Codex round-18 (paper/codex_review_gpt55_v3_18_3.md) caught a falsified
provenance claim I introduced in v3.18.3 plus four cleaner narrative items
that survived the prior 17 rounds. Verdict was Minor Revision; this
commit closes all 5 actionable items.
- Harmonize signature_analysis/28_byte_identity_decomposition.py to use
accountants.firm (joined on signatures.assigned_accountant) for Firm A
membership, matching the convention in 24_validation_recalibration.py.
Regenerated reports/byte_identity_decomp/byte_identity_decomposition.json.
Cross-firm convergence now reports Firm A 49,389 / 55,922 = 88.32% and
Non-Firm-A 27,595 / 65,514 = 42.12% (percentages unchanged at two
decimal places; counts now match Table IX exactly).
- Replace the Section IV-H.2 reconciliation note. The previous note
speculated that the one-record discrepancy was a snapshot/floating-point
artifact, which codex round-18 falsified by direct DB queries: the real
cause was that script 28 used signatures.excel_firm while Table IX uses
accountants.firm. With script 28 now harmonized, Table IX and the
cross-firm artifact agree exactly at 55,922; the new note documents the
Firm A grouping convention plus the dHash-non-null filter.
- Replace residual "known-majority-positive" wording with
"replication-dominated" in Introduction (contributions 4 and 6) and
Methodology III-I (anchor-rationale paragraph).
- Correct Methodology III-G's auditor-year description: the per-signature
best-match cosine that feeds each auditor-year mean is computed against
the full same-CPA cross-year pool, not within-year only. The aggregation
unit is within-year, but the underlying similarity statistic is not.
- Add the 145 / 50 / 180 / 35 Firm A byte-decomposition sentence to
Results IV-F.1 with explicit pointer to script 28 and the JSON artifact;
this resolves the round-18 finding that several manuscript locations
cited IV-F.1 for a decomposition that was not actually reported there.
- Rebuild Paper_A_IEEE_Access_Draft_v3.docx.
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