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feat(privacy): privacy margin for small dimension tables (G3) - #56
The problem. In the AdventureWorks autotune runs (#48), the distance-to-closest-record ratio of DimProduct sat right at its 0.5 limit at the 2.1 defaults, and one seed in five failed.
The cause.DimProduct has 606 rows and is fitted by 24 strata segments of 6 to 49 rows. None of them is large enough for its own copula, so each segment's marginals are essentially the empirical law of its few rows.
What this PR adds. Both settings are opt-in, so the default output is byte-identical with 2.1.
With 20, the table marginal gets the weight of 20 rows in each segment's Dirichlet / DP posterior.
A segment of n rows keeps n/(n+20) of its own law (Prop. 1720). Large segments move by at most 20/n in total variation (Prop. 1721). The random stream does not change.
On AdventureWorks, 5 seeds: DimProduct DCR goes from 0.50-0.65 to 0.96-1.10, and the scorecard loses 7.8 of 1,267 items on average.
It is not on by default. With 20 on by default, science checks C09, C19 and C43 fail (they pass with 0) and one Berka bench item fails. Shrinking each segment toward the table weakens the link between a dimension's segments and its facts. Turning it on by default is the maintainer's decision.
Near-copy guard (synthesis.privacy.near_copy: auto, off by default, with near_copy_ratio, near_copy_rounds and near_copy_max_rows)
New module relsynth.nearcopy.
It redraws rows that are closer to a real row than that row's nearest distinct real neighbour, plus exact copies of unique rows in its encoding. It logs them under near_copies.
The rejection inside _finish checks rule redraws and group-effect rows again, within the round budget. A redrawn row that ends the budget breaking a rule gets its rule-valid row back, hidden draws included.
It is a distance rule, not a privacy guarantee. Prop. 1723 shows that redrawing until success is not ε-DP for any ε. With finite rounds it gives no DP guarantee of its own, and in DP mode it is post-processing of the seed database.
Dropped after study.
A segment cap had no effect, because the cap applies per stratum.
Copula pooling had nothing to act on, because every small segment already uses the pooled copula.
The report with all the numbers is docs/research/small-dimensions.md.
How it was tested
ruff check passes. tools/claims_check.py reports ok (162 claims).
Unit tests: 801 passed, 29 skipped locally, including tests/unit/test_small_dims.py (13) and the DP stage-2 guard tests.
Statistical checks C1720-C1723 in tests/science/test_small_dims_checks.py.
Identity: tools/identity_check.py against main reports "all 24 runs identical" with segment_prior_rows: 0, the new default.
AdventureWorks, 5 full fits per setting (seeds 1, 2, 3, 11, 12):
Setting
DimProduct DCR
Scorecard (of 1,267)
0 (default)
0.501, 0.648, 0.576, 0.549, 0.581
1215, 1202, 1214, 1207, 1202
20
0.969, 0.963, 1.010, 0.963, 1.101
1202, 1202, 1201, 1198, 1198
Chinook, seeds 1-5: 142/142 on every seed with 0 and with 20.
Science checks C09, C19, C43 and C75 run locally with 0 and with 20. All pass with 0; C09, C19 and C43 fail with 20.
…lt (G3)
Each segment marginal of an entity table now gives the table marginal the
weight of 20 rows (marginals.segment_prior_rows, default 20; 0 restores 2.1).
AdventureWorks DimProduct DCR ratio goes from 0.42-0.58 to 0.94-1.04 on paired
draws; Chinook stays 142/142. The near-copy guard (privacy.near_copy) ships
opt-in; the scorecard marks the DCR item of a guarded table as not independent.
Docs, settings and spec references, claims PRV-20..29, report
docs/research/small-dimensions.md.
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The changes add a configurable prior for entity segment marginals and an optional near-copy guard. The guard detects and redraws eligible entity rows, logs redraw counts and annotates privacy reports. Tests, proofs, settings references and research documentation cover these changes and their stated limits.
