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W1 slope is 0.506431 (R2=0.999950); finite-state Markov normalized ratios fall from 0.075469 to 0.038420, and the independent Gaussian-AR(1) W1 slope is 0.963596.", "limitation": "These direct instances stress both noise regimes but do not constitute a new proof for every drift and noise distribution allowed by the theorems.", "scope_boundary": "Verified for the executed stationary recursions and stepsize grids; universal constants and worst-case dimension dependence are outside this experiment.", "rate_evidence_mode": "empirical_scaling", "rate_executed_system": true, "rate_is_not_bound_substitution": true, "rate_horizons": [8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256], "rate_repetitions_per_horizon": 2, "rate_fit_slope": 0.5064312475534698, "rate_fit_claim_consistent": true, "rate_measurement": "Over increasing inverse-stepsize horizons 8 through 512, exact i.i.d. W1 fits exponent 0.506431 while every normalized W1/(sqrt(alpha) log(1/alpha)) ratio decreases; Markov behavior is independently checked by finite-state and Gaussian-AR(1) systems.", "rate_artifact": "outputs/claim-1.json" }, { "claim": 2, "literal_claim": "Proposition 3.1 establishes an explicit non-asymptotic Wasserstein bound of order O(α^{1/2} log(1/α)) for constant-stepsize SGD on smooth, strongly convex objectives (Proposition 3.1).", "assessment": "verified", "evidence_tier": "literal_claim_experiment", "claim_object_match": "exact", "registered_system_executed": true, "paper_or_released_scale": true, "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true, "paper_native_mechanism": "Executed constant-stepsize SGD on f(x)=x^2/2 with skew-exponential gradient noise and computed the exact stationary projected Wasserstein distance from the infinite characteristic-function product.", "native_scale_justification": "The smooth strongly-convex proposition has no external dataset or trained model scale; the complete stationary law is evaluated at nine stepsizes down to alpha=1/2048, more directly than a finite training trajectory.", "independent_oracle": "For Gaussian gradient noise the same stationary recursion is exactly Gaussian; the FFT result agrees with the closed-form Gaussian W1 to relative error 4.89e-9 and its variance agrees with the exact geometric-series value.", "oracle_artifacts": [ "outputs/oracle_checks.json" ], "destructive_control_executed": true, "control_artifacts": [ "outputs/destructive_controls.json" ], "source_locator": "arXiv 2602.13960v1, Proposition 3.1 and Section 3.2.1", "not_proxy_reason": "Quadratic SGD is an actual smooth, strongly-convex SGD instance covered by Proposition 3.1, and the output is the registered steady-state Wasserstein error rather than loss, covariance alone, or an algebraic upper bound.", "independent_evidence": [ "outputs/claim-2.json", "outputs/exact.json", "outputs/oracle_checks.json" ], "executed_outputs": [ "outputs/claim-2.json", "outputs/results.json" ], "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Changing the stable Hessian direction to a positive drift eigenvalue +0.25 makes the discrete multiplier 1.0078125 and amplifies that mode by 3.3034e13 in 4000 steps, eliminating a steady state.", "result": "Across nine exact stepsizes, quadratic SGD has W1 slope 0.504422 (R2=0.999962), decreasing from 0.110903 to 0.00672218; W1/(sqrt(alpha) log(1/alpha)) decreases at every step.", "limitation": "The direct experiment uses a quadratic member of the smooth strongly-convex class and therefore does not sample every allowed nonlinear Hessian geometry.", "scope_boundary": "The verdict covers exact stationary behavior for the executed SGD instance; it does not estimate the proposition's worst-case explicit constant U.", "rate_evidence_mode": "empirical_scaling", "rate_executed_system": true, "rate_is_not_bound_substitution": true, "rate_horizons": [8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048], "rate_repetitions_per_horizon": 2, "rate_fit_slope": 0.5044219069051806, "rate_fit_claim_consistent": true, "rate_measurement": "Two FFT-grid evaluations at each horizon bind numerical error, while the full exact sweep over inverse stepsizes 8 to 2048 gives slope 0.504422 and R2=0.999962 for the registered W1 error.", "rate_artifact": "outputs/claim-2.json" }, { "claim": 3, "literal_claim": "Propositions 3.2 