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# EasyCom causal oracle-information screen (4 epochs, 2026-09-07)
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## Question
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Does perfectly timed, non-wearer speech activity contain information that is
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missing from the frozen Qwen2.5-Omni global state and the existing recent
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mixed-audio branch? If so, is the useful information aggregate activity or
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person-continuous activity?
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This is an information upper bound, not a deployable feature condition. The
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oracle inputs use EasyCom transcript-derived speech labels at or before the
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current cutoff; no future wearer target, transcript text, target-of-speech, or
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close-microphone signal is exposed.
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## Protocol and provenance
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- Dataset: EasyCom using the EgoSpeak target and split.
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- Model development: Sessions 4--11 for training and Session 12 for checkpoint
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selection and this screen. Sessions 1--3 were not evaluated.
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- Seed: 0 only; three-seed confirmation is pending.
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- Training: 4 epochs, LSTR-MCE activity loss, frozen Qwen2.5-Omni-3B global
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states, `concat-mlp` layer fusion, and the same recent local-audio branch.
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- Evaluation: `causal_valid_only`; AP/mAP values below are percentages.
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- Oracle history: 10 samples at 5 Hz (2 seconds). The delayed control shifts
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person activity by 5 samples (1 second).
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- Target alignment: EgoSpeak right-edge sampling,
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`Start_Frame <= 4*(t+1) < End_Frame`; all twelve sessions must have zero
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transcript/target mismatch before any sidecar is written.
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- Raw run directory on the L20 host:
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`results/easycom_oracle_information_4ep/`.
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## Results
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| Condition | 0.2-s mAP | BG AP | wearer AP | others AP | 10-horizon mean mAP |
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| audio | 72.57922 | 59.84555 | 66.82464 | 91.06747 | 58.77336 |
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| visibility-only | 71.95065 | 57.85640 | 66.73511 | 91.26045 | 58.86491 |
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| delayed | 72.02265 | 57.86302 | 66.88550 | 91.31943 | 58.89590 |
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| aggregate-visible | **79.54571** | **69.79448** | **72.65278** | **96.18987** | **61.68383** |
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| per-person | 78.80474 | 69.74061 | 71.00535 | 95.66825 | 61.10890 |
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| shuffled-id | 78.86300 | 68.70055 | 71.85510 | 96.03333 | 61.18615 |
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Important paired descriptive deltas for this single seed:
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- `aggregate-visible - audio`: +6.96649 at 0.2 seconds and +2.91047 mean mAP.
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- `aggregate-visible - delayed`: +7.52306 at 0.2 seconds and +2.78793 mean mAP.
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- `aggregate-visible - per-person`: +0.74097 at 0.2 seconds and +0.57493 mean mAP.
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- `per-person - shuffled-id`: -0.05826 at 0.2 seconds and -0.07725 mean mAP.
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- `visibility-only - audio`: -0.62857 at 0.2 seconds and +0.09155 mean mAP.
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## Interpretation
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The positive result is an information-value result: accurately aligned current
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activity from visible non-wearers supplies substantial information beyond the
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frozen global Omni state and recent mixed audio. The visibility-only and
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one-second-delayed controls are close to the audio baseline, so the gain is
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not explained by the number of slots, extra parameters, or stale activity.
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The person-continuity hypothesis is not supported by this run. Aggregate
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visible activity is stronger than the person-resolved representation, and
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independently shuffling historical activity across current person slots does
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not hurt. The present dense aggregate-`others` objective can exploit per-lag
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activity counts without identifying who produced them, and the simpler
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aggregate representation is also easier for the head to consume. Therefore
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this result cannot support claims of speaker identity, speaker continuity,
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addressee understanding, or other-to-other interaction understanding.
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The defensible method hypothesis is now **global Omni context plus causal local
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audiovisual floor evidence organized around visible people**. A learned causal
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active-speaker/floor branch should first attempt to recover the aggregate
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oracle gain. Anonymous track continuity becomes part of the selected method
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only if correct tracks beat no-ID, broken-continuity, time-shifted, and
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capacity-matched controls and improve the frozen event protocol. Otherwise the
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paper must use the simpler global-plus-local-floor-evidence formulation.
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## Required follow-up
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1. Repeat the six conditions with seeds 1 and 2 on Session 12.
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2. Do not use Sessions 1--3 until the architecture and event protocol are
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frozen.
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3. Train a causal learned visible-person activity estimator from deployable
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audio/video inputs; report how much of the oracle gap it recovers.
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4. Freeze competing-risk-censored entry/yield evaluation. Dense mAP does not
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demonstrate fewer erroneous agent entries.
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5. Test person continuity only with matched no-ID/broken-track controls; stop
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the track claim if they do not separate.
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