Entity segment marginal fits use a prior weight that defaults to 20 rows. Tests check the segment’s own-distribution weight and a total-variation bound. Documentation records the setting and related claims.
The optional guard detects near-copy entity rows and redraws them from their existing segments up to the configured limit. Remaining matches are kept and counted in the sample log.
Privacy reports can include near-copy guard data. The scorecard notes that guarded-table DCR results are not independent evidence. Documentation and proofs state the guard’s limits.
nick-developer/relsynth#52: It changes the README and claim register in the release context, and its proof PDF proposition count relates to the numbering used for the new propositions here.
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The default shrinkage change is documented. Remaining concerns concern incomplete validation evidence and qualifications to the optional guard’s behavior and counts; merging requires bounded owner awareness or follow-up.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to c4601
The optional near-copy control can report counts taken before later transformations change generated rows. Those counts may therefore misrepresent residual copies in the delivered data. Exposure is limited by the feature being off by default and explicitly not replacing differential privacy.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: The new near-copy residual count is finalized before SCD and sequence postprocessing. When these later stages change eligible guard columns, emitted rows can have a different near-copy status without another check or recount. Consumers relying on the documented emitted-row meaning of kept can consequently receive stale privacy-control diagnostics. This is an introduced lifecycle/reporting gap, not evidence of a broken differential-privacy guarantee.
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Security Blast Radius
observed — The new control acts on eligible entity tables within a synthesis run. Eligibility requires privacy processing to be enabled for the table, 50 through the configured maximum source rows, and at least three eligible model-output columns. The default maximum is 20,000 source rows; this is not a bound on the size of generated output.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The supported concern is misleading residual-copy reporting after later row mutations, rather than demonstrated unauthorized access or a verified reconstruction attack. A recipient of generated data could encounter near copies not reflected in the earlier kept count when postprocessing changes guarded attributes.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
inferred — For the inspected DP synthesis path, second-stage generation receives the decoded DP seed database, while retaining the near-copy setting. The guard therefore operates on seed rows rather than reading original private rows through this path. This supports the documented postprocessing boundary; the guard adds no independent DP guarantee.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Near-copy rejection is intentionally best effort: finite budgets allow residual matches, and rule enforcement receives remaining rounds without near-copy rejection. Fallback restoration preserves previously rule-valid attributes rather than trading them for a failed near-copy redraw. These controls limit the concern but do not cover mutations after the final recount.
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- Line 9: Update the AdventureWorks sentence in the changelog entry to remove
the claim that the scorecard is unchanged and report the documented average drop
of 3 out of 1,257 items across four paired draws. Preserve the surrounding
distance-to-closest-record and Chinook results.
Review comments at @docs/assurance/claims.yaml:
- Around line 1867-1874: Update the PRV-28 claim in the assurance claims data so
its quote is supported by the cited evidence: either revise the stated range to
match the small-dimensions report, or add the autotune report that supports the
0.40 and 0.65 values to the evidence with a note identifying those values.
Review comments at @docs/privacy.md:
- Line 121: Qualify the differential-privacy statement in the guard discussion:
attribute the result to Prop. 1723 only under its conditions of infinite redraws
(R = ∞) and positive density. Clarify that it does not establish the same
conclusion for finite rounds, where the guard may retain rows that remain near
copies, and narrow “Its decisions read the real rows” to avoid implying a
broader result.
- Line 115: The G3 reference in the DimProduct paragraph points to a report that
is absent from the repository. Update the reference to link to the available G3
research report, or add the missing gap plan at the referenced location, so
readers can consult the supporting material.
Review comments at @docs/research/small-dimensions.md:
- Line 43: Replace the VALIDATION_TABLE placeholder in the “Validation at the
new defaults (AdventureWorks, 5 seeds)” section with a table backed by a
measured report, or remove the section if that evidence is unavailable; retain
no unsupported validation claims.
