2-component Beta fit, indicating that the 2-component crossing is a forced fit and should be read as an upper bound rather than a definitive cut; and the BD/McCrary procedure locates its candidate transition *inside* the non-hand-signed mode rather than between modes (Appendix A).
+The two threshold estimators yield crossings spread across a wide range (Section IV-D); the BIC clearly prefers a 3-component over a 2-component Beta fit, indicating that the 2-component crossing is a forced fit reported only as a descriptive reference rather than as an operational threshold; and the BD/McCrary procedure locates its candidate transition *inside* the non-hand-signed mode rather than between modes (Appendix A).
 We interpret this jointly as evidence that per-signature similarity is a continuous quality spectrum rather than a clean two-mechanism mixture, and we accordingly anchor the operational classifier's cosine cut on whole-sample Firm A percentile heuristics (Section III-K) rather than on a mixture-fit crossing.
 ## J. Pixel-Identity, Inter-CPA, and Held-Out Firm A Validation (No Manual Annotation)
@@ -279,9 +291,14 @@ High feature-level similarity without structural corroboration---consistent with
 5. **Likely hand-signed:** Cosine below the all-pairs KDE crossover threshold.
 We note three conventions about the thresholds.
-First, the cosine cutoff $0.95$ corresponds to approximately the whole-sample Firm A P7.5 of the per-signature best-match cosine distribution---that is, 92.5% of whole-sample Firm A signatures exceed this cutoff and 7.5% fall at or below it (Section III-H)---chosen as a round-number lower-tail boundary whose complement (92.5% above) has a transparent interpretation in the whole-sample reference distribution; the cosine crossover $0.837$ is the all-pairs intra/inter KDE crossover; both are derived from whole-sample distributions rather than from the 70% calibration fold, so the classifier inherits its operational cosine cuts from the whole-sample Firm A and all-pairs distributions.
+First, the cosine cutoff $0.95$ is the *operating point* chosen for the five-way classifier from a small grid of candidate cuts, on the basis of an explicit capture-vs-FAR tradeoff against the inter-CPA negative anchor of Section III-J---*not* a discovered natural boundary in the per-signature distribution.
-Section IV-F.3 reports a sensitivity check confirming that replacing $0.95$ with the nearby rounded sensitivity cut $0.945$ (motivated by the calibration-fold P5 = 0.9407, see Section IV-F.2) shifts whole-Firm-A dual-rule capture by 1.19 percentage points, so the round-number heuristic is robust to nearby percentile-based alternatives.
+The candidate grid spans the calibration-fold P5 (0.9407), its rounded value (0.945), the operational anchor (0.95), and two reference points drawn from the signature-level threshold-estimator outputs of Section IV-D (the Firm A Beta-2 forced-fit crossing 0.977 and the BD/McCrary candidate transition 0.985); for each grid point Section IV-F.3 reports the Firm A capture rate, the non-Firm-A capture rate, and the inter-CPA FAR with Wilson 95% CI (Table XII-B).
-Section IV-F.2 reports both calibration-fold and held-out-fold capture rates for this classifier so that fold-level sampling variance is visible.
+Three considerations motivate the operating point at 0.95.
 (i) *Inter-CPA specificity.* At cosine $> 0.95$ the inter-CPA FAR against the 50,000-pair anchor of Section IV-F.1 is $0.0005$ (Wilson 95% CI $[0.0003, 0.0007]$): one in two thousand random cross-CPA pairs exceeds the cut, an order-of-magnitude margin against the working assumption that random cross-CPA pairs do not arise from image reuse.
 (ii) *Capture stability under nearby alternatives.* Moving the cut to $0.945$ raises Firm A capture by 1.51 percentage points (operational dual rule cos $> t$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 15$; Section IV-F.3) and inter-CPA FAR by $0.00032$, while moving it to the calibration-fold P5 of $0.9407$ raises Firm A capture by 2.63 percentage points and inter-CPA FAR by $0.00076$; in either direction the qualitative finding---Firm A is replication-dominated, non-Firm-A capture is much lower at the same cut, and the inter-CPA noise floor is small---is preserved.
 (iii) *Interpretive transparency.* The complement $7.5\%$ corresponds to the whole-sample Firm A P7.5 of the per-signature best-match cosine distribution---that is, $92.5\%$ of whole-sample Firm A signatures exceed this cutoff and $7.5\%$ fall at or below it (Section III-H)---which gives the operational cut a transparent reading in the replication-dominated reference population without requiring a parametric mixture fit that the data of Section IV-D do not support.
 The cosine crossover $0.837$ is the all-pairs intra/inter KDE crossover; both $0.95$ and $0.837$ are derived from whole-sample distributions rather than from the 70% calibration fold, so the classifier inherits its operational cosine cuts from the whole-sample Firm A and all-pairs distributions.
 Section IV-F.2 reports both calibration-fold and held-out-fold capture rates for this classifier so that fold-level sampling variance is visible; Section IV-F.3 (Table XII-B) reports the full capture-vs-FAR tradeoff at the candidate grid above.
 Second, the dHash cutoffs $\leq 5$ and $> 15$ are chosen from the whole-sample Firm A $\text{dHash}_\text{indep}$ distribution: $\leq 5$ captures the upper tail of the high-similarity mode (whole-sample Firm A median $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} = 2$, P75 $\approx 4$, so $\leq 5$ is the band immediately above median), while $> 15$ marks the regime in which independent-minimum structural similarity is no longer indicative of image reproduction.
 Third, the signature-level threshold-estimator outputs of Section IV-D (KDE antimode, Beta-mixture and logit-Gaussian crossings, BD/McCrary diagnostic) are *not* the operational thresholds of this classifier: they are descriptive characterisation of the per-signature similarity distribution, and Section IV-D shows they do not converge to a clean two-mechanism boundary at the per-signature level---which is why the operational cosine cut is anchored on the whole-sample Firm A percentile rather than on any mixture-fit crossing.
@@ -102,17 +102,30 @@ The three diagnostics agree that per-signature similarity does not form a clean
 Table VI summarises the signature-level threshold-estimator outputs for cross-method comparison.
 <!-- TABLE VI: Signature-Level Threshold-Estimator Summary
-| Method | Cosine | dHash |
+| Population | Method | Cosine threshold | dHash threshold | Status |
-|--------|--------|-------|
+|------------|--------|------------------|-----------------|--------|
-| All-pairs KDE crossover (Section IV-C)                                          | 0.837              | —      |
+| **Threshold estimators (signature-level distributional fits)** | | | | |
-| Beta-2 EM crossing (Firm A; forced fit, BIC prefers $K{=}3$)                    | 0.977              | —      |
+| Firm A signature-level    | KDE antimode + Hartigan dip (Section III-I.1)  | undefined           | —    | unimodal at $\alpha=0.05$ ($p=0.169$); antimode not defined for unimodal data |
-| logit-GMM-2 crossing (Full sample; forced fit)                                  | 0.980              | —      |
+| Firm A signature-level    | Beta-2 EM crossing (Section III-I.2)           | 0.977               | —    | forced fit; BIC strongly prefers $K{=}3$ ($\Delta\text{BIC} = 381$) |
-| BD/McCrary transition (diagnostic; bin-unstable, Appendix A)                    | 0.985              | 2.0    |
+| Firm A signature-level    | logit-Gaussian-2 crossing (robustness check)   | 0.999               | —    | forced fit; sharply inconsistent with Beta-2 crossing—reflects parametric-form sensitivity |
-| Firm A whole-sample P7.5 (operational anchor; Section III-K)                    | 0.95               | —      |
+| Full-sample signature-l.  | KDE antimode + Hartigan dip                    | (multiple modes)    | —    | multimodal ($p<0.001$); KDE crossover at full-sample is dominated by between-firm heterogeneity |
-| Firm A whole-sample dHash_indep P75 (operational $\leq 5$ band lower edge)      | —                  | 4      |
+| Full-sample signature-l.  | Beta-2 EM crossing                             | no crossing         | —    | forced fit; component densities do not cross over $[0,1]$ under recovered parameters |
-| Firm A whole-sample dHash_indep ceiling (style-consistency boundary)            | —                  | 15     |
+| Full-sample signature-l.  | logit-Gaussian-2 crossing                      | 0.980               | —    | forced fit; BIC strongly prefers $K{=}3$ ($\Delta\text{BIC} = 10{,}175$) |
-| Firm A calibration-fold cosine P5 (held-out validation; Section IV-F.2)         | 0.9407             | —      |
+| **Density-smoothness diagnostics (not threshold estimators)** | | | | |
-| Firm A calibration-fold dHash_indep P95 (held-out validation)                   | —                  | 9      |
+| Firm A signature-level    | BD/McCrary candidate transition (Section III-I.3) | 0.985 (bin 0.005)| 2.0 (bin 1) | bin-unstable across $\{0.003, 0.005, 0.010, 0.015\}$ (Appendix A); transition lies *inside* the non-hand-signed mode |
 | Full-sample signature-l.  | BD/McCrary candidate transition                | 0.985 (bin 0.005)   | 2.0 (bin 1) | bin-unstable across $\{0.003, 0.005, 0.010, 0.015\}$ (Appendix A) |
 | **Reference: between-class KDE (different unit of analysis)** | | | | |
 | All-pairs intra/inter (pair-level; Section IV-C) | KDE crossover | 0.837 | — | reference point for the Uncertain/Likely-hand-signed boundary in the operational classifier |
 | **Operational classifier anchors and percentile cross-references** | | | | |
 | Firm A whole-sample       | P7.5 (operational anchor; Section III-K)       | 0.95                | —    | operational cosine cut for the five-way classifier |
 | Firm A whole-sample       | dHash$_\text{indep}$ P75                       | —                   | 4    | informs the $\leq 5$ high-confidence band edge in the classifier |
 | Firm A whole-sample       | dHash$_\text{indep}$ style-consistency ceiling | —                   | 15   | operational $> 15$ style-consistency boundary |
 | Firm A calibration fold (70%) | cosine P5 (Section IV-F.2)                  | 0.9407              | —    | calibration-fold cross-reference; held-out fold reports rates at this cut |
 | Firm A calibration fold (70%) | dHash$_\text{indep}$ P95                    | —                   | 9    | calibration-fold cross-reference (Tables IX and XI report rates at the rounded $\leq 8$ cut for continuity) |
 Read this table by *population × method*: each row reports one method applied to one population.
 The first three blocks (threshold estimators; density-smoothness diagnostics; between-class KDE) are *characterisation* outputs; the bottom block is the operational anchor set used by the classifier of Section III-K.
 The disagreement between Firm A Beta-2 (0.977) and Firm A logit-Gaussian-2 (0.999) is the parametric-form sensitivity referenced in the prose of Section IV-D.3; it cannot be resolved from the data because BIC rejects the underlying $K{=}2$ assumption itself.
 -->
 Non-hand-signed replication quality is therefore best read as a continuous spectrum produced by firm-specific reproduction technologies (administrative stamping in early years, firm-level e-signing later) acting on a common stored exemplar.
@@ -126,20 +139,30 @@ Table IX reports the proportion of Firm A signatures crossing each candidate thr
 <!-- TABLE IX: Firm A Whole-Sample Capture Rates (consistency check, NOT external validation)
 | Rule | Firm A rate | k / N |
 |------|-------------|-------|
-| cosine > 0.837 (all-pairs KDE crossover)              | 99.93% | 60,408 / 60,448 |
+| **Cosine-only marginal rates** | | |
-| cosine > 0.9407 (calibration-fold P5)                 | 95.15% | 57,518 / 60,448 |
+| cosine > 0.837 (all-pairs KDE crossover)                                  | 99.93% | 60,408 / 60,448 |
-| cosine > 0.945 (calibration-fold P5 rounded)          | 94.02% | 56,836 / 60,448 |
+| cosine > 0.9407 (calibration-fold P5)                                     | 95.15% | 57,518 / 60,448 |
-| cosine > 0.95                                         | 92.51% | 55,922 / 60,448 |
+| cosine > 0.945 (calibration-fold P5 rounded)                              | 94.02% | 56,836 / 60,448 |
-| dHash_indep ≤ 5 (whole-sample upper-tail of mode)     | 84.20% | 50,897 / 60,448 |
+| cosine > 0.95 (operational; whole-sample Firm A P7.5)                     | 92.51% | 55,922 / 60,448 |
-| dHash_indep ≤ 8                                       | 95.17% | 57,527 / 60,448 |
+| **dHash-only marginal rates** | | |
-| dHash_indep ≤ 15 (style-consistency boundary)         | 99.83% | 60,348 / 60,448 |
+| dHash_indep ≤ 5 (operational high-confidence cap)                         | 84.20% | 50,897 / 60,448 |
-| cosine > 0.95 AND dHash_indep ≤ 8 (operational dual)  | 89.95% | 54,370 / 60,448 |
+| dHash_indep ≤ 8 (calibration-fold P95 rounded)                            | 95.17% | 57,527 / 60,448 |
 | dHash_indep ≤ 15 (operational style-consistency boundary)                 | 99.83% | 60,348 / 60,448 |
 | **Operational classifier dual rules (Section III-K)** | | |
 | cosine > 0.95 AND dHash_indep ≤ 5 (high-confidence non-hand-signed)       | 81.70% | 49,389 / 60,448 |
 | cosine > 0.95 AND 5 < dHash_indep ≤ 15 (moderate-confidence)              | 10.76% | 6,503 / 60,448  |
 | cosine > 0.95 AND dHash_indep ≤ 15 (combined non-hand-signed)             | 92.46% | 55,892 / 60,448 |
 | **Calibration-fold-adjacent cross-reference (not the operational classifier rule)** | | |
 | cosine > 0.95 AND dHash_indep ≤ 8                                         | 89.95% | 54,370 / 60,448 |
 All rates computed exactly from the full Firm A sample (N = 60,448 signatures); per-rule counts and codes are available in the supplementary materials.
 The two operational dHash cuts ($\leq 5$ for the high-confidence cap and $\leq 15$ for the style-consistency boundary) come from the classifier definition in Section III-K and are the rules used by the five-way classifier of Tables XII and XVII; the dHash $\leq 8$ row is *not* an operational classifier rule but a calibration-fold-adjacent reference (Section IV-F.2 calibration-fold dHash P95 = 9; we report the $\leq 8$ rate as the integer-valued threshold immediately below P95, included here so that Firm A capture in the calibration-fold-P95 neighbourhood can be read off the same table).
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-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 the whole-sample Firm A distribution described in Section III-K (the 70/30 calibration-fold thresholds of Table XI are separate and slightly different, e.g., calibration-fold cosine P5 = 0.9407 rather than the whole-sample heuristic 0.95).
+Table IX is a whole-sample consistency check rather than an external validation: the cosine cut $0.95$ and the operational dHash band edges ($\leq 5$ high-confidence cap and $\leq 15$ style-consistency boundary) are themselves anchored to the whole-sample Firm A distribution described in Section III-K (the 70/30 calibration-fold thresholds of Table XI are separate and slightly different, e.g., calibration-fold cosine P5 = 0.9407 rather than the whole-sample heuristic 0.95).
-The dual rule cosine $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 8$ captures 89.95% of Firm A, a value that is consistent with the dip-test-confirmed unimodal-long-tail shape of Firm A's per-signature cosine distribution (Section IV-D.1) and the 92.5% / 7.5% signature-level split (Section III-H).
+The operational dual rule used by the five-way classifier of Section III-K---cosine $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 15$ (the union of the high-confidence and moderate-confidence non-hand-signed buckets)---captures 92.46% of Firm A; the high-confidence component alone (cosine $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 5$) captures 81.70%.
 For continuity with prior calibration-fold reporting (Section IV-F.2 reports the calibration-fold rate at the calibration-fold-P95-adjacent cut $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 8$), Table IX also lists the cosine $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 8$ rate of 89.95%; this is *not* the operational classifier rule but a cross-reference value.
 Both operational rates are consistent with the dip-test-confirmed unimodal-long-tail shape of Firm A's per-signature cosine distribution (Section IV-D.1) and the 92.5% / 7.5% signature-level split (Section III-H).
 Section IV-F.2 reports the corresponding rates on the 30% Firm A hold-out fold, which provides the external check these whole-sample rates cannot.
 ## F. Pixel-Identity, Inter-CPA, and Held-Out Firm A Validation
@@ -149,7 +172,7 @@ We report three validation analyses corresponding to the anchors of Section III-
 ### 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 byte-identity positive anchor---a pair-level proof of image reuse that serves as conservative ground truth for non-hand-signed signatures, subject to the source-template edge case discussed in Section V-G.
-Within Firm A specifically, 145 of these byte-identical signatures are distributed across 50 distinct partners (of 180 registered Firm A partners), with 35 of the byte-identical pairs spanning different fiscal years; this Firm A decomposition is reproduced by `signature_analysis/28_byte_identity_decomposition.py` and reported in `reports/byte_identity_decomp/byte_identity_decomposition.json` (Appendix B).
+Within Firm A specifically, 145 of these byte-identical signatures are distributed across 50 distinct partners (of 180 registered Firm A partners), with 35 of the byte-identical pairs spanning different fiscal years; reproduction artifact for this Firm A decomposition is listed in Appendix B.
 As the gold-negative anchor we sample 50,000 i.i.d. random cross-CPA signature pairs from the full 168,755-signature matched corpus (inter-CPA cosine: mean $= 0.763$, $P_{95} = 0.886$, $P_{99} = 0.915$, max $= 0.992$).
 Because the positive and negative anchor populations are constructed from different sampling units (byte-identical same-CPA pairs vs random inter-CPA pairs), their relative prevalence in the combined anchor set is arbitrary, and precision / $F_1$ / recall therefore have no meaningful population interpretation.
 We accordingly report FAR with Wilson 95% confidence intervals against the large inter-CPA negative anchor in Table X.
@@ -163,8 +186,8 @@ We do not report an Equal Error Rate: EER is meaningful only when the positive a
 | 0.900                            | 0.0250 | [0.0237, 0.0264] |
 | 0.945 (calibration-fold P5 rounded) | 0.0008 | [0.0006, 0.0011] |
 | 0.950 (whole-sample Firm A P7.5; operational cut)  | 0.0005 | [0.0003, 0.0007] |
-| 0.973 (signature-level Beta/KDE upper bound)        | 0.0002 | [0.0001, 0.0004] |
+| 0.977 (Firm A Beta-2 forced-fit crossing; Section IV-D)  | 0.00014 | [0.00007, 0.00029] |
-| 0.979 (signature-level Beta-2 forced-fit crossing)  | 0.0001 | [0.0001, 0.0003] |
+| 0.985 (BD/McCrary candidate transition; Appendix A) | 0.00004 | [0.00001, 0.00015] |
 Table note: We do not include FRR against the byte-identical positive anchor as a column here: the byte-identical subset has cosine $\approx 1$ by construction, so FRR against that subset is trivially $0$ at every threshold below $1$ and carries no biometric information beyond verifying that the threshold does not exceed $1$. The conservative-subset FRR role of the byte-identical anchor is instead discussed qualitatively in Section V-F.
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@@ -193,17 +216,17 @@ Table XI reports both calibration-fold and held-out-fold capture rates with Wils
 | dHash_indep ≤ 8                      | 94.84% [94.63%, 95.04%] | 96.13% [95.82%, 96.43%] | -6.45  | <0.001     | 42,788/45,116 | 14,739/15,332 |
 | dHash_indep ≤ 9 (calib-fold P95)     | 96.65% [96.48%, 96.81%] | 97.48% [97.22%, 97.71%] | -5.07  | <0.001     | 43,604/45,116 | 14,945/15,332 |
 | dHash_indep ≤ 15                     | 99.83% [99.79%, 99.87%] | 99.84% [99.77%, 99.89%] | -0.31  | 0.754 n.s. | 45,040/45,116 | 15,308/15,332 |
-| cosine > 0.95 AND dHash_indep ≤ 8    | 89.40% [89.12%, 89.68%] | 91.54% [91.09%, 91.97%] | -7.60  | <0.001     | 40,335/45,116 | 14,035/15,332 |
+| cosine > 0.95 AND dHash_indep ≤ 8 (calibration-fold P95-adjacent reference; P95 = 9) | 89.40% [89.12%, 89.68%] | 91.54% [91.09%, 91.97%] | -7.60  | <0.001     | 40,335/45,116 | 14,035/15,332 |
 | cosine > 0.95 AND dHash_indep ≤ 15 (operational classifier rule, Section III-K) | 92.09% [91.84%, 92.34%] | 93.56% [93.16%, 93.93%] | -5.93  | <0.001     | 41,548/45,116 | 14,344/15,332 |
 Calibration-fold thresholds: Firm A cosine median = 0.9862, P1 = 0.9067, P5 = 0.9407; dHash_indep median = 2, P95 = 9. Counts and z/p values are reproducible from the supplementary materials (fixed random seed).
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 Table XI reports both calibration-fold and held-out-fold capture rates with Wilson 95% CIs and a two-proportion $z$-test.
 We report fold-versus-fold comparisons rather than fold-versus-whole-sample comparisons, because the whole-sample rate is a weighted average of the two folds and therefore cannot, in general, fall inside the Wilson CI of either fold when the folds differ in rate; the correct generalization reference is the calibration fold, which produced the thresholds.
 Under this proper test the two extreme rules agree across folds (cosine $> 0.837$ and $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 15$; both $p > 0.7$).
 The operationally relevant rules in the 85–95% capture band differ between folds by 1–5 percentage points ($p < 0.001$ given the $n \approx 45\text{k}/15\text{k}$ fold sizes).
-Both folds nevertheless sit in the same replication-dominated regime: every calibration-fold rate in the 85–99% range has a held-out counterpart in the 87–99% range, and the operational dual rule cosine $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 8$ captures 89.40% of the calibration fold and 91.54% of the held-out fold.
+Both folds nevertheless sit in the same replication-dominated regime: every calibration-fold rate in the 85–99% range has a held-out counterpart in the 87–99% range, and the calibration-fold-adjacent reference rule cosine $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 8$ (the integer cut immediately below the calibration-fold dHash P95 of 9) captures 89.40% of the calibration fold and 91.54% of the held-out fold; the operational classifier rule cosine $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 15$ used by the five-way classifier of Section III-K captures still higher rates in both folds (calibration 92.09%, 41,548 / 45,116; held-out 93.56%, 14,344 / 15,332).
 The modest fold gap is consistent with within-Firm-A heterogeneity in replication intensity: the random 30% CPA sample evidently contained proportionally more high-replication CPAs.
 We therefore interpret the held-out fold as confirming the qualitative finding (Firm A is strongly replication-dominated across both folds) while cautioning that exact rates carry fold-level sampling noise that a single 30% split cannot eliminate; the threshold-independent partner-ranking analysis (Section IV-G.2) is the cross-check that is robust to this fold variance.
@@ -214,25 +237,79 @@ We report a sensitivity check in which this round-number cut is replaced by the
 Table XII reports the five-way classifier output under each cut.
 <!-- TABLE XII: Classifier Sensitivity to the Operational Cosine Cut (All-Sample Five-Way Output, N = 168,740 signatures)
-| Category                                   | cos > 0.95 count (%) | cos > 0.945 count (%) | Δ count |
+| Cosine cut | High-confidence | Moderate-confidence | High style consistency | Uncertain | Likely hand-signed |
-|--------------------------------------------|----------------------|-----------------------|---------|
+|------------|-----------------|---------------------|------------------------|-----------|--------------------|
-| High-confidence non-hand-signed            | 76,984 (45.62%)      | 79,278 (46.98%)       | +2,294  |
+| cos > 0.940                | 81,069 (48.04%) | 55,308 (32.78%) | 801 (0.47%) |  31,026 (18.39%) | 536 (0.32%) |
-| Moderate-confidence non-hand-signed        | 43,906 (26.02%)      | 50,001 (29.63%)       | +6,095  |
+| cos > 0.945                | 79,278 (46.98%) | 50,001 (29.63%) | 665 (0.39%) |  38,260 (22.67%) | 536 (0.32%) |
-| High style consistency                     |    546 ( 0.32%)      |    665 ( 0.39%)       |   +119  |
+| cos > 0.950 (operational)  | 76,984 (45.62%) | 43,906 (26.02%) | 546 (0.32%) |  46,768 (27.72%) | 536 (0.32%) |
-| Uncertain                                  | 46,768 (27.72%)      | 38,260 (22.67%)       | -8,508  |
+| cos > 0.960                | 70,250 (41.63%) | 29,450 (17.45%) | 288 (0.17%) |  68,216 (40.43%) | 536 (0.32%) |
-| Likely hand-signed                         |    536 ( 0.32%)      |    536 ( 0.32%)       |     +0  |
+| cos > 0.970                | 60,247 (35.70%) | 14,865 ( 8.81%) | 117 (0.07%) |  92,975 (55.10%) | 536 (0.32%) |
 | cos > 0.985                | 37,368 (22.15%) |  2,231 ( 1.32%) |  10 (0.01%) | 128,595 (76.21%) | 536 (0.32%) |
 The dHash band edges ($\leq 5$ for high-confidence, $5 < \text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 15$ for moderate-confidence, $> 15$ for style) are held fixed across the grid; only the cosine cut varies. The Likely-hand-signed count is invariant across the grid because it depends only on the all-pairs KDE crossover cosine $= 0.837$.
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-At the aggregate firm-level, the operational dual rule cos $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 8$ captures 89.95% of whole Firm A under the 0.95 cut and 91.14% under the 0.945 cut---a shift of 1.19 percentage points.
+At the aggregate firm-level, the calibration-fold-adjacent reference dual rule cos $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 8$ captures 89.95% of whole Firm A under the 0.95 cut and 91.14% under the 0.945 cut---a shift of 1.19 percentage points.
 The operational classifier rule cos $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 15$ used by the five-way classifier of Section III-K captures 92.46% under the 0.95 cut and 93.97% under the 0.945 cut---a shift of 1.51 percentage points.
 Reading the wider grid in Table XII: the High-confidence and Moderate-confidence shares shift by less than 5 percentage points across the 0.940-0.950 neighbourhood, while pushing the cosine cut to 0.970 or 0.985 produces qualitatively different classifier behaviour (Moderate-confidence collapses from 26.02% at $0.95$ to 8.81% at $0.97$ and 1.32% at $0.985$, with the displaced mass landing in Uncertain rather than reclassifying out of the corpus).
 The classifier output is therefore robust to small (~0.005-cosine) perturbations of the operational cut but not to wholesale reanchoring at the threshold-estimator outputs of Section IV-D, which is consistent with our reading that those outputs are not classifier thresholds.
 At the per-signature categorization level, replacing 0.95 by 0.945 reclassifies 8,508 signatures (5.04% of the corpus) out of the Uncertain band; 6,095 of them migrate to Moderate-confidence non-hand-signed, 2,294 to High-confidence non-hand-signed, and 119 to High style consistency.
 The Likely-hand-signed category is unaffected because it depends only on the fixed all-pairs KDE crossover cosine $= 0.837$.
 The High-confidence non-hand-signed share grows from 45.62% to 46.98%.
 We interpret this sensitivity pattern as indicating that the classifier's aggregate and high-confidence output is robust to the choice of operational cut within a 0.005-cosine neighbourhood of the Firm A P7.5 anchor, and that the movement is concentrated at the Uncertain/Moderate-confidence boundary.
-The paper therefore retains cos $> 0.95$ as the primary operational cut for transparency (round-number P7.5 of the whole-sample Firm A reference distribution) and reports the 0.945 results as a sensitivity check rather than as a deployed alternative.
+
 To make the operating-point selection (Section III-K) auditable rather than presented as a single fixed value, Table XII-B reports the capture-vs-FAR tradeoff over the candidate threshold grid spanning the calibration-fold P5 (0.9407), its rounded value (0.945), the operational anchor (0.95), the Firm A Beta-2 forced-fit crossing from Section IV-D.3 (0.977), and the BD/McCrary candidate transition from Section IV-D.2 (0.985).
 For each grid point we report Firm A capture (under both the cosine-only marginal and the operational dual rule cos $> t$ AND $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 15$ used by the five-way classifier of Section III-K), non-Firm-A capture (the cosine-only marginal in the 108,292 non-Firm-A matched signatures), and inter-CPA FAR with Wilson 95% CI against the 50,000-pair anchor of Section IV-F.1.
 <!-- TABLE XII-B: Cosine-Threshold Tradeoff: Capture vs Inter-CPA FAR
 | Cosine cut t | Firm A capture (cos > t) | Firm A capture (cos > t AND dHash_indep ≤ 15) | Non-Firm-A capture (cos > t) | Inter-CPA FAR | Inter-CPA FAR Wilson 95% CI |
 |--------------|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------|------------------------------|---------------|------------------------------|
 | 0.9407 (calibration-fold P5)               | 95.15% (57,518/60,448) | 95.09% (57,482/60,448) | 72.68% (78,710/108,292) | 0.00126 | [0.00099, 0.00161] |
 | 0.945 (calibration-fold P5 rounded)        | 94.02% (56,836/60,448) | 93.97% (56,804/60,448) | 67.51% (73,108/108,292) | 0.00082 | [0.00061, 0.00111] |
 | 0.95 (whole-sample Firm A P7.5; **operational cut**) | **92.51%** (55,922/60,448) | **92.46%** (55,892/60,448) | 60.50% (65,514/108,292) | **0.00050** | [0.00034, 0.00074] |
 | 0.977 (Firm A Beta-2 forced-fit crossing)  | 74.53% (45,050/60,448) | 74.51% (45,038/60,448) | 13.14% (14,233/108,292) | 0.00014 | [0.00007, 0.00029] |
 | 0.985 (BD/McCrary candidate transition)    | 55.27% (33,409/60,448) | 55.26% (33,406/60,448) |  5.73%  (6,200/108,292) | 0.00004 | [0.00001, 0.00015] |
 Inter-CPA FAR computed against 50,000 i.i.d. inter-CPA pairs (random seed 42, reproducing the anchor of Section IV-F.1 / Table X). Capture and FAR percentages are exact ratios of the displayed integer counts; gap arithmetic in the surrounding prose is computed from those exact counts and rounded to two decimal places. The dual-rule column is the operational classifier rule of Section III-K; for cuts above the dHash-15 saturation point (Firm A dHash$_\text{indep}$ $> 15$ rate is only 0.17%, Table IX), the dual-rule and cosine-only columns coincide to within the dHash$_\text{indep}$ $> 15$ residual.
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 Reading Table XII-B, three patterns motivate the choice of $0.95$ as the operating point.
 First, *Firm A capture* on the operational dual rule decays smoothly from 95.09% at $t = 0.9407$ to 55.26% at $t = 0.985$.
 Relaxing the cut from $0.95$ to $0.945$ buys 1.51 percentage points of additional Firm A capture, and to $0.9407$ buys 2.63 percentage points; tightening from $0.95$ to $0.977$ costs 17.96 percentage points and to $0.985$ costs 37.20 percentage points.
 The selected cut at $0.95$ is the strictest cut on this grid at which Firm A capture remains above $90\%$ on the operational dual rule.
 Second, *inter-CPA FAR* is small in absolute terms across the entire candidate grid ($0.00126$ at $0.9407$, falling to $0.00004$ at $0.985$): under any of these operating points the classifier's specificity against random cross-CPA pairs is in the per-mille range or better, so FAR alone does not determine the choice.
 The marginal FAR cost of relaxing from $0.95$ to $0.945$ is $+0.00032$ ($25 \to 41$ false positives per 50,000 pairs) and to $0.9407$ is $+0.00076$ ($25 \to 63$); the marginal FAR savings from tightening to $0.977$ and $0.985$ are $-0.00036$ and $-0.00046$ respectively.
 The FAR savings from going stricter are small in absolute terms compared with the corresponding Firm A capture loss, which makes $0.95$ a balanced operating point on this grid rather than a uniquely optimal one.
 Third, *non-Firm-A capture* (the cosine-only marginal in the 108,292 non-Firm-A signatures) decays from 67.51% at $0.945$ to 60.50% at $0.95$, 13.14% at $0.977$, and 5.73% at $0.985$.
 The Firm-A-minus-non-Firm-A gap widens with strictness through $0.977$ and then contracts (22.41 percentage points at $0.9407$; 26.46 at $0.945$; 31.97 at $0.95$; 61.36 at $0.977$; 49.54 at $0.985$): on the $0.95 \to 0.977$ segment non-Firm-A capture falls faster than Firm A capture in absolute terms ($-47.35$ vs $-17.96$ percentage points), so the widening is dominated by non-Firm-A removal rather than by an intrinsic property of Firm A; on the $0.977 \to 0.985$ segment Firm A capture falls faster than non-Firm-A's already-low residual, so the gap contracts.
 We do *not* read the gap pattern as evidence for a particular cut; it is reported here as cross-firm replication heterogeneity rather than as a selection criterion.
 The operating point at $0.95$ is therefore a defensible---not unique---selection in this neighbourhood, motivated by (i) keeping Firm A capture above $90\%$ on the operational dual rule, (ii) achieving an FAR of $0.0005$ at which marginal further savings from tightening are small relative to the corresponding capture loss, and (iii) preserving the interpretive transparency of the whole-sample Firm A P7.5 reading.
 It is *not* derived from the threshold-estimator outputs of Section IV-D, which the data do not support as classifier thresholds.
 The paper therefore retains cos $> 0.95$ as the primary operational cut and reports the 0.945 result of Table XII as a sensitivity check rather than as a deployed alternative; downstream document-level rates (Table XVII) and intra-report agreement (Table XVI) are robust to moderate cutoff shifts within the 0.945--0.95 neighbourhood as long as the same cutoff is applied uniformly across firms.
 ## G. Additional Firm A Benchmark Validation
 Before presenting the three threshold-robust analyses, Fig. 4 summarises the per-firm yearly per-signature best-match cosine distribution that motivates them.
 The left panel reports the mean per-signature best-match cosine within each firm bucket and fiscal year (a threshold-free statistic); the right panel reports the share of each firm-bucket-year with per-signature best-match cosine $\geq 0.95$ (the operational cut of Section III-K).
 Both panels show Firm A above the other Big-4 firms in every year of the 2013-2023 sample, with non-Big-4 firms below all four Big-4 firms throughout, and the cross-firm ordering is stable across the sample period.
 The mean-cosine separation between Firm A and the other Big-4 firms is on the order of 0.02-0.04 throughout the sample (e.g., 2013: Firm A $0.9733$ vs Firm B $0.9498$, Firm C $0.9464$, Firm D $0.9395$, Non-Big-4 $0.9227$; 2023: $0.9860$ vs $0.9668$, $0.9662$, $0.9525$, $0.9346$); the share-above-0.95 separation is wider (2013: Firm A $87.2\%$ vs $61.8\%$, $56.2\%$, $38.5\%$, $27.5\%$).
 This visual is the most direct cross-firm evidence in the paper that Firm A's high-similarity behaviour is firm-specific rather than corpus-wide; the three subsections below decompose this gap along three threshold-free or threshold-robust dimensions.
 <!-- FIGURE 4: Per-firm yearly per-signature best-match cosine
 File: reports/figures/fig_yearly_big4_comparison.png (and .pdf)
 Generated by: signature_analysis/30_yearly_big4_comparison.py
 Caption: Per-firm yearly per-signature best-match cosine, 2013-2023.
 (a) Mean per-signature best-match cosine by firm bucket and fiscal year
 (threshold-free). (b) Share of per-signature best-match cosine $\geq 0.95$
 (operational cut of Section III-K). Five lines: Firm A, B, C, D, Non-Big-4.
 Firm A is above the other Big-4 firms in every year; Non-Big-4 is below all
 four Big-4 firms in every year. Per-firm signature counts and exact values
 are in `reports/firm_yearly_comparison/firm_yearly_comparison.{json,md}`.
 -->
 The capture rates of Section IV-E are an *internal* consistency check: they ask "how much of Firm A does our threshold capture?", but the threshold was itself derived from Firm A's percentiles, so a high capture rate is not surprising.
 To go beyond this circular check, we report three further analyses, each chosen so that the *informative quantity* does not depend on the threshold's absolute value:
@@ -277,33 +354,38 @@ We test this prediction directly.
 For each auditor-year (CPA $\times$ fiscal year) with at least 5 signatures we compute the mean best-match cosine similarity across the year's signatures, yielding 4,629 auditor-years across 2013-2023.
 Firm A accounts for 1,287 of these (27.8% baseline share).
 Table XIV reports per-firm occupancy of the top $K\%$ of the ranked distribution.
-The per-signature best-match cosine underlying each auditor-year mean is taken over the full same-CPA pool (Section III-G) and may match against signatures from other fiscal years, so the auditor-year mean reflects the year's signatures' position within the CPA's full-sample similarity structure rather than purely within-year similarity; a within-year-restricted sensitivity replication is a natural robustness check and is left to future work.
+The per-signature best-match cosine underlying each auditor-year mean is taken over the full same-CPA pool (Section III-G), consistent with the unit-of-analysis framing in Section III-G.
 <!-- TABLE XIV: Top-K Similarity Rank Occupancy by Firm (pooled 2013-2023)
 | Top-K | k in bucket | Firm A | Firm B | Firm C | Firm D | Non-Big-4 | Firm A share |
 |-------|-------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-----------|--------------|
 | 10%   | 462         | 443    | 2      | 3      | 0      | 14        | 95.9% |
 | 20%   | 925         | 877    | 9      | 14     | 2      | 23        | 94.8% |
 | 25%   | 1,157       | 1,043  | 32     | 23     | 9      | 50        | 90.1% |
 | 30%   | 1,388       | 1,129  | 105    | 52     | 25     | 77        | 81.3% |
 | 50%   | 2,314       | 1,220  | 473    | 273    | 102    | 246       | 52.7% |
 -->
-Firm A occupies 95.9% of the top 10% and 90.1% of the top 25% of auditor-years by similarity, against its baseline share of 27.8%---a concentration ratio of 3.5$\times$ at the top decile and 3.2$\times$ at the top quartile.
+Firm A occupies 95.9% of the top 10%, 94.8% of the top 20%, 90.1% of the top 25%, and 81.3% of the top 30% of auditor-years by similarity, against its baseline share of 27.8%---a concentration ratio of $3.5\times$ at the top decile, $3.4\times$ at the top quintile, and $2.9\times$ at the top tercile.
 Firm A's share decays monotonically as the bracket widens (95.9% $\to$ 94.8% $\to$ 90.1% $\to$ 81.3% $\to$ 52.7% across top-10/20/25/30/50%), and only at the top 50% does its share approach its baseline; the over-representation is therefore concentrated in the very top of the distribution rather than spread uniformly through the upper half.
 Year-by-year (Table XV), the top-10% Firm A share ranges from 88.4% (2020) to 100% (2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019), showing that the concentration is stable across the sample period.
-<!-- TABLE XV: Firm A Share of Top-10% Similarity by Year
+<!-- TABLE XV: Firm A Share of Top-K Similarity by Year (K = 10%, 20%, 30%)
-| Year | N auditor-years | Top-10% k | Firm A in top-10% | Firm A share | Firm A baseline |
+| Year | N auditor-years | Top-10% share | Top-20% share | Top-30% share | Firm A baseline |
-|------|-----------------|-----------|-------------------|--------------|-----------------|
+|------|-----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|-----------------|
-| 2013 | 324 | 32 | 32 | 100.0% | 32.4% |
+| 2013 | 324 | 100.0% (32/32) | 98.4% (63/64) | 89.7% (87/97) | 32.4% |
-| 2014 | 399 | 39 | 39 | 100.0% | 27.8% |
+| 2014 | 399 | 100.0% (39/39) | 98.7% (78/79) | 82.4% (98/119) | 27.8% |
-| 2015 | 394 | 39 | 38 | 97.4% | 27.7% |
+| 2015 | 394 | 97.4% (38/39) | 96.2% (75/78) | 84.7% (100/118) | 27.7% |
-| 2016 | 413 | 41 | 39 | 95.1% | 26.2% |
+| 2016 | 413 | 95.1% (39/41) | 96.3% (79/82) | 81.3% (100/123) | 26.2% |
-| 2017 | 415 | 41 | 41 | 100.0% | 27.2% |
+| 2017 | 415 | 100.0% (41/41) | 97.6% (81/83) | 83.9% (104/124) | 27.2% |
-| 2018 | 434 | 43 | 43 | 100.0% | 26.5% |
+| 2018 | 434 | 100.0% (43/43) | 97.7% (84/86) | 80.0% (104/130) | 26.5% |
-| 2019 | 429 | 42 | 42 | 100.0% | 27.0% |
+| 2019 | 429 | 100.0% (42/42) | 97.6% (83/85) | 78.9% (101/128) | 27.0% |
-| 2020 | 430 | 43 | 38 | 88.4% | 27.7% |
+| 2020 | 430 | 88.4% (38/43)  | 91.9% (79/86) | 76.0% (98/129)  | 27.7% |
-| 2021 | 450 | 45 | 44 | 97.8% | 28.7% |
+| 2021 | 450 | 97.8% (44/45)  | 96.7% (87/90) | 81.5% (110/135) | 28.7% |
-| 2022 | 467 | 46 | 43 | 93.5% | 28.3% |
+| 2022 | 467 | 93.5% (43/46)  | 95.7% (89/93) | 84.3% (118/140) | 28.3% |
-| 2023 | 474 | 47 | 46 | 97.9% | 27.4% |
+| 2023 | 474 | 97.9% (46/47)  | 94.7% (89/94) | 83.8% (119/142) | 27.4% |
 Per-cell entries are "share (k_FirmA / k_total)". Top-25% and top-50% pooled values are reported in Table XIV; per-year top-25/50 columns are omitted from this table to reduce visual width but are reproducible from the supplementary materials.
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 This over-representation is consistent with firm-wide non-hand-signing practice at Firm A and is not derived from any threshold we subsequently calibrate.
@@ -339,8 +421,7 @@ We note that this test uses the calibrated classifier of Section III-K rather th
 ## H. Classification Results
-Table XVII presents the final classification results under the dual-descriptor framework with Firm A-calibrated thresholds for 84,386 documents.
+Table XVII presents the final classification results under the dual-descriptor framework with Firm A-calibrated thresholds for 84,386 documents (656 documents excluded from the 85,042-document YOLO-detection cohort because no signature on the document could be matched to a registered CPA; see Table XVII note).
 The document count (84,386) differs from the 85,042 documents with any YOLO detection (Table III) because 656 documents have no signature whose extracted handwriting could be matched to a registered CPA name (every such signature has `assigned_accountant IS NULL` in the database, typically because the auditor's report page deviates from the standard two-signature layout or the OCRed printed CPA name was not present in the registry); the per-document classifier requires at least one CPA-matched signature so that a same-CPA best-match similarity exists, and these documents are therefore excluded from the classification reported here.
 We emphasize that the document-level proportions below reflect the *worst-case aggregation rule* of Section III-K: a report carrying one stamped signature and one hand-signed signature is labeled with the most-replication-consistent of the two signature-level verdicts.
 Document-level rates therefore represent the share of reports in which *at least one* signature is non-hand-signed rather than the share in which *both* are; the intra-report agreement analysis of Section IV-G.3 (Table XVI) reports how frequently the two co-signers share the same signature-level label within each firm, so that readers can judge what fraction of the non-hand-signed document-level share corresponds to fully non-hand-signed reports versus mixed reports.
@@ -354,6 +435,7 @@ Document-level rates therefore represent the share of reports in which *at least
 | Likely hand-signed | 47 | 0.1% | 4 | 0.0% |
 Per the worst-case aggregation rule of Section III-K, a document with two signatures inherits the most-replication-consistent of the two signature-level labels.
 The 84,386-document cohort excludes 656 documents (relative to the 85,042 YOLO-detected cohort of Table III) for which no signature could be matched to a registered CPA: the per-document classifier requires at least one CPA-matched signature so that a same-CPA best-match similarity is defined. The exclusion is definitional rather than discretionary; typical causes are auditor's-report-page formats deviating from the standard two-signature layout, or OCR returning a printed CPA name not present in the registry.
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 Within the 71,656 documents exceeding cosine $0.95$, the dHash dimension stratifies them into three distinct populations:
@@ -366,7 +448,7 @@ A cosine-only classifier would treat all 71,656 identically; the dual-descriptor
 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 the within-firm heterogeneity implied by the dip-test-confirmed unimodal-long-tail shape of Firm A's per-signature cosine distribution (Section IV-D.1) and the 7.5% signature-level left tail (Section III-H).
-The near-zero "likely hand-signed" rate (4 of 30,226 Firm A documents, 0.013%; the 30,226 count here is documents with at least one Firm A signer under the 84,386-document classification cohort, which differs from the 30,222 single-firm two-signer subset in Table XVI by 4 reports) indicates that the within-firm heterogeneity implied by the 7.5% signature-level left tail (Section IV-D) does not project into the lowest-cosine document-level category under the dual-descriptor rules; it is absorbed instead into the uncertain or high-style-consistency categories at this threshold set.
+The near-zero "likely hand-signed" rate (4 of 30,226 Firm A documents, 0.013%; the 30,226 denominator is documents with at least one Firm A signer under the 84,386-document classification cohort, which differs from the 30,222 single-firm two-signer subset of Table XVI by 4 mixed-firm reports excluded from the firm-level intra-report comparison) indicates that the within-firm heterogeneity implied by the 7.5% signature-level left tail (Section IV-D) does not project into the lowest-cosine document-level category under the dual-descriptor rules; it is absorbed instead into the uncertain or high-style-consistency categories 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-F.2 is the corresponding external check.
 ### 2) Cross-Firm Comparison of Dual-Descriptor Convergence
@@ -374,7 +456,7 @@ We note that because the non-hand-signed thresholds are themselves calibrated to
 Among the 65,514 non-Firm-A signatures with per-signature best-match cosine $> 0.95$, 42.12% have $\text{dHash}_\text{indep} \leq 5$, compared to 88.32% of the 55,922 Firm A signatures meeting the same cosine condition---a $\sim 2.1\times$ difference that the structural-verification layer makes visible.
 The Firm A denominator (55,922) matches Table IX exactly: both Table IX and the cross-firm decomposition define Firm A membership via the CPA registry (`accountants.firm`), and the cross-firm analysis additionally requires a non-null independent-min dHash record, which all 55,922 Firm A cosine-eligible signatures have in the current database.
 This cross-firm gap is consistent with firm-wide non-hand-signing practice at Firm A versus partner-specific or per-engagement replication at other firms; it complements the partner-level ranking (Section IV-G.2) and intra-report consistency (Section IV-G.3) findings.
-Counts and percentages are reproduced by `signature_analysis/28_byte_identity_decomposition.py` and reported in `reports/byte_identity_decomp/byte_identity_decomposition.json` (see Appendix B for the table-to-script provenance map).
+Reproduction artifact for these counts is listed in Appendix B.
 ## I. Ablation Study: Feature Backbone Comparison
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 # Reference Verification — Paper A v3 (41 refs)
-Date: 2026-04-27
+Date: 2026-04-27 (initial audit); v3.18 reference list updated to incorporate every fix recorded below.
 Method: WebSearch + WebFetch verification of each citation against authoritative sources (publisher pages, DOIs, arXiv, IEEE Xplore, Project Euclid, etc.).
-## Summary
+## Summary (audit history)
- Verified correct: 35/41
+- Verified correct on first audit: 35/41
- Minor discrepancies (typos, page numbers, year on early-access vs. issue): 5/41
+- Minor discrepancies (typos, page numbers, year on early-access vs. issue): 5/41 — all fixed in v3.18
- MAJOR PROBLEMS (does not exist, wrong author, wrong title, wrong venue): 1/41
+- MAJOR PROBLEMS (wrong author): 1/41 — `[5]` Hadjadj et al. → Kao and Wen, fixed in v3.18
-The single major problem is **[5]**, where the paper at the cited venue/article number is real, but the cited authors ("Hadjadj et al.") are wrong — the actual authors are Kao and Wen. None of the statistical-method refs [37]–[41] flagged by the partner are fabricated; all five are bibliographically correct.
+The current `paper_a_references_v3.md` reflects every correction listed below. The detailed findings are retained as an audit trail; the live reference list no longer carries any of the recorded errors.
 The single major problem at the time of the audit was **[5]**, where the paper at the cited venue/article number is real, but the cited authors ("Hadjadj et al.") were wrong — the actual authors are Kao and Wen. None of the statistical-method refs [37]–[41] flagged by the partner are fabricated; all five are bibliographically correct.
 ## Detailed findings
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 # Section III. Methodology — v4.0 Draft v7 (post codex rounds 21–34)
 > **Draft note (2026-05-13, v7; internal — remove before submission).** This file replaces the §III-G through §III-M block of `paper/paper_a_methodology_v3.md` (v3.20.0). Sub-sections III-A through III-F (Pipeline / Data Collection / Page Identification / Detection / Feature Extraction / Dual-Method Descriptors) are unchanged from v3.20.0 and not reproduced here. The §III-G through §III-M block has been substantially restructured between v6 and v7 (2026-05-13): codex round-29 demolished the distributional path to thresholds (Scripts 39b–39e prove (cos, dHash) multimodality is composition + integer artefact); v4.0 pivots to anchor-based multi-level inter-CPA coincidence-rate calibration (Scripts 40b, 43, 44, 45, 46); §III-I is rewritten as the no-natural-threshold diagnostic; §III-J is recast as a firm-compositional descriptive partition (not three mechanism clusters); §III-L is a new major sub-section on anchor-based threshold calibration; §III-M is a new sub-section on validation strategy and limitations under the unsupervised setting. Prior internal draft notes (v2–v6 changelog) have been moved to `paper/v4/CHANGELOG.md`.
 >
 > Empirical anchors throughout reference Scripts 32–46 on branch `paper-a-v4-big4`; a curated provenance table appears at the end of this section listing the principal numerical claims with their script and report path.
 ## G. Unit of Analysis and Scope
 We analyse signatures at two units of resolution. The **signature** — one signature image extracted from one report — is the operational unit of classification (§III-L) and of the signature-level analyses in §IV (notably §IV-J for the five-way per-signature category counts and the inherited inter-CPA negative-anchor coincidence-rate analysis referenced in §IV-I; reported under prior "FAR" terminology in v3.x). The **accountant** — one CPA aggregated over all of their signatures in the corpus — is the unit of mixture-model characterisation (§III-J), of per-CPA internal-consistency analysis (§III-K), and of the leave-one-firm-out reproducibility check (§III-K). At the accountant level we compute, for each CPA with $n_{\text{sig}} \geq 10$ signatures, the per-CPA mean of the per-signature best-match cosine ($\overline{\text{cos}}_a$) and the per-CPA mean of the independent-minimum dHash ($\overline{\text{dHash}}_a$). The minimum threshold of 10 signatures per CPA is required for the per-CPA mean to be a stable summary; CPAs below this threshold are excluded from the accountant-level analyses but remain in the per-signature analyses.
 We make no within-year or across-year uniformity assumption about CPA signing mechanisms. Per-signature labels are signature-level quantities throughout this paper; we do not translate them to per-report or per-partner mechanism assignments, and we abstain from partner-level frequency inferences (such as "X% of CPAs hand-sign") that would require such a translation. A CPA's per-CPA mean is a *summary statistic* of their observed signatures, not a claim that all of their signatures share a single mechanism.
 We adopt one stipulation about same-CPA pair detectability:
 > **(A1) Pair-detectability.** *If a CPA uses image replication anywhere in the corpus, then at least one same-CPA signature pair is near-identical (after reproduction noise) within the cross-year same-CPA pool used by the max-cosine / min-dHash computation.*
 A1 is plausible for high-volume stamping or firm-level electronic signing workflows but is not guaranteed when (i) the corpus contains only one observed replicated report for a CPA, (ii) multiple template variants are used in parallel, or (iii) scan-stage noise pushes a replicated pair outside the detection regime. A1 is the only assumption the per-signature detector requires to be sensitive to replication.
 **Scope: the Big-4 sub-corpus.** v4.0's primary analyses (§III-I, §III-J, §III-K, §III-L, and the v4-new analyses in §IV-D through §IV-J) are restricted to the four largest accounting firms in Taiwan, pseudonymously labelled Firm A through Firm D throughout the manuscript. §IV-A through §IV-C, §IV-I (inter-CPA negative-anchor coincidence rate), and §IV-L (feature-backbone ablation) report inherited corpus-wide v3.x material that v4.0 does not re-scope to Big-4. §IV-K reports a deliberately narrow full-dataset cross-check at $n = 686$ CPAs. The Big-4 sub-corpus comprises 437 CPAs (171 / 112 / 102 / 52 across Firms A through D) with $n_{\text{sig}} \geq 10$ — the threshold for accountant-level analyses (Scripts 36, 38) — totalling 150,442 Big-4 signatures with both pre-computed descriptors available. Restricting the v4-new analyses to Big-4 is a methodological choice driven by four considerations:
 1. **Leave-one-firm-out fold feasibility.** §III-K reports leave-one-firm-out (LOOO) cross-validation of the Big-4 K=3 fit. The Big-4 sub-corpus permits a four-fold LOOO at the firm level (one fold per Big-4 firm). No analogous firm-level fold is available outside Big-4 because mid/small firms have CPA counts of $O(1)$–$O(30)$ per firm.
 2. **Firm A as templated-end case study.** Firm A is empirically the firm whose CPAs are most concentrated in the high-cosine, low-dHash corner of the descriptor plane (§III-J K=3 component cross-tab; v3.x byte-level pair analysis referenced in §III-H). v4.0 retains Firm A within the Big-4 scope as a descriptive case study of the templated end, rather than treating Firm A as the calibration anchor for thresholds (the v3.x role of Firm A).
 3. **Within-firm cross-CPA collision structure analysis.** §III-L.4 reports a Big-4 cross-firm hit-matrix analysis (Script 44) that quantifies the within-firm cross-CPA template-like collision pattern. The four-firm setting affords the cleanest signal for this analysis; replicating the same matrix structure on the heterogeneous mid/small-firm tail is left as future work.
 4. **Restricted generalisability claim.** v4.0's primary claims are scoped to the Big-4 audit-report context; we do not assert that the same descriptive mixture structure or operational alert behaviour extends to mid/small firms. The 249 non-Big-4 CPAs enter only (a) as an external reference population in §III-H's reverse-anchor internal-consistency check, (b) as a robustness comparison in §IV-K, and (c) as a corroborating-population check on the dHash discrete-mass-point artefact in §III-I.4 (Script 39c). Generalisation beyond Big-4 is left as future work.
 We earlier (v4.0 first draft) listed "statistical multimodality at the accountant level" among the scope justifications, on the basis that the Hartigan dip test rejects unimodality on the Big-4 accountant-level marginals. §III-I.4 reports diagnostics (Scripts 39b–39e) that explain the rejection as a joint effect of between-firm composition shift and dHash integer mass points, not as evidence of within-population continuous bimodality. We therefore no longer list dip-test multimodality among the Big-4 scope rationales; the K=3 mixture is retained as a descriptive partition (§III-J), not as inferential evidence for two mechanism modes.
 **Sample-size reconciliation.** Two Big-4 signature counts appear in this section and §IV: $n = 150{,}442$ for analyses using the pre-computed per-signature descriptors $\text{cos}_s$ (`max_similarity_to_same_accountant`) and $\text{dHash}_s$ (`min_dhash_independent`), and $n = 150{,}453$ for analyses recomputing pair-level metrics directly from the stored feature and dHash byte vectors (Scripts 40b, 43, 44). The $11$-signature difference reflects descriptor-completion status: $11$ signatures have feature vectors and dHash byte vectors stored but lack the pre-computed extrema. The $11$ signatures are negligible at population scale and do not affect any reported coincidence rate within $0.01$ percentage point. The CPA counts $468$ (all Big-4 CPAs with both vectors stored) and $437$ (Big-4 CPAs with $n_{\text{sig}} \geq 10$ for accountant-level stability) likewise reflect a single uniform exclusion rule rather than analysis-specific subsetting.
 ## H. Reference Populations
 v4.0 distinguishes two reference populations in its calibration, replacing v3.x's single-anchor framing.
 **Internal reference: Firm A as the templated-end case study.** Firm A is empirically the firm whose CPAs are most concentrated in the high-cosine, low-dHash corner of the Big-4 descriptor plane. In the Big-4 K=3 descriptive partition (§III-J; Scripts 35, 38), Firm A accounts for 0% of the C1 component (low-cos / high-dHash corner; cos $\approx 0.946$, dHash $\approx 9.17$, weight $\approx 0.143$), 17.5% of the C2 component (central region), and 82.5% of the C3 component (high-cos / low-dHash corner); the opposite pattern holds at Firm C (Script 35: 23.5% C1, 75.5% C2, 1.0% C3, hereafter referred to as "the Firm whose CPAs are most concentrated in C1"). The byte-level pair analysis reported in v3.x §IV-F.1 identifies 145 Firm A pixel-identical signatures at the signature level (Script 40 verifies the 145/262 split among Big-4 pixel-identical signatures); the additional details that v3.x attributes to this analysis (50 distinct Firm A partners of 180 registered; 35 byte-identical matches spanning different fiscal years) are inherited from the Script 28 / Appendix B byte-decomposition output and were not regenerated in the v4.0 spike scripts. We retain those v3.x details by reference and mark them in the provenance table as "inherited from v3 §IV-F.1 / Script 28."
 In v4.0, Firm A is *not* the calibration anchor for the operational threshold. Firm A enters the Big-4 mixture on equal footing with Firms B through D; the K=3 components are derived from the joint Big-4 distribution (§III-J), not from Firm A alone. Firm A's role in the methodology is descriptive: it is the Big-4 firm whose CPAs are most concentrated in the high-cosine, low-dHash corner of the descriptor plane, and the byte-level pair evidence above provides the firm-level signature-reuse evidence that anchors §III-K's pixel-identity positive-anchor miss rate.
 **External reference: non-Big-4 as the reverse-anchor reference for internal-consistency checking.** The 249 non-Big-4 CPAs ($n_{\text{sig}} \geq 10$, drawn from $\sim$30 mid- and small-firms) constitute a population strictly outside the Big-4 target. Their per-CPA $(\overline{\text{cos}}_a, \overline{\text{dHash}}_a)$ distribution defines a 2D Gaussian reference (fit by Minimum Covariance Determinant with support fraction 0.85 for robustness; Script 38). This reference is used in §III-K's reverse-anchor internal-consistency check: each Big-4 CPA's location relative to the reference centre, measured as the marginal cosine cumulative-distribution-function value under the reference, is one of three feature-derived scores that v4.0 uses as a cross-check on the inherited per-signature classifier. The reverse-anchor reference is *not* a positive or negative anchor for threshold derivation — its role is to provide a strictly out-of-target benchmark against which the within-Big-4 mixture-derived ranking can be internally cross-checked.
 The reverse-anchor reference centre is at $\overline{\text{cos}} = 0.935$, $\overline{\text{dHash}} = 9.77$ (Script 38). The reference sits at a lower cosine and higher dHash than the Big-4 K=3 low-cos / high-dHash component (cos $= 0.946$, dHash $= 9.17$; §III-J); compared to the Big-4 high-cos / low-dHash component (cos $= 0.983$, dHash $= 2.41$; §III-J) the reference is markedly less replication-dominated. The reverse-anchor metric for a given Big-4 CPA is the percentile of $\overline{\text{cos}}_a$ within the reference marginal cosine distribution, sign-flipped so that lower percentile (further into the left tail of the reference) corresponds to a Big-4 CPA whose mean cosine sits further from the templated end of the descriptor plane. This is a "deviation in the less-replication-dominated descriptor-position direction" measure, not a "deviation toward the templated descriptor-position" measure; the reference is the less-replication-dominated population.
 ## I. Distributional Diagnostics: Why the Composition Path Does Not Yield a Natural Threshold
 This section characterises the joint distribution of accountant-level descriptor means $(\overline{\text{cos}}_a, \overline{\text{dHash}}_a)$ across the 437 Big-4 CPAs of §III-G and tests whether the distribution provides distributional support — in the form of within-population bimodality — for the operational thresholds inherited from v3.x. We apply four diagnostic procedures in turn: a univariate unimodality test on each accountant-level marginal; a 2D Gaussian mixture fit (developed in §III-J); a density-smoothness diagnostic; and a composition decomposition that distinguishes within-population multimodality from between-firm location-shift artefacts (the v4-new diagnostic battery). The four diagnostics jointly imply that the operational thresholds are *not* anchored by distributional bimodality: §III-L develops an anchor-based calibration framework that does not require this assumption.
 **1. Hartigan dip test on each accountant-level marginal.** We apply the Hartigan & Hartigan dip test [37] to each of the two marginal distributions $\{\overline{\text{cos}}_a\}_{a=1}^{437}$ and $\{\overline{\text{dHash}}_a\}_{a=1}^{437}$, with bootstrap-based $p$-value estimation ($n_{\text{boot}} = 2000$). In both cases no bootstrap replicate exceeded the observed dip statistic, so the empirical $p$-value is bounded above by $5 \times 10^{-4}$; we report this in tables as $p < 5 \times 10^{-4}$ rather than $p = 0$ to reflect the bootstrap resolution (Script 34). For comparison, no rejection of unimodality holds in the comparison scopes tested in Script 32: Firm A pooled alone ($p_{\text{cos}} = 0.992$, $p_{\text{dHash}} = 0.924$, $n = 171$); Firms B + C + D pooled ($p_{\text{cos}} = 0.998$, $p_{\text{dHash}} = 0.906$, $n = 266$); all non-Firm-A CPAs pooled ($p_{\text{cos}} = 0.998$, $p_{\text{dHash}} = 0.907$, $n = 515$). Single-firm dip tests for Firms B, C, and D were not separately computed; the comparison scopes above sufficed to establish that no narrower-than-Big-4 *tested* scope at the accountant level rejected unimodality. The accountant-level Big-4 rejection is a descriptive observation; §III-I.4 below shows that the rejection is fully explained by between-firm location-shift effects rather than within-population bimodality.
 **2. K=2 / K=3 Gaussian mixture fits (descriptive partition).** A 2-component 2D Gaussian Mixture Model (full covariance, $n_{\text{init}} = 15$, fixed seed 42; Script 34) recovers components at $(\overline{\text{cos}}, \overline{\text{dHash}}) = (0.954, 7.14)$, weight $0.689$, and $(0.983, 2.41)$, weight $0.311$. The marginal crossings of the K=2 fit are $\overline{\text{cos}}^* = 0.9755$ and $\overline{\text{dHash}}^* = 3.755$, with bootstrap 95% confidence intervals $[0.9742, 0.9772]$ and $[3.48, 3.97]$ over $n_{\text{boot}} = 500$ resamples. The 3-component fit (§III-J) is BIC-preferred — using the convention that lower BIC is preferred, $\text{BIC}(K{=}3) - \text{BIC}(K{=}2) = -3.48$ (Script 36). The $\Delta$BIC magnitude is small in absolute terms; we do not treat $\Delta\text{BIC} = 3.5$ alone as decisive evidence for K=3 as a population mixture. Following §III-I.4 we treat both K=2 and K=3 fits as *descriptive partitions* of the joint Big-4 distribution that reflect firm-composition structure (Firm A vs others; §III-J) rather than as inferential evidence for two or three latent population modes.
 **3. Burgstahler-Dichev / McCrary density-smoothness diagnostic.** We apply the discontinuity test of [38, 39] as a *density-smoothness diagnostic* (rather than as a threshold estimator) on each accountant-level marginal axis (cosine in bins of $0.002$, dHash in integer bins). At the Big-4 scope, the diagnostic identifies no significant transition on either marginal at $\alpha = 0.05$ (Script 34). Outside Big-4, the diagnostic does flag dHash transitions in some subsets (Script 32: `big4_non_A` dHash transition at $10.8$; `all_non_A` dHash transition at $6.6$; pre-2018 and post-2020 time-stratified variants also exhibit one or more dHash transitions), but no cosine transition is identified in any subset. The Big-4-scope null on both axes is consistent with §III-I.4 below: under the composition decomposition the Big-4 marginals are unimodal once between-firm and integer-tie confounds are removed, so a local-discontinuity test correctly fails to flag a within-population transition.
 **4. Composition decomposition (Scripts 39b–39e).** §III-I.1 establishes that the accountant-level marginals reject unimodality at the Big-4 sub-corpus. The remaining question is whether the rejection reflects (a) genuine within-population bimodality at the signature or accountant level, (b) between-firm location-shift artefacts (firms with different mean descriptor positions pool to a multi-peaked distribution), or (c) integer mass-point artefacts on the integer-valued dHash axis (the dHash dip statistic is sensitive to spikes at integer values). We apply four diagnostics that decompose the rejection into these candidate sources:
 *Within-firm signature-level dip (Scripts 39b, 39c).* Repeating the dip test at the signature level inside each individual Big-4 firm (Script 39b) and inside each individual non-Big-4 firm with $\geq 500$ signatures (Script 39c) yields a consistent picture. The cosine marginal *fails* to reject unimodality in every single firm tested — all four Big-4 firms ($p_{\text{cos}} \in \{0.176, 0.991, 0.551, 0.976\}$ for Firms A through D; Script 39b) and ten non-Big-4 firms with $\geq 500$ signatures ($p_{\text{cos}} \in [0.59, 0.99]$; Script 39c). The raw dHash marginal *does* reject unimodality in every firm tested ($p < 5 \times 10^{-4}$ in all $14$ firms), but the raw dHash values are integer-valued in $\{0, 1, \ldots, 64\}$, leaving open the possibility of an integer-tie artefact.
 *Integer-jitter robustness (Scripts 39d, 39e).* Adding independent uniform jitter $\sim \mathrm{U}[-0.5, +0.5]$ to break exact dHash ties and re-running the dip test on the perturbed signature cloud (5 seeds, $n_{\text{boot}} = 2000$; Script 39d) eliminates the dHash within-firm rejection in every Big-4 firm tested (Firm A jittered $p_{\text{median}} = 0.999$; B $0.996$; C $0.999$; D $0.9995$; $0$/$5$ seeds reject at $\alpha = 0.05$ in any firm). All ten non-Big-4 firms similarly fail to reject after jitter ($p \in [0.71, 1.00]$). The pooled-Big-4 dHash dip *does* survive jitter alone ($p_{\text{median}} = 0$, $5$/$5$ seeds reject), but Firm A's mean dHash ($2.73$) is substantially below Firms B/C/D's ($6.46$, $7.39$, $7.21$) — a between-firm location shift. Script 39e applies a 2 \times 2 factorial correction (firm-mean centring $\times$ integer jitter) on the Big-4 pooled dHash:
 | Condition | Firm-mean centred | Integer jitter | Median dip $p$ |  Reject at $\alpha = 0.05$ |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1 raw | — | — | $< 5 \times 10^{-4}$ | $5/5$ |
 | 2 centred only | $\checkmark$ | — | $< 5 \times 10^{-4}$ | $5/5$ |
 | 3 jittered only | — | $\checkmark$ | $< 5 \times 10^{-4}$ | $5/5$ |
 | 4 centred and jittered | $\checkmark$ | $\checkmark$ | $\mathbf{0.35}$ | $\mathbf{0/5}$ |
 Removing *both* the between-firm location shift *and* the integer mass points eliminates the Big-4 dHash rejection. The Big-4 pooled dHash multimodality is therefore fully attributable to firm-composition contrast (primarily Firm A's mean $\text{dHash} = 2.73$ versus Firms B/C/D $\approx 6.5$–$7.4$) and integer-density artefacts, with no residual continuous within-firm bimodality.
 *Cosine analogue.* The cosine axis exhibits the same pattern. Codex-verified read-only spike on the Big-4 pooled signature cloud yields signature-level cosine dip $p < 5 \times 10^{-4}$ on the raw data, but $p = 0.597$ after firm-mean centring; accountant-level cosine $p = 1.0$ after firm-mean centring. The cosine multimodality is therefore between-firm composition-driven, not within-population bimodality.
 *Integer-histogram valleys (Script 39d).* A genuine within-firm dHash antimode would appear as a strict local minimum in the count histogram with deep relative depth. Within each of the four Big-4 firms, the dHash histogram on bins $0$–$20$ exhibits no strict local minimum; the Big-4 pooled histogram exhibits one shallow valley at $\text{dHash} = 4$ with relative depth $0.021$ (a $2.1\%$ count drop). No valley near the inherited $\text{dHash} = 5$ operational boundary appears within any individual firm. The hypothesised dHash antimode near $\text{dHash} \approx 5$ is not empirically supported by the histogram analysis.
 **5. Conclusion: no natural threshold from the descriptor distribution.** §III-I.4 jointly establishes that (a) the Big-4 accountant-level dip rejection is fully attributable to between-firm composition and integer mass-point artefacts; (b) within any individual firm, the descriptor marginals at the signature level are unimodal once integer ties are broken; and (c) no integer-histogram valley near the inherited $\text{dHash} = 5$ operational boundary exists within any firm. The descriptor distributions therefore do not contain a within-population bimodal antimode that could anchor an operational threshold. The K=2 / K=3 mixture fits of §III-I.2 and §III-J are retained as *descriptive partitions* that reflect firm-composition contrast, not as inferential evidence for two or three population modes. §III-L develops the v4.0 anchor-based threshold calibration framework, which derives operational rates from inter-CPA pair-level negative-anchor coincidences rather than from a distributional antimode.
 ## J. K=3 as a Descriptive Partition of Firm-Composition Contrast
 This section develops the K=2 and K=3 Gaussian mixture fits to the Big-4 accountant-level distribution and clarifies their role. **Both fits are descriptive partitions of the joint Big-4 distribution; they reflect firm-composition contrast — primarily Firm A versus Firms B, C, D — rather than within-population mechanism modes.** §III-I.4 demonstrates that the apparent multimodality of the accountant-level marginals is fully explained by between-firm location shifts and integer mass-point artefacts, leaving no residual evidence for two or three latent within-population mechanism classes. Neither mixture is used to assign signature-level or document-level labels in the v4.0 primary analysis. The operational classifier of §III-L is calibrated via inter-CPA negative-anchor coincidence rates, not via mixture-derived antimodes.
 **K=2 fit.** Two components at $(\overline{\text{cos}}, \overline{\text{dHash}}) = (0.954, 7.14)$ (weight $0.689$) and $(0.983, 2.41)$ (weight $0.311$) (Script 34). $\text{BIC}(K{=}2) = -1108.45$. Marginal crossings: $\overline{\text{cos}}^* = 0.9755$, $\overline{\text{dHash}}^* = 3.755$. We refer to the components by index rather than by mechanism labels, since §III-I.4 establishes that the K=2 separation is firm-compositional rather than mechanistic.
 **K=3 fit.** Three components, sorted by ascending cosine mean (Script 35; Script 38 reproduces):
 | Component | $\overline{\text{cos}}$ | $\overline{\text{dHash}}$ | weight | descriptive position |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | C1 | 0.9457 | 9.17 | 0.143 | low-cos / high-dHash corner |
 | C2 | 0.9558 | 6.66 | 0.536 | central region |
 | C3 | 0.9826 | 2.41 | 0.321 | high-cos / low-dHash corner |
 $\text{BIC}(K{=}3) = -1111.93$, lower than $K{=}2$ by $3.48$ (mild numerical preference for K=3 under standard BIC interpretation, but not by itself decisive). The "descriptive position" column replaces v3.x's "hand-leaning / mixed / replicated" mechanism labels: §III-I.4 establishes that the cosine and dHash axes both lack within-population bimodality, so component centres are best interpreted as locations in a continuous descriptor space rather than as latent mechanism modes.
 **Per-firm component composition (Script 35 firm × cluster cross-tab).** The K=3 partition is dominated by firm membership:
 - Firm A: $0\%$ C1, $17.5\%$ C2, $82.5\%$ C3
 - Firm B: $8.9\%$ C1, $\sim 78\%$ C2, $\sim 13\%$ C3
 - Firm C: $23.5\%$ C1, $75.5\%$ C2, $1.0\%$ C3
 - Firm D: $11.5\%$ C1, $\sim 84\%$ C2, $\sim 4.5\%$ C3
 Firm A accounts for $141$ of the $143$ C3-assigned CPAs; Firm C accounts for $24$ of the $40$ C1-assigned CPAs. The K=3 partition is therefore well-described as a firm-compositional decomposition: C3 is essentially "Firm A and any non-Firm-A CPA whose mean descriptors happen to land in the high-cos / low-dHash corner"; C1 is essentially "non-Firm-A CPAs whose mean descriptors land in the low-cos / high-dHash corner." The composition contrast that K=3 captures at the accountant level reappears at the deployment level in the cross-firm hit matrix of §III-L.4 (Script 44): nearly all (98%) of the inter-CPA-anchor hits for a Firm A source signature have a Firm A candidate, and the same within-firm concentration holds for Firms B, C, D individually. The K=3 partition and the cross-firm hit matrix therefore describe the same underlying firm-compositional structure at two different units of analysis.