and 3.3 extend the same O(α^{1/2} log(1/α)) Wasserstein bound to linear stochastic approximation with a Hurwitz matrix and to contractive nonlinear stochastic approximation, respectively (Propositions 3.2 and 3.3, Section 3.2.2, Section 3.2.3).", "assessment": "verified", "evidence_tier": "literal_claim_experiment", "claim_object_match": "exact", "registered_system_executed": true, "paper_or_released_scale": true, "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true, "paper_native_mechanism": "Executed both registered mechanisms: a d=8 non-normal Hurwitz linear SA with correlated skew noise and a genuinely nonlinear contraction T(x)=0.75*tanh(x) solved at stationarity.", "native_scale_justification": "The linear system uses eight dimensions, six projection directions and nine stepsizes, while the nonlinear system uses the complete scalar stationary density on 2048- and 4096-point grids over six stepsizes; neither is a covariance-only proxy.", "independent_oracle": "The linear covariance solves the continuous Lyapunov equation to 1.95e-15 residual; the nonlinear transfer operator is independently grid-refined and has fixed-point residual below 6.4e-14.", "oracle_artifacts": [ "outputs/oracle_checks.json", "outputs/exact.json" ], "destructive_control_executed": true, "control_artifacts": [ "outputs/destructive_controls.json" ], "source_locator": "arXiv 2602.13960v1, Propositions 3.2 and 3.3, Sections 3.2.2-3.2.3", "not_proxy_reason": "The package executes a non-normal Hurwitz matrix and a globally 0.75-Lipschitz nonlinear operator, and measures each stationary W1 error directly; the nonlinear object was corrected after rejecting an inherited mapping that was not globally contractive.", "independent_evidence": [ "outputs/claim-3.json", "outputs/exact.json", "outputs/oracle_checks.json" ], "executed_outputs": [ "outputs/claim-3.json", "outputs/results.json" ], "destructive_or_boundary_control": "A linear drift with eigenvalue +0.25 and T_bad(x)=1.05x respectively produce discrete multipliers above one; the recorded amplifications are 3.3034e13 and 6.0333e6, destroying both stability assumptions.", "result": "The exact d=8 linear-SA W1 slope is 0.737073; the corrected 0.75-Lipschitz nonlinear SA slope is 0.657056 (R2=0.991605), with maximum two-grid W1 difference 7.25e-6.", "limitation": "The nonlinear result is scalar and the linear result uses six fixed projections; full multivariate Wasserstein optimization is not attempted.", "scope_boundary": "The verdict covers the executed Hurwitz and globally contractive systems, not unstable matrices, noncontractive operators, or all dimensions.", "rate_evidence_mode": "empirical_scaling", "rate_executed_system": true, "rate_is_not_bound_substitution": true, "rate_horizons": [8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256], "rate_repetitions_per_horizon": 2, "rate_fit_slope": 0.657056289722349, "rate_fit_claim_consistent": true, "rate_measurement": "Direct increasing inverse-stepsize measurements give exponent 0.737073 for d=8 linear SA and 0.657056 for nonlinear contractive SA; both normalized bound ratios decrease on their executed grids.", "rate_artifact": "outputs/claim-3.json" }, { "claim": 4, "literal_claim": "For one-dimensional projections, the paper derives a non-uniform Berry-Esseen-type tail bound |P(⟨Y^(α),ζ⟩ > a) − P(Z_ζ > a)| ≤ C_d α^{1/4} log^{1/2}(1/α) / a, which improves as the deviation level a grows (Section 4).", "assessment": "verified", "evidence_tier": "literal_claim_experiment", "claim_object_match": "exact", "registered_system_executed": true, "paper_or_released_scale": true, "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true, "paper_native_mechanism": "Computed the exact projected stationary CDF and Gaussian CDF by characteristic-function inversion, then evaluated Delta(a) over seven deviation levels and seven stepsizes without tail Monte Carlo censoring.", "native_scale_justification": "The registered object is one-dimensional by construction; evaluating its complete stationary characteristic function at thresholds from 0.5 to 6 standard deviations is the native scale, including probabilities too small for the retained Monte Carlo budgets.", "independent_oracle": "The same tail CDF is evaluated on 2^17 and 2^18 grids, and the underlying Gaussian characteristic-function pipeline is checked against a closed-form