icassp2027-experiment/docs/README.md

Documentation index

Documents are grouped by authority rather than by date. “Planned” never means implemented or validated.

Active paper definition

Document	Role
progressive_feature_fusion_route_2026-09-02.md	Gated route from pooled local evidence to Frame-set Attention, temporal person memory and Thinker adapters
omni_speaker_floor_experiment_plan_2026-08-30.md	Current hypotheses, experiment gates, main table and stopping rules
multiparty_egocentric_floor_gap_audit_2026-08-30.md	Novelty boundary, closest work and restricted claims

These documents supersede earlier documents when discussing the paper's main question. They do not supersede verified implementation details in code and tests.

Current implementation runbooks

Document	Use when
local_feature_baseline.md	Extracting/validating EasyCom pooled local Qwen visual and audio sidecars
easycom_encoder_only.md	Comparing EasyCom Qwen encoder-only A/V/AV representations
ego4d_encoder_only.md	Preparing and running the Ego4D encoder-only comparison
ego4d_local_baselines.md	Previewing Ego4D boxes, extracting local features and running 8-GPU jobs

Design history and implementation options

Document	Status
speaker_aware_thinker_plan_2026-08-28.md	Historical design exploration; useful implementation detail, not current priority order
trainable_speaker_fusion_survey_2026-08-28.md	Detailed person-branch/adapter survey feeding the current plan

Where new material belongs

• Current research decisions: a dated file in docs/, then link it from this index and PROJECT_CONTEXT.md.
• Dataset or command runbook: docs/<dataset>_<task>.md.
• Measured experiment: results/<dataset>_<question>_<date>/ with its own README and machine-readable summary.
• Paper summary: literature_notes/NN_short_name.md and update its index.
• Generated audit report: reports/; do not present it as a hand-written source of truth.