 **Leave-one-firm-out stability (Scripts 36, 37).** Leave-one-firm-out cross-validation shows that K=2 is unstable across folds: holding Firm A out gives a fold rule cos $> 0.938$ AND dHash $\leq 8.79$, while holding any single non-Firm-A Big-4 firm out gives a fold rule near cos $> 0.975$ AND dHash $\leq 3.76$ (Script 36). The maximum absolute deviation of the four fold cosine crossings from their across-fold mean is $0.028$ (the corresponding pairwise across-fold range is $0.0376$, from $0.9380$ for the held-out-Firm-A fold to $0.9756$ for the held-out-Firm-D fold; Script 36 stability summary). The $0.028$ value is $5.6\times$ the report's $0.005$ across-fold stability tolerance. K=3 in contrast has a *reproducible component shape*: across the four folds the C1 cosine mean varies by at most $0.005$, the C1 dHash mean by at most $0.96$, and the C1 weight by at most $0.023$ (Script 37). K=3 hard-posterior membership for the held-out firm is composition-sensitive — for Firm C the held-out C1 rate is $36.3\%$ vs the full-Big-4 baseline of $23.5\%$, an absolute difference of $12.8$ pp; for Firm A the held-out C1 rate is $4.7\%$ vs baseline $0.0\%$; the report's own legend classifies this pattern as `P2_PARTIAL` ("the C1 cluster exists but membership is not well-predicted by the held-out fit"). We accordingly do not use K=3 hard-posterior membership as an operational label.
 We take the joint K=2 / K=3 LOOO evidence as supporting the following descriptive claims, all of which are used in §III-K and §V but none of which underwrites the v4.0 operational classifier:
 - The Big-4 K=2 marginal crossing $(0.975, 3.76)$ is essentially a firm-mass separator between Firm A and Firms B + C + D, not a within-Big-4 mechanism boundary.
 - The Big-4 K=3 mixture exhibits a reproducible three-component component shape across LOOO folds at the descriptor-position level, with C1 reproducibly located at $\overline{\text{cos}} \approx 0.946$, $\overline{\text{dHash}} \approx 9.17$.
 - Hard-posterior K=3 membership is composition-sensitive across folds (max absolute deviation $12.8$ pp); K=3 is therefore not used to assign operational labels to CPAs in v4.0.
 The operational signature-level classifier of §III-L is calibrated against inter-CPA pair-level negative-anchor coincidence rates, not against mixture-derived antimodes. Cross-checks between the inherited five-way box rule and the K=3 partition appear in §III-K.
 ## K. Convergent Internal-Consistency Checks
 The descriptive partition of §III-J is supported by three feature-derived per-CPA scores and a hard-ground-truth subset analysis. We caution at the outset that the three scores are **not statistically independent measurements** — all three are deterministic functions of the same per-CPA descriptor means $(\overline{\text{cos}}_a, \overline{\text{dHash}}_a)$ — so their high pairwise rank correlations are partly a mechanical consequence of shared inputs. Per §III-I.4, none of the three scores has a within-population bimodality interpretation; they are firm-compositional position scores at the accountant level. The checks below therefore document **internal consistency among feature-derived ranks**, not external validation against an independent hand-signed ground truth (which the corpus does not provide).
 **1. Three feature-derived per-CPA scores (Script 38).** For each Big-4 CPA we compute:
 - **Score 1 (K=3 posterior on the low-cos / high-dHash component):** $P(\text{C1})$ from the K=3 fit of §III-J. Per §III-J this is a firm-compositional position score on the (cos, dHash) plane (not a probability of any latent "hand-signing mechanism") — a function of both descriptor means.
 - **Score 2 (reverse-anchor cosine percentile):** the marginal cosine CDF value of $\overline{\text{cos}}_a$ under the non-Big-4 reference Gaussian of §III-H, sign-flipped so that lower percentile (further into the reference's left tail) corresponds to a Big-4 CPA whose mean cosine sits further from the templated end. This is a function of $\overline{\text{cos}}_a$ alone.
 - **Score 3 (inherited binary high-confidence box rule rate):** the per-CPA fraction of signatures that do **not** satisfy the inherited binary high-confidence box rule (cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$). This is a per-signature-aggregated function of the same descriptors.
 Pairwise Spearman rank correlations among the three scores, $n = 437$ Big-4 CPAs (Script 38):
 | Pair | Spearman $\rho$ | $p$-value |
 |---|---|---|
 | Score 1 vs Score 3 | $+0.963$ | $< 10^{-248}$ |
 | Score 2 vs Score 3 | $+0.889$ | $< 10^{-149}$ |
 | Score 1 vs Score 2 | $+0.879$ | $< 10^{-142}$ |
 We read this as the strongest internal-consistency signal in v4.0: three different summarisations of the same descriptor pair agree on the per-CPA descriptor-position ranking with $\rho > 0.87$. The three scores agree on placing Firm A as the most replication-dominated descriptor position and the three non-Firm-A Big-4 firms further from the templated end, but they do not all rank the non-Firm-A firms identically: the K=3 posterior P(C1) and the box-rule less-replication-dominated rate (Scores 1 and 3) place Firm C at the less-replication-dominated end of Big-4 (mean P(C1) $= 0.311$; mean box-rule less-replication-dominated rate $= 0.790$), while the reverse-anchor cosine percentile (Score 2) places Firm D fractionally higher than Firm C (mean reverse-anchor score $-0.7125$ vs Firm C $-0.7672$, with higher value indicating deeper into the reference left tail). The mean values for Firms B and D sit between Firms A and C on Scores 1 and 3 (Script 38 per-firm summary). We do not claim this constitutes external validation of any operational classifier; the inherited box rule is calibrated separately (§III-L), and the convergence above shows that a mixture-derived score and a reverse-anchor score concur with the box rule's per-CPA-aggregated outputs on the directional ordering, with a modest disagreement at the less-replication-dominated end between the three non-A Big-4 firms.
 **2. Per-signature consistency (Script 39).** Per-CPA aggregation could in principle reflect averaging across within-CPA heterogeneity rather than coherent within-CPA behaviour. We test this by repeating the K=3 fit at the signature level — fitting a fresh K=3 GMM to the 150,442 Big-4 signature-level $(\text{cos}, \text{dHash}_{\text{indep}})$ points (Script 39) — and comparing labels. The per-CPA and per-signature K=3 fits recover a broadly similar three-component ordering; per-CPA C1 is at $\overline{\text{cos}} = 0.946$, $\overline{\text{dHash}} = 9.17$ vs per-signature C1 at $\overline{\text{cos}} = 0.928$, $\overline{\text{dHash}} = 9.75$ (an absolute cosine drift of $0.018$). Cohen $\kappa$ on the binary collapse (replicated vs not-replicated):
 | Pair | Cohen $\kappa$ |
 |---|---|
 | Paper A binary high-confidence box rule vs per-CPA K=3 hard label | $0.662$ |
 | Paper A binary high-confidence box rule vs per-signature K=3 hard label | $0.559$ |
 | Per-CPA K=3 vs per-signature K=3 | $0.870$ |
 The Script 39 report verdict is `SIG_CONVERGENCE_MODERATE`. The $\kappa = 0.870$ between per-CPA-fit and per-signature-fit K=3 binary labels indicates that per-CPA aggregation does not collapse the broad three-component ordering. The lower $\kappa = 0.56\text{–}0.66$ between the binary box rule and either K=3 fit is consistent with two factors: different decision geometries (rectangular box vs Gaussian-mixture posterior boundary), and the fact that the binary box rule is a strict subset of the inherited five-way rule. We note that this comparison validates only the binary high-confidence rule (cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$); §III-K does not directly validate the five-way rule's `5 < \text{dHash} \leq 15` moderate-confidence band, which retains its v3.20.0 calibration and capture-rate evaluation (v3.20.0 Tables IX, XI, XII, XII-B; documented as inherited in §IV-J).
 **3. Leave-one-firm-out reproducibility (Scripts 36, 37).** Discussed in §III-J above. We summarise the joint result for cross-reference:
 - *K=2 LOOO is unstable.* The maximum absolute deviation of the four fold cosine crossings from their across-fold mean is $0.028$, against the report's $0.005$ across-fold stability tolerance (Script 36; pairwise fold range $0.0376$, from $0.9380$ to $0.9756$). When Firm A is held out, the fold rule classifies $171/171$ of held-out Firm A CPAs as templated; when any non-Firm-A Big-4 firm is held out, the fold rule classifies $0$ of the held-out firm's CPAs as templated. This pattern indicates the K=2 boundary is essentially a Firm-A-vs-others separator rather than a within-Big-4 mechanism boundary.
 - *K=3 LOOO is partially stable.* The C1 (low-cos / high-dHash) component shape is reproducible across folds: max deviation from the full-Big-4 baseline is $0.005$ in cosine, $0.96$ in dHash, and $0.023$ in mixture weight (Script 37). Hard-posterior membership remains composition-sensitive — observed absolute differences are $1.8$–$12.8$ pp across the four folds, with the Firm C fold exceeding the report's $5$ pp viability bar; the report's own verdict is `P2_PARTIAL` ("K=3 is not predictively useful as an operational classifier"). We accordingly do not use K=3 hard-posterior membership as an operational label.
 **4. Positive-anchor miss rate on byte-identical signatures (Script 40).** The corpus provides one hard ground-truth subset: signatures whose nearest same-CPA match is byte-identical after crop and normalisation. Independent hand-signing cannot produce pixel-identical images, so byte-identical signatures are conservative-subset ground truth for the *replicated* class. The Big-4 byte-identical subset comprises $n = 262$ signatures ($145 / 8 / 107 / 2$ across Firms A through D; Script 40).
 We report each candidate classifier's *positive-anchor miss rate* — the fraction of byte-identical signatures classified as belonging to the less-replication-dominated descriptor positions. This is a one-sided check against a conservative positive subset, **not a paired specificity metric in the usual two-class sense**; we do not report a paired negative-anchor metric here because no signature-level hand-signed ground truth exists. The corresponding signature-level inter-CPA negative-anchor ICCR evidence is developed in §III-L.1 (Big-4 sample) and the v3.x §IV-I corpus-wide version (reported under prior "FAR" terminology):
 | Candidate classifier | Pixel-identity miss rate (Wilson 95% CI) |
 |---|---|
 | Inherited Paper A binary high-confidence box rule (cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$) | $0\%$ $[0\%, 1.45\%]$ |
 | K=3 per-CPA hard label (C3 high-cos / low-dHash corner; descriptive only) | $0\%$ $[0\%, 1.45\%]$ |
 | Reverse-anchor with prevalence-calibrated cut | $0\%$ $[0\%, 1.45\%]$ |
 All three candidate scores correctly assign every byte-identical signature to the replicated class. We caution that for the inherited box rule this result is close to tautological: byte-identical nearest-neighbour signatures have cosine $\approx 1$ and dHash $\approx 0$ by construction, so any threshold strictly below cos $= 1$ and strictly above dHash $= 0$ will capture them; v3.x discussed this conservative-subset caveat at length (v3 §III-J item 1, V-F). The positive-anchor miss rate is therefore a necessary check (a classifier that *failed* this check would be disqualified), not a sufficient validation of the classifier's behaviour on the non-byte-identical replicated population. The reverse-anchor cut here is chosen by prevalence calibration against the inherited box rule's overall replicated rate ($49.58\%$ of Big-4 signatures; Script 40); this is a documented v4.0 limitation since no signature-level hand-signed ground truth exists to permit direct ROC optimisation.
 ## L. Anchor-Based Threshold Calibration and Operational Classifier
 §III-I.4 established that the descriptor distributions do not contain a within-population bimodal antimode that could anchor an operational threshold; the K=3 mixture of §III-J is a descriptive firm-compositional partition, not a mechanism-cluster model. This section develops v4.0's anchor-based threshold calibration: the operational thresholds inherited from v3.x are characterised by their inter-CPA pair-level negative-anchor coincidence behaviour and their pool-normalised per-signature and per-document alert behaviour, at multiple units of analysis. Throughout this section we report **inter-CPA coincidence rates** rather than "False Acceptance Rates"; we explain the terminological choice in §III-L.0.
 ### L.0. Calibration methodology
 **Operational classifier (inherited from v3.20.0 §III-K, retained unchanged).** Each Big-4 signature is assigned to one of five categories using the per-signature descriptor pair $(\text{cos}_s, \text{dHash}_s)$ where $\text{cos}_s$ is the maximum cosine similarity to another signature by the same CPA and $\text{dHash}_s$ is the minimum independent dHash to another signature by the same CPA:
 1. **High-confidence non-hand-signed (HC):** Cosine $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_{\text{indep}} \leq 5$. Both descriptors converge on strong replication evidence.
 2. **Moderate-confidence non-hand-signed (MC):** Cosine $> 0.95$ AND $5 < \text{dHash}_{\text{indep}} \leq 15$. Feature-level evidence is strong; structural similarity is present but below the high-confidence cutoff.
 3. **High style consistency (HSC):** Cosine $> 0.95$ AND $\text{dHash}_{\text{indep}} > 15$. High feature-level similarity without structural corroboration — consistent with a CPA who signs very consistently but not via image reproduction.
 4. **Uncertain (UN):** Cosine between the all-pairs intra/inter KDE crossover ($0.837$) and $0.95$.
 5. **Likely hand-signed (LH):** Cosine $\leq 0.837$.
 The thresholds ($\text{cos} = 0.95$ as the cosine operating point, $\text{cos} = 0.837$ as the all-pairs KDE crossover, $\text{dHash} = 5$ and $15$ as structural-similarity sub-band cutoffs) are inherited from v3.x §III-K and retain their v3.x calibration provenance. Document-level labels are aggregated via the v3.x worst-case rule: each audit report inherits the most-replication-consistent category among its certifying-CPA signatures (rank order HC > MC > HSC > UN > LH).
 **Why retained without v4.0 recalibration.** The inherited thresholds preserve continuity with v3.x reporting and with the existing literature. §III-I.4 establishes that a v4.0 recalibration cannot be anchored on distributional antimodes (no within-population bimodality exists); §III-L.1 confirms that the cosine threshold's specificity behaviour at the inter-CPA pair level (the v3.x calibration anchor) is reproducible on the v4 spike sample, and §III-L.1 newly characterises the structural-dimension threshold $\text{dHash} \leq 5$'s pair-level coincidence behaviour. Sub-band thresholds ($\text{dHash} = 15$, $\text{cos} = 0.837$) retain v3.x's inherited calibration; v4.0 does not provide independent calibration for those sub-bands.
 **Three units of analysis.** We report inter-CPA negative-anchor coincidence behaviour at three units, each addressing a different operational question:
 - *Per comparison.* For a randomly drawn pair of signatures from different CPAs, what fraction satisfies the rule (cos $>$ cos\_threshold and / or dHash $\leq$ dHash\_threshold)? This is the unit at which v3.x §IV-I characterised the cosine threshold's specificity behaviour and at which threshold-derivation in biometric verification is conventionally calibrated. We report it for both the cosine and dHash dimensions, marginally and jointly (§III-L.1).
 - *Per signature pool.* For a Big-4 source signature $s$ with same-CPA pool of size $n_{\text{pool}}(s)$, what is the probability that the deployed rule fires *under the counterfactual* of replacing the source's same-CPA pool with $n_{\text{pool}}(s)$ random non-same-CPA candidates? This addresses the standard concern that a per-pair rate computed on independent pairs is not the deployed-rule rate at the per-signature classifier level: the deployed rule takes max-cosine and min-dHash over a pool of size $n_{\text{pool}}(s)$, so its effective coincidence rate is approximately $1 - (1 - p_{\text{pair}})^{n_{\text{pool}}}$ in the independence limit (§III-L.2).
 - *Per document.* For an audit report aggregated via the worst-case rule, what fraction of documents have at least one signature whose deployed pool-normalised rule fires under the same inter-CPA candidate-replacement counterfactual? This is the operational alarm-rate unit (§III-L.3).
 **Any-pair vs same-pair semantics.** The deployed rule uses independent extrema: a signature satisfies the HC rule if $\max_{\text{pool}} \text{cos} > 0.95$ AND $\min_{\text{pool}} \text{dHash} \leq 5$, *not* if a single candidate in the pool satisfies both. We refer to this as the **any-pair** rule. A stricter alternative — the **same-pair** rule — requires a single candidate to satisfy both inequalities; the deployed v3/v4 rule is any-pair, but we report same-pair as a stricter alternative classifier where useful (§III-L.2, §III-L.4).
 **Terminological note on "FAR".** The v3.x and biometric-verification literature speak of "False Acceptance Rate" (FAR) for a per-pair rate computed on independent inter-CPA pairs. We adopt **inter-CPA coincidence rate (ICCR)** as the v4.0 metric name and *do not* use "FAR" in the manuscript prose, for two reasons: (a) FAR has a specific biometric-verification meaning that requires ground-truth negative labels (which the corpus does not provide at the signature level); (b) §III-L.4 shows that the inter-CPA negative-anchor assumption — that inter-CPA pairs are negative — is partially violated by within-firm cross-CPA template-like collision structures. Reading "inter-CPA coincidence rate" as a *specificity proxy* under an explicitly disclosed assumption is faithful to the evidence; reading it as a true biometric FAR would overstate the evidence. We retain the v3.x numerical results (which are quantitatively reproduced in §III-L.1) under the new terminology.
 ### L.1. Per-comparison inter-CPA coincidence rate (Script 40b)
 We sample $5 \times 10^5$ inter-CPA pairs uniformly at random from Big-4 signatures, computing for each pair the cosine similarity (feature dot product) and Hamming distance between the dHash byte vectors. Marginal and joint rates at threshold $k$ are reported with Wilson 95% confidence intervals (Script 40b).
 | Threshold | Per-comparison inter-CPA coincidence rate | 95% Wilson CI |
 |---|---|---|
 | Cosine $> 0.95$ | $0.00060$ | $[0.00053, 0.00067]$ |
 | Cosine $> 0.945$ (v3.x published "natural threshold") | $0.00081$ | $[0.00073, 0.00089]$ |
 | Cosine $> 0.97$ | $0.00024$ | $[0.00020, 0.00029]$ |
 | Cosine $> 0.98$ | $0.00009$ | $[0.00007, 0.00012]$ |
 | dHash $\leq 5$ | $0.00129$ | $[0.00120, 0.00140]$ |
 | dHash $\leq 4$ | $0.00050$ | $[0.00044, 0.00057]$ |
 | dHash $\leq 3$ | $0.00019$ | $[0.00015, 0.00023]$ |
 | dHash $\leq 2$ | $0.00006$ | $[0.00004, 0.00008]$ |
 | Joint: cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$ | $0.00014$ | (any-pair semantics) |
 | Joint: cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 4$ | $0.00011$ | (any-pair semantics) |
 The cosine row at $\text{cos} > 0.95$ replicates the v3.x §IV-I Table X result (v3.x reported the per-comparison rate as $0.0005$ under prior "FAR" terminology from a similarly-sized inter-CPA negative anchor; the v4 spike on a $5 \times 10^5$-pair sample yields $0.00060$, within the v3.x reported precision). The dHash and joint rows are v4-new: v3.x calibration did not provide an inter-CPA pair-level coincidence rate for the structural dimension or the joint rule.
 The all-firms-scope sample yields slightly lower per-comparison coincidence rates (cos $> 0.95$: $0.00031$; dHash $\leq 5$: $0.00073$; joint: $0.00007$); the all-firms sample weights small CPAs more heavily under CPA-uniform pair sampling, so we treat the Big-4 sample as the primary calibration scope and report all-firms as a corroborating-scope robustness check.
 **Conditional inter-CPA coincidence rate.** A natural follow-up question is whether the dHash dimension provides marginal specificity beyond the cosine gate. For pairs with cos $> 0.95$, the conditional rate of dHash $\leq 5$ is $0.234$ (Wilson 95% CI $[0.190, 0.285]$; $70$ of $299$ pairs in the Big-4 sample). At cos $> 0.95$, dHash provides $\sim 4.3\times$ further per-comparison specificity (joint $0.00014$ vs cos-only $0.00060$).
 The per-comparison rate is a useful *specificity-proxy calibration* for the deployed rule's pair-level behaviour. It does *not* directly translate to the deployed-rule specificity at the per-signature classifier level, because the deployed classifier takes extrema over a same-CPA pool of size $n_{\text{pool}}$. The pool-normalised inter-CPA alert rate is reported in §III-L.2.
 ### L.2. Pool-normalised inter-CPA alert rate (Script 43)
 The deployed rule uses $\max_{\text{pool}} \text{cos}$ and $\min_{\text{pool}} \text{dHash}$ over the same-CPA pool of size $n_{\text{pool}}(s)$ for each signature $s$. A per-comparison rate is therefore not the rate at which the deployed classifier fires per signature. To compute the per-signature inter-CPA-equivalent rate, for each Big-4 source signature $s$ we simulate one realisation of an inter-CPA candidate pool of the same size $n_{\text{pool}}(s)$, drawn uniformly from non-same-CPA signatures across all firms, compute the deployed extrema and rule indicator, and aggregate (Script 43; $n_{\text{sig}} = 150{,}453$ vector-complete in this analysis; CPA-block bootstrap 95% CIs reported below).
 **Headline rates (deployed any-pair rule, HC = cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$).** Wilson 95% CIs on the point estimate, CPA-block bootstrap 95% CI on $n_{\text{boot}} = 1000$ replicates:
 | Rule semantics | Per-signature ICCR | Wilson 95% CI | CPA-bootstrap 95% CI |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | Any-pair (deployed) | $0.1102$ | $[0.1086, 0.1118]$ | $[0.0908, 0.1330]$ |
 | Same-pair (stricter alternative) | $0.0827$ | $[0.0813, 0.0841]$ | $[0.0668, 0.1021]$ |
 Per-firm any-pair rates (no bootstrap; descriptive):
 | Firm | $n_{\text{sig}}$ | Any-pair ICCR | Same-pair ICCR |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | Firm A | $60{,}450$ | $0.2594$ | $0.2018$ |
 | Firm B | $34{,}254$ | $0.0147$ | $0.0023$ |
 | Firm C | $38{,}616$ | $0.0053$ | $0.0019$ |
 | Firm D | $17{,}133$ | $0.0110$ | $0.0051$ |
 **Pool-size decile dependence.** The deployed rule's pool-normalised rate is monotonically (broadly) increasing in $n_{\text{pool}}$, consistent with the $1 - (1 - p_{\text{pair}})^{n_{\text{pool}}}$ form expected under inter-CPA independence (Script 43 decile table). Decile 1 (smallest pools, $n_{\text{pool}} \in [0, 201]$): any-pair ICCR $= 0.0249$. Decile 10 (largest, $n_{\text{pool}} \in [846, 1115]$): any-pair ICCR $= 0.1905$. The trend is broadly monotonic with two minor non-monotone reversals (decile 5 and decile 9 dip below their predecessors).
 **Threshold sensitivity at per-signature unit.** Tightening the HC rule from $\text{dHash} \leq 5$ to $\text{dHash} \leq 3$ (same-pair) reduces the per-signature ICCR from $0.0827$ to $0.0449$ (Big-4 pooled); tightening to $\text{dHash} \leq 4$ gives $0.0639$ (same-pair). Stakeholders requiring a per-signature ICCR of $\leq 0.05$ at HC can adopt dHash $\leq 3$ same-pair as a stricter operating point; at $\leq 0.10$ the inherited HC any-pair rule with $\text{dHash} \leq 5$ at $0.1102$ is within tolerance.
 ### L.3. Document-level inter-CPA proxy alert rate (Script 45)
 The deployed worst-case aggregation classifies each document by the most-replication-consistent category among its constituent signatures (§III-L.0). Three operationally meaningful document-level alarm definitions are reported, each as the fraction of documents whose worst-case signature category falls in the alarm set under the same inter-CPA candidate-pool counterfactual as §III-L.2 (Script 45; $n_{\text{docs}} = 75{,}233$ Big-4 documents):
 | Alarm definition | Alarm set | Document-level ICCR | Wilson 95% CI |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | D1 | HC only | $0.1797$ | $[0.1770, 0.1825]$ |
 | D2 | HC + MC ("any non-hand-signed verdict") | $0.3375$ | $[0.3342, 0.3409]$ |
 | D3 | HC + MC + HSC | $0.3384$ | $[0.3351, 0.3418]$ |
 Per-firm D2 document-level rates:
 | Firm | $n_{\text{docs}}$ | D2 (HC + MC) ICCR |
 |---|---|---|
 | Firm A | $30{,}226$ | $0.6201$ |
 | Firm B | $17{,}127$ | $0.1600$ |
 | Firm C | $19{,}501$ | $0.1635$ |
 | Firm D | $8{,}379$ | $0.0863$ |
 The document-level D2 rate of $33.75\%$ pooled over Big-4 is the most operationally relevant alarm-rate metric: it is the fraction of audit documents that would carry at least one signature flagged HC or MC under the counterfactual of inter-CPA candidate-pool replacement. The non-trivial per-document inter-CPA alarm rate (and its concentration in Firm A at $62\%$) motivates the positioning of the operational system as a **screening framework with human-in-the-loop review**, not as an autonomous forensic classifier (§III-M).
 ### L.4. Firm heterogeneity (Script 44)
 §III-L.2 and §III-L.3 report large per-firm variation in the deployed rule's pool-normalised behaviour: Firm A's any-pair per-signature ICCR is $0.2594$, an order of magnitude larger than Firm B's $0.0147$, Firm C's $0.0053$, Firm D's $0.0110$. A natural alternative explanation is the pool-size confound: Firm A's median pool size ($\sim 285$) is larger than other firms', and pool size monotonically (broadly) increases the per-signature rate (§III-L.2 decile trend). We test the firm-vs-pool confound with a logistic regression of the per-signature hit indicator (any-pair HC) on firm dummies (Firm A = reference) and centred log pool size (Script 44):
 | Term | Odds ratio (vs Firm A) | Direction | Magnitude |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | Firm B | $0.053$ | $< 1$ | $\sim 19\times$ lower odds than Firm A |
 | Firm C | $0.010$ | $< 1$ | $\sim 100\times$ lower odds than Firm A |
 | Firm D | $0.027$ | $< 1$ | $\sim 37\times$ lower odds than Firm A |
 | log(pool size, centred) | $4.01$ | $> 1$ | $\sim 4\times$ higher odds per unit log pool size |
 The Firm B/C/D odds ratios are very small after controlling for pool size, indicating that firm membership accounts for a large multiplicative effect on the per-signature rate that is *not* explained by pool size alone. (We report odds ratios rather than $z$-scores because per-signature observations are clustered by CPA and firm, and naive standard errors would be inflated by within-cluster correlation; a cluster-robust standard error analysis is left as a robustness check.)
 The per-decile per-firm breakdown (Script 44) confirms the pattern: within every pool-size decile, Firms B/C/D have rates of $0.0006$–$0.0358$, while Firm A's rate ranges $0.0541$–$0.5958$ across deciles. The firm gap is large within matched pool sizes, not driven by pool composition.
 **Cross-firm hit matrix.** Among Big-4 source signatures whose any-pair rule fires under the inter-CPA candidate-pool counterfactual, the candidate firm of the max-cosine partner is distributed as follows (Script 44):
 | Source firm | Firm A candidate | Firm B | Firm C | Firm D | non-Big-4 | hits |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Firm A | $14{,}447$ | $95$ | $44$ | $19$ | $17$ | $14{,}622$ |
 | Firm B | $92$ | $371$ | $8$ | $4$ | $9$ | $484$ |
 | Firm C | $16$ | $7$ | $149$ | $5$ | $1$ | $178$ |
 | Firm D | $22$ | $2$ | $6$ | $106$ | $1$ | $137$ |
 For the same-pair joint event (a single candidate satisfying both $\text{cos} > 0.95$ and $\text{dHash} \leq 5$), the candidate firm is even more strongly concentrated within the source firm: Firm A source $\to$ Firm A candidate in $11{,}314$ of $11{,}319$ same-pair hits ($99.96\%$); Firm B source $\to$ Firm B candidate in $85$ of $87$ ($97.7\%$); Firm C source $\to$ Firm C candidate in $54$ of $55$ ($98.2\%$); Firm D source $\to$ Firm D candidate in $64$ of $66$ ($97.0\%$).
 **Interpretation.** The cross-firm hit matrix shows that nearly all inter-CPA collisions under the deployed rule originate from candidates within the source firm (different CPA, same firm). This pattern is consistent with — but not by itself diagnostic of — firm-specific template, stamp, or document-production reuse: within-firm scanning workflows, common form templates, and shared report-generation infrastructure could produce visually similar signature crops across different CPAs within the same firm. The byte-level evidence of v3.x §IV-F.1 (Firm A's $145$ pixel-identical signatures across $\sim 50$ distinct certifying partners) provides direct evidence that firm-level template reuse does occur at Firm A; the broader inter-CPA collision pattern in §III-L.4 is consistent with that mechanism extending in milder form to Firms B/C/D. We report this as "inter-CPA collision concentration is within-firm" — a descriptive observation about deployed-rule behaviour — and refrain from inferring that the within-firm hits constitute deliberate or systematic template sharing.
 This connects back to §III-J: the K=3 firm-composition contrast at the accountant level (Firm A dominating C3; Firm C dominating C1) reappears at the deployment level in the cross-firm hit matrix, where nearly all collisions are within-firm. The K=3 partition and the cross-firm hit matrix describe the same underlying firm-compositional structure at two different units of analysis.
 ### L.5. Alert-rate sensitivity around inherited thresholds (Script 46)
 To test whether the inherited cosine threshold $0.95$ and dHash threshold $5$ coincide with a low-gradient (plateau-stable) region of the deployed-rule alert-rate surface — which would be weak distributional evidence that the inherited thresholds are stable operating points — we sweep each threshold across a range and report the per-signature alert rate on actual observed Big-4 same-CPA pools (not inter-CPA-replaced pools), comparing the local gradient at the inherited threshold to the median gradient across the sweep (Script 46).
 At the inherited HC operating point cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$, the local gradient of the per-signature alert rate is substantially larger than the median gradient across the sweep (cosine: ratio $\approx 25\times$ at the $0.95$ point relative to median; dHash: ratio $\approx 3.8\times$ at the $5$ point relative to median; both Script 46). Reading these ratios descriptively, the inherited HC threshold is *locally sensitive* rather than plateau-stable: small threshold perturbations materially change the deployed alert rate (cosine sweep at dHash $\leq 5$ yields rates of $0.5091$ at cos $> 0.945$ vs $0.4789$ at cos $> 0.955$, a $3.0$ pp swing across a $0.01$ cosine perturbation; dHash sweep at cos $> 0.95$ yields rates of $0.4207$ at dHash $\leq 4$ vs $0.5639$ at dHash $\leq 6$, a $14.3$ pp swing across a single integer step). The local-gradient-to-median-gradient ratios are descriptive diagnostics, not formal plateau tests; the primary evidence for "no within-population bimodal antimode at these thresholds" comes from §III-I.4's composition decomposition, not from §III-L.5.
 The MC/HSC boundary at dHash $= 15$, by contrast, *is* in a low-gradient region (ratio $\approx 0.08$ to the median); the plateau-like behaviour around dHash $= 15$ is corroborating evidence that the high-end structural threshold lies in a regime where the rule's alert rate is approximately saturated, consistent with the high-dHash tail behaviour expected once near-identical pairs have been exhausted. The §III-L.5 non-plateau / local-sensitivity finding therefore applies specifically to the HC cutoff (cos $= 0.95$, dHash $= 5$); the MC/HSC sub-band boundary at dHash $= 15$ exhibits the opposite behaviour and is plateau-like.
 We interpret the inherited HC thresholds as **specificity-anchored operating points** chosen for the specificity-vs-alert-yield tradeoff (§III-L.1), *not* as distributional antimodes. Stakeholders requiring different operating points on the tradeoff curve can derive thresholds by inverting the per-comparison or pool-normalised ICCR curves (§III-L.1, §III-L.2) at their preferred specificity target.
 ### L.6. Observed deployed alert rate on actual same-CPA pools
 The pool-normalised inter-CPA rates of §III-L.2 and §III-L.3 use the counterfactual of replacing the source signature's same-CPA pool with random non-same-CPA candidates. The **observed deployed alert rate** uses the source's actual same-CPA pool, i.e., the rate at which the deployed rule fires on the real corpus. For Big-4, the inherited HC any-pair rule fires on $49.58\%$ of signatures and $62.28\%$ of documents (Script 46; Script 42 reproduces the per-signature rate at $49.58\%$).
 The per-signature observed-deployed rate is $\sim 4.5\times$ the pool-normalised inter-CPA rate ($0.4958$ vs $0.1102$); the per-document observed-deployed rate is $\sim 3.5\times$ the pool-normalised inter-CPA D1 (HC) rate ($0.6228$ vs $0.1797$). We refer to this multiplicative gap as the **deployed-rate excess over the inter-CPA proxy**:
 - Per-signature: $0.4958 - 0.1102 = 0.3856$ ($38.6$ pp excess)
 - Per-document HC: $0.6228 - 0.1797 = 0.4431$ ($44.3$ pp excess)
 We *do not* interpret the deployed-rate excess as a presumed true-positive rate; the inferential limits of this interpretation are developed in §III-M. The deployed-rate excess is best read as a *same-CPA repeatability signal* — a quantity that exceeds what random inter-CPA candidate replacement would produce — rather than as an estimate of true replication prevalence.
 ### L.7. K=3 not used as classifier
 The K=3 mixture of §III-J is reported in §IV as an accountant-level descriptive summary alongside the per-signature five-way classifier. We do not assign signature-level or document-level labels from the K=3 mixture in any v4.0 result table; the K=3 hard label is used only for the accountant-level firm × cluster cross-tabulation (§III-J; Script 35), and the K=3 *posterior* P(C1) is used (as the continuous Score 1) in the internal-consistency Spearman correlations of §III-K. The operational classifier of §III-L.0 is the inherited v3.x five-way box rule; the calibration evidence in §III-L.1 through §III-L.6 characterises its multi-level coincidence behaviour against the inter-CPA negative anchor.
 ## M. Validation Strategy and Limitations under Unsupervised Setting
 The v4.0 corpus lacks signature-level ground-truth replication labels: no signature is annotated as definitively hand-signed or definitively templated. The conservative positive anchor (pixel-identical same-CPA signatures; §III-K.4 and v3.x §IV-F.1) is by construction near $\text{cos} = 1$ and $\text{dHash} = 0$, providing a tautological capture-check rather than a sensitivity estimate for the non-byte-identical replicated class. The corpus therefore does not admit standard supervised classifier validation: we cannot report False Rejection Rate, sensitivity, recall, Equal Error Rate, ROC-AUC, or precision against ground truth.
 In place of supervised validation, v4.0 adopts a **multi-tool collection of partial-evidence diagnostics**, each with an explicitly disclosed assumption:
 | Tool | What it measures | Untested assumption |
 |---|---|---|
 | Per-comparison inter-CPA coincidence rate (§III-L.1; Script 40b) | Pair-level specificity proxy under a random-pair negative anchor | Inter-CPA pairs are negative (i.e., not template-related); partially violated by within-firm sharing (§III-L.4) |
 | Pool-normalised per-signature ICCR (§III-L.2; Script 43) | Deployed-rule specificity proxy at per-signature unit, accounting for pool size | Same as above + that pool replacement preserves the negative-anchor property |
 | Document-level ICCR (§III-L.3; Script 45) | Operational alarm rate proxy at per-document unit under three alarm definitions | Same as above |
 | Firm-heterogeneity logistic regression (§III-L.4; Script 44) | Multiplicative effect of firm membership on per-signature rate, controlling for pool size | Per-signature observations are clustered by CPA/firm; naïve standard errors inflated; cluster-robust analysis is a future check |
 | Cross-firm hit matrix (§III-L.4; Script 44) | Concentration of inter-CPA collisions within source firm | None — direct descriptive observation |
 | Alert-rate sensitivity sweep (§III-L.5; Script 46) | Local sensitivity of deployed rule to threshold perturbation | Gradient comparison is descriptive, not a formal plateau test |
 | Convergent score Spearman ranking (§III-K.1; Script 38) | Internal-consistency of three feature-derived per-CPA scores | Scores share underlying inputs and are not statistically independent |
 | Pixel-identical conservative positive capture (§III-K.4; v3.x; Script 40) | Trivial sanity check on the conservative positive anchor | Anchor is tautologically captured by any reasonable threshold |
 | LOOO firm-level reproducibility (§III-K.3; Scripts 36, 37) | Algorithmic stability of K=2 / K=3 partition across firm folds | Stability is necessary but not sufficient for classification validity |
 No single tool in this collection provides ground-truth validation. Their conjunction constitutes the unsupervised validation ceiling that the v4.0 corpus admits.
 **What v4.0 does not claim.** We do not claim a validated forensic detector or an autonomous classification system. We do not report False Rejection Rate, sensitivity, recall, EER, ROC-AUC, precision, or positive predictive value against ground truth, because no ground truth exists at the signature level. We do not interpret the deployed-rate excess of §III-L.6 as a presumed true-positive rate: that interpretation would require assuming that the within-firm same-CPA pool's collision rate equals the inter-CPA proxy rate in the absence of replication (i.e., that genuine same-CPA hand-signing would produce a collision rate no higher than random inter-CPA pairs). Two factors make the assumption unsafe: (a) a CPA who signs consistently can produce stylistically similar signatures across years that exceed inter-CPA similarity at the cosine axis; (b) within-firm template sharing (§III-L.4 cross-firm hit matrix; v3.x byte-level evidence of Firm A's pixel-identical signatures across partners) places a substantial inter-CPA collision floor that itself reflects template-like reuse rather than independent inter-CPA random matching. We do not infer that the within-firm collision concentration of §III-L.4 constitutes deliberate template sharing; we describe it as "inter-CPA collision concentration is within-firm" and treat the mechanism as an open empirical question.
 **What v4.0 does claim.** The deployed signature-replication screening rule is characterised at three units of analysis (per-comparison, per-signature pool, per-document) against an inter-CPA negative-anchor coincidence-rate calibration. The per-comparison rates ($\leq 0.0006$ at cos $> 0.95$; $\leq 0.0013$ at dHash $\leq 5$; $\leq 0.00014$ jointly) are specificity-proxy-anchored operating points consistent with biometric-verification convention, with the proxy nature recorded in §III-L.0 and §III-M. The per-signature and per-document rates ($0.11$ and $0.34$ respectively under the deployed any-pair HC + MC alarm) are operationally meaningful **alarm-yield** indicators rather than true error rates. Per-firm rates show substantial heterogeneity (Firm A's per-document HC + MC alarm at $0.62$ vs Firm B/C/D at $0.09$–$0.16$), driven by firm-level rather than pool-size effects, and concentrated in within-firm cross-CPA candidate matching. The framework is positioned as a **specificity-proxy-anchored screening tool with human-in-the-loop review**, not as a validated forensic classifier.
 **Specificity-alert-yield tradeoff.** Because sensitivity is unobservable, stakeholders cannot derive an operating point by optimising a ROC criterion. Instead, the specificity-proxy-anchored framework offers a *specificity-alert-yield tradeoff*: tighter operating points (e.g., cos $> 0.98$ AND dHash $\leq 3$) reduce both per-comparison ICCR (to $\approx 5 \times 10^{-5}$; §III-L.1 inversion) and per-signature alert yield (to $\approx 0.05$; §III-L.2), with an unknown effect on actual replication-detection recall. Tighter operating points are not necessarily preferable: any tightening reduces the alert rate but may also miss true replicated signatures whose noise has pushed them outside the tighter envelope. The deployment decision depends on the relative cost of manual review (per alarm) and missed-replication risk (per false negative) — neither directly observable from corpus data.
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 ## Provenance table for key numerical claims in §III-G through §III-L
 The table below lists the principal numerical claims and their data-source scripts. The table is curated for primary results; supporting numbers used illustratively in prose (e.g., all-firms-scope corroborating rates, per-decile fold values, illustrative threshold-inversion examples) are documented in the corresponding spike-script JSON outputs at `reports/v4_big4/*/` and are not individually tabled here.
 | Claim | Value | Source | Notes |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | Big-4 CPA count, $n_{\text{sig}} \geq 10$ | $437$ ($171/112/102/52$) | Script 36 sample sizes; Script 38 per-firm summary | direct |
 | Big-4 signature count (descriptor-complete) | $150{,}442$ | Script 39 / 39b / 39d / 39e / 45 / 46 | analyses using pre-computed descriptors |
 | Big-4 signature count (vector-complete) | $150{,}453$ | Script 40b / 43 / 44 | analyses recomputing from feature + dHash vectors |
 | Non-Big-4 reference CPA count | $249$ | Script 38 reference population | direct |
 | Big-4 K=2 marginal crossings $(0.9755, 3.755)$ | direct | Script 34; Script 36 §A | direct |
 | Bootstrap 95% CI cosine $[0.9742, 0.9772]$ | direct | Script 34; Script 36 §A | $n_{\text{boot}} = 500$ |
 | Bootstrap 95% CI dHash $[3.48, 3.97]$ | direct | Script 34; Script 36 §A | $n_{\text{boot}} = 500$ |
 | Bootstrap CI half-width $0.0015$ (cos) | direct | Script 36 (mean of CI half-widths) | direct |
 | Dip-test Big-4 cosine $p < 5 \times 10^{-4}$ | direct | Script 34 reports $p = 0.0000$; we bound by bootstrap resolution $n_{\text{boot}} = 2000$ | reporting convention |
 | Dip-test Big-4 dHash $p < 5 \times 10^{-4}$ | direct | Script 34 | reporting convention |
 | Dip-test Firm A $(p_{\text{cos}} = 0.992, p_{\text{dHash}} = 0.924)$ | direct | Script 32 §`firm_A` | direct |
 | Dip-test `big4_non_A` $(0.998, 0.906)$ | direct | Script 32 §`big4_non_A` | direct |
 | Dip-test `all_non_A` $(0.998, 0.907)$ | direct | Script 32 §`all_non_A` | direct |
 | K=3 component centers / weights | $(0.9457, 9.17, 0.143)$ / $(0.9558, 6.66, 0.536)$ / $(0.9826, 2.41, 0.321)$ | Script 35 / Script 38 | direct |
 | $\Delta\text{BIC}(K{=}3, K{=}2) = -3.48$ | direct | Script 34 (BIC K=2 = $-1108.45$; Script 36 reports BIC K=3 = $-1111.93$) | direct (arithmetic) |
 | K=2 LOOO max cosine deviation $0.028$ | direct | Script 36 stability summary | direct |
 | K=2 LOOO Firm A held-out $171/171$ replicated | direct | Script 36 fold table | direct |
 | K=3 C1 component shape drift (cos $0.005$, dHash $0.96$, weight $0.023$) | direct | Script 37 stability summary | direct |
 | K=3 LOOO held-out C1 absolute differences $1.8$–$12.8$ pp | direct | Script 37 held-out prediction check | direct |
 | Three-score pairwise Spearman ($0.963$, $0.889$, $0.879$) | direct | Script 38 correlations | direct |
 | Per-CPA / per-signature K=3 Cohen $\kappa$ ($0.662$, $0.559$, $0.870$) | direct | Script 39 kappa table | direct |
 | Per-CPA / per-signature K=3 C1 center drift $0.018$ (cosine) | derived | $\lvert 0.9457 - 0.9280 \rvert$; Script 39 components | direct |
 | Pixel-identity Big-4 subset $n = 262$ ($145/8/107/2$) | direct | Script 40 sample | direct |
 | Full-dataset accountant count $n = 686$ | direct | Script 41 (`fulldataset_report.md`) | direct |
 | Positive-anchor miss rate $0\%$ on $n = 262$ (Wilson upper $1.45\%$) | direct | Script 40 results table | direct |
 | Inter-CPA cos $> 0.95$ ICCR $0.0005$ (Wilson 95% $[0.0003, 0.0007]$) | inherited | v3 §IV-F.1 / Table X | v3 reported this as "FAR"; v4.0 reframes as inter-CPA coincidence rate per §III-L.0 |
 | Firm A byte-identical $145$ pixel-identical signatures in Big-4 subset | direct | Script 40 sample breakdown | direct |
 | Firm A byte-identical "50 distinct partners of 180; 35 cross-year" | inherited | v3 §IV-F.1 / Script 28 / Appendix B byte-decomposition output | **inherited from v3; not regenerated in v4.0 spike scripts** |
 | Big-4 K=3 per-firm C1 hard-assignment ($0\%$ / $8.9\%$ / $23.5\%$ / $11.5\%$) | direct | Script 35 firm × cluster cross-tab | direct |
 | **Composition decomposition (§III-I.4):** | | | |
 | Within-firm signature-level dip $p_{\text{cos}}$ Big-4 (A/B/C/D) | $0.176 / 0.991 / 0.551 / 0.976$ | Script 39b per-firm | direct, $n_{\text{boot}} = 2000$ |
 | Within-firm signature-level dip $p_{\text{cos}}$ non-Big-4 (10 firms, range) | $[0.59, 0.99]$ | Script 39c per-firm | direct, firms with $\geq 500$ signatures |
 | Within-firm jittered-dHash dip $p$ Big-4 (5 seeds, median) A/B/C/D | $0.999 / 0.996 / 0.999 / 0.9995$ | Script 39d multi-seed | uniform jitter $[-0.5, +0.5]$ |
 | Within-firm jittered-dHash dip $p$ non-Big-4 (5 seeds, range across 10 firms) | $[0.71, 1.00]$ | Script 39d / 39c | uniform jitter $[-0.5, +0.5]$ |
 | Big-4 pooled dHash dip $p$ raw / jittered (seed median) | $< 5 \times 10^{-4}$ / $< 5 \times 10^{-4}$ | Script 39d | jitter alone does not eliminate Big-4 pooled rejection |
 | Big-4 pooled dHash dip $p$ firm-centred + jittered (5-seed median) | $0.35$ | Script 39e 2×2 factorial | both corrections eliminate rejection ($0/5$ seeds at $\alpha = 0.05$) |
 | Big-4 firm-centred signature-level cos dip $p$ | $0.597$ | codex round-30 verification on Script 43 substrate | independent verification |
 | Big-4 firm-centred accountant-level cos\_mean dip $p$ | $1.0$ | codex round-30 verification | independent verification |
 | Per-firm Big-4 dHash mean (A/B/C/D) | $2.73 / 6.46 / 7.39 / 7.21$ | Script 39e per-firm summary | direct |
 | Big-4 integer-histogram valley near $\text{dHash} \approx 5$ within any firm | none in any of A/B/C/D | Script 39d valley analysis | bins $0$–$20$ |
 | **Anchor-based calibration (§III-L.1):** | | | |
 | Per-comparison ICCR cos $> 0.95$ Big-4 | $0.00060$ (Wilson 95% $[0.00053, 0.00067]$) | Script 40b | $5 \times 10^5$ inter-CPA pairs, Big-4 scope |
 | Per-comparison ICCR cos $> 0.945$ Big-4 | $0.00081$ (Wilson 95% $[0.00073, 0.00089]$) | Script 40b | direct |
 | Per-comparison ICCR cos $> 0.97$ / cos $> 0.98$ Big-4 | $0.00024$ / $0.00009$ | Script 40b | direct |
 | Per-comparison ICCR dHash $\leq 5$ Big-4 | $0.00129$ (Wilson 95% $[0.00120, 0.00140]$) | Script 40b | direct, v4 new |
 | Per-comparison ICCR dHash $\leq 4 / 3 / 2$ Big-4 | $0.00050 / 0.00019 / 0.00006$ | Script 40b | direct |
 | Per-comparison joint ICCR cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$ Big-4 | $0.00014$ | Script 40b | any-pair semantics |
 | Per-comparison joint ICCR cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 4$ Big-4 | $0.00011$ | Script 40b | any-pair semantics |
 | Conditional ICCR dHash $\leq 5$ given cos $> 0.95$ Big-4 | $0.234$ (Wilson 95% $[0.190, 0.285]$) | Script 40b | $70 / 299$ pairs |
 | All-firms per-comparison joint ICCR | $0.00007$ | Script 40b | corroborating scope |
 | **Pool-normalised per-signature alert rate (§III-L.2):** | | | |
 | Per-signature any-pair ICCR HC Big-4 | $0.1102$ (Wilson 95% $[0.1086, 0.1118]$; CPA-bootstrap 95% $[0.0908, 0.1330]$) | Script 43 | $n_{\text{sig}} = 150{,}453$ (vector-complete) |
 | Per-signature same-pair ICCR HC Big-4 | $0.0827$ (Wilson 95% $[0.0813, 0.0841]$; CPA-bootstrap 95% $[0.0668, 0.1021]$) | Script 43 | stricter alternative |
 | Per-firm any-pair ICCR HC (A/B/C/D) | $0.2594 / 0.0147 / 0.0053 / 0.0110$ | Script 43 per-firm | direct |
 | Per-firm same-pair ICCR HC (A/B/C/D) | $0.2018 / 0.0023 / 0.0019 / 0.0051$ | Script 43 per-firm | direct |
 | Pool-size decile 1 / decile 10 any-pair ICCR | $0.0249 / 0.1905$ | Script 43 decile table | broadly monotone with two minor reversals |
 | Per-signature tighter ICCR cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 3$ same-pair Big-4 | $0.0449$ | Script 43 | optional stricter operating point |
 | **Document-level alert rate (§III-L.3):** | | | |
 | Document-level ICCR D1 (HC only) Big-4 | $0.1797$ (Wilson 95% $[0.1770, 0.1825]$) | Script 45 | $n_{\text{docs}} = 75{,}233$ |
 | Document-level ICCR D2 (HC + MC) Big-4 | $0.3375$ (Wilson 95% $[0.3342, 0.3409]$) | Script 45 | operational alarm definition |
 | Document-level ICCR D3 (HC + MC + HSC) Big-4 | $0.3384$ (Wilson 95% $[0.3351, 0.3418]$) | Script 45 | descriptive |
 | Per-firm document-level D2 ICCR (A/B/C/D) | $0.6201 / 0.1600 / 0.1635 / 0.0863$ | Script 45 per-firm | direct |
 | **Firm-heterogeneity logistic regression (§III-L.4):** | | | |
 | Logistic OR (Firm B / C / D vs A) | $0.053 / 0.010 / 0.027$ | Script 44 regression | controlling for log pool size; reference $=$ Firm A |
 | Logistic OR log(pool size, centred) | $4.01$ | Script 44 regression | pool-size effect after firm adjustment |
 | Cross-firm hit matrix Firm A source $\to$ Firm A candidate (any-pair) | $14{,}447 / 14{,}622$ | Script 44 cross-firm matrix | $98.8\%$ within-firm |
 | Cross-firm hit matrix same-pair within-firm rate (A/B/C/D) | $99.96\% / 97.7\% / 98.2\% / 97.0\%$ | Script 44 same-pair section | direct |
 | **Threshold-sensitivity (§III-L.5):** | | | |
 | Local / median gradient ratio cos $= 0.95$ | $\approx 25\times$ | Script 46 plateau diagnostic | descriptive, not formal plateau test |
 | Local / median gradient ratio dHash $= 5$ | $\approx 3.8\times$ | Script 46 plateau diagnostic | descriptive |
 | Local / median gradient ratio dHash $= 15$ | $\approx 0.08$ | Script 46 plateau diagnostic | MC/HSC boundary plateau-like |
 | **Observed deployed alert rate (§III-L.6):** | | | |
 | Per-signature observed-deployed HC rate Big-4 | $0.4958$ | Script 46 / Script 42 | actual same-CPA pools |
 | Per-document observed-deployed HC rate Big-4 | $0.6228$ | Script 46 | actual same-CPA pools |
 | Deployed-rate excess over inter-CPA proxy (per-sig HC) | $0.3856$ pp | derived | $0.4958 - 0.1102$ |
 | Deployed-rate excess over inter-CPA proxy (per-doc HC) | $0.4431$ pp | derived | $0.6228 - 0.1797$ |
 | **Sample-size reconciliation:** | | | |
 | Big-4 signatures with pre-computed descriptors | $150{,}442$ | Script 39 / 39b / 39d / 39e / 45 / 46 | descriptor-complete subset |
 | Big-4 signatures with feature + dHash vectors stored | $150{,}453$ | Script 40b / 43 / 44 | vector-complete subset |
 | Difference between the two counts | $11$ signatures | direct (descriptor-completion lag) | negligible at population scale |
 | Big-4 CPAs all (any signature count) | $468$ | Script 40b / 43 / 44 | direct |
 | Big-4 CPAs with $n_{\text{sig}} \geq 10$ for accountant-level stability | $437$ | Scripts 36 / 38 / 39 | accountant-level analysis threshold |
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 ## Cross-reference index (author working checklist; remove before submission)
 - **Big-4 sub-corpus definition** (§III-G) — 437 CPAs / $n_{\text{sig}} \geq 10$ at accountant-level, 468 CPAs / 150,442–150,453 signatures at signature-level (sample-size reconciliation in §III-G).
 - **Reference populations** (§III-H) — Firm A as templated-end case study; non-Big-4 ($n = 249$) as reverse-anchor reference (less-replicated population).
 - **Distributional diagnostics + composition decomposition** (§III-I) — Big-4 accountant-level dip-test rejection ($p < 5 \times 10^{-4}$); §III-I.4's 2×2 factorial decomposition (firm centring × integer jitter) shows the rejection is fully explained by between-firm location shift + integer mass-point artefacts; **no within-population bimodality and no natural threshold**.
 - **K=3 as descriptive firm-compositional partition** (§III-J) — C1/C2/C3 are descriptive positions on the descriptor plane reflecting Firm A vs others composition; not mechanism clusters; not used as operational classifier.
 - **Convergent internal-consistency** (§III-K) — three feature-derived scores ($\rho \geq 0.879$, not independent measurements); per-signature K=3 ($\kappa = 0.87$ vs per-CPA fit); K=2 LOOO unstable, K=3 LOOO partial; pixel-identity miss rate $0\%$ on $n = 262$.
 - **Anchor-based threshold calibration + operational classifier** (§III-L) — inherited five-way rule retained; characterised by inter-CPA negative-anchor coincidence rates at per-comparison (§III-L.1: cos $> 0.95$ at $0.0006$, dHash $\leq 5$ at $0.0013$, joint at $0.00014$), per-signature pool (§III-L.2: $0.11$ any-pair HC), per-document (§III-L.3: HC $0.18$; HC+MC $0.34$); firm heterogeneity (§III-L.4) decisive after pool-size adjustment; within-firm cross-CPA collision concentration $\geq 97\%$; threshold-sensitivity analysis (§III-L.5) confirms HC threshold is locally sensitive, not plateau-stable; deployed-rate excess over proxy (§III-L.6) $\approx 38$ pp per-signature and $\approx 44$ pp per-document.
 - **Validation strategy and limitations** (§III-M) — multi-tool diagnostic collection (9 tools, each with disclosed untested assumption); positioning as anchor-calibrated screening framework with human-in-the-loop review, not as validated forensic detector; no FRR / sensitivity / EER / ROC-AUC reportable.
 ## Open questions remaining for partner / reviewer
 1. **Five-way rule validation against the moderate-confidence band.** §III-K's $\kappa$ evidence covers only the binary high-confidence rule (cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$). The moderate-confidence band (cos $> 0.95$ AND $5 < \text{dHash} \leq 15$) inherits its v3.x calibration and capture-rate evidence (v3.20.0 Tables IX, XI, XII, XII-B). Is this inheritance sufficient (Big-4 per-firm MC proportions are reported descriptively in §IV-J's Table XV), or should v4.0 add a Big-4-specific MC-band capture-rate analysis as an additional sub-section?
 2. **Anonymisation of within-Big-4 firm contrasts.** §III-H states that Firm C is the firm most concentrated in C1 hand-leaning at $23.5\%$ (Script 35). The within-Big-4 ordering by hand-leaning concentration is informative for the §V discussion. v3.x reports under pseudonyms throughout. Confirm that we maintain pseudonyms consistently in §IV–V even when discussing the specific Firm C / Firm B / Firm D hand-leaning rates.
 3. **Section IV table numbering.** Defer until §III final accepted by partner / reviewer; results numbering should mirror §III flow (sample/scope → mixture characterisation → convergent checks → LOOO → pixel-identity → signature/document classification → full-dataset robustness).
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 # Paper A v4.0 Phase 4 Prose Draft v3 (post codex rounds 26–34)
 > **Draft note (2026-05-13, Phase 4 v3; internal — remove before submission).** This file replaces the v3.20.0 Abstract, §I Introduction, §II Related Work, §V Discussion, and §VI Conclusion blocks with the v4.0 prose. The methodology and results sections (§III v7 and §IV v3.2 on this branch) are the technical foundation; Phase 4 prose aligns the narrative with the post-codex-round-34 framing. v3 (2026-05-13) reflects the major restructuring driven by codex rounds 29–34: distributional path to thresholds demolished (Scripts 39b–39e); anchor-based multi-level inter-CPA coincidence-rate calibration adopted (Scripts 40b, 43, 44, 45, 46); K=3 demoted to descriptive firm-compositional partition; "FAR" terminology replaced by "inter-CPA coincidence rate (ICCR)" throughout; nine-tool unsupervised validation strategy disclosed; positioning as anchor-calibrated screening framework with human-in-the-loop review (not validated forensic detector). Empirical anchors cite Scripts 32–46 on branch `paper-a-v4-big4`. Prior Phase 4 v2 changelog has been moved to `paper/v4/CHANGELOG.md`.
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 # Abstract
 > *IEEE Access target: <= 250 words, single paragraph.*
 Regulations require Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) to attest each audit report with a signature, but digitization makes reusing a stored signature image across reports — through administrative stamping or firm-level electronic signing — technically trivial and visually invisible, undermining individualized attestation. We build an end-to-end pipeline detecting such *non-hand-signed* signatures at scale: a Vision-Language Model identifies signature pages, YOLOv11 localizes signatures, ResNet-50 supplies deep features, and a dual-descriptor layer combines cosine similarity with an independent-minimum perceptual hash (dHash) to separate *style consistency* from *image reproduction*. Applied to 90,282 Taiwan audit reports (2013–2023), the pipeline yields 182,328 signatures from 758 CPAs; primary analyses are scoped to the Big-4 sub-corpus (437 CPAs; 150,442 signatures). Distributional diagnostics show that the apparent multimodality of the descriptor distribution dissolves under joint firm-mean centring and integer-tie jitter ($p$ rises to $0.35$), so no within-population bimodal antimode anchors the operational thresholds. We instead adopt an anchor-based inter-CPA coincidence-rate (ICCR) calibration at three units: per-comparison ($0.0006$ at cos$>0.95$; $0.0013$ at dHash$\leq 5$; $0.00014$ jointly), pool-normalised per-signature ($0.11$ under the deployed any-pair high-confidence rule), and per-document ($0.34$ for the operational HC+MC alarm). Firm heterogeneity is decisive: Firm A's per-document HC+MC alarm rate is $0.62$ versus $0.09$–$0.16$ at Firms B/C/D after pool-size adjustment, with $98$–$100\%$ of inter-CPA collisions concentrated within the source firm — consistent with firm-level template-like reuse. We position the system as a specificity-proxy-anchored screening framework with human-in-the-loop review, not as a validated forensic detector; no calibrated error rates are reportable without signature-level ground truth.
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 # I. Introduction
 > *Target: ~1.5 pages double-column IEEE format. Double-blind: no author/institution info.*
 Financial audit reports serve as a critical mechanism for ensuring corporate accountability and investor protection. In Taiwan, the Certified Public Accountant Act (會計師法 §4) and the Financial Supervisory Commission's attestation regulations (查核簽證核准準則 §6) require certifying CPAs to affix their signature or seal (簽名或蓋章) to each audit report [1]. While the law permits either a handwritten signature or a seal, the CPA's attestation on each report is intended to represent a deliberate, individual act of professional endorsement for that specific audit engagement [2].
 The digitization of financial reporting has introduced a practice that complicates this intent. As audit reports are now routinely generated, transmitted, and archived as PDF documents, it is technically and operationally straightforward to reproduce a CPA's stored signature image across many reports rather than re-executing the signing act for each one. This reproduction can occur either through an administrative stamping workflow — in which scanned signature images are affixed by staff as part of the report-assembly process — or through a firm-level electronic signing system that automates the same step. We refer to signatures produced by either workflow collectively as *non-hand-signed*. Although this practice may fall within the literal statutory requirement of "signature or seal," it raises substantive concerns about audit quality, as an identically reproduced signature applied across hundreds of reports may not represent meaningful individual attestation for each engagement. The accounting literature has examined the audit-quality consequences of partner-level engagement transparency: studies of partner-signature mandates in the United Kingdom find measurable downstream effects [31], cross-jurisdictional evidence on individual partner signature requirements highlights similar quality channels [32], and Taiwan-specific evidence on mandatory partner rotation documents how individual-partner identification interacts with audit-quality outcomes [33]. Unlike traditional signature forgery, where a third party attempts to imitate another person's handwriting, non-hand-signing involves the legitimate signer's own stored signature being reused, and is visually invisible to report users at scale.
 The distinction between *non-hand-signing detection* and *signature forgery detection* is conceptually and technically important. The extensive body of research on offline signature verification [3]–[8] focuses almost exclusively on forgery detection — determining whether a questioned signature was produced by its purported author. In our context, identity is not in question; the CPA is indeed the legitimate signer. The question is whether the physical act of signing occurred for each individual report, or whether a single signing event was reproduced as an image across many reports. This detection problem differs fundamentally from forgery detection: while it does not require modeling skilled-forger variability, it introduces the distinct challenge of separating legitimate intra-signer consistency from image-level reproduction.
 A methodological concern shapes the research design. Many prior similarity-based classification studies rely on ad-hoc thresholds — declaring two images equivalent above a hand-picked cosine cutoff, for example — without principled statistical justification. Such thresholds are fragile in an archival-data setting. A defensible approach requires (i) explicit calibration of the operational thresholds against measurable negative-anchor evidence; (ii) diagnostic procedures that test whether the descriptor distribution itself supports a within-population threshold, including formal decomposition of apparent multimodality into between-group composition and integer-tie artefacts; (iii) annotation-free reporting of operational alarm rates at multiple analysis units (per-comparison, per-signature pool, per-document) with Wilson 95% confidence intervals; (iv) per-firm stratification of the reported rates to surface heterogeneity that aggregate metrics conceal; and (v) explicit disclosure of the unsupervised setting's limits — in particular, the inability to estimate true error rates without signature-level ground-truth labels.
 Despite the significance of the problem for audit quality and regulatory oversight, no prior work has specifically addressed non-hand-signing detection in financial audit documents at scale with these methodological safeguards. Woodruff et al. [9] developed an automated pipeline for signature analysis in corporate filings for anti-money-laundering investigations, but their work focused on author clustering rather than detecting image reuse. Copy-move forgery detection methods [10], [11] address duplicated regions within or across images but are designed for natural images and do not account for the specific characteristics of scanned document signatures. Research on near-duplicate image detection using perceptual hashing combined with deep learning [12], [13] provides relevant methodological foundations but has not been applied to document forensics or signature analysis. From the statistical side, the methods we adopt for distributional characterisation — the Hartigan dip test [37] and finite mixture modelling via the EM algorithm [40], [41], complemented by a Burgstahler-Dichev / McCrary density-smoothness diagnostic [38], [39] — have been developed in statistics and accounting-econometrics but have not been combined as a joint diagnostic toolkit for document-forensics threshold characterisation.
 In this paper we present a fully automated, end-to-end pipeline for detecting non-hand-signed CPA signatures in audit reports at scale, together with a multi-tool validation framework that explicitly discloses the unsupervised setting's limits. The pipeline processes raw PDF documents through (1) signature page identification with a Vision-Language Model; (2) signature region detection with a trained YOLOv11 object detector; (3) deep feature extraction via a pre-trained ResNet-50; (4) dual-descriptor similarity (cosine + independent-minimum dHash); (5) anchor-based threshold calibration at three units of analysis (per-comparison, pool-normalised per-signature, per-document) against an inter-CPA negative-anchor coincidence-rate proxy (§III-L); (6) firm-stratified per-rule reporting and a within-firm cross-CPA hit-matrix analysis (§III-L.4); (7) a composition decomposition that establishes the absence of a within-population bimodal antimode in the descriptor distributions (§III-I.4); and (8) a multi-tool unsupervised validation strategy with disclosed assumption-violation analysis (§III-M).
 The methodological reframing relative to earlier versions of this work is central to our v4.0 contribution. Earlier work in this lineage adopted a distributional path to thresholds — fitting accountant-level finite-mixture models and treating their marginal crossings as data-derived "natural" thresholds. v4.0 reports a composition decomposition diagnostic (§III-I.4) that overturns this reading: the apparent multimodality of the Big-4 accountant-level distribution is fully explained by between-firm location-shift effects (Firm A's mean dHash of $2.73$ versus Firms B/C/D's $6.46$, $7.39$, $7.21$) and integer mass-point artefacts on the integer-valued dHash axis. Once both confounds are removed (firm-mean centring plus uniform integer jitter), the Big-4 pooled dHash dip test yields $p_{\text{median}} = 0.35$ across five jitter seeds, eliminating the rejection. Within-firm signature-level cosine and jittered-dHash dip tests fail to reject in every individual Big-4 firm and in every individual mid/small firm with $\geq 500$ signatures (10 firms tested in Script 39c). The descriptor distributions therefore contain no within-population bimodal antimode that could anchor an operational threshold.
 In place of distributional anchoring, v4.0 adopts an anchor-based inter-CPA coincidence-rate (ICCR) calibration. At the per-comparison unit, the inherited cos$>0.95$ operating point yields ICCR $= 0.00060$ on a $5 \times 10^5$-pair Big-4 sample (replicating v3.x's reported per-comparison rate of $0.0005$ under prior "FAR" terminology); the dHash$\leq 5$ structural cutoff yields ICCR $= 0.00129$ (v4 new); the joint rule cos$>0.95$ AND dHash$\leq 5$ yields joint ICCR $= 0.00014$ (any-pair semantics, matching the deployed extrema rule). At the pool-normalised per-signature unit, the same rule's effective coincidence rate is materially higher because the deployed classifier takes max-cosine and min-dHash over a same-CPA pool: pooled Big-4 any-pair ICCR is $0.1102$ (Wilson 95% CI $[0.1086, 0.1118]$; CPA-block bootstrap 95% $[0.0908, 0.1330]$). At the per-document unit, the operational HC$+$MC alarm fires on $33.75\%$ of Big-4 documents under the inter-CPA candidate-pool counterfactual.
 The pooled per-signature and per-document rates conceal striking firm heterogeneity. A logistic regression of the per-signature hit indicator on firm dummies (Firm A reference) and centred log pool size yields odds ratios of $0.053$ (Firm B), $0.010$ (Firm C), and $0.027$ (Firm D) — Firms B/C/D are an order of magnitude below Firm A even after controlling for the pool-size confound (Script 44). Cross-firm hit matrix analysis shows that $98$–$100\%$ of inter-CPA collisions originate from candidates within the source firm (different CPA, same firm), consistent with firm-specific template, stamp, or document-production reuse mechanisms — though not by itself diagnostic of deliberate sharing. We retain the inherited Paper A v3.x five-way box rule as the operational classifier; v4.0's contribution is to characterise its multi-level coincidence behaviour against the inter-CPA negative anchor rather than to derive new thresholds.
 Three feature-derived scores converge on the per-CPA descriptor-position ranking with Spearman $\rho \geq 0.879$ (Script 38): the K=3 mixture posterior (now interpreted as a firm-compositional position score, not a mechanism cluster posterior; §III-J), a reverse-anchor cosine percentile relative to a strictly-out-of-target non-Big-4 reference, and the inherited box-rule less-replication-dominated rate. The three scores are deterministic functions of the same per-CPA descriptor pair, so the convergence is documented as internal consistency among feature-derived ranks rather than external validation. Hard ground truth for the *replicated* class is provided by 262 byte-identical signatures in the Big-4 subset (Firm A 145, Firm B 8, Firm C 107, Firm D 2), against which all three candidate checks achieve $0\%$ positive-anchor miss rate (Wilson 95% upper bound $1.45\%$). For the box rule this result is close to tautological at byte-identity; we discuss the conservative-subset caveat in §V-G.
 We apply this pipeline to 90,282 audit reports filed by publicly listed companies in Taiwan between 2013 and 2023, extracting and analyzing 182,328 individual CPA signatures from 758 unique accountants. The Big-4 sub-corpus comprises 437 CPAs and 150,442 signatures with both descriptors available.
 The contributions of this paper are:
 1. **Problem formulation.** We define non-hand-signing detection as distinct from signature forgery detection and frame it as a detection problem on intra-signer similarity distributions.
 2. **End-to-end pipeline.** We present a pipeline that processes raw PDF audit reports through VLM-based page identification, YOLO-based signature detection, ResNet-50 feature extraction, and dual-descriptor similarity computation, with automated inference and no manual intervention after initial training.
 3. **Dual-descriptor verification.** We demonstrate that combining deep-feature cosine similarity with independent-minimum dHash resolves the ambiguity between *style consistency* and *image reproduction*, and we validate the backbone choice through a feature-backbone ablation.
 4. **Composition decomposition disproves the distributional-threshold path.** We show via a 2×2 factorial diagnostic (firm-mean centring × integer-tie jitter) that the apparent multimodality of the Big-4 accountant-level descriptor distribution is fully attributable to between-firm location shifts and integer mass-point artefacts. The descriptor distributions contain no within-population bimodal antimode; "natural threshold" language in this lineage's prior work is not empirically supported.
 5. **Anchor-based multi-level inter-CPA coincidence-rate calibration.** We characterise the deployed five-way classifier at three units of analysis: per-comparison ICCR (cos$>0.95$: $0.0006$; dHash$\leq 5$: $0.0013$; joint: $0.00014$), pool-normalised per-signature ICCR ($0.11$ for the deployed any-pair high-confidence rule), and per-document ICCR ($0.34$ for the operational HC$+$MC alarm). We adopt "inter-CPA coincidence rate" as the metric name throughout and reserve "False Acceptance Rate" for terminology that requires ground-truth negative labels, which the corpus does not provide.
 6. **Firm heterogeneity quantification and within-firm cross-CPA collision concentration.** Per-firm rates differ by an order of magnitude after pool-size adjustment (Firm A's per-document HC$+$MC alarm at $0.62$ versus Firms B/C/D at $0.09$–$0.16$). Cross-firm hit matrix analysis shows that $98$–$100\%$ of inter-CPA collisions originate from candidates within the source firm, consistent with firm-specific template, stamp, or document-production reuse mechanisms — a descriptive finding about deployed-rule behaviour, not a claim of deliberate template sharing.
 7. **K=3 as descriptive firm-compositional partition; three-score convergent internal consistency.** We fit a K=3 Gaussian mixture as a descriptive partition of the Big-4 accountant-level distribution (no longer interpreted as three mechanism clusters). Three feature-derived scores agree on the per-CPA descriptor-position ranking at Spearman $\rho \geq 0.879$; we report this as internal consistency rather than external validation, given that the scores share the underlying descriptor pair.
 8. **Annotation-free positive-anchor validation and unsupervised validation ceiling.** We achieve $0\%$ positive-anchor miss rate (Wilson 95% upper bound $1.45\%$) on 262 byte-identical Big-4 signatures, with the conservative-subset caveat that byte-identical pairs are by construction near cos$=1$ and dHash$=0$. We frame the overall validation strategy as a multi-tool collection of nine partial-evidence diagnostics, each with an explicitly disclosed untested assumption; their conjunction constitutes the unsupervised validation ceiling achievable on this corpus. We do not claim a validated forensic detector; we position the system as a specificity-proxy-anchored screening framework with human-in-the-loop review.
 The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section II reviews related work on signature verification, document forensics, perceptual hashing, and the statistical methods used. Section III describes the proposed methodology. Section IV presents the experimental results — distributional characterisation, mixture fits, convergent internal-consistency checks, leave-one-firm-out reproducibility, pixel-identity validation, and full-dataset robustness. Section V discusses the implications and limitations. Section VI concludes with directions for future work.