W1 calculation to 4.89e-9 relative error.", "oracle_artifacts": [ "outputs/oracle_checks.json", "outputs/claim-4.json" ], "destructive_control_executed": true, "control_artifacts": [ "outputs/destructive_controls.json" ], "source_locator": "arXiv 2602.13960v1, Corollaries 3.1 and 4.1 and Section 4 tail discussion", "not_proxy_reason": "The measured quantity is exactly a times the absolute one-dimensional tail-probability gap on the registered centered-scaled stationary projection, not a moment inequality or the theorem's symbolic right-hand side.", "independent_evidence": [ "outputs/claim-4.json", "outputs/oracle_checks.json" ], "executed_outputs": [ "outputs/claim-4.json", "outputs/results.json" ], "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Using the raw-noise variance instead of the Lyapunov variance makes the wrong-target projected discrepancy essentially flat in stepsize (W1 slope 0.001095) and leaves W1=0.330526 at the smallest alpha.", "result": "Exact sup_a a|Delta(a)| has slope 0.506389 (R2=0.999988), faster than the alpha^1/4 factor; at alpha=1/512 the absolute gap falls 58.42x from 2 to 4 standard deviations.", "limitation": "The tested thresholds stop at six standard deviations and use one skew-noise scalar projection, so they do not estimate the theorem's dimension-dependent worst-case constant.", "scope_boundary": "Verified for the exact executed projection and threshold grid; no claim is made that the observed 0.506 exponent is the universal optimal exponent.", "rate_evidence_mode": "empirical_scaling", "rate_executed_system": true, "rate_is_not_bound_substitution": true, "rate_horizons": [8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512], "rate_repetitions_per_horizon": 2, "rate_fit_slope": 0.506389109050498, "rate_fit_claim_consistent": true, "rate_measurement": "At seven increasing inverse-stepsize horizons, exact sup_a a|Delta| fits slope 0.506389 with R2=0.999988, exceeding the claimed alpha^1/4 exponent while remaining finite across all seven deviation levels.", "rate_artifact": "outputs/claim-4.json" }, { "claim": 5, "literal_claim": "Proposition 4.1 extends the Gaussian approximation and tail bounds for SGD, linear SA, and contractive nonlinear SA from i.i.d. noise to Markovian noise (Proposition 4.1, Section 4).", "assessment": "verified", "evidence_tier": "literal_claim_experiment", "claim_object_match": "exact", "registered_system_executed": true, "paper_or_released_scale": true, "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true, "paper_native_mechanism": "Executed Markov-driven quadratic SGD/linear SA through an exact five-state transfer characteristic function and executed genuinely nonlinear contractive SA with a stationary two-state chain in two independent seeded particle runs.", "native_scale_justification": "The exact Markov calculation covers six stepsizes and the nonlinear check uses 32,768 stationary particles per seed, two seeds, five stepsizes and tail thresholds through four standard deviations; the retained full d=4 sweep provides an additional multidimensional check.", "independent_oracle": "The long-run covariance from the Markov fundamental matrix agrees with a direct autocovariance series to machine precision, while an analytically solved Gaussian-AR(1) recursion independently gives W1 slope 0.963596.", "oracle_artifacts": [ "outputs/oracle_checks.json", "outputs/markov.json" ], "destructive_control_executed": true, "control_artifacts": [ "outputs/destructive_controls.json" ], "source_locator": "arXiv 2602.13960v1, Proposition 4.1 and Section 4", "not_proxy_reason": "Quadratic SGD is directly an SGD instance, the five-state recursion is directly linear SA, and T(x)=0.5*tanh(x) is genuinely nonlinear and globally contractive; all are driven by Markov noise and compared to long-run-covariance Gaussian targets.", "independent_evidence": [ "outputs/claim-5.json", "outputs/markov.json", "outputs/oracle_checks.json" ], "executed_outputs": [ "outputs/claim-5.json", "outputs/results.json" ], "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Ignoring autocorrelation and using marginal covariance leaves exact W1=0.349884, 26.28x the correct-target W1; in the nonlinear check the naive target is 62.75x worse at the smallest alpha.", "result": "Exact five-state Markov W1 decreases to 0.0133154 with all bound ratios decreasing; two-seed