Anchor latency analysis
Why stale anchor learning breaks the merger.
Three reports cover the same failure from different angles: validation collapse, Q-basis stability, and dense-gradient drift under stale anchor cadence.
K=5stable near dense ceiling
K=20collapses below no-merger floor
Q lowcompression basis recovers after bootstrap
20/20delay and cadence confounded
Main report
Delay Failure Report
The detailed argument that K=20 turns the same signed EMA merger from useful correction into a stale, reward-flat length ratchet.
delay_failure_report
One-pager
K-Instability Q-Basis
A compact readout: K ages the gradient signal, while Q remains a low-error activation basis and cannot judge reward quality.
k_instability_q_basis
Joint evidence
Dense Drift Joint
Uncompressed-run drift evidence showing the gradient-anchor route loses useful alignment as lag grows across tasks.
dense-drift-joint