Review comments at @src/relsynth/engine.py:
- Around line 2665-2668: Update the redraw assignment in _sample_entities to
preserve each destination column’s dtype when writing sampled values, rather
than relying on the bulk DataFrame assignment. Keep this guard before _computed
so it runs before hidden columns are added, and document that ordering
constraint.
- Around line 2627-2650: Reset the near-copy guard cache at the start of
Synthesizer.fit so a refit cannot reuse guards built from earlier source rows or
settings. Remove the _nc_guards entry before fitting proceeds; leave
_near_copy_guard’s cache behaviour unchanged during a single fit.
- Around line 2652-2676: No code change is indicated: _guard_near_copies already
applies the guard in the shared entity-sampling path, and the comment states
that the near_copy_max_rows cost bound is documented in the settings reference.
Preserve that documentation and avoid changes to the partitioned sampling path.
Review comments at @src/relsynth/evaluate.py:
- Around line 1447-1449: Update the near-copy note handling after add in the
dcr_ratio evaluation so it only annotates the item created by that call. Detect
when add appends no item and skip the note in that case; never fall back to
items[-1] if it could refer to a previous result.
Review comments at @src/relsynth/generators/copula.py:
- Around line 62-64: Update the role check around the segment prior lookup to
use None as the getattr default, matching the behaviour when the role attribute
exists but is unset. Preserve the existing handling for non-entity roles and the
entity segment-prior lookup.
Review comments at @src/relsynth/nearcopy.py:
- Around line 139-142: Add a unit test for near_copies using a constant real
table, verifying the expected behaviour when self.nn[j] is infinite and
synthetic rows are non-identical. Reuse the existing test setup and assert the
current intended outcome without changing near_copies.
- Line 104: Update the privacy documentation to state that categorical encoding
retains only the top 20 levels, so rows differing only in rarer levels may
appear identical to the near-copy guard. Reference TOP_LEVELS and the
categorical encoding in the near-copy metric to make this limitation clear.
Review comments at @src/relsynth/settings.py:
- Around line 191-192: Update the direction map for marginals.segment_prior_rows
so it assigns -1 to _FID_MARG as well as _FID_ASSOC, and add _JOIN to affects
with direction -1. Preserve the existing _PRIV direction of +1.
Review comments at @tests/science/test_small_dims_checks.py:
- Around line 132-163: Update test_c1722_guard_accepts_only_rows_outside_B so
its KS comparison tests the conditional law against an independent reference,
rather than comparing two samples filtered by the same NearCopyGuard. Build the
reference by sampling from the normal proposal and filtering with a brute-force
rule on a, after establishing that rule matches B^c for this one-dimensional
setup; retain the existing test’s scope.
- Around line 166-176: Update test_c1722_no_near_copy_draws_nothing to sample
the auto-configured model once and use that result for the comparison and
near-copy count. Assert that flagged is zero, then compare every table with the
unguarded baseline; remove the conditional that allows the test to pass without
checking equality.
Review comments at @tests/unit/test_small_dims.py:
- Around line 108-116: Update test_guard_redraws_and_logs to assert that the
near_copies log is non-empty before iterating, so the test cannot pass when no
guarded table was exercised. Keep the per-entry accounting check, and replace
the redundant ratio-zero identity assertion with assertions that the ratio-zero
run records no redraws and no random draws using the existing observable log
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Reset near-copy guards on refit; keep column dtypes on redraw; annotate only
the DCR item just added; explicit entity role check; tuning directions for
marginal and join families; tighter tests (non-empty guard log on a product
catalogue, constant table, asserted precondition, brute-force KS reference);
docs qualify Prop. 1723 and state the 20-level metric limit; DCR range and
changelog wording match the reports.
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…ds and DP mode
Prop. 1723 covers a guard that redraws until it succeeds. With finite rounds
it gives no guarantee of its own, and in DP mode it runs in stage 2 on the
seed database, so it is post-processing. Claims PRV-30/31, stage-2 test.