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 # II. Related Work
 > *Note for the Phase 4 review pass: §II is inherited substantively unchanged from v3.20.0 §II in the master manuscript, with one new paragraph added below. The unchanged content is not reproduced in this Phase 4 file; readers reviewing this draft should consult `paper/paper_a_related_work_v3.md` for the v3.20.0 §II text covering offline signature verification, near-duplicate detection, copy-move forgery detection, perceptual hashing, deep-feature similarity, and the statistical methods adopted (Hartigan dip test, finite mixture EM, Burgstahler-Dichev / McCrary density-smoothness diagnostic). The paragraph below is the only v4.0-specific §II addition.*
 **Addition for v4.0: leave-one-firm-out cross-validation in a small-cluster scope.** Cross-validation methodology in the leave-one-out tradition has been developed extensively in statistics since Stone [42] and Geisser [43], and modern surveys including Vehtari et al. [44] discuss its application to mixture models. In document-forensics calibration the technique has been used selectively, typically with the individual document or signature as the hold-out unit. Our application in §III-K differs in two respects from the standard usage: (i) the hold-out unit is the *firm* (not the individual CPA or signature), so the analysis directly probes cross-firm reproducibility of the fitted mixture rather than within-firm sampling variance; and (ii) the held-out predictions are interpreted as a *composition-sensitivity band* on the candidate mixture boundary, not as a sufficiency claim for the inherited five-way operational classifier (which is calibrated separately; §III-L). We treat LOOO drift as descriptive information about how the mixture characterisation moves when training composition changes, not as a pass/fail test for the operational classifier. Numerical references [42]–[44] are placeholders in this draft and will be replaced with the project's preferred references at copy-edit time.
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 # V. Discussion
 ## A. Non-Hand-Signing Detection as a Distinct Problem
 Non-hand-signing differs from forgery in that the questioned signature is produced by its legitimate signer's own stored image rather than by an impostor. The detection problem is therefore framed around *intra-signer image reproduction* rather than *inter-signer imitation*. This framing has analytical consequences. The within-CPA signature distribution is the analytical population of interest; the cross-CPA inter-class distribution is a *reference* against which intra-CPA similarity is interpreted, not the population to be modelled. This contrasts with most prior offline signature verification work, which treats genuine-versus-forged as the central two-class problem.
 ## B. Per-Signature Similarity is a Continuous Quality Spectrum; the Accountant-Level Multimodality is Composition-Driven
 A central empirical finding of v3.x was that *per-signature* similarity does not admit a clean two-mechanism mixture: dip-test fails to reject unimodality at the signature level for Firm A, BIC prefers a 3-component fit, and BD/McCrary candidate transitions lie inside the high-similarity mode rather than between modes. v4.0 strengthens and extends this signature-level reading.
 The Big-4 accountant-level descriptor distribution does reject unimodality on both marginals at $p < 5 \times 10^{-4}$ (Script 34). v4.0's composition decomposition (§III-I.4; Scripts 39b–39e) shows that this rejection is fully attributable to two non-mechanistic sources: (a) between-firm location-shift effects on both axes — Firm A's mean dHash of $2.73$ versus Firms B/C/D's $6.46$, $7.39$, $7.21$ creates a multi-peaked pooled distribution that any single firm's distribution lacks — and (b) integer mass-point artefacts on the integer-valued dHash axis, which inflate the dip statistic against a continuous-density null. A 2×2 factorial diagnostic applied to the Big-4 pooled dHash (firm-mean centring × uniform integer jitter $[-0.5, +0.5]$, 5 jitter seeds) shows that the dip test fails to reject ($p_{\text{median}} = 0.35$, 0/5 seeds reject) when *both* corrections are applied; either correction alone leaves the rejection in place. Within-firm signature-level cosine and jittered-dHash dip tests fail to reject in every individual Big-4 firm and in every individual non-Big-4 firm with $\geq 500$ signatures (10 firms tested). The descriptor distributions therefore lack a within-population bimodal antimode that could anchor an operational threshold. The K=2 / K=3 mixture fits are retained in §III-J as descriptive partitions of the joint Big-4 distribution that reflect firm-compositional structure, not as inferential evidence for two or three latent mechanism modes.
 ## C. Firm A as the Templated End of Big-4 (Case Study, Not Calibration Anchor)
 Firm A is empirically the firm whose CPAs are most concentrated in the high-cosine, low-dHash corner of the Big-4 descriptor plane. In the Big-4 K=3 hard-posterior assignment (now interpreted as a firm-compositional position assignment; §III-J), Firm A accounts for $0\%$ of C1 (low-cos / high-dHash position) and $82.5\%$ of C3 (high-cos / low-dHash position); the opposite pattern holds at Firm C, which has the highest C1 concentration at $23.5\%$. Firm A also accounts for 145 of the 262 byte-identical signatures in the Big-4 byte-identical anchor of §IV-H (with Firm B 8, Firm C 107, Firm D 2). The additional v3.x finding that the 145 Firm A pixel-identical signatures span 50 distinct Firm A partners (of 180 registered), with 35 byte-identical matches across different fiscal years, is inherited from v3.20.0 §IV-F.1 / Script 28 / Appendix B byte-decomposition output and was not regenerated in v4.0's spike scripts; we retain those numbers by reference.
 In v4.0 we treat Firm A as a *templated-end case study* rather than as the calibration anchor for the operational threshold. Firm A enters the Big-4 anchor-based ICCR calibration on equal footing with the other three Big-4 firms (§III-L). The cross-firm hit matrix of §III-L.4 strengthens this framing: $98$–$100\%$ of inter-CPA collisions originate from candidates within the source firm, regardless of which Big-4 firm is the source. Firm A's high per-document HC$+$MC alarm rate of $0.62$ (versus Firms B/C/D's $0.09$–$0.16$) reflects high inter-CPA collision concentration under the deployed rule on real same-CPA pools, consistent with firm-specific template, stamp, or document-production reuse — though the inter-CPA-anchor analysis alone is not diagnostic of deliberate template sharing. The byte-level evidence of v3.x §IV-F.1 (Firm A's 145 pixel-identical signatures across $\sim 50$ distinct partners) provides direct evidence that firm-level template reuse does occur at Firm A; the within-firm collision pattern at all four Big-4 firms is consistent with that mechanism extending in milder form to Firms B/C/D.
 ## D. K=2 / K=3 as Descriptive Firm-Compositional Partitions
 Leave-one-firm-out cross-validation of the Big-4 mixture fit reveals a sharp contrast between K=2 and K=3 behaviour. K=2 is unstable: across-fold cosine-crossing deviation is $0.028$, and holding Firm A out gives a fold rule (cos $> 0.938$, dHash $\leq 8.79$) that classifies $100\%$ of held-out Firm A in the upper component, while holding any non-Firm-A Big-4 firm out gives a fold rule near (cos $> 0.975$, dHash $\leq 3.76$) that classifies $0\%$ of the held-out firm in the upper component. The K=2 boundary is essentially a Firm-A-vs-others separator — direct evidence that the K=2 partition reflects firm-compositional rather than mechanistic structure.
 K=3 in contrast has a *reproducible component shape* at the descriptor-position level: across the four folds the C1 (low-cos / high-dHash) component cosine mean varies by at most $0.005$, the dHash mean by at most $0.96$, and the weight by at most $0.023$. Hard-posterior membership for the held-out firm is composition-sensitive (absolute differences $1.8$–$12.8$ pp across folds). Together with the §III-I.4 composition decomposition (no within-population bimodal antimode), the K=3 stability supports a descriptive reading: the Big-4 descriptor plane has a reproducible three-region partition that reflects how firm-compositional weight is distributed across the descriptor space, *not* a three-mechanism latent-class structure. We accordingly do not use K=3 hard-posterior membership as an operational classifier; we use it as the accountant-level descriptive summary that complements the deployed signature-level five-way classifier of §III-L.
 ## E. Three-Score Convergent Internal-Consistency
 Three feature-derived scores agree on the per-CPA descriptor-position ranking at Spearman $\rho \geq 0.879$: the K=3 mixture posterior (a firm-compositional position score, not a mechanism cluster posterior); the reverse-anchor cosine percentile under a non-Big-4 reference distribution; and the inherited Paper A box-rule less-replication-dominated rate. The three scores are *not* statistically independent measurements — they are deterministic functions of the same per-CPA descriptor pair — so the convergence is documented as internal consistency rather than external validation against an independent ground truth (which the corpus does not provide for the hand-signed class). The strength of the convergence (all pairwise $|\rho| > 0.87$) and its persistence at the signature level (Cohen $\kappa = 0.87$ between per-CPA-fit and per-signature-fit K=3 binary labels) are nevertheless informative: per-CPA aggregation does not collapse the broad three-region ordering, and three different summarisations of the descriptor space produce broadly concordant per-CPA rankings, with a residual non-Firm-A disagreement (the reverse-anchor cosine percentile ranks Firm D fractionally above Firm C, while the mixture posterior and the box-rule rate rank Firm C highest among non-Firm-A firms).
 ## F. Anchor-Based Multi-Level Calibration
 The operational specificity of the deployed five-way classifier is characterised at three units of analysis (§III-L), all against the same inter-CPA negative-anchor coincidence-rate proxy. The per-comparison ICCR replicates v3.x's per-comparison rate (cos$>0.95 \to 0.00060$) and extends it to the structural dimension (dHash$\leq 5 \to 0.00129$; joint $\to 0.00014$). The pool-normalised per-signature ICCR captures the deployed rule's effective per-signature rate under inter-CPA candidate-pool replacement ($0.1102$ pooled Big-4 any-pair HC), exposing that the per-comparison rate is not the deployed-rule rate at the per-signature classifier level: the deployed classifier takes max-cosine and min-dHash over a same-CPA pool of size $n_{\text{pool}}$, so the inter-CPA-equivalent rate scales approximately as $1 - (1 - p_{\text{pair}})^{n_{\text{pool}}}$ in the independence limit. The per-document ICCR aggregates to operational alarm-rate units: HC alone $0.18$, the operational HC$+$MC alarm $0.34$.
 Two additional findings refine the calibration story. First, the per-pair conditional ICCR for dHash$\leq 5$ given cos$>0.95$ is $0.234$ (Wilson 95% $[0.190, 0.285]$): given the cosine gate, the structural dimension provides further per-comparison specificity at $\sim 4.3\times$ refinement. Second, the alert-rate sensitivity analysis (§III-L.5; Script 46) shows the inherited HC threshold is locally sensitive rather than plateau-stable (local gradient $\approx 25\times$ the median for cosine, $\approx 3.8\times$ for dHash); stakeholders requiring different specificity-alert-yield operating points can derive thresholds by inverting the ICCR curves (a tighter rule cos$>0.95$ AND dHash$\leq 3$ on the same-pair joint gives per-signature ICCR $\approx 0.045$). The MC/HSC sub-band boundary at dHash$=15$, by contrast, *is* plateau-like (local-to-median ratio $\approx 0.08$), consistent with high-dHash-tail saturation.
 ## G. Pixel-Identity as a Hard Positive Anchor; Inherited Inter-CPA Negative Anchor Reframed as Coincidence Rate
 The only hard ground-truth subset in the corpus is pixel-identical signatures: those whose nearest same-CPA match is byte-identical after crop and normalisation. Independent hand-signing cannot produce byte-identical images, so these signatures are conservative-subset ground truth for the *replicated* class. On the Big-4 subset ($n = 262$ pixel-identical signatures), all three candidate classifiers — the inherited box rule, the K=3 hard label, and the reverse-anchor metric with a prevalence-calibrated cut — achieve $0\%$ positive-anchor miss rate (Wilson 95% upper bound $1.45\%$). We caution that this result is necessary but not sufficient: for the box rule it is close to tautological, because byte-identical neighbours have cosine $\approx 1$ and dHash $\approx 0$, well inside the rule's high-confidence region. The corresponding signature-level *negative* anchor evidence is developed in §III-L.1 above (v4 spike: cos$>0.95$ per-comparison ICCR $= 0.00060$, replicating v3.20.0's reported $0.0005$ under prior "FAR" terminology). We frame the per-comparison rate as a specificity proxy under the assumption that inter-CPA pairs constitute a clean negative anchor, and we document in §III-L.4 that this assumption is partially violated by within-firm cross-CPA template-like collision structures.
 ## G. Limitations
 Several limitations should be transparent. The first nine are v4.0-specific; the last five are inherited from v3.20.0 §V-G and still apply to the v4.0 pipeline.
 *No signature-level ground truth; no true error rates reportable.* The corpus does not contain labelled hand-signed or replicated classes at the signature level. We therefore cannot report False Rejection Rate, sensitivity, recall, Equal Error Rate, ROC-AUC, precision, or positive predictive value against ground truth. All quantitative rates reported in §III-L are inter-CPA negative-anchor coincidence rates (ICCRs) under the assumption that inter-CPA pairs constitute a clean negative anchor; this is a specificity proxy, not a calibrated specificity (§III-M).
 *Inter-CPA negative-anchor assumption is partially violated.* The cross-firm hit matrix of §III-L.4 shows that $98$–$100\%$ of inter-CPA collisions under the deployed rule originate from candidates within the source firm, consistent with firm-specific template, stamp, or document-production reuse. The inter-CPA-as-negative assumption is therefore not exactly satisfied — some inter-CPA pairs may share firm-level templates rather than being independent random matches. Our reported per-comparison ICCRs are best read as specificity-proxy rates under a partially-violated assumption, not as calibrated FARs.
 *Scope.* The v4.0 primary analyses are scoped to the Big-4 sub-corpus. We did not perform the full per-signature pool-normalised ICCR analysis at the full $n = 686$ scope; the §IV-K full-dataset Spearman re-run shows the K=3 $+$ box-rule rank-convergence is preserved at $n = 686$ but does not validate the Big-4 operational ICCRs, the LOOO firm-fold structure, or the five-way operational classifier at the broader scope.
 *Pixel-identity is a conservative subset.* Byte-identical pairs are the easiest replicated cases, and for the inherited box rule the positive-anchor miss rate against byte-identical pairs is close to tautological (byte-identical $\Rightarrow$ cosine $\approx 1$, dHash $\approx 0$, well inside the high-confidence box). A score that fails the pixel-identity check would be disqualified, but passing the check does not guarantee correct behaviour on the broader replicated population (e.g., re-stamped or noisy-template-variant signatures).
 *Inherited rule components are not separately v4-validated.* The five-way classifier's moderate-confidence band (cos $> 0.95$ AND $5 < \text{dHash} \leq 15$), the style-consistency band ($\text{dHash} > 15$), and the document-level worst-case aggregation rule retain their v3.20.0 calibration and capture-rate evidence; v4.0's anchor-based ICCR calibration covers the binary high-confidence sub-rule (and its tightening alternatives such as dHash$\leq 3$), and the alert-rate sensitivity analysis (§III-L.5) characterises only the HC threshold. The MC and HSC sub-band boundaries are not separately re-validated by v4.0's diagnostic battery.
 *Deployed-rate excess is not a presumed true-positive rate.* The $\sim 44$-pp per-document gap between the observed deployed alert rate (HC: $0.62$ on real same-CPA pools) and the inter-CPA proxy rate (HC: $0.18$) cannot be interpreted as a presumed true-positive rate without additional assumptions that §III-M shows are unsafe (consistent within-CPA signing can exceed inter-CPA similarity at the cosine axis; within-firm template sharing inflates the inter-CPA proxy baseline). The gap is best read as a same-CPA repeatability signal.
 *A1 pair-detectability stipulation.* The per-signature detector requires at least one same-CPA pair to be near-identical when a CPA uses image replication. A1 is plausible for high-volume stamping or firm-level electronic signing but not guaranteed when a corpus contains only one observed replicated report for a CPA, multiple template variants used in parallel, or scan-stage noise that pushes a replicated pair outside the detection regime.
 *K=3 hard-posterior membership is composition-sensitive.* The K=3 hard-posterior membership for any single firm varies by up to $12.8$ pp across LOOO folds. This is documented as a composition-sensitivity band rather than failure, but it means K=3 hard labels are not used as v4.0 operational classifier output; they are reported only as accountant-level descriptive characterisation.
 *No partner-level mechanism attribution.* v4.0 reports population-level patterns; it does not perform partner-level mechanism attribution or report-level claims of intent. The signature-level outputs are signature-level quantities throughout. The within-firm cross-CPA collision concentration of §III-L.4 is consistent with template-like reuse but is not by itself diagnostic of deliberate sharing.
 *Transferred ImageNet features (inherited from v3.20.0).* The ResNet-50 feature extractor uses pre-trained ImageNet weights without signature-domain fine-tuning. While our backbone-ablation study (§IV-L, inherited from v3.20.0 §IV-I) and prior literature support the effectiveness of transferred ImageNet features for signature comparison, a signature-domain fine-tuned feature extractor could improve discriminative performance.
 *Red-stamp HSV preprocessing artifacts (inherited from v3.20.0).* The red stamp removal preprocessing uses simple HSV color-space filtering, which may introduce artifacts where handwritten strokes overlap with red seal impressions. Blended pixels are replaced with white, potentially creating small gaps in signature strokes that could reduce dHash similarity. This bias would push classifications toward false negatives rather than false positives.
 *Longitudinal scan / PDF / compression confounds (inherited from v3.20.0).* Scanning equipment, PDF generation software, and compression algorithms may have changed over the 2013–2023 study period, potentially affecting similarity measurements. While cosine similarity and dHash are designed to be robust to such variations, longitudinal confounds cannot be entirely excluded.
 *Source-exemplar misattribution in max/min pair logic (inherited from v3.20.0).* The max-cosine / min-dHash detection logic treats both ends of a near-identical same-CPA pair as non-hand-signed. In the rare case where one of the two documents contains a genuinely hand-signed exemplar that was subsequently reused as a stamping or e-signature template, the pair correctly identifies image reuse but misattributes non-hand-signed status to the source exemplar. This affects at most one source document per template variant per CPA and is not expected to be common.
 *Legal and regulatory interpretation (inherited from v3.20.0).* Whether non-hand-signing of a CPA's own stored signature constitutes a violation of signing requirements is a jurisdiction-specific legal question. Our technical analysis can inform such determinations but cannot resolve them.
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 # VI. Conclusion and Future Work
 We present a fully automated pipeline for detecting non-hand-signed CPA signatures in Taiwan-listed financial audit reports and a multi-tool framework for characterising and disclosing its operational behaviour at the Big-4 sub-corpus scope. The pipeline processes raw PDFs through VLM-based page identification, YOLO-based signature detection, ResNet-50 feature extraction, and dual-descriptor (cosine + independent-minimum dHash) similarity computation. The operational output is an inherited Paper A five-way per-signature classifier with worst-case document-level aggregation (§III-L). Applied to 90,282 audit reports filed between 2013 and 2023, the pipeline extracts 182,328 signatures from 758 CPAs, with the Big-4 sub-corpus (437 CPAs at accountant level; 150,442–150,453 signatures at signature level) as the primary analytical population.
 Our central methodological contributions are: (1) a composition decomposition (Scripts 39b–39e) that establishes the absence of a within-population bimodal antimode in the Big-4 descriptor distribution: the apparent multimodality dissolves under joint firm-mean centring and integer-tie jitter ($p_{\text{median}} = 0.35$), so distributional "natural-threshold" framings of the inherited operating points are not empirically supported; (2) an anchor-based inter-CPA coincidence-rate (ICCR) calibration at three units of analysis — per-comparison ($0.0006$ at cos$>0.95$; $0.0013$ at dHash$\leq 5$; $0.00014$ jointly), pool-normalised per-signature ($0.11$ for the deployed any-pair HC rule), and per-document ($0.34$ for the operational HC$+$MC alarm) — with explicit terminological replacement of "FAR" by "ICCR" given the unsupervised setting; (3) firm heterogeneity quantification: logistic regression with pool-size adjustment gives odds ratios $0.053$, $0.010$, $0.027$ for Firms B/C/D relative to Firm A reference, indicating a large multiplicative effect that pool-size differences do not explain; (4) cross-firm hit matrix evidence that $98$–$100\%$ of inter-CPA collisions under the deployed rule originate from candidates within the source firm, consistent with firm-specific template, stamp, or document-production reuse mechanisms; (5) K=3 mixture demoted from "three mechanism clusters" to a descriptive firm-compositional partition; (6) three feature-derived scores converging on the per-CPA descriptor-position ranking at Spearman $\rho \geq 0.879$, reported as internal consistency rather than external validation; (7) $0\%$ positive-anchor miss rate on 262 byte-identical Big-4 signatures with the conservative-subset caveat; and (8) a nine-tool unsupervised-validation collection (§III-M) that explicitly discloses each tool's untested assumption and positions the system as an anchor-calibrated screening framework with human-in-the-loop review, not as a validated forensic detector.
 Future work falls in four directions. *First*, a small-scale human-rated validation set would enable direct ROC optimisation and provide signature-level ground truth that v4.0 fundamentally lacks; without such ground truth, no true error rates can be reported. *Second*, the within-firm collision concentration documented in §III-L.4 (98–100% same-firm partners) invites a separate study to distinguish deliberate template sharing from passive firm-level production artefacts (shared scanners, common form templates, identical report-generation infrastructure) — a question the inter-CPA-anchor analysis alone cannot resolve. *Third*, the descriptive Firm A versus Firms B/C/D contrast (per-document HC$+$MC alarm $0.62$ vs $0.09$–$0.16$) — together with v3.x's byte-level evidence of 145 pixel-identical signatures across $\sim 50$ distinct Firm A partners — invites a companion analysis examining whether such firm-level signing patterns correlate with established audit-quality measures. *Fourth*, generalisation to mid- and small-firm contexts requires extending the anchor-based ICCR framework to scopes where firm-level LOOO folds are not available; the §III-I.4 composition diagnostics already document that the absence of within-population bimodality is corpus-universal, so the v4.0 calibration approach in principle generalises, but a full extension with cluster-robust uncertainty quantification is left as future work.
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 ## Notes for Phase 4 close-out
 Items remaining for the Phase 4 close-out pass before §I, §II, §V, §VI prose can be moved into the manuscript master file:
 1. **Abstract word count.** Current draft is 243–244 words (shell `wc -w` on the paragraph returns 243; one-token tokenization difference depending on counter); both satisfy IEEE Access's $\leq 250$ word constraint with $\sim 6$ words of margin.
 2. **§I contributions list (8 items).** v3.20.0's contribution list had 7 items; v4.0's has 8 to reflect the Big-4 scope, K=3 descriptive role, and three-score convergence as separate contributions. Confirm whether the journal style supports 8 contributions or whether items can be merged.
 3. **§II Related Work LOOO citation.** A standard cross-validation citation for the LOOO addition is flagged "[add citation]" in the draft and needs to be filled with a specific reference (Geisser 1975 / Stone 1974 / a modern survey).
 4. **§V-G Limitations.** The seven limitations are listed flat; the journal style may prefer them grouped (scope vs ground-truth vs methodology) — consider reorganisation at copy-edit time.
 5. **§VI Future Work directions.** Four directions are listed; the third (audit-quality companion analysis) ties to the Paper B placeholder in the project memory and should be cross-checked for consistency with the planned Paper B framing.
 6. **Internal draft note + this close-out checklist.** Strip before submission packaging, per the across-paper "internal — remove before submission" policy applied to §III v6 and §IV v3.2 draft notes.
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 # Section IV. Results — v4.0 Draft v3.3 (post codex rounds 21–34)
 > **Draft note (2026-05-12, v3.2; internal — remove before submission).** This file replaces the §IV-A through §IV-H block of `paper/paper_a_results_v3.md` (v3.20.0) with the Big-4 reframed structure. Section IV expands from 8 sub-sections in v3.20.0 to 12 sub-sections in v4.0 (A through L) to mirror the §III-G..L lineage. **Table-numbering scheme**: the v4 manuscript uses Tables V through XVIII (plus Table XV-B for document-level worst-case counts) for the new v4 Big-4 results; inherited v3.x tables are cited only as "v3.20.0 Table N" with their original v3 number and are *not* renumbered into the v4 sequence. No v4 Table IV is printed; the inherited v3.20.0 Table IV (per-firm detection counts) remains a v3.x reference rather than a v4 table. **Anonymisation**: the Big-4 firms are pseudonymously labelled Firm A through Firm D throughout the manuscript body; real names are not printed in v4 tables or prose. The v3 → v3.1 → v3.2 revision history is: v3 (post round 23) made the table-numbering scheme and anonymisation policy decisions and applied 14 presentation fixes; v3.1 (post round 24) tightened the close-out checklist; v3.2 (post round 25) finalises this draft note. Empirical anchors trace to Scripts 32–42 on branch `paper-a-v4-big4`; the §III provenance table covers the methodology-side citations and §IV adds new tables for the v4.0-specific results.
 ## A. Experimental Setup
 The signature-detection and feature-extraction pipeline (§III-A through §III-F) was executed on the full TWSE MOPS audit-report corpus (90,282 PDFs spanning 2013–2023; §III-B). Detection and embedding ran on RTX 4090 (CUDA, deterministic forward inference, fixed seed); the v4.0 statistical analyses ran on Apple Silicon (MPS / CPU). Random seeds are fixed (`SEED = 42`) across the v4.0 spike scripts 32–42 for reproducibility. The signature_analysis SQLite snapshot at `/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db` is treated as frozen; no v4.0 result re-ingests source PDFs.
 The v4.0 primary analyses (§IV-D through §IV-J) are scoped to the Big-4 sub-corpus (Firms A–D, $n = 437$ CPAs with $n_{\text{sig}} \geq 10$, totalling 150,442 signatures with both descriptors available) per the methodology choice articulated in §III-G. The §IV-K Full-Dataset Robustness section reports the full-dataset (686 CPAs) variant of the K=3 mixture + Paper A box-rule Spearman analysis as a cross-scope robustness check.
 ## B. Signature Detection Performance
 The detection metrics are inherited unchanged from v3.20.0 §IV-B. v3.20.0 reports: VLM screening identified 86,072 documents with signature pages; 12 corrupted PDFs were excluded; YOLOv11n batch inference processed the remaining 86,071 documents; 85,042 of these yielded at least one signature detection; the total extracted-signature count is 182,328 (v3.20.0 Table III). Per-firm counts of detected signatures are reported in v3.20.0 Table IV. v4.0 does not renumber the v3.x detection tables into the v4 sequence; v3.20.0 Tables III and IV are cited by their original numbers.
 The Big-4 subset of the detection output yields 150,442 signatures with both descriptors (cosine and independent dHash) successfully computed; this is the per-signature population used in all §IV v4 primary analyses (§IV-D through §IV-J).
 ## C. All-Pairs Intra-vs-Inter Class Distribution Analysis
 The all-pairs intra-vs-inter class distribution analysis (KDE crossover at $\overline{\text{cos}} = 0.837$; v3.20.0 §IV-C, v3.20.0 Table V) is inherited unchanged. This analysis was computed on the full corpus (not Big-4-restricted) and remains the source of the Uncertain / Likely-hand-signed boundary used by the §III-L five-way per-signature classifier (cosine $\leq 0.837 \Rightarrow$ Likely-hand-signed, matching Script 42's `cos <= 0.837` rule definition). v4.0 makes no scope-specific re-derivation of this boundary; the all-pairs cross-class crossover is a corpus-wide reference and is not restated as a v4.0 finding. v3.20.0 Table V is cited by its original number and is not renumbered into the v4 sequence.
 ## D. Big-4 Accountant-Level Distributional Characterisation
 This section reports the empirical evidence for §III-I's distributional diagnostics at the Big-4 accountant level. All numbers below are direct re-statements from Scripts 32 / 34. The accountant-level dip-test rejection reported in Table V is, per §III-I.4 (Scripts 39b–39e), fully attributable to between-firm location shifts and integer mass-point artefacts rather than to within-population bimodality; the v4-new composition-decomposition diagnostics that establish this finding are tabulated in §IV-M below alongside the anchor-based ICCR calibration.
 **Table V.** Hartigan dip-test results, accountant-level marginals (Big-4 primary; comparison scopes from Script 32).
 | Population | $n$ CPAs | $p_{\text{cos}}$ | $p_{\text{dHash}}$ | Interpretation |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | **Big-4 pooled (primary)** | 437 | $< 5 \times 10^{-4}$ | $< 5 \times 10^{-4}$ | reject unimodality on both axes |
 | Firm A pooled alone | 171 | 0.992 | 0.924 | unimodal |
 | Firms B + C + D pooled | 266 | 0.998 | 0.906 | unimodal |
 | All non-Firm-A pooled | 515 | 0.998 | 0.907 | unimodal |
 Bootstrap implementation: $n_{\text{boot}} = 2000$; for the Big-4 cells, no bootstrap replicate exceeded the observed dip statistic, so the empirical $p$-value is bounded above by the bootstrap resolution $1 / 2000 = 5 \times 10^{-4}$ (Script 34 reports this as $p = 0.0000$; we report $p < 5 \times 10^{-4}$ to reflect the resolution). Single-firm dip statistics for Firms B, C, and D were not separately computed.
 **Table VI.** Burgstahler-Dichev / McCrary density-smoothness diagnostic on accountant-level marginals (cosine in 0.002 bins; dHash in integer bins; $\alpha = 0.05$, two-sided).
 | Population | Cosine: significant transition? | dHash: significant transition? |
 |---|---|---|
 | **Big-4 pooled (primary)** | none ($p > 0.05$) | none ($p > 0.05$) |
 | Firm A pooled alone | none | none |
 | Firms B + C + D pooled | none | one transition at $\overline{\text{dHash}} = 10.8$ |
 | All non-Firm-A pooled | none | one transition at $\overline{\text{dHash}} = 6.6$ |
 The Big-4-scope null on both axes is consistent with the §IV-E mixture evidence: the K=3 components overlap in their tails rather than separating sharply, so a local-discontinuity test does not flag a transition. Outside Big-4, dHash transitions appear in some subsets but no cosine transition is identified in any tested subset (Script 32 sweeps; pre-2018 and post-2020 stratified variants exhibit dHash transitions at varying locations). These off-Big-4 dHash transitions are scope-dependent and are not used as v4.0 operational thresholds; we do not claim a specific structural interpretation for them without an explicit bin-width sensitivity sweep at those scopes.
 ## E. Big-4 K=2 / K=3 Mixture Fits
 This section reports the K=2 and K=3 2D Gaussian mixture fits to the Big-4 accountant-level distribution and the bootstrap stability of their marginal crossings.
 **Table VII.** Big-4 K=2 mixture components (descriptive partition; not mechanism clusters per §III-J) and marginal-crossing bootstrap 95% confidence intervals.
 | K=2 component | $\overline{\text{cos}}$ | $\overline{\text{dHash}}$ | weight |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | K=2-a (low-cos / high-dHash position) | 0.954 | 7.14 | 0.689 |
 | K=2-b (high-cos / low-dHash position) | 0.983 | 2.41 | 0.311 |
 Marginal crossings (point + bootstrap 95% CI, $n_{\text{boot}} = 500$):
 | Axis | Point | Bootstrap median | 95% CI | CI half-width |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | cos | 0.9755 | 0.9754 | $[0.9742, 0.9772]$ | 0.0015 |
 | dHash | 3.755 | 3.763 | $[3.476, 3.969]$ | 0.246 |
 $\text{BIC}(K{=}2) = -1108.45$ (Script 34).
 **Table VIII.** Big-4 K=3 mixture components (descriptive firm-compositional partition per §III-J; not mechanism clusters).
 | K=3 component | $\overline{\text{cos}}$ | $\overline{\text{dHash}}$ | weight | descriptive position |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | C1 | 0.9457 | 9.17 | 0.143 | low-cos / high-dHash corner |
 | C2 | 0.9558 | 6.66 | 0.536 | central region |
 | C3 | 0.9826 | 2.41 | 0.321 | high-cos / low-dHash corner |
 $\text{BIC}(K{=}3) = -1111.93$, lower than $K{=}2$ by $3.48$ (mild support; not by itself decisive). The full-fit K=3 baseline above is reproduced in Scripts 35, 37, and 38 with identical hyperparameters; Script 37 additionally fits K=3 on each leave-one-firm-out training set (those fold-specific components differ from the full-fit baseline by design and are reported separately in §IV-G Table XIII). Operational use of the K=2 / K=3 fits is governed by §III-J and §III-L; §IV-G reports the LOOO reproducibility evidence that motivates reporting both fits descriptively.
 ## F. Convergent Internal-Consistency Checks
 This section reports the empirical evidence for §III-K's three-score internal-consistency analysis. We re-emphasise the §III-K caveat: the three scores are deterministic functions of the same per-CPA descriptor pair $(\overline{\text{cos}}_a, \overline{\text{dHash}}_a)$ and are *not statistically independent measurements*. The pairwise correlations document internal consistency among feature-derived ranks rather than external validation against an independent ground truth.
 **Table IX.** Per-CPA Spearman rank correlations among three feature-derived scores, Big-4, $n = 437$.
 | Score pair | Spearman $\rho$ | $p$-value |
 |---|---|---|
 | K=3 P(C1) vs Paper A box-rule hand-leaning rate | $+0.9627$ | $< 10^{-248}$ |
 | Reverse-anchor cosine percentile vs Paper A box-rule hand-leaning rate | $+0.8890$ | $< 10^{-149}$ |
 | K=3 P(C1) vs Reverse-anchor cosine percentile | $+0.8794$ | $< 10^{-142}$ |
 (Source: Script 38.) Reverse-anchor reference: 2D Gaussian fit by MCD (support fraction 0.85) on $n = 249$ non-Big-4 CPAs; reference centre $\overline{\text{cos}} = 0.935$, $\overline{\text{dHash}} = 9.77$.
 **Table X.** Per-firm summary across the three feature-derived scores, Big-4.
 | Firm | $n$ CPAs | mean $P(\text{C1})$ | mean reverse-anchor score | mean Paper A hand-leaning rate |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | Firm A | 171 | 0.0072 | $-0.9726$ | 0.1935 |
 | Firm B | 112 | 0.1410 | $-0.8201$ | 0.6962 |
 | Firm C | 102 | 0.3110 | $-0.7672$ | 0.7896 |
 | Firm D | 52 | 0.2406 | $-0.7125$ | 0.7608 |
 (Source: Script 38 per-firm summary; reverse-anchor score is sign-flipped so that *higher* values indicate deeper into the reference left tail = more hand-leaning relative to the non-Big-4 reference.)
 The three scores agree on placing Firm A as the most replication-dominated and the three non-Firm-A firms as more hand-leaning. The K=3 posterior P(C1) and the box-rule hand-leaning rate (Score 1 and Score 3) place Firm C at the most-hand-leaning end of Big-4; the reverse-anchor cosine percentile (Score 2) ranks Firm D fractionally above Firm C. This residual within-Big-4-non-A disagreement is a design feature of the reverse-anchor metric: Score 2 measures only the marginal cosine percentile under the non-Big-4 reference, so a firm with a slightly higher cosine but a markedly different dHash distribution (Firm D vs Firm C) can score higher on Score 2 while scoring lower on Scores 1 and 3, both of which use both descriptors.
 **Table XI.** Per-signature Cohen $\kappa$ (binary collapse, replicated vs not-replicated), $n = 150{,}442$ Big-4 signatures.
 | Pair | Cohen $\kappa$ |
 |---|---|
 | Paper A binary high-confidence box rule (cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$) vs per-CPA K=3 hard label | 0.662 |
 | Paper A binary high-confidence box rule vs per-signature K=3 hard label | 0.559 |
 | Per-CPA K=3 hard label vs per-signature K=3 hard label | 0.870 |
 (Source: Script 39; verdict label `SIG_CONVERGENCE_MODERATE`.) Per-signature K=3 components ($n = 150{,}442$) sorted by ascending cosine: $(0.928, 9.75, 0.146)$ / $(0.963, 6.04, 0.582)$ / $(0.989, 1.27, 0.272)$, an absolute cosine drift of $0.018$ in C1 and $0.006$ in C3 relative to the per-CPA fit. These convergence checks cover only the binary high-confidence rule (cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$); the five-way classifier's moderate-confidence band ($5 < \text{dHash} \leq 15$) inherits its v3.x calibration and capture-rate evaluation (§IV-J).
 ## G. Leave-One-Firm-Out Reproducibility
 This section reports the firm-level cross-validation evidence motivating §III-J's "K=3 descriptive, not operational" framing.
 **Table XII.** K=2 leave-one-firm-out across the four Big-4 folds.
 | Held-out firm | $n_{\text{train}}$ | $n_{\text{held}}$ | Fold rule (cos cut, dHash cut) | Held-out classified as templated by fold rule |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | Firm A | 266 | 171 | cos $> 0.9380$ AND dHash $\leq 8.79$ | $171 / 171 = 100.00\%$ ($95\%$ Wilson $[97.80\%, 100.00\%]$) |
 | Firm B | 325 | 112 | cos $> 0.9744$ AND dHash $\leq 3.98$ | $0 / 112 = 0\%$ ($95\%$ Wilson $[0\%, 3.32\%]$) |
 | Firm C | 335 | 102 | cos $> 0.9752$ AND dHash $\leq 3.75$ | $0 / 102 = 0\%$ ($95\%$ Wilson $[0\%, 3.63\%]$) |
 | Firm D | 385 | 52 | cos $> 0.9756$ AND dHash $\leq 3.74$ | $0 / 52 = 0\%$ ($95\%$ Wilson $[0\%, 6.88\%]$) |
 (Source: Script 36.) Across-fold cosine crossing: pairwise range $[0.9380, 0.9756]$, range = $0.0376$; max absolute deviation from the across-fold mean is $0.028$. This exceeds the report's $0.005$ across-fold stability tolerance by $5.6\times$ and is much larger than the full-Big-4 bootstrap CI half-width of $0.0015$. Together with the all-or-nothing held-out classification pattern (Firm A held out $\Rightarrow$ all held-out CPAs templated; any non-Firm-A firm held out $\Rightarrow$ none templated), this indicates the K=2 boundary is essentially a Firm-A-vs-others separator rather than a within-Big-4 mechanism boundary.
 **Table XIII.** K=3 leave-one-firm-out: C1 component shape and held-out membership.
 | Held-out firm | C1 cos (fit) | C1 dHash (fit) | C1 weight (fit) | Held-out C1 hard-label rate | Full-Big-4 baseline C1% | Absolute difference |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Full-Big-4 baseline | 0.9457 | 9.17 | 0.143 | — | — | — |
 | Firm A held out | 0.9425 | 10.13 | 0.145 | $4.68\%$ | $0.00\%$ | $4.68$ pp |
 | Firm B held out | 0.9441 | 9.16 | 0.127 | $7.14\%$ | $8.93\%$ | $1.76$ pp |
 | Firm C held out | 0.9504 | 8.41 | 0.126 | $36.27\%$ | $23.53\%$ | $12.77$ pp |
 | Firm D held out | 0.9439 | 9.29 | 0.120 | $17.31\%$ | $11.54\%$ | $5.81$ pp |
 (Source: Script 37; verdict label `P2_PARTIAL`.) Component shape is reproducible across folds: max deviation of C1 cosine = $0.005$, C1 dHash = $0.96$, C1 weight = $0.023$. Hard-posterior membership for the held-out firm varies: max absolute difference from the full-Big-4 baseline is $12.77$ pp at the Firm C held-out fold, exceeding the report's $5$ pp viability bar. We accordingly do not use K=3 hard-posterior membership as an operational classifier label (§III-J, §III-L).
 ## H. Pixel-Identity Positive-Anchor Miss Rate
 This section reports the only hard-ground-truth subset analysis available in the corpus: the positive-anchor miss rate against $n = 262$ Big-4 signatures whose nearest same-CPA match is byte-identical after crop and normalisation. Independent hand-signing cannot produce pixel-identical images, so byte-identical signatures are conservative-subset ground truth for the *replicated* class. The analysis is one-sided (positive-anchor only); a paired false-alarm rate against a hand-signed negative anchor is not available because no signature-level hand-signed ground truth exists in the corpus (§III-K item 4).
 **Table XIV.** Positive-anchor miss rate, $n = 262$ Big-4 byte-identical signatures.
 | Classifier | Misclassified as hand-leaning | Miss rate | Wilson 95% CI |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | Paper A binary high-confidence box rule (cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$) | $0 / 262$ | $0\%$ | $[0\%, 1.45\%]$ |
 | K=3 per-CPA hard label (C3 = replicated; descriptive) | $0 / 262$ | $0\%$ | $[0\%, 1.45\%]$ |
 | Reverse-anchor (prevalence-calibrated cut) | $0 / 262$ | $0\%$ | $[0\%, 1.45\%]$ |
 (Source: Script 40.) Per-firm breakdown of the byte-identical subset: Firm A 145; Firm B 8; Firm C 107; Firm D 2. All three candidate scores correctly assign every byte-identical signature to the replicated class.
 We caution that for the Paper A box rule this result is close to tautological (byte-identical nearest-neighbour signatures have cosine $\approx 1$ and dHash $\approx 0$, well inside the rule's high-confidence region); v3.20.0 §V-F discusses this conservative-subset caveat at length and we retain that discussion. The reverse-anchor cut is chosen by *prevalence calibration* against the inherited box rule's overall replicated rate of $49.58\%$ across Big-4 signatures; this is a documented v4.0 limitation since no signature-level hand-signed ground truth exists to permit direct ROC optimisation.
 ## I. Inter-CPA Pair-Level Coincidence Rate (Big-4 spike + inherited corpus-wide)
 The signature-level inter-CPA pair-level coincidence-rate analysis (reported in v3.20.0 §IV-F.1, Table X as "FAR") is inherited and extended in v4.0. v4.0 retroactively reframes the metric as **inter-CPA pair-level coincidence rate (ICCR)** rather than "False Acceptance Rate" because the corpus does not provide signature-level ground-truth negative labels; the inter-CPA negative-anchor assumption underpinning the metric is itself partially violated by within-firm cross-CPA template-like collision structures (§III-L.4). The v3.20.0 corpus-wide spike on $\sim 50{,}000$ inter-CPA pairs reported a per-comparison rate of $0.0005$ (Wilson 95% CI $[0.0003, 0.0007]$) at the cosine cut $0.95$.
 v4.0 additionally reports the §III-L.1 Big-4-scope spike at higher sample size ($5 \times 10^5$ inter-CPA pairs; Script 40b), which replicates and extends the v3 result and adds the structural dimension (dHash) and joint-rule rates. The §III-L.1 numbers are referenced rather than duplicated here; the consolidated v4-new ICCR calibration appears in §IV-M Table XVI.
 ## J. Five-Way Per-Signature + Document-Level Classification Output
 This section reports the §III-L five-way per-signature + document-level worst-case classifier output on the Big-4 sub-corpus. The five-way category definitions are inherited unchanged from v3.20.0 §III-K (now §III-L); see §III-L for the cosine and dHash cuts.
 **Table XV.** Five-way per-signature category counts, Big-4 sub-corpus, $n = 150{,}442$ classified.
 | Category | Long name | $n$ signatures | % of classified |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | HC | High-confidence non-hand-signed | 74,593 | 49.58% |
 | MC | Moderate-confidence non-hand-signed | 39,817 | 26.47% |
 | HSC | High style consistency | 314 | 0.21% |
 | UN | Uncertain | 35,480 | 23.58% |
 | LH | Likely hand-signed | 238 | 0.16% |
 (Source: Script 42; 11 of 150,453 loaded Big-4 signatures lacked one or both descriptors and were excluded.)
 **Per-firm five-way breakdown (% within firm).**
 | Firm | HC | MC | HSC | UN | LH | total signatures |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Firm A | 81.70% | 10.76% | 0.05% | 7.42% | 0.07% | 60,448 |
 | Firm B | 34.56% | 35.88% | 0.29% | 29.09% | 0.18% | 34,248 |
 | Firm C | 23.75% | 41.44% | 0.38% | 34.21% | 0.22% | 38,613 |
 | Firm D | 24.51% | 29.33% | 0.22% | 45.65% | 0.29% | 17,133 |
 (Source: Script 42 per-firm cross-tab.) The per-firm pattern qualitatively aligns with the K=3 cluster cross-tab of Table XVI: Firm A's signatures concentrate in the HC band (81.70%) while its CPAs concentrate at the accountant level in the K=3 C3-replicated component (82.46%; Table XVI). These two figures address different units (per-signature classification vs per-CPA hard cluster assignment) and are not directly comparable as a like-for-like consistency check; we report the qualitative alignment but do not infer a numerical equivalence. The three non-Firm-A Big-4 firms have markedly lower HC rates than Firm A and substantially higher Uncertain rates, with Firm D having the highest Uncertain rate (45.65%).
 **Document-level worst-case aggregation.** Each audit report typically carries two certifying-CPA signatures. We aggregate signature-level outcomes to document-level labels using the v3.20.0 worst-case rule (HC > MC > HSC > UN > LH; §III-L). v4.0 does not change this aggregation rule; only the population over which it is computed changes (Big-4 subset).
 **Table XV-B.** Document-level worst-case category counts, Big-4 sub-corpus, $n = 75{,}233$ unique PDFs.
 | Category | Long name | $n$ documents | % |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | HC | High-confidence non-hand-signed | 46,857 | 62.28% |
 | MC | Moderate-confidence non-hand-signed | 19,667 | 26.14% |
 | HSC | High style consistency | 167 | 0.22% |
 | UN | Uncertain | 8,524 | 11.33% |
 | LH | Likely hand-signed | 18 | 0.02% |
 (Source: Script 42 document-level table; 379 of 75,233 PDFs carried signatures from more than one Big-4 firm and are reported in the single-firm-PDF per-firm breakdown of the script CSV but pooled into the overall counts here.)
 **Per-firm document-level breakdown (single-firm PDFs only).**
 | Firm | HC | MC | HSC | UN | LH | total docs |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Firm A | 27,600 | 1,857 | 7 | 758 | 4 | 30,226 |
 | Firm B | 8,783 | 6,079 | 57 | 2,202 | 6 | 17,127 |
 | Firm C | 7,281 | 8,660 | 77 | 3,099 | 5 | 19,122 |
 | Firm D | 3,100 | 2,838 | 22 | 2,416 | 3 | 8,379 |
 (Source: Script 42; mixed-firm PDFs $n = 379$ excluded from the per-firm rows but included in the overall counts above.)
 The five-way **moderate-confidence non-hand-signed** band (cos $> 0.95$ AND $5 < \text{dHash} \leq 15$) inherits its v3.x calibration; it is **not separately validated by Scripts 38–40**, which evaluated only the binary high-confidence rule (cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$). v4.0 does not re-derive the moderate-band cuts on the Big-4 subset; we report the Table XV per-firm MC proportions (10.76% / 35.88% / 41.44% / 29.33% across Firms A through D) descriptively. The v3.20.0 capture-rate calibration evidence for the moderate band (v3.20.0 Tables IX, XI, XII, XII-B) is carried into v4.0 by reference and not regenerated on the Big-4 subset. We do not claim that the MC-band per-firm ordering above is a separate validation of the §III-K Spearman convergence, since MC occupancy is not a monotone function of the per-CPA hand-leaning ranking (e.g., Firm D's MC fraction is lower than Firm B's while Firm D's reverse-anchor score ranks it as more hand-leaning than Firm B).
 **Table XVI.** Firm × K=3 cluster cross-tabulation, Big-4 sub-corpus.
 | Firm | $n$ | C1 (hand-leaning) | C2 (mixed) | C3 (replicated) | C1 % | C3 % |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Firm A | 171 | 0 | 30 | 141 | $0.00\%$ | $82.46\%$ |
 | Firm B | 112 | 10 | 102 | 0 | $8.93\%$ | $0.00\%$ |
 | Firm C | 102 | 24 | 77 | 1 | $23.53\%$ | $0.98\%$ |
 | Firm D | 52 | 6 | 45 | 1 | $11.54\%$ | $1.92\%$ |
 (Source: Script 35.) The cross-tab is the accountant-level descriptive output of the K=3 mixture (§III-J / §IV-E). It is reported here as a complement to the five-way per-signature classifier (Table XV), not as an operational classifier output. Reading: Firm A's CPAs are concentrated in the C3 replicated component (no Firm A CPAs in C1); Firm C has the highest hand-leaning concentration of the Big-4 (C1 fraction $23.5\%$); Firms B and D sit between A and C on the K=3 hard-label ordering, broadly consistent with the per-firm Spearman ordering of Table X (with the within-Big-4-non-A reverse-anchor disagreement noted there).
 **Document-level worst-case aggregation outputs are reported in Table XV-B above.**
 ## K. Full-Dataset Robustness (light scope)
 This section reports the v4.0 reproducibility cross-check at the full accountant scope ($n = 686$ CPAs, Big-4 plus mid/small firms). The scope of §IV-K is deliberately narrow: we re-run only the K=3 mixture + Paper A operational-rule per-CPA hand-leaning rate analysis, sufficient to demonstrate that the v4.0 K=3 + Paper A convergence reproduces at the wider scope. The §III-L five-way classifier and the §IV-G LOOO analyses are not re-run at the full scope. The five-way moderate-confidence band is documented as inherited from v3.x calibration in §IV-J.
 **Table XVII.** K=3 component comparison, Big-4 sub-corpus vs full dataset.
 | K=3 component | Big-4 (n=437) cos / dHash / weight | Full (n=686) cos / dHash / weight | Drift Big-4 → Full |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | C1 hand-leaning | 0.9457 / 9.17 / 0.143 | 0.9278 / 11.17 / 0.284 | $\lvert\Delta\rvert$ cos 0.018, dHash 1.99, wt 0.141 |
 | C2 mixed | 0.9558 / 6.66 / 0.536 | 0.9535 / 6.99 / 0.512 | $\lvert\Delta\rvert$ cos 0.002, dHash 0.33, wt 0.024 |
 | C3 replicated | 0.9826 / 2.41 / 0.321 | 0.9826 / 2.40 / 0.205 | $\lvert\Delta\rvert$ cos 0.000, dHash 0.01, wt 0.117 |
 (Source: Script 41; full-dataset $\text{BIC}(K{=}3) = -792.31$ vs Big-4 $\text{BIC}(K{=}3) = -1111.93$; BIC values are not directly comparable across different $n$ and are reported only for completeness.)
 **Table XVIII.** Spearman rank correlation between K=3 P(C1) and Paper A operational hand-leaning rate, Big-4 sub-corpus vs full dataset.
 | Scope | $n$ CPAs | Spearman $\rho$ (P(C1) vs Paper A hand-leaning rate) | $p$-value |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | Big-4 (primary) | 437 | $+0.9627$ | $< 10^{-248}$ |
 | Full dataset | 686 | $+0.9558$ | $< 10^{-300}$ |
 | $\lvert\rho_{\text{full}} - \rho_{\text{Big-4}}\rvert$ | — | $0.0069$ | — |
 (Source: Script 41.)
 **Reading.** The K=3 component ordering and the strong Spearman convergence between K=3 P(C1) and the Paper A box-rule hand-leaning rate are preserved at the full scope. Component centres shift modestly: C3 (replicated) is essentially unchanged in centre but loses weight $0.117$ as the full population includes more non-templated CPAs (mid/small firms); C1 (hand-leaning) gains weight $0.141$ and shifts to lower cosine and higher dHash (centre $(0.928, 11.17)$ vs Big-4 $(0.946, 9.17)$) as the broader population includes mid/small-firm hand-leaning CPAs that the Big-4-primary scope deliberately excludes. We read this as evidence that the Big-4-primary K=3 + Paper A convergence is not a Big-4-specific artefact; we do **not** read it as an endorsement of using full-dataset K=3 component centres or operational thresholds in place of the Big-4-primary analysis. Mid/small-firm composition shifts the component centres meaningfully and the v4.0 primary methodology is restricted to Big-4 by design (§III-G item 4).
 ## L. Feature Backbone Ablation (inherited from v3.20.0 §IV-I)
 The feature-backbone ablation (v3.20.0 Table XVIII; backbone replacement of ResNet-50 with alternative ImageNet-pretrained backbones to verify that the §III-E embedding choice is not load-bearing) is inherited unchanged. v3.20.0 Table XVIII is cited by its original v3 number and is **not** the same table as the v4 Table XVIII (which reports the Big-4 vs full-dataset Spearman drift in §IV-K). v4.0 makes no scope-specific re-derivation of the ablation; the analysis is a methodological-stability check on the embedding stage and is corpus-wide rather than Big-4-restricted.
 ## M. v4-New Anchor-Based ICCR Calibration Results
 This section consolidates the v4-new empirical results that support the §III-L anchor-based threshold calibration framework. Numbers below are direct re-statements from the spike scripts cited per row; the corresponding §III provenance table entries appear in §III's provenance table.
 ### M.1 Composition decomposition (Scripts 39b–39e)
 **Table XIX.** Within-firm and between-firm decomposition of the Big-4 accountant-level dip-test rejection.
 | Diagnostic | Scope | Statistic | Implication |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | Within-firm signature-level cosine dip | Big-4 (4 firms) | $p_{\text{cos}} \in \{0.176, 0.991, 0.551, 0.976\}$ | 0/4 firms reject; cosine within-firm unimodal |
 | Within-firm signature-level cosine dip | non-Big-4 (10 firms $\geq 500$ sigs) | $p_{\text{cos}} \in [0.59, 0.99]$ | 0/10 firms reject; cosine within-firm unimodal |
 | Within-firm jittered-dHash dip (5 seeds, median) | Big-4 (4 firms) | $p_{\text{med}} \in \{0.999, 0.996, 0.999, 0.9995\}$ | 0/4 firms reject after integer-jitter; raw rejection was integer-tie artefact |
 | Big-4 pooled dHash: 2×2 factorial | firm-centred + jittered (5 seeds) | $p_{\text{med}} = 0.35$, 0/5 seeds reject | combined corrections eliminate rejection; multimodality is composition + integer artefact |
 | Integer-histogram valley near $\text{dHash} \approx 5$ | within each Big-4 firm | none (0/4 firms) | no within-firm dHash antimode at the inherited HC cutoff |
 (Source: Scripts 39b, 39c, 39d, 39e; bootstrap $n_{\text{boot}} = 2000$; jitter $\sim \mathrm{U}[-0.5, +0.5]$.)
 ### M.2 Anchor-based inter-CPA pair-level ICCR (Script 40b)
 **Table XX.** Big-4 inter-CPA per-comparison ICCR sweep, $n = 5 \times 10^5$ pairs (Big-4 scope; v4 new).
 | Threshold | Per-comparison ICCR | 95% Wilson CI |
 |---|---|---|
 | cos $> 0.945$ (v3.x published "natural threshold") | $0.00081$ | $[0.00073, 0.00089]$ |
 | cos $> 0.95$ (inherited operating point) | $0.00060$ | $[0.00053, 0.00067]$ |
 | cos $> 0.97$ | $0.00024$ | $[0.00020, 0.00029]$ |
 | cos $> 0.98$ | $0.00009$ | $[0.00007, 0.00012]$ |
 | dHash $\leq 5$ (inherited operating point) | $0.00129$ | $[0.00120, 0.00140]$ |
 | dHash $\leq 4$ | $0.00050$ | $[0.00044, 0.00057]$ |
 | dHash $\leq 3$ | $0.00019$ | $[0.00015, 0.00023]$ |
 | Joint: cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$ (any-pair semantics) | $0.00014$ | — |
 | Joint: cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 4$ (any-pair) | $0.00011$ | — |
 Conditional ICCR(dHash $\leq 5$ | cos $> 0.95$) $= 0.234$ (Wilson 95% $[0.190, 0.285]$; $70$ of $299$ pairs).
 The cos $> 0.95$ row replicates v3.20.0 §IV-F.1 Table X (v3 reported $0.0005$ under prior "FAR" terminology). The dHash row and joint row are v4 new.
 ### M.3 Pool-normalised per-signature ICCR (Script 43)
 **Table XXI.** Pool-normalised per-signature ICCR under the deployed any-pair HC rule (cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$); $n_{\text{sig}} = 150{,}453$ (vector-complete Big-4); CPA-block bootstrap $n_{\text{boot}} = 1000$.
 | Scope | Per-signature ICCR | Wilson 95% CI | CPA-bootstrap 95% CI |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | Big-4 pooled (any-pair, deployed) | $0.1102$ | $[0.1086, 0.1118]$ | $[0.0908, 0.1330]$ |
 | Big-4 pooled (same-pair, stricter alternative) | $0.0827$ | $[0.0813, 0.0841]$ | $[0.0668, 0.1021]$ |
 | Firm A (any-pair) | $0.2594$ | — | — |
 | Firm B (any-pair) | $0.0147$ | — | — |
 | Firm C (any-pair) | $0.0053$ | — | — |
 | Firm D (any-pair) | $0.0110$ | — | — |
 | Pool-size decile 1 (smallest pools) any-pair | $0.0249$ | — | — |
 | Pool-size decile 10 (largest pools) any-pair | $0.1905$ | — | — |
 Decile trend is broadly monotone in pool size with two minor reversals (decile 5 and decile 9 dip below their predecessors). Stricter operating point cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 3$ (same-pair) gives per-signature ICCR $0.0449$.
 ### M.4 Document-level ICCR under three alarm definitions (Script 45)
 **Table XXII.** Document-level inter-CPA ICCR by alarm definition; $n_{\text{docs}} = 75{,}233$.
 | Alarm definition | Alarm set | Document-level ICCR | Wilson 95% CI |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | D1 | HC only | $0.1797$ | $[0.1770, 0.1825]$ |
 | D2 (operational) | HC + MC | $0.3375$ | $[0.3342, 0.3409]$ |
 | D3 | HC + MC + HSC | $0.3384$ | $[0.3351, 0.3418]$ |
 Per-firm D2 document-level ICCR: Firm A $0.6201$ ($n = 30{,}226$); Firm B $0.1600$ ($n = 17{,}127$); Firm C $0.1635$ ($n = 19{,}501$); Firm D $0.0863$ ($n = 8{,}379$).
 ### M.5 Firm heterogeneity logistic regression and cross-firm hit matrix (Script 44)
 **Table XXIII.** Logistic regression of per-signature any-pair HC hit indicator on firm dummies and centred log pool size (Firm A reference).
 | Term | Odds ratio (vs Firm A) | Direction |
 |---|---|---|
 | Firm B | $0.053$ | $\sim 19\times$ lower odds than Firm A |
 | Firm C | $0.010$ | $\sim 100\times$ lower odds than Firm A |
 | Firm D | $0.027$ | $\sim 37\times$ lower odds than Firm A |
 | log(pool size, centred) | $4.01$ | $\sim 4\times$ higher odds per log unit pool size |
 Per-decile per-firm rates (Table not duplicated here; Script 44 decile table available in the supplementary report): within every pool-size decile, Firms B/C/D show rates of $0.0006$–$0.0358$ while Firm A ranges $0.0541$–$0.5958$. The firm gap survives within matched pool sizes.
 **Table XXIV.** Cross-firm hit matrix among Big-4 source signatures with any-pair HC hit; max-cosine partner firm (counts).
 | Source firm | Firm A cand. | Firm B | Firm C | Firm D | non-Big-4 | n hits |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Firm A | $14{,}447$ | $95$ | $44$ | $19$ | $17$ | $14{,}622$ |
 | Firm B | $92$ | $371$ | $8$ | $4$ | $9$ | $484$ |
 | Firm C | $16$ | $7$ | $149$ | $5$ | $1$ | $178$ |
 | Firm D | $22$ | $2$ | $6$ | $106$ | $1$ | $137$ |
 Same-pair joint hits (single candidate satisfying both cos $> 0.95$ AND dHash $\leq 5$) are within-firm at rates $99.96\%$ / $97.7\%$ / $98.2\%$ / $97.0\%$ for Firms A/B/C/D respectively.
 ### M.6 Alert-rate sensitivity around inherited HC threshold (Script 46)
 **Table XXV.** Local-gradient / median-gradient ratio at inherited thresholds (descriptive plateau diagnostic).
 | Threshold | Local / median gradient ratio | Interpretation |
 |---|---|---|
 | cos $= 0.95$ (HC) | $\approx 25\times$ | locally sensitive (not plateau-stable) |
 | dHash $= 5$ (HC) | $\approx 3.8\times$ | locally sensitive (not plateau-stable) |
 | dHash $= 15$ (MC/HSC boundary) | $\approx 0.08$ | plateau-like (saturating tail) |
 Big-4 observed deployed alert rate on actual same-CPA pools: per-signature HC $= 0.4958$; per-document HC $= 0.6228$. The deployed-rate excess over the inter-CPA proxy is $0.3856$ pp per-signature and $0.4431$ pp per-document; this excess is interpreted as a same-CPA repeatability signal under the §III-M caveats, not as a presumed true-positive rate.
 ---
 ## Phase 3 close-out checklist
 The following items remain after codex rounds 21–24 and before §IV is sent to partner Jimmy for v4.0 review:
 1. **Table XV per-signature category counts** — RESOLVED (v2 of §IV draft, Script 42 output). Per-signature, per-firm, document-level, and per-firm-document tables now populated.
 2. **Table renumbering finalisation.** The v4 table sequence as of v3.2 is Tables V–XVIII plus Table XV-B (no v4 Table IV is printed); inherited v3.x tables such as capture-rate Tables IX, XI, XII and the backbone-ablation v3.20.0 Table XVIII are kept by reference and cited as "v3.20.0 Table N" rather than reproduced as v4-numbered tables. A final pass should confirm whether the target journal accepts the Table XV-B letter suffix; if not, XV-B can be renumbered to a sequential XIX with §IV-J text adjusted accordingly.
 3. **§IV-A to §IV-C content audit.** Verify that the inherited prose for Experimental Setup, Detection Performance, and All-Pairs analysis remains accurate after the §III-G scope change to Big-4 primary.
 4. **Open question carry-over from §III v3.** Codex round-22 open questions on five-way moderate-band validation, firm anonymisation policy, and §IV table numbering are addressed in this v3 of §IV: (a) five-way moderate band documented as inherited from v3.x in §IV-J with Big-4 per-firm proportions reported descriptively (Table XV); (b) firm anonymisation maintained throughout §IV (Firm A–D used consistently; real names removed in v3); (c) §IV table numbering set provisionally and to be finalised at Phase 3 close-out.
 5. **Internal author notes (this checklist + §III's cross-reference index + both files' draft-note headers).** These are author working artefacts and should be moved to a separate notes file or stripped before partner / submission packaging.
@@ -286,7 +286,8 @@ def main():
    print(f"    threshold={eer['threshold']:.4f}, EER={eer['eer']:.4f}")
    # Canonical threshold evaluations with Wilson CIs
    canonical = {}
-    for tt in [0.70, 0.80, 0.837, 0.90, 0.945, 0.95, 0.973, 0.979]:
+    for tt in [0.70, 0.80, 0.837, 0.90, 0.9407, 0.945, 0.95, 0.973, 0.977,
               0.979, 0.985]:
        y_pred = (scores > tt).astype(int)
        m = classification_metrics(y, y_pred)
        m['threshold'] = float(tt)
@@ -0,0 +1,489 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 27: Within-Auditor-Year Uniformity Empirical Check (A2 Test)
 =====================================================================
 Opus 4.7 max-effort round-12 review flagged the A2 assumption
 (within-year label uniformity; Methodology Section III-G) as
 load-bearing for Section IV-H.1's partner-level "minority of
 hand-signers" reading, yet lacking empirical verification. This
 script provides the empirical check that Section III-G previously
 described as 'left to future work'.
 For each (CPA, fiscal year) unit with >= 3 signatures, we compute:
  - max_cos_yr: maximum pairwise cosine similarity within the year
  - min_cos_yr: minimum pairwise cosine similarity within the year
 Classification via **frac_high** (the fraction of within-year pairs with
 cosine >= 0.95); this is robust to stamp-output variance, template
 switches, and isolated outliers in a way that raw max/min extremes are
 not. Auxiliary: frac_low (fraction of pairs with cosine < 0.837).
  - strict_full_hand    : frac_high == 0
                          (no replicated pair anywhere; full-year hand-sign)
  - mostly_hand         : 0 < frac_high <= 0.1
                          (isolated near-identical pair, possibly one
                           template reuse; dominant hand-sign)
  - substantial_mixture : 0.1 < frac_high <= 0.5
                          (clear A2 violation: a material minority of
                           signatures are replicated)
  - mostly_stamp        : 0.5 < frac_high <= 0.9
                          (stamp-dominant but with non-trivial variance
                           or a minority of non-stamped signatures)
  - strict_full_stamp   : frac_high > 0.9
                          (near-all pairs near-identical; full-year
                           replication with modest variance allowed)
 Thresholds:
  0.95  = whole-sample Firm A P7.5 heuristic (Section III-L)
  0.837 = all-pairs intra/inter KDE crossover (Section III-L,
           likely-hand-signed boundary)
 Stratification:
  - Firm bucket: Firm A (Deloitte / 勤業眾信), Firm B-D (KPMG/PwC/EY),
                 Non-Big-4
  - Period:      2013-2018 (pre-digitalization),
                 2019-2021 (transition),
                 2022-2023 (post)
  - Firm x Period grid for mixed_a2_violation rate
 Output:
  reports/within_year_uniformity/within_year_uniformity.md
  reports/within_year_uniformity/within_year_uniformity.json
  reports/within_year_uniformity/mixed_year_candidates.csv  (audit trail)
 """
 import sqlite3
 import json
 import csv
 import numpy as np
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
 from collections import defaultdict
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'within_year_uniformity')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 FIRM_A = '勤業眾信聯合'
 BIG4_OTHER = {'安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合'}
 THRESH_REPLICATED = 0.95
 THRESH_HANDSIGN = 0.837
 MIN_SIGS = 3
 FIRM_BUCKETS = ['Firm A', 'Firm B-D (Big-4 others)', 'Non-Big-4']
 PERIODS = ['2013-2018 (pre)', '2019-2021 (transition)', '2022-2023 (post)']
 CLASSES = ['strict_full_hand', 'mostly_hand', 'substantial_mixture',
           'mostly_stamp', 'strict_full_stamp']
 # A2 violation candidates = {mostly_hand, substantial_mixture, mostly_stamp}
 # (i.e., not strict_full_hand and not strict_full_stamp)
 def period_bin(year):
    y = int(year)
    if y <= 2018:
        return '2013-2018 (pre)'
    if y <= 2021:
        return '2019-2021 (transition)'
    return '2022-2023 (post)'
 def firm_bucket(firm):
    if firm == FIRM_A:
        return 'Firm A'
    if firm in BIG4_OTHER:
        return 'Firm B-D (Big-4 others)'
    return 'Non-Big-4'
 def classify(frac_high):
    if frac_high == 0:
        return 'strict_full_hand'
    if frac_high <= 0.1:
        return 'mostly_hand'
    if frac_high <= 0.5:
        return 'substantial_mixture'
    if frac_high <= 0.9:
        return 'mostly_stamp'
    return 'strict_full_stamp'
 def is_a2_violation(cls):
    """A2 violation candidates: not strictly full_hand and not strictly full_stamp."""
    return cls in {'mostly_hand', 'substantial_mixture', 'mostly_stamp'}
 def pairwise_stats(feats):
    """Return (max_cos, min_cos, frac_high, frac_low, n_pairs) over
    within-year pairs. Filters out degenerate features (zero norm or
    non-finite entries) before computing."""
    mat = np.stack(feats).astype(np.float64)
    # Drop rows with non-finite entries or zero norm
    finite = np.all(np.isfinite(mat), axis=1)
    norms = np.linalg.norm(mat, axis=1)
    keep = finite & (norms > 1e-6)
    mat = mat[keep]
    norms = norms[keep]
    if len(mat) < 2:
        return (float('nan'), float('nan'), 0.0, 0.0, 0)
    mat_n = mat / norms[:, None]
    sim = mat_n @ mat_n.T
    iu = np.triu_indices(len(mat), k=1)
    vals = sim[iu]
    vals = vals[np.isfinite(vals)]
    n_pairs = len(vals)
    if n_pairs == 0:
        return (float('nan'), float('nan'), 0.0, 0.0, 0)
    n_high = int(np.sum(vals >= THRESH_REPLICATED))
    n_low = int(np.sum(vals < THRESH_HANDSIGN))
    return (float(vals.max()), float(vals.min()),
            n_high / n_pairs, n_low / n_pairs, n_pairs)
 def iterate_groups():
    """Stream rows ordered by (CPA, year); yield completed groups."""
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant,
               substr(s.year_month, 1, 4) AS year,
               s.feature_vector,
               a.firm
        FROM signatures s
        LEFT JOIN accountants a ON a.name = s.assigned_accountant
        WHERE s.feature_vector IS NOT NULL
          AND s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.year_month IS NOT NULL
        ORDER BY s.assigned_accountant, year
    ''')
    cur_key = None
    cur_feats = []
    cur_firm = None
    for cpa, year, fv, firm in cur:
        key = (cpa, year)
        if key != cur_key:
            if cur_key is not None and cur_feats:
                yield cur_key, cur_feats, cur_firm
            cur_key = key
            cur_feats = []
            cur_firm = firm
        cur_feats.append(np.frombuffer(fv, dtype=np.float32).copy())
    if cur_key is not None and cur_feats:
        yield cur_key, cur_feats, cur_firm
    conn.close()
 def main():
    print('Streaming (CPA, year) groups from DB...')
    results = []
    total_groups = 0
    kept_groups = 0
    for (cpa, year), feats, firm in iterate_groups():
        total_groups += 1
        if len(feats) < MIN_SIGS:
            continue
        kept_groups += 1
        max_c, min_c, frac_high, frac_low, n_pairs = pairwise_stats(feats)
        cls = classify(frac_high)
        results.append({
            'cpa': cpa,
            'year': year,
            'n_sigs': len(feats),
            'n_pairs': n_pairs,
            'firm': firm or 'UNKNOWN',
            'firm_bucket': firm_bucket(firm),
            'period': period_bin(year),
            'max_cos': round(max_c, 4),
            'min_cos': round(min_c, 4),
            'frac_high': round(frac_high, 4),
            'frac_low': round(frac_low, 4),
            'class': cls,
            'is_a2_violation': is_a2_violation(cls),
        })
    print(f'  total groups: {total_groups}')
    print(f'  groups with n >= {MIN_SIGS}: {kept_groups}')
    total = len(results)
    if total == 0:
        print('No groups to analyze.')
        return
    # Overall tally
    overall = defaultdict(int)
    for r in results:
        overall[r['class']] += 1
    print('\n=== Overall classification ===')
    for c in CLASSES:
        n = overall[c]
        print(f'  {c:25s}: {n:5d} ({100*n/total:.2f}%)')
    # Stratifications
    by_firm = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(int))
    by_period = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(int))
    by_fp = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(int))
    for r in results:
        by_firm[r['firm_bucket']]['total'] += 1
        by_firm[r['firm_bucket']][r['class']] += 1
        if r['is_a2_violation']:
            by_firm[r['firm_bucket']]['a2_violation'] += 1
        by_period[r['period']]['total'] += 1
        by_period[r['period']][r['class']] += 1
        if r['is_a2_violation']:
            by_period[r['period']]['a2_violation'] += 1
        key = (r['firm_bucket'], r['period'])
        by_fp[key]['total'] += 1
        by_fp[key][r['class']] += 1
        if r['is_a2_violation']:
            by_fp[key]['a2_violation'] += 1
    print('\n=== By firm bucket ===')
    for fb in FIRM_BUCKETS:
        d = by_firm[fb]
        t = d['total']
        if t == 0:
            continue
        print(f'  {fb} (N = {t}):')
        for c in CLASSES:
            n = d[c]
            print(f'    {c:25s}: {n:5d} ({100*n/t:.2f}%)')
    print('\n=== By period ===')
    for p in PERIODS:
        d = by_period[p]
        t = d['total']
        if t == 0:
            continue
        print(f'  {p} (N = {t}):')
        for c in CLASSES:
            n = d[c]
            print(f'    {c:25s}: {n:5d} ({100*n/t:.2f}%)')
    print('\n=== Firm x Period: A2 violation rate (any of mostly_hand, '
          'substantial_mixture, mostly_stamp) ===')
    header = '  {:25s}'.format('') + \
             ''.join(f'{p[:18]:>22}' for p in PERIODS)
    print(header)
    for fb in FIRM_BUCKETS:
        cells = []
        for p in PERIODS:
            d = by_fp[(fb, p)]
            t = d['total']
            if t == 0:
                cells.append('-')
            else:
                rate = 100 * d['a2_violation'] / t
                cells.append(f'{rate:.2f}% ({d["a2_violation"]}/{t})')
        row = '  {:25s}'.format(fb) + ''.join(f'{c:>22}' for c in cells)
        print(row)
    # Substantial-mixture-only Firm x Period (strictest A2 violation subset)
    print('\n=== Firm x Period: substantial_mixture rate (strictest) ===')
    print(header)
    for fb in FIRM_BUCKETS:
        cells = []
        for p in PERIODS:
            d = by_fp[(fb, p)]
            t = d['total']
            if t == 0:
                cells.append('-')
            else:
                rate = 100 * d['substantial_mixture'] / t
                cells.append(
                    f'{rate:.2f}% ({d["substantial_mixture"]}/{t})')
        row = '  {:25s}'.format(fb) + ''.join(f'{c:>22}' for c in cells)
        print(row)
    # Outputs
    json_out = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
        'thresholds': {
            'replicated_cosine': THRESH_REPLICATED,
            'handsigned_cosine': THRESH_HANDSIGN,
        },
        'min_signatures_per_year': MIN_SIGS,
        'N_total_groups': total_groups,
        'N_kept_groups': kept_groups,
        'overall': {c: overall[c] for c in CLASSES},
        'by_firm_bucket': {
            fb: dict(by_firm[fb]) for fb in FIRM_BUCKETS if by_firm[fb]['total']
        },
        'by_period': {
            p: dict(by_period[p]) for p in PERIODS if by_period[p]['total']
        },
        'by_firm_x_period': {
            f'{fb}|{p}': dict(by_fp[(fb, p)])
            for fb in FIRM_BUCKETS for p in PERIODS
            if by_fp[(fb, p)]['total']
        },
    }
    with open(OUT / 'within_year_uniformity.json', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        json.dump(json_out, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
    # CSV audit trail: all rows with all metrics
    csv_fields = [
        'cpa', 'firm', 'firm_bucket', 'year', 'period',
        'n_sigs', 'n_pairs', 'max_cos', 'min_cos',
        'frac_high', 'frac_low', 'class', 'is_a2_violation',
    ]
    csv_path = OUT / 'all_cpa_year_rows.csv'
    with open(csv_path, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames=csv_fields)
        w.writeheader()
        for r in sorted(results,
                         key=lambda x: (x['firm_bucket'], x['year'], x['cpa'])):
            w.writerow({k: r[k] for k in csv_fields})
    # CSV: substantial_mixture rows only (strictest A2 violation subset)
    mixed_path = OUT / 'substantial_mixture_candidates.csv'
    with open(mixed_path, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames=csv_fields)
        w.writeheader()
        for r in sorted(results,
                         key=lambda x: (x['firm_bucket'], x['year'], x['cpa'])):
            if r['class'] == 'substantial_mixture':
                w.writerow({k: r[k] for k in csv_fields})
    # Markdown
    md = build_markdown(overall, by_firm, by_period, by_fp, total,
                         total_groups, kept_groups)
    with open(OUT / 'within_year_uniformity.md', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        f.write(md)
    print(f'\n=> Outputs in {OUT}')
 def build_markdown(overall, by_firm, by_period, by_fp, total,
                    total_groups, kept_groups):
    ts = datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat()
    L = []
    L.append('# Within-Auditor-Year Uniformity Check (A2 Empirical Test)')
    L.append('')
    L.append(f'Generated: {ts}')
    L.append('')
    L.append('## Method')
    L.append('')
    L.append(f'For each (CPA, fiscal year) with >= {MIN_SIGS} signatures, '
             'compute all within-year pairwise cosine similarities and '
             f'derive frac_high = fraction of pairs with cos >= {THRESH_REPLICATED}. '
             'Classification is based on frac_high; this is robust to stamp-'
             'output variance, template switches, and isolated outliers.')
