{"baselines":{"description":"Declared before any candidate is evaluated. At minimum a trivial predictor (e.g. empirical marginal distribution of the held-out symbols).","examples":["trivial-predictor","profile-declared-null-model"],"rule":"Baselines are frozen in the profile before candidate submission; adding or changing baselines after seeing results invalidates the run."},"blinding":"Evaluator seals the held-out traces (hash published) before any candidate is submitted. Candidates are evaluated blind; the seal is opened only after all candidate description lengths and predictions are committed.","candidate_encodings":{"description":"Each candidate explanation must be submitted as a fixed, deterministic program whose description length is computable and charged in full against its gain.","rule":"No candidate may be modified after the held-out data are unsealed."},"date":"2026-09-29","energy":"Where applicable, record energy consumed (joules) alongside gain so Turing yield (T/J) can be computed; energy instrumentation method must be declared in the profile.","experiment_id":"EXP-001","freeze_procedure":"To be defined before freezing: profile hash published, sealed data hash published, candidate submission window closed, then evaluation.","frozen":false,"name":"Omega-trace instrument validation","objective":"Determine whether the Turing measurement reproduces on real Omega execution traces: does the instrument work reproducibly before any scientific claim is made with it?","quantity_measured":"Turing gain (T) of candidate explanatory programs over declared baselines on sealed held-out Omega traces","quantizer":{"description":"Continuous observations are encoded as declared quantized symbols per Assumption A3 of the formal paper. The quantizer is a required profile field.","spec":"PLACEHOLDER - to be fixed at freeze time: uniform bin width, number of bins, and bin edge convention must be declared here before freezing."},"seeds":"All random seeds fixed and recorded in the profile before freezing; any stochastic component of the evaluator must be reproducible from the recorded seeds.","status":"draft-not-frozen","uncertainty":"Report Turing gain with confidence intervals from the declared resampling procedure; recomputation by an independent party from the frozen profile must fall inside the reported envelope.","verdict_rules":["Positive Turing gain on sealed held-out data is required for a candidate to count as an explanation.","Noise controls (randomized candidate encodings) must NOT show positive gain; a positive control gain invalidates the instrument, not the candidate.","Recomputation from the frozen profile and sealed data must reproduce the reported gain within the declared uncertainty envelope."],"version":"0.1-draft","warning":"DRAFT profile. Not frozen. No measurement may be reported against this profile."}