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- Line 9: Update the small-dimensions changelog entry to say that shrinkage
reduces row reproduction, not that segments of a few dozen rows no longer
reproduce their rows. Preserve the surrounding description and clarify that
shrinkage does not prevent exact copies.
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- Line 2545: Update the _finish flow so _guard_near_copies checks the final
entity attributes after any attribute or unique-key redraw, while retaining its
required position before keys and _computed. Keep near_copies.kept consistent
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Rows redrawn in _finish for an attribute rule or unique key now join the
near-copy rejection, and the sample log's kept count is taken on the rows
emitted. Changelog says shrinkage reduces reproduction rather than ending
it. Docstrings for the nearcopy helpers.
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Major · Bound the guard’s nearest-neighbour work · nearcopy.py:68-96
src/relsynth/nearcopy.py:68-96 Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Bound the guard’s nearest-neighbour work
When an eligible table has 100,000 rows, guard construction calculates 20 billion pair distances. The existing batching still uses at least 2.56 GB for pairwise arrays alone, so sampling can exhaust process memory. Use a scalable nearest-neighbour approach that preserves the exact-twin and positive-distance rules.
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Review comment at @src/relsynth/nearcopy.py around lines 68 - 96:
Replace the dense pairwise distance matrix in nearest with a scalable
nearest-neighbour search that avoids work and memory proportional to all A–B
pairs. Preserve exclude_self behaviour, the exact-twin exclusion when positive
is true, and infinite distance when no eligible neighbour exists; ensure the
selected neighbour and reported distance retain the function’s existing
semantics.
Trivial · Test zero-prior compatibility with 2.1 marginal fitting. · test_small_dims.py:96-105
Test zero-prior compatibility with 2.1 marginal fitting.
The wiring test compares zero with the new default, but it does not check the expected zero-prior marginals. A regression in the zero-prior weight can pass both assertions. Add a comparison with a pre-PR reference or an independent expected marginal fit.
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Update test_segment_prior_is_wired_and_guard_off_by_default around _run to
verify that the zero-prior result matches a pre-PR reference or independently
established expected marginals for 2.1 marginal fitting. Retain the existing
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Review comments at @docs/privacy.md:
- Line 119: Update the `privacy.near_copy` documentation to state when `auto`
skips a table: copied tables, tables with privacy disabled, tables with fewer
than 50 fitted source rows or fewer than three distance-check determining
columns are excluded, and the guard also requires at least three determining
columns in model output. Clarify that `privacy.near_copy_max_rows` limits the
rows checked rather than implying tables exceeding that count are ineligible.
Review comments at @src/relsynth/engine.py:
- Around line 4361-4363: Update the near-copy rejection around `ncg.near_copies`
to include rows whose values change when `_computed` applies a group effect, not
only rows marked in `redrawn`. Track or derive those changed rows and include
them in the rejection check so `ok` excludes any near copies they become.
- Around line 4361-4363: Update the rule-rejection redraw flow in _finish so it
respects the configured near_copy_rounds budget, including treating zero as no
permitted near-copy redraws. Keep rule validation and unique-key enforcement
active for every redraw that is allowed, and prevent exhausted near-copy
attempts from producing a rule-violating result.
Review comments at @tests/unit/dp/test_dp.py:
- Around line 126-135: Extend the DP synthesis tests beyond configuration by
exercising the active near-copy guard with distinct original and seed rows.
Verify that the guard receives the prepared seed rows, not the original rows,
using the synthesis flow covered by
test_stage2_keeps_the_near_copy_guard_on_the_seed.
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- Around line 68-96: Replace the dense pairwise distance matrix in nearest with
a scalable nearest-neighbour search that avoids work and memory proportional to
all A–B pairs. Preserve exclude_self behaviour, the exact-twin exclusion when
positive is true, and infinite distance when no eligible neighbour exists;
ensure the selected neighbour and reported distance retain the function’s
existing semantics.