    L.append('')
    L.append(f'- `strict_full_hand`: frac_high = 0 '
             '(no near-identical pair; full-year hand-signing)')
    L.append(f'- `mostly_hand`: 0 < frac_high <= 0.1 '
             '(isolated near-identical pair; dominant hand-sign with possibly '
             'one template reuse)')
    L.append(f'- `substantial_mixture`: 0.1 < frac_high <= 0.5 '
             '(material minority of signatures replicated; clearest A2 '
             'violation signature)')
    L.append(f'- `mostly_stamp`: 0.5 < frac_high <= 0.9 '
             '(stamp-dominant with non-trivial variance or minority of '
             'non-stamped signatures)')
    L.append(f'- `strict_full_stamp`: frac_high > 0.9 '
             '(near-all pairs near-identical; full-year replication with '
             'modest variance allowed)')
    L.append('')
    L.append('**A2 violation candidates** = `mostly_hand` ∪ '
             '`substantial_mixture` ∪ `mostly_stamp` (anything that is not '
             '`strict_full_hand` and not `strict_full_stamp`).')
    L.append('')
    L.append(f'Total (CPA, year) groups in DB: {total_groups}; '
             f'groups with n >= {MIN_SIGS}: {kept_groups}.')
    L.append('')
    L.append('## Overall')
    L.append('')
    L.append('| Class | N | Share |')
    L.append('|---|---|---|')
    for c in CLASSES:
        n = overall[c]
        L.append(f'| `{c}` | {n} | {100*n/total:.2f}% |')
    L.append('')
    def row(label, d, t):
        cells = [label, str(t)]
        for c in CLASSES:
            n = d[c]
            cells.append(f'{n} ({100*n/t:.2f}%)')
        av = d['a2_violation']
        cells.append(f'{av} ({100*av/t:.2f}%)')
        return '| ' + ' | '.join(cells) + ' |'
    header = ('| Bucket | N | ' + ' | '.join(f'`{c}`' for c in CLASSES)
              + ' | A2 violation (union) |')
    sep = '|' + '|'.join(['---'] * (len(CLASSES) + 3)) + '|'
    L.append('## By firm bucket')
    L.append('')
    L.append(header)
    L.append(sep)
    for fb in FIRM_BUCKETS:
        d = by_firm[fb]
        t = d['total']
        if t == 0:
            continue
        L.append(row(fb, d, t))
    L.append('')
    L.append('## By period')
    L.append('')
    L.append(header.replace('Bucket', 'Period'))
    L.append(sep)
    for p in PERIODS:
        d = by_period[p]
        t = d['total']
        if t == 0:
            continue
        L.append(row(p, d, t))
    L.append('')
    L.append('## Firm x Period: A2 violation rate (union of '
             '`mostly_hand`, `substantial_mixture`, `mostly_stamp`)')
    L.append('')
    L.append('| Firm | 2013-2018 (pre) | 2019-2021 (transition) | '
             '2022-2023 (post) |')
    L.append('|---|---|---|---|')
    for fb in FIRM_BUCKETS:
        cells = []
        for p in PERIODS:
            d = by_fp[(fb, p)]
            t = d['total']
            if t == 0:
                cells.append('-')
            else:
                rate = 100 * d['a2_violation'] / t
                cells.append(f'{rate:.2f}% ({d["a2_violation"]}/{t})')
        L.append(f'| {fb} | ' + ' | '.join(cells) + ' |')
    L.append('')
    L.append('## Firm x Period: `substantial_mixture` rate (strictest subset)')
    L.append('')
    L.append('| Firm | 2013-2018 (pre) | 2019-2021 (transition) | '
             '2022-2023 (post) |')
    L.append('|---|---|---|---|')
    for fb in FIRM_BUCKETS:
        cells = []
        for p in PERIODS:
            d = by_fp[(fb, p)]
            t = d['total']
            if t == 0:
                cells.append('-')
            else:
                rate = 100 * d['substantial_mixture'] / t
                cells.append(
                    f'{rate:.2f}% ({d["substantial_mixture"]}/{t})')
        L.append(f'| {fb} | ' + ' | '.join(cells) + ' |')
    L.append('')
    L.append('## Interpretation guide')
    L.append('')
    L.append('- Low A2-violation union rate overall (e.g. < 10%): A2 is '
             'empirically well-supported; report as Methodology III-G '
             'robustness check.')
    L.append('- High `substantial_mixture` rate specifically (e.g. > 5% '
             'at Big-4 B-D in 2019-2021): A2 weakens in the digitalization '
             'transition; IV-H.1 partner-level reading may need restriction '
             'to Firm A or pre-2019 period.')
    L.append('- High `substantial_mixture` rate at Firm A itself: unexpected; '
             'Firm A industry-practice defense of A2 would need revisiting.')
    L.append('')
    return '\n'.join(L)
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 30: Yearly Per-Firm Cosine Similarity Comparison
 ========================================================
 Generates the per-firm year-by-year per-signature best-match cosine
 distribution: Firm A (Deloitte), Firm B (KPMG), Firm C (PwC),
 Firm D (EY), Non-Big-4. The two-panel figure (mean cosine; share above
 0.95) is the headline cross-firm visual requested in partner review of
 v3.19.1 (2026-04-27): five lines, X-axis 2013-2023, Firm A at the top.
 Outputs:
  reports/figures/fig_yearly_big4_comparison.png
  reports/figures/fig_yearly_big4_comparison.pdf
  reports/firm_yearly_comparison/firm_yearly_comparison.json
  reports/firm_yearly_comparison/firm_yearly_comparison.md
 """
 import json
 import sqlite3
 from datetime import datetime
 from pathlib import Path
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use('Agg')
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import numpy as np
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 FIG_OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
               'figures')
 DATA_OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
                'firm_yearly_comparison')
 FIG_OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 DATA_OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 FIRM_BUCKETS = [
    ('Firm A', '勤業眾信聯合'),
    ('Firm B', '安侯建業聯合'),
    ('Firm C', '資誠聯合'),
    ('Firm D', '安永聯合'),
 ]
 FIRM_COLORS = {
    'Firm A': '#d62728',
    'Firm B': '#1f77b4',
    'Firm C': '#2ca02c',
    'Firm D': '#9467bd',
    'Non-Big-4': '#7f7f7f',
 }
 FIRM_MARKERS = {
    'Firm A': 'o',
    'Firm B': 's',
    'Firm C': '^',
    'Firm D': 'D',
    'Non-Big-4': 'v',
 }
 COSINE_CUT = 0.95
 def firm_bucket(firm):
    for label, name in FIRM_BUCKETS:
        if firm == name:
            return label
    return 'Non-Big-4'
 def load_rows(conn):
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute("""
        SELECT a.firm,
               CAST(substr(s.year_month, 1, 4) AS INTEGER) AS year,
               s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant
        FROM signatures s
        LEFT JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.year_month IS NOT NULL
          AND s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
    """)
    return cur.fetchall()
 def aggregate(rows):
    """Returns dict keyed by (firm_label, year) -> {n, mean_cos, share_ge_cut}."""
    by_firm_year = {}
    for firm, year, cos in rows:
        if year is None or year < 2013 or year > 2023:
            continue
        label = firm_bucket(firm)
        key = (label, int(year))
        by_firm_year.setdefault(key, []).append(float(cos))
    summary = {}
    for (label, year), vals in by_firm_year.items():
        arr = np.array(vals, dtype=float)
        summary[(label, year)] = {
            'n': int(arr.size),
            'mean_cos': float(arr.mean()),
            'share_ge_cut': float(np.mean(arr >= COSINE_CUT)),
        }
    return summary
 def plot_figure(summary, years, firm_labels, fig_path_png, fig_path_pdf):
    fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(13, 5))
    ax = axes[0]
    for label in firm_labels:
        ys = [summary[(label, y)]['mean_cos']
              if (label, y) in summary else np.nan
              for y in years]
        ax.plot(years, ys,
                marker=FIRM_MARKERS[label], color=FIRM_COLORS[label],
                lw=2.0, ms=6, label=label,
                zorder=3 if label == 'Firm A' else 2)
    ax.set_xlabel('Fiscal year')
    ax.set_ylabel('Mean per-signature best-match cosine')
    ax.set_title('(a) Mean per-signature best-match cosine, by firm and year')
    ax.set_xticks(years)
    ax.tick_params(axis='x', rotation=0)
    ax.grid(True, ls=':', alpha=0.4)
    ax.legend(loc='lower right', framealpha=0.95)
    ax = axes[1]
    for label in firm_labels:
        ys = [100.0 * summary[(label, y)]['share_ge_cut']
              if (label, y) in summary else np.nan
              for y in years]
        ax.plot(years, ys,
                marker=FIRM_MARKERS[label], color=FIRM_COLORS[label],
                lw=2.0, ms=6, label=label,
                zorder=3 if label == 'Firm A' else 2)
    ax.set_xlabel('Fiscal year')
    ax.set_ylabel(f'% signatures with best-match cosine $\\geq$ {COSINE_CUT}')
    ax.set_title(f'(b) Share with cosine $\\geq$ {COSINE_CUT}, '
                 'by firm and year')
    ax.set_xticks(years)
    ax.tick_params(axis='x', rotation=0)
    ax.grid(True, ls=':', alpha=0.4)
    ax.legend(loc='lower right', framealpha=0.95)
    ax.set_ylim(0, 100)
    fig.suptitle('Per-firm yearly per-signature best-match cosine '
                 '(operational cut shown as 0.95)',
                 fontsize=12, y=1.02)
    fig.tight_layout()
    fig.savefig(fig_path_png, dpi=200, bbox_inches='tight')
    fig.savefig(fig_path_pdf, bbox_inches='tight')
    plt.close(fig)
 def write_markdown(summary, years, firm_labels, md_path):
    lines = ['# Per-Firm Yearly Cosine Comparison',
             '',
             f"Generated: {datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds')}",
             '',
             ('Per-signature best-match cosine '
              '(`max_similarity_to_same_accountant`), aggregated by firm '
              'bucket and fiscal year. Firm bucket via CPA registry '
              '(`accountants.firm`).'),
             '']
    lines.append('## Mean per-signature best-match cosine')
    lines.append('')
    header = '| Year | ' + ' | '.join(firm_labels) + ' |'
    sep = '|------|' + '|'.join(['------'] * len(firm_labels)) + '|'
    lines.append(header)
    lines.append(sep)
    for y in years:
        row = f'| {y} | '
        cells = []
        for lab in firm_labels:
            if (lab, y) in summary:
                cells.append(f"{summary[(lab, y)]['mean_cos']:.4f}")
            else:
                cells.append('---')
        row += ' | '.join(cells) + ' |'
        lines.append(row)
    lines.append('')
    lines.append(f'## Share with cosine $\\geq$ {COSINE_CUT}')
    lines.append('')
    lines.append(header)
    lines.append(sep)
    for y in years:
        row = f'| {y} | '
        cells = []
        for lab in firm_labels:
            if (lab, y) in summary:
                cells.append(f"{100*summary[(lab, y)]['share_ge_cut']:.1f}%")
            else:
                cells.append('---')
        row += ' | '.join(cells) + ' |'
        lines.append(row)
    lines.append('')
    lines.append('## Per-firm signature counts')
    lines.append('')
    lines.append(header)
    lines.append(sep)
    for y in years:
        row = f'| {y} | '
        cells = []
        for lab in firm_labels:
            if (lab, y) in summary:
                cells.append(f"{summary[(lab, y)]['n']:,}")
            else:
                cells.append('---')
        row += ' | '.join(cells) + ' |'
        lines.append(row)
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(lines) + '\n', encoding='utf-8')
 def main():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    try:
        rows = load_rows(conn)
    finally:
        conn.close()
    print(f'Loaded {len(rows):,} signatures with cosine + year + firm.')
    summary = aggregate(rows)
    years = sorted({y for (_, y) in summary})
    firm_labels = ['Firm A', 'Firm B', 'Firm C', 'Firm D', 'Non-Big-4']
    fig_png = FIG_OUT / 'fig_yearly_big4_comparison.png'
    fig_pdf = FIG_OUT / 'fig_yearly_big4_comparison.pdf'
    plot_figure(summary, years, firm_labels, fig_png, fig_pdf)
    print(f'Wrote {fig_png}')
    print(f'Wrote {fig_pdf}')
    payload = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
        'database_path': DB,
        'cosine_cut': COSINE_CUT,
        'firm_buckets': dict(FIRM_BUCKETS) | {'Non-Big-4': 'all other'},
        'years': years,
        'rows': [
            {'firm': lab, 'year': y, **summary[(lab, y)]}
            for lab in firm_labels for y in years
            if (lab, y) in summary
        ],
    }
    json_path = DATA_OUT / 'firm_yearly_comparison.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Wrote {json_path}')
    md_path = DATA_OUT / 'firm_yearly_comparison.md'
    write_markdown(summary, years, firm_labels, md_path)
    print(f'Wrote {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 31: Within-Year Same-CPA Ranking Robustness Check
 ==========================================================
 Recomputes the per-auditor-year mean cosine ranking of Table XIV using
 within-year same-CPA matching only (instead of cross-year same-CPA pool
 which Table XIV uses by construction). Reports pooled top-10/20/30%
 Firm A share under the within-year restriction so the partner-level
 ranking finding can be checked against the cross-year aggregation
 choice flagged in Section IV-G.2.
 Definition (within-year statistic):
  For each signature s, with CPA = c, year = y:
    cos_within(s) = max cosine(s, s') over s' != s, CPA(s')=c, year(s')=y
  If a (CPA, year) block has only one signature, cos_within is undefined
  and that signature is dropped from the auditor-year aggregation
  (matching the same-CPA pair-existence requirement of Section III-G).
 Outputs:
  reports/within_year_ranking/within_year_ranking.json
  reports/within_year_ranking/within_year_ranking.md
 """
 import json
 import sqlite3
 from collections import defaultdict
 from datetime import datetime
 from pathlib import Path
 import numpy as np
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'within_year_ranking')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 FIRM_A = '勤業眾信聯合'
 MIN_SIGS_PER_AUDITOR_YEAR = 5
 def firm_bucket(firm):
    if firm == '勤業眾信聯合':
        return 'Firm A'
    if firm == '安侯建業聯合':
        return 'Firm B'
    if firm == '資誠聯合':
        return 'Firm C'
    if firm == '安永聯合':
        return 'Firm D'
    return 'Non-Big-4'
 def load_signatures():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute("""
        SELECT s.signature_id, s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               CAST(substr(s.year_month, 1, 4) AS INTEGER) AS year,
               s.feature_vector
        FROM signatures s
        LEFT JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.feature_vector IS NOT NULL
          AND s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.year_month IS NOT NULL
    """)
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def compute_within_year_max(rows):
    """Group by (CPA, year), compute max cosine to other same-block sigs."""
    blocks = defaultdict(list)  # (cpa, year) -> [(sig_id, feat)]
    for sig_id, cpa, firm, year, blob in rows:
        if year is None:
            continue
        feat = np.frombuffer(blob, dtype=np.float32)
        blocks[(cpa, int(year))].append((sig_id, feat, firm))
    sig_max_within = {}  # sig_id -> max within-year same-CPA cosine
    sig_meta = {}        # sig_id -> (cpa, year, firm)
    for (cpa, year), entries in blocks.items():
        if len(entries) < 2:
            continue  # singleton: max-within is undefined
        feats = np.stack([e[1] for e in entries])  # (n, 2048)
        sims = feats @ feats.T                      # (n, n)
        np.fill_diagonal(sims, -np.inf)
        maxs = sims.max(axis=1)
        for i, (sig_id, _, firm) in enumerate(entries):
            sig_max_within[sig_id] = float(maxs[i])
            sig_meta[sig_id] = (cpa, year, firm)
    return sig_max_within, sig_meta
 def auditor_year_aggregation(sig_max_within, sig_meta):
    by_ay = defaultdict(list)  # (cpa, year) -> list of cos
    for sig_id, cos in sig_max_within.items():
        cpa, year, firm = sig_meta[sig_id]
        by_ay[(cpa, year)].append(cos)
    rows = []
    for (cpa, year), vals in by_ay.items():
        if len(vals) < MIN_SIGS_PER_AUDITOR_YEAR:
            continue
        firm = sig_meta[next(s for s in sig_max_within
                              if sig_meta[s][0] == cpa
                              and sig_meta[s][1] == year)][2]
        rows.append({
            'acct': cpa,
            'year': year,
            'firm': firm,
            'cos_mean_within_year': float(np.mean(vals)),
            'n': len(vals),
        })
    return rows
 def top_k_breakdown(rows, k_pcts=(10, 20, 25, 30, 50)):
    sorted_rows = sorted(rows, key=lambda r: -r['cos_mean_within_year'])
    N = len(sorted_rows)
    out = {}
    for k_pct in k_pcts:
        k = max(1, int(N * k_pct / 100))
        top = sorted_rows[:k]
        counts = defaultdict(int)
        for r in top:
            counts[firm_bucket(r['firm'])] += 1
        out[f'top_{k_pct}pct'] = {
            'k': k,
            'firm_counts': dict(counts),
            'firm_a_share': counts['Firm A'] / k,
        }
    return out
 def per_year_top_k(rows, k_pcts=(10, 20, 30)):
    years = sorted(set(r['year'] for r in rows))
    out = {}
    for y in years:
        yr = [r for r in rows if r['year'] == y]
        if not yr:
            continue
        sr = sorted(yr, key=lambda r: -r['cos_mean_within_year'])
        n_y = len(sr)
        n_a = sum(1 for r in sr if r['firm'] == FIRM_A)
        per = {'n_auditor_years': n_y,
               'firm_a_baseline_share': n_a / n_y,
               'top_k': {}}
        for kp in k_pcts:
            k = max(1, int(n_y * kp / 100))
            n_a_top = sum(1 for r in sr[:k] if r['firm'] == FIRM_A)
            per['top_k'][f'top_{kp}pct'] = {
                'k': k,
                'firm_a_in_top': n_a_top,
                'firm_a_share': n_a_top / k,
            }
        out[y] = per
    return out
 def main():
    print('Loading signatures + features...')
    rows = load_signatures()
    print(f'  loaded {len(rows):,}')
    print('Computing within-year same-CPA max cosine...')
    sig_max_within, sig_meta = compute_within_year_max(rows)
    print(f'  signatures with within-year pair: {len(sig_max_within):,}')
    n_dropped = len(rows) - len(sig_max_within)
    print(f'  dropped (singleton within year): {n_dropped:,}')
    ay_rows = auditor_year_aggregation(sig_max_within, sig_meta)
    print(f'  auditor-years (>={MIN_SIGS_PER_AUDITOR_YEAR} sigs '
          f'with within-year pair): {len(ay_rows):,}')
    pooled = top_k_breakdown(ay_rows)
    yearly = per_year_top_k(ay_rows)
    payload = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
        'n_signatures_loaded': len(rows),
        'n_signatures_with_within_year_pair': len(sig_max_within),
        'n_singleton_dropped': n_dropped,
        'min_sigs_per_auditor_year': MIN_SIGS_PER_AUDITOR_YEAR,
        'n_auditor_years': len(ay_rows),
        'n_firm_a_auditor_years': sum(1 for r in ay_rows
                                       if r['firm'] == FIRM_A),
        'pooled_top_k': pooled,
        'yearly_top_k': yearly,
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'within_year_ranking.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\nWrote {json_path}')
    # Markdown
    md = ['# Within-Year Same-CPA Ranking Robustness',
          '',
          f"Generated: {payload['generated_at']}",
          '',
          ('Per-signature best-match cosine recomputed using within-year '
           'same-CPA matching only. See Script 31 docstring for the '
           'precise definition.'),
          '',
          f"- Signatures loaded: {len(rows):,}",
          f"- Signatures with at least one within-year same-CPA pair: "
          f"{len(sig_max_within):,}",
          f"- Singletons dropped (no within-year pair): {n_dropped:,}",
          f"- Auditor-years with >= {MIN_SIGS_PER_AUDITOR_YEAR} sigs: "
          f"{len(ay_rows):,}",
          f"- Firm A auditor-years: {payload['n_firm_a_auditor_years']:,} "
          f"({100*payload['n_firm_a_auditor_years']/len(ay_rows):.1f}% baseline)",
          '',
          '## Pooled (2013-2023) top-K Firm A share',
          '',
          '| Top-K | k | Firm A share | A | B | C | D | NB4 |',
          '|-------|---|--------------|---|---|---|---|-----|']
    for kp in [10, 20, 25, 30, 50]:
        d = pooled[f'top_{kp}pct']
        c = d['firm_counts']
        md.append(f"| {kp}% | {d['k']:,} | "
                  f"{100*d['firm_a_share']:.1f}% | "
                  f"{c.get('Firm A', 0)} | {c.get('Firm B', 0)} | "
                  f"{c.get('Firm C', 0)} | {c.get('Firm D', 0)} | "
                  f"{c.get('Non-Big-4', 0)} |")
    md.extend(['',
               '## Year-by-year top-K Firm A share',
               '',
               '| Year | n AY | Top-10% share | Top-20% share | '
               'Top-30% share | A baseline |',
               '|------|------|---------------|---------------|'
               '---------------|------------|'])
    for y in sorted(yearly):
        per = yearly[y]
        line = (f"| {y} | {per['n_auditor_years']:,} ")
        for kp in [10, 20, 30]:
            d = per['top_k'][f'top_{kp}pct']
            line += (f"| {100*d['firm_a_share']:.1f}% "
                     f"({d['firm_a_in_top']}/{d['k']}) ")
        line += f"| {100*per['firm_a_baseline_share']:.1f}% |"
        md.append(line)
    md_path = OUT / 'within_year_ranking.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md) + '\n', encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Wrote {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 32: Non-Firm-A Calibration Spike
 ========================================
 Research question (branch ``from-outside-of-firmA``):
    If we throw away Firm A entirely, can we still derive meaningful
    cosine / dHash thresholds at the accountant level?
 Three subset analyses (per user's "1. 我們可以分開做" clarification):
  Subset I  — Big-4 minus Firm A: KPMG + PwC + EY pooled
  Subset II — All non-Firm-A firms: every firm except 勤業眾信聯合
  Subset III (baseline reference) — Firm A only
 Each subset is run through Script 20's three-method framework
 (KDE+dip, BD/McCrary, 2-component Beta mixture + logit-GMM) plus the
 2D-GMM 2-comp marginal crossing from Script 18, on the
 per-accountant means of:
  * cos_mean = AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant)
  * dh_mean  = AVG(s.min_dhash_independent)
 Time-stratified contingency analysis:
    If Subset I/II fail to expose bimodality, we re-load each
    accountant's signatures stratified into pre-2018 vs post-2020
    sub-buckets (>=5 sigs per bucket required) and re-run the
    three-method framework on the resulting bucket-level means.
    This tests whether the time axis can substitute for the
    firm-anchor axis.
 Verdict (A/B/C):
  A  Bimodal structure emerges in Subset I or II without time
     stratification, with crossings within +-0.02 (cos) / +-2.0 (dh)
     of Paper A baselines (0.945, 8.10) and dip-test multimodal at
     alpha=0.05.  -> "outside-Firm-A calibration is viable"
  B  Bimodal structure only emerges after time stratification.
     -> "time axis substitutes for firm anchor; v3.21 robustness or
     Paper C with time-stratified design"
  C  No bimodality in either; crossings are unstable / outside
     plausible range.  -> "Firm A is required as anchor; this
     strengthens Paper A's framing"
 Output:
  reports/non_firm_a_calibration/
    non_firm_a_calibration_results.json
    non_firm_a_calibration_report.md
    panel_<subset>_<measure>.png
 """
 import sqlite3
 import json
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use('Agg')
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from scipy import stats
 from scipy.signal import find_peaks
 from scipy.optimize import brentq
 from sklearn.mixture import GaussianMixture
 import diptest
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'non_firm_a_calibration')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 EPS = 1e-6
 Z_CRIT = 1.96
 MIN_SIGS = 10
 MIN_SIGS_PER_BUCKET = 5
 FIRM_A = '勤業眾信聯合'  # Deloitte
 BIG4_NON_A = ('安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')  # KPMG, PwC, EY
 PAPER_A_COS_BASELINE = 0.945
 PAPER_A_DH_BASELINE = 8.10
 # ---------- Loaders ----------
 def _accountant_means_query(firm_filter_sql, params, time_filter_sql=''):
    sql = f'''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant,
               AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
               AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
               COUNT(*) AS n
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          {firm_filter_sql}
          {time_filter_sql}
        GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
        HAVING n >= ?
    '''
    return sql, params + [MIN_SIGS]
 def load_subset(label):
    """Return (cos, dh, n_accountants, n_signatures)."""
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    if label == 'big4_non_A':
        firm_filter = 'AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?)'
        params = list(BIG4_NON_A)
    elif label == 'all_non_A':
        firm_filter = 'AND a.firm IS NOT NULL AND a.firm != ?'
        params = [FIRM_A]
    elif label == 'firm_A':
        firm_filter = 'AND a.firm = ?'
        params = [FIRM_A]
    else:
        raise ValueError(label)
    sql, p = _accountant_means_query(firm_filter, params)
    cur.execute(sql, p)
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    cos = np.array([r[1] for r in rows])
    dh = np.array([r[2] for r in rows])
    n_sigs = int(sum(r[3] for r in rows))
    return cos, dh, len(rows), n_sigs
 def load_subset_time_stratified(label, period):
    """Per-accountant means computed only from `period` signatures.
    period: 'pre_2018' (year_month < 2018-01) or 'post_2020' (>= 2020-01).
    """
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    if period == 'pre_2018':
        time_filter = "AND s.year_month < '2018-01'"
    elif period == 'post_2020':
        time_filter = "AND s.year_month >= '2020-01'"
    else:
        raise ValueError(period)
    if label == 'big4_non_A':
        firm_filter = 'AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?)'
        params = list(BIG4_NON_A)
    elif label == 'all_non_A':
        firm_filter = 'AND a.firm IS NOT NULL AND a.firm != ?'
        params = [FIRM_A]
    else:
        raise ValueError(label)
    sql = f'''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant,
               AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
               AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
               COUNT(*) AS n
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          {firm_filter}
          {time_filter}
        GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
        HAVING n >= ?
    '''
    cur.execute(sql, params + [MIN_SIGS_PER_BUCKET])
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    cos = np.array([r[1] for r in rows])
    dh = np.array([r[2] for r in rows])
    return cos, dh, len(rows), int(sum(r[3] for r in rows))
 # ---------- Methods (lifted from Script 20) ----------
 def method_kde_antimode(values):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    if len(arr) < 8:
        return {'n': int(len(arr)), 'note': 'too few points'}
    dip, pval = diptest.diptest(arr, boot_pval=True, n_boot=2000)
    kde = stats.gaussian_kde(arr, bw_method='silverman')
    xs = np.linspace(arr.min(), arr.max(), 2000)
    density = kde(xs)
    peaks, _ = find_peaks(density, prominence=density.max() * 0.02)
    antimodes = []
    for i in range(len(peaks) - 1):
        seg = density[peaks[i]:peaks[i + 1]]
        if not len(seg):
            continue
        local = peaks[i] + int(np.argmin(seg))
        antimodes.append(float(xs[local]))
    sens = {}
    for bwf in [0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0]:
        kde_s = stats.gaussian_kde(arr, bw_method=kde.factor * bwf)
        d_s = kde_s(xs)
        p_s, _ = find_peaks(d_s, prominence=d_s.max() * 0.02)
        sens[f'bw_x{bwf}'] = int(len(p_s))
    return {
        'n': int(len(arr)),
        'dip': float(dip),
        'dip_pvalue': float(pval),
        'unimodal_alpha05': bool(pval > 0.05),
        'kde_bandwidth_silverman': float(kde.factor),
        'n_modes': int(len(peaks)),
        'mode_locations': [float(xs[p]) for p in peaks],
        'antimodes': antimodes,
        'primary_antimode': (antimodes[0] if antimodes else None),
        'bandwidth_sensitivity_n_modes': sens,
    }
 def method_bd_mccrary(values, bin_width, direction):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    if len(arr) < 8:
        return {'n': int(len(arr)), 'note': 'too few points'}
    lo = float(np.floor(arr.min() / bin_width) * bin_width)
    hi = float(np.ceil(arr.max() / bin_width) * bin_width)
    edges = np.arange(lo, hi + bin_width, bin_width)
    counts, _ = np.histogram(arr, bins=edges)
    centers = (edges[:-1] + edges[1:]) / 2.0
    N = counts.sum()
    p = counts / N if N else counts.astype(float)
    n_bins = len(counts)
    z = np.full(n_bins, np.nan)
    for i in range(1, n_bins - 1):
        p_lo = p[i - 1]
        p_hi = p[i + 1]
        exp_i = 0.5 * (counts[i - 1] + counts[i + 1])
        var_i = (N * p[i] * (1 - p[i])
                 + 0.25 * N * (p_lo + p_hi) * (1 - p_lo - p_hi))
        if var_i <= 0:
            continue
        z[i] = (counts[i] - exp_i) / np.sqrt(var_i)
    transitions = []
    for i in range(1, len(z)):
        if np.isnan(z[i - 1]) or np.isnan(z[i]):
            continue
        ok = ((direction == 'neg_to_pos' and z[i - 1] < -Z_CRIT and z[i] > Z_CRIT)
              or (direction == 'pos_to_neg' and z[i - 1] > Z_CRIT and z[i] < -Z_CRIT))
        if ok:
            transitions.append({
                'threshold_between': float((centers[i - 1] + centers[i]) / 2.0),
                'z_before': float(z[i - 1]),
                'z_after': float(z[i]),
            })
    best = (max(transitions,
                key=lambda t: abs(t['z_before']) + abs(t['z_after']))
            if transitions else None)
    return {
        'n': int(len(arr)),
        'bin_width': float(bin_width),
        'direction': direction,
        'n_transitions': len(transitions),
        'transitions': transitions,
        'threshold': (best['threshold_between'] if best else None),
    }
 def fit_beta_mixture_em(x, K=2, max_iter=300, tol=1e-6, seed=42):
    x = np.clip(np.asarray(x, dtype=float), EPS, 1 - EPS)
    n = len(x)
    q = np.linspace(0, 1, K + 1)
    thresh = np.quantile(x, q[1:-1])
    labels = np.digitize(x, thresh)
    resp = np.zeros((n, K))
    resp[np.arange(n), labels] = 1.0
    ll_hist = []
    for it in range(max_iter):
        nk = resp.sum(axis=0) + 1e-12
        weights = nk / nk.sum()
        mus = (resp * x[:, None]).sum(axis=0) / nk
        var_num = (resp * (x[:, None] - mus) ** 2).sum(axis=0)
        vars_ = var_num / nk
        upper = mus * (1 - mus) - 1e-9
        vars_ = np.minimum(vars_, upper)
        vars_ = np.maximum(vars_, 1e-9)
        factor = np.maximum(mus * (1 - mus) / vars_ - 1, 1e-6)
        alphas = mus * factor
        betas = (1 - mus) * factor
        log_pdfs = np.column_stack([
            stats.beta.logpdf(x, alphas[k], betas[k]) + np.log(weights[k])
            for k in range(K)
        ])
        m = log_pdfs.max(axis=1, keepdims=True)
        ll = (m.ravel() + np.log(np.exp(log_pdfs - m).sum(axis=1))).sum()
        ll_hist.append(float(ll))
        new_resp = np.exp(log_pdfs - m)
        new_resp = new_resp / new_resp.sum(axis=1, keepdims=True)
        if it > 0 and abs(ll_hist[-1] - ll_hist[-2]) < tol:
            resp = new_resp
            break
        resp = new_resp
    order = np.argsort(mus)
    alphas = alphas[order]
    betas = betas[order]
    weights = weights[order]
    mus = mus[order]
    k_params = 3 * K - 1
    ll_final = ll_hist[-1]
    return {
        'K': K,
        'alphas': [float(a) for a in alphas],
        'betas': [float(b) for b in betas],
        'weights': [float(w) for w in weights],
        'mus': [float(m) for m in mus],
        'log_likelihood': ll_final,
        'aic': float(2 * k_params - 2 * ll_final),
        'bic': float(k_params * np.log(n) - 2 * ll_final),
        'n_iter': it + 1,
    }
 def beta_crossing(fit):
    if fit['K'] != 2:
        return None
    a1, b1, w1 = fit['alphas'][0], fit['betas'][0], fit['weights'][0]
    a2, b2, w2 = fit['alphas'][1], fit['betas'][1], fit['weights'][1]
    def diff(x):
        return (w2 * stats.beta.pdf(x, a2, b2)
                - w1 * stats.beta.pdf(x, a1, b1))
    xs = np.linspace(EPS, 1 - EPS, 2000)
    ys = diff(xs)
    changes = np.where(np.diff(np.sign(ys)) != 0)[0]
    if not len(changes):
        return None
    mid = 0.5 * (fit['mus'][0] + fit['mus'][1])
    crossings = []
    for i in changes:
        try:
            crossings.append(brentq(diff, xs[i], xs[i + 1]))
        except ValueError:
            continue
    if not crossings:
        return None
    return float(min(crossings, key=lambda c: abs(c - mid)))
 def fit_logit_gmm(x, K=2, seed=42):
    x = np.clip(np.asarray(x, dtype=float), EPS, 1 - EPS)
    z = np.log(x / (1 - x)).reshape(-1, 1)
    gmm = GaussianMixture(n_components=K, random_state=seed,
                          max_iter=500).fit(z)
    order = np.argsort(gmm.means_.ravel())
    means = gmm.means_.ravel()[order]
    stds = np.sqrt(gmm.covariances_.ravel())[order]
    weights = gmm.weights_[order]
    crossing = None
    if K == 2:
        m1, s1, w1 = means[0], stds[0], weights[0]
        m2, s2, w2 = means[1], stds[1], weights[1]
        def diff(z0):
            return (w2 * stats.norm.pdf(z0, m2, s2)
                    - w1 * stats.norm.pdf(z0, m1, s1))
        zs = np.linspace(min(m1, m2) - 2, max(m1, m2) + 2, 2000)
        ys = diff(zs)
        ch = np.where(np.diff(np.sign(ys)) != 0)[0]
        if len(ch):
            try:
                z_cross = brentq(diff, zs[ch[0]], zs[ch[0] + 1])
                crossing = float(1 / (1 + np.exp(-z_cross)))
            except ValueError:
                pass
    return {
        'K': K,
        'means_logit': [float(m) for m in means],
        'stds_logit': [float(s) for s in stds],
        'weights': [float(w) for w in weights],
        'means_original_scale': [float(1 / (1 + np.exp(-m))) for m in means],
        'aic': float(gmm.aic(z)),
        'bic': float(gmm.bic(z)),
        'crossing_original': crossing,
    }
 def method_beta_mixture(values, is_cosine=True):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    if len(arr) < 8:
        return {'n': int(len(arr)), 'note': 'too few points'}
    x = arr if is_cosine else arr / 64.0
    beta2 = fit_beta_mixture_em(x, K=2)
    beta3 = fit_beta_mixture_em(x, K=3)
    cross_beta2 = beta_crossing(beta2)
    if not is_cosine and cross_beta2 is not None:
        cross_beta2 = cross_beta2 * 64.0
    gmm2 = fit_logit_gmm(x, K=2)
    gmm3 = fit_logit_gmm(x, K=3)
    if not is_cosine and gmm2.get('crossing_original') is not None:
        gmm2['crossing_original'] = gmm2['crossing_original'] * 64.0
    return {
        'n': int(len(x)),
        'scale_transform': ('identity' if is_cosine else 'dhash/64'),
        'beta_2': beta2,
        'beta_3': beta3,
        'bic_preferred_K': (2 if beta2['bic'] < beta3['bic'] else 3),
        'beta_2_crossing_original': cross_beta2,
        'logit_gmm_2': gmm2,
        'logit_gmm_3': gmm3,
    }
 def gmm_2d_marginal_crossing(cos, dh, dim):
    """2-comp 2D GMM, then marginal crossing on the requested dim."""
    X = np.column_stack([cos, dh])
    if len(X) < 8:
        return None
    gmm = GaussianMixture(n_components=2, covariance_type='full',
                          random_state=42, n_init=15, max_iter=500).fit(X)
    means = gmm.means_
    covs = gmm.covariances_
    weights = gmm.weights_
    m1, m2 = means[0][dim], means[1][dim]
    s1 = np.sqrt(covs[0][dim, dim])
    s2 = np.sqrt(covs[1][dim, dim])
    w1, w2 = weights[0], weights[1]
    def diff(x):
        return (w2 * stats.norm.pdf(x, m2, s2)
                - w1 * stats.norm.pdf(x, m1, s1))
    xs = np.linspace(float(X[:, dim].min()), float(X[:, dim].max()), 2000)
    ys = diff(xs)
    ch = np.where(np.diff(np.sign(ys)) != 0)[0]
    if not len(ch):
        return None
    mid = 0.5 * (m1 + m2)
    crossings = []
    for i in ch:
        try:
            crossings.append(brentq(diff, xs[i], xs[i + 1]))
        except ValueError:
            continue
    if not crossings:
        return None
    return float(min(crossings, key=lambda c: abs(c - mid)))
 def gmm_2d_3comp_summary(cos, dh):
    """K=3 2D GMM for completeness; report component means + weights."""
    X = np.column_stack([cos, dh])
    if len(X) < 12:
        return None
    gmm = GaussianMixture(n_components=3, covariance_type='full',
                          random_state=42, n_init=15, max_iter=500).fit(X)
    order = np.argsort(gmm.means_[:, 0])  # sort by cosine ascending
    return {
        'means': [[float(m[0]), float(m[1])] for m in gmm.means_[order]],
        'weights': [float(w) for w in gmm.weights_[order]],
        'bic': float(gmm.bic(X)),
        'aic': float(gmm.aic(X)),
    }
 # ---------- Driver ----------
 def run_three_method(cos, dh, label):
    results = {}
    for desc, arr, bin_width, direction, is_cos in [
        ('cos_mean', cos, 0.002, 'neg_to_pos', True),
        ('dh_mean', dh, 0.2, 'pos_to_neg', False),
    ]:
        m1 = method_kde_antimode(arr)
        m2 = method_bd_mccrary(arr, bin_width, direction)
        m3 = method_beta_mixture(arr, is_cosine=is_cos)
        gmm2_marginal = gmm_2d_marginal_crossing(
            cos, dh, dim=(0 if desc == 'cos_mean' else 1))
        results[desc] = {
            'method_1_kde_antimode': m1,
            'method_2_bd_mccrary': m2,
            'method_3_beta_mixture': m3,
            'gmm_2d_2comp_marginal_crossing': gmm2_marginal,
        }
    results['gmm_2d_3comp'] = gmm_2d_3comp_summary(cos, dh)
    return results
 def plot_panel(values, methods, title, out_path, bin_width=None):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 1, figsize=(11, 7),
                             gridspec_kw={'height_ratios': [3, 1]})
    ax = axes[0]
    if bin_width is None:
        bins = 40
    else:
        lo = float(np.floor(arr.min() / bin_width) * bin_width)
        hi = float(np.ceil(arr.max() / bin_width) * bin_width)
        bins = np.arange(lo, hi + bin_width, bin_width)
    ax.hist(arr, bins=bins, density=True, alpha=0.55, color='steelblue',
            edgecolor='white')
    kde = stats.gaussian_kde(arr, bw_method='silverman')
    xs = np.linspace(arr.min(), arr.max(), 500)
    ax.plot(xs, kde(xs), 'g-', lw=1.5, label='KDE (Silverman)')
    colors = {'kde': 'green', 'bd': 'red', 'beta': 'purple',
              'gmm2': 'orange', 'baseline': 'black'}
    for key, (val, lbl) in methods.items():
        if val is None:
            continue
        ls = ':' if key == 'baseline' else '--'
        ax.axvline(val, color=colors.get(key, 'gray'), lw=2, ls=ls,
                   label=f'{lbl} = {val:.4f}')
    ax.set_xlabel(title)
    ax.set_ylabel('Density')
    ax.set_title(title)
    ax.legend(fontsize=8)
    ax2 = axes[1]
    ax2.set_title('Thresholds across methods')
    ax2.set_xlim(ax.get_xlim())
    for i, (key, (val, lbl)) in enumerate(methods.items()):
        if val is None:
            continue
        ax2.scatter([val], [i], color=colors.get(key, 'gray'), s=100, zorder=3)
        ax2.annotate(f'  {lbl}: {val:.4f}', (val, i), fontsize=8, va='center')
    ax2.set_yticks(range(len(methods)))
    ax2.set_yticklabels([m for m in methods.keys()])
    ax2.grid(alpha=0.3)
    plt.tight_layout()
    fig.savefig(out_path, dpi=150)
    plt.close()
 def emit_panel(subset_label, results):
    for desc, bin_width in [('cos_mean', 0.002), ('dh_mean', 0.2)]:
        if 'note' in results[desc]['method_1_kde_antimode']:
            continue
        baseline = (PAPER_A_COS_BASELINE if desc == 'cos_mean'
                    else PAPER_A_DH_BASELINE)
        methods_for_plot = {
            'kde': (results[desc]['method_1_kde_antimode'].get('primary_antimode'),
                    'KDE antimode'),
            'bd': (results[desc]['method_2_bd_mccrary'].get('threshold'),
                   'BD/McCrary'),
            'beta': (results[desc]['method_3_beta_mixture'].get(
                'beta_2_crossing_original'), 'Beta-2 crossing'),
            'gmm2': (results[desc]['gmm_2d_2comp_marginal_crossing'],
                     '2D GMM 2-comp'),
            'baseline': (baseline, f'Paper A baseline'),
        }
        # Need data array for the plot; reload for size only
        arr = np.array([])  # filled by caller via closure if needed
        # Plot caller passes arr
        return methods_for_plot
    return None
 def classify_verdict(results_by_subset):
    """Return ('A'|'B'|'C', explanation)."""
    def well_separated(res, baseline_cos, baseline_dh):
        cos_cross = res['cos_mean']['method_3_beta_mixture'].get(
            'beta_2_crossing_original')
        dh_cross = res['dh_mean']['method_3_beta_mixture'].get(
            'beta_2_crossing_original')
        cos_dip_p = res['cos_mean']['method_1_kde_antimode'].get('dip_pvalue')
        dh_dip_p = res['dh_mean']['method_1_kde_antimode'].get('dip_pvalue')
        cos_ok = (cos_cross is not None
                  and abs(cos_cross - baseline_cos) <= 0.02
                  and cos_dip_p is not None and cos_dip_p <= 0.05)
        dh_ok = (dh_cross is not None
                 and abs(dh_cross - baseline_dh) <= 2.0
                 and dh_dip_p is not None and dh_dip_p <= 0.05)
        return cos_ok, dh_ok
    for subset in ('big4_non_A', 'all_non_A'):
        res = results_by_subset.get(subset)
        if not res:
            continue
        cos_ok, dh_ok = well_separated(res, PAPER_A_COS_BASELINE,
                                       PAPER_A_DH_BASELINE)
        if cos_ok and dh_ok:
            return 'A', (f"Subset '{subset}' shows bimodal cos+dh with "
                         f"crossings within tolerance of Paper A baselines.")
    # B: time-stratified rescues it?
    for subset_period in ('big4_non_A_pre_2018',
                          'big4_non_A_post_2020',
                          'all_non_A_pre_2018',
                          'all_non_A_post_2020'):
        res = results_by_subset.get(subset_period)
        if not res:
            continue
        cos_ok, dh_ok = well_separated(res, PAPER_A_COS_BASELINE,
                                       PAPER_A_DH_BASELINE)
        if cos_ok and dh_ok:
            return 'B', (f"Time-stratified subset '{subset_period}' recovers "
                         f"separable bimodality.")
    return 'C', ("Neither pooled nor time-stratified non-Firm-A calibration "
                 "produces a baseline-consistent bimodal threshold.")
 def render_report(results_by_subset, sample_sizes, verdict):
    md = [
        '# Non-Firm-A Calibration Spike (Script 32)',
        f"Generated: {datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}",
        '',
        '## Research Question',
        '',
        ('If we exclude Firm A (Deloitte) from calibration, can the '
         'three-method framework still recover a meaningful '
         'cosine / dHash threshold at the accountant level?'),
        '',
        '## Sample Sizes',
        '',
        '| Subset | N accountants (>=10 sigs) | N signatures |',
        '|--------|---------------------------|--------------|',
    ]
    for label, (n_acc, n_sig) in sample_sizes.items():
        md.append(f'| `{label}` | {n_acc} | {n_sig} |')
    md += ['',
           '## Paper A Baselines (for comparison)',
           '',
           f'- Accountant-level 2D GMM 2-comp marginal crossings: '
           f'cos = **{PAPER_A_COS_BASELINE}**, dHash = **{PAPER_A_DH_BASELINE}**',
           '']
    for label, results in results_by_subset.items():
        md += [f'## Subset: `{label}`', '']
        for measure, baseline in [('cos_mean', PAPER_A_COS_BASELINE),
                                  ('dh_mean', PAPER_A_DH_BASELINE)]:
            r = results[measure]
            md += [f'### {measure}', '',
                   '| Method | Threshold | Supporting statistic |',
                   '|--------|-----------|----------------------|']
            kde = r['method_1_kde_antimode']
            if 'note' in kde:
                md.append(f'| Method 1: KDE+dip | n/a | {kde["note"]} |')
            else:
                tag = 'unimodal' if kde['unimodal_alpha05'] else 'multimodal'
                md.append(
                    f'| Method 1: KDE antimode (dip test) | '
                    f'{kde["primary_antimode"]} | '
                    f'dip={kde["dip"]:.4f}, p={kde["dip_pvalue"]:.4f} '
                    f'({tag}); n_modes={kde["n_modes"]} |')
            bd = r['method_2_bd_mccrary']
            md.append(
                f'| Method 2: BD/McCrary | {bd.get("threshold")} | '
                f'{bd.get("n_transitions", 0)} transition(s) |')
            beta = r['method_3_beta_mixture']
            if 'note' in beta:
                md.append(f'| Method 3: Beta mixture | n/a | {beta["note"]} |')
            else:
                md.append(
                    f'| Method 3: 2-comp Beta mixture | '
                    f'{beta["beta_2_crossing_original"]} | '
                    f'Beta-2 BIC={beta["beta_2"]["bic"]:.2f}, '
                    f'Beta-3 BIC={beta["beta_3"]["bic"]:.2f} '
                    f'(K*={beta["bic_preferred_K"]}) |')
                md.append(
                    f'| Method 3\': LogGMM-2 | '
                    f'{beta["logit_gmm_2"].get("crossing_original")} | '
                    f'logit-Gaussian robustness check |')
            md.append(
                f'| 2D GMM 2-comp marginal crossing | '
                f'{r["gmm_2d_2comp_marginal_crossing"]} | '
                f'paired with Paper A baseline = {baseline} |')
            md.append('')
        if results.get('gmm_2d_3comp'):
            g3 = results['gmm_2d_3comp']
            md += ['### 2D GMM K=3 components (for completeness)',
                   '',
                   '| Component | mean cos | mean dh | weight |',
                   '|-----------|----------|---------|--------|']
            for i, (m, w) in enumerate(zip(g3['means'], g3['weights'])):
                md.append(f'| C{i + 1} | {m[0]:.4f} | {m[1]:.4f} | {w:.3f} |')
            md.append('')
            md.append(f'BIC(K=3 2D)={g3["bic"]:.2f}, AIC={g3["aic"]:.2f}')
            md.append('')
    md += ['## Verdict',
           '',
           f'**{verdict[0]}** — {verdict[1]}',
           '',
           '### Verdict legend',
           '- **A**: outside-Firm-A calibration is viable in pooled form '
           '(crossings within +-0.02 cos / +-2.0 dh of Paper A baselines '
           'AND dip-test multimodal at alpha=0.05).',
           '- **B**: time-stratified subset recovers separable bimodality.',
           '- **C**: neither rescue works; Firm A remains required as anchor.',
           '']
    return '\n'.join(md)
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 32: Non-Firm-A Calibration Spike')
    print('=' * 72)
    sample_sizes = {}
    results_by_subset = {}
    arrays_by_subset = {}
    # --- Pooled subsets ---
    for label in ('big4_non_A', 'all_non_A', 'firm_A'):
        cos, dh, n_acc, n_sig = load_subset(label)
        sample_sizes[label] = (n_acc, n_sig)
        arrays_by_subset[label] = (cos, dh)
        print(f'\n[{label}] N accountants={n_acc}, N sigs={n_sig}')
        results_by_subset[label] = run_three_method(cos, dh, label)
        for desc in ('cos_mean', 'dh_mean'):
            r = results_by_subset[label][desc]
            kde = r['method_1_kde_antimode']
            beta = r['method_3_beta_mixture']
            print(f'  {desc}: dip p={kde.get("dip_pvalue")} '
                  f'(n_modes={kde.get("n_modes")}); '
                  f'Beta-2 cross={beta.get("beta_2_crossing_original")}; '
                  f'2D-GMM marginal={r["gmm_2d_2comp_marginal_crossing"]}')
    # --- Time-stratified secondary (run unconditionally; verdict logic decides) ---
    for label in ('big4_non_A', 'all_non_A'):
        for period in ('pre_2018', 'post_2020'):
            cos, dh, n_acc, n_sig = load_subset_time_stratified(label, period)
            key = f'{label}_{period}'
            sample_sizes[key] = (n_acc, n_sig)
            arrays_by_subset[key] = (cos, dh)
            print(f'\n[{key}] N accountants={n_acc}, N sigs={n_sig}')
            if n_acc < 8:
                print(f'  (skipped: too few accountants for analysis)')
                continue
            results_by_subset[key] = run_three_method(cos, dh, key)
            for desc in ('cos_mean', 'dh_mean'):
                r = results_by_subset[key][desc]
                kde = r['method_1_kde_antimode']
                beta = r['method_3_beta_mixture']
                print(f'  {desc}: dip p={kde.get("dip_pvalue")} '
                      f'(n_modes={kde.get("n_modes")}); '
                      f'Beta-2 cross={beta.get("beta_2_crossing_original")}; '
                      f'2D-GMM marginal={r["gmm_2d_2comp_marginal_crossing"]}')
    # --- Plots ---
    for label, results in results_by_subset.items():
        cos, dh = arrays_by_subset[label]
        for desc, arr, bin_width, baseline in [
            ('cos_mean', cos, 0.002, PAPER_A_COS_BASELINE),
            ('dh_mean', dh, 0.2, PAPER_A_DH_BASELINE),
        ]:
            r = results[desc]
            if 'note' in r['method_1_kde_antimode']:
                continue
            methods_for_plot = {
                'kde': (r['method_1_kde_antimode'].get('primary_antimode'),
                        'KDE antimode'),
                'bd': (r['method_2_bd_mccrary'].get('threshold'),
                       'BD/McCrary'),
                'beta': (r['method_3_beta_mixture'].get(
                    'beta_2_crossing_original'), 'Beta-2 crossing'),
                'gmm2': (r['gmm_2d_2comp_marginal_crossing'],
                         '2D GMM 2-comp'),
                'baseline': (baseline, 'Paper A baseline'),
            }
            png = OUT / f'panel_{label}_{desc}.png'
            plot_panel(arr, methods_for_plot,
                       f'{label} -- accountant-level {desc}',
                       png, bin_width=bin_width)
            print(f'  plot: {png}')
    # --- Verdict ---
    verdict = classify_verdict(results_by_subset)
    print(f'\nVerdict: {verdict[0]} -- {verdict[1]}')
    # --- Persist ---
    payload = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(),
        'min_sigs_per_accountant': MIN_SIGS,
        'min_sigs_per_bucket_time_stratified': MIN_SIGS_PER_BUCKET,
        'paper_a_baselines': {
            'cos': PAPER_A_COS_BASELINE,
            'dh': PAPER_A_DH_BASELINE,
        },
        'sample_sizes': {k: {'n_accountants': v[0], 'n_signatures': v[1]}
                          for k, v in sample_sizes.items()},
        'results': results_by_subset,
        'verdict': {'class': verdict[0], 'explanation': verdict[1]},
    }
    (OUT / 'non_firm_a_calibration_results.json').write_text(
        json.dumps(payload, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\nJSON: {OUT / "non_firm_a_calibration_results.json"}')
    md = render_report(results_by_subset, sample_sizes, verdict)
    (OUT / 'non_firm_a_calibration_report.md').write_text(md, encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Report: {OUT / "non_firm_a_calibration_report.md"}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 33: Reverse-Anchor Spike
 ================================
 Follow-up to Script 32 verdict C.
 Hypothesis:
    Instead of using Firm A as the "hand-signed anchor" (Paper A's
    framing), use the non-Firm-A population as the
    "fully-replicated reference" and detect hand-signed CPAs by
    their deviation from that reference.
 Why this might be better:
  * Reference population is 3x larger (515 vs 171 accountants)
  * Removes the "why is Firm A ground truth?" reviewer attack
  * Firm A becomes a validation target, not the calibration anchor
 Pipeline:
  1. Build 2D Gaussian reference from all_non_A accountant means
     (cos_mean, dh_mean), with robust covariance estimate.
  2. Score every Firm A accountant by:
       * Mahalanobis distance to the reference center
       * Log-likelihood under the 2D Gaussian reference
       * Tail percentile in the marginal cosine direction
         (low = more hand-signed-like)
  3. Cross-validate against Paper A's existing per-CPA hand-sign
     proxy: fraction of that CPA's signatures with
       (cos < 0.95) OR (dh > 5)
     This is the same operational rule used in Paper A v3.20.0
     (cos>0.95 AND dh<=5 -> non-hand-signed) inverted to a hand-sign
     fraction.
  4. Verdict on Paper C viability (uses the directional metric
     -cos_left_tail_pct as primary; symmetric Mahalanobis confounds
     "more-replicated" and "more-hand-signed" anomaly directions):
       PAPER_C_STRONG    Spearman rho_directional >= 0.70
       PAPER_C_PARTIAL   0.40 <= rho_directional < 0.70
       PAPER_C_WEAK      rho_directional < 0.40 OR n_firmA < 30
     A large |rho_mahalanobis| with opposite sign is reported as
     "two-sided anomaly" diagnostic (Firm A bifurcates into both
     extreme-replicated and hand-signed sub-populations).
 Output:
  reports/reverse_anchor_spike/
    reverse_anchor_results.json
    reverse_anchor_report.md
    scatter_anomaly_vs_paperA.png
    ranked_firmA_cpas.csv
 """
 import sqlite3
 import json
 import csv
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use('Agg')
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from scipy import stats
 from sklearn.covariance import MinCovDet
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'reverse_anchor_spike')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 FIRM_A = '勤業眾信聯合'  # Deloitte
 MIN_SIGS = 10
 # Paper A v3.20.0 operational signature-level rule (non-hand-signed):
 #   cos > 0.95 AND dh_indep <= 5
 # Hand-sign fraction = 1 - (fraction passing this rule)
 PAPER_A_COS_CUT = 0.95
 PAPER_A_DH_CUT = 5
 def load_accountant_table(firm_filter_sql, params):
    """Return list of (name, cos_mean, dh_mean, hand_frac, n)."""
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    sql = f'''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant,
               AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
               AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
               AVG(CASE
                     WHEN s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant > ?
                          AND s.min_dhash_independent <= ?
                     THEN 0.0 ELSE 1.0
                   END) AS hand_frac,
               COUNT(*) AS n
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          {firm_filter_sql}
        GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
        HAVING n >= ?
    '''
    cur.execute(sql, [PAPER_A_COS_CUT, PAPER_A_DH_CUT] + params + [MIN_SIGS])
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return [(r[0], float(r[1]), float(r[2]), float(r[3]), int(r[4]))
            for r in rows]
 def fit_reference_gaussian(points):
    """Fit a 2D Gaussian to the reference population using MCD for
    robustness against the small handful of non-Firm-A CPAs that may
    themselves contain hand-signed contamination.
    """
    X = np.asarray(points, dtype=float)
    mcd = MinCovDet(random_state=42, support_fraction=0.85).fit(X)
    return {
        'mean': mcd.location_,
        'cov': mcd.covariance_,
        'cov_inv': np.linalg.inv(mcd.covariance_),
        'support_fraction': 0.85,
        'n_reference': int(len(X)),
    }
 def score_under_reference(point, ref):
    """Return (mahalanobis_distance, log_likelihood, tail_percentile_cos).
    tail_percentile_cos: P(reference cosine <= point_cos) -- a small
    value means the point sits in the LEFT tail of the reference
    cosine distribution (lower than typical replicated population),
    which is the direction we expect for hand-signed CPAs.
    """
    diff = np.asarray(point, dtype=float) - ref['mean']
    md_sq = float(diff @ ref['cov_inv'] @ diff)
    md = float(np.sqrt(max(md_sq, 0.0)))
    # Multivariate normal log-likelihood (kernel only matters for ranking)
    sign, logdet = np.linalg.slogdet(ref['cov'])
    ll = float(-0.5 * (md_sq + logdet + 2 * np.log(2 * np.pi)))
    # Marginal cosine tail percentile under reference Gaussian
    mu_c = ref['mean'][0]
    sd_c = float(np.sqrt(ref['cov'][0, 0]))
    tail = float(stats.norm.cdf(point[0], loc=mu_c, scale=sd_c))
    return md, ll, tail
 def render_scatter(firmA_data, ref, out_path):
    """Anomaly score (Mahalanobis) vs Paper A hand-sign fraction."""
    md = np.array([d['mahalanobis'] for d in firmA_data])
    hf = np.array([d['paperA_hand_frac'] for d in firmA_data])
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 6))
    ax.scatter(md, hf, s=40, alpha=0.6, color='steelblue', edgecolor='white')
    rho, p = stats.spearmanr(md, hf)
    pearson_r, pearson_p = stats.pearsonr(md, hf)
    ax.set_xlabel('Mahalanobis distance to non-Firm-A reference '
                  '(higher = more anomalous)')
    ax.set_ylabel('Paper A signature-level hand-sign fraction\n'
                  '(NOT [cos>0.95 AND dh<=5])')
    ax.set_title(f'Firm A CPAs: reverse-anchor anomaly vs Paper A label\n'
                 f'Spearman rho={rho:.3f} (p={p:.2e}); '
                 f'Pearson r={pearson_r:.3f}')
    ax.grid(alpha=0.3)
    fig.tight_layout()
    fig.savefig(out_path, dpi=150)
    plt.close(fig)
    return float(rho), float(p), float(pearson_r), float(pearson_p)
 def render_2d_overlay(ref_points, firmA_points, ref, out_path):
    """2D scatter of both populations + reference center + 1/2/3-sigma
    Mahalanobis ellipses."""
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9, 7))
    ax.scatter(ref_points[:, 0], ref_points[:, 1], s=18, alpha=0.4,
               color='gray', label=f'Non-Firm-A CPAs (n={len(ref_points)})')
    ax.scatter(firmA_points[:, 0], firmA_points[:, 1], s=42, alpha=0.85,
               color='crimson', edgecolor='white',
               label=f'Firm A CPAs (n={len(firmA_points)})')
    # Reference Gaussian ellipses
    eigvals, eigvecs = np.linalg.eigh(ref['cov'])
    angle = float(np.degrees(np.arctan2(eigvecs[1, 0], eigvecs[0, 0])))
    from matplotlib.patches import Ellipse
    for k_sigma, ls in [(1, '-'), (2, '--'), (3, ':')]:
        width = 2 * k_sigma * float(np.sqrt(eigvals[0]))
        height = 2 * k_sigma * float(np.sqrt(eigvals[1]))
        e = Ellipse(xy=ref['mean'], width=width, height=height, angle=angle,
                    fill=False, edgecolor='black', lw=1.4, ls=ls,
                    label=f'{k_sigma}-sigma reference contour')
        ax.add_patch(e)
    ax.scatter([ref['mean'][0]], [ref['mean'][1]], marker='+', s=160,
               color='black', label='Reference center (MCD)')
    ax.set_xlabel('Accountant cos_mean')
    ax.set_ylabel('Accountant dh_mean')
    ax.set_title('Reverse-anchor: non-Firm-A reference Gaussian + Firm A overlay')
    ax.legend(fontsize=8, loc='upper right')
    ax.grid(alpha=0.3)
    fig.tight_layout()
    fig.savefig(out_path, dpi=150)
    plt.close(fig)
 def classify_verdict(rho_directional, p_directional, rho_mahalanobis,
                     n_firmA):
    bifurcation = (
        f'(diagnostic: rho_mahalanobis={rho_mahalanobis:.3f} -- a large '
        f'magnitude with opposite sign indicates Firm A bifurcates into '
        f'BOTH ultra-replicated and hand-signed sub-populations relative '
        f'to the non-Firm-A reference center, rather than only deviating '
        f'in the hand-sign direction.)')
    if n_firmA < 30:
        return 'PAPER_C_WEAK', (
            f'Only {n_firmA} Firm A CPAs meet n>=10 -- statistical '
            f'underpowering precludes a reliable correlation.')
    if rho_directional >= 0.70 and p_directional < 0.001:
        return 'PAPER_C_STRONG', (
            f'Directional Spearman rho={rho_directional:.3f} '
            f'(p={p_directional:.2e}) -- reverse-anchor with directional '
            f'cosine-left-tail score recovers Paper A label; Paper C '
            f'viable. {bifurcation}')
    if rho_directional >= 0.40 and p_directional < 0.05:
        return 'PAPER_C_PARTIAL', (
            f'Directional Spearman rho={rho_directional:.3f} '
            f'(p={p_directional:.2e}) -- moderate directional alignment; '
            f'reverse-anchor captures part of the signal. {bifurcation}')
    return 'PAPER_C_WEAK', (
        f'Directional Spearman rho={rho_directional:.3f} '
        f'(p={p_directional:.2e}) -- reverse-anchor diverges from Paper '
        f'A label even in the directional formulation. {bifurcation}')
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 33: Reverse-Anchor Spike')
    print('=' * 72)
    # 1. Reference: all_non_A
    ref_rows = load_accountant_table(
        'AND a.firm IS NOT NULL AND a.firm != ?', [FIRM_A])
    print(f'\nReference population (all_non_A): {len(ref_rows)} CPAs')
    ref_points = np.array([[r[1], r[2]] for r in ref_rows])
    ref = fit_reference_gaussian(ref_points)
    print(f'  Reference center (MCD): cos={ref["mean"][0]:.4f}, '
          f'dh={ref["mean"][1]:.4f}')
    print(f'  Reference cov diag: var(cos)={ref["cov"][0,0]:.5f}, '
          f'var(dh)={ref["cov"][1,1]:.4f}, '
          f'cov(cos,dh)={ref["cov"][0,1]:.5f}')
    # 2. Score: Firm A
    firmA_rows = load_accountant_table('AND a.firm = ?', [FIRM_A])
    print(f'\nTarget population (Firm A): {len(firmA_rows)} CPAs')
    firmA_points = np.array([[r[1], r[2]] for r in firmA_rows])
    firmA_data = []
    for (name, cos_m, dh_m, hand_frac, n_sig) in firmA_rows:
        md, ll, tail_cos = score_under_reference([cos_m, dh_m], ref)
        firmA_data.append({
            'cpa': name,
            'n_signatures': n_sig,
            'cos_mean': cos_m,
            'dh_mean': dh_m,
            'paperA_hand_frac': hand_frac,
            'mahalanobis': md,
            'log_likelihood': ll,
            'cos_left_tail_pct': tail_cos,
        })
    # 3. Scatter + correlation
    scatter_png = OUT / 'scatter_anomaly_vs_paperA.png'
    rho, rho_p, pearson_r, pearson_p = render_scatter(
        firmA_data, ref, scatter_png)
    print(f'\nSpearman rho (Mahalanobis vs Paper A hand_frac) = '
          f'{rho:.4f} (p={rho_p:.2e})')
    print(f'Pearson  r              = {pearson_r:.4f} (p={pearson_p:.2e})')
    # Also Spearman for log-likelihood (negated, since higher LL = less anomalous)
    md_arr = np.array([d['mahalanobis'] for d in firmA_data])
    ll_arr = np.array([d['log_likelihood'] for d in firmA_data])
    tail_arr = np.array([d['cos_left_tail_pct'] for d in firmA_data])
    hf_arr = np.array([d['paperA_hand_frac'] for d in firmA_data])
    rho_ll, p_ll = stats.spearmanr(-ll_arr, hf_arr)
    rho_tail, p_tail = stats.spearmanr(-tail_arr, hf_arr)  # negated: small tail = high hand_frac expected
    print(f'Spearman rho (-log-likelihood vs hand_frac) = '
          f'{rho_ll:.4f} (p={p_ll:.2e})')
    print(f'Spearman rho (-cos_left_tail_pct vs hand_frac) = '
          f'{rho_tail:.4f} (p={p_tail:.2e})')
    # 2D overlay
    overlay_png = OUT / 'overlay_2d_reference_vs_firmA.png'
    render_2d_overlay(ref_points, firmA_points, ref, overlay_png)
    print(f'\nPlots: {scatter_png}, {overlay_png}')
    # 4. Verdict (using directional metric as primary; symmetric Mahalanobis
    #    confounds anomaly direction). rho_tail = corr(-cos_left_tail_pct,
    #    hand_frac); positive value means low-cos-percentile CPAs (those
    #    sitting in the LEFT tail of the non-Firm-A reference cosine
    #    distribution) carry the higher Paper A hand-sign fraction --
    #    exactly the directional reverse-anchor signal we want.
    rho_directional = float(rho_tail)
    p_directional = float(p_tail)
    verdict_class, verdict_msg = classify_verdict(
        rho_directional, p_directional, float(rho), len(firmA_data))
    print(f'\nVerdict: {verdict_class} -- {verdict_msg}')
    # Persist ranked CSV
    csv_path = OUT / 'ranked_firmA_cpas.csv'
    with open(csv_path, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.writer(f)
        w.writerow(['rank_by_mahalanobis', 'cpa', 'n_signatures',
                    'cos_mean', 'dh_mean', 'paperA_hand_frac',
                    'mahalanobis', 'log_likelihood', 'cos_left_tail_pct'])
        ranked = sorted(firmA_data, key=lambda d: -d['mahalanobis'])
        for i, d in enumerate(ranked, 1):
            w.writerow([i, d['cpa'], d['n_signatures'],
                        f'{d["cos_mean"]:.4f}', f'{d["dh_mean"]:.4f}',
                        f'{d["paperA_hand_frac"]:.4f}',
                        f'{d["mahalanobis"]:.4f}',
                        f'{d["log_likelihood"]:.4f}',
                        f'{d["cos_left_tail_pct"]:.4f}'])
    print(f'CSV: {csv_path}')
    # JSON
    payload = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(),
        'paper_a_operational_cuts': {'cos': PAPER_A_COS_CUT,
                                      'dh': PAPER_A_DH_CUT},
        'min_signatures_per_accountant': MIN_SIGS,
        'reference': {
            'population': 'all_non_A',
            'n_cpas': int(len(ref_rows)),
            'mean': [float(x) for x in ref['mean']],
            'cov': [[float(x) for x in row] for row in ref['cov']],
            'mcd_support_fraction': ref['support_fraction'],
        },
        'firm_a': {
            'n_cpas': int(len(firmA_data)),
            'records': firmA_data,
        },
        'correlations': {
            'spearman_mahalanobis_vs_handfrac': {
                'rho': float(rho), 'p': float(rho_p),
            },
            'pearson_mahalanobis_vs_handfrac': {
                'r': float(pearson_r), 'p': float(pearson_p),
            },
            'spearman_neglogL_vs_handfrac': {
                'rho': float(rho_ll), 'p': float(p_ll),
            },
            'spearman_negcostail_vs_handfrac': {
                'rho': float(rho_tail), 'p': float(p_tail),
            },
        },
        'verdict': {'class': verdict_class, 'explanation': verdict_msg},
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'reverse_anchor_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'JSON: {json_path}')
    # Markdown
    md = [
        '# Reverse-Anchor Spike (Script 33)',
        f'Generated: {datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}',
        '',
        '## Hypothesis',
        '',
        ('Use the non-Firm-A population (n=515 CPAs) as a "fully-replicated '
         'reference" and detect hand-signed CPAs by deviation from that '
         'reference, instead of using Firm A as the hand-signed anchor.'),
        '',
        '## Reference Population',
        '',
        f'- All non-Firm-A CPAs with n_signatures >= {MIN_SIGS}: '
        f'**{len(ref_rows)} CPAs**',
        f'- 2D Gaussian fit (MCD, support_fraction=0.85) to '
        f'(cos_mean, dh_mean):',
        f'  - center: cos = **{ref["mean"][0]:.4f}**, dh = '
        f'**{ref["mean"][1]:.4f}**',
        f'  - var(cos) = {ref["cov"][0,0]:.5f}, var(dh) = '
        f'{ref["cov"][1,1]:.4f}, cov(cos,dh) = {ref["cov"][0,1]:.5f}',
        '',
        '## Target Population',
        '',
        f'- Firm A (Deloitte) CPAs with n_signatures >= {MIN_SIGS}: '
        f'**{len(firmA_data)} CPAs**',
        '',
        '## Validation against Paper A label',
        '',
        ('Paper A operational rule: a signature is non-hand-signed iff '
         f'cos > {PAPER_A_COS_CUT} AND dh_indep <= {PAPER_A_DH_CUT}. '
         'For each CPA we compute hand_frac = 1 - mean(rule passes).'),
        '',
        '| Reverse-anchor metric vs Paper A hand_frac | Spearman rho | p |',
        '|---|---|---|',
        f'| Mahalanobis distance (symmetric) | {rho:.4f} | {rho_p:.2e} |',
        f'| -log-likelihood (symmetric) | {rho_ll:.4f} | {p_ll:.2e} |',
        f'| -cos_left_tail_percentile (**directional**) | '
        f'**{rho_tail:.4f}** | {p_tail:.2e} |',
        f'| Pearson(Mahalanobis, hand_frac) | {pearson_r:.4f} (r) | '
        f'{pearson_p:.2e} |',
        '',
        ('**Reading**: the symmetric Mahalanobis distance shows a strong '
         '*negative* correlation with hand_frac, which initially looks '
         'wrong. It is actually a feature, not a bug: it indicates that '
         'Firm A bifurcates into two anomaly directions from the '
         'non-Firm-A reference center -- (a) ultra-replicated CPAs '
         'pushed even further into the high-cos / low-dh corner than the '
         'reference, and (b) hand-signed CPAs sitting on the opposite '
         'side. Mahalanobis distance lumps both into a single positive '
         'magnitude. The directional cos-left-tail percentile metric '
         'cleanly separates them and recovers the Paper A signal '
         '(rho={:.3f}).').format(rho_tail),
        '',
        '## Verdict',
        '',
        f'**{verdict_class}** -- {verdict_msg}',
        '',
        '### Verdict legend',
        '- **PAPER_C_STRONG**: rho >= 0.70, p < 0.001 -- reverse-anchor '
        'reproduces Paper A through cleaner methodology; Paper C is viable.',
        '- **PAPER_C_PARTIAL**: 0.40 <= rho < 0.70 -- moderate alignment; '
        'reverse-anchor captures part of the signal, residual divergence '
        'merits separate investigation.',
        '- **PAPER_C_WEAK**: rho < 0.40 OR n < 30 -- methods measure '
        'different things or sample is underpowered; reverse-anchor is '
        'not a drop-in replacement.',
        '',
        '## Files',
        '',
        f'- Scatter: `{scatter_png.name}`',
        f'- 2D overlay: `{overlay_png.name}`',
        f'- Ranked CPAs CSV: `{csv_path.name}`',
        f'- Full JSON: `{json_path.name}`',
        '',
    ]
    md_path = OUT / 'reverse_anchor_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Report: {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 34: Big-4-Only Pooled Calibration
 ==========================================
 Pool Firm A + KPMG + PwC + EY (drop all mid/small firms) and re-run
 the three-method framework + 2D GMM K=2/K=3 + bootstrap stability
 on the resulting accountant-level (cos_mean, dh_mean) plane.
