Restructure local-evidence manuscript and record analysis controls

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 # Main ICASSP manuscript
 
+## Current structure (2026-09-17)
+
+The current draft uses **causal local evidence adaptation** as the single
+umbrella for recent modality evidence and cutoff-aligned Omni tail access.
+It supersedes the older scope description below; historical strategy docs
+remain records of their dates. The new scoped decision is
+[`../../docs/manuscript_local_evidence_structure_2026-09-17.md`](../../docs/manuscript_local_evidence_structure_2026-09-17.md).
+
+- Method has two subsections: **Model Architecture** (task, global/local
+  features, fusion and learning) and **Streaming Inference Architecture**
+  (8-s maximum context, completed-history reuse, temporary current tail,
+  cutoff alignment). Only one displayed fusion equation remains.
+- The core is frozen Qwen Omni `G` + recent 1-s Qwen audio `A`; pooled
+  person vision is optional, not an established performance contribution.
+- The three contributions cover global--local adaptation, its partial-tail
+  streaming realization, and controlled dense versus onset/offset analysis.
+  Caching alone is not claimed as a new algorithm; mechanism gains await
+  matched controls.
+- The method figure now depicts that actual core rather than an unmeasured
+  25-Hz MuVAP person-attention branch. Preserved-EgoSpeak residual fusion and
+  its block-phase embedding are auxiliary controls, not the default head.
+- Semantic opportunity evaluation is deferred during annotation auditing.
+  Its historical protocol and workload are preserved in
+  [`annotation_protocol_notes.tex`](annotation_protocol_notes.tex), which is
+  deliberately not included in the submission PDF. Historical results remain
+  in the original `results/` and `reports/` records.
+- Analysis uses Main Comparison, Local Evidence Analysis, Streaming and
+  Context Analysis, and Error and Qualitative Analysis. Omni LoRA is deferred.
+  Planned experiments are in the
+  [dated experiment log](../../docs/local_evidence_analysis_experiment_log_2026-09-17.md).
+- Locked main rows and the tail-refresh x local-audio / context-cap table are
+  unmeasured placeholders, not zero or mixed-protocol confirmatory numbers.
+  Historical main-table screens are identified explicitly. Already inspected
+  official-test runs remain exploratory despite additional seed repetitions.
+- Backbone transfer adds paired G/GA controls for Qwen2.5-Omni 3B/7B and
+  MiniCPM-o 4.5, fixing the same local audio sidecar. Compact table deltas are
+  pending and require readout/refresh/history audits; MiniCPM is not yet
+  GPU-verified or an established matched 8-s stream. This scoped transfer
+  overrides the older cache-diagnostic-only restriction below, not the 3B core.
+- The body targets four technical pages with one method figure, one main
+  table, one compact streaming/transfer controls table, and one error/qualitative figure slot.
+  The optional fifth page is references only; replace TODOs rather than keep
+  appending, and finalize author kit and applicable AI-drafting disclosure.
+
+## Build and historical scope
+
 This is the editable paper directory. It uses the unmodified official ICASSP
 2026 LaTeX assets stored in `../ICASSP2026_Paper_Templates/`. When the ICASSP
 2027 author kit is released, replace or add the official template and update