nonlinear Markov W1 has slope 0.864854 (R2=0.990021), and its variance reaches 3.89014 versus target 4.", "limitation": "The nonlinear Markov component is Monte Carlo and reports calibrated sampling floors; the exact transfer calculation is reserved for the linear/SGD component.", "scope_boundary": "The verdict covers the executed finite-state and two-state chains, not every geometrically mixing Markov kernel allowed by Proposition 4.1.", "rate_evidence_mode": "empirical_scaling", "rate_executed_system": true, "rate_is_not_bound_substitution": true, "rate_horizons": [8, 16, 32, 64, 128], "rate_repetitions_per_horizon": 2, "rate_fit_slope": 0.8648543490756267, "rate_fit_claim_consistent": true, "rate_measurement": "Two independent seeded executions of the genuine nonlinear Markov recursion across inverse stepsizes 8 to 128 give W1 exponent 0.864854 and R2=0.990021; the exact linear Markov normalized ratios decrease at every horizon.", "rate_artifact": "outputs/claim-5.json" }, { "claim": 6, "literal_claim": "Proposition 5.1 shows a different convergence rate of order α^{1/h} for constant-stepsize SA applied to general convex objectives with Gibbs-type limiting distributions (Proposition 5.1, Section 5).", "assessment": "verified", "evidence_tier": "literal_claim_experiment", "claim_object_match": "exact", "registered_system_executed": true, "paper_or_released_scale": true, "actual_model_or_dataset_used": true, "paper_native_mechanism": "Executed the paper's Appendix E.2.1 family member P_2(x)=x^4/4 with Gaussian noise, solved its full stationary density deterministically, and compared X/alpha^(1/4) with the Gibbs density proportional to exp(-y^4/2).", "native_scale_justification": "This is the exact paper-native one-dimensional objective and noise choice, evaluated at five stepsizes on both 2048- and 4096-point stationary-density grids rather than a quadratic stand-in or Gaussian approximation.", "independent_oracle": "Closed-form Gamma-function moments of exp(-y^4/2) independently determine E|Y|, variance and kurtosis; two transfer grids agree and each fixed-point residual is below 9e-14.", "oracle_artifacts": [ "outputs/oracle_checks.json", "outputs/claim-6.json" ], "destructive_control_executed": true, "control_artifacts": [ "outputs/destructive_controls.json" ], "source_locator": "arXiv 2602.13960v1, Proposition 5.1 Equation (5.2), Appendix E.2.1 Definition E.1 and Equation (E.10)", "not_proxy_reason": "The objective P_2, additive Gaussian noise, alpha^(1/h) scaling, stationary law and non-Gaussian Gibbs target are exactly the registered paper objects; E|X| and W1 are measured from the solved stationary density.", "independent_evidence": [ "outputs/claim-6.json", "outputs/oracle_checks.json" ], "executed_outputs": [ "outputs/claim-6.json", "outputs/results.json" ], "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Replacing alpha^(1/4) by the classical sqrt(alpha) scaling makes the scaled first moment spread by factor 2.00128 across the grid, while the correct scaling spreads only 1.00064; a variance-matched Gaussian remains 2331.68x farther than Gibbs.", "result": "For P_2, E|X| fits scaling exponent 0.249787 versus theory 0.25 (R2=0.999999785), while W1 to Gibbs converges with slope 1.504865 (R2=0.999997937), faster than the alpha^(1/h) upper-bound exponent; at alpha=1/256 Gibbs W1 is 2.55003e-5 versus 0.0594585 for the best-variance Gaussian.", "limitation": "The experiment directly covers h=4 with Gaussian noise; it does not resolve the proposition's stated stability and Stein-regularity conjectures for every general convex objective.", "scope_boundary": "Verified for paper-native P_2 over alpha from 1/16 to 1/256; other h values, Pareto noise and global conjecture proofs remain outside scope.", "rate_evidence_mode": "empirical_scaling", "rate_executed_system": true, "rate_is_not_bound_substitution": true, "rate_horizons": [16, 32, 64, 128, 256], "rate_repetitions_per_horizon": 2, "rate_fit_slope": 1.504864832767487, "rate_fit_claim_consistent": true, "rate_measurement": "Two deterministic grid evaluations at each inverse stepsize from 16 through 256 yield direct W1-to-Gibbs exponent 1.504865 (R2=0.999997937), faster than the alpha^(1/h) upper-bound exponent 0.25; independently, E|X| scales with exponent 0.249787 and R2=0.999999785.", "rate_artifact": "outputs/claim-6.json" } ] }