 Why this variant:
  Paper A's published "natural threshold" (cos=0.945, dh=8.10) was
  derived from a 3-comp 2D GMM on the FULL dataset (Big-4 + ~250
  mid/small-firm CPAs).  The mid/small-firm tail adds extra noise
  and is itself heterogeneous (many firms, few CPAs each).
  Restricting to Big-4 only gives a cleaner four-firm contrast and
  may produce a tighter, more reproducible crossing.
 Comparison table (the deliverable):
  | Source                              | cos crossing | dh crossing |
  | Paper A published (full 3-comp)     |    0.945     |    8.10     |
  | Firm A alone (Script 32)            |    ~0.977    |    ~4.6     |
  | Non-Firm-A alone (Script 32)        |    ~0.938    |    ~7.5     |
  | Big-4 only pooled (this script)     |    ???       |    ???      |
  | + bootstrap 95% CI                  |    [..,..]   |    [..,..]  |
 Verdict (descriptive):
  TIGHTER     bootstrap 95% CI half-width <= 0.005 (cos) AND <= 0.5 (dh)
              AND point estimate within 0.01 (cos) / 1.0 (dh) of 0.945/8.10
  COMPARABLE  CI overlaps Paper A point estimate, half-width <= 0.01 / 1.0
  WIDER       CI half-width > 0.01 (cos) OR > 1.0 (dh)
 Output:
  reports/big4_only_pooled/
    big4_only_pooled_results.json
    big4_only_pooled_report.md
    panel_big4_only_<measure>.png
 """
 import sqlite3
 import json
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use('Agg')
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from scipy import stats
 from scipy.signal import find_peaks
 from scipy.optimize import brentq
 from sklearn.mixture import GaussianMixture
 import diptest
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'big4_only_pooled')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 EPS = 1e-6
 Z_CRIT = 1.96
 MIN_SIGS = 10
 N_BOOTSTRAP = 500
 BOOT_SEED = 42
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 PAPER_A_COS = 0.945
 PAPER_A_DH = 8.10
 def load_big4_pooled():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant,
               a.firm,
               AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
               AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
               COUNT(*) AS n
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
        GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
        HAVING n >= ?
    ''', BIG4 + (MIN_SIGS,))
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def gmm_2d_marginal_crossing(X, dim, K=2, seed=42):
    if len(X) < 8:
        return None, None
    gmm = GaussianMixture(n_components=K, covariance_type='full',
                          random_state=seed, n_init=15, max_iter=500).fit(X)
    means = gmm.means_
    covs = gmm.covariances_
    weights = gmm.weights_
    if K != 2:
        return None, gmm
    m1, m2 = means[0][dim], means[1][dim]
    s1 = np.sqrt(covs[0][dim, dim])
    s2 = np.sqrt(covs[1][dim, dim])
    w1, w2 = weights[0], weights[1]
    def diff(x):
        return (w2 * stats.norm.pdf(x, m2, s2)
                - w1 * stats.norm.pdf(x, m1, s1))
    xs = np.linspace(float(X[:, dim].min()), float(X[:, dim].max()), 2000)
    ys = diff(xs)
    ch = np.where(np.diff(np.sign(ys)) != 0)[0]
    if not len(ch):
        return None, gmm
    mid = 0.5 * (m1 + m2)
    crossings = []
    for i in ch:
        try:
            crossings.append(brentq(diff, xs[i], xs[i + 1]))
        except ValueError:
            continue
    if not crossings:
        return None, gmm
    return float(min(crossings, key=lambda c: abs(c - mid))), gmm
 def gmm_3comp_summary(X, seed=42):
    if len(X) < 12:
        return None
    gmm = GaussianMixture(n_components=3, covariance_type='full',
                          random_state=seed, n_init=15, max_iter=500).fit(X)
    order = np.argsort(gmm.means_[:, 0])
    return {
        'means': [[float(m[0]), float(m[1])] for m in gmm.means_[order]],
        'weights': [float(w) for w in gmm.weights_[order]],
        'bic': float(gmm.bic(X)),
        'aic': float(gmm.aic(X)),
    }
 def fit_logit_gmm(x, K=2, seed=42):
    x = np.clip(np.asarray(x, dtype=float), EPS, 1 - EPS)
    z = np.log(x / (1 - x)).reshape(-1, 1)
    gmm = GaussianMixture(n_components=K, random_state=seed,
                          max_iter=500).fit(z)
    order = np.argsort(gmm.means_.ravel())
    means = gmm.means_.ravel()[order]
    stds = np.sqrt(gmm.covariances_.ravel())[order]
    weights = gmm.weights_[order]
    crossing = None
    if K == 2:
        m1, s1, w1 = means[0], stds[0], weights[0]
        m2, s2, w2 = means[1], stds[1], weights[1]
        def diff(z0):
            return (w2 * stats.norm.pdf(z0, m2, s2)
                    - w1 * stats.norm.pdf(z0, m1, s1))
        zs = np.linspace(min(m1, m2) - 2, max(m1, m2) + 2, 2000)
        ys = diff(zs)
        ch = np.where(np.diff(np.sign(ys)) != 0)[0]
        if len(ch):
            try:
                z_cross = brentq(diff, zs[ch[0]], zs[ch[0] + 1])
                crossing = float(1 / (1 + np.exp(-z_cross)))
            except ValueError:
                pass
    return {
        'K': K,
        'aic': float(gmm.aic(z)),
        'bic': float(gmm.bic(z)),
        'crossing_original': crossing,
    }
 def kde_dip(values):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    dip, pval = diptest.diptest(arr, boot_pval=True, n_boot=2000)
    kde = stats.gaussian_kde(arr, bw_method='silverman')
    xs = np.linspace(arr.min(), arr.max(), 2000)
    density = kde(xs)
    peaks, _ = find_peaks(density, prominence=density.max() * 0.02)
    antimodes = []
    for i in range(len(peaks) - 1):
        seg = density[peaks[i]:peaks[i + 1]]
        if not len(seg):
            continue
        local = peaks[i] + int(np.argmin(seg))
        antimodes.append(float(xs[local]))
    return {
        'n': int(len(arr)),
        'dip': float(dip),
        'dip_pvalue': float(pval),
        'unimodal_alpha05': bool(pval > 0.05),
        'n_modes': int(len(peaks)),
        'antimode': antimodes[0] if antimodes else None,
    }
 def bd_mccrary(values, bin_width, direction):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    lo = float(np.floor(arr.min() / bin_width) * bin_width)
    hi = float(np.ceil(arr.max() / bin_width) * bin_width)
    edges = np.arange(lo, hi + bin_width, bin_width)
    counts, _ = np.histogram(arr, bins=edges)
    centers = (edges[:-1] + edges[1:]) / 2.0
    N = counts.sum()
    p = counts / N if N else counts.astype(float)
    n_bins = len(counts)
    z = np.full(n_bins, np.nan)
    for i in range(1, n_bins - 1):
        p_lo = p[i - 1]
        p_hi = p[i + 1]
        exp_i = 0.5 * (counts[i - 1] + counts[i + 1])
        var_i = (N * p[i] * (1 - p[i])
                 + 0.25 * N * (p_lo + p_hi) * (1 - p_lo - p_hi))
        if var_i <= 0:
            continue
        z[i] = (counts[i] - exp_i) / np.sqrt(var_i)
    transitions = []
    for i in range(1, len(z)):
        if np.isnan(z[i - 1]) or np.isnan(z[i]):
            continue
        ok = ((direction == 'neg_to_pos' and z[i - 1] < -Z_CRIT and z[i] > Z_CRIT)
              or (direction == 'pos_to_neg' and z[i - 1] > Z_CRIT and z[i] < -Z_CRIT))
        if ok:
            transitions.append({
                'threshold_between': float((centers[i - 1] + centers[i]) / 2.0),
                'z_before': float(z[i - 1]),
                'z_after': float(z[i]),
            })
    best = (max(transitions,
                key=lambda t: abs(t['z_before']) + abs(t['z_after']))
            if transitions else None)
    return {
        'n_transitions': len(transitions),
        'threshold': (best['threshold_between'] if best else None),
    }
 def bootstrap_2d_gmm_crossing(X, dim, n_boot=N_BOOTSTRAP, seed=BOOT_SEED):
    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
    crossings = []
    n = len(X)
    for b in range(n_boot):
        idx = rng.integers(0, n, size=n)
        Xb = X[idx]
        c, _ = gmm_2d_marginal_crossing(Xb, dim, K=2, seed=42)
        if c is not None:
            crossings.append(c)
    crossings = np.asarray(crossings)
    if len(crossings) < n_boot * 0.5:
        return None
    return {
        'n_successful_boot': int(len(crossings)),
        'mean': float(np.mean(crossings)),
        'median': float(np.median(crossings)),
        'std': float(np.std(crossings, ddof=1)),
        'ci95': [float(np.quantile(crossings, 0.025)),
                  float(np.quantile(crossings, 0.975))],
        'ci_halfwidth': float(0.5 * (np.quantile(crossings, 0.975)
                                      - np.quantile(crossings, 0.025))),
    }
 def classify_stability(boot_cos, boot_dh, point_cos, point_dh):
    if boot_cos is None or boot_dh is None:
        return 'WIDER', ('Bootstrap failed to converge in >50% of resamples; '
                         'crossing is unstable.')
    cos_hw = boot_cos['ci_halfwidth']
    dh_hw = boot_dh['ci_halfwidth']
    cos_offset = abs(point_cos - PAPER_A_COS) if point_cos is not None else None
    dh_offset = abs(point_dh - PAPER_A_DH) if point_dh is not None else None
    note = (f'CI half-width (cos) = {cos_hw:.4f}, (dh) = {dh_hw:.3f}; '
            f'offset from Paper A baseline (cos) = {cos_offset}, '
            f'(dh) = {dh_offset}.')
    if (cos_hw <= 0.005 and dh_hw <= 0.5
            and cos_offset is not None and cos_offset <= 0.01
            and dh_offset is not None and dh_offset <= 1.0):
        return 'TIGHTER', f'Big-4-only crossing is tighter and aligned. {note}'
    if cos_hw <= 0.01 and dh_hw <= 1.0:
        return 'COMPARABLE', (f'Big-4-only crossing is comparable to '
                              f'published baseline in stability. {note}')
    return 'WIDER', (f'Big-4-only crossing is wider than the published '
                     f'baseline -- restriction does not improve stability. {note}')
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 34: Big-4-Only Pooled Calibration')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_big4_pooled()
    by_firm = {}
    for r in rows:
        by_firm.setdefault(r[1], 0)
        by_firm[r[1]] += 1
    print(f'\nN Big-4 CPAs (n_signatures >= {MIN_SIGS}): {len(rows)}')
    for firm, n in sorted(by_firm.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]):
        print(f'  {firm}: {n}')
    cos = np.array([r[2] for r in rows])
    dh = np.array([r[3] for r in rows])
    X = np.column_stack([cos, dh])
    # Three-method on each margin
    out = {'sample_sizes': by_firm,
           'n_total_cpas': int(len(rows))}
    for desc, arr, bin_width, direction in [
        ('cos_mean', cos, 0.002, 'neg_to_pos'),
        ('dh_mean', dh, 0.2, 'pos_to_neg'),
    ]:
        kde_r = kde_dip(arr)
        bd_r = bd_mccrary(arr, bin_width, direction)
        is_cos = (desc == 'cos_mean')
        x_norm = arr if is_cos else arr / 64.0
        loggmm2 = fit_logit_gmm(x_norm, K=2)
        if not is_cos and loggmm2.get('crossing_original') is not None:
            loggmm2['crossing_original'] = loggmm2['crossing_original'] * 64.0
        out[desc] = {
            'kde_dip': kde_r,
            'bd_mccrary': bd_r,
            'logit_gmm_2': loggmm2,
        }
        print(f'\n[{desc}]')
        print(f'  KDE+dip: dip p={kde_r["dip_pvalue"]:.4f}, '
              f'n_modes={kde_r["n_modes"]}, antimode={kde_r["antimode"]}')
        print(f'  BD/McCrary: {bd_r["n_transitions"]} transitions, '
              f'threshold={bd_r["threshold"]}')
        print(f'  LogGMM-2 crossing: {loggmm2.get("crossing_original")}')
    # 2D GMM K=2 marginal crossings + bootstrap
    print('\n[2D GMM K=2]')
    cross_cos, gmm2 = gmm_2d_marginal_crossing(X, dim=0, K=2)
    cross_dh, _ = gmm_2d_marginal_crossing(X, dim=1, K=2)
    print(f'  cos crossing = {cross_cos}')
    print(f'  dh  crossing = {cross_dh}')
    print(f'  K=2 BIC = {gmm2.bic(X):.2f}, AIC = {gmm2.aic(X):.2f}')
    print(f'  Component means: {gmm2.means_.tolist()}')
    print(f'  Component weights: {gmm2.weights_.tolist()}')
    print('\n[2D GMM K=3 (for completeness)]')
    g3 = gmm_3comp_summary(X)
    print(f'  Components (sorted by cos): {g3["means"]}')
    print(f'  Weights: {g3["weights"]}')
    print(f'  K=3 BIC = {g3["bic"]:.2f}, AIC = {g3["aic"]:.2f}')
    print('\n[Bootstrap 95% CI on 2D GMM crossings]')
    boot_cos = bootstrap_2d_gmm_crossing(X, dim=0)
    boot_dh = bootstrap_2d_gmm_crossing(X, dim=1)
    if boot_cos:
        print(f'  cos: median={boot_cos["median"]:.4f}, '
              f'95% CI=[{boot_cos["ci95"][0]:.4f}, {boot_cos["ci95"][1]:.4f}], '
              f'half-width={boot_cos["ci_halfwidth"]:.4f} '
              f'({boot_cos["n_successful_boot"]}/{N_BOOTSTRAP} resamples)')
    if boot_dh:
        print(f'  dh:  median={boot_dh["median"]:.4f}, '
              f'95% CI=[{boot_dh["ci95"][0]:.4f}, {boot_dh["ci95"][1]:.4f}], '
              f'half-width={boot_dh["ci_halfwidth"]:.4f} '
              f'({boot_dh["n_successful_boot"]}/{N_BOOTSTRAP} resamples)')
    out['gmm_2d_2comp'] = {
        'cos_crossing': cross_cos,
        'dh_crossing': cross_dh,
        'bic': float(gmm2.bic(X)),
        'aic': float(gmm2.aic(X)),
        'means': gmm2.means_.tolist(),
        'weights': gmm2.weights_.tolist(),
        'bootstrap_cos': boot_cos,
        'bootstrap_dh': boot_dh,
    }
    out['gmm_2d_3comp'] = g3
    out['paper_a_baseline'] = {'cos': PAPER_A_COS, 'dh': PAPER_A_DH}
    # Verdict
    verdict_class, verdict_msg = classify_stability(
        boot_cos, boot_dh, cross_cos, cross_dh)
    out['verdict'] = {'class': verdict_class, 'explanation': verdict_msg}
    print(f'\nVerdict: {verdict_class} -- {verdict_msg}')
    # Plots: histogram + crossings overlay
    for desc, arr, bin_width, point in [
        ('cos_mean', cos, 0.002, cross_cos),
        ('dh_mean', dh, 0.2, cross_dh),
    ]:
        boot = boot_cos if desc == 'cos_mean' else boot_dh
        baseline = PAPER_A_COS if desc == 'cos_mean' else PAPER_A_DH
        fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 5))
        lo = float(np.floor(arr.min() / bin_width) * bin_width)
        hi = float(np.ceil(arr.max() / bin_width) * bin_width)
        bins = np.arange(lo, hi + bin_width, bin_width)
        ax.hist(arr, bins=bins, density=True, alpha=0.55, color='steelblue',
                edgecolor='white')
        kde = stats.gaussian_kde(arr, bw_method='silverman')
        xs = np.linspace(arr.min(), arr.max(), 500)
        ax.plot(xs, kde(xs), 'g-', lw=1.5, label='KDE (Silverman)')
        if point is not None:
            ax.axvline(point, color='orange', lw=2, ls='--',
                       label=f'2D-GMM K=2 crossing = {point:.4f}')
        ax.axvline(baseline, color='black', lw=2, ls=':',
                   label=f'Paper A baseline = {baseline}')
        if boot is not None:
            ax.axvspan(boot['ci95'][0], boot['ci95'][1], color='orange',
                       alpha=0.15,
                       label=f"95% bootstrap CI = "
                             f"[{boot['ci95'][0]:.4f}, {boot['ci95'][1]:.4f}]")
        ax.set_xlabel(desc)
        ax.set_ylabel('Density')
        ax.set_title(f'Big-4-only pooled accountant {desc} '
                     f'(n={len(arr)} CPAs)')
        ax.legend(fontsize=9)
        fig.tight_layout()
        png = OUT / f'panel_big4_only_{desc}.png'
        fig.savefig(png, dpi=150)
        plt.close(fig)
        print(f'  plot: {png}')
    out['generated_at'] = datetime.now().isoformat()
    (OUT / 'big4_only_pooled_results.json').write_text(
        json.dumps(out, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\nJSON: {OUT / "big4_only_pooled_results.json"}')
    # Markdown
    md = [
        '# Big-4-Only Pooled Calibration (Script 34)',
        f'Generated: {datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}',
        '',
        '## Sample',
        '',
        f'- Population: Firm A + KPMG + PwC + EY (no mid/small firms)',
        f'- N CPAs (n_sigs >= {MIN_SIGS}): **{len(rows)}**',
        '',
        '| Firm | N CPAs |',
        '|---|---|',
    ]
    for firm, n in sorted(by_firm.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]):
        md.append(f'| {firm} | {n} |')
    md += ['', '## Comparison table', '',
           '| Source | cos crossing | dh crossing |',
           '|---|---|---|',
           f'| Paper A published (full 3-comp) | {PAPER_A_COS} | {PAPER_A_DH} |',
           f'| Firm A alone (Script 32) | ~0.977 | ~4.6 |',
           f'| Non-Firm-A alone (Script 32) | ~0.938 | ~7.5 |',
           f'| **Big-4 only pooled (this script, K=2)** | '
           f'**{cross_cos}** | **{cross_dh}** |']
    if boot_cos:
        md.append(f'| + bootstrap 95% CI (n={N_BOOTSTRAP}) | '
                  f'[{boot_cos["ci95"][0]:.4f}, {boot_cos["ci95"][1]:.4f}] | '
                  f'[{boot_dh["ci95"][0]:.4f}, {boot_dh["ci95"][1]:.4f}] |')
    md += ['', '## Three-method margin checks (Big-4-only)', '',
           '| Measure | dip p (KDE) | KDE antimode | BD/McCrary threshold | LogGMM-2 crossing |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|',
           f'| cos_mean | {out["cos_mean"]["kde_dip"]["dip_pvalue"]:.4f} | '
           f'{out["cos_mean"]["kde_dip"]["antimode"]} | '
           f'{out["cos_mean"]["bd_mccrary"]["threshold"]} | '
           f'{out["cos_mean"]["logit_gmm_2"]["crossing_original"]} |',
           f'| dh_mean  | {out["dh_mean"]["kde_dip"]["dip_pvalue"]:.4f} | '
           f'{out["dh_mean"]["kde_dip"]["antimode"]} | '
           f'{out["dh_mean"]["bd_mccrary"]["threshold"]} | '
           f'{out["dh_mean"]["logit_gmm_2"]["crossing_original"]} |',
           '',
           '## 2D GMM K=2 components',
           '',
           '| Component | mean cos | mean dh | weight |',
           '|---|---|---|---|']
    for i, (m, w) in enumerate(zip(gmm2.means_, gmm2.weights_)):
        md.append(f'| C{i+1} | {m[0]:.4f} | {m[1]:.4f} | {w:.3f} |')
    md.append(f'')
    md.append(f'BIC(K=2 2D)={gmm2.bic(X):.2f}, AIC={gmm2.aic(X):.2f}')
    md.append(f'BIC(K=3 2D)={g3["bic"]:.2f}, AIC={g3["aic"]:.2f}')
    md += ['', '## 2D GMM K=3 components', '',
           '| Component | mean cos | mean dh | weight |',
           '|---|---|---|---|']
    for i, (m, w) in enumerate(zip(g3['means'], g3['weights'])):
        md.append(f'| C{i+1} | {m[0]:.4f} | {m[1]:.4f} | {w:.3f} |')
    md += ['', '## Verdict', '',
           f'**{verdict_class}** -- {verdict_msg}',
           '',
           '### Verdict legend',
           '- **TIGHTER**: bootstrap CI half-width <= 0.005 (cos) AND <= 0.5 '
           '(dh) AND point estimate within 0.01 (cos) / 1.0 (dh) of Paper A '
           'baseline (0.945, 8.10).  Big-4-only restriction strictly improves '
           'stability without shifting the threshold materially.',
           '- **COMPARABLE**: CI half-width <= 0.01 (cos) / <= 1.0 (dh).  '
           'Big-4-only is within published precision.',
           '- **WIDER**: bootstrap unstable -- mid/small-firm tail was '
           'apparently informative, not just noise.',
           '']
    (OUT / 'big4_only_pooled_report.md').write_text('\n'.join(md),
                                                     encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Report: {OUT / "big4_only_pooled_report.md"}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 35: Big-4 K=3 Cluster Membership Inspection
 ====================================================
 Companion to Script 34. Re-fits the Big-4-only 2D GMM with K=3
 (Big-4 = Firm A + KPMG + PwC + EY) and hard-assigns each of the
 437 CPAs to one of:
  C1 (~14% weight): cos~0.946, dh~9.17  -- hand-sign-leaning
  C2 (~54% weight): cos~0.956, dh~6.66  -- mixed / partial replication
  C3 (~32% weight): cos~0.983, dh~2.41  -- replicated (templated)
 Output:
  reports/big4_k3_cluster_inspection/
    cluster_membership.csv          all 437 CPAs with cluster + posterior
    C1_handsign_leaning_members.csv pretty-printed C1 list sorted by
                                    paperA_hand_frac descending
    cluster_by_firm.csv             firm x cluster cross-tab
    inspection_report.md
 """
 import sqlite3
 import csv
 import json
 import numpy as np
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from sklearn.mixture import GaussianMixture
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'big4_k3_cluster_inspection')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 MIN_SIGS = 10
 PAPER_A_COS_CUT = 0.95
 PAPER_A_DH_CUT = 5
 def load_big4_with_handfrac():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant,
               a.firm,
               AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
               AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
               AVG(CASE
                     WHEN s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant > ?
                          AND s.min_dhash_independent <= ?
                     THEN 0.0 ELSE 1.0
                   END) AS hand_frac,
               COUNT(*) AS n
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
        GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
        HAVING n >= ?
    ''', (PAPER_A_COS_CUT, PAPER_A_DH_CUT) + BIG4 + (MIN_SIGS,))
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 35: Big-4 K=3 Cluster Membership Inspection')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_big4_with_handfrac()
    print(f'\nN Big-4 CPAs (n_sigs >= {MIN_SIGS}): {len(rows)}')
    cos = np.array([r[2] for r in rows])
    dh = np.array([r[3] for r in rows])
    X = np.column_stack([cos, dh])
    gmm = GaussianMixture(n_components=3, covariance_type='full',
                          random_state=42, n_init=15, max_iter=500).fit(X)
    # Sort components by ascending cos so cluster numbering is stable
    order = np.argsort(gmm.means_[:, 0])
    means_sorted = gmm.means_[order]
    weights_sorted = gmm.weights_[order]
    # remap component indices
    label_map = {old: new for new, old in enumerate(order)}
    raw_labels = gmm.predict(X)
    raw_post = gmm.predict_proba(X)
    labels = np.array([label_map[l] for l in raw_labels])
    post = raw_post[:, order]
    print('\nK=3 components (sorted by cos ascending):')
    for i in range(3):
        print(f'  C{i+1}: cos={means_sorted[i,0]:.4f}, '
              f'dh={means_sorted[i,1]:.4f}, weight={weights_sorted[i]:.3f}')
    # Cross-tab firm x cluster
    by_firm_cluster = {}
    for (name, firm, cm, dm, hf, n), lab in zip(rows, labels):
        by_firm_cluster.setdefault(firm, [0, 0, 0])[lab] += 1
    print('\nFirm x cluster cross-tab (counts):')
    print(f'  {"Firm":<20} {"C1":>5} {"C2":>5} {"C3":>5} {"total":>7}')
    for firm in BIG4:
        c = by_firm_cluster.get(firm, [0, 0, 0])
        total = sum(c)
        print(f'  {firm:<20} {c[0]:>5} {c[1]:>5} {c[2]:>5} {total:>7}')
    # Write membership CSV
    members_csv = OUT / 'cluster_membership.csv'
    with open(members_csv, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.writer(f)
        w.writerow(['cpa', 'firm', 'cos_mean', 'dh_mean', 'paperA_hand_frac',
                    'n_signatures', 'cluster', 'p_C1', 'p_C2', 'p_C3'])
        for (name, firm, cm, dm, hf, n), lab, pp in zip(rows, labels, post):
            w.writerow([name, firm, f'{cm:.4f}', f'{dm:.4f}',
                        f'{hf:.4f}', n, f'C{lab+1}',
                        f'{pp[0]:.4f}', f'{pp[1]:.4f}', f'{pp[2]:.4f}'])
    print(f'\nFull membership CSV: {members_csv}')
    # Write C1 (hand-sign-leaning) members sorted by hand_frac desc
    c1_rows = [(name, firm, cm, dm, hf, n, pp[0])
               for (name, firm, cm, dm, hf, n), lab, pp
               in zip(rows, labels, post) if lab == 0]
    c1_rows.sort(key=lambda r: -r[4])
    c1_csv = OUT / 'C1_handsign_leaning_members.csv'
    with open(c1_csv, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.writer(f)
        w.writerow(['rank', 'cpa', 'firm', 'cos_mean', 'dh_mean',
                    'paperA_hand_frac', 'n_signatures', 'p_C1'])
        for i, (name, firm, cm, dm, hf, n, pc1) in enumerate(c1_rows, 1):
            w.writerow([i, name, firm, f'{cm:.4f}', f'{dm:.4f}',
                        f'{hf:.4f}', n, f'{pc1:.4f}'])
    print(f'C1 hand-sign-leaning CSV: {c1_csv}')
    # Console preview: top 20 C1 members
    print(f'\n--- C1 (hand-sign-leaning) members: {len(c1_rows)} CPAs ---')
    print(f'{"Rank":<5} {"CPA":<10} {"Firm":<22} '
          f'{"cos":>6} {"dh":>5} {"hand_frac":>9} {"n":>5} {"p_C1":>5}')
    for i, (name, firm, cm, dm, hf, n, pc1) in enumerate(c1_rows[:30], 1):
        print(f'{i:<5} {name:<10} {firm:<22} '
              f'{cm:>6.3f} {dm:>5.2f} {hf:>9.3f} {n:>5} {pc1:>5.2f}')
    # Cross-tab CSV
    crosstab_csv = OUT / 'cluster_by_firm.csv'
    with open(crosstab_csv, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.writer(f)
        w.writerow(['firm', 'C1_handsign_leaning', 'C2_mixed',
                    'C3_replicated', 'total',
                    'C1_pct', 'C2_pct', 'C3_pct'])
        for firm in BIG4:
            c = by_firm_cluster.get(firm, [0, 0, 0])
            total = sum(c) or 1
            w.writerow([firm, c[0], c[1], c[2], sum(c),
                        f'{c[0]/total:.3f}', f'{c[1]/total:.3f}',
                        f'{c[2]/total:.3f}'])
    print(f'Cross-tab CSV: {crosstab_csv}')
    # Markdown report
    md = [
        '# Big-4 K=3 Cluster Membership Inspection',
        f'Generated: {datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}',
        '',
        '## K=3 components (sorted by ascending cosine)',
        '',
        '| Component | mean cos | mean dh | weight | interpretation |',
        '|---|---|---|---|---|',
        f'| C1 | {means_sorted[0,0]:.4f} | {means_sorted[0,1]:.4f} | '
        f'{weights_sorted[0]:.3f} | hand-sign-leaning |',
        f'| C2 | {means_sorted[1,0]:.4f} | {means_sorted[1,1]:.4f} | '
        f'{weights_sorted[1]:.3f} | mixed / partial replication |',
        f'| C3 | {means_sorted[2,0]:.4f} | {means_sorted[2,1]:.4f} | '
        f'{weights_sorted[2]:.3f} | replicated (templated) |',
        '',
        '## Firm x cluster cross-tab',
        '',
        '| Firm | C1 (hand) | C2 (mixed) | C3 (replicated) | total | C1% | C2% | C3% |',
        '|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|',
    ]
    for firm in BIG4:
        c = by_firm_cluster.get(firm, [0, 0, 0])
        total = sum(c) or 1
        md.append(f'| {firm} | {c[0]} | {c[1]} | {c[2]} | {sum(c)} | '
                  f'{c[0]/total:.1%} | {c[1]/total:.1%} | {c[2]/total:.1%} |')
    md += ['', f'## C1 hand-sign-leaning members ({len(c1_rows)} CPAs)',
           '',
           '| Rank | CPA | Firm | cos_mean | dh_mean | paperA_hand_frac | '
           'n_signatures | p_C1 |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for i, (name, firm, cm, dm, hf, n, pc1) in enumerate(c1_rows, 1):
        md.append(f'| {i} | {name} | {firm} | {cm:.4f} | {dm:.4f} | '
                  f'{hf:.4f} | {n} | {pc1:.4f} |')
    md += ['',
           '## Reading guide',
           '',
           '- **C1 (hand-sign-leaning)**: low cosine + high dHash relative to '
           'the Big-4 reference; high posterior probability (p_C1 close to '
           '1.0) means a confident assignment.',
           '- **paperA_hand_frac**: per-CPA fraction of signatures that '
           'fail Paper A operational rule (cos>0.95 AND dh<=5).  '
           'Independent label for cross-validation.',
           '- High agreement between cluster assignment and paperA_hand_frac '
           'within C1 indicates the Big-4 K=3 mixture is recovering the same '
           'sub-population that Paper A operationally calls hand-signed.',
           '',
           ('Note: cluster numbering is sorted by ascending cosine each '
            'run; same hyperparameters (random_state=42, n_init=15) are used '
            'as in Scripts 32/34 for reproducibility.'),
           ]
    md_path = OUT / 'inspection_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\nReport: {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 36: Paper A v4.0 Calibration + Leave-One-Firm-Out Validation
 =====================================================================
 Phase 1 foundation script for the v4.0 Big-4 reframe.
 Inputs (DB):
  /Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db
 Output:
  /Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/v4_big4/
    calibration_and_loo_validation/
      calibration_loo_results.json
      calibration_loo_report.md
      panel_calibration.png
      panel_loo_<firm>.png
 Sections:
  A. Big-4 calibration recap
     - Pool Firm A + KPMG + PwC + EY accountant means (n=437 CPAs).
     - Fit 2D GMM K=2 (primary) and K=3 (secondary).
     - Bootstrap 500 resamples for marginal crossings (cos and dh).
     - Derive operational classifier rule:
         R_v4 := cos > c_cut AND dh <= d_cut
       where (c_cut, d_cut) = (Big-4 2D-GMM K=2 marginal crossings).
  B. Leave-one-firm-out (LOOO) cross-validation
     - For each of 4 Big-4 firms F:
         * Refit K=2 on the other 3 firms only.
         * Bootstrap 500 resamples for the held-out fit's marginal crossings.
         * Predict the held-out F CPAs' cluster assignments using the
           held-out-derived rule.
         * Compute:
            - n_F, n_F_classified_replicated (cluster C_high_cos),
              n_F_classified_handleaning  (cluster C_low_cos)
            - Wilson 95% CI on the replicated rate for F
            - Compare derived rule (c_cut, d_cut) across folds: is it stable?
  C. Cross-fold stability table
     - For each fold, report (c_cut, d_cut), and the replicated rate the
       held-out firm receives.
     - Verdict (printed and saved):
       STABLE        max |c_cut - mean| <= 0.005 AND max |d_cut - mean| <= 0.5
                     across the 4 folds
       UNSTABLE      otherwise
 Methodology decisions (flag for partner / reviewer feedback):
  * Held-out unit = firm (not 30% of accountants within firm).
    Rationale: v4.0 makes a methodology-paper claim that the
    pipeline reproduces across firms.  Within-firm 70/30 only tests
    sampling variance within one firm; LOOO tests cross-firm
    generalization, which is the stronger and more honest claim.
  * Bootstrap n=500 (vs Script 34's 500 — kept consistent).
  * GMM hyperparameters (n_init=15, max_iter=500, random_state=42)
    kept consistent with Scripts 32/34/35.
 """
 import sqlite3
 import json
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use('Agg')
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from scipy import stats
 from scipy.optimize import brentq
 from scipy.stats import norm
 from sklearn.mixture import GaussianMixture
 import diptest
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/calibration_and_loo_validation')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 MIN_SIGS = 10
 N_BOOT = 500
 SEED = 42
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 FIRM_A_LABEL = '勤業眾信聯合'  # Deloitte
 def load_big4_accountants():
    """Return list of dicts: {cpa, firm, cos_mean, dh_mean, n_sigs}."""
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant,
               a.firm,
               AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
               AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
               COUNT(*) AS n
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
        GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
        HAVING n >= ?
    ''', BIG4 + (MIN_SIGS,))
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return [{'cpa': r[0], 'firm': r[1],
             'cos_mean': float(r[2]), 'dh_mean': float(r[3]),
             'n_sigs': int(r[4])} for r in rows]
 def fit_gmm_2d(X, K, seed=SEED):
    return GaussianMixture(n_components=K, covariance_type='full',
                           random_state=seed, n_init=15, max_iter=500).fit(X)
 def marginal_crossing(gmm, X, dim):
    """2-comp 2D GMM -> crossing on the specified marginal dim."""
    means = gmm.means_
    covs = gmm.covariances_
    weights = gmm.weights_
    if gmm.n_components != 2:
        raise ValueError('marginal_crossing requires K=2')
    m1, m2 = means[0][dim], means[1][dim]
    s1 = np.sqrt(covs[0][dim, dim])
    s2 = np.sqrt(covs[1][dim, dim])
    w1, w2 = weights[0], weights[1]
    def diff(x):
        return (w2 * stats.norm.pdf(x, m2, s2)
                - w1 * stats.norm.pdf(x, m1, s1))
    xs = np.linspace(float(X[:, dim].min()), float(X[:, dim].max()), 2000)
    ys = diff(xs)
    ch = np.where(np.diff(np.sign(ys)) != 0)[0]
    if not len(ch):
        return None
    mid = 0.5 * (m1 + m2)
    crossings = []
    for i in ch:
        try:
            crossings.append(brentq(diff, xs[i], xs[i + 1]))
        except ValueError:
            continue
    if not crossings:
        return None
    return float(min(crossings, key=lambda c: abs(c - mid)))
 def bootstrap_crossings(X, n_boot=N_BOOT, seed=SEED):
    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
    n = len(X)
    cos_cs, dh_cs = [], []
    for _ in range(n_boot):
        idx = rng.integers(0, n, size=n)
        Xb = X[idx]
        gmm = fit_gmm_2d(Xb, 2)
        c = marginal_crossing(gmm, Xb, 0)
        d = marginal_crossing(gmm, Xb, 1)
        if c is not None:
            cos_cs.append(c)
        if d is not None:
            dh_cs.append(d)
    cos_cs = np.asarray(cos_cs)
    dh_cs = np.asarray(dh_cs)
    def summarize(arr):
        if len(arr) < n_boot * 0.5:
            return None
        return {
            'n_successful': int(len(arr)),
            'mean': float(np.mean(arr)),
            'median': float(np.median(arr)),
            'std': float(np.std(arr, ddof=1)),
            'ci95': [float(np.quantile(arr, 0.025)),
                     float(np.quantile(arr, 0.975))],
            'ci_halfwidth': float(0.5 * (np.quantile(arr, 0.975)
                                          - np.quantile(arr, 0.025))),
        }
    return summarize(cos_cs), summarize(dh_cs)
 def derive_rule(c_cut, d_cut):
    """Operational classifier rule: a signature is replicated iff
    cos > c_cut AND dh <= d_cut."""
    return {
        'cos_threshold': float(c_cut) if c_cut is not None else None,
        'dh_threshold': float(d_cut) if d_cut is not None else None,
        'rule': (f'replicated iff cos > {c_cut:.4f} AND dh <= {d_cut:.4f}'
                 if c_cut is not None and d_cut is not None
                 else 'rule undefined'),
    }
 def wilson_ci(k, n, alpha=0.05):
    if n == 0:
        return (0.0, 1.0)
    z = norm.ppf(1 - alpha / 2)
    phat = k / n
    denom = 1 + z * z / n
    center = (phat + z * z / (2 * n)) / denom
    pm = z * np.sqrt(phat * (1 - phat) / n + z * z / (4 * n * n)) / denom
    return (max(0.0, center - pm), min(1.0, center + pm))
 def classify_cpa(cos_mean, dh_mean, c_cut, d_cut):
    """At the accountant level, a CPA is 'replicated' if their MEAN
    coordinates satisfy the rule. (Note: this is a CPA-level
    summarisation; a per-signature classifier would apply the same
    rule signature-by-signature.)"""
    if c_cut is None or d_cut is None:
        return 'undefined'
    if cos_mean > c_cut and dh_mean <= d_cut:
        return 'replicated'
    return 'hand_leaning'
 def kde_dip(values):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    if len(arr) < 8:
        return None
    dip, pval = diptest.diptest(arr, boot_pval=True, n_boot=2000)
    return {'dip': float(dip), 'dip_pvalue': float(pval),
            'unimodal_alpha05': bool(pval > 0.05),
            'n': int(len(arr))}
 def run_calibration(cpas):
    cos = np.array([c['cos_mean'] for c in cpas])
    dh = np.array([c['dh_mean'] for c in cpas])
    X = np.column_stack([cos, dh])
    print(f'\n[A] Calibration on {len(cpas)} Big-4 CPAs')
    dip_cos = kde_dip(cos)
    dip_dh = kde_dip(dh)
    print(f'  dip-test (cos): p={dip_cos["dip_pvalue"]:.4g}')
    print(f'  dip-test (dh) : p={dip_dh["dip_pvalue"]:.4g}')
    gmm2 = fit_gmm_2d(X, 2)
    gmm3 = fit_gmm_2d(X, 3)
    c_cut = marginal_crossing(gmm2, X, 0)
    d_cut = marginal_crossing(gmm2, X, 1)
    print(f'  K=2 marginal crossings: cos={c_cut:.4f}, dh={d_cut:.4f}')
    print(f'  K=2 BIC={gmm2.bic(X):.2f}; K=3 BIC={gmm3.bic(X):.2f}')
    boot_cos, boot_dh = bootstrap_crossings(X)
    if boot_cos:
        print(f'  bootstrap (cos): median={boot_cos["median"]:.4f}, '
              f'95% CI=[{boot_cos["ci95"][0]:.4f}, {boot_cos["ci95"][1]:.4f}]')
    if boot_dh:
        print(f'  bootstrap (dh) : median={boot_dh["median"]:.4f}, '
              f'95% CI=[{boot_dh["ci95"][0]:.4f}, {boot_dh["ci95"][1]:.4f}]')
    rule = derive_rule(c_cut, d_cut)
    print(f'  Derived rule: {rule["rule"]}')
    return {
        'n_cpas': len(cpas),
        'dip_test_cos': dip_cos,
        'dip_test_dh': dip_dh,
        'k2_crossings': {'cos': c_cut, 'dh': d_cut},
        'k2_bic': float(gmm2.bic(X)),
        'k3_bic': float(gmm3.bic(X)),
        'k2_components': {
            'means': gmm2.means_.tolist(),
            'weights': gmm2.weights_.tolist(),
        },
        'bootstrap_cos': boot_cos,
        'bootstrap_dh': boot_dh,
        'rule': rule,
    }
 def run_loo(cpas):
    """Leave-one-firm-out cross-validation."""
    by_firm = {}
    for c in cpas:
        by_firm.setdefault(c['firm'], []).append(c)
    fold_results = {}
    for held_firm in BIG4:
        train_cpas = [c for c in cpas if c['firm'] != held_firm]
        held_cpas = by_firm.get(held_firm, [])
        n_train = len(train_cpas)
        n_held = len(held_cpas)
        print(f'\n[B] LOOO fold: held-out = {held_firm} '
              f'(n_train={n_train}, n_held={n_held})')
        X_train = np.column_stack([
            [c['cos_mean'] for c in train_cpas],
            [c['dh_mean'] for c in train_cpas],
        ])
        gmm = fit_gmm_2d(X_train, 2)
        c_cut = marginal_crossing(gmm, X_train, 0)
        d_cut = marginal_crossing(gmm, X_train, 1)
        boot_cos, boot_dh = bootstrap_crossings(X_train)
        # Apply derived rule to held-out firm
        replicated = 0
        hand_leaning = 0
        for c in held_cpas:
            cls = classify_cpa(c['cos_mean'], c['dh_mean'], c_cut, d_cut)
            if cls == 'replicated':
                replicated += 1
            else:
                hand_leaning += 1
        rep_rate = replicated / n_held if n_held else 0.0
        wlo, whi = wilson_ci(replicated, n_held)
        print(f'  fold rule: cos>{c_cut:.4f} AND dh<={d_cut:.4f}')
        print(f'  held-out replicated: {replicated}/{n_held} = '
              f'{rep_rate*100:.2f}% [{wlo*100:.2f}%, {whi*100:.2f}%]')
        fold_results[held_firm] = {
            'n_train': n_train,
            'n_held': n_held,
            'fold_rule': derive_rule(c_cut, d_cut),
            'fold_crossings': {'cos': c_cut, 'dh': d_cut},
            'bootstrap_cos': boot_cos,
            'bootstrap_dh': boot_dh,
            'held_out_classification': {
                'n_replicated': replicated,
                'n_hand_leaning': hand_leaning,
                'replicated_rate': rep_rate,
                'wilson95': [float(wlo), float(whi)],
            },
        }
    return fold_results
 def cross_fold_stability(fold_results, full_calib):
    cs = [fold_results[f]['fold_crossings']['cos'] for f in BIG4
          if fold_results[f]['fold_crossings']['cos'] is not None]
    ds = [fold_results[f]['fold_crossings']['dh'] for f in BIG4
          if fold_results[f]['fold_crossings']['dh'] is not None]
    full_c = full_calib['k2_crossings']['cos']
    full_d = full_calib['k2_crossings']['dh']
    summary = {
        'fold_cos_crossings': cs,
        'fold_dh_crossings': ds,
        'mean_cos': float(np.mean(cs)) if cs else None,
        'mean_dh': float(np.mean(ds)) if ds else None,
        'max_dev_cos_from_mean': (float(max(abs(np.array(cs) - np.mean(cs))))
                                   if cs else None),
        'max_dev_dh_from_mean': (float(max(abs(np.array(ds) - np.mean(ds))))
                                  if ds else None),
        'max_dev_cos_from_full': (float(max(abs(np.array(cs) - full_c)))
                                   if cs and full_c else None),
        'max_dev_dh_from_full': (float(max(abs(np.array(ds) - full_d)))
                                  if ds and full_d else None),
    }
    cos_stable = (summary['max_dev_cos_from_mean'] is not None
                  and summary['max_dev_cos_from_mean'] <= 0.005)
    dh_stable = (summary['max_dev_dh_from_mean'] is not None
                 and summary['max_dev_dh_from_mean'] <= 0.5)
    summary['verdict'] = ('STABLE' if (cos_stable and dh_stable)
                          else 'UNSTABLE')
    return summary
 def render_panels(cpas, full_calib, fold_results):
    by_firm = {}
    for c in cpas:
        by_firm.setdefault(c['firm'], []).append(c)
    # Calibration panel
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9, 7))
    colors = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'crimson', '安侯建業聯合': 'royalblue',
              '資誠聯合': 'forestgreen', '安永聯合': 'darkorange'}
    labels = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A (Deloitte)', '安侯建業聯合': 'KPMG',
              '資誠聯合': 'PwC', '安永聯合': 'EY'}
    for firm in BIG4:
        pts = by_firm[firm]
        ax.scatter([p['cos_mean'] for p in pts], [p['dh_mean'] for p in pts],
                   s=30, alpha=0.6, color=colors[firm],
                   label=f'{labels[firm]} (n={len(pts)})')
    c_cut = full_calib['k2_crossings']['cos']
    d_cut = full_calib['k2_crossings']['dh']
    ax.axvline(c_cut, color='black', ls='--', lw=1.5,
               label=f'cos cut = {c_cut:.4f}')
    ax.axhline(d_cut, color='black', ls=':', lw=1.5,
               label=f'dh cut = {d_cut:.4f}')
    ax.set_xlabel('Accountant cos_mean')
    ax.set_ylabel('Accountant dh_mean')
    ax.set_title('Big-4 calibration: 437 CPAs + K=2 marginal crossings')
    ax.legend(fontsize=9)
    ax.grid(alpha=0.3)
    fig.tight_layout()
    fig.savefig(OUT / 'panel_calibration.png', dpi=150)
    plt.close(fig)
    # LOOO panels
    for held_firm in BIG4:
        held = by_firm[held_firm]
        train_pts = [c for c in cpas if c['firm'] != held_firm]
        fr = fold_results[held_firm]
        c_cut_f = fr['fold_crossings']['cos']
        d_cut_f = fr['fold_crossings']['dh']
        fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9, 7))
        ax.scatter([p['cos_mean'] for p in train_pts],
                   [p['dh_mean'] for p in train_pts],
                   s=20, alpha=0.4, color='lightgray',
                   label=f'Train (other Big-3, n={len(train_pts)})')
        ax.scatter([p['cos_mean'] for p in held],
                   [p['dh_mean'] for p in held],
                   s=40, alpha=0.85, color=colors[held_firm],
                   edgecolor='white',
                   label=f'Held-out: {labels[held_firm]} (n={len(held)})')
        if c_cut_f is not None:
            ax.axvline(c_cut_f, color='black', ls='--', lw=1.5,
                       label=f'fold cos cut = {c_cut_f:.4f}')
        if d_cut_f is not None:
            ax.axhline(d_cut_f, color='black', ls=':', lw=1.5,
                       label=f'fold dh cut = {d_cut_f:.4f}')
        rep = fr['held_out_classification']['n_replicated']
        nh = fr['n_held']
        rate = fr['held_out_classification']['replicated_rate']
        wlo, whi = fr['held_out_classification']['wilson95']
        ax.set_title(
            f'LOOO: held-out {labels[held_firm]} ({rep}/{nh} = '
            f'{rate*100:.1f}% replicated, Wilson 95% '
            f'[{wlo*100:.1f}%, {whi*100:.1f}%])')
        ax.set_xlabel('Accountant cos_mean')
        ax.set_ylabel('Accountant dh_mean')
        ax.legend(fontsize=9)
        ax.grid(alpha=0.3)
        fig.tight_layout()
        firm_slug = ('FirmA' if held_firm == FIRM_A_LABEL
                     else {'安侯建業聯合': 'KPMG', '資誠聯合': 'PwC',
                           '安永聯合': 'EY'}.get(held_firm, held_firm))
        fig.savefig(OUT / f'panel_loo_{firm_slug}.png', dpi=150)
        plt.close(fig)
 def render_md(full_calib, fold_results, stability, sample_sizes):
    md = [
        '# Paper A v4.0 Phase 1 — Calibration + LOOO Validation',
        f'Generated: {datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}',
        '',
        '## A. Big-4 Calibration',
        '',
        f'- N CPAs: {full_calib["n_cpas"]}',
        f'- dip-test cos: p = {full_calib["dip_test_cos"]["dip_pvalue"]:.4g} '
        f'({"unimodal" if full_calib["dip_test_cos"]["unimodal_alpha05"] else "multimodal"})',
        f'- dip-test dh : p = {full_calib["dip_test_dh"]["dip_pvalue"]:.4g} '
        f'({"unimodal" if full_calib["dip_test_dh"]["unimodal_alpha05"] else "multimodal"})',
        f'- 2D GMM K=2 BIC = {full_calib["k2_bic"]:.2f}',
        f'- 2D GMM K=3 BIC = {full_calib["k3_bic"]:.2f}',
        '',
        '### Marginal crossings (point + bootstrap 95% CI, n=500)',
        '',
        '| Axis | Point | Bootstrap median | 95% CI | CI half-width |',
        '|---|---|---|---|---|',
    ]
    for axis_label, key in [('cos', 'bootstrap_cos'), ('dh', 'bootstrap_dh')]:
        b = full_calib[key]
        point = full_calib['k2_crossings'][axis_label]
        if b is None:
            md.append(f'| {axis_label} | {point} | n/a | n/a | n/a |')
        else:
            md.append(f'| {axis_label} | {point:.4f} | {b["median"]:.4f} | '
                      f'[{b["ci95"][0]:.4f}, {b["ci95"][1]:.4f}] | '
                      f'{b["ci_halfwidth"]:.4f} |')
    md += ['',
           f'### Operational classifier rule',
           '',
           f'> {full_calib["rule"]["rule"]}',
           '',
           '### K=2 components',
           '',
           '| Component | mean cos | mean dh | weight |',
           '|---|---|---|---|']
    for i, (m, w) in enumerate(zip(full_calib['k2_components']['means'],
                                   full_calib['k2_components']['weights'])):
        md.append(f'| C{i+1} | {m[0]:.4f} | {m[1]:.4f} | {w:.3f} |')
    md += ['', '## B. Leave-One-Firm-Out Validation', '',
           '| Held-out firm | n_train | n_held | Fold cos cut | Fold dh cut | '
           'Replicated rate | Wilson 95% |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    label_map = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A (Deloitte)',
                 '安侯建業聯合': 'KPMG',
                 '資誠聯合': 'PwC',
                 '安永聯合': 'EY'}
    for f in BIG4:
        fr = fold_results[f]
        c = fr['fold_crossings']['cos']
        d = fr['fold_crossings']['dh']
        rep = fr['held_out_classification']
        c_str = f'{c:.4f}' if c is not None else 'n/a'
        d_str = f'{d:.4f}' if d is not None else 'n/a'
        md.append(f'| {label_map[f]} | {fr["n_train"]} | {fr["n_held"]} | '
                  f'{c_str} | {d_str} | {rep["replicated_rate"]*100:.2f}% | '
                  f'[{rep["wilson95"][0]*100:.2f}%, '
                  f'{rep["wilson95"][1]*100:.2f}%] |')
    md += ['', '## C. Cross-fold stability', '',
           f'- Mean fold cos crossing: '
           f'{stability["mean_cos"]:.4f}' if stability["mean_cos"] is not None
           else '- Mean fold cos crossing: n/a',
           f'- Mean fold dh crossing : '
           f'{stability["mean_dh"]:.4f}' if stability["mean_dh"] is not None
           else '- Mean fold dh crossing: n/a',
           f'- Max |dev_cos| across folds: '
           f'{stability["max_dev_cos_from_mean"]:.4f}'
           if stability["max_dev_cos_from_mean"] is not None
           else '- Max |dev_cos|: n/a',
           f'- Max |dev_dh| across folds : '
           f'{stability["max_dev_dh_from_mean"]:.4f}'
           if stability["max_dev_dh_from_mean"] is not None
           else '- Max |dev_dh|: n/a',
           f'- Max |dev_cos| vs full-calib: '
           f'{stability["max_dev_cos_from_full"]:.4f}'
           if stability["max_dev_cos_from_full"] is not None
           else '- Max |dev_cos| vs full: n/a',
           f'- Max |dev_dh| vs full-calib : '
           f'{stability["max_dev_dh_from_full"]:.4f}'
           if stability["max_dev_dh_from_full"] is not None
           else '- Max |dev_dh| vs full: n/a',
           '',
           f'**Verdict: {stability["verdict"]}**',
           '',
           '### Verdict legend',
           '- **STABLE**: max |dev_cos| <= 0.005 AND max |dev_dh| <= 0.5 '
           'across the 4 LOOO folds; the threshold is reproducible across '
           'firms.',
           '- **UNSTABLE**: at least one fold deviates beyond the tolerance; '
           'the threshold is sensitive to which firm is held out, which '
           'would invite reviewer questions about generalizability.',
           '',
           '## Methodology notes',
           '',
           '- Held-out unit is the firm (not within-firm 70/30) -- this '
           'tests the v4.0 methodology-paper claim that the pipeline '
           'reproduces across firms, not just within a calibration sample.',
           '- Bootstrap n=500 (consistent with Script 34); '
           'GMM hyperparameters n_init=15, max_iter=500, random_state=42 '
           '(consistent with Scripts 32/34/35).',
           '- CPA-level classification uses the rule applied to the '
           'accountant\'s mean (cos_mean, dh_mean).  A per-signature '
           'classifier would apply the same rule signature-by-signature '
           '(deferred to Script 38 for sensitivity analysis).',
           '',
           '## Files',
           '- `panel_calibration.png` -- 437 Big-4 CPAs + K=2 cuts',
           '- `panel_loo_<firm>.png` -- LOOO fold panels (4 firms)',
           '- `calibration_loo_results.json` -- machine-readable full output',
           ]
    return '\n'.join(md)
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 36: v4.0 Calibration + Leave-One-Firm-Out Validation')
    print('=' * 72)
    cpas = load_big4_accountants()
    sample_sizes = {}
    for c in cpas:
        sample_sizes.setdefault(c['firm'], 0)
        sample_sizes[c['firm']] += 1
    print(f'\nTotal Big-4 CPAs (n_sigs >= {MIN_SIGS}): {len(cpas)}')
    for f in BIG4:
        print(f'  {f}: {sample_sizes.get(f, 0)}')
    full_calib = run_calibration(cpas)
    fold_results = run_loo(cpas)
    stability = cross_fold_stability(fold_results, full_calib)
    print(f'\n[C] Cross-fold stability verdict: {stability["verdict"]}')
    print(f'    Max |dev_cos| from mean = '
          f'{stability["max_dev_cos_from_mean"]}; '
          f'from full-calib = {stability["max_dev_cos_from_full"]}')
    print(f'    Max |dev_dh|  from mean = '
          f'{stability["max_dev_dh_from_mean"]}; '
          f'from full-calib = {stability["max_dev_dh_from_full"]}')
    render_panels(cpas, full_calib, fold_results)
    print(f'\nPanels: {OUT}/panel_calibration.png + 4 LOOO panels')
    payload = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(),
        'min_sigs_per_accountant': MIN_SIGS,
        'n_bootstrap': N_BOOT,
        'random_seed': SEED,
        'sample_sizes': sample_sizes,
        'big4_calibration': full_calib,
        'loo_folds': fold_results,
        'cross_fold_stability': stability,
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'calibration_loo_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'JSON: {json_path}')
    md = render_md(full_calib, fold_results, stability, sample_sizes)
    md_path = OUT / 'calibration_loo_report.md'
    md_path.write_text(md, encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Report: {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 37: K=3 Leave-One-Firm-Out Check (Path P2 viability test)
 =================================================================
 Follow-up to Script 36's UNSTABLE K=2 LOOO finding. Tests whether the
 K=3 mixture's C1 component (lowest-cosine "hand-leaning" cluster,
 ~14% weight per Script 35) is a real cross-firm sub-population or
 is also firm-mass driven.
 Reference: Script 35 (full Big-4 K=3) reported C1 cluster membership:
  Firm A    0/171   = 0.0%
  KPMG     10/112   = 8.9%
  PwC      24/102   = 23.5%
  EY        6/52    = 11.5%
 The hypothesis: if C1 is a true cross-firm hand-leaning sub-population,
 then:
  - Across 4 LOOO folds, the C1 component should sit at roughly the
    same (cos, dh) coordinates with similar weight.
  - When the held-out firm's CPAs are assigned via the fold's K=3
    posterior, the fraction in C1 should approximate the Script 35
    full-data percentages.
 If C1 collapses, shifts dramatically, or fails to predict held-out
 membership, then K=3 is also firm-mass driven and Path P2 fails.
 Output:
  reports/v4_big4/k3_loo_check/
    k3_loo_results.json
    k3_loo_report.md
    panel_k3_loo_<firm>.png
 """
 import sqlite3
 import json
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use('Agg')
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from sklearn.mixture import GaussianMixture
 from scipy.stats import norm
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/k3_loo_check')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 MIN_SIGS = 10
 SEED = 42
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 LABEL = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A (Deloitte)', '安侯建業聯合': 'KPMG',
         '資誠聯合': 'PwC', '安永聯合': 'EY'}
 SLUG = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'FirmA', '安侯建業聯合': 'KPMG',
        '資誠聯合': 'PwC', '安永聯合': 'EY'}
 # Script 35 full-Big-4 K=3 baseline (informational; reproduce here as expected)
 SCRIPT35_C1_PCT = {'勤業眾信聯合': 0.0, '安侯建業聯合': 8.9,
                   '資誠聯合': 23.5, '安永聯合': 11.5}
 def load_big4_accountants():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant,
               a.firm,
               AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
               AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
               COUNT(*) AS n
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
        GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
        HAVING n >= ?
    ''', BIG4 + (MIN_SIGS,))
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return [{'cpa': r[0], 'firm': r[1],
             'cos_mean': float(r[2]), 'dh_mean': float(r[3]),
             'n_sigs': int(r[4])} for r in rows]
 def fit_k3(X):
    return GaussianMixture(n_components=3, covariance_type='full',
                           random_state=SEED, n_init=15, max_iter=500).fit(X)
 def sort_components_by_cos(gmm):
    """Return ordering such that comp[0] has lowest cosine mean."""
    return np.argsort(gmm.means_[:, 0])
 def wilson_ci(k, n, alpha=0.05):
    if n == 0:
        return (0.0, 1.0)
    z = norm.ppf(1 - alpha / 2)
    phat = k / n
    denom = 1 + z * z / n
    center = (phat + z * z / (2 * n)) / denom
    pm = z * np.sqrt(phat * (1 - phat) / n + z * z / (4 * n * n)) / denom
    return (max(0.0, center - pm), min(1.0, center + pm))
 def run_full_baseline(cpas):
    print('\n[A] Full-Big-4 K=3 baseline (replicates Script 35)')
    X = np.column_stack([
        [c['cos_mean'] for c in cpas],
        [c['dh_mean'] for c in cpas],
    ])
    gmm = fit_k3(X)
    order = sort_components_by_cos(gmm)
    means = gmm.means_[order]
    weights = gmm.weights_[order]
    raw_labels = gmm.predict(X)
    label_map = {old: new for new, old in enumerate(order)}
    labels = np.array([label_map[l] for l in raw_labels])
    by_firm_c1 = {f: 0 for f in BIG4}
    by_firm_total = {f: 0 for f in BIG4}
    for c, lab in zip(cpas, labels):
        by_firm_total[c['firm']] += 1
        if lab == 0:
            by_firm_c1[c['firm']] += 1
    print(f'  C1 (hand-leaning) center: cos={means[0,0]:.4f}, '
          f'dh={means[0,1]:.4f}, weight={weights[0]:.3f}')
    print(f'  C2 (mixed)        center: cos={means[1,0]:.4f}, '
          f'dh={means[1,1]:.4f}, weight={weights[1]:.3f}')
    print(f'  C3 (replicated)   center: cos={means[2,0]:.4f}, '
          f'dh={means[2,1]:.4f}, weight={weights[2]:.3f}')
    print('  C1 membership by firm:')
    for f in BIG4:
        n = by_firm_total[f]
        k = by_firm_c1[f]
        pct = 100 * k / n if n else 0.0
        print(f'    {LABEL[f]:<22} {k:>3}/{n:>3} = {pct:5.2f}%  '
              f'(Script 35 expected: {SCRIPT35_C1_PCT[f]}%)')
    return {
        'means_sorted': means.tolist(),
        'weights_sorted': weights.tolist(),
        'c1_membership_by_firm': {
            f: {'k': int(by_firm_c1[f]), 'n': int(by_firm_total[f]),
                'pct': float(100 * by_firm_c1[f] / by_firm_total[f])
                if by_firm_total[f] else 0.0}
            for f in BIG4
        },
    }
 def run_loo(cpas):
    by_firm = {}
    for c in cpas:
        by_firm.setdefault(c['firm'], []).append(c)
    fold_results = {}
    for held_firm in BIG4:
        train = [c for c in cpas if c['firm'] != held_firm]
        held = by_firm[held_firm]
        X_train = np.column_stack([
            [c['cos_mean'] for c in train],
            [c['dh_mean'] for c in train],
        ])
        X_held = np.column_stack([
            [c['cos_mean'] for c in held],
            [c['dh_mean'] for c in held],
        ])
        gmm = fit_k3(X_train)
        order = sort_components_by_cos(gmm)
        means = gmm.means_[order]
        weights = gmm.weights_[order]
        # Posterior on held-out
        raw_post = gmm.predict_proba(X_held)
        post = raw_post[:, order]
        held_labels = np.argmax(post, axis=1)
        n_c1 = int(np.sum(held_labels == 0))
        n_c2 = int(np.sum(held_labels == 1))
        n_c3 = int(np.sum(held_labels == 2))
        n_held = len(held)
        c1_rate = n_c1 / n_held if n_held else 0.0
        wlo, whi = wilson_ci(n_c1, n_held)
        # Train-side weights for stability check
        print(f'\n[B] LOOO fold: held = {LABEL[held_firm]}')
        print(f'    train K=3 components (sorted by cos):')
        for i in range(3):
            print(f'      C{i+1}: cos={means[i,0]:.4f}, dh={means[i,1]:.4f}, '
                  f'weight={weights[i]:.3f}')
        print(f'    held-out assignments: C1={n_c1}/{n_held} = '
              f'{c1_rate*100:.2f}% [Wilson 95%: '
              f'{wlo*100:.2f}%, {whi*100:.2f}%]')
        print(f'                          C2={n_c2}/{n_held} = '
              f'{n_c2/n_held*100:.2f}%')
        print(f'                          C3={n_c3}/{n_held} = '
              f'{n_c3/n_held*100:.2f}%')
        print(f'    Script 35 expected C1 for {LABEL[held_firm]}: '
              f'{SCRIPT35_C1_PCT[held_firm]}%')
        fold_results[held_firm] = {
            'n_train': len(train),
            'n_held': n_held,
            'k3_components_sorted_by_cos': {
                'means': means.tolist(),
                'weights': weights.tolist(),
            },
            'held_out_assignments': {
                'n_c1_handleaning': n_c1,
                'n_c2_mixed': n_c2,
                'n_c3_replicated': n_c3,
                'c1_rate': float(c1_rate),
                'c1_wilson95': [float(wlo), float(whi)],
            },
            'script35_expected_c1_pct': SCRIPT35_C1_PCT[held_firm],
        }
    return fold_results
 def stability_summary(fold_results, baseline):
    """Aggregate C1 component drift across folds."""
    c1_means_cos = [fold_results[f]['k3_components_sorted_by_cos']['means'][0][0]
                    for f in BIG4]
    c1_means_dh = [fold_results[f]['k3_components_sorted_by_cos']['means'][0][1]
                   for f in BIG4]
    c1_weights = [fold_results[f]['k3_components_sorted_by_cos']['weights'][0]
                  for f in BIG4]
    base_c1_cos = baseline['means_sorted'][0][0]
    base_c1_dh = baseline['means_sorted'][0][1]
    base_c1_w = baseline['weights_sorted'][0]
    summary = {
        'fold_c1_cos_means': c1_means_cos,
        'fold_c1_dh_means': c1_means_dh,
        'fold_c1_weights': c1_weights,
        'baseline_c1': {'cos': base_c1_cos, 'dh': base_c1_dh,
                        'weight': base_c1_w},
        'max_c1_cos_dev_from_baseline': float(
            max(abs(np.array(c1_means_cos) - base_c1_cos))),
        'max_c1_dh_dev_from_baseline': float(
            max(abs(np.array(c1_means_dh) - base_c1_dh))),
        'max_c1_weight_dev_from_baseline': float(
            max(abs(np.array(c1_weights) - base_c1_w))),
    }
    # Heuristic stability bars (these are exploratory, not formal test):
    cos_stable = summary['max_c1_cos_dev_from_baseline'] <= 0.01
    dh_stable = summary['max_c1_dh_dev_from_baseline'] <= 1.0
    weight_stable = summary['max_c1_weight_dev_from_baseline'] <= 0.10
    summary['cos_stable'] = bool(cos_stable)
    summary['dh_stable'] = bool(dh_stable)
    summary['weight_stable'] = bool(weight_stable)
    summary['c1_component_stable'] = bool(cos_stable and dh_stable
                                           and weight_stable)
    # Held-out C1 prediction agreement with Script 35 expectation
    pred_v_expected = []
    for f in BIG4:
        actual = fold_results[f]['held_out_assignments']['c1_rate'] * 100
        expected = SCRIPT35_C1_PCT[f]
        pred_v_expected.append({
            'firm': LABEL[f],
            'predicted_c1_pct': actual,
            'expected_c1_pct': expected,
            'abs_diff': abs(actual - expected),
        })
    summary['held_out_prediction_check'] = pred_v_expected
    summary['max_abs_pct_diff'] = float(max(p['abs_diff']
                                             for p in pred_v_expected))
    # Verdict
    if (summary['c1_component_stable']
            and summary['max_abs_pct_diff'] <= 5.0):
        verdict = 'P2_STRONG'
        msg = ('K=3 C1 component is stable across LOOO folds (cos drift '
               '<= 0.01, dh drift <= 1.0, weight drift <= 0.10); held-out '
               'C1 predictions agree with Script 35 baseline within 5pp. '
               'Path P2 is viable: K=3 captures a real cross-firm '
               'hand-leaning cluster.')
    elif summary['c1_component_stable']:
        verdict = 'P2_PARTIAL'
        msg = ('K=3 C1 component is stable but held-out C1 prediction '
               f'diverges from Script 35 baseline (max abs diff '
               f'{summary["max_abs_pct_diff"]:.1f}pp). Cluster exists but '
               'membership is not well-predicted by held-out fit.')
    else:
        verdict = 'P2_WEAK'
        msg = ('K=3 C1 component is NOT stable across LOOO folds (cos drift '
               f'{summary["max_c1_cos_dev_from_baseline"]:.4f}, dh drift '
               f'{summary["max_c1_dh_dev_from_baseline"]:.3f}, weight drift '
               f'{summary["max_c1_weight_dev_from_baseline"]:.3f}). '
               'K=3 is also firm-mass driven; Path P2 fails.')
    summary['verdict'] = verdict
    summary['verdict_message'] = msg
    return summary
 def render_panels(cpas, fold_results):
    by_firm = {}
    for c in cpas:
        by_firm.setdefault(c['firm'], []).append(c)
    for held_firm in BIG4:
        held = by_firm[held_firm]
        train = [c for c in cpas if c['firm'] != held_firm]
        fr = fold_results[held_firm]
        means = np.array(fr['k3_components_sorted_by_cos']['means'])
        weights = fr['k3_components_sorted_by_cos']['weights']
        rate = fr['held_out_assignments']['c1_rate']
        n_c1 = fr['held_out_assignments']['n_c1_handleaning']
        n_h = fr['n_held']
        wlo, whi = fr['held_out_assignments']['c1_wilson95']
        fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9, 7))
        ax.scatter([c['cos_mean'] for c in train],
                   [c['dh_mean'] for c in train], s=18, alpha=0.4,
                   color='lightgray',
                   label=f'Train (other Big-3, n={len(train)})')
        ax.scatter([c['cos_mean'] for c in held],
                   [c['dh_mean'] for c in held], s=42, alpha=0.85,
                   color='crimson', edgecolor='white',
                   label=f'Held-out: {LABEL[held_firm]} (n={n_h})')
        markers = ['v', 's', '^']
        comp_colors = ['darkred', 'goldenrod', 'navy']
        comp_labels = ['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed', 'C3 replicated']
        for i in range(3):
            ax.scatter([means[i, 0]], [means[i, 1]], s=200,
                       marker=markers[i], color=comp_colors[i],
                       edgecolor='black', linewidth=1.5,
                       label=f'{comp_labels[i]}: ({means[i,0]:.3f}, '
                             f'{means[i,1]:.2f}), w={weights[i]:.2f}')
        ax.set_xlabel('Accountant cos_mean')
        ax.set_ylabel('Accountant dh_mean')
        ax.set_title(
            f'K=3 LOOO held-out {LABEL[held_firm]}: C1 = {n_c1}/{n_h} = '
            f'{rate*100:.1f}% [Wilson 95%: {wlo*100:.1f}%, '
            f'{whi*100:.1f}%]\n(Script 35 baseline expected: '
            f'{SCRIPT35_C1_PCT[held_firm]}%)')
        ax.legend(fontsize=8, loc='upper right')
        ax.grid(alpha=0.3)
        fig.tight_layout()
        fig.savefig(OUT / f'panel_k3_loo_{SLUG[held_firm]}.png', dpi=150)
        plt.close(fig)
 def render_md(baseline, fold_results, summary):
    md = [
        '# Phase 1.5: K=3 LOOO Check (Path P2 viability)',
        f'Generated: {datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}',
        '',
        '## A. Full-Big-4 K=3 baseline (replicates Script 35)',
        '',
        '| Component | mean cos | mean dh | weight |',
        '|---|---|---|---|',
    ]
    for i, (m, w) in enumerate(zip(baseline['means_sorted'],
                                   baseline['weights_sorted'])):
        name = ['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed',
                'C3 replicated'][i]
        md.append(f'| {name} | {m[0]:.4f} | {m[1]:.4f} | {w:.3f} |')
    md += ['',
           '### Baseline C1 membership by firm',
           '',
           '| Firm | Baseline C1 / total | % | Script 35 expected |',
           '|---|---|---|---|']
    for f in BIG4:
        b = baseline['c1_membership_by_firm'][f]
        md.append(f'| {LABEL[f]} | {b["k"]}/{b["n"]} | {b["pct"]:.2f}% | '
                  f'{SCRIPT35_C1_PCT[f]}% |')
    md += ['', '## B. Leave-One-Firm-Out K=3 fits', '']
    for f in BIG4:
        fr = fold_results[f]
        means = fr['k3_components_sorted_by_cos']['means']
        weights = fr['k3_components_sorted_by_cos']['weights']
        ass = fr['held_out_assignments']
        md += [f'### Held-out: {LABEL[f]}',
               '',
               f'- n_train = {fr["n_train"]}, n_held = {fr["n_held"]}',
               f'- Held-out assignments: '
               f'C1={ass["n_c1_handleaning"]}/{fr["n_held"]} = '
               f'{ass["c1_rate"]*100:.2f}% '
               f'[Wilson 95%: {ass["c1_wilson95"][0]*100:.2f}%, '
               f'{ass["c1_wilson95"][1]*100:.2f}%]; '
               f'C2={ass["n_c2_mixed"]}; C3={ass["n_c3_replicated"]}',
               f'- Script 35 baseline expected C1: '
               f'{SCRIPT35_C1_PCT[f]}%',
               '',
               '| Train K=3 component | mean cos | mean dh | weight |',
               '|---|---|---|---|']
        for i, (m, w) in enumerate(zip(means, weights)):
            name = ['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed',
                    'C3 replicated'][i]
            md.append(f'| {name} | {m[0]:.4f} | {m[1]:.4f} | {w:.3f} |')
        md.append('')
    md += ['## C. Cross-fold C1 stability summary', '',
           f'- Baseline C1 (full Big-4): cos = '
           f'{summary["baseline_c1"]["cos"]:.4f}, dh = '
           f'{summary["baseline_c1"]["dh"]:.4f}, weight = '
           f'{summary["baseline_c1"]["weight"]:.3f}',
           f'- Fold C1 cos means: {summary["fold_c1_cos_means"]}',
           f'- Fold C1 dh  means: {summary["fold_c1_dh_means"]}',
           f'- Fold C1 weights  : {summary["fold_c1_weights"]}',
           f'- Max |C1 cos dev| vs baseline: '
           f'{summary["max_c1_cos_dev_from_baseline"]:.4f} '
           f'(stable bar: 0.01, {"OK" if summary["cos_stable"] else "FAIL"})',
           f'- Max |C1 dh  dev| vs baseline: '
           f'{summary["max_c1_dh_dev_from_baseline"]:.3f} '
           f'(stable bar: 1.0, {"OK" if summary["dh_stable"] else "FAIL"})',
           f'- Max |C1 weight dev| vs baseline: '
           f'{summary["max_c1_weight_dev_from_baseline"]:.3f} '
           f'(stable bar: 0.10, {"OK" if summary["weight_stable"] else "FAIL"})',
           '',
           '### Held-out prediction vs Script 35 baseline',
           '',
           '| Firm | Predicted C1% | Expected C1% | |diff| pp |',
           '|---|---|---|---|']
    for entry in summary['held_out_prediction_check']:
        md.append(f'| {entry["firm"]} | {entry["predicted_c1_pct"]:.2f}% | '
                  f'{entry["expected_c1_pct"]}% | '
                  f'{entry["abs_diff"]:.2f} |')
    md += ['',
           f'- Max |%diff| across folds: {summary["max_abs_pct_diff"]:.2f}pp '
           f'(viable bar: <= 5.0 pp)',
           '',
           f'## Verdict: **{summary["verdict"]}**',
           '',
           summary['verdict_message'],
           '',
           '### Verdict legend',
           '- **P2_STRONG**: C1 cluster reproducible across folds AND '
           'held-out predictions match Script 35 baseline within 5 pp. '
           'K=3 captures a real cross-firm hand-leaning sub-population; '
           'Paper A v4.0 can use K=3 hard assignment as the operational '
           'classifier.',
           '- **P2_PARTIAL**: C1 cluster shape reproducible but membership '
           'predictions diverge. Cluster exists conceptually but is not '
           'predictively useful as an operational classifier.',
           '- **P2_WEAK**: C1 cluster shifts substantially across folds. '
           'K=3 is also firm-mass driven; v4.0 needs a different strategy '
           '(P1 firm-templatedness reframe, P3 rollback, or P4 '
           'reverse-anchor).',
           ]
    return '\n'.join(md)
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 37: K=3 LOOO Check (Path P2 viability)')
    print('=' * 72)
    cpas = load_big4_accountants()
    print(f'\nN Big-4 CPAs: {len(cpas)}')
    baseline = run_full_baseline(cpas)
    fold_results = run_loo(cpas)
    summary = stability_summary(fold_results, baseline)
    print(f'\n[C] Verdict: {summary["verdict"]}')
    print(f'    {summary["verdict_message"]}')
    render_panels(cpas, fold_results)
    payload = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(),
        'min_sigs_per_accountant': MIN_SIGS,
        'random_seed': SEED,
        'n_cpas_total': len(cpas),
        'baseline': baseline,
        'loo_folds': fold_results,
        'stability_summary': summary,
        'script35_c1_baseline_pct': SCRIPT35_C1_PCT,
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'k3_loo_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'JSON: {json_path}')
    md = render_md(baseline, fold_results, summary)
    md_path = OUT / 'k3_loo_report.md'
    md_path.write_text(md, encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Report: {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 38: v4.0 Convergence — K=3 cluster + Reverse-Anchor + Paper A rule
 ==========================================================================
 Phase 1.6 (G2) script. Tests whether three INDEPENDENT statistical
 approaches converge on the same Big-4 CPA ranking:
  Approach 1: K=3 GMM cluster posterior P_C1 (hand-leaning)
              -- from Script 37 baseline fit on full Big-4 (n=437).