Review comments at @tests/unit/test_small_dims.py:
- Around line 96-105: Update
test_segment_prior_is_wired_and_guard_off_by_default around _run to verify that
the zero-prior result matches a pre-PR reference or independently established
expected marginals for 2.1 marginal fitting. Retain the existing checks for
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…test DP seed source
nearest() searches the distinct real rows in blocks of at most 4M distances,
so memory stays bounded; near_copy_max_rows defaults to 20,000 since time is
quadratic. Rows whose guard columns change through a rule redraw (a group
effect) join the near-copy rejection. Docs state when a table is not guarded.
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The near-copy part of the rule rejection stops after privacy.near_copy_rounds
rounds and half of rules.max_rejection_rounds, so the remaining rounds
enforce the rules and keys alone. Claim PRV-33.
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…n a violation
A row redrawn in _finish only for being a near copy keeps its rule- and
key-valid values; if the rule budget ends with that row breaking a rule,
the values are restored (logged as restored_after_rules), so the guard
never adds a rule violation. Regression test with a 2-round budget.
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Minor · Correct the default-output claim in the README and RM-24. · claims.yaml:1113-1124
docs/assurance/claims.yaml:1113-1124 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Correct the default-output claim in the README and RM-24.
The new segment prior can change draws with default settings. Replace the README sentence with the revised quote below and update RM-24. Setting the prior to zero restores the 2.1 marginal prior.
Update RM-24
- - "With default settings the output is unchanged byte for byte."+ - "The default segment prior can change draws; set synthesis.marginals.segment_prior_rows to 0 to restore the 2.1 marginal prior."
- "relsynth autotune separates systematic failures from noise over several seeds"
status: supported
evidence:
+ - test: tests/unit/test_small_dims.py::test_segment_prior_is_wired_and_guard_off_by_default
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Review comment at @docs/assurance/claims.yaml around lines 1113 - 1124:
Update the README and the RM-24 statistics claim to reflect that the default
segment prior can change draws and setting
synthesis.marginals.segment_prior_rows to 0 restores the 2.1 marginal prior.
Replace the byte-for-byte unchanged claim with this accurate behaviour, and add
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- Around line 1850-1858: Update the PRV-32 claim in the assurance claims to use
status partial and add a note identifying the untested three-sampled-column
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Review comments at @docs/privacy.md:
- Line 119: Update the `near_copies` description to qualify what `kept` counts:
group effects in `_finish` can change guarded columns after the initial count,
so it may not include all near copies among emitted rows. Alternatively, update
the engine to recount final rows before reporting `kept`.
- Line 119: Clarify the `privacy.near_copy` description to distinguish its guard
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Review comments at @docs/assurance/claims.yaml:
- Around line 1113-1124: Update the README and the RM-24 statistics claim to
reflect that the default segment prior can change draws and setting
synthesis.marginals.segment_prior_rows to 0 restores the 2.1 marginal prior.
Replace the byte-for-byte unchanged claim with this accurate behaviour, and add
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kept is recounted at the end of _finish for every guarded entity, after rule
redraws and group effects. README/RM-24 now say 2.2 changes one default.
privacy.md distinguishes the guard's real-row encoding from the scorecard's.
New test: the guard skips tables under 50 rows or with fewer than three
sampled distance columns.
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…h rule-valid rows
marginals.segment_prior_rows now defaults to 0 (2.1 output). With 20 on by
default the science checks C09, C19 and C43 fail (they pass with 0): shrinking
each segment toward the table weakens the link between a dimension's segments
and its facts. The 5-seed AdventureWorks validation of shrinkage 20 is in
docs/research/small-dimensions.md (DimProduct DCR 0.96-1.10 vs 0.50-0.65,
scorecard -7.8 of 1,267). The search scale of the setting is linear 0-200.
Near-copy guard: a restored rule-valid row gets its whole stashed row back,
hidden draws included, so the recompute does not draw them again; the log
counts restored_still_bad (expected 0). New tests for hidden draws and for
kept after a group effect without rule redraws. PRV-23/33 extended, PRV-34
registers the guard-versus-scorecard metric distinction; the SCD caveat on
kept is documented.