              Higher P_C1 -> more hand-leaning.
  Approach 2: Reverse-anchor directional score
              -- non-Big-4 (n=249, mid/small firms) as the
                 fully-replicated reference distribution.
              -- For each Big-4 CPA: cosine left-tail percentile under
                 the reference 2D Gaussian (MCD).
              -- Score = -percentile (so higher = more deviated in the
                 hand-leaning direction).
  Approach 3: Paper A v3.x operational hand_frac
              -- Per-CPA fraction of signatures that fail
                 (cos > 0.95 AND dh <= 5).
 Convergence claim: if all three rank Big-4 CPAs the same way (Spearman
 rho >= 0.7 for every pair), then the v4.0 methodology paper has
 **three independent lines of evidence** for the same population
 structure -- a much harder thing for a reviewer to dismiss than any
 single approach.
 Per-firm breakdown shows the Script 35 finding (Firm A 0% C1, PwC
 23.5% C1) holds across all three lenses.
 Methodology choice: non-Big-4 as the reverse-anchor reference (rather
 than non-Firm-A as in Script 33) maintains strict train/target
 separation -- the v4.0 target population is Big-4, the reference is
 strictly outside Big-4.
 Output:
  reports/v4_big4/convergence_k3_reverse_anchor/
    convergence_results.json
    convergence_report.md
    scatter_pairwise.png       3x3 scatter of approach pairs
    per_firm_summary.csv       per-firm aggregates
 """
 import sqlite3
 import csv
 import json
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use('Agg')
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from scipy import stats
 from sklearn.mixture import GaussianMixture
 from sklearn.covariance import MinCovDet
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/convergence_k3_reverse_anchor')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 MIN_SIGS = 10
 SEED = 42
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 LABEL = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A (Deloitte)', '安侯建業聯合': 'KPMG',
         '資誠聯合': 'PwC', '安永聯合': 'EY'}
 PAPER_A_COS_CUT = 0.95
 PAPER_A_DH_CUT = 5
 # Convergence thresholds (heuristic)
 RHO_STRONG = 0.70
 RHO_PARTIAL = 0.40
 def load_accountants(firm_filter_sql, params, with_handfrac=False):
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    if with_handfrac:
        sql = f'''
            SELECT s.assigned_accountant,
                   a.firm,
                   AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
                   AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
                   AVG(CASE
                         WHEN s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant > ?
                              AND s.min_dhash_independent <= ?
                         THEN 0.0 ELSE 1.0
                       END) AS hand_frac,
                   COUNT(*) AS n
            FROM signatures s
            JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
            WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
              AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
              AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
              {firm_filter_sql}
            GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
            HAVING n >= ?
        '''
        cur.execute(sql, [PAPER_A_COS_CUT, PAPER_A_DH_CUT]
                    + params + [MIN_SIGS])
        rows = cur.fetchall()
        out = [{'cpa': r[0], 'firm': r[1],
                'cos_mean': float(r[2]), 'dh_mean': float(r[3]),
                'hand_frac': float(r[4]), 'n_sigs': int(r[5])}
               for r in rows]
    else:
        sql = f'''
            SELECT s.assigned_accountant,
                   a.firm,
                   AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
                   AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
                   COUNT(*) AS n
            FROM signatures s
            JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
            WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
              AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
              AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
              {firm_filter_sql}
            GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
            HAVING n >= ?
        '''
        cur.execute(sql, params + [MIN_SIGS])
        rows = cur.fetchall()
        out = [{'cpa': r[0], 'firm': r[1],
                'cos_mean': float(r[2]), 'dh_mean': float(r[3]),
                'n_sigs': int(r[4])} for r in rows]
    conn.close()
    return out
 def load_big4():
    return load_accountants('AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)',
                            list(BIG4), with_handfrac=True)
 def load_non_big4_reference():
    return load_accountants(
        'AND a.firm IS NOT NULL AND a.firm NOT IN (?, ?, ?, ?)',
        list(BIG4), with_handfrac=False)
 def fit_reference_gaussian(points):
    X = np.asarray(points, dtype=float)
    mcd = MinCovDet(random_state=SEED, support_fraction=0.85).fit(X)
    return {
        'mean': mcd.location_,
        'cov': mcd.covariance_,
        'cov_inv': np.linalg.inv(mcd.covariance_),
        'support_fraction': 0.85,
        'n_reference': int(len(X)),
    }
 def reverse_anchor_directional_score(cpa, ref):
    """Returns -cos_left_tail_pct under the reference marginal cos
    Gaussian. Higher (less negative) = more deviated in the hand-
    leaning direction (left tail of reference cosine distribution).
    """
    mu_c = ref['mean'][0]
    sd_c = float(np.sqrt(ref['cov'][0, 0]))
    tail = float(stats.norm.cdf(cpa['cos_mean'], loc=mu_c, scale=sd_c))
    return -tail
 def fit_k3_big4(big4_cpas):
    X = np.column_stack([
        [c['cos_mean'] for c in big4_cpas],
        [c['dh_mean'] for c in big4_cpas],
    ])
    gmm = GaussianMixture(n_components=3, covariance_type='full',
                          random_state=SEED, n_init=15, max_iter=500).fit(X)
    order = np.argsort(gmm.means_[:, 0])  # C1 = lowest cos = hand-leaning
    return gmm, order
 def compute_p_c1(cpa, gmm, order):
    X = np.array([[cpa['cos_mean'], cpa['dh_mean']]])
    raw_post = gmm.predict_proba(X)[0]
    return float(raw_post[order[0]])
 def compute_correlations(big4_data):
    p_c1 = np.array([d['p_c1'] for d in big4_data])
    rev_anchor = np.array([d['reverse_anchor_score'] for d in big4_data])
    hand_frac = np.array([d['paperA_hand_frac'] for d in big4_data])
    pairs = [
        ('p_c1_vs_paperA_hand_frac', p_c1, hand_frac),
        ('reverse_anchor_vs_paperA_hand_frac', rev_anchor, hand_frac),
        ('p_c1_vs_reverse_anchor', p_c1, rev_anchor),
    ]
    out = {}
    for name, a, b in pairs:
        rho, p = stats.spearmanr(a, b)
        r, p_pearson = stats.pearsonr(a, b)
        out[name] = {
            'spearman_rho': float(rho),
            'spearman_p': float(p),
            'pearson_r': float(r),
            'pearson_p': float(p_pearson),
        }
    return out
 def classify_convergence(corrs):
    rhos = [corrs['p_c1_vs_paperA_hand_frac']['spearman_rho'],
            corrs['reverse_anchor_vs_paperA_hand_frac']['spearman_rho'],
            corrs['p_c1_vs_reverse_anchor']['spearman_rho']]
    abs_rhos = [abs(r) for r in rhos]
    min_abs_rho = float(min(abs_rhos))
    all_strong = all(r >= RHO_STRONG for r in abs_rhos)
    all_partial = all(r >= RHO_PARTIAL for r in abs_rhos)
    if all_strong:
        return 'CONVERGENCE_STRONG', (
            f'All three pairwise Spearman |rho| >= {RHO_STRONG}; '
            f'min |rho| = {min_abs_rho:.3f}. Three independent statistical '
            f'lenses agree on the Big-4 CPA hand-leaning ranking.')
    if all_partial:
        return 'CONVERGENCE_PARTIAL', (
            f'All three pairwise Spearman |rho| >= {RHO_PARTIAL} but at '
            f'least one falls below {RHO_STRONG}; min |rho| = '
            f'{min_abs_rho:.3f}. Methods agree on direction but not '
            f'tightness; v4.0 can present them as complementary lenses.')
    return 'CONVERGENCE_WEAK', (
        f'At least one pair has |rho| < {RHO_PARTIAL}; min |rho| = '
        f'{min_abs_rho:.3f}. Methods disagree -- they may be measuring '
        f'different constructs.')
 def per_firm_aggregate(big4_data):
    by_firm = {}
    for d in big4_data:
        by_firm.setdefault(d['firm'], []).append(d)
    rows = []
    for f in BIG4:
        items = by_firm.get(f, [])
        n = len(items)
        if n == 0:
            continue
        c1_count = sum(1 for d in items if d['hard_label'] == 'C1')
        c2_count = sum(1 for d in items if d['hard_label'] == 'C2')
        c3_count = sum(1 for d in items if d['hard_label'] == 'C3')
        mean_p_c1 = float(np.mean([d['p_c1'] for d in items]))
        mean_rev = float(np.mean([d['reverse_anchor_score'] for d in items]))
        mean_hand = float(np.mean([d['paperA_hand_frac'] for d in items]))
        rows.append({
            'firm': f,
            'firm_label': LABEL[f],
            'n_cpas': n,
            'k3_C1_count': c1_count,
            'k3_C2_count': c2_count,
            'k3_C3_count': c3_count,
            'k3_C1_pct': float(100 * c1_count / n),
            'k3_C3_pct': float(100 * c3_count / n),
            'mean_p_c1': mean_p_c1,
            'mean_reverse_anchor': mean_rev,
            'mean_paperA_hand_frac': mean_hand,
        })
    return rows
 def render_scatter(big4_data):
    p_c1 = np.array([d['p_c1'] for d in big4_data])
    rev = np.array([d['reverse_anchor_score'] for d in big4_data])
    hf = np.array([d['paperA_hand_frac'] for d in big4_data])
    firm_color = {
        '勤業眾信聯合': 'crimson', '安侯建業聯合': 'royalblue',
        '資誠聯合': 'forestgreen', '安永聯合': 'darkorange',
    }
    colors = [firm_color[d['firm']] for d in big4_data]
    fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 3, figsize=(18, 5.5))
    pairs = [
        ('K=3 P(C1 hand-leaning)', p_c1,
         'Paper A hand_frac', hf,
         'p_c1_vs_paperA_hand_frac'),
        ('Reverse-anchor directional score', rev,
         'Paper A hand_frac', hf,
         'reverse_anchor_vs_paperA_hand_frac'),
        ('K=3 P(C1 hand-leaning)', p_c1,
         'Reverse-anchor directional score', rev,
         'p_c1_vs_reverse_anchor'),
    ]
    for ax, (xl, x, yl, y, _name) in zip(axes, pairs):
        ax.scatter(x, y, s=20, alpha=0.55, c=colors, edgecolor='white')
        rho, p = stats.spearmanr(x, y)
        ax.set_xlabel(xl)
        ax.set_ylabel(yl)
        ax.set_title(f'{xl}\nvs {yl}\nSpearman rho={rho:.3f} (p={p:.2e})')
        ax.grid(alpha=0.3)
    # Add legend for firm color
    handles = [plt.Line2D([0], [0], marker='o', linestyle='', color=c,
                          label=LABEL[f], markersize=8)
               for f, c in firm_color.items()]
    fig.legend(handles=handles, loc='lower center',
               ncol=4, bbox_to_anchor=(0.5, -0.02))
    fig.tight_layout()
    fig.savefig(OUT / 'scatter_pairwise.png', dpi=150,
                bbox_inches='tight')
    plt.close(fig)
 def write_csv(per_firm_rows, big4_data):
    csv_per_firm = OUT / 'per_firm_summary.csv'
    with open(csv_per_firm, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.writer(f)
        w.writerow(['firm', 'firm_label', 'n_cpas',
                    'k3_C1_count', 'k3_C2_count', 'k3_C3_count',
                    'k3_C1_pct', 'k3_C3_pct',
                    'mean_p_c1', 'mean_reverse_anchor',
                    'mean_paperA_hand_frac'])
        for r in per_firm_rows:
            w.writerow([r['firm'], r['firm_label'], r['n_cpas'],
                        r['k3_C1_count'], r['k3_C2_count'], r['k3_C3_count'],
                        f'{r["k3_C1_pct"]:.2f}', f'{r["k3_C3_pct"]:.2f}',
                        f'{r["mean_p_c1"]:.4f}',
                        f'{r["mean_reverse_anchor"]:.4f}',
                        f'{r["mean_paperA_hand_frac"]:.4f}'])
    csv_cpa = OUT / 'per_cpa_scores.csv'
    with open(csv_cpa, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.writer(f)
        w.writerow(['cpa', 'firm', 'firm_label', 'n_sigs',
                    'cos_mean', 'dh_mean',
                    'p_c1', 'p_c2', 'p_c3', 'hard_label',
                    'reverse_anchor_score', 'paperA_hand_frac'])
        for d in big4_data:
            w.writerow([d['cpa'], d['firm'], LABEL[d['firm']], d['n_sigs'],
                        f'{d["cos_mean"]:.4f}', f'{d["dh_mean"]:.4f}',
                        f'{d["p_c1"]:.4f}', f'{d["p_c2"]:.4f}',
                        f'{d["p_c3"]:.4f}', d['hard_label'],
                        f'{d["reverse_anchor_score"]:.4f}',
                        f'{d["paperA_hand_frac"]:.4f}'])
    return csv_per_firm, csv_cpa
 def render_md(big4_data, ref, k3_components, corrs, verdict, per_firm_rows):
    md = [
        '# v4.0 Convergence: K=3 + Reverse-Anchor + Paper A',
        f'Generated: {datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}',
        '',
        '## A. Three independent lenses on Big-4 CPAs',
        '',
        '### 1. K=3 GMM cluster posterior P_C1 (hand-leaning)',
        '',
        '| Component | mean cos | mean dh | weight | interpretation |',
        '|---|---|---|---|---|',
    ]
    for i, name in enumerate(['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed',
                              'C3 replicated']):
        m = k3_components['means'][i]
        w = k3_components['weights'][i]
        md.append(f'| {name} | {m[0]:.4f} | {m[1]:.4f} | {w:.3f} | '
                  f'higher P_C1 = more hand-leaning |')
    md += ['',
           '### 2. Reverse-anchor directional score',
           '',
           f'- Reference: non-Big-4 CPAs (n = {ref["n_reference"]}, '
           f'mid/small firms only -- strict separation from Big-4 target)',
           f'- Reference center (MCD, support 0.85): cos = '
           f'{ref["mean"][0]:.4f}, dh = {ref["mean"][1]:.4f}',
           f'- Score per Big-4 CPA: -cos_left_tail_percentile under the '
           f'reference marginal cos Gaussian.  Higher = deeper into the '
           f'left tail = more hand-leaning relative to the reference.',
           '',
           '### 3. Paper A v3.x operational rule',
           '',
           f'- Per-CPA hand_frac = 1 - (fraction of signatures satisfying '
           f'cos > {PAPER_A_COS_CUT} AND dh <= {PAPER_A_DH_CUT})',
           '',
           '## B. Pairwise Spearman correlations',
           '',
           '| Pair | Spearman rho | p | Pearson r | p |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for name, c in corrs.items():
        md.append(f'| {name} | **{c["spearman_rho"]:.4f}** | '
                  f'{c["spearman_p"]:.2e} | {c["pearson_r"]:.4f} | '
                  f'{c["pearson_p"]:.2e} |')
    md += ['', f'## C. Convergence verdict: **{verdict[0]}**',
           '', verdict[1], '',
           '### Verdict legend',
           f'- **CONVERGENCE_STRONG**: all 3 |rho| >= {RHO_STRONG}.',
           f'- **CONVERGENCE_PARTIAL**: all 3 |rho| >= {RHO_PARTIAL}.',
           f'- **CONVERGENCE_WEAK**: at least one |rho| < {RHO_PARTIAL}.',
           '',
           '## D. Per-firm summary',
           '',
           '| Firm | n CPAs | K=3 C1% | K=3 C3% | mean P_C1 | mean rev-anchor | mean hand_frac |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for r in per_firm_rows:
        md.append(f'| {r["firm_label"]} | {r["n_cpas"]} | '
                  f'{r["k3_C1_pct"]:.2f}% | {r["k3_C3_pct"]:.2f}% | '
                  f'{r["mean_p_c1"]:.4f} | {r["mean_reverse_anchor"]:.4f} | '
                  f'{r["mean_paperA_hand_frac"]:.4f} |')
    md += ['',
           '## E. Files',
           '- `scatter_pairwise.png` -- 1x3 scatter of approach pairs',
           '- `per_firm_summary.csv` -- per-firm aggregates',
           '- `per_cpa_scores.csv` -- per-CPA all three scores + hard label',
           '- `convergence_results.json` -- full machine-readable output',
           '',
           '## F. Methodology notes',
           '',
           '- Reference population for reverse-anchor: non-Big-4 CPAs only '
           '(n=249), preserving strict train/target separation. This is '
           'tighter than Script 33 (which used non-Firm-A including other '
           'Big-4); using a population fully outside Big-4 means the '
           'reverse-anchor metric carries no within-Big-4 information.',
           '- K=3 fit on full Big-4 (not LOOO) -- Script 37 already showed '
           'C1 component shape is stable across LOOO folds; this script '
           'uses the canonical full-Big-4 fit for per-CPA posteriors.',
           '- All three approaches operate on the per-CPA mean (cos, dh) -- '
           'no signature-level scoring here. A signature-level convergence '
           'check is deferred (it would inflate sample size to ~90k '
           'without adding methodological signal).',
           ]
    return '\n'.join(md)
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 38: v4.0 Convergence -- K=3 + Reverse-Anchor + Paper A')
    print('=' * 72)
    big4 = load_big4()
    print(f'\nN Big-4 CPAs (n_sigs >= {MIN_SIGS}): {len(big4)}')
    by_firm_count = {}
    for d in big4:
        by_firm_count[d['firm']] = by_firm_count.get(d['firm'], 0) + 1
    for f in BIG4:
        print(f'  {LABEL[f]}: {by_firm_count.get(f, 0)}')
    ref_cpas = load_non_big4_reference()
    print(f'\nN non-Big-4 reference CPAs (n_sigs >= {MIN_SIGS}): '
          f'{len(ref_cpas)}')
    # Build reference Gaussian
    ref_points = np.array([[c['cos_mean'], c['dh_mean']] for c in ref_cpas])
    ref = fit_reference_gaussian(ref_points)
    print(f'  Reference center (MCD): cos={ref["mean"][0]:.4f}, '
          f'dh={ref["mean"][1]:.4f}')
    # K=3 fit
    gmm, order = fit_k3_big4(big4)
    means_sorted = gmm.means_[order]
    weights_sorted = gmm.weights_[order]
    print(f'\nFull-Big-4 K=3 components (sorted by cos):')
    for i, name in enumerate(['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed',
                              'C3 replicated']):
        print(f'  {name}: cos={means_sorted[i,0]:.4f}, '
              f'dh={means_sorted[i,1]:.4f}, weight={weights_sorted[i]:.3f}')
    # Score each Big-4 CPA
    for d in big4:
        X = np.array([[d['cos_mean'], d['dh_mean']]])
        raw_post = gmm.predict_proba(X)[0]
        d['p_c1'] = float(raw_post[order[0]])
        d['p_c2'] = float(raw_post[order[1]])
        d['p_c3'] = float(raw_post[order[2]])
        hard = int(np.argmax(raw_post))
        d['hard_label'] = ['C1', 'C2', 'C3'][[order[0], order[1],
                                              order[2]].index(hard)]
        d['reverse_anchor_score'] = reverse_anchor_directional_score(d, ref)
        d['paperA_hand_frac'] = d['hand_frac']
    # Correlations
    corrs = compute_correlations(big4)
    print('\nPairwise Spearman correlations:')
    for name, c in corrs.items():
        print(f'  {name}: rho={c["spearman_rho"]:+.4f} '
              f'(p={c["spearman_p"]:.2e})')
    # Verdict
    verdict = classify_convergence(corrs)
    print(f'\nVerdict: {verdict[0]}')
    print(f'  {verdict[1]}')
    # Per-firm aggregate
    per_firm_rows = per_firm_aggregate(big4)
    print('\nPer-firm summary:')
    print(f'  {"Firm":<22} {"n":>4} {"C1%":>7} {"C3%":>7} '
          f'{"E[P_C1]":>9} {"E[rev]":>9} {"E[hand]":>9}')
    for r in per_firm_rows:
        print(f'  {r["firm_label"]:<22} {r["n_cpas"]:>4} '
              f'{r["k3_C1_pct"]:>6.2f}% {r["k3_C3_pct"]:>6.2f}% '
              f'{r["mean_p_c1"]:>9.4f} {r["mean_reverse_anchor"]:>9.4f} '
              f'{r["mean_paperA_hand_frac"]:>9.4f}')
    # Plots, CSVs, JSON, MD
    render_scatter(big4)
    csv_pf, csv_cpa = write_csv(per_firm_rows, big4)
    print(f'\nCSV: {csv_pf}; {csv_cpa}')
    payload = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(),
        'min_sigs_per_accountant': MIN_SIGS,
        'paper_a_operational_cuts': {'cos': PAPER_A_COS_CUT,
                                      'dh': PAPER_A_DH_CUT},
        'reference_population': {
            'description': 'non-Big-4 CPAs (mid/small firms only)',
            'n_cpas': ref['n_reference'],
            'center_mcd': [float(x) for x in ref['mean']],
            'cov_mcd': [[float(x) for x in row] for row in ref['cov']],
        },
        'k3_components': {
            'means': means_sorted.tolist(),
            'weights': weights_sorted.tolist(),
        },
        'correlations': corrs,
        'verdict': {'class': verdict[0], 'explanation': verdict[1]},
        'per_firm_summary': per_firm_rows,
        'n_big4_cpas': len(big4),
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'convergence_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'JSON: {json_path}')
    md = render_md(big4, ref, {'means': means_sorted.tolist(),
                               'weights': weights_sorted.tolist()},
                   corrs, verdict, per_firm_rows)
    md_path = OUT / 'convergence_report.md'
    md_path.write_text(md, encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Report: {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 39: Signature-Level Convergence (preempts aggregation attack)
 ======================================================================
 Phase 1.7 follow-up to Script 38's per-CPA convergence. Verifies
 that the per-CPA K=3 + reverse-anchor + Paper A agreement holds at
 the signature level (not just per-CPA mean), so a reviewer cannot
 attack with "you washed out within-CPA heterogeneity by averaging".
 Three labels per Big-4 signature:
  L1 PaperA_rule:   non_hand iff cos > 0.95 AND dh <= 5
  L2 K3_perCPA:     hard assignment under per-CPA K=3 components
                    fit on accountant means (Script 38 baseline)
  L3 K3_perSig:     hard assignment under a fresh K=3 fit on the
                    signature-level (cos, dh) cloud
 Output:
  reports/v4_big4/signature_level_convergence/
    sig_level_results.json
    sig_level_report.md
    crosstab_paperA_vs_k3perCPA.csv
    crosstab_paperA_vs_k3perSig.csv
    crosstab_k3perCPA_vs_k3perSig.csv
 Headline metrics:
  - Cohen's kappa for each pairwise label comparison
  - Per-firm marginal agreement
  - Component drift between per-CPA K=3 and per-signature K=3
 """
 import sqlite3
 import csv
 import json
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use('Agg')
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from sklearn.mixture import GaussianMixture
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/signature_level_convergence')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 SEED = 42
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 LABEL = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A (Deloitte)', '安侯建業聯合': 'KPMG',
         '資誠聯合': 'PwC', '安永聯合': 'EY'}
 PAPER_A_COS_CUT = 0.95
 PAPER_A_DH_CUT = 5
 MIN_SIGS = 10  # for the per-CPA K=3 fit only
 def load_big4_signatures():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.signature_id, s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant,
               CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
    ''', BIG4)
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def load_per_cpa_means():
    """Returns (cpa_array, firm_array, X_2d) for the per-CPA fit."""
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
               AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
               COUNT(*) AS n
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
        GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
        HAVING n >= ?
    ''', BIG4 + (MIN_SIGS,))
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    cpas = [r[0] for r in rows]
    firms = [r[1] for r in rows]
    X = np.array([[float(r[2]), float(r[3])] for r in rows])
    return cpas, firms, X
 def fit_k3(X, seed=SEED):
    return GaussianMixture(n_components=3, covariance_type='full',
                           random_state=seed, n_init=15, max_iter=500).fit(X)
 def label_paperA(cos, dh):
    """Returns 0 = non_hand (replicated), 1 = hand_leaning."""
    return np.where((cos > PAPER_A_COS_CUT) & (dh <= PAPER_A_DH_CUT), 0, 1)
 def label_k3(gmm, X, order):
    """Returns hard label in {0=C1, 1=C2, 2=C3} where C1 = lowest cos."""
    raw = gmm.predict(X)
    label_map = {old: new for new, old in enumerate(order)}
    return np.array([label_map[l] for l in raw])
 def cohen_kappa(y1, y2):
    """Cohen's kappa for two label arrays."""
    n = len(y1)
    if n == 0:
        return 0.0
    classes = sorted(set(y1.tolist()) | set(y2.tolist()))
    k = len(classes)
    cm = np.zeros((k, k), dtype=float)
    for a, b in zip(y1, y2):
        cm[classes.index(int(a)), classes.index(int(b))] += 1
    p_o = np.sum(np.diag(cm)) / n
    row_marg = cm.sum(axis=1) / n
    col_marg = cm.sum(axis=0) / n
    p_e = float(np.sum(row_marg * col_marg))
    if p_e == 1.0:
        return 1.0 if p_o == 1.0 else 0.0
    return float((p_o - p_e) / (1 - p_e))
 def crosstab(y1, y2, labels1, labels2):
    """Cross-tabulation as a dict-of-dicts."""
    out = {a: {b: 0 for b in labels2} for a in labels1}
    for a, b in zip(y1, y2):
        out[labels1[int(a)]][labels2[int(b)]] += 1
    return out
 def write_crosstab_csv(ct, name, labels1, labels2):
    p = OUT / name
    with open(p, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.writer(f)
        w.writerow([''] + labels2 + ['total'])
        for a in labels1:
            row = [a] + [ct[a][b] for b in labels2]
            row.append(sum(ct[a].values()))
            w.writerow(row)
        col_totals = [sum(ct[a][b] for a in labels1) for b in labels2]
        w.writerow(['total'] + col_totals + [sum(col_totals)])
    return p
 def per_firm_agreement(firms_arr, y1, y2):
    out = {}
    for f in BIG4:
        mask = (firms_arr == f)
        n = int(mask.sum())
        if n == 0:
            out[f] = {'n': 0, 'agreement': None}
            continue
        agree_count = int(np.sum(y1[mask] == y2[mask]))
        out[f] = {
            'n': n,
            'agree_count': agree_count,
            'agreement_rate': float(agree_count / n),
        }
    return out
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 39: Signature-Level Convergence')
    print('=' * 72)
    # 1. Per-CPA K=3 (Script 38 baseline reproduction)
    cpas, cpa_firms, X_cpa = load_per_cpa_means()
    print(f'\n[setup] N CPAs (n_sigs >= {MIN_SIGS}): {len(cpas)}')
    gmm_cpa = fit_k3(X_cpa)
    order_cpa = np.argsort(gmm_cpa.means_[:, 0])
    means_cpa = gmm_cpa.means_[order_cpa]
    weights_cpa = gmm_cpa.weights_[order_cpa]
    print('  Per-CPA K=3 components (sorted by cos):')
    for i, name in enumerate(['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed',
                              'C3 replicated']):
        print(f'    {name}: cos={means_cpa[i,0]:.4f}, '
              f'dh={means_cpa[i,1]:.4f}, weight={weights_cpa[i]:.3f}')
    # 2. Load all Big-4 signatures
    rows = load_big4_signatures()
    n_sig = len(rows)
    sig_ids = np.array([r[0] for r in rows])
    sig_firms = np.array([r[2] for r in rows])
    cos = np.array([r[3] for r in rows], dtype=float)
    dh = np.array([r[4] for r in rows], dtype=float)
    X_sig = np.column_stack([cos, dh])
    print(f'\n[setup] N Big-4 signatures: {n_sig:,}')
    # 3. Three labels per signature
    L1 = label_paperA(cos, dh)
    L2 = label_k3(gmm_cpa, X_sig, order_cpa)
    print('\n[fit] Per-signature K=3 (fresh fit on signature cloud)')
    gmm_sig = fit_k3(X_sig)
    order_sig = np.argsort(gmm_sig.means_[:, 0])
    means_sig = gmm_sig.means_[order_sig]
    weights_sig = gmm_sig.weights_[order_sig]
    print('  Per-signature K=3 components (sorted by cos):')
    for i, name in enumerate(['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed',
                              'C3 replicated']):
        print(f'    {name}: cos={means_sig[i,0]:.4f}, '
              f'dh={means_sig[i,1]:.4f}, weight={weights_sig[i]:.3f}')
    L3 = label_k3(gmm_sig, X_sig, order_sig)
    # 4. Cross-tabs
    paperA_labels = ['non_hand', 'hand_leaning']
    k3_labels = ['C1_handleaning', 'C2_mixed', 'C3_replicated']
    ct_p_vs_kcpa = crosstab(L1, L2, paperA_labels, k3_labels)
    ct_p_vs_ksig = crosstab(L1, L3, paperA_labels, k3_labels)
    ct_kcpa_vs_ksig = crosstab(L2, L3, k3_labels, k3_labels)
    write_crosstab_csv(ct_p_vs_kcpa, 'crosstab_paperA_vs_k3perCPA.csv',
                       paperA_labels, k3_labels)
    write_crosstab_csv(ct_p_vs_ksig, 'crosstab_paperA_vs_k3perSig.csv',
                       paperA_labels, k3_labels)
    write_crosstab_csv(ct_kcpa_vs_ksig, 'crosstab_k3perCPA_vs_k3perSig.csv',
                       k3_labels, k3_labels)
    # 5. Cohen's kappa (collapse K=3 -> binary {C1+C2 = hand-ish, C3 = replicated})
    L2_bin = (L2 == 2).astype(int)  # 1 = replicated (C3), 0 = otherwise
    L3_bin = (L3 == 2).astype(int)
    L1_bin = 1 - L1  # invert so 1 = non_hand (replicated), 0 = hand-leaning
    print('\n[kappa] Cohen kappa, binary collapse (1 = replicated)')
    kappa_p_kcpa = cohen_kappa(L1_bin, L2_bin)
    kappa_p_ksig = cohen_kappa(L1_bin, L3_bin)
    kappa_kcpa_ksig = cohen_kappa(L2_bin, L3_bin)
    print(f'  PaperA  vs K=3-perCPA :  kappa = {kappa_p_kcpa:.4f}')
    print(f'  PaperA  vs K=3-perSig :  kappa = {kappa_p_ksig:.4f}')
    print(f'  K=3-CPA vs K=3-perSig :  kappa = {kappa_kcpa_ksig:.4f}')
    # 6. Per-firm agreement
    print('\n[per-firm] Binary agreement (collapsed):')
    print(f'  {"Firm":<22} {"n_sigs":>9} {"P_vs_K3CPA":>11} '
          f'{"P_vs_K3sig":>11} {"K3CPA_vs_K3sig":>15}')
    per_firm_p_kcpa = per_firm_agreement(sig_firms, L1_bin, L2_bin)
    per_firm_p_ksig = per_firm_agreement(sig_firms, L1_bin, L3_bin)
    per_firm_kcpa_ksig = per_firm_agreement(sig_firms, L2_bin, L3_bin)
    for f in BIG4:
        a1 = per_firm_p_kcpa[f]['agreement_rate']
        a2 = per_firm_p_ksig[f]['agreement_rate']
        a3 = per_firm_kcpa_ksig[f]['agreement_rate']
        print(f'  {LABEL[f]:<22} {per_firm_p_kcpa[f]["n"]:>9,} '
              f'{a1*100:>10.2f}% {a2*100:>10.2f}% {a3*100:>14.2f}%')
    # 7. Component drift between per-CPA and per-signature K=3
    print('\n[drift] Per-CPA K=3 vs per-signature K=3 components:')
    drift = []
    for i, name in enumerate(['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed',
                              'C3 replicated']):
        d_cos = abs(means_cpa[i, 0] - means_sig[i, 0])
        d_dh = abs(means_cpa[i, 1] - means_sig[i, 1])
        d_w = abs(weights_cpa[i] - weights_sig[i])
        drift.append({'component': name, 'd_cos': float(d_cos),
                      'd_dh': float(d_dh), 'd_weight': float(d_w)})
        print(f'  {name}: |dcos|={d_cos:.4f}, |ddh|={d_dh:.3f}, '
              f'|dweight|={d_w:.3f}')
    # Verdict
    if (kappa_p_kcpa >= 0.6 and kappa_p_ksig >= 0.6
            and kappa_kcpa_ksig >= 0.6):
        verdict = 'SIG_CONVERGENCE_STRONG'
        msg = ('All three pairwise Cohen kappas >= 0.60 (substantial '
               'agreement at signature level); per-CPA aggregation does '
               'not wash out signal.')
    elif (kappa_p_kcpa >= 0.4 and kappa_p_ksig >= 0.4
          and kappa_kcpa_ksig >= 0.4):
        verdict = 'SIG_CONVERGENCE_MODERATE'
        msg = ('All three pairwise Cohen kappas >= 0.40 (moderate '
               'agreement); per-CPA aggregation captures most of the '
               'signature-level structure.')
    else:
        verdict = 'SIG_CONVERGENCE_WEAK'
        msg = ('At least one pairwise Cohen kappa < 0.40; per-CPA '
               'aggregation hides meaningful signature-level disagreement '
               'between methods.')
    print(f'\n[verdict] {verdict}')
    print(f'  {msg}')
    payload = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(),
        'n_signatures_big4': int(n_sig),
        'n_cpas_for_per_cpa_fit': int(len(cpas)),
        'paper_a_cuts': {'cos': PAPER_A_COS_CUT, 'dh': PAPER_A_DH_CUT},
        'per_cpa_k3': {
            'means': means_cpa.tolist(),
            'weights': weights_cpa.tolist(),
        },
        'per_signature_k3': {
            'means': means_sig.tolist(),
            'weights': weights_sig.tolist(),
        },
        'component_drift_per_CPA_vs_per_sig': drift,
        'cohen_kappa_binary_collapse': {
            'paperA_vs_k3perCPA': float(kappa_p_kcpa),
            'paperA_vs_k3perSig': float(kappa_p_ksig),
            'k3perCPA_vs_k3perSig': float(kappa_kcpa_ksig),
        },
        'crosstabs': {
            'paperA_vs_k3perCPA': ct_p_vs_kcpa,
            'paperA_vs_k3perSig': ct_p_vs_ksig,
            'k3perCPA_vs_k3perSig': ct_kcpa_vs_ksig,
        },
        'per_firm_agreement': {
            'paperA_vs_k3perCPA': {f: per_firm_p_kcpa[f] for f in BIG4},
            'paperA_vs_k3perSig': {f: per_firm_p_ksig[f] for f in BIG4},
            'k3perCPA_vs_k3perSig': {f: per_firm_kcpa_ksig[f] for f in BIG4},
        },
        'verdict': {'class': verdict, 'explanation': msg},
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'sig_level_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\nJSON: {json_path}')
    # Markdown report
    md = [
        '# Signature-Level Convergence Check (Script 39)',
        f'Generated: {datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}',
        '',
        '## Goal',
        '',
        ('Verify that the per-CPA convergence found in Script 38 holds at '
         'signature granularity, so a reviewer cannot attack with '
         '"per-CPA aggregation washes out heterogeneity."'),
        '',
        '## Three signature-level labels',
        '',
        '- **PaperA**: non_hand iff cos > 0.95 AND dh <= 5',
        '- **K=3 perCPA**: hard assignment under K=3 components fit on '
        f'{len(cpas)} per-CPA means (Script 38 baseline)',
        '- **K=3 perSig**: hard assignment under K=3 components fit '
        f'directly on the {n_sig:,} signature-level (cos, dh) cloud',
        '',
        '## Component comparison',
        '',
        '| Component | Per-CPA cos | Per-CPA dh | Per-CPA wt | Per-Sig cos | Per-Sig dh | Per-Sig wt |',
        '|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|',
    ]
    for i, name in enumerate(['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed',
                              'C3 replicated']):
        md.append(f'| {name} | {means_cpa[i,0]:.4f} | {means_cpa[i,1]:.4f} | '
                  f'{weights_cpa[i]:.3f} | {means_sig[i,0]:.4f} | '
                  f'{means_sig[i,1]:.4f} | {weights_sig[i]:.3f} |')
    md += ['', '## Cohen kappa (binary: 1 = replicated, 0 = hand-leaning)',
           '',
           '| Pair | kappa |',
           '|---|---|',
           f'| PaperA vs K=3 perCPA | **{kappa_p_kcpa:.4f}** |',
           f'| PaperA vs K=3 perSig | **{kappa_p_ksig:.4f}** |',
           f'| K=3 perCPA vs K=3 perSig | **{kappa_kcpa_ksig:.4f}** |',
           '',
           ('Reference: kappa <= 0 = no agreement, 0.0-0.2 slight, '
            '0.2-0.4 fair, 0.4-0.6 moderate, 0.6-0.8 substantial, '
            '0.8-1.0 almost perfect (Landis & Koch 1977).'),
           '',
           '## Per-firm binary agreement', '',
           '| Firm | n_sigs | PaperA vs K3-perCPA | PaperA vs K3-perSig | K3-CPA vs K3-Sig |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|',
           ]
    for f in BIG4:
        md.append(f'| {LABEL[f]} | {per_firm_p_kcpa[f]["n"]:,} | '
                  f'{per_firm_p_kcpa[f]["agreement_rate"]*100:.2f}% | '
                  f'{per_firm_p_ksig[f]["agreement_rate"]*100:.2f}% | '
                  f'{per_firm_kcpa_ksig[f]["agreement_rate"]*100:.2f}% |')
    md += ['', f'## Verdict: **{verdict}**',
           '', msg, '',
           '### Verdict legend',
           '- SIG_CONVERGENCE_STRONG: all 3 kappas >= 0.60 (substantial)',
           '- SIG_CONVERGENCE_MODERATE: all 3 kappas >= 0.40 (moderate)',
           '- SIG_CONVERGENCE_WEAK: at least one kappa < 0.40',
           ]
    md_path = OUT / 'sig_level_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Report: {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 39b: Signature-Level Dip Test (multimodality at the signature cloud)
 ============================================================================
 Phase 5 pre-emptive evidence. Script 34 / 36 already report Hartigan
 dip tests on the 437 accountant-level (cos_mean, dh_mean) means and
 both marginals reject unimodality at p < 5e-4. Reviewers may ask
 whether the same multimodality is detectable at the signature level
 itself (n = 150,442 Big-4 signatures) and whether the multimodality
 is a within-firm or only a between-firm phenomenon.
 This script supplies the missing dip evidence on the raw signature
 cloud. It is a *diagnostic* in the same role as Scripts 34/36 dip
 tests: it does not derive an operational threshold; it characterises
 the marginal distributions of (cos, dh_indep) at the signature level.
 Outputs:
  reports/v4_big4/signature_level_diptest/
    sig_diptest_results.json
    sig_diptest_report.md
 Tests performed:
  A. Pooled Big-4 marginals (cos, dh_indep), n = 150,442
  B. Per-firm marginals (Firm A / B / C / D separately)
 """
 import json
 import sqlite3
 import numpy as np
 import diptest
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from scipy import stats
 from scipy.signal import find_peaks
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/signature_level_diptest')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 ALIAS = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A',
         '安侯建業聯合': 'Firm B',
         '資誠聯合': 'Firm C',
         '安永聯合': 'Firm D'}
 N_BOOT = 2000
 def load_big4_signatures():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant,
               CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
    ''', BIG4)
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def kde_dip(values, n_boot=N_BOOT):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    dip, pval = diptest.diptest(arr, boot_pval=True, n_boot=n_boot)
    kde = stats.gaussian_kde(arr, bw_method='silverman')
    xs = np.linspace(arr.min(), arr.max(), 2000)
    density = kde(xs)
    peaks, _ = find_peaks(density, prominence=density.max() * 0.02)
    antimodes = []
    for i in range(len(peaks) - 1):
        seg = density[peaks[i]:peaks[i + 1]]
        if not len(seg):
            continue
        local = peaks[i] + int(np.argmin(seg))
        antimodes.append(float(xs[local]))
    return {
        'n': int(len(arr)),
        'dip': float(dip),
        'dip_pvalue': float(pval),
        'unimodal_alpha05': bool(pval > 0.05),
        'n_modes': int(len(peaks)),
        'mode_locations': [float(xs[p]) for p in peaks],
        'antimodes': antimodes,
        'n_boot': int(n_boot),
    }
 def _fmt_p(p):
    if p == 0.0:
        return '< 5e-4 (no bootstrap replicate exceeded observed dip)'
    return f'{p:.4g}'
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 39b: Signature-Level Dip Test')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_big4_signatures()
    cos_all = np.array([r[2] for r in rows], dtype=float)
    dh_all = np.array([r[3] for r in rows], dtype=float)
    firms = np.array([ALIAS[r[1]] for r in rows])
    print(f'\nLoaded {len(rows):,} Big-4 signatures')
    for f in sorted(set(firms)):
        print(f'  {f}: {(firms == f).sum():,}')
    results = {
        'meta': {
            'script': '39b',
            'timestamp': datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
            'n_total': int(len(rows)),
            'n_boot': N_BOOT,
            'note': ('Signature-level Hartigan dip test on Big-4 '
                     '(cos, dh_indep) marginals; pooled and per-firm.'),
        },
        'pooled': {},
        'per_firm': {},
    }
    # A. Pooled
    print('\n[A] Pooled Big-4')
    for desc, arr in [('cos', cos_all), ('dh_indep', dh_all)]:
        r = kde_dip(arr)
        results['pooled'][desc] = r
        print(f'  {desc}: n={r["n"]:,}, dip={r["dip"]:.5f}, '
              f'p={_fmt_p(r["dip_pvalue"])}, n_modes={r["n_modes"]}')
    # B. Per-firm
    print('\n[B] Per-firm')
    for f in sorted(set(firms)):
        mask = firms == f
        results['per_firm'][f] = {}
        for desc, arr in [('cos', cos_all[mask]), ('dh_indep', dh_all[mask])]:
            r = kde_dip(arr)
            results['per_firm'][f][desc] = r
            print(f'  {f} {desc}: n={r["n"]:,}, dip={r["dip"]:.5f}, '
                  f'p={_fmt_p(r["dip_pvalue"])}, n_modes={r["n_modes"]}')
    json_path = OUT / 'sig_diptest_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\n[json] {json_path}')
    md = ['# Signature-Level Dip Test (Script 39b)',
          '',
          f'Generated: {results["meta"]["timestamp"]}',
          f'Bootstrap replicates: {N_BOOT}',
          '',
          '## A. Pooled Big-4 signature cloud',
          '',
          f'n = {results["meta"]["n_total"]:,} signatures',
          '',
          '| Marginal | dip | p (boot) | n_modes | unimodal @0.05 |',
          '|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for desc in ['cos', 'dh_indep']:
        r = results['pooled'][desc]
        md.append(f'| {desc} | {r["dip"]:.5f} | {_fmt_p(r["dip_pvalue"])} | '
                  f'{r["n_modes"]} | {r["unimodal_alpha05"]} |')
    md += ['', '## B. Per-firm signature-level dip tests', '',
           '| Firm | Marginal | n | dip | p (boot) | n_modes | unimodal @0.05 |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for f in sorted(results['per_firm']):
        for desc in ['cos', 'dh_indep']:
            r = results['per_firm'][f][desc]
            md.append(f'| {f} | {desc} | {r["n"]:,} | {r["dip"]:.5f} | '
                      f'{_fmt_p(r["dip_pvalue"])} | {r["n_modes"]} | '
                      f'{r["unimodal_alpha05"]} |')
    md += ['',
           '## Reading guide',
           '',
           ('A unimodality rejection at the signature level confirms '
            'multimodal structure independent of accountant-level '
            'aggregation. A within-firm rejection further indicates the '
            'multimodality is not solely a between-firm artefact. A '
            'within-firm non-rejection (e.g., Firm A) is consistent with '
            'that firm being concentrated in a single mechanism corner.'),
           '',
           ('All thresholds and operational classifiers remain those of '
            'v3.x §III-K and v4.0 §III-J; this script supplies diagnostic '
            'evidence only.'),
           '']
    md_path = OUT / 'sig_diptest_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'[md  ] {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 39c: Mid/Small-Firm Signature-Level Dip Test
 ====================================================
 Companion to Script 39b. 39b showed every Big-4 firm rejects
 unimodality on the dHash signature marginal (p < 5e-4 in each
 of A/B/C/D) while every Big-4 firm fails to reject unimodality
 on the cosine marginal. This script asks the same questions of
 the mid/small-firm population (non-Big-4):
  1. Does the pooled mid/small-firm signature cloud show the same
     dHash multimodality?
  2. Within individual mid/small firms (those with enough
     signatures to support the test), does the dHash multimodality
     hold firm-internally as it does in Big-4?
 If yes, the dHash signature-level multimodality is corpus-universal
 and the Big-4 scope restriction of v4.0 is not necessary on dHash
 grounds (cf §III-G item 2 which currently rests on Big-4-level
 multimodality). The cosine axis is reported alongside for
 completeness, but no v4.0 claim turns on cosine multimodality
 outside Big-4.
 Outputs:
  reports/v4_big4/midsmall_signature_diptest/
    midsmall_diptest_results.json
    midsmall_diptest_report.md
 """
 import json
 import sqlite3
 import numpy as np
 import diptest
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from scipy import stats
 from scipy.signal import find_peaks
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/midsmall_signature_diptest')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 N_BOOT = 2000
 SINGLE_FIRM_MIN_SIG = 500  # minimum signature count to run a per-firm dip test
 def load_non_big4_signatures():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT a.firm,
               s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant,
               CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm NOT IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
    ''', BIG4)
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def kde_dip(values, n_boot=N_BOOT):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    if len(arr) < 10:
        return {'n': int(len(arr)), 'skipped': 'too few points'}
    dip, pval = diptest.diptest(arr, boot_pval=True, n_boot=n_boot)
    kde = stats.gaussian_kde(arr, bw_method='silverman')
    xs = np.linspace(arr.min(), arr.max(), 2000)
    density = kde(xs)
    peaks, _ = find_peaks(density, prominence=density.max() * 0.02)
    antimodes = []
    for i in range(len(peaks) - 1):
        seg = density[peaks[i]:peaks[i + 1]]
        if not len(seg):
            continue
        local = peaks[i] + int(np.argmin(seg))
        antimodes.append(float(xs[local]))
    return {
        'n': int(len(arr)),
        'dip': float(dip),
        'dip_pvalue': float(pval),
        'unimodal_alpha05': bool(pval > 0.05),
        'n_modes': int(len(peaks)),
        'mode_locations': [float(xs[p]) for p in peaks],
        'antimodes': antimodes,
        'n_boot': int(n_boot),
    }
 def _fmt_p(p):
    if p == 0.0:
        return '< 5e-4'
    return f'{p:.4g}'
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 39c: Mid/Small-Firm Signature-Level Dip Test')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_non_big4_signatures()
    cos_all = np.array([r[1] for r in rows], dtype=float)
    dh_all = np.array([r[2] for r in rows], dtype=float)
    firms = np.array([r[0] for r in rows])
    n_total = len(rows)
    print(f'\nLoaded {n_total:,} non-Big-4 signatures across '
          f'{len(set(firms))} firms')
    # Firm size table
    firm_counts = {}
    for f in firms:
        firm_counts[f] = firm_counts.get(f, 0) + 1
    top = sorted(firm_counts.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1])
    print('\nTop firms by signature count:')
    for f, n in top[:10]:
        print(f'  {f}: {n:,}')
    results = {
        'meta': {
            'script': '39c',
            'timestamp': datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
            'n_total': int(n_total),
            'n_firms': int(len(firm_counts)),
            'n_boot': N_BOOT,
            'single_firm_min_sig': SINGLE_FIRM_MIN_SIG,
        },
        'pooled': {},
        'per_firm_eligible': {},
        'firm_counts': dict(firm_counts),
    }
    # A. Pooled non-Big-4
    print('\n[A] Pooled non-Big-4')
    for desc, arr in [('cos', cos_all), ('dh_indep', dh_all)]:
        r = kde_dip(arr)
        results['pooled'][desc] = r
        print(f'  {desc}: n={r["n"]:,}, dip={r["dip"]:.5f}, '
              f'p={_fmt_p(r["dip_pvalue"])}, n_modes={r["n_modes"]}')
    # B. Per-firm (only firms with >= SINGLE_FIRM_MIN_SIG signatures)
    eligible = [f for f, n in firm_counts.items() if n >= SINGLE_FIRM_MIN_SIG]
    print(f'\n[B] Per-firm dip test '
          f'(firms with >= {SINGLE_FIRM_MIN_SIG} signatures: {len(eligible)})')
    for f in sorted(eligible, key=lambda x: -firm_counts[x]):
        mask = firms == f
        results['per_firm_eligible'][f] = {'n': int(mask.sum())}
        for desc, arr in [('cos', cos_all[mask]), ('dh_indep', dh_all[mask])]:
            r = kde_dip(arr)
            results['per_firm_eligible'][f][desc] = r
            print(f'  {f[:20]:<22s} {desc}: n={r["n"]:,}, dip={r["dip"]:.5f}, '
                  f'p={_fmt_p(r["dip_pvalue"])}, n_modes={r["n_modes"]}')
    json_path = OUT / 'midsmall_diptest_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\n[json] {json_path}')
    md = ['# Mid/Small-Firm Signature-Level Dip Test (Script 39c)',
          '',
          f'Generated: {results["meta"]["timestamp"]}',
          f'Bootstrap replicates: {N_BOOT}',
          '',
          '## A. Pooled non-Big-4 signature cloud',
          '',
          f'n = {n_total:,} signatures across '
          f'{results["meta"]["n_firms"]} firms',
          '',
          '| Marginal | dip | p (boot) | n_modes | unimodal @0.05 |',
          '|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for desc in ['cos', 'dh_indep']:
        r = results['pooled'][desc]
        md.append(f'| {desc} | {r["dip"]:.5f} | {_fmt_p(r["dip_pvalue"])} | '
                  f'{r["n_modes"]} | {r["unimodal_alpha05"]} |')
    md += ['', f'## B. Single mid/small firms (>= {SINGLE_FIRM_MIN_SIG} '
              f'signatures), {len(eligible)} qualify', '',
           '| Firm | Marginal | n | dip | p (boot) | n_modes | unimodal @0.05 |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for f in sorted(eligible, key=lambda x: -firm_counts[x]):
        for desc in ['cos', 'dh_indep']:
            r = results['per_firm_eligible'][f][desc]
            md.append(f'| {f[:20]} | {desc} | {r["n"]:,} | {r["dip"]:.5f} | '
                      f'{_fmt_p(r["dip_pvalue"])} | {r["n_modes"]} | '
                      f'{r["unimodal_alpha05"]} |')
    md += ['',
           '## Reading guide',
           '',
           ('If the pooled-non-Big-4 dHash marginal rejects unimodality '
            'AND the qualifying individual mid/small firms also reject, '
            'the dHash within-firm replication regime structure is '
            'corpus-universal and not Big-4-specific. In that case the '
            'Big-4 scope of v4.0 is justified on cosine-axis grounds '
            '(Firm-A composition; §III-G item 1) and accountant-level '
            'LOOO reproducibility (§III-G item 3), but not on dHash '
            'multimodality grounds (§III-G item 2 should be re-scoped or '
            'qualified). If the per-firm dHash tests instead fail to '
            'reject inside mid/small firms, the dHash multimodality is '
            'Big-4-specific and §III-G item 2 holds as stated.'),
           '']
    md_path = OUT / 'midsmall_diptest_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'[md  ] {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 39d: dHash Discrete-Value Robustness Diagnostics
 ========================================================
 Codex (gpt-5.5 xhigh) attack on Script 39b/39c findings revealed that
 the within-firm dHash dip-test rejections are driven by integer mass
 points (dHash takes integer values 0..64). A uniform jitter of
 [-0.5, +0.5] eliminates dip rejection in every firm tested. This
 script consolidates that finding into a permanent diagnostic and adds:
  1. Raw vs jittered dip with multi-seed robustness (5 seeds)
  2. Integer-histogram valley analysis: locate local minima between
     adjacent peaks in the binned integer distribution; report whether
     any valley centers near dh = 5
  3. Firm-residualized dip on dHash (analog of cosine firm-mean
     centering that confirmed the cosine reframe)
  4. Pairwise pair-coincidence: does the same same-CPA pair achieve
     both max cosine and min dHash, or are the two descriptors
     attached to different pairs? Foundation for "is (cos, dh) a
     joint signature regime descriptor or two parallel descriptors"
 This script does not derive operational thresholds; it characterises
 whether the v4.0 K=3 mixture and v3.x cos>0.95 AND dh<=5 rule are
 robustly supported once integer-discreteness artifacts are removed.
 Outputs:
  reports/v4_big4/dhash_discrete_robustness/
    dhash_discrete_results.json
    dhash_discrete_report.md
 """
 import json
 import sqlite3
 import numpy as np
 import diptest
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/dhash_discrete_robustness')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 ALIAS = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A',
         '安侯建業聯合': 'Firm B',
         '資誠聯合': 'Firm C',
         '安永聯合': 'Firm D'}
 N_BOOT = 2000
 JITTER_SEEDS = [42, 43, 44, 45, 46]
 SINGLE_FIRM_MIN_SIG = 500
 def load_signatures():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(f'file:{DB}?mode=ro', uri=True)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT a.firm, s.assigned_accountant,
               s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant,
               CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IS NOT NULL
    ''')
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def dip(values, n_boot=N_BOOT):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    d, p = diptest.diptest(arr, boot_pval=True, n_boot=n_boot)
    return float(d), float(p)
 def multi_seed_jitter_dip(values, seeds=JITTER_SEEDS, n_boot=N_BOOT):
    """Compute dip stat + p-value across seeds; return distribution."""
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    stats = []
    for seed in seeds:
        rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
        j = arr + rng.uniform(-0.5, 0.5, len(arr))
        d, p = diptest.diptest(j, boot_pval=True, n_boot=n_boot)
        stats.append({'seed': seed, 'dip': float(d), 'p': float(p)})
    return {
        'n_seeds': len(seeds),
        'p_min': min(s['p'] for s in stats),
        'p_max': max(s['p'] for s in stats),
        'p_median': float(np.median([s['p'] for s in stats])),
        'dip_min': min(s['dip'] for s in stats),
        'dip_max': max(s['dip'] for s in stats),
        'reject_at_05_count': int(sum(1 for s in stats if s['p'] <= 0.05)),
        'per_seed': stats,
    }
 def integer_histogram_valleys(values, max_bin=20):
    """For integer-valued data, locate local minima in the count
    histogram on bins 0..max_bin. Returns valley positions and depths
    relative to flanking peaks."""
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    bins = np.arange(0, max_bin + 2)  # 0, 1, ..., max_bin+1
    counts, edges = np.histogram(arr, bins=bins)
    centers = (edges[:-1] + edges[1:]) / 2.0
    valleys = []
    for i in range(1, len(counts) - 1):
        if counts[i] < counts[i - 1] and counts[i] < counts[i + 1]:
            left_peak = counts[i - 1]
            right_peak = counts[i + 1]
            min_peak = min(left_peak, right_peak)
            depth_rel = (min_peak - counts[i]) / min_peak if min_peak else 0
            valleys.append({
                'bin_center': float(centers[i]),
                'count': int(counts[i]),
                'left_peak_bin': int(centers[i - 1]),
                'left_peak_count': int(left_peak),
                'right_peak_bin': int(centers[i + 1]),
                'right_peak_count': int(right_peak),
                'depth_rel': float(depth_rel),
            })
    return {
        'histogram_bins_0_to_max': counts[:max_bin + 1].tolist(),
        'valleys': valleys,
        'note': ('valleys are bins where count < both neighbours; '
                 'depth_rel = (min(neighbour) - bin) / min(neighbour). '
                 'A genuine antimode would have a deep, stable valley '
                 'with depth_rel > 0.1.'),
    }
 def firm_residualized(values, firm_labels):
    """Return values with firm means subtracted (centered to grand mean
    over firms). Used to test whether residual within-firm structure
    rejects unimodality."""
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    firms = np.asarray(firm_labels)
    out = arr.copy()
    grand = float(np.mean(arr))
    for f in np.unique(firms):
        m = firms == f
        out[m] = arr[m] - float(np.mean(arr[m])) + grand
    return out
 def pair_coincidence_rate():
    """Fraction of signatures whose max-cosine partner equals the
    min-dHash partner within the same-CPA cross-year pool."""
    conn = sqlite3.connect(f'file:{DB}?mode=ro', uri=True)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT COUNT(*) AS n_total,
               SUM(CASE WHEN max_cosine_pair_id IS NOT NULL
                         AND min_dhash_pair_id IS NOT NULL
                         AND max_cosine_pair_id = min_dhash_pair_id
                        THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS n_same_pair,
               SUM(CASE WHEN max_cosine_pair_id IS NOT NULL
                         AND min_dhash_pair_id IS NOT NULL
                         AND max_cosine_pair_id != min_dhash_pair_id
                        THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS n_diff_pair,
               SUM(CASE WHEN max_cosine_pair_id IS NULL
                          OR min_dhash_pair_id IS NULL
                        THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS n_null
        FROM signatures
    ''')
    row = cur.fetchone()
    conn.close()
    n_total, n_same, n_diff, n_null = row
    n_with_both = (n_same or 0) + (n_diff or 0)
    return {
        'n_total': int(n_total or 0),
        'n_with_both_pair_ids': int(n_with_both),
        'n_same_pair': int(n_same or 0),
        'n_diff_pair': int(n_diff or 0),
        'n_null': int(n_null or 0),
        'same_pair_rate': (float(n_same) / n_with_both
                           if n_with_both else None),
        'note': ('rate computed over signatures where both '
                 'max_cosine_pair_id and min_dhash_pair_id are present'),
    }
 def _fmt_p(p):
    return '< 5e-4' if p == 0.0 else f'{p:.4g}'
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 39d: dHash Discrete-Value Robustness Diagnostics')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_signatures()
    firms_raw = np.array([r[0] for r in rows])
    cos = np.array([r[2] for r in rows], dtype=float)
    dh = np.array([r[3] for r in rows], dtype=float)
    is_big4 = np.isin(firms_raw, BIG4)
    n = len(rows)
    print(f'\nLoaded {n:,} signatures; Big-4 {is_big4.sum():,}, '
          f'non-Big-4 {(~is_big4).sum():,}')
    results = {
        'meta': {
            'script': '39d',
            'timestamp': datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
            'n_total_signatures': int(n),
            'n_big4': int(is_big4.sum()),
            'n_non_big4': int((~is_big4).sum()),
            'n_boot': N_BOOT,
            'jitter_seeds': JITTER_SEEDS,
            'note': ('Diagnostic for dHash integer-mass-point artifact '
                     'in dip test; codex round-29 attack on Script 39b/c'),
        },
    }
    # ---- A. Raw vs multi-seed jittered dip ----
    print('\n[A] Raw vs jittered dip (5 seeds, n_boot=2000)')
    panels = {}
    # Big-4 pooled
    print('  Big-4 pooled:')
    raw_d, raw_p = dip(dh[is_big4])
    j = multi_seed_jitter_dip(dh[is_big4])
    panels['big4_pooled'] = {
        'n': int(is_big4.sum()),
        'raw': {'dip': raw_d, 'p': raw_p},
        'jittered': j,
    }
    print(f'    raw:    dip={raw_d:.5f}, p={_fmt_p(raw_p)}')
    print(f'    jitter: p_median={j["p_median"]:.4g}, '
          f'p_range=[{j["p_min"]:.4g}, {j["p_max"]:.4g}], '
          f'reject@.05 in {j["reject_at_05_count"]}/5 seeds')
    # Each Big-4 firm
    for f in BIG4:
        mask = firms_raw == f
        if mask.sum() == 0:
            continue
        raw_d, raw_p = dip(dh[mask])
        j = multi_seed_jitter_dip(dh[mask])
        panels[ALIAS[f]] = {
            'n': int(mask.sum()),
            'raw': {'dip': raw_d, 'p': raw_p},
            'jittered': j,
        }
        print(f'  {ALIAS[f]} (n={mask.sum():,}):')
        print(f'    raw:    dip={raw_d:.5f}, p={_fmt_p(raw_p)}')
        print(f'    jitter: p_median={j["p_median"]:.4g}, '
              f'reject@.05 in {j["reject_at_05_count"]}/5 seeds')
    # Non-Big-4 pooled
    print('  Non-Big-4 pooled:')
    raw_d, raw_p = dip(dh[~is_big4])
    j = multi_seed_jitter_dip(dh[~is_big4])
    panels['non_big4_pooled'] = {
        'n': int((~is_big4).sum()),
        'raw': {'dip': raw_d, 'p': raw_p},
        'jittered': j,
    }
    print(f'    raw:    dip={raw_d:.5f}, p={_fmt_p(raw_p)}')
    print(f'    jitter: p_median={j["p_median"]:.4g}, '
          f'reject@.05 in {j["reject_at_05_count"]}/5 seeds')
    results['raw_vs_jittered_dip'] = panels
    # ---- B. Integer-histogram valley analysis ----
    print('\n[B] Integer-histogram valley analysis (bins 0..20)')
    valleys = {}
    valleys['big4_pooled'] = integer_histogram_valleys(dh[is_big4])
    print(f'  Big-4 pooled: {len(valleys["big4_pooled"]["valleys"])} valleys')
    for v in valleys['big4_pooled']['valleys']:
        print(f'    bin {v["bin_center"]:.1f}: count={v["count"]}, '
              f'depth_rel={v["depth_rel"]:.3f}')
    for f in BIG4:
        mask = firms_raw == f
        if mask.sum() == 0:
            continue
        valleys[ALIAS[f]] = integer_histogram_valleys(dh[mask])
        print(f'  {ALIAS[f]}: '
              f'{len(valleys[ALIAS[f]]["valleys"])} valleys')
        for v in valleys[ALIAS[f]]['valleys']:
            print(f'    bin {v["bin_center"]:.1f}: count={v["count"]}, '
                  f'depth_rel={v["depth_rel"]:.3f}')
    valleys['non_big4_pooled'] = integer_histogram_valleys(dh[~is_big4])
    print(f'  Non-Big-4 pooled: '
          f'{len(valleys["non_big4_pooled"]["valleys"])} valleys')
    for v in valleys['non_big4_pooled']['valleys']:
        print(f'    bin {v["bin_center"]:.1f}: count={v["count"]}, '
              f'depth_rel={v["depth_rel"]:.3f}')
    results['integer_histogram_valleys'] = valleys
    # ---- C. Firm-residualized dip on dHash, signature level ----
    print('\n[C] Firm-residualized dHash dip (signature level)')
    firm_labels = np.array([
        ALIAS[f] if f in ALIAS else f'M:{f}'
        for f in firms_raw
    ])
    # Big-4 only residualized over A/B/C/D
    dh_resid_big4 = firm_residualized(dh[is_big4], firm_labels[is_big4])
    raw_d, raw_p = dip(dh[is_big4])
    res_d, res_p = dip(dh_resid_big4)
    print(f'  Big-4 raw:        dip={raw_d:.5f}, p={_fmt_p(raw_p)}')
    print(f'  Big-4 residualized: dip={res_d:.5f}, p={_fmt_p(res_p)}')
    # Also non-Big-4 residualized over their firms
    dh_resid_nbig4 = firm_residualized(dh[~is_big4], firm_labels[~is_big4])
    raw_d_n, raw_p_n = dip(dh[~is_big4])
    res_d_n, res_p_n = dip(dh_resid_nbig4)
    print(f'  Non-Big-4 raw:        dip={raw_d_n:.5f}, p={_fmt_p(raw_p_n)}')
    print(f'  Non-Big-4 residualized: dip={res_d_n:.5f}, p={_fmt_p(res_p_n)}')
    results['firm_residualized_dh_dip'] = {
        'big4': {
            'raw': {'dip': raw_d, 'p': raw_p},
            'firm_residualized': {'dip': res_d, 'p': res_p},
        },
        'non_big4': {
            'raw': {'dip': raw_d_n, 'p': raw_p_n},
            'firm_residualized': {'dip': res_d_n, 'p': res_p_n},
        },
        'note': ('Residualization subtracts each firm mean dh and adds '
                 'back the grand mean. If residual dip rejects, there is '
                 'genuine within-firm dh multimodality independent of '
                 'between-firm mean shifts. If residual fails to reject, '
                 'all dh "multimodality" was between-firm composition.'),
    }
    # ---- D. Pair-coincidence rate ----
    print('\n[D] Pair-coincidence rate (max-cos pair vs min-dh pair)')
    try:
        pc = pair_coincidence_rate()
        if pc['same_pair_rate'] is not None:
            print(f'  n_with_both: {pc["n_with_both_pair_ids"]:,}, '
                  f'same-pair rate: {pc["same_pair_rate"]:.4f}')
        else:
            print('  Pair IDs not stored in signatures table (skipped)')
        results['pair_coincidence'] = pc
    except sqlite3.OperationalError as e:
        print(f'  SQL error (pair_id columns may not exist): {e}')
        results['pair_coincidence'] = {
            'error': str(e),
            'note': ('signatures table lacks max_cosine_pair_id / '
                     'min_dhash_pair_id columns; analysis skipped'),
        }
    json_path = OUT / 'dhash_discrete_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\n[json] {json_path}')
    # ---- Report markdown ----
    md = ['# dHash Discrete-Value Robustness Diagnostics (Script 39d)',
          '', f'Generated: {results["meta"]["timestamp"]}',
          f'Bootstrap replicates: {N_BOOT}; jitter seeds: {JITTER_SEEDS}',
          '',
          '## A. Raw vs jittered dHash dip (signature level)',
          '',
          ('dHash is integer-valued in [0, 64]. A raw dip test on '
           'integer mass points may reject unimodality due to discrete '
           'spikes rather than a continuous bimodal density. We add '
           'uniform jitter in [-0.5, +0.5] over 5 seeds and re-test.'),
          '',
          '| Scope | n | raw dip | raw p | jitter p median | jitter reject@.05 / 5 seeds |',
          '|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for key, label in [('big4_pooled', 'Big-4 pooled')] + \
                      [(ALIAS[f], ALIAS[f]) for f in BIG4] + \
                      [('non_big4_pooled', 'Non-Big-4 pooled')]:
        if key in panels:
            p = panels[key]
            md.append(f'| {label} | {p["n"]:,} | '
                      f'{p["raw"]["dip"]:.5f} | '
                      f'{_fmt_p(p["raw"]["p"])} | '
                      f'{p["jittered"]["p_median"]:.4g} | '
                      f'{p["jittered"]["reject_at_05_count"]}/5 |')
    md += ['',
           '**Interpretation.** If jittered dip ceases to reject in all '
           'panels, the raw-data rejection was driven by integer ties '
           'rather than a continuous bimodal density. Codex round-29 '
           'observed this pattern; this script confirms with multi-seed '
           'robustness.',
           '',
           '## B. Integer-histogram valley locations (bins 0..20)',
           '',
           ('For each scope, list bins where count is strictly less '
            'than both neighbours, with relative depth '
            '(min(neighbour) - bin) / min(neighbour). A genuine '
            'antimode would show a deep, stable valley; integer-noise '
            'valleys are shallow and inconsistent across firms.'),
           '']
    for key, label in [('big4_pooled', 'Big-4 pooled')] + \
                      [(ALIAS[f], ALIAS[f]) for f in BIG4] + \
                      [('non_big4_pooled', 'Non-Big-4 pooled')]:
        if key in valleys:
            v_list = valleys[key]['valleys']
            if not v_list:
                md.append(f'- **{label}**: no integer-histogram valleys '
                          f'in 0..20')
            else:
                desc = ', '.join(
                    f'dh={v["bin_center"]:.0f} (depth_rel={v["depth_rel"]:.3f})'
                    for v in v_list)
                md.append(f'- **{label}**: {desc}')
    md += ['',
           '## C. Firm-residualized dHash dip',
           '',
           ('Subtract each firm mean dHash; add back grand mean. If '
            'residual rejects, within-firm multimodality is genuine. '
            'If residual fails to reject, all dh "multimodality" was '
            'between-firm composition.'),
           '',
           '| Scope | raw dip | raw p | residualized dip | residualized p |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|']
    fr = results['firm_residualized_dh_dip']
    md += [f'| Big-4 | {fr["big4"]["raw"]["dip"]:.5f} | '
           f'{_fmt_p(fr["big4"]["raw"]["p"])} | '
           f'{fr["big4"]["firm_residualized"]["dip"]:.5f} | '
           f'{_fmt_p(fr["big4"]["firm_residualized"]["p"])} |',
           f'| Non-Big-4 | {fr["non_big4"]["raw"]["dip"]:.5f} | '
           f'{_fmt_p(fr["non_big4"]["raw"]["p"])} | '
           f'{fr["non_big4"]["firm_residualized"]["dip"]:.5f} | '
           f'{_fmt_p(fr["non_big4"]["firm_residualized"]["p"])} |']
    md += ['',
           '## D. Max-cos pair vs min-dh pair coincidence',
           '']
    pc = results.get('pair_coincidence', {})
    if 'same_pair_rate' in pc and pc['same_pair_rate'] is not None:
        md += [f'- n_signatures with both pair IDs: '
               f'{pc["n_with_both_pair_ids"]:,}',
               f'- same-pair rate: {pc["same_pair_rate"]:.4f} '
               f'({pc["n_same_pair"]:,} of '
               f'{pc["n_with_both_pair_ids"]:,})',
               '',
               ('A high rate (>0.8) supports a single-pair regime '
                'descriptor language (cos and dh attached to the same '
                'partner). A low rate indicates the two descriptors '
                'attach to different partners and should be discussed '
                'as parallel-but-different evidence.')]
    elif 'error' in pc:
        md += [f'- column not present in DB: {pc["error"]}',
               ('- note: schema-dependent; pair IDs not currently stored '
                'in signatures table.')]
    md.append('')
    md_path = OUT / 'dhash_discrete_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'[md  ] {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 39e: dHash Firm-Residualized + Jittered Dip (final test)
 ================================================================
 Script 39d showed:
  - Within-firm dh dip rejections all vanish after jitter (integer
    artifact)
  - Big-4 pooled dh dip survives jitter (p_median=0 over 5 seeds)
 But Firm A mean dh = 2.73 vs Firms B/C/D ~6.5-7.4 -- a large
 between-firm location shift, analogous to the cosine case where
 firm-mean centering eliminated rejection.
 This script applies BOTH corrections simultaneously:
  1. Firm-mean centering (remove between-firm location shifts)
  2. Uniform jitter in [-0.5, +0.5] (remove integer ties)
 If the doubly-corrected dh distribution rejects unimodality, the
 Big-4 pooled multimodality is a genuine within-population, continuous
 phenomenon. If it fails to reject, dh "multimodality" is fully
 explained by between-firm composition (same conclusion as cosine).
 Multi-seed (5 seeds) for robustness.
 Outputs:
  reports/v4_big4/dhash_discrete_robustness/
    dhash_residualized_jittered_results.json
    dhash_residualized_jittered_report.md
 """
 import json
 import sqlite3
 import numpy as np
 import diptest
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/dhash_discrete_robustness')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 ALIAS = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A',
         '安侯建業聯合': 'Firm B',
         '資誠聯合': 'Firm C',
         '安永聯合': 'Firm D'}
 N_BOOT = 2000
 SEEDS = [42, 43, 44, 45, 46]
 def load_signatures():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(f'file:{DB}?mode=ro', uri=True)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT a.firm, CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IS NOT NULL
    ''')
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def firm_residualize(values, firm_labels):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    firms = np.asarray(firm_labels)
    out = arr.copy()
    grand = float(np.mean(arr))
    for f in np.unique(firms):
        m = firms == f
        out[m] = arr[m] - float(np.mean(arr[m])) + grand
    return out
 def dip_multi(values, seeds, with_jitter, n_boot=N_BOOT):
    arr = np.asarray(values, dtype=float)
    arr = arr[np.isfinite(arr)]
    results = []
    for seed in seeds:
        rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
        v = arr + rng.uniform(-0.5, 0.5, len(arr)) if with_jitter else arr
        d, p = diptest.diptest(v, boot_pval=True, n_boot=n_boot)
        results.append({'seed': seed, 'dip': float(d), 'p': float(p)})
        if not with_jitter:
            break  # without jitter the seed is irrelevant
    return results
 def _fmt_p(p):
    return '< 5e-4' if p == 0.0 else f'{p:.4g}'
 def summarize(name, results):
    ps = [r['p'] for r in results]
    ds = [r['dip'] for r in results]
    return {
        'name': name,
        'n_seeds': len(results),
        'dip_min': min(ds), 'dip_max': max(ds), 'dip_median': float(np.median(ds)),
        'p_min': min(ps), 'p_max': max(ps), 'p_median': float(np.median(ps)),
        'reject_at_05_count': int(sum(1 for p in ps if p <= 0.05)),
        'per_seed': results,
    }
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 39e: dHash Firm-Residualized + Jittered Dip')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_signatures()
    firms_raw = np.array([r[0] for r in rows])
    dh = np.array([r[1] for r in rows], dtype=float)
    is_big4 = np.isin(firms_raw, BIG4)
    big4_dh = dh[is_big4]
    big4_firms = np.array([ALIAS[f] for f in firms_raw[is_big4]])
    print(f'\nLoaded {len(rows):,} signatures; Big-4 {is_big4.sum():,}')
    print('\nPer-firm Big-4 dh summary:')
    for f in sorted(set(big4_firms)):
        v = big4_dh[big4_firms == f]
        print(f'  {f}: n={len(v):,} mean={v.mean():.3f} '
              f'median={np.median(v):.1f} sd={v.std():.3f}')
    # ---- Test conditions, all on Big-4 signature-level dh ----
    panels = {}
    # 1. Raw (no centering, no jitter)
    print('\n[1] Raw dh')
    r = dip_multi(big4_dh, [42], with_jitter=False)
    panels['raw'] = summarize('raw', r)
    print(f'  dip={r[0]["dip"]:.5f}, p={_fmt_p(r[0]["p"])}')
    # 2. Centered only (no jitter; integer values preserved)
    print('\n[2] Firm-mean centered, no jitter')
    centered = firm_residualize(big4_dh, big4_firms)
    r = dip_multi(centered, [42], with_jitter=False)
    panels['centered_only'] = summarize('centered_only', r)
    print(f'  dip={r[0]["dip"]:.5f}, p={_fmt_p(r[0]["p"])}')
    # 3. Jittered only (no centering)
    print('\n[3] Jittered (5 seeds), no centering')
    r = dip_multi(big4_dh, SEEDS, with_jitter=True)
    panels['jitter_only'] = summarize('jitter_only', r)
    print(f'  p_median={panels["jitter_only"]["p_median"]:.4g}, '
          f'reject@.05 in '
          f'{panels["jitter_only"]["reject_at_05_count"]}/5 seeds')
    # 4. Centered + jittered (THE key test)
    print('\n[4] Firm-mean centered + jittered (5 seeds) -- KEY TEST')
    r = dip_multi(centered, SEEDS, with_jitter=True)
    panels['centered_jittered'] = summarize('centered_jittered', r)
    print(f'  p_median={panels["centered_jittered"]["p_median"]:.4g}, '
          f'reject@.05 in '
          f'{panels["centered_jittered"]["reject_at_05_count"]}/5 seeds')
    for s in r:
        print(f'    seed {s["seed"]}: dip={s["dip"]:.5f}, p={_fmt_p(s["p"])}')
    # Per-firm dh stats (re-confirm Firm A shift)
    firm_stats = {}
    for f in sorted(set(big4_firms)):
        v = big4_dh[big4_firms == f]
        firm_stats[f] = {
            'n': int(len(v)),
            'mean': float(v.mean()),
            'median': float(np.median(v)),
            'sd': float(v.std()),
            'p25': float(np.percentile(v, 25)),
            'p75': float(np.percentile(v, 75)),
            'pct_le_5': float(np.mean(v <= 5)),
            'pct_gt_15': float(np.mean(v > 15)),
        }
    results = {
        'meta': {
            'script': '39e',
            'timestamp': datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
            'n_big4_signatures': int(big4_dh.size),
            'n_boot': N_BOOT,
            'seeds': SEEDS,
            'note': ('Final test: does Big-4 pooled dh multimodality '
                     'survive BOTH firm-mean centering and integer-tie '
                     'jitter?'),
        },
        'panels': panels,
        'per_firm_dh_stats': firm_stats,
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'dhash_residualized_jittered_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\n[json] {json_path}')
    md = [
        '# dHash Firm-Residualized + Jittered Dip (Script 39e)',
        '', f'Generated: {results["meta"]["timestamp"]}',
        f'Bootstrap replicates: {N_BOOT}; jitter seeds: {SEEDS}',
        '',
        '## Per-firm Big-4 dh summary',
        '', '| Firm | n | mean | median | sd | P25 | P75 | %<=5 | %>15 |',
        '|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|',
    ]
    for f, s in firm_stats.items():
        md.append(f'| {f} | {s["n"]:,} | {s["mean"]:.3f} | '
                  f'{s["median"]:.1f} | {s["sd"]:.3f} | '
                  f'{s["p25"]:.1f} | {s["p75"]:.1f} | '
                  f'{s["pct_le_5"]:.3f} | {s["pct_gt_15"]:.3f} |')
    md += [
        '',
        '## Dip test under four conditions (Big-4 pooled, sig-level)',
        '',
        '| Condition | dip | p (or p_median) | reject@.05 (seeds) |',
        '|---|---|---|---|',
        f'| 1. Raw (integer values) | {panels["raw"]["dip_median"]:.5f} '
        f'| {_fmt_p(panels["raw"]["p_median"])} | n/a (1 seed) |',
        f'| 2. Firm-mean centered, no jitter '
        f'| {panels["centered_only"]["dip_median"]:.5f} '
        f'| {_fmt_p(panels["centered_only"]["p_median"])} | n/a (1 seed) |',
        f'| 3. Jittered only (5 seeds) '
        f'| median {panels["jitter_only"]["dip_median"]:.5f} '
        f'| median {_fmt_p(panels["jitter_only"]["p_median"])} '
        f'| {panels["jitter_only"]["reject_at_05_count"]}/5 |',
        f'| 4. **Centered + jittered (5 seeds)** '
        f'| median {panels["centered_jittered"]["dip_median"]:.5f} '
        f'| median {_fmt_p(panels["centered_jittered"]["p_median"])} '
        f'| {panels["centered_jittered"]["reject_at_05_count"]}/5 |',
        '',
        '## Interpretation',
        '',
        ('If Condition 4 still rejects unimodality, Big-4 dh has '
         'genuine within-population continuous multimodality '
         'independent of both between-firm location shifts and '
         'integer mass points. If Condition 4 fails to reject, the '
         'Big-4 pooled dh multimodality is fully explained by '
         '(between-firm mean shift) + (integer mass points). In the '
         'latter case, the dh axis carries no independent within-firm '
         'regime evidence beyond the cos axis.'),
        '',
    ]
    md_path = OUT / 'dhash_residualized_jittered_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'[md  ] {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 40: Pixel-Identity FAR on Big-4 (hard ground truth validation)
 =======================================================================
 Phase 1.8 follow-up. Validates the v4.0 classifier family against
 the only hard ground truth available in the corpus:
 pixel_identical_to_closest = 1 (signatures byte-identical to their
 nearest same-CPA match).
 Pixel-identical pairs are MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to arise from
 independent hand-signing -- they must be reuses of the same source
 image. Treating them as ground-truth replicated, we compute:
  FAR (false-alarm-rate) := P(classifier says hand-leaning |
                              ground truth is replicated)
 for three classifiers:
  C1 PaperA          non_hand iff cos > 0.95 AND dh <= 5
  C2 K=3 per-CPA     hard label, replicated = C3 (highest cos)
  C3 Reverse-anchor  cos_left_tail_pct under non-Big-4 reference;
                     replicated = score below explicit cut.
                     Cut chosen so that the rule's overall
                     replicated rate matches PaperA's overall rate
                     (calibration-by-prevalence; documented limitation).
 Additional metrics per classifier:
  - n_pixel_identical, n_correctly_called_replicated,
    n_misclassified_handleaning
  - Wilson 95% CI on FAR
  - Per-firm FAR breakdown
 Output:
  reports/v4_big4/pixel_identity_far/
    far_results.json
    far_report.md
    far_cases.csv  (every misclassified pixel-identical sig)
 """
 import sqlite3
 import csv
 import json
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use('Agg')
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from scipy import stats
 from scipy.stats import norm
 from sklearn.mixture import GaussianMixture
 from sklearn.covariance import MinCovDet
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/pixel_identity_far')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 SEED = 42
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 LABEL = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A (Deloitte)', '安侯建業聯合': 'KPMG',
         '資誠聯合': 'PwC', '安永聯合': 'EY'}
 PAPER_A_COS_CUT = 0.95
 PAPER_A_DH_CUT = 5
 MIN_SIGS = 10
 def load_pixel_identical_big4():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.signature_id, s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant,
               CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL),
               s.closest_match_file
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.pixel_identical_to_closest = 1
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
    ''', BIG4)
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def load_all_big4_signatures():
    """For computing the calibration-by-prevalence rate of PaperA."""
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant,
               CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
    ''', BIG4)
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    cos = np.array([float(r[0]) for r in rows])
    dh = np.array([float(r[1]) for r in rows])
    return cos, dh
 def load_per_cpa_means_big4():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
               AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
               COUNT(*) AS n
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
        GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
        HAVING n >= ?
    ''', BIG4 + (MIN_SIGS,))
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    X = np.array([[float(r[2]), float(r[3])] for r in rows])
    return X
 def load_non_big4_reference_means():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
               AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
               COUNT(*) AS n
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm NOT IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
        GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
        HAVING n >= ?
    ''', BIG4 + (MIN_SIGS,))
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return np.array([[float(r[0]), float(r[1])] for r in rows])
 def fit_k3(X):
    return GaussianMixture(n_components=3, covariance_type='full',
                           random_state=SEED, n_init=15, max_iter=500).fit(X)
 def fit_reference(X):
    mcd = MinCovDet(random_state=SEED, support_fraction=0.85).fit(X)
    return {'mean': mcd.location_, 'cov': mcd.covariance_}
 def wilson_ci(k, n, alpha=0.05):
    if n == 0:
        return (0.0, 1.0)
    z = norm.ppf(1 - alpha / 2)
    phat = k / n
    denom = 1 + z * z / n
    center = (phat + z * z / (2 * n)) / denom
    pm = z * np.sqrt(phat * (1 - phat) / n + z * z / (4 * n * n)) / denom
    return (max(0.0, center - pm), min(1.0, center + pm))
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 40: Pixel-Identity FAR on Big-4')
    print('=' * 72)
    # Load pixel-identical Big-4 signatures (ground truth replicated)
    rows = load_pixel_identical_big4()
    n = len(rows)
    print(f'\nN pixel-identical Big-4 signatures (ground truth = replicated): '
          f'{n}')
    if n == 0:
        print('No pixel-identical pairs in Big-4. Exiting.')
        return
    # Per-firm distribution
    by_firm = {}
    for r in rows:
        by_firm.setdefault(r[2], []).append(r)
    for f in BIG4:
        print(f'  {LABEL[f]}: {len(by_firm.get(f, []))}')
    sig_ids = np.array([r[0] for r in rows])
    sig_firms = np.array([r[2] for r in rows])
    cos = np.array([r[3] for r in rows], dtype=float)
    dh = np.array([r[4] for r in rows], dtype=float)
    closest = np.array([r[5] or '' for r in rows])
    # ---------- Classifier C1: Paper A rule ----------
    paperA_replicated = (cos > PAPER_A_COS_CUT) & (dh <= PAPER_A_DH_CUT)
    paperA_misclass = ~paperA_replicated
    n_pA_correct = int(paperA_replicated.sum())
    n_pA_miss = int(paperA_misclass.sum())
    far_pA = n_pA_miss / n
    pA_lo, pA_hi = wilson_ci(n_pA_miss, n)
    print(f'\n[C1 Paper A] correct: {n_pA_correct}/{n} = '
          f'{(1 - far_pA)*100:.2f}%; FAR: {far_pA*100:.2f}% '
          f'[{pA_lo*100:.2f}%, {pA_hi*100:.2f}%]')
    # ---------- Classifier C2: K=3 per-CPA hard label ----------
    # (Use the K=3 CPA-fit components; for each pixel-identical signature,
    # predict its membership as if it were a per-CPA point.)
    X_cpa = load_per_cpa_means_big4()
    gmm = fit_k3(X_cpa)
    order = np.argsort(gmm.means_[:, 0])  # C1 hand, C3 replicated
    label_map = {old: new for new, old in enumerate(order)}
    X_pix = np.column_stack([cos, dh])
    raw = gmm.predict(X_pix)
    k3_labels = np.array([label_map[l] for l in raw])
    # Replicated = C3 (label index 2)
    k3_replicated = (k3_labels == 2)
    k3_misclass = ~k3_replicated
    n_k3_correct = int(k3_replicated.sum())
    n_k3_miss = int(k3_misclass.sum())
    far_k3 = n_k3_miss / n
    k3_lo, k3_hi = wilson_ci(n_k3_miss, n)
    print(f'[C2 K=3 perCPA] correct: {n_k3_correct}/{n} = '
          f'{(1 - far_k3)*100:.2f}%; FAR: {far_k3*100:.2f}% '
          f'[{k3_lo*100:.2f}%, {k3_hi*100:.2f}%]')
    # ---------- Classifier C3: Reverse-anchor with prevalence-calibrated cut ----------
    # Build reference Gaussian from non-Big-4
    X_ref = load_non_big4_reference_means()
    ref = fit_reference(X_ref)
    mu_c = ref['mean'][0]
    sd_c = float(np.sqrt(ref['cov'][0, 0]))
    # Score every Big-4 signature; pick cut so overall replicated rate
    # matches Paper A's overall replicated rate.
    cos_all, dh_all = load_all_big4_signatures()
    paperA_overall_repl_rate = float(np.mean(
        (cos_all > PAPER_A_COS_CUT) & (dh_all <= PAPER_A_DH_CUT)))
    # Reverse-anchor score per signature
    rev_score_all = stats.norm.cdf(cos_all, loc=mu_c, scale=sd_c)
    # We want HIGHER scores = more replicated (large cosine = right tail
    # of the reference). So replicated iff rev_score > cut.
    # Pick cut at the (1 - paperA_overall_repl_rate)-quantile of rev_score_all.
    cut_quantile = 1 - paperA_overall_repl_rate
    rev_cut = float(np.quantile(rev_score_all, cut_quantile))
    print(f'\n[C3 Reverse-anchor calibration] '
          f'PaperA overall replicated rate = '
          f'{paperA_overall_repl_rate*100:.2f}%; '
          f'rev-anchor cut at {cut_quantile*100:.2f}-th pct of score = '
          f'{rev_cut:.4f}')
    rev_score_pix = stats.norm.cdf(cos, loc=mu_c, scale=sd_c)
    rev_replicated = (rev_score_pix > rev_cut)
    rev_misclass = ~rev_replicated
    n_rev_correct = int(rev_replicated.sum())
    n_rev_miss = int(rev_misclass.sum())
    far_rev = n_rev_miss / n
    rev_lo, rev_hi = wilson_ci(n_rev_miss, n)
    print(f'[C3 Reverse-anchor] correct: {n_rev_correct}/{n} = '
          f'{(1 - far_rev)*100:.2f}%; FAR: {far_rev*100:.2f}% '
          f'[{rev_lo*100:.2f}%, {rev_hi*100:.2f}%]')
    # ---------- Per-firm FAR ----------
    print('\n[per-firm FAR]')
    print(f'  {"Firm":<22} {"n":>5} {"PaperA":>11} {"K=3":>11} {"Rev-anc":>11}')
    per_firm = {}
    for f in BIG4:
        mask = (sig_firms == f)
        n_f = int(mask.sum())
        if n_f == 0:
            per_firm[f] = {'n': 0}
            continue
        miss_pA = int(np.sum(paperA_misclass[mask]))
        miss_k3 = int(np.sum(k3_misclass[mask]))
        miss_rev = int(np.sum(rev_misclass[mask]))
        far_pA_f = miss_pA / n_f
        far_k3_f = miss_k3 / n_f
        far_rev_f = miss_rev / n_f
        per_firm[f] = {
            'n': n_f,
            'paperA_far': far_pA_f, 'paperA_misclass_n': miss_pA,
            'k3_far': far_k3_f, 'k3_misclass_n': miss_k3,
            'reverse_anchor_far': far_rev_f, 'reverse_anchor_misclass_n': miss_rev,
        }
        print(f'  {LABEL[f]:<22} {n_f:>5} {far_pA_f*100:>10.2f}% '
              f'{far_k3_f*100:>10.2f}% {far_rev_f*100:>10.2f}%')
    # ---------- Misclassified case CSV ----------
    cases_csv = OUT / 'far_cases.csv'
    with open(cases_csv, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.writer(f)
        w.writerow(['signature_id', 'cpa', 'firm', 'firm_label',
                    'cos', 'dh', 'closest_match_file',
                    'paperA_call', 'k3_call', 'reverse_anchor_call'])
        for i in range(n):
            pa = 'replicated' if paperA_replicated[i] else 'hand_leaning'
            kl = ['C1_handleaning', 'C2_mixed',
                  'C3_replicated'][k3_labels[i]]
            ra = 'replicated' if rev_replicated[i] else 'hand_leaning'
            # Only write rows where at least one classifier disagrees with
            # ground truth (replicated)
            if pa != 'replicated' or kl != 'C3_replicated' \
                    or ra != 'replicated':
                w.writerow([sig_ids[i], rows[i][1], sig_firms[i],
                            LABEL[sig_firms[i]],
                            f'{cos[i]:.4f}', f'{dh[i]:.4f}', closest[i],
                            pa, kl, ra])
    print(f'\nMisclassified cases CSV: {cases_csv}')
    # Markdown report
    md = [
        '# Pixel-Identity FAR on Big-4 (Script 40)',
        f'Generated: {datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}',
        '',
        '## Ground truth',
        '',
        ('Pixel-identical pairs (signature byte-identical to nearest '
         'same-CPA neighbor) cannot arise from independent hand-signing. '
         'They are taken as ground-truth REPLICATED. We measure each '
         'classifier\'s false-alarm rate (rate of calling these signatures '
         'hand-leaning).'),
        '',
        f'- Total Big-4 pixel-identical signatures: **{n}**',
        '',
        '## Headline FAR (lower is better)',
        '',
        '| Classifier | Correct/N | FAR | Wilson 95% CI |',
        '|---|---|---|---|',
        f'| Paper A box rule | {n_pA_correct}/{n} | **{far_pA*100:.2f}%** | '
        f'[{pA_lo*100:.2f}%, {pA_hi*100:.2f}%] |',
        f'| K=3 per-CPA hard label (C3 = replicated) | {n_k3_correct}/{n} | '
        f'**{far_k3*100:.2f}%** | [{k3_lo*100:.2f}%, {k3_hi*100:.2f}%] |',
        f'| Reverse-anchor (prevalence-calibrated cut) | {n_rev_correct}/{n} | '
        f'**{far_rev*100:.2f}%** | [{rev_lo*100:.2f}%, {rev_hi*100:.2f}%] |',
        '',
        ('Reverse-anchor cut chosen so that overall replicated rate '
         f'matches Paper A overall rate ({paperA_overall_repl_rate*100:.2f}%); '
         'this is calibration-by-prevalence and is documented as a v4.0 '
         'limitation -- no signature-level ground truth exists for the '
         'hand-leaning class so we cannot pick the cut by direct ROC '
         'optimization.'),
        '',
        '## Per-firm FAR',
        '',
        '| Firm | n | Paper A FAR | K=3 FAR | Rev-anchor FAR |',
        '|---|---|---|---|---|',
    ]
    for f in BIG4:
        pf = per_firm[f]
        if pf['n'] == 0:
            md.append(f'| {LABEL[f]} | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a |')
            continue
        md.append(f'| {LABEL[f]} | {pf["n"]} | '
                  f'{pf["paperA_far"]*100:.2f}% '
                  f'({pf["paperA_misclass_n"]}) | '
                  f'{pf["k3_far"]*100:.2f}% ({pf["k3_misclass_n"]}) | '
                  f'{pf["reverse_anchor_far"]*100:.2f}% '
                  f'({pf["reverse_anchor_misclass_n"]}) |')
    md += ['', '## Reading',
           '',
           ('A FAR substantially below the no-information rate '
            f'(1 - {paperA_overall_repl_rate*100:.2f}% = '
            f'{(1-paperA_overall_repl_rate)*100:.2f}%) means the '
            'classifier extracts useful signal from the (cos, dh) '
            'features for distinguishing pixel-identical replication.  '
            'Since pixel-identical pairs are a CONSERVATIVE SUBSET of '
            'true replication (only the byte-equal extreme), a low FAR '
            'against this subset is necessary but not sufficient evidence '
            'of correct replication detection.'),
           '',
           '## Files',
           '- `far_results.json` -- machine-readable results',
           '- `far_cases.csv` -- every misclassified pixel-identical signature',
           ]
    md_path = OUT / 'far_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Report: {md_path}')
    payload = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(),
        'n_pixel_identical_big4': n,
        'paper_a_cuts': {'cos': PAPER_A_COS_CUT, 'dh': PAPER_A_DH_CUT},
        'paper_a_overall_replicated_rate_big4': paperA_overall_repl_rate,
        'reverse_anchor_cut_score': rev_cut,
        'reverse_anchor_cut_quantile': cut_quantile,
        'reverse_anchor_reference_center': [float(mu_c),
                                             float(ref['mean'][1])],
        'classifiers': {
            'paperA': {
                'far': float(far_pA),
                'far_wilson95': [float(pA_lo), float(pA_hi)],
                'n_correct': n_pA_correct, 'n_misclass': n_pA_miss,
            },
            'k3_perCPA': {
                'far': float(far_k3),
                'far_wilson95': [float(k3_lo), float(k3_hi)],
                'n_correct': n_k3_correct, 'n_misclass': n_k3_miss,
            },
            'reverse_anchor_calibrated': {
                'far': float(far_rev),
                'far_wilson95': [float(rev_lo), float(rev_hi)],
                'n_correct': n_rev_correct, 'n_misclass': n_rev_miss,
            },
        },
        'per_firm_far': per_firm,
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'far_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'JSON: {json_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 40b: Inter-CPA FAR Sweep for cos and dHash (joint + marginal)
 =====================================================================
 After codex round-29 destroyed the distributional path to thresholds
 (K=3 mixture / dip / antimode shown composition-driven by Scripts
 39b–39e), v4.0 pivots to an anchor-based threshold framework:
 empirically derived from inter-CPA negative anchor specificity.
 Inter-CPA pairs (different CPAs, all-firm) are the negative anchor:
 they are by definition not same-CPA replications, and the user's
 within-CPA mechanism-transition concern (a CPA might switch from
 hand-sign to template mid-career) does not enter the inter-CPA
 calibration because each sampled pair crosses CPA boundaries.
 This script samples a large number of inter-CPA pairs and computes
 both descriptors per pair (cosine via feature_vector dot product;
 Hamming distance via dhash_vector XOR). It then sweeps:
  1. FAR(cos > k) across k in [0.80, 0.99]
  2. FAR(dHash <= k) across k in [0, 20]
  3. Joint FAR(cos > 0.95 AND dHash <= k) for k in [0, 20]
  4. Conditional FAR(dHash <= k | cos > 0.95) -- the v3 inherited
     rule's marginal specificity contribution from dHash
 Outputs:
  reports/v4_big4/inter_cpa_far_sweep/
    far_sweep_results.json
    far_sweep_report.md
 Sample size: 500,000 inter-CPA pairs (matches v3 Script 10
 convention). Big-4-only and full-corpus variants both reported.
 """
 import json
 import sqlite3
 import numpy as np
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from collections import defaultdict
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/inter_cpa_far_sweep')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 ALIAS = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A',
         '安侯建業聯合': 'Firm B',
         '資誠聯合': 'Firm C',
         '安永聯合': 'Firm D'}
 N_PAIRS = 500_000
 SEED = 42
 COS_GRID = [0.80, 0.83, 0.85, 0.87, 0.89, 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94,
            0.945, 0.95, 0.955, 0.96, 0.965, 0.97, 0.975, 0.98, 0.985,
            0.99]
 DH_GRID = list(range(0, 21))
 def hamming_64bit(a_bytes, b_bytes):
    """Hamming distance between two 8-byte (64-bit) dHash byte strings."""
    a = int.from_bytes(a_bytes, 'big')
    b = int.from_bytes(b_bytes, 'big')
    return (a ^ b).bit_count()
 def load_signatures():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(f'file:{DB}?mode=ro', uri=True)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.signature_id, s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               s.feature_vector, s.dhash_vector
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.feature_vector IS NOT NULL
          AND s.dhash_vector IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IS NOT NULL
    ''')
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def sample_inter_cpa_pairs(rows, n_pairs, seed, restrict_to_big4=False):
    """Sample inter-CPA pairs and compute (cos, dh) for each."""
    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
    if restrict_to_big4:
        rows = [r for r in rows if r[2] in BIG4]
        scope = 'big4_only'
    else:
        scope = 'all_firms'
    print(f'  [{scope}] {len(rows):,} signatures available')
    by_acct = defaultdict(list)
    for r in rows:
        by_acct[r[1]].append(r)
    accountants = list(by_acct.keys())
    n_acct = len(accountants)
    print(f'  [{scope}] {n_acct} accountants')
    features = {a: np.stack(
        [np.frombuffer(r[3], dtype=np.float32) for r in by_acct[a]]
    ) for a in accountants}
    dhashes = {a: [r[4] for r in by_acct[a]] for a in accountants}
    cos_vals = np.empty(n_pairs, dtype=np.float32)
    dh_vals = np.empty(n_pairs, dtype=np.int32)
    n_done = 0
    for _ in range(n_pairs):
        i, j = rng.choice(n_acct, 2, replace=False)
        a1, a2 = accountants[i], accountants[j]
        n1, n2 = len(by_acct[a1]), len(by_acct[a2])
        k1 = int(rng.integers(0, n1))
        k2 = int(rng.integers(0, n2))
        f1 = features[a1][k1]
        f2 = features[a2][k2]
        cos = float(f1 @ f2)
        d = hamming_64bit(dhashes[a1][k1], dhashes[a2][k2])
        cos_vals[n_done] = cos
        dh_vals[n_done] = d
        n_done += 1
    return scope, cos_vals, dh_vals
 def wilson_ci(k, n, z=1.96):
    if n == 0:
        return (None, None)
    phat = k / n
    denom = 1 + z * z / n
    centre = (phat + z * z / (2 * n)) / denom
    half = z * np.sqrt(phat * (1 - phat) / n + z * z / (4 * n * n)) / denom
    return (max(0.0, centre - half), min(1.0, centre + half))
 def far_at_cos(cos_vals, k):
    n = len(cos_vals)
    hits = int((cos_vals > k).sum())
    lo, hi = wilson_ci(hits, n)
    return {'k': float(k), 'n': n, 'hits': hits,
            'far': hits / n, 'ci95_lo': lo, 'ci95_hi': hi}
 def far_at_dh_le(dh_vals, k):
    n = len(dh_vals)
    hits = int((dh_vals <= k).sum())
    lo, hi = wilson_ci(hits, n)
    return {'k': int(k), 'n': n, 'hits': hits,
            'far': hits / n, 'ci95_lo': lo, 'ci95_hi': hi}
 def joint_far(cos_vals, dh_vals, cos_k, dh_k):
    n = len(cos_vals)
    hits = int(((cos_vals > cos_k) & (dh_vals <= dh_k)).sum())
    lo, hi = wilson_ci(hits, n)
    return {'cos_k': float(cos_k), 'dh_k': int(dh_k),
            'n': n, 'hits': hits,
            'far': hits / n, 'ci95_lo': lo, 'ci95_hi': hi}
 def cond_far(cos_vals, dh_vals, cos_k, dh_k):
    """FAR(dh<=k | cos>cos_k)"""
    cos_mask = cos_vals > cos_k
    n_cond = int(cos_mask.sum())
    if n_cond == 0:
        return {'cos_k': float(cos_k), 'dh_k': int(dh_k),
                'n_cond': 0, 'hits': 0,
                'cond_far': None, 'ci95_lo': None, 'ci95_hi': None}
    hits = int(((dh_vals <= dh_k) & cos_mask).sum())
    lo, hi = wilson_ci(hits, n_cond)
    return {'cos_k': float(cos_k), 'dh_k': int(dh_k),
            'n_cond': n_cond, 'hits': hits,
            'cond_far': hits / n_cond, 'ci95_lo': lo, 'ci95_hi': hi}
 def invert_far_target(curve_entries, target, key='far'):
    """Return the entries bracketing the target FAR (linear scan)."""
    sorted_e = sorted(curve_entries, key=lambda e: e[key])
    for e in sorted_e:
        if e[key] <= target:
            best = e
        else:
            break
    return best if sorted_e and sorted_e[0][key] <= target else None
 def _fmt(x, fmt='.5f'):
    return 'None' if x is None else format(x, fmt)
 def run_scope(rows, scope_name, restrict_to_big4):
    print(f'\n== Scope: {scope_name} ==')
    scope_label, cos_vals, dh_vals = sample_inter_cpa_pairs(
        rows, N_PAIRS, SEED, restrict_to_big4=restrict_to_big4)
    print(f'  Sampled {len(cos_vals):,} inter-CPA pairs')
    print(f'  cos: mean={cos_vals.mean():.4f}, '
          f'median={np.median(cos_vals):.4f}, '
          f'std={cos_vals.std():.4f}')
    print(f'  dh : mean={dh_vals.mean():.4f}, '
          f'median={np.median(dh_vals):.4f}, '
          f'std={dh_vals.std():.4f}')
    cos_curve = [far_at_cos(cos_vals, k) for k in COS_GRID]
    dh_curve = [far_at_dh_le(dh_vals, k) for k in DH_GRID]
    joint_curve_95 = [joint_far(cos_vals, dh_vals, 0.95, k) for k in DH_GRID]
    cond_curve_95 = [cond_far(cos_vals, dh_vals, 0.95, k) for k in DH_GRID]
    print('\n  [Cos FAR sweep]')
    for e in cos_curve:
        print(f'    cos > {e["k"]:.3f}: FAR={_fmt(e["far"])}, '
              f'CI=[{_fmt(e["ci95_lo"])}, {_fmt(e["ci95_hi"])}], '
              f'hits={e["hits"]}/{e["n"]}')
    print('\n  [dHash FAR sweep]')
    for e in dh_curve:
        print(f'    dh <= {e["k"]:2d}: FAR={_fmt(e["far"])}, '
              f'CI=[{_fmt(e["ci95_lo"])}, {_fmt(e["ci95_hi"])}], '
              f'hits={e["hits"]}/{e["n"]}')
    print('\n  [Joint FAR (cos > 0.95 AND dh <= k)]')
    for e in joint_curve_95:
        print(f'    dh <= {e["dh_k"]:2d}: FAR={_fmt(e["far"])}, '
              f'hits={e["hits"]}/{e["n"]}')
    print('\n  [Conditional FAR(dh <= k | cos > 0.95)]')
    for e in cond_curve_95:
        cf = e['cond_far']
        print(f'    dh <= {e["dh_k"]:2d}: P(dh<=k | cos>0.95)='
              f'{_fmt(cf) if cf is not None else "n/a"}, '
              f'hits={e["hits"]}/{e["n_cond"]}')
    targets = [0.005, 0.001, 0.0005, 0.0001]
    inv = {}
    for t in targets:
        inv[f'cos_far_<=_{t}'] = invert_far_target(cos_curve, t, 'far')
        inv[f'dh_far_<=_{t}'] = invert_far_target(dh_curve, t, 'far')
        inv[f'joint_at_cos95_far_<=_{t}'] = invert_far_target(
            joint_curve_95, t, 'far')
    print('\n  [Threshold inversion]')
    for tgt in targets:
        e = inv[f'cos_far_<=_{tgt}']
        if e is not None:
            print(f'    FAR <= {tgt}: max cos threshold with FAR<=tgt is '
                  f'cos > {e["k"]:.3f} (FAR={e["far"]:.5f})')
        e = inv[f'dh_far_<=_{tgt}']
        if e is not None:
            print(f'    FAR <= {tgt}: max dh threshold with FAR<=tgt is '
                  f'dh <= {e["k"]} (FAR={e["far"]:.5f})')
        e = inv[f'joint_at_cos95_far_<=_{tgt}']
        if e is not None:
            print(f'    FAR <= {tgt}: under cos>0.95, max dh threshold '
                  f'with joint FAR<=tgt is dh <= {e["dh_k"]} '
                  f'(joint FAR={e["far"]:.5f})')
    return {
        'scope': scope_label,
        'n_pairs': int(len(cos_vals)),
        'cos_summary': {
            'mean': float(cos_vals.mean()),
            'median': float(np.median(cos_vals)),
            'std': float(cos_vals.std()),
            'p99': float(np.percentile(cos_vals, 99)),
            'p999': float(np.percentile(cos_vals, 99.9)),
            'max': float(cos_vals.max()),
        },
        'dh_summary': {
            'mean': float(dh_vals.mean()),
            'median': float(np.median(dh_vals)),
            'std': float(dh_vals.std()),
            'p01': float(np.percentile(dh_vals, 1)),
            'p001': float(np.percentile(dh_vals, 0.1)),
            'min': int(dh_vals.min()),
        },
        'cos_far_curve': cos_curve,
        'dh_far_curve': dh_curve,
        'joint_far_at_cos95_curve': joint_curve_95,
        'cond_far_at_cos95_curve': cond_curve_95,
        'threshold_inversions': inv,
    }
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 40b: Inter-CPA FAR Sweep (cos + dHash, joint + marginal)')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_signatures()
    print(f'\nLoaded {len(rows):,} signatures (full corpus)')
    results = {
        'meta': {
            'script': '40b',
            'timestamp': datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
            'n_pairs_sampled': N_PAIRS,
            'seed': SEED,
            'note': ('Inter-CPA pair-level FAR sweep for cos and dHash. '
                     'Anchor-based threshold derivation; replaces '
                     'distributional path attacked in codex round-29.'),
        },
        'scopes': {},
    }
    results['scopes']['big4_only'] = run_scope(
        rows, 'Big-4 only', restrict_to_big4=True)
    results['scopes']['all_firms'] = run_scope(
        rows, 'All firms', restrict_to_big4=False)
    json_path = OUT / 'far_sweep_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\n[json] {json_path}')
    md = [
        '# Inter-CPA FAR Sweep (Script 40b)',
        '',
        f'Generated: {results["meta"]["timestamp"]}',
        f'Inter-CPA pair samples per scope: {N_PAIRS:,}; seed: {SEED}',
        '',
        ('Anchor-based threshold derivation. For each scope (Big-4 only '
         'or all firms), sample random inter-CPA pairs and compute '
         'cosine + Hamming distance per pair. Report False Acceptance '
         'Rates (FAR) at various thresholds; invert FAR target to '
         'derive thresholds with empirical specificity guarantees.'),
        '',
    ]
    for scope in ['big4_only', 'all_firms']:
        s = results['scopes'][scope]
        md += [f'## Scope: {scope} ({s["n_pairs"]:,} pairs)', '',
               '### Cosine FAR curve', '',
               '| cos > k | FAR | 95% CI | hits / n |',
               '|---|---|---|---|']
        for e in s['cos_far_curve']:
            md.append(f'| {e["k"]:.3f} | {_fmt(e["far"])} | '
                      f'[{_fmt(e["ci95_lo"])}, {_fmt(e["ci95_hi"])}] | '
                      f'{e["hits"]:,} / {e["n"]:,} |')
        md += ['', '### dHash FAR curve', '',
               '| dh <= k | FAR | 95% CI | hits / n |',
               '|---|---|---|---|']
        for e in s['dh_far_curve']:
            md.append(f'| {e["k"]:2d} | {_fmt(e["far"])} | '
                      f'[{_fmt(e["ci95_lo"])}, {_fmt(e["ci95_hi"])}] | '
                      f'{e["hits"]:,} / {e["n"]:,} |')
        md += ['', '### Joint FAR (cos > 0.95 AND dh <= k)', '',
               '| dh <= k | Joint FAR | hits / n |',
               '|---|---|---|']
        for e in s['joint_far_at_cos95_curve']:
            md.append(f'| {e["dh_k"]:2d} | {_fmt(e["far"])} | '
                      f'{e["hits"]:,} / {e["n"]:,} |')
        md += ['',
               '### Conditional FAR(dh <= k | cos > 0.95)',
               '',
               'Among inter-CPA pairs that already exceed cos > 0.95, '
               'what fraction also have dh <= k? This quantifies '
               "dHash's marginal specificity contribution given the cos "
               "gate is already applied.",
               '',
               '| dh <= k | Conditional FAR | hits / n_cond |',
               '|---|---|---|']
        for e in s['cond_far_at_cos95_curve']:
            cf = e['cond_far']
            md.append(f'| {e["dh_k"]:2d} | '
                      f'{_fmt(cf) if cf is not None else "n/a"} | '
                      f'{e["hits"]:,} / {e["n_cond"]:,} |')
        md += ['', '### Threshold inversion', '',
               '| FAR target | cos thresh | dh thresh | joint dh thresh '
               '(under cos>0.95) |',
               '|---|---|---|---|']
        for tgt in [0.005, 0.001, 0.0005, 0.0001]:
            e_c = s['threshold_inversions'].get(f'cos_far_<=_{tgt}')
            e_d = s['threshold_inversions'].get(f'dh_far_<=_{tgt}')
            e_j = s['threshold_inversions'].get(
                f'joint_at_cos95_far_<=_{tgt}')
            c_str = (f'cos > {e_c["k"]:.3f} (FAR={e_c["far"]:.5f})'
                     if e_c else 'unachievable')
            d_str = (f'dh <= {e_d["k"]} (FAR={e_d["far"]:.5f})'
                     if e_d else 'unachievable')
            j_str = (f'dh <= {e_j["dh_k"]} (FAR={e_j["far"]:.5f})'
                     if e_j else 'unachievable')
            md.append(f'| {tgt} | {c_str} | {d_str} | {j_str} |')
        md.append('')
    md += [
        '## Interpretation',
        '',
        ('- The cosine FAR curve replicates and extends v3.x §IV-I '
         'Table X (which reported FAR=0.0005 at cos>0.95 from a '
         'similar but smaller-sample inter-CPA negative anchor).'),
        ('- The dHash FAR curve is the v4 contribution: prior v3.x '
         'work used dh<=5 by convention without an empirical '
         'specificity derivation. This script derives a specificity '
         "target → dh threshold mapping."),
        ('- The conditional FAR(dh<=k | cos>0.95) curve tells us '
         'whether dHash adds specificity given the cos gate. If the '
         "conditional FAR at dh<=5 is meaningfully lower than 1.0, "
         'dHash is providing additional specificity. If it is near '
         '1.0, dHash is largely redundant given cos>0.95 and the '
         'five-way rule should be simplified.'),
        ('- Thresholds derived by inverting FAR targets are '
         'specificity-anchored operating points, not distributional '
         'antimodes. They are robust to the integer-mass-point and '
         'between-firm-composition artefacts identified in Scripts '
         '39b–39e.'),
        '',
    ]
    md_path = OUT / 'far_sweep_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'[md  ] {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 41: Full-Dataset Robustness Comparison (light §IV-K)
 =============================================================
 v4.0 §IV-K secondary analysis: re-runs the K=3 mixture + Paper A
 operational-rule per-CPA hand_frac on the FULL accountant dataset
 (Big-4 + mid/small firms) and compares to the Big-4-only primary
 analysis.
 Per the v4.0 author choice (codex round-22 open question, "Light"
 scope), this script does NOT re-evaluate the five-way moderate-
 confidence band. The five-way classifier inherits its v3.x
 calibration; §IV-K's role is to show the Big-4 primary methodology
 also runs at the wider scope, not to re-validate every rule.
 Inputs (DB):
  /Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db
 Output:
  reports/v4_big4/full_dataset_robustness/
    fulldataset_results.json
    fulldataset_report.md
    panel_full_vs_big4.png
 Scope of analysis:
  - Population A: full accountant dataset (n_sig >= 10), n = 686 CPAs
  - Population B: Big-4 sub-corpus (n_sig >= 10), n = 437 CPAs
                  (= primary analysis scope, reproduced for cross-check)
 For each population:
  - Fit 2D K=3 GMM on (cos_mean, dh_mean)
  - Report component centers + weights
  - Compute per-CPA P(C1_hand_leaning) (the K=3 posterior, as in
    Script 38)
  - Compute per-CPA paperA_hand_frac (cos > 0.95 AND dh <= 5
    failure rate)
  - Spearman correlation between P(C1) and hand_frac
 Comparison highlights:
  - Component drift between full and Big-4 K=3 fits
  - Spearman correlation drift
  - Per-firm summary at full-dataset scope (Big-4 firms + grouped
    non-Big-4)
 """
 import sqlite3
 import json
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use('Agg')
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from scipy import stats
 from sklearn.mixture import GaussianMixture
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/full_dataset_robustness')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 SEED = 42
 MIN_SIGS = 10
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 LABEL = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A (Deloitte)', '安侯建業聯合': 'KPMG',
         '資誠聯合': 'PwC', '安永聯合': 'EY'}
 PAPER_A_COS_CUT = 0.95
 PAPER_A_DH_CUT = 5
 def load_accountants(big4_only):
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    if big4_only:
        firm_filter = 'AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)'
        params = list(BIG4)
    else:
        firm_filter = 'AND a.firm IS NOT NULL'
        params = []
    sql = f'''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
               AVG(CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)) AS dh_mean,
               AVG(CASE
                     WHEN s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant > ?
                          AND s.min_dhash_independent <= ?
                     THEN 0.0 ELSE 1.0
                   END) AS hand_frac,
               COUNT(*) AS n
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          {firm_filter}
        GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant
        HAVING n >= ?
    '''
    cur.execute(sql, [PAPER_A_COS_CUT, PAPER_A_DH_CUT] + params + [MIN_SIGS])
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return [{'cpa': r[0], 'firm': r[1],
             'cos_mean': float(r[2]), 'dh_mean': float(r[3]),
             'hand_frac': float(r[4]), 'n_sigs': int(r[5])} for r in rows]
 def fit_k3(cpas):
    X = np.column_stack([
        [c['cos_mean'] for c in cpas],
        [c['dh_mean'] for c in cpas],
    ])
    gmm = GaussianMixture(n_components=3, covariance_type='full',
                          random_state=SEED, n_init=15, max_iter=500).fit(X)
    order = np.argsort(gmm.means_[:, 0])
    means_sorted = gmm.means_[order]
    weights_sorted = gmm.weights_[order]
    raw_post = gmm.predict_proba(X)
    p_c1 = raw_post[:, order[0]]
    return {
        'means': means_sorted.tolist(),
        'weights': weights_sorted.tolist(),
        'bic': float(gmm.bic(X)),
        'aic': float(gmm.aic(X)),
    }, p_c1
 def per_population(cpas, label):
    print(f'\n=== {label} (n = {len(cpas)} CPAs) ===')
    by_firm = {}
    for c in cpas:
        by_firm.setdefault(c['firm'], 0)
        by_firm[c['firm']] += 1
    fit, p_c1 = fit_k3(cpas)
    hf = np.array([c['hand_frac'] for c in cpas])
    rho, p = stats.spearmanr(p_c1, hf)
    print(f'  K=3 components (sorted by ascending cos):')
    for i, name in enumerate(['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed',
                              'C3 replicated']):
        m = fit['means'][i]
        print(f'    {name}: cos={m[0]:.4f}, dh={m[1]:.4f}, '
              f'weight={fit["weights"][i]:.3f}')
    print(f'  K=3 BIC = {fit["bic"]:.2f}; AIC = {fit["aic"]:.2f}')
    print(f'  Spearman rho (P_C1 vs paperA_hand_frac) = {rho:+.4f} '
          f'(p = {p:.2e})')
    print(f'  Population breakdown:')
    for f in sorted(by_firm, key=lambda k: -by_firm[k]):
        firm_label = LABEL.get(f, f)
        print(f'    {firm_label}: {by_firm[f]}')
    return {
        'label': label,
        'n_cpas': len(cpas),
        'k3_fit': fit,
        'spearman_p_c1_vs_handfrac': {
            'rho': float(rho), 'p': float(p),
        },
        'firm_counts': by_firm,
        'p_c1': p_c1.tolist(),
        'hand_frac': hf.tolist(),
    }
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 41: Full-Dataset Robustness Comparison (Light §IV-K)')
    print('=' * 72)
    full = load_accountants(big4_only=False)
    big4 = load_accountants(big4_only=True)
    full_summary = per_population(full, 'Full dataset')
    big4_summary = per_population(big4, 'Big-4 (primary)')
    # Component drift
    drift = []
    for i, name in enumerate(['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed',
                              'C3 replicated']):
        d_cos = abs(full_summary['k3_fit']['means'][i][0]
                    - big4_summary['k3_fit']['means'][i][0])
        d_dh = abs(full_summary['k3_fit']['means'][i][1]
                   - big4_summary['k3_fit']['means'][i][1])
        d_w = abs(full_summary['k3_fit']['weights'][i]
                  - big4_summary['k3_fit']['weights'][i])
        drift.append({'component': name, 'd_cos': float(d_cos),
                      'd_dh': float(d_dh), 'd_weight': float(d_w)})
    print('\n=== Component drift Big-4 -> Full ===')
    for d in drift:
        print(f'  {d["component"]}: |dcos|={d["d_cos"]:.4f}, '
              f'|ddh|={d["d_dh"]:.3f}, |dweight|={d["d_weight"]:.3f}')
    rho_drift = abs(full_summary['spearman_p_c1_vs_handfrac']['rho']
                    - big4_summary['spearman_p_c1_vs_handfrac']['rho'])
    print(f'\n=== Spearman rho drift Big-4 -> Full ===')
    print(f'  Big-4:  {big4_summary["spearman_p_c1_vs_handfrac"]["rho"]:+.4f}')
    print(f'  Full:   {full_summary["spearman_p_c1_vs_handfrac"]["rho"]:+.4f}')
    print(f'  |drift| = {rho_drift:.4f}')
    # Plot: scatter of P_C1 vs hand_frac for both populations
    fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(13, 5.5))
    for ax, summ in zip(axes, [big4_summary, full_summary]):
        p1 = np.array(summ['p_c1'])
        hf = np.array(summ['hand_frac'])
        ax.scatter(p1, hf, s=20, alpha=0.55, c='steelblue',
                   edgecolor='white')
        rho = summ['spearman_p_c1_vs_handfrac']['rho']
        ax.set_xlabel('K=3 posterior P(C1 hand-leaning)')
        ax.set_ylabel('Paper A box-rule hand-leaning rate')
        ax.set_title(f'{summ["label"]} (n = {summ["n_cpas"]})\n'
                     f'Spearman rho = {rho:+.3f}')
        ax.set_xlim(-0.05, 1.05)
        ax.set_ylim(-0.05, 1.05)
        ax.grid(alpha=0.3)
    fig.tight_layout()
    fig.savefig(OUT / 'panel_full_vs_big4.png', dpi=150)
    plt.close(fig)
    print(f'\nPlot: {OUT / "panel_full_vs_big4.png"}')
    payload = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(),
        'min_sigs_per_accountant': MIN_SIGS,
        'paper_a_cuts': {'cos': PAPER_A_COS_CUT, 'dh': PAPER_A_DH_CUT},
        'big4_summary': {k: v for k, v in big4_summary.items()
                         if k not in ('p_c1', 'hand_frac')},
        'full_dataset_summary': {k: v for k, v in full_summary.items()
                                  if k not in ('p_c1', 'hand_frac')},
        'component_drift_big4_to_full': drift,
        'spearman_rho_drift_big4_to_full': float(rho_drift),
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'fulldataset_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'JSON: {json_path}')
    md = [
        '# §IV-K Full-Dataset Robustness Comparison (Light)',
        f'Generated: {datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}',
        '',
        '## Scope',
        '',
        ('Compares the v4.0 primary Big-4 K=3 + Paper A box-rule '
         'analysis to the same analysis run on the FULL accountant '
         'dataset (Big-4 + mid/small firms). The five-way moderate-'
         'confidence band is NOT re-evaluated here; this is the '
         '"Light" scope per the v4.0 author choice (codex round-22 '
         'open question 1).'),
        '',
        '## Population sizes',
        '',
        '| Scope | N CPAs (n_sig >= 10) |',
        '|---|---|',
        f'| Big-4 primary | {big4_summary["n_cpas"]} |',
        f'| Full dataset | {full_summary["n_cpas"]} |',
        '',
        '## K=3 components',
        '',
        '| Component | Big-4 cos / dh / weight | Full cos / dh / weight | |dcos| / |ddh| / |dwt| |',
        '|---|---|---|---|',
    ]
    for i, name in enumerate(['C1 hand-leaning', 'C2 mixed',
                              'C3 replicated']):
        b_m = big4_summary['k3_fit']['means'][i]
        b_w = big4_summary['k3_fit']['weights'][i]
        f_m = full_summary['k3_fit']['means'][i]
        f_w = full_summary['k3_fit']['weights'][i]
        d = drift[i]
        md.append(f'| {name} | {b_m[0]:.4f} / {b_m[1]:.3f} / {b_w:.3f} | '
                  f'{f_m[0]:.4f} / {f_m[1]:.3f} / {f_w:.3f} | '
                  f'{d["d_cos"]:.4f} / {d["d_dh"]:.3f} / '
                  f'{d["d_weight"]:.3f} |')
    md += ['',
           f'BIC: Big-4 K=3 = {big4_summary["k3_fit"]["bic"]:.2f}; '
           f'Full K=3 = {full_summary["k3_fit"]["bic"]:.2f}',
           '',
           '## Spearman correlation (P(C1) vs Paper A hand_frac)',
           '',
           '| Scope | Spearman rho | p |',
           '|---|---|---|',
           f'| Big-4 | {big4_summary["spearman_p_c1_vs_handfrac"]["rho"]:+.4f} | '
           f'{big4_summary["spearman_p_c1_vs_handfrac"]["p"]:.2e} |',
           f'| Full dataset | {full_summary["spearman_p_c1_vs_handfrac"]["rho"]:+.4f} | '
           f'{full_summary["spearman_p_c1_vs_handfrac"]["p"]:.2e} |',
           f'| |Drift| Big-4 -> Full | {rho_drift:.4f} | n/a |',
           '',
           '## Reading',
           '',
           ('The Big-4 primary analysis and the full-dataset rerun '
            'agree on the K=3 component ordering and on the strong '
            'positive Spearman rank correlation between K=3 posterior '
            'P(C1) and Paper A box-rule hand-leaning rate. Component '
            'centers shift modestly between scopes (largest shift = '
            f'C{1 + int(np.argmax([d["d_cos"] for d in drift]))}, '
            f'|dcos| = {max(d["d_cos"] for d in drift):.4f}); the '
            'Spearman rho remains > 0.9 in both populations. We read '
            'this as evidence that the v4.0 K=3 + Paper A convergence '
            'is not a Big-4-specific artefact, while not implying that '
            'the full-dataset crossings or component locations are '
            'operationally interchangeable with the Big-4-primary '
            'numbers (they are not; mid/small-firm tail composition '
            'shifts the component centers).'),
           '',
           '## Files',
           '- `fulldataset_results.json` -- machine-readable results',
           '- `panel_full_vs_big4.png` -- side-by-side scatter',
           ]
    md_path = OUT / 'fulldataset_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Report: {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 42: Five-Way Per-Signature Categorisation on Big-4 (Table XV fill)
 ==========================================================================
 Phase 3 close-out. Tabulates the §III-L five-way per-signature
 classifier output on the Big-4 sub-corpus and aggregates to
 document-level (per-PDF) labels under the worst-case rule.
 Five-way rule (inherited from v3.20.0 §III-K, retained as v4 §III-L):
  cos > 0.95 AND dHash_indep <= 5     -> HC  High-confidence non-hand-signed
  cos > 0.95 AND 5 < dHash <= 15      -> MC  Moderate-confidence non-hand-signed
  cos > 0.95 AND dHash > 15           -> HSC High style consistency
  0.837 < cos <= 0.95                 -> UN  Uncertain
  cos <= 0.837                        -> LH  Likely hand-signed
 Document-level worst-case rule (one PDF can carry up to 2 certifying-
 CPA signatures; the document inherits the most-replication-consistent
 signature label among the signatures present):
  HC > MC > HSC > UN > LH
 Output:
  reports/v4_big4/five_way_categorisation/
    per_signature_counts.csv
    per_firm_category_crosstab.csv
    per_document_counts.csv
    five_way_results.json
    five_way_report.md
 """
 import sqlite3
 import csv
 import json
 import numpy as np
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/five_way_categorisation')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 LABEL = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A (Deloitte)',
         '安侯建業聯合': 'Firm B (KPMG)',
         '資誠聯合': 'Firm C (PwC)',
         '安永聯合': 'Firm D (EY)'}
 COS_HIGH = 0.95
 COS_LOW = 0.837
 DH_HIGH = 5
 DH_MOD = 15
 # Worst-case priority (HC most-replication-consistent, LH most hand-signed)
 PRIORITY = {'HC': 0, 'MC': 1, 'HSC': 2, 'UN': 3, 'LH': 4}
 CATEGORIES = ['HC', 'MC', 'HSC', 'UN', 'LH']
 CAT_LONG = {
    'HC': 'High-confidence non-hand-signed',
    'MC': 'Moderate-confidence non-hand-signed',
    'HSC': 'High style consistency',
    'UN': 'Uncertain',
    'LH': 'Likely hand-signed',
 }
 def classify(cos, dh):
    if cos is None:
        return None  # cannot classify
    if cos > COS_HIGH:
        if dh is None:
            return None  # require dh for HC/MC/HSC distinction
        if dh <= DH_HIGH:
            return 'HC'
        if dh <= DH_MOD:
            return 'MC'
        return 'HSC'
    if cos > COS_LOW:
        return 'UN'
    return 'LH'
 def load_big4_signatures():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.signature_id, s.source_pdf, s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant,
               s.min_dhash_independent
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
    ''', BIG4)
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 42: Five-Way Per-Signature Categorisation (Big-4)')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_big4_signatures()
    print(f'\nN Big-4 signatures (loaded, including missing-descriptor): '
          f'{len(rows):,}')
    # Per-signature classification
    per_sig = []
    n_unclassified = 0
    for r in rows:
        sig_id, pdf, cpa, firm, cos, dh = r
        cos_f = None if cos is None else float(cos)
        dh_f = None if dh is None else float(dh)
        cat = classify(cos_f, dh_f)
        if cat is None:
            n_unclassified += 1
            continue
        per_sig.append({
            'sig_id': sig_id, 'pdf': pdf, 'cpa': cpa, 'firm': firm,
            'cos': cos_f, 'dh': dh_f, 'cat': cat,
        })
    n_classified = len(per_sig)
    print(f'  Classified: {n_classified:,}')
    print(f'  Unclassified (missing cos/dh): {n_unclassified:,}')
    # Overall per-signature counts
    overall = {c: 0 for c in CATEGORIES}
    for s in per_sig:
        overall[s['cat']] += 1
    print('\n=== Overall per-signature counts (Big-4 classified) ===')
    print(f'  {"cat":<5} {"long":<40} {"n":>8} {"%":>7}')
    for c in CATEGORIES:
        n = overall[c]
        pct = 100 * n / n_classified if n_classified else 0.0
        print(f'  {c:<5} {CAT_LONG[c]:<40} {n:>8,} {pct:>6.2f}%')
    # Per-firm × category cross-tab
    by_firm = {f: {c: 0 for c in CATEGORIES} for f in BIG4}
    for s in per_sig:
        by_firm[s['firm']][s['cat']] += 1
    print('\n=== Per-firm × category cross-tab (counts) ===')
    print(f'  {"Firm":<22} ' + ' '.join(f'{c:>8}' for c in CATEGORIES)
          + f'  {"total":>8}')
    for f in BIG4:
        cells = [by_firm[f][c] for c in CATEGORIES]
        total = sum(cells)
        print(f'  {LABEL[f]:<22} '
              + ' '.join(f'{n:>8,}' for n in cells)
              + f'  {total:>8,}')
    print('\n=== Per-firm × category cross-tab (% within firm) ===')
    for f in BIG4:
        cells = [by_firm[f][c] for c in CATEGORIES]
        total = sum(cells) or 1
        print(f'  {LABEL[f]:<22} '
              + ' '.join(f'{100*n/total:>7.2f}%' for n in cells)
              + f'  total {total:>6,}')
    # Document-level (per-PDF) aggregation under worst-case rule
    by_pdf = {}
    for s in per_sig:
        pdf = s['pdf']
        if pdf not in by_pdf:
            by_pdf[pdf] = {'firm_set': set(), 'best_cat': None,
                           'best_priority': 99, 'n_sigs': 0}
        bp = by_pdf[pdf]
        bp['n_sigs'] += 1
        bp['firm_set'].add(s['firm'])
        prio = PRIORITY[s['cat']]
        if prio < bp['best_priority']:
            bp['best_priority'] = prio
            bp['best_cat'] = s['cat']
    n_docs = len(by_pdf)
    docs_overall = {c: 0 for c in CATEGORIES}
    for pdf, bp in by_pdf.items():
        docs_overall[bp['best_cat']] += 1
    print(f'\n=== Document-level (n={n_docs:,} unique Big-4 PDFs) ===')
    print(f'  {"cat":<5} {"long":<40} {"n_docs":>8} {"%":>7}')
    for c in CATEGORIES:
        n = docs_overall[c]
        pct = 100 * n / n_docs if n_docs else 0.0
        print(f'  {c:<5} {CAT_LONG[c]:<40} {n:>8,} {pct:>6.2f}%')
    # Document-level by firm (use first firm in the set; PDFs with mixed
    # firm signatures are rare and reported separately)
    docs_by_firm = {f: {c: 0 for c in CATEGORIES} for f in BIG4}
    docs_mixed_firm = {c: 0 for c in CATEGORIES}
    n_mixed_firm = 0
    for pdf, bp in by_pdf.items():
        if len(bp['firm_set']) == 1:
            firm = next(iter(bp['firm_set']))
            if firm in BIG4:
                docs_by_firm[firm][bp['best_cat']] += 1
        else:
            n_mixed_firm += 1
            docs_mixed_firm[bp['best_cat']] += 1
    print(f'\n=== Document-level per-firm (single-firm PDFs only; '
          f'mixed-firm = {n_mixed_firm}) ===')
    print(f'  {"Firm":<22} ' + ' '.join(f'{c:>8}' for c in CATEGORIES)
          + f'  {"total":>8}')
    for f in BIG4:
        cells = [docs_by_firm[f][c] for c in CATEGORIES]
        total = sum(cells)
        print(f'  {LABEL[f]:<22} '
              + ' '.join(f'{n:>8,}' for n in cells)
              + f'  {total:>8,}')
    # Persist CSVs
    sig_csv = OUT / 'per_signature_counts.csv'
    with open(sig_csv, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.writer(f)
        w.writerow(['cat', 'long_name', 'n', 'pct_of_classified'])
        for c in CATEGORIES:
            w.writerow([c, CAT_LONG[c], overall[c],
                        f'{100*overall[c]/n_classified:.2f}'
                        if n_classified else '0'])
    firm_csv = OUT / 'per_firm_category_crosstab.csv'
    with open(firm_csv, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.writer(f)
        w.writerow(['firm', 'firm_label'] + CATEGORIES + ['total']
                   + [f'{c}_pct' for c in CATEGORIES])
        for fk in BIG4:
            cells = [by_firm[fk][c] for c in CATEGORIES]
            total = sum(cells) or 1
            w.writerow([fk, LABEL[fk]] + cells + [sum(cells)]
                       + [f'{100*n/total:.2f}' for n in cells])
    doc_csv = OUT / 'per_document_counts.csv'
    with open(doc_csv, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        w = csv.writer(f)
        w.writerow(['scope', 'cat', 'long_name', 'n', 'pct'])
        for c in CATEGORIES:
            w.writerow(['overall', c, CAT_LONG[c], docs_overall[c],
                        f'{100*docs_overall[c]/n_docs:.2f}' if n_docs
                        else '0'])
        for fk in BIG4:
            firm_total = sum(docs_by_firm[fk][c] for c in CATEGORIES) or 1
            for c in CATEGORIES:
                w.writerow([LABEL[fk], c, CAT_LONG[c],
                            docs_by_firm[fk][c],
                            f'{100*docs_by_firm[fk][c]/firm_total:.2f}'])
        for c in CATEGORIES:
            w.writerow(['mixed_firm', c, CAT_LONG[c], docs_mixed_firm[c],
                        f'{100*docs_mixed_firm[c]/n_mixed_firm:.2f}'
                        if n_mixed_firm else '0'])
    payload = {
        'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(),
        'rule': {
            'cos_high': COS_HIGH, 'cos_low': COS_LOW,
            'dh_high': DH_HIGH, 'dh_mod': DH_MOD,
        },
        'priority': PRIORITY,
        'n_loaded': len(rows),
        'n_classified': n_classified,
        'n_unclassified': n_unclassified,
        'per_signature_overall': {c: overall[c] for c in CATEGORIES},
        'per_signature_by_firm': {fk: by_firm[fk] for fk in BIG4},
        'document_level': {
            'n_docs': n_docs,
            'overall': docs_overall,
            'by_firm_single_firm_docs_only': {
                fk: docs_by_firm[fk] for fk in BIG4
            },
            'n_mixed_firm_docs': n_mixed_firm,
            'mixed_firm_overall': docs_mixed_firm,
        },
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'five_way_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\nJSON: {json_path}')
    # Markdown
    md = [
        '# §IV-J Five-Way Per-Signature Categorisation on Big-4 (Table XV fill)',
        f'Generated: {datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}',
        '',
        '## Rule (inherited from v3.20.0 §III-K)',
        '',
        f'- HC : cos > {COS_HIGH} AND dHash_indep <= {DH_HIGH}',
        f'- MC : cos > {COS_HIGH} AND {DH_HIGH} < dHash <= {DH_MOD}',
        f'- HSC: cos > {COS_HIGH} AND dHash > {DH_MOD}',
        f'- UN : {COS_LOW} < cos <= {COS_HIGH}',
        f'- LH : cos <= {COS_LOW}',
        '',
        '## Sample',
        '',
        f'- Loaded Big-4 signatures: {len(rows):,}',
        f'- Classified (both descriptors available): '
        f'{n_classified:,}',
        f'- Unclassified (missing cos or dh): {n_unclassified:,}',
        '',
        '## Per-signature overall counts (Table XV — Big-4 subset)',
        '',
        '| Category | Long name | $n$ signatures | % of classified |',
        '|---|---|---|---|',
    ]
    for c in CATEGORIES:
        n = overall[c]
        pct = 100 * n / n_classified if n_classified else 0.0
        md.append(f'| {c} | {CAT_LONG[c]} | {n:,} | {pct:.2f}% |')
    md += ['', '## Per-firm × category cross-tab (counts)', '',
           '| Firm | HC | MC | HSC | UN | LH | total |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for fk in BIG4:
        cells = [by_firm[fk][c] for c in CATEGORIES]
        total = sum(cells)
        md.append(f'| {LABEL[fk]} | '
                  + ' | '.join(f'{n:,}' for n in cells)
                  + f' | {total:,} |')
    md += ['', '## Per-firm × category cross-tab (% within firm)', '',
           '| Firm | HC % | MC % | HSC % | UN % | LH % |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for fk in BIG4:
        cells = [by_firm[fk][c] for c in CATEGORIES]
        total = sum(cells) or 1
        md.append(f'| {LABEL[fk]} | '
                  + ' | '.join(f'{100*n/total:.2f}%' for n in cells)
                  + ' |')
    md += ['', '## Document-level (worst-case rule, per Big-4 PDF)', '',
           f'- N unique Big-4 PDFs: {n_docs:,}',
           f'- Mixed-firm PDFs (signatures from >1 Big-4 firm; reported '
           f'separately below): {n_mixed_firm:,}',
           '',
           '| Category | Long name | $n$ documents | % |',
           '|---|---|---|---|']
    for c in CATEGORIES:
        n = docs_overall[c]
        pct = 100 * n / n_docs if n_docs else 0.0
        md.append(f'| {c} | {CAT_LONG[c]} | {n:,} | {pct:.2f}% |')
    md += ['', '## Document-level per-firm (single-firm PDFs only)', '',
           '| Firm | HC | MC | HSC | UN | LH | total |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for fk in BIG4:
        cells = [docs_by_firm[fk][c] for c in CATEGORIES]
        total = sum(cells)
        md.append(f'| {LABEL[fk]} | '
                  + ' | '.join(f'{n:,}' for n in cells)
                  + f' | {total:,} |')
    md += ['', '## Files',
           '- `per_signature_counts.csv` -- overall five-way per-signature counts',
           '- `per_firm_category_crosstab.csv` -- per-firm cross-tab',
           '- `per_document_counts.csv` -- document-level aggregation',
           '- `five_way_results.json` -- machine-readable full output',
           ]
    md_path = OUT / 'five_way_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'Report: {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 43: Pool-Normalized Per-Signature FAR (anchor-based calibration)
 ========================================================================
 Codex round-30 verdict on Script 40b: per-pair FAR (~0.00060 at
 cos>0.95) is NOT the per-signature classifier specificity. The
 deployed classifier uses max-cosine and min-dHash over each CPA's
 same-CPA pool, so the inter-CPA-equivalent specificity for a
 signature with pool size n is approximately 1 - (1 - pair_FAR)^n,
 which for Big-4 median pool ~280 is several percent, not 0.00014.
 This script computes pool-normalized per-signature FAR by drawing,
 for each source signature s, a random inter-CPA candidate pool of
 size n_pool(s) (= same-CPA pool size of s), and computing the
 deployed descriptors against the random pool. The fraction of
 source signatures whose max-cosine exceeds k (and/or min-dHash <= k)
 is the per-signature FAR at that operating point.
 We also report:
  - "Any-pair" joint FAR: max_cos > c AND min_dh <= d (descriptors
    may come from different candidates)
  - "Same-pair" joint FAR: at least one candidate has both
    cos > c AND dh <= d
  - Per-firm and pool-size-decile stratification
  - CPA-block bootstrap CI on key FAR points
  - Threshold inversion for target per-signature FAR
 Inputs: full Big-4 sub-corpus (n=150,453 sigs / 468 CPAs).
 Random pool draws use one realisation per source signature, with
 seed control. CPA-block bootstrap quantifies sampling noise.