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CI failures on c460126, and what 1ef85cb does about them
Caused by this PR's earlier default (segment_prior_rows: 20).
settings-autotune: the identity check found every scenario different.
science (4/4): C09, C19 and C43 failed. Locally, the same code with 0 passes all three. With 20, C09's Spearman(sale amount, product price) is 0.799 ± 0.026 against a real 0.909, C19 leaves D02 customer unfixed, and C43's bike shares are 0.51 / 0.04 against 0.60 / 0.03 ± 0.08.
bench: Berka failed one calibrated item (order association, 0.155 against a limit of 0.15).
Fix.1ef85cb makes the setting opt-in (default 0). The default output is byte-identical with main again: a local tools/identity_check.py run gives "all 24 runs identical". Turning it on by default stays a decision for the maintainer.
science (2/4), C75 t_unique_moves_fast. This is a timing assertion. It passes locally with both settings (91 s and 89 s for the whole check), so it does not come from this change. I expect it to pass on the new run; if it fails again I will look at the timing bound.
Local tests. The unit tests pass: 801 passed, 29 skipped. claims_check reports ok (162 claims).
…evidence
The rule rejection logs near_copy_rule_rounds (rounds in which the near-copy
part ran). New tests: both round limits (parametrised), rows changed through a
group effect join the recheck, and the guard's encoding is fitted on real rows
only while the scorecard's design ranks real and synthetic rows together.
PRV-33 and PRV-34 cite them.
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What and why
This PR is gap plan G3, for release 2.2.0.
The problem. In the AdventureWorks autotune runs (#48), the distance-to-closest-record ratio of
DimProductsat right at its 0.5 limit at the 2.1 defaults, and one seed in five failed.The cause.
DimProducthas 606 rows and is fitted by 24 strata segments of 6 to 49 rows. None of them is large enough for its own copula, so each segment's marginals are essentially the empirical law of its few rows.What this PR adds. Both settings are opt-in, so the default output is byte-identical with 2.1.
synthesis.marginals.segment_prior_rows, default 0, entity tables only)nrows keepsn/(n+20)of its own law (Prop. 1720). Large segments move by at most20/nin total variation (Prop. 1721). The random stream does not change.DimProductDCR goes from 0.50-0.65 to 0.96-1.10, and the scorecard loses 7.8 of 1,267 items on average.synthesis.privacy.near_copy: auto, off by default, withnear_copy_ratio,near_copy_roundsandnear_copy_max_rows)relsynth.nearcopy.near_copies._finishchecks rule redraws and group-effect rows again, within the round budget. A redrawn row that ends the budget breaking a rule gets its rule-valid row back, hidden draws included.The report with all the numbers is
docs/research/small-dimensions.md.How it was tested
ruff checkpasses.tools/claims_check.pyreports ok (162 claims).Unit tests: 801 passed, 29 skipped locally, including
tests/unit/test_small_dims.py(13) and the DP stage-2 guard tests.Statistical checks C1720-C1723 in
tests/science/test_small_dims_checks.py.Identity:
tools/identity_check.pyagainstmainreports "all 24 runs identical" withsegment_prior_rows: 0, the new default.AdventureWorks, 5 full fits per setting (seeds 1, 2, 3, 11, 12):
DimProductDCRChinook, seeds 1-5: 142/142 on every seed with 0 and with 20.
Science checks C09, C19, C43 and C75 run locally with 0 and with 20. All pass with 0; C09, C19 and C43 fail with 20.
Full CI on 1ef85cb.
Statistics and privacy
docs/proofs/sec_g3_smalldims.tex) and checks. The release PR rebuilds the proofs PDF.Checklist
docs/privacy.md("Small dimensions"), regenerated settings and spec references, claims PRV-20 to PRV-34, README / RM-24🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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