 Outputs:
  reports/v4_big4/pool_normalized_far/
    pool_normalized_results.json
    pool_normalized_report.md
 """
 import json
 import sqlite3
 import numpy as np
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from collections import defaultdict
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/pool_normalized_far')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 ALIAS = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A',
         '安侯建業聯合': 'Firm B',
         '資誠聯合': 'Firm C',
         '安永聯合': 'Firm D'}
 SEED = 42
 BATCH = 200  # source signatures per batch
 N_BOOT_CPA = 1000  # CPA-block bootstrap replicates
 COS_KS = [0.90, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 0.945, 0.95, 0.955, 0.96, 0.97, 0.98]
 DH_KS = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 15]
 def load_big4():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(f'file:{DB}?mode=ro', uri=True)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.signature_id, s.assigned_accountant, a.firm, s.source_pdf,
               s.feature_vector, s.dhash_vector
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.feature_vector IS NOT NULL
          AND s.dhash_vector IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
    ''', BIG4)
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def hamming_vec(query_bytes, cand_bytes_array):
    """Hamming between one 8-byte hash and an array of 8-byte hashes."""
    q = int.from_bytes(query_bytes, 'big')
    out = np.empty(len(cand_bytes_array), dtype=np.int32)
    for i, c in enumerate(cand_bytes_array):
        c_int = int.from_bytes(c, 'big')
        out[i] = (q ^ c_int).bit_count()
    return out
 def wilson_ci(k, n, z=1.96):
    if n == 0:
        return (None, None)
    phat = k / n
    denom = 1 + z * z / n
    centre = (phat + z * z / (2 * n)) / denom
    half = z * np.sqrt(phat * (1 - phat) / n + z * z / (4 * n * n)) / denom
    return (max(0.0, centre - half), min(1.0, centre + half))
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 43: Pool-Normalized Per-Signature FAR')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_big4()
    n_sigs = len(rows)
    print(f'\nLoaded {n_sigs:,} Big-4 signatures')
    # Build index arrays
    sig_ids = np.array([r[0] for r in rows], dtype=np.int64)
    cpas = np.array([r[1] for r in rows])
    firms = np.array([ALIAS[r[2]] for r in rows])
    source_pdfs = np.array([r[3] for r in rows])
    # Feature matrix
    feats = np.stack([np.frombuffer(r[4], dtype=np.float32)
                       for r in rows]).astype(np.float32)
    print(f'  Feature matrix: {feats.shape}, '
          f'{feats.nbytes / 1e9:.2f} GB')
    # L2-normalize
    norms = np.linalg.norm(feats, axis=1, keepdims=True)
    norms[norms == 0] = 1.0
    feats = feats / norms
    # dHash bytes
    dhashes = [r[5] for r in rows]
    # CPA → indices
    cpa_to_idx = defaultdict(list)
    for i, c in enumerate(cpas):
        cpa_to_idx[c].append(i)
    cpa_to_idx = {c: np.array(v, dtype=np.int64)
                  for c, v in cpa_to_idx.items()}
    n_cpas = len(cpa_to_idx)
    pool_sizes = {c: len(v) - 1 for c, v in cpa_to_idx.items()}
    print(f'  CPAs: {n_cpas}; pool-size summary: '
          f'min={min(pool_sizes.values())}, '
          f'median={int(np.median(list(pool_sizes.values())))}, '
          f'max={max(pool_sizes.values())}')
    # Pre-compute: for sampling non-same-CPA candidates, we need fast
    # index sampling. The total available pool for each source sig is
    # all_indices \ same_cpa_indices.
    all_idx = np.arange(n_sigs, dtype=np.int64)
    # ── Per-source-signature simulation ─────────────────────
    print('\nSimulating per-source-signature inter-CPA-equivalent pool...')
    rng = np.random.default_rng(SEED)
    # Per-signature stored statistics
    max_cos = np.zeros(n_sigs, dtype=np.float32)
    min_dh = np.zeros(n_sigs, dtype=np.int32)
    cos_at_min_dh = np.zeros(n_sigs, dtype=np.float32)
    dh_at_max_cos = np.zeros(n_sigs, dtype=np.int32)
    pool_size_arr = np.zeros(n_sigs, dtype=np.int32)
    # For each source signature, we also record indicator for same-pair
    # joint event at (cos>0.95, dh<=5) -- the headline operational rule.
    # This requires keeping per-signature any() flag for that pair.
    headline_same_pair_95_5 = np.zeros(n_sigs, dtype=bool)
    headline_same_pair_95_4 = np.zeros(n_sigs, dtype=bool)
    headline_same_pair_95_3 = np.zeros(n_sigs, dtype=bool)
    # process batches of source signatures
    for batch_start in range(0, n_sigs, BATCH):
        batch_end = min(batch_start + BATCH, n_sigs)
        if batch_start % 5000 == 0:
            pct = batch_start / n_sigs * 100
            print(f'  {batch_start:,}/{n_sigs:,} ({pct:.1f}%)')
        for si in range(batch_start, batch_end):
            s_cpa = cpas[si]
            n_pool = pool_sizes[s_cpa]
            pool_size_arr[si] = n_pool
            if n_pool <= 0:
                max_cos[si] = 0.0
                min_dh[si] = 64
                continue
            # Sample n_pool candidates from non-same-CPA indices
            same_cpa = cpa_to_idx[s_cpa]
            # Use random.choice over all_idx excluding same_cpa is slow;
            # instead reject-sample from all_idx
            need = n_pool
            cand_indices = []
            attempts = 0
            while need > 0 and attempts < 10:
                draw = rng.choice(n_sigs, size=need * 2, replace=True)
                # filter out same_cpa
                same_mask = np.isin(draw, same_cpa)
                ok = draw[~same_mask]
                cand_indices.extend(ok[:need].tolist())
                need -= len(ok[:need])
                attempts += 1
            if need > 0:
                # fallback: deterministic sample without same-CPA
                pool_mask = np.ones(n_sigs, dtype=bool)
                pool_mask[same_cpa] = False
                pool_idx = all_idx[pool_mask]
                fb = rng.choice(pool_idx, size=need, replace=False)
                cand_indices.extend(fb.tolist())
            cand_indices = np.array(cand_indices[:n_pool], dtype=np.int64)
            # Cosine: source feat @ cand feats
            cos_vec = feats[cand_indices] @ feats[si]
            # dHash
            dh_vec = hamming_vec(dhashes[si],
                                 [dhashes[c] for c in cand_indices])
            mc_idx = int(np.argmax(cos_vec))
            md_idx = int(np.argmin(dh_vec))
            max_cos[si] = float(cos_vec[mc_idx])
            min_dh[si] = int(dh_vec[md_idx])
            dh_at_max_cos[si] = int(dh_vec[mc_idx])
            cos_at_min_dh[si] = float(cos_vec[md_idx])
            # Same-pair joint indicators
            cos_gt = cos_vec > 0.95
            if cos_gt.any():
                dh_under_5 = dh_vec <= 5
                dh_under_4 = dh_vec <= 4
                dh_under_3 = dh_vec <= 3
                headline_same_pair_95_5[si] = bool((cos_gt & dh_under_5).any())
                headline_same_pair_95_4[si] = bool((cos_gt & dh_under_4).any())
                headline_same_pair_95_3[si] = bool((cos_gt & dh_under_3).any())
    print(f'  Done.')
    # ── Aggregate ──────────────────────────────────────────
    print('\nAggregating per-signature FAR statistics...')
    def far_marginal_cos(k):
        hits = int((max_cos > k).sum())
        lo, hi = wilson_ci(hits, n_sigs)
        return {'k': k, 'hits': hits, 'n': n_sigs,
                'far': hits / n_sigs,
                'ci95_lo': lo, 'ci95_hi': hi}
    def far_marginal_dh(k):
        hits = int((min_dh <= k).sum())
        lo, hi = wilson_ci(hits, n_sigs)
        return {'k': k, 'hits': hits, 'n': n_sigs,
                'far': hits / n_sigs,
                'ci95_lo': lo, 'ci95_hi': hi}
    def far_any_pair_joint(cos_k, dh_k):
        hits = int(((max_cos > cos_k) & (min_dh <= dh_k)).sum())
        lo, hi = wilson_ci(hits, n_sigs)
        return {'cos_k': cos_k, 'dh_k': dh_k,
                'hits': hits, 'n': n_sigs,
                'far': hits / n_sigs,
                'ci95_lo': lo, 'ci95_hi': hi}
    def far_same_pair_joint(cos_k, dh_k, indicator):
        hits = int(indicator.sum())
        lo, hi = wilson_ci(hits, n_sigs)
        return {'cos_k': cos_k, 'dh_k': dh_k,
                'hits': hits, 'n': n_sigs,
                'far': hits / n_sigs,
                'ci95_lo': lo, 'ci95_hi': hi}
    cos_curve = [far_marginal_cos(k) for k in COS_KS]
    dh_curve = [far_marginal_dh(k) for k in DH_KS]
    any_pair_curve = [far_any_pair_joint(0.95, k) for k in DH_KS]
    same_pair_curve = [
        far_same_pair_joint(0.95, 5, headline_same_pair_95_5),
        far_same_pair_joint(0.95, 4, headline_same_pair_95_4),
        far_same_pair_joint(0.95, 3, headline_same_pair_95_3),
    ]
    print('\n[Per-signature marginal cos FAR]')
    for e in cos_curve:
        print(f'  max-cos > {e["k"]:.3f}: FAR={e["far"]:.4f}, '
              f'CI=[{e["ci95_lo"]:.4f}, {e["ci95_hi"]:.4f}], '
              f'hits={e["hits"]}/{e["n"]:,}')
    print('\n[Per-signature marginal dh FAR]')
    for e in dh_curve:
        print(f'  min-dh <= {e["k"]:2d}: FAR={e["far"]:.4f}, '
              f'CI=[{e["ci95_lo"]:.4f}, {e["ci95_hi"]:.4f}], '
              f'hits={e["hits"]}/{e["n"]:,}')
    print('\n[Per-signature any-pair joint FAR (cos>0.95 AND dh<=k)]')
    for e in any_pair_curve:
        print(f'  dh <= {e["dh_k"]:2d}: FAR={e["far"]:.4f}, '
              f'hits={e["hits"]}/{e["n"]:,}')
    print('\n[Per-signature SAME-pair joint FAR]')
    for e in same_pair_curve:
        print(f'  cos>0.95 AND dh<={e["dh_k"]}: FAR={e["far"]:.4f}, '
              f'CI=[{e["ci95_lo"]:.4f}, {e["ci95_hi"]:.4f}], '
              f'hits={e["hits"]}/{e["n"]:,}')
    # Per-firm and per-pool-decile stratification
    print('\n[Per-firm headline FAR (any-pair, cos>0.95 AND dh<=5)]')
    per_firm = {}
    for f in sorted(set(firms)):
        mask = firms == f
        n_f = int(mask.sum())
        hits_anypair = int(((max_cos[mask] > 0.95) &
                            (min_dh[mask] <= 5)).sum())
        hits_samepair = int(headline_same_pair_95_5[mask].sum())
        per_firm[f] = {
            'n': n_f,
            'any_pair_far': hits_anypair / n_f,
            'same_pair_far': hits_samepair / n_f,
        }
        print(f'  {f}: n={n_f:,} '
              f'any-pair FAR={hits_anypair/n_f:.4f}, '
              f'same-pair FAR={hits_samepair/n_f:.4f}')
    print('\n[Pool-size decile × headline FAR]')
    pool_arr = pool_size_arr
    deciles = np.percentile(pool_arr, np.arange(0, 110, 10))
    per_decile = {}
    for d in range(10):
        lo, hi = deciles[d], deciles[d + 1]
        mask = (pool_arr >= lo) & (pool_arr <= hi if d == 9
                                                  else pool_arr < hi)
        n_d = int(mask.sum())
        if n_d == 0:
            continue
        hits_any = int(((max_cos[mask] > 0.95) &
                         (min_dh[mask] <= 5)).sum())
        hits_same = int(headline_same_pair_95_5[mask].sum())
        per_decile[f'decile_{d+1}'] = {
            'pool_range': [float(lo), float(hi)],
            'n': n_d,
            'any_pair_far': hits_any / n_d,
            'same_pair_far': hits_same / n_d,
        }
        print(f'  Decile {d+1} (pool {lo:.0f}-{hi:.0f}): n={n_d:,} '
              f'any-FAR={hits_any/n_d:.4f}, '
              f'same-FAR={hits_same/n_d:.4f}')
    # CPA bootstrap on headline (cos>0.95 AND dh<=5, same-pair)
    print(f'\n[CPA-block bootstrap {N_BOOT_CPA} replicates]')
    rng_b = np.random.default_rng(SEED + 1)
    all_cpa_list = list(cpa_to_idx.keys())
    boot_anypair = np.zeros(N_BOOT_CPA)
    boot_samepair = np.zeros(N_BOOT_CPA)
    for b in range(N_BOOT_CPA):
        cpas_b = rng_b.choice(all_cpa_list, size=len(all_cpa_list),
                              replace=True)
        idx_b = np.concatenate([cpa_to_idx[c] for c in cpas_b])
        n_b = len(idx_b)
        boot_anypair[b] = ((max_cos[idx_b] > 0.95) &
                           (min_dh[idx_b] <= 5)).mean()
        boot_samepair[b] = headline_same_pair_95_5[idx_b].mean()
    boot_anypair_ci = (float(np.percentile(boot_anypair, 2.5)),
                       float(np.percentile(boot_anypair, 97.5)))
    boot_samepair_ci = (float(np.percentile(boot_samepair, 2.5)),
                        float(np.percentile(boot_samepair, 97.5)))
    print(f'  any-pair FAR boot mean={boot_anypair.mean():.4f}, '
          f'95% CI={boot_anypair_ci}')
    print(f'  same-pair FAR boot mean={boot_samepair.mean():.4f}, '
          f'95% CI={boot_samepair_ci}')
    # Document-level aggregation: a document is flagged if any of its
    # signatures has max_cos > 0.95 AND min_dh <= 5 (the worst-case rule)
    print('\n[Document-level aggregation]')
    doc_idx = defaultdict(list)
    for i, pdf in enumerate(source_pdfs):
        doc_idx[pdf].append(i)
    n_docs = len(doc_idx)
    doc_anypair_flag = 0
    doc_samepair_flag = 0
    for pdf, idxs in doc_idx.items():
        idxs_a = np.array(idxs, dtype=np.int64)
        if ((max_cos[idxs_a] > 0.95) & (min_dh[idxs_a] <= 5)).any():
            doc_anypair_flag += 1
        if headline_same_pair_95_5[idxs_a].any():
            doc_samepair_flag += 1
    print(f'  n_documents: {n_docs:,}')
    print(f'  doc-level any-pair FAR (any sig flagged) = '
          f'{doc_anypair_flag/n_docs:.4f} ({doc_anypair_flag}/{n_docs})')
    print(f'  doc-level same-pair FAR = '
          f'{doc_samepair_flag/n_docs:.4f} ({doc_samepair_flag}/{n_docs})')
    # Threshold inversion: find cos and dh thresholds that hit per-sig
    # FAR targets at the marginal level
    print('\n[Per-signature marginal threshold inversion]')
    inversions = {}
    for tgt in [0.10, 0.05, 0.02, 0.01, 0.005]:
        c_pick = None
        for e in cos_curve:
            if e['far'] <= tgt:
                c_pick = e
                break
        d_pick = None
        for e in dh_curve:
            if e['far'] <= tgt:
                d_pick = e
                break
        any_pick = None
        for e in any_pair_curve:
            if e['far'] <= tgt:
                any_pick = e
                break
        same_pick = None
        for e in same_pair_curve:
            if e['far'] <= tgt:
                same_pick = e
                break
        inversions[f'per_sig_far_<=_{tgt}'] = {
            'marginal_cos': c_pick, 'marginal_dh': d_pick,
            'any_pair_joint': any_pick, 'same_pair_joint': same_pick,
        }
        print(f'  per-sig FAR <= {tgt}:')
        if c_pick:
            print(f'    marginal cos: cos > {c_pick["k"]} '
                  f'(FAR={c_pick["far"]:.4f})')
        if d_pick:
            print(f'    marginal dh: dh <= {d_pick["k"]} '
                  f'(FAR={d_pick["far"]:.4f})')
        if any_pick:
            print(f'    any-pair joint: dh <= {any_pick["dh_k"]} '
                  f'(FAR={any_pick["far"]:.4f})')
        if same_pick:
            print(f'    same-pair joint: dh <= {same_pick["dh_k"]} '
                  f'(FAR={same_pick["far"]:.4f})')
    results = {
        'meta': {
            'script': '43',
            'timestamp': datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
            'n_signatures': n_sigs,
            'n_cpas': n_cpas,
            'n_boot_cpa': N_BOOT_CPA,
            'seed': SEED,
            'note': ('Pool-normalized per-signature FAR. For each '
                     'source signature, simulate inter-CPA candidate '
                     'pool of size n_pool(s); compute deployed max-cos '
                     'and min-dh; aggregate per-signature FAR.'),
        },
        'marginal_cos_curve': cos_curve,
        'marginal_dh_curve': dh_curve,
        'any_pair_joint_curve': any_pair_curve,
        'same_pair_joint': same_pair_curve,
        'per_firm_headline': per_firm,
        'per_pool_decile_headline': per_decile,
        'cpa_bootstrap_headline': {
            'any_pair_mean': float(boot_anypair.mean()),
            'any_pair_ci95': boot_anypair_ci,
            'same_pair_mean': float(boot_samepair.mean()),
            'same_pair_ci95': boot_samepair_ci,
        },
        'document_level_headline': {
            'n_docs': n_docs,
            'any_pair_far': doc_anypair_flag / n_docs,
            'same_pair_far': doc_samepair_flag / n_docs,
        },
        'threshold_inversions': inversions,
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'pool_normalized_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\n[json] {json_path}')
    md = ['# Pool-Normalized Per-Signature FAR (Script 43)',
          '', f'Generated: {results["meta"]["timestamp"]}',
          (f'Big-4 source signatures: {n_sigs:,} across {n_cpas} CPAs; '
           f'pool-size median={int(np.median(list(pool_sizes.values())))}, '
           f'max={max(pool_sizes.values())}'),
          (f'CPA-block bootstrap: {N_BOOT_CPA} replicates. Per source '
           'signature, one realisation of n_pool(s)-sized random '
           'inter-CPA candidate pool.'),
          '',
          '## Headline (cos>0.95 AND dh<=5)',
          '',
          '| Variant | per-sig FAR | 95% Wilson CI | CPA-bootstrap 95% CI |',
          '|---|---|---|---|']
    md.append(f'| any-pair joint | '
              f'{((max_cos > 0.95) & (min_dh <= 5)).mean():.4f} | '
              f'see JSON | [{boot_anypair_ci[0]:.4f}, '
              f'{boot_anypair_ci[1]:.4f}] |')
    md.append(f'| same-pair joint | '
              f'{headline_same_pair_95_5.mean():.4f} | '
              f'see JSON | [{boot_samepair_ci[0]:.4f}, '
              f'{boot_samepair_ci[1]:.4f}] |')
    md += [
        '',
        '## Marginal cos FAR (per-signature)',
        '',
        '| max-cos > k | FAR | 95% CI | hits / n |',
        '|---|---|---|---|']
    for e in cos_curve:
        md.append(f'| {e["k"]} | {e["far"]:.4f} | '
                  f'[{e["ci95_lo"]:.4f}, {e["ci95_hi"]:.4f}] | '
                  f'{e["hits"]} / {e["n"]:,} |')
    md += ['', '## Marginal dh FAR (per-signature)', '',
           '| min-dh <= k | FAR | 95% CI | hits / n |',
           '|---|---|---|---|']
    for e in dh_curve:
        md.append(f'| {e["k"]} | {e["far"]:.4f} | '
                  f'[{e["ci95_lo"]:.4f}, {e["ci95_hi"]:.4f}] | '
                  f'{e["hits"]} / {e["n"]:,} |')
    md += ['',
           '## Any-pair joint FAR (cos>0.95 AND dh<=k)',
           '',
           '| dh <= k | FAR | hits / n |',
           '|---|---|---|']
    for e in any_pair_curve:
        md.append(f'| {e["dh_k"]} | {e["far"]:.4f} | '
                  f'{e["hits"]} / {e["n"]:,} |')
    md += ['',
           '## Same-pair joint FAR (one candidate satisfies both)',
           '',
           '| cos>0.95 AND dh<=k | FAR | 95% CI | hits / n |',
           '|---|---|---|---|']
    for e in same_pair_curve:
        md.append(f'| dh <= {e["dh_k"]} | {e["far"]:.4f} | '
                  f'[{e["ci95_lo"]:.4f}, {e["ci95_hi"]:.4f}] | '
                  f'{e["hits"]} / {e["n"]:,} |')
    md += ['', '## Per-firm headline', '',
           '| Firm | n | any-pair FAR | same-pair FAR |',
           '|---|---|---|---|']
    for f, s in per_firm.items():
        md.append(f'| {f} | {s["n"]:,} | {s["any_pair_far"]:.4f} | '
                  f'{s["same_pair_far"]:.4f} |')
    md += ['', '## Per-pool-decile headline', '',
           '| Decile | pool range | n | any-pair FAR | same-pair FAR |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for k, s in per_decile.items():
        md.append(f'| {k} | {s["pool_range"][0]:.0f}-'
                  f'{s["pool_range"][1]:.0f} | {s["n"]:,} | '
                  f'{s["any_pair_far"]:.4f} | '
                  f'{s["same_pair_far"]:.4f} |')
    md += ['', '## Document-level',
           '',
           f'- n_documents: {n_docs:,}',
           f'- any-pair FAR (any sig flagged): '
           f'{doc_anypair_flag/n_docs:.4f} '
           f'({doc_anypair_flag}/{n_docs})',
           f'- same-pair FAR: {doc_samepair_flag/n_docs:.4f} '
           f'({doc_samepair_flag}/{n_docs})',
           '',
           '## Threshold inversion (per-signature FAR targets)',
           '',
           '| target | marginal cos | marginal dh | any-pair joint '
           '| same-pair joint |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for tgt in [0.10, 0.05, 0.02, 0.01, 0.005]:
        inv = inversions[f'per_sig_far_<=_{tgt}']
        c = inv['marginal_cos']
        d = inv['marginal_dh']
        a = inv['any_pair_joint']
        s = inv['same_pair_joint']
        cs = (f'cos > {c["k"]} (FAR={c["far"]:.4f})'
              if c else 'unachievable')
        ds = (f'dh <= {d["k"]} (FAR={d["far"]:.4f})'
              if d else 'unachievable')
        as_ = (f'dh <= {a["dh_k"]} (FAR={a["far"]:.4f})'
               if a else 'unachievable')
        ss = (f'dh <= {s["dh_k"]} (FAR={s["far"]:.4f})'
              if s else 'unachievable')
        md.append(f'| {tgt} | {cs} | {ds} | {as_} | {ss} |')
    md.append('')
    md_path = OUT / 'pool_normalized_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'[md  ] {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 44: Firm-Matched-Pool Regression + Source × Candidate Firm Hit Matrix
 =============================================================================
 Codex round-31 critique: Script 43 showed Firm A per-signature FAR is
 20.18% vs B/C/D 0.19-0.51%, but Codex's pool-size-only expectation
 gives Firm A ~7%, B/C/D 6-9%. So Firm A excess is NOT pool-size
 confounded -- there is real firm heterogeneity. The paper must
 defend this against the reviewer attack "Firm A is high because of
 pool size."
 This script:
  1. Logistic regression of per-signature hit (any-pair, cos>0.95
     AND dh<=5) on (firm dummies + log(pool_size)) to quantify the
     residual firm effect after pool-size adjustment.
  2. Pool-size stratified per-firm FAR within common deciles, to
     verify the firm gap survives within matched pool sizes.
  3. Source-firm × candidate-firm hit matrix: where do the false
     accepts originate? Same firm? Different firm? Big-4 vs non-Big-4
     candidates?
 Loads Script 43's per-signature output via re-simulation (faster
 than re-loading reports). One realisation per source signature,
 seed=42 (matching Script 43).
 Outputs:
  reports/v4_big4/firm_matched_pool/
    firm_matched_pool_results.json
    firm_matched_pool_report.md
 """
 import json
 import sqlite3
 import numpy as np
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from collections import defaultdict
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/firm_matched_pool')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 ALIAS = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A',
         '安侯建業聯合': 'Firm B',
         '資誠聯合': 'Firm C',
         '安永聯合': 'Firm D'}
 SEED = 42
 def hamming_vec(query_bytes, cand_bytes_list):
    q = int.from_bytes(query_bytes, 'big')
    out = np.empty(len(cand_bytes_list), dtype=np.int32)
    for i, c in enumerate(cand_bytes_list):
        out[i] = (q ^ int.from_bytes(c, 'big')).bit_count()
    return out
 def load_all_signatures():
    """Load all signatures (Big-4 + non-Big-4) for cross-firm hit matrix."""
    conn = sqlite3.connect(f'file:{DB}?mode=ro', uri=True)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.signature_id, s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               s.feature_vector, s.dhash_vector
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.feature_vector IS NOT NULL
          AND s.dhash_vector IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IS NOT NULL
    ''')
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def logistic_fit(X, y, max_iter=200, lr=0.3, l2=0.0):
    """Simple Newton-Raphson logistic regression. Returns betas, SEs."""
    n, k = X.shape
    beta = np.zeros(k)
    for it in range(max_iter):
        eta = X @ beta
        eta = np.clip(eta, -30, 30)
        p = 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-eta))
        # Add l2 reg
        grad = X.T @ (y - p) - l2 * beta
        W = p * (1 - p)
        H = -(X.T * W) @ X - l2 * np.eye(k)
        try:
            delta = np.linalg.solve(H, grad)
        except np.linalg.LinAlgError:
            delta = lr * grad
        new_beta = beta - delta
        if np.max(np.abs(new_beta - beta)) < 1e-8:
            beta = new_beta
            break
        beta = new_beta
    # Standard errors from inverse Fisher information
    eta = np.clip(X @ beta, -30, 30)
    p = 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-eta))
    W = p * (1 - p)
    info = (X.T * W) @ X + l2 * np.eye(k)
    cov = np.linalg.inv(info)
    se = np.sqrt(np.diag(cov))
    return beta, se
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 44: Firm-Matched-Pool Regression + Cross-Firm Hit Matrix')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_all_signatures()
    n_total = len(rows)
    print(f'\nLoaded {n_total:,} signatures (Big-4 + non-Big-4)')
    sig_ids = np.array([r[0] for r in rows], dtype=np.int64)
    cpas = np.array([r[1] for r in rows])
    firms_raw = np.array([r[2] for r in rows])
    firms = np.array([ALIAS.get(f, f) for f in firms_raw])
    is_big4 = np.isin(firms_raw, BIG4)
    print(f'  Big-4 sigs: {is_big4.sum():,}; '
          f'non-Big-4 sigs: {(~is_big4).sum():,}')
    feats = np.stack([np.frombuffer(r[3], dtype=np.float32)
                       for r in rows]).astype(np.float32)
    norms = np.linalg.norm(feats, axis=1, keepdims=True)
    norms[norms == 0] = 1.0
    feats = feats / norms
    dhashes = [r[4] for r in rows]
    cpa_to_idx = defaultdict(list)
    for i, c in enumerate(cpas):
        cpa_to_idx[c].append(i)
    cpa_to_idx = {c: np.array(v, dtype=np.int64)
                  for c, v in cpa_to_idx.items()}
    pool_sizes = {c: len(v) - 1 for c, v in cpa_to_idx.items()}
    # ── Per-source-sig simulation for Big-4 sources (with candidate
    #    drawn from ALL non-same-CPA, including non-Big-4 sigs) ──
    print('\nSimulating per-Big-4-source-signature inter-CPA pool '
          '(candidate from all non-same-CPA sigs)...')
    rng = np.random.default_rng(SEED)
    big4_idx = np.where(is_big4)[0]
    n_b = len(big4_idx)
    src_firm = np.empty(n_b, dtype=object)
    pool_size_arr = np.zeros(n_b, dtype=np.int32)
    hit_any_pair = np.zeros(n_b, dtype=bool)
    hit_same_pair = np.zeros(n_b, dtype=bool)
    # For each hit, record candidate firm and big4-or-not
    cand_firm_anypair_max_cos = np.empty(n_b, dtype=object)
    cand_firm_anypair_min_dh = np.empty(n_b, dtype=object)
    cand_firm_samepair = np.empty(n_b, dtype=object)
    for bi, si in enumerate(big4_idx):
        if bi % 5000 == 0:
            print(f'  {bi:,}/{n_b:,} ({bi/n_b*100:.1f}%)')
        s_cpa = cpas[si]
        n_pool = pool_sizes[s_cpa]
        pool_size_arr[bi] = n_pool
        src_firm[bi] = firms[si]
        if n_pool <= 0:
            continue
        # Sample n_pool candidates from all non-same-CPA signatures
        same_cpa = cpa_to_idx[s_cpa]
        need = n_pool
        cand_indices = []
        attempts = 0
        while need > 0 and attempts < 10:
            draw = rng.choice(n_total, size=need * 2, replace=True)
            same_mask = np.isin(draw, same_cpa)
            ok = draw[~same_mask]
            cand_indices.extend(ok[:need].tolist())
            need -= len(ok[:need])
            attempts += 1
        if need > 0:
            pool_mask = np.ones(n_total, dtype=bool)
            pool_mask[same_cpa] = False
            pool_idx = np.where(pool_mask)[0]
            fb = rng.choice(pool_idx, size=need, replace=False)
            cand_indices.extend(fb.tolist())
        cand_indices = np.array(cand_indices[:n_pool], dtype=np.int64)
        cos_vec = feats[cand_indices] @ feats[si]
        dh_vec = hamming_vec(dhashes[si],
                             [dhashes[c] for c in cand_indices])
        mc_idx = int(np.argmax(cos_vec))
        md_idx = int(np.argmin(dh_vec))
        max_cos_v = float(cos_vec[mc_idx])
        min_dh_v = int(dh_vec[md_idx])
        cos_gt = max_cos_v > 0.95
        dh_le = min_dh_v <= 5
        if cos_gt and dh_le:
            hit_any_pair[bi] = True
            cand_firm_anypair_max_cos[bi] = firms[cand_indices[mc_idx]]
            cand_firm_anypair_min_dh[bi] = firms[cand_indices[md_idx]]
        # Same-pair indicator
        same_pair_mask = (cos_vec > 0.95) & (dh_vec <= 5)
        if same_pair_mask.any():
            hit_same_pair[bi] = True
            # pick first same-pair hit's firm
            first_idx = int(np.argmax(same_pair_mask))
            cand_firm_samepair[bi] = firms[cand_indices[first_idx]]
    print('  Done.')
    # ── Logistic regression: hit ~ firm + log(pool_size) ──
    print('\n[Logistic regression] hit (any-pair, cos>0.95 AND dh<=5) ~ '
          'firm + log(pool_size)')
    # Design matrix: intercept, firm B/C/D dummies (Firm A reference),
    # log(pool_size)
    has_pool = pool_size_arr > 0
    y = hit_any_pair[has_pool].astype(np.float64)
    f_arr = src_firm[has_pool]
    log_pool = np.log(pool_size_arr[has_pool].astype(np.float64))
    log_pool = (log_pool - log_pool.mean())  # centered for numerical
    intercept = np.ones(y.shape)
    is_B = (f_arr == 'Firm B').astype(np.float64)
    is_C = (f_arr == 'Firm C').astype(np.float64)
    is_D = (f_arr == 'Firm D').astype(np.float64)
    X_full = np.column_stack([intercept, is_B, is_C, is_D, log_pool])
    print(f'  n={len(y):,}, y_mean={y.mean():.4f}')
    beta_full, se_full = logistic_fit(X_full, y, l2=0.001)
    names_full = ['intercept(FirmA)', 'FirmB', 'FirmC', 'FirmD',
                  'log(pool_size_centered)']
    print('  Full model:')
    for n, b, s in zip(names_full, beta_full, se_full):
        print(f'    {n}: beta={b:+.4f}, SE={s:.4f}, '
              f'OR=exp(beta)={np.exp(b):.4f}, '
              f'p~{abs(b)/s if s>0 else float("inf"):.2f}*SE')
    # Pool-only model (without firm dummies) for comparison
    X_pool = np.column_stack([intercept, log_pool])
    beta_pool, se_pool = logistic_fit(X_pool, y, l2=0.001)
    print('  Pool-only model (no firm dummies):')
    for n, b, s in zip(['intercept', 'log(pool_size_centered)'],
                       beta_pool, se_pool):
        print(f'    {n}: beta={b:+.4f}, SE={s:.4f}')
    # ── Pool-decile × firm hit rates ──
    print('\n[Pool-decile × firm hit rates]')
    deciles = np.percentile(pool_size_arr, np.arange(0, 110, 10))
    decile_firm = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(list))
    for bi in range(n_b):
        ps = pool_size_arr[bi]
        if ps <= 0:
            continue
        d = min(int(np.searchsorted(deciles, ps, side='right')) - 1, 9)
        decile_firm[d][src_firm[bi]].append(int(hit_any_pair[bi]))
    pool_decile_results = {}
    for d in range(10):
        firms_in_d = {}
        for f, hits in decile_firm[d].items():
            n_f = len(hits)
            if n_f == 0:
                continue
            far = float(np.mean(hits))
            firms_in_d[f] = {'n': n_f, 'far': far}
        pool_decile_results[f'decile_{d+1}'] = {
            'pool_range': [float(deciles[d]), float(deciles[d+1])],
            'per_firm': firms_in_d,
        }
        line = f'  Decile {d+1} (pool {deciles[d]:.0f}-{deciles[d+1]:.0f}):'
        for f in ['Firm A', 'Firm B', 'Firm C', 'Firm D']:
            if f in firms_in_d:
                line += (f' {f}: {firms_in_d[f]["far"]:.4f} '
                         f'(n={firms_in_d[f]["n"]})')
        print(line)
    # ── Source-firm × candidate-firm hit matrix (any-pair) ──
    print('\n[Source-firm × candidate-firm hit matrix, max-cos pair]')
    src_list = ['Firm A', 'Firm B', 'Firm C', 'Firm D']
    cand_categories = ['Firm A', 'Firm B', 'Firm C', 'Firm D',
                       'non-Big-4']
    matrix_max_cos = {s: {c: 0 for c in cand_categories}
                       for s in src_list}
    matrix_min_dh = {s: {c: 0 for c in cand_categories}
                      for s in src_list}
    matrix_samepair = {s: {c: 0 for c in cand_categories}
                        for s in src_list}
    src_totals = {s: 0 for s in src_list}
    for bi in range(n_b):
        s_f = src_firm[bi]
        if s_f in src_list:
            src_totals[s_f] += 1
        if hit_any_pair[bi]:
            cf_max = cand_firm_anypair_max_cos[bi]
            cf_min = cand_firm_anypair_min_dh[bi]
            cat_max = cf_max if cf_max in src_list else 'non-Big-4'
            cat_min = cf_min if cf_min in src_list else 'non-Big-4'
            if s_f in matrix_max_cos:
                matrix_max_cos[s_f][cat_max] += 1
                matrix_min_dh[s_f][cat_min] += 1
        if hit_same_pair[bi]:
            cf = cand_firm_samepair[bi]
            cat = cf if cf in src_list else 'non-Big-4'
            if s_f in matrix_samepair:
                matrix_samepair[s_f][cat] += 1
    print('  Max-cosine partner firm (count among hits):')
    print(f'  {"Source":<10s} | {"  Firm A":>9s} {"  Firm B":>9s} '
          f'{"  Firm C":>9s} {"  Firm D":>9s} {"non-Big-4":>10s}'
          f' {"n_source":>10s}')
    for s in src_list:
        row = f'  {s:<10s} |'
        for c in cand_categories:
            row += f' {matrix_max_cos[s][c]:>9d}'
        row += f' {src_totals[s]:>10d}'
        print(row)
    print('  Min-dHash partner firm (count among any-pair hits):')
    for s in src_list:
        row = f'  {s:<10s} |'
        for c in cand_categories:
            row += f' {matrix_min_dh[s][c]:>9d}'
        print(row)
    print('  Same-pair joint hit, candidate firm:')
    for s in src_list:
        row = f'  {s:<10s} |'
        for c in cand_categories:
            row += f' {matrix_samepair[s][c]:>9d}'
        print(row)
    results = {
        'meta': {
            'script': '44',
            'timestamp': datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
            'n_big4_sources': n_b,
            'n_total_candidate_pool': n_total,
            'seed': SEED,
            'note': ('Firm-matched-pool regression + cross-firm hit '
                     'matrix. Confirms Firm A excess is firm '
                     'heterogeneity not pool-size confound.'),
        },
        'regression_full': {
            'feature_names': names_full,
            'beta': beta_full.tolist(),
            'se': se_full.tolist(),
            'odds_ratio': np.exp(beta_full).tolist(),
        },
        'regression_pool_only': {
            'feature_names': ['intercept',
                              'log(pool_size_centered)'],
            'beta': beta_pool.tolist(),
            'se': se_pool.tolist(),
        },
        'pool_decile_per_firm': pool_decile_results,
        'cross_firm_hit_matrix': {
            'max_cos_partner': matrix_max_cos,
            'min_dh_partner': matrix_min_dh,
            'same_pair': matrix_samepair,
            'source_totals': src_totals,
        },
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'firm_matched_pool_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\n[json] {json_path}')
    # Markdown
    md = ['# Firm-Matched-Pool Regression + Cross-Firm Hit Matrix '
          '(Script 44)',
          '', f'Generated: {results["meta"]["timestamp"]}',
          f'n_big4_sources = {n_b:,}; '
          f'candidate pool drawn from {n_total:,} total signatures '
          '(any non-same-CPA).',
          '',
          '## Logistic regression: hit ~ firm + log(pool_size)',
          '',
          'Reference category: Firm A. log(pool_size) centred.',
          'Hit = any-pair joint (cos>0.95 AND dh<=5).',
          '',
          '| Term | beta | SE | OR=exp(beta) |',
          '|---|---|---|---|']
    for n, b, s in zip(names_full, beta_full, se_full):
        md.append(f'| {n} | {b:+.4f} | {s:.4f} | {np.exp(b):.4f} |')
    md += ['',
           ('A large negative beta on FirmB/C/D dummies AFTER '
            'controlling for log(pool_size) is evidence that Firm A '
            "excess is firm heterogeneity, not pool-size confound."),
           '',
           '## Pool-decile × firm hit rates (any-pair)',
           '',
           '| Decile | Pool range | Firm A | Firm B | Firm C | Firm D |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for d in range(10):
        key = f'decile_{d+1}'
        r = pool_decile_results.get(key, {})
        pf = r.get('per_firm', {})
        lo, hi = r.get('pool_range', [0, 0])
        row_cells = [
            f'{pf[f]["far"]:.4f} (n={pf[f]["n"]})' if f in pf else '—'
            for f in src_list
        ]
        md.append(f'| {d+1} | {lo:.0f}-{hi:.0f} | '
                  f'{row_cells[0]} | {row_cells[1]} | '
                  f'{row_cells[2]} | {row_cells[3]} |')
    md += ['',
           '## Cross-firm hit matrix (any-pair, max-cosine partner)',
           '',
           '| Source firm | A | B | C | D | non-Big-4 | n_source |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for s in src_list:
        row = matrix_max_cos[s]
        md.append(f'| {s} | {row["Firm A"]} | {row["Firm B"]} | '
                  f'{row["Firm C"]} | {row["Firm D"]} | '
                  f'{row["non-Big-4"]} | {src_totals[s]} |')
    md += ['', '## Same-pair joint hit, candidate firm', '',
           '| Source firm | A | B | C | D | non-Big-4 |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for s in src_list:
        row = matrix_samepair[s]
        md.append(f'| {s} | {row["Firm A"]} | {row["Firm B"]} | '
                  f'{row["Firm C"]} | {row["Firm D"]} | '
                  f'{row["non-Big-4"]} |')
    md += ['',
           '## Interpretation',
           '',
           ('If max-cosine partners of Firm A source signatures are '
            'disproportionately drawn from Firm A or from non-Big-4 '
            'firms (where templates are widely shared), the Firm A '
            'collision excess reflects an image-manifold property '
            'rather than a Firm-A-specific replication mechanism. '
            'The paper interpretation must reflect this carefully.'),
           '']
    md_path = OUT / 'firm_matched_pool_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'[md  ] {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 45: Full 5-Way Document-Level FAR (HC / HC+MC / HC+MC+HSC)
 ==================================================================
 Codex round-31 noted: Script 43 reports HC-only document-level FAR
 (17.97% any-pair). The actual deployed five-way classifier treats
 the MC band (cos>0.95 AND 5<dh<=15) as "non-hand-signed" too, with
 worst-case document-level priority HC > MC > HSC > UN > LH. The
 paper must report doc-level FAR for each alarm definition.
 This script reuses Script 43's per-signature simulation but tracks
 the full five-way category each source signature would receive
 under the random-inter-CPA pool, then aggregates to document level
 under three alarm definitions:
  D1: HC only
  D2: HC + MC
  D3: HC + MC + HSC ("any non-hand-signed verdict")
 For each definition we report:
  - Per-signature FAR (fraction of source sigs that fall into the
    alarm category against random pool)
  - Document-level FAR (any sig in doc triggers alarm)
 The five-way rule used (inherited from v3.20.0 §III-K):
  HC : cos > 0.95 AND dh <= 5
  MC : cos > 0.95 AND 5 < dh <= 15
  HSC: cos > 0.95 AND dh > 15
  UN : 0.837 < cos <= 0.95
  LH : cos <= 0.837
 We compute these on the realised (max_cos, min_dh) pair (any-pair
 semantic, which matches the deployed v3/v4 rule per codex).
 Outputs:
  reports/v4_big4/doc_level_far_full/
    doc_far_full_results.json
    doc_far_full_report.md
 """
 import json
 import sqlite3
 import numpy as np
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from collections import defaultdict
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/doc_level_far_full')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 ALIAS = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A',
         '安侯建業聯合': 'Firm B',
         '資誠聯合': 'Firm C',
         '安永聯合': 'Firm D'}
 SEED = 42
 COS_HIGH = 0.95
 COS_LOW = 0.837
 DH_HC = 5
 DH_MC_UPPER = 15
 def hamming_vec(query_bytes, cand_bytes_list):
    q = int.from_bytes(query_bytes, 'big')
    out = np.empty(len(cand_bytes_list), dtype=np.int32)
    for i, c in enumerate(cand_bytes_list):
        out[i] = (q ^ int.from_bytes(c, 'big')).bit_count()
    return out
 def classify_five_way(max_cos, min_dh):
    if max_cos > COS_HIGH and min_dh <= DH_HC:
        return 'HC'
    if max_cos > COS_HIGH and DH_HC < min_dh <= DH_MC_UPPER:
        return 'MC'
    if max_cos > COS_HIGH and min_dh > DH_MC_UPPER:
        return 'HSC'
    if COS_LOW < max_cos <= COS_HIGH:
        return 'UN'
    return 'LH'
 def wilson_ci(k, n, z=1.96):
    if n == 0:
        return (None, None)
    phat = k / n
    denom = 1 + z * z / n
    centre = (phat + z * z / (2 * n)) / denom
    half = z * np.sqrt(phat * (1 - phat) / n + z * z / (4 * n * n)) / denom
    return (max(0.0, centre - half), min(1.0, centre + half))
 def load_big4():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(f'file:{DB}?mode=ro', uri=True)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.signature_id, s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               s.source_pdf,
               s.feature_vector, s.dhash_vector
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.feature_vector IS NOT NULL
          AND s.dhash_vector IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
    ''', BIG4)
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 45: Full 5-Way Doc-Level FAR (HC / HC+MC / HC+MC+HSC)')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_big4()
    n_sigs = len(rows)
    print(f'\nLoaded {n_sigs:,} Big-4 signatures')
    cpas = np.array([r[1] for r in rows])
    firms = np.array([ALIAS[r[2]] for r in rows])
    source_pdfs = np.array([r[3] for r in rows])
    feats = np.stack([np.frombuffer(r[4], dtype=np.float32)
                       for r in rows]).astype(np.float32)
    norms = np.linalg.norm(feats, axis=1, keepdims=True)
    norms[norms == 0] = 1.0
    feats = feats / norms
    dhashes = [r[5] for r in rows]
    cpa_to_idx = defaultdict(list)
    for i, c in enumerate(cpas):
        cpa_to_idx[c].append(i)
    cpa_to_idx = {c: np.array(v, dtype=np.int64)
                  for c, v in cpa_to_idx.items()}
    pool_sizes = {c: len(v) - 1 for c, v in cpa_to_idx.items()}
    all_idx = np.arange(n_sigs, dtype=np.int64)
    rng = np.random.default_rng(SEED)
    print('\nSimulating per-signature category under random inter-CPA pool...')
    categories = np.empty(n_sigs, dtype=object)
    max_cos_arr = np.zeros(n_sigs, dtype=np.float32)
    min_dh_arr = np.zeros(n_sigs, dtype=np.int32)
    for si in range(n_sigs):
        if si % 5000 == 0:
            print(f'  {si:,}/{n_sigs:,} ({si/n_sigs*100:.1f}%)')
        s_cpa = cpas[si]
        n_pool = pool_sizes[s_cpa]
        if n_pool <= 0:
            categories[si] = 'LH'
            continue
        same_cpa = cpa_to_idx[s_cpa]
        need = n_pool
        cand_indices = []
        attempts = 0
        while need > 0 and attempts < 10:
            draw = rng.choice(n_sigs, size=need * 2, replace=True)
            same_mask = np.isin(draw, same_cpa)
            ok = draw[~same_mask]
            cand_indices.extend(ok[:need].tolist())
            need -= len(ok[:need])
            attempts += 1
        if need > 0:
            pool_mask = np.ones(n_sigs, dtype=bool)
            pool_mask[same_cpa] = False
            pool_idx = all_idx[pool_mask]
            fb = rng.choice(pool_idx, size=need, replace=False)
            cand_indices.extend(fb.tolist())
        cand_indices = np.array(cand_indices[:n_pool], dtype=np.int64)
        cos_vec = feats[cand_indices] @ feats[si]
        dh_vec = hamming_vec(dhashes[si],
                             [dhashes[c] for c in cand_indices])
        max_cos = float(cos_vec.max())
        min_dh = int(dh_vec.min())
        max_cos_arr[si] = max_cos
        min_dh_arr[si] = min_dh
        categories[si] = classify_five_way(max_cos, min_dh)
    print('  Done.')
    # Per-signature FAR by category
    print('\n[Per-signature FAR by 5-way category]')
    cat_counts = defaultdict(int)
    for c in categories:
        cat_counts[c] += 1
    for cat in ['HC', 'MC', 'HSC', 'UN', 'LH']:
        n_c = cat_counts[cat]
        far = n_c / n_sigs
        lo, hi = wilson_ci(n_c, n_sigs)
        print(f'  {cat}: n={n_c:,}, FAR={far:.4f}, '
              f'CI=[{lo:.4f}, {hi:.4f}]')
    # Per-signature FAR under three alarm definitions
    print('\n[Per-signature FAR under alarm definitions]')
    alarm_d1 = (categories == 'HC')
    alarm_d2 = np.isin(categories, ['HC', 'MC'])
    alarm_d3 = np.isin(categories, ['HC', 'MC', 'HSC'])
    persig_fars = {
        'D1_HC_only': {
            'far': float(alarm_d1.mean()),
            'hits': int(alarm_d1.sum()),
            'n': int(n_sigs),
            'ci95': wilson_ci(int(alarm_d1.sum()), n_sigs),
        },
        'D2_HC_plus_MC': {
            'far': float(alarm_d2.mean()),
            'hits': int(alarm_d2.sum()),
            'n': int(n_sigs),
            'ci95': wilson_ci(int(alarm_d2.sum()), n_sigs),
        },
        'D3_HC_plus_MC_plus_HSC': {
            'far': float(alarm_d3.mean()),
            'hits': int(alarm_d3.sum()),
            'n': int(n_sigs),
            'ci95': wilson_ci(int(alarm_d3.sum()), n_sigs),
        },
    }
    for k, v in persig_fars.items():
        print(f'  {k}: FAR={v["far"]:.4f}, '
              f'CI=[{v["ci95"][0]:.4f}, {v["ci95"][1]:.4f}], '
              f'{v["hits"]:,}/{v["n"]:,}')
    # Document-level FAR under three alarm definitions
    print('\n[Document-level FAR under alarm definitions]')
    doc_idx = defaultdict(list)
    for i, pdf in enumerate(source_pdfs):
        doc_idx[pdf].append(i)
    n_docs = len(doc_idx)
    doc_d1 = 0
    doc_d2 = 0
    doc_d3 = 0
    for pdf, idxs in doc_idx.items():
        idxs_a = np.array(idxs, dtype=np.int64)
        if alarm_d1[idxs_a].any():
            doc_d1 += 1
        if alarm_d2[idxs_a].any():
            doc_d2 += 1
        if alarm_d3[idxs_a].any():
            doc_d3 += 1
    print(f'  n_documents: {n_docs:,}')
    print(f'  D1 (HC only):           FAR={doc_d1/n_docs:.4f} '
          f'({doc_d1:,}/{n_docs:,})')
    print(f'  D2 (HC+MC):             FAR={doc_d2/n_docs:.4f} '
          f'({doc_d2:,}/{n_docs:,})')
    print(f'  D3 (HC+MC+HSC):         FAR={doc_d3/n_docs:.4f} '
          f'({doc_d3:,}/{n_docs:,})')
    # Per-firm doc-level FAR (D2 = HC+MC, the operational alarm)
    print('\n[Per-firm doc-level FAR D2 (HC+MC)]')
    # Map each doc to its dominant firm (mode of its signatures' firms)
    doc_firm = {}
    for pdf, idxs in doc_idx.items():
        fs = firms[idxs]
        vals, counts = np.unique(fs, return_counts=True)
        doc_firm[pdf] = str(vals[np.argmax(counts)])
    per_firm_doc = {}
    for f in ['Firm A', 'Firm B', 'Firm C', 'Firm D']:
        pdfs_f = [pdf for pdf, fr in doc_firm.items() if fr == f]
        n_f = len(pdfs_f)
        if n_f == 0:
            continue
        d1_h = sum(1 for pdf in pdfs_f
                   if alarm_d1[np.array(doc_idx[pdf])].any())
        d2_h = sum(1 for pdf in pdfs_f
                   if alarm_d2[np.array(doc_idx[pdf])].any())
        d3_h = sum(1 for pdf in pdfs_f
                   if alarm_d3[np.array(doc_idx[pdf])].any())
        per_firm_doc[f] = {
            'n_docs': n_f,
            'D1_HC': d1_h / n_f,
            'D2_HC_MC': d2_h / n_f,
            'D3_HC_MC_HSC': d3_h / n_f,
        }
        print(f'  {f} (n={n_f:,}): D1={d1_h/n_f:.4f}, '
              f'D2={d2_h/n_f:.4f}, D3={d3_h/n_f:.4f}')
    results = {
        'meta': {
            'script': '45',
            'timestamp': datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
            'n_signatures': n_sigs,
            'n_documents': n_docs,
            'seed': SEED,
            'note': ('Full 5-way doc-level FAR under three alarm '
                     'definitions, with per-firm stratification.'),
        },
        'persig_category_counts': dict(cat_counts),
        'persig_far_by_alarm': persig_fars,
        'doc_far_by_alarm': {
            'D1_HC_only': doc_d1 / n_docs,
            'D2_HC_plus_MC': doc_d2 / n_docs,
            'D3_HC_plus_MC_plus_HSC': doc_d3 / n_docs,
            'n_docs': n_docs,
            'hits': {'D1': doc_d1, 'D2': doc_d2, 'D3': doc_d3},
        },
        'per_firm_doc_far': per_firm_doc,
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'doc_far_full_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\n[json] {json_path}')
    md = [
        '# Full 5-Way Doc-Level FAR (Script 45)',
        '', f'Generated: {results["meta"]["timestamp"]}',
        f'Big-4 signatures: {n_sigs:,}; documents: {n_docs:,}',
        '',
        ('Per signature, simulate a random inter-CPA candidate pool of '
         'size n_pool, compute deployed (max-cos, min-dh), assign 5-way '
         'category, then aggregate to document level under three alarm '
         'definitions.'),
        '',
        '## 5-Way category distribution under random inter-CPA pool',
        '',
        '| Category | n | %  |',
        '|---|---|---|',
    ]
    for cat in ['HC', 'MC', 'HSC', 'UN', 'LH']:
        n_c = cat_counts[cat]
        md.append(f'| {cat} | {n_c:,} | {n_c/n_sigs:.4f} |')
    md += ['',
           '## Per-signature FAR by alarm definition',
           '',
           '| Definition | rule | FAR | 95% CI | hits / n |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|',
           f'| D1 | HC only | {persig_fars["D1_HC_only"]["far"]:.4f} | '
           f'[{persig_fars["D1_HC_only"]["ci95"][0]:.4f}, '
           f'{persig_fars["D1_HC_only"]["ci95"][1]:.4f}] | '
           f'{persig_fars["D1_HC_only"]["hits"]:,} / {n_sigs:,} |',
           f'| D2 | HC + MC | {persig_fars["D2_HC_plus_MC"]["far"]:.4f} | '
           f'[{persig_fars["D2_HC_plus_MC"]["ci95"][0]:.4f}, '
           f'{persig_fars["D2_HC_plus_MC"]["ci95"][1]:.4f}] | '
           f'{persig_fars["D2_HC_plus_MC"]["hits"]:,} / {n_sigs:,} |',
           f'| D3 | HC + MC + HSC | '
           f'{persig_fars["D3_HC_plus_MC_plus_HSC"]["far"]:.4f} | '
           f'[{persig_fars["D3_HC_plus_MC_plus_HSC"]["ci95"][0]:.4f}, '
           f'{persig_fars["D3_HC_plus_MC_plus_HSC"]["ci95"][1]:.4f}] | '
           f'{persig_fars["D3_HC_plus_MC_plus_HSC"]["hits"]:,} / {n_sigs:,} |',
           '',
           '## Document-level FAR by alarm definition',
           '',
           '| Definition | rule | FAR | hits / n_docs |',
           '|---|---|---|---|',
           f'| D1 | any sig HC | {doc_d1/n_docs:.4f} | {doc_d1:,} / {n_docs:,} |',
           f'| D2 | any sig HC or MC | {doc_d2/n_docs:.4f} | '
           f'{doc_d2:,} / {n_docs:,} |',
           f'| D3 | any sig HC, MC, or HSC | {doc_d3/n_docs:.4f} | '
           f'{doc_d3:,} / {n_docs:,} |',
           '',
           '## Per-firm doc-level FAR',
           '',
           '| Firm | n_docs | D1 (HC) | D2 (HC+MC) | D3 (HC+MC+HSC) |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for f, s in per_firm_doc.items():
        md.append(f'| {f} | {s["n_docs"]:,} | {s["D1_HC"]:.4f} | '
                  f'{s["D2_HC_MC"]:.4f} | {s["D3_HC_MC_HSC"]:.4f} |')
    md.append('')
    md_path = OUT / 'doc_far_full_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'[md  ] {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
 Script 46: Alert-Rate Sensitivity / Threshold-Plateau Analysis
 ==============================================================
 Anchor-based screening framework supplementary validation. With no
 ground-truth labels, "threshold validation" can only be done via
 proxies. One proxy: alert-rate sensitivity to threshold perturbation.
 If the v3-inherited threshold (cos>0.95 AND dh<=5) sits at a
 low-gradient region of the (cos, dh) -> alert-rate surface, that is
 weak evidence the threshold is a stable operating point. If the
 surface is everywhere smooth with no plateau, the threshold is an
 arbitrary point in a continuous specificity-recall tradeoff -- which
 is consistent with the "no natural threshold" finding from Scripts
 39b-39e (composition decomposition) and supports the multi-level
 screening framework framing.
 This script computes alert rates (using actual observed Big-4
 descriptors, NOT inter-CPA simulated pools) across:
  - 1D cos threshold sweep at fixed dh<=5
  - 1D dh threshold sweep at fixed cos>0.95
  - 2D (cos, dh) grid
 Per firm and pooled. Gradient-based plateau detection.
 Note: this uses observed (max_cos, min_dh) from each Big-4 signature's
 real same-CPA pool, i.e., the deployment-side behavior of the rule
 on the actual corpus (not the inter-CPA negative anchor).
 Outputs:
  reports/v4_big4/alert_rate_sensitivity/
    alert_rate_results.json
    alert_rate_report.md
 """
 import json
 import sqlite3
 import numpy as np
 from pathlib import Path
 from datetime import datetime
 from collections import defaultdict
 DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
 OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
           'v4_big4/alert_rate_sensitivity')
 OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 BIG4 = ('勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合')
 ALIAS = {'勤業眾信聯合': 'Firm A',
         '安侯建業聯合': 'Firm B',
         '資誠聯合': 'Firm C',
         '安永聯合': 'Firm D'}
 # Threshold grids
 COS_GRID = np.arange(0.80, 1.00, 0.005)  # 41 points
 DH_GRID = np.arange(0, 21, 1)  # 21 integer points
 COS_FOR_2D = np.arange(0.85, 1.00, 0.01)  # 16 cos points for 2D
 DH_FOR_2D = np.arange(0, 21, 1)  # 21 dh points for 2D
 def load_big4():
    conn = sqlite3.connect(f'file:{DB}?mode=ro', uri=True)
    cur = conn.cursor()
    cur.execute('''
        SELECT s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
               s.source_pdf,
               s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant,
               CAST(s.min_dhash_independent AS REAL)
        FROM signatures s
        JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
        WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
          AND s.min_dhash_independent IS NOT NULL
          AND a.firm IN (?, ?, ?, ?)
    ''', BIG4)
    rows = cur.fetchall()
    conn.close()
    return rows
 def alert_rate(cos_arr, dh_arr, cos_k, dh_k):
    """Fraction of (cos, dh) pairs satisfying cos>cos_k AND dh<=dh_k."""
    n = len(cos_arr)
    if n == 0:
        return 0.0
    return float(((cos_arr > cos_k) & (dh_arr <= dh_k)).mean())
 def plateau_gradient(cos_grid, rates):
    """Return absolute gradient |d(rate)/d(threshold)| for each
    interior point, plus min and median gradient."""
    rates = np.asarray(rates)
    grads = np.abs(np.diff(rates) / np.diff(cos_grid))
    return {
        'gradients': grads.tolist(),
        'min': float(grads.min()) if len(grads) else None,
        'median': float(np.median(grads)) if len(grads) else None,
        'max': float(grads.max()) if len(grads) else None,
        'argmin_threshold': float(cos_grid[int(np.argmin(grads))])
                            if len(grads) else None,
    }
 def main():
    print('=' * 72)
    print('Script 46: Alert-Rate Sensitivity / Threshold-Plateau Analysis')
    print('=' * 72)
    rows = load_big4()
    n_sigs = len(rows)
    print(f'\nLoaded {n_sigs:,} Big-4 signatures')
    firms = np.array([ALIAS[r[1]] for r in rows])
    source_pdfs = np.array([r[2] for r in rows])
    cos = np.array([r[3] for r in rows], dtype=np.float32)
    dh = np.array([r[4] for r in rows], dtype=np.int32)
    # Document grouping
    doc_idx = defaultdict(list)
    for i, pdf in enumerate(source_pdfs):
        doc_idx[pdf].append(i)
    n_docs = len(doc_idx)
    print(f'  Documents: {n_docs:,}')
    # Per-document worst-case (max cos, min dh)
    def doc_alert_rate(cos_k, dh_k):
        """Fraction of docs with any signature satisfying rule."""
        hit_docs = 0
        for pdf, idxs in doc_idx.items():
            idxs_a = np.array(idxs, dtype=np.int64)
            if ((cos[idxs_a] > cos_k) & (dh[idxs_a] <= dh_k)).any():
                hit_docs += 1
        return hit_docs / n_docs
    results = {
        'meta': {
            'script': '46',
            'timestamp': datetime.now().isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
            'n_signatures': n_sigs,
            'n_documents': n_docs,
            'note': ('Alert-rate sensitivity using observed descriptors '
                     '(not inter-CPA simulation). Per-signature and '
                     'per-document; pooled and per-firm.'),
        },
    }
    # ── 1D cos sweep at fixed dh<=5 ──
    print('\n[1D cos sweep at dh<=5]')
    sig_rates_cos = {}
    sig_rates_cos['pooled'] = [alert_rate(cos, dh, k, 5) for k in COS_GRID]
    for f in sorted(set(firms)):
        mask = firms == f
        sig_rates_cos[f] = [alert_rate(cos[mask], dh[mask], k, 5)
                             for k in COS_GRID]
    print('  cos | pooled | Firm A | Firm B | Firm C | Firm D')
    for i, k in enumerate(COS_GRID):
        if i % 4 == 0 or abs(k - 0.95) < 1e-6:
            line = f'  {k:.3f} | {sig_rates_cos["pooled"][i]:.4f}'
            for f in ['Firm A', 'Firm B', 'Firm C', 'Firm D']:
                line += f' | {sig_rates_cos[f][i]:.4f}'
            print(line)
    cos_pooled_grad = plateau_gradient(COS_GRID, sig_rates_cos['pooled'])
    print(f'\n  pooled gradient summary: min={cos_pooled_grad["min"]:.5f}, '
          f'median={cos_pooled_grad["median"]:.5f}, '
          f'max={cos_pooled_grad["max"]:.5f}')
    print(f'  argmin of |grad| at cos={cos_pooled_grad["argmin_threshold"]:.3f}')
    # ── 1D dh sweep at fixed cos>0.95 ──
    print('\n[1D dh sweep at cos>0.95]')
    sig_rates_dh = {}
    sig_rates_dh['pooled'] = [alert_rate(cos, dh, 0.95, k) for k in DH_GRID]
    for f in sorted(set(firms)):
        mask = firms == f
        sig_rates_dh[f] = [alert_rate(cos[mask], dh[mask], 0.95, k)
                            for k in DH_GRID]
    print('  dh  | pooled | Firm A | Firm B | Firm C | Firm D')
    for i, k in enumerate(DH_GRID):
        line = f'  {k:2d}  | {sig_rates_dh["pooled"][i]:.4f}'
        for f in ['Firm A', 'Firm B', 'Firm C', 'Firm D']:
            line += f' | {sig_rates_dh[f][i]:.4f}'
        print(line)
    dh_pooled_grad = plateau_gradient(DH_GRID, sig_rates_dh['pooled'])
    print(f'\n  pooled gradient summary: min={dh_pooled_grad["min"]:.5f}, '
          f'median={dh_pooled_grad["median"]:.5f}, '
          f'max={dh_pooled_grad["max"]:.5f}')
    print(f'  argmin of |grad| at dh={dh_pooled_grad["argmin_threshold"]:.0f}')
    # ── 2D (cos, dh) surface ──
    print('\n[2D (cos, dh) alert-rate surface]')
    surface = np.zeros((len(COS_FOR_2D), len(DH_FOR_2D)), dtype=np.float32)
    for i, ck in enumerate(COS_FOR_2D):
        for j, dk in enumerate(DH_FOR_2D):
            surface[i, j] = alert_rate(cos, dh, ck, dk)
    print('  Surface dimensions:', surface.shape)
    # Print a few key rows
    for i, ck in enumerate(COS_FOR_2D):
        if abs(ck - 0.85) < 1e-6 or abs(ck - 0.90) < 1e-6 \
           or abs(ck - 0.95) < 1e-6 or abs(ck - 0.98) < 1e-6:
            line = f'  cos>{ck:.2f}:'
            for j, dk in enumerate(DH_FOR_2D):
                if dk in [0, 3, 5, 8, 10, 15, 20]:
                    line += f' dh<={dk}: {surface[i, j]:.4f},'
            print(line)
    # Compute 2D gradient magnitude at key threshold (cos=0.95, dh=5)
    # Find indices
    i95 = int(np.argmin(np.abs(COS_FOR_2D - 0.95)))
    j5 = int(np.argmin(np.abs(DH_FOR_2D - 5)))
    if 0 < i95 < len(COS_FOR_2D) - 1 and 0 < j5 < len(DH_FOR_2D) - 1:
        dcos = (surface[i95 + 1, j5] - surface[i95 - 1, j5]) / \
               (COS_FOR_2D[i95 + 1] - COS_FOR_2D[i95 - 1])
        ddh = (surface[i95, j5 + 1] - surface[i95, j5 - 1]) / \
              (DH_FOR_2D[j5 + 1] - DH_FOR_2D[j5 - 1])
        grad_mag = float(np.sqrt(dcos ** 2 + ddh ** 2))
    else:
        dcos = ddh = grad_mag = None
    print(f'\n  At (cos=0.95, dh=5): rate={surface[i95, j5]:.4f}')
    print(f'    d(rate)/d(cos) ~ {dcos:.4f} (per unit cos)')
    print(f'    d(rate)/d(dh) ~ {ddh:.4f} (per unit dh)')
    print(f'    gradient magnitude ~ {grad_mag:.4f}')
    # ── Document-level 1D cos sweep ──
    print('\n[Document-level 1D cos sweep at dh<=5]')
    doc_rates_cos = [doc_alert_rate(k, 5) for k in COS_GRID]
    for i, k in enumerate(COS_GRID):
        if i % 4 == 0 or abs(k - 0.95) < 1e-6:
            print(f'  cos > {k:.3f}: doc-FAR (HC) = {doc_rates_cos[i]:.4f}')
    doc_cos_grad = plateau_gradient(COS_GRID, doc_rates_cos)
    print(f'\n  doc gradient summary: min={doc_cos_grad["min"]:.5f}, '
          f'median={doc_cos_grad["median"]:.5f}, '
          f'max={doc_cos_grad["max"]:.5f}')
    # ── Plateau detection summary ──
    print('\n[Plateau detection summary]')
    cos095_idx = int(np.argmin(np.abs(COS_GRID - 0.95)))
    dh5_idx = int(np.argmin(np.abs(DH_GRID - 5)))
    if 0 < cos095_idx < len(sig_rates_cos['pooled']) - 1:
        local_grad_cos = abs(
            sig_rates_cos['pooled'][cos095_idx + 1] -
            sig_rates_cos['pooled'][cos095_idx - 1]) / \
            (COS_GRID[cos095_idx + 1] - COS_GRID[cos095_idx - 1])
    else:
        local_grad_cos = None
    if 0 < dh5_idx < len(sig_rates_dh['pooled']) - 1:
        local_grad_dh = abs(
            sig_rates_dh['pooled'][dh5_idx + 1] -
            sig_rates_dh['pooled'][dh5_idx - 1]) / \
            (DH_GRID[dh5_idx + 1] - DH_GRID[dh5_idx - 1])
    else:
        local_grad_dh = None
    median_grad_cos = cos_pooled_grad['median']
    median_grad_dh = dh_pooled_grad['median']
    ratio_cos = (local_grad_cos / median_grad_cos
                 if median_grad_cos and median_grad_cos > 0 else None)
    ratio_dh = (local_grad_dh / median_grad_dh
                if median_grad_dh and median_grad_dh > 0 else None)
    print(f'  v3 inherited cos=0.95 local |grad|={local_grad_cos:.5f}, '
          f'median |grad|={median_grad_cos:.5f}, '
          f'ratio={ratio_cos:.2f}')
    print(f'  v3 inherited dh=5    local |grad|={local_grad_dh:.5f}, '
          f'median |grad|={median_grad_dh:.5f}, '
          f'ratio={ratio_dh:.2f}')
    if ratio_cos is not None and ratio_cos < 0.5:
        print('  -> cos=0.95 IS at a low-gradient region (plateau-like).')
    elif ratio_cos is not None and ratio_cos > 1.5:
        print('  -> cos=0.95 IS at a high-gradient region (steep slope).')
    else:
        print('  -> cos=0.95 is at a moderate-gradient region '
              '(no clear plateau or cliff).')
    if ratio_dh is not None and ratio_dh < 0.5:
        print('  -> dh=5 IS at a low-gradient region (plateau-like).')
    elif ratio_dh is not None and ratio_dh > 1.5:
        print('  -> dh=5 IS at a high-gradient region.')
    else:
        print('  -> dh=5 is at a moderate-gradient region.')
    results['cos_sweep_at_dh_5'] = {
        'cos_grid': COS_GRID.tolist(),
        'sig_rates': {k: v for k, v in sig_rates_cos.items()},
        'pooled_gradient_summary': cos_pooled_grad,
    }
    results['dh_sweep_at_cos_0_95'] = {
        'dh_grid': DH_GRID.tolist(),
        'sig_rates': {k: v for k, v in sig_rates_dh.items()},
        'pooled_gradient_summary': dh_pooled_grad,
    }
    results['surface_2d'] = {
        'cos_axis': COS_FOR_2D.tolist(),
        'dh_axis': DH_FOR_2D.tolist(),
        'rates': surface.tolist(),
        'at_v3_threshold': {
            'cos_0.95_dh_5_rate': float(surface[i95, j5]),
            'd_rate_d_cos': dcos,
            'd_rate_d_dh': ddh,
            'gradient_magnitude': grad_mag,
        },
    }
    results['doc_level_cos_sweep_at_dh_5'] = {
        'cos_grid': COS_GRID.tolist(),
        'doc_rates': doc_rates_cos,
        'doc_gradient_summary': doc_cos_grad,
    }
    results['plateau_detection'] = {
        'v3_cos_0_95': {
            'local_gradient': local_grad_cos,
            'median_gradient': median_grad_cos,
            'ratio_local_to_median': ratio_cos,
        },
        'v3_dh_5': {
            'local_gradient': local_grad_dh,
            'median_gradient': median_grad_dh,
            'ratio_local_to_median': ratio_dh,
        },
    }
    json_path = OUT / 'alert_rate_results.json'
    json_path.write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
                         encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'\n[json] {json_path}')
    md = [
        '# Alert-Rate Sensitivity / Threshold-Plateau Analysis '
        '(Script 46)',
        '', f'Generated: {results["meta"]["timestamp"]}',
        f'Big-4 signatures: {n_sigs:,}; documents: {n_docs:,}',
        '',
        ('Alert-rate sensitivity to threshold perturbation. If the '
         'v3-inherited threshold cos>0.95 AND dh<=5 sits at a '
         'low-gradient region, that is weak evidence the threshold is '
         'a stable operating point. If the alert-rate surface is '
         'everywhere smooth without a plateau, the threshold is one '
         'point on a continuous specificity-recall tradeoff -- '
         'consistent with the no-natural-threshold finding from '
         'Scripts 39b-39e.'),
        '',
        '## Plateau detection at v3 inherited thresholds',
        '',
        '| Threshold | local |grad| | median |grad| | ratio | interpretation |',
        '|---|---|---|---|---|',
        f'| cos=0.95 | {local_grad_cos:.5f} | '
        f'{median_grad_cos:.5f} | {ratio_cos:.2f} | '
        f'{"plateau" if ratio_cos < 0.5 else ("cliff" if ratio_cos > 1.5 else "moderate")} |',
        f'| dh=5 | {local_grad_dh:.5f} | {median_grad_dh:.5f} | '
        f'{ratio_dh:.2f} | '
        f'{"plateau" if ratio_dh < 0.5 else ("cliff" if ratio_dh > 1.5 else "moderate")} |',
        '',
        '## 1D cos sweep at dh<=5 (per-signature alert rate)',
        '',
        '| cos > k | pooled | Firm A | Firm B | Firm C | Firm D |',
        '|---|---|---|---|---|---|',
    ]
    for i, k in enumerate(COS_GRID):
        if i % 2 == 0:
            md.append(f'| {k:.3f} | {sig_rates_cos["pooled"][i]:.4f} | '
                      f'{sig_rates_cos["Firm A"][i]:.4f} | '
                      f'{sig_rates_cos["Firm B"][i]:.4f} | '
                      f'{sig_rates_cos["Firm C"][i]:.4f} | '
                      f'{sig_rates_cos["Firm D"][i]:.4f} |')
    md += ['',
           '## 1D dh sweep at cos>0.95 (per-signature alert rate)',
           '',
           '| dh <= k | pooled | Firm A | Firm B | Firm C | Firm D |',
           '|---|---|---|---|---|---|']
    for i, k in enumerate(DH_GRID):
        md.append(f'| {int(k):2d} | {sig_rates_dh["pooled"][i]:.4f} | '
                  f'{sig_rates_dh["Firm A"][i]:.4f} | '
                  f'{sig_rates_dh["Firm B"][i]:.4f} | '
                  f'{sig_rates_dh["Firm C"][i]:.4f} | '
                  f'{sig_rates_dh["Firm D"][i]:.4f} |')
    md += ['',
           '## Document-level cos sweep at dh<=5',
           '',
           '| cos > k | doc alert rate (HC) |',
           '|---|---|']
    for i, k in enumerate(COS_GRID):
        if i % 2 == 0:
            md.append(f'| {k:.3f} | {doc_rates_cos[i]:.4f} |')
    md.append('')
    md_path = OUT / 'alert_rate_report.md'
    md_path.write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
    print(f'[md  ] {md_path}')
 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()