# DIAL core ablation ladder

- **Registry ID:** `ic-dial-core`
- **Book:** Infinitesimal Creativity
- **Documentation status:** `local-curated`
- **Experimental status:** developmental and registered calibrations
- **Canonical documentation URL:** https://categorical-ai.sridharmahadevan.com/experiments/ic-dial-core

## Purpose

Exact, differentiated, mixed-witness, operator-estimation, static-causal, active, sequential, and nonstationary DIAL tests.

## Book location

- Chapter 10: DIAL as an Algorithmic Family

## Documented studies

- No study-level titles are registered; consult the family-level record.

## Associated code packages

- `synthetic-creativity-archive` — Infinitesimal Creativity registered experiment archive; **local-curated**; license decision pending. Registered, developmental, negative, and transport experiment directories underlying Chapters 10–19. Public packets require separate provenance, dependency, rights, and privacy review.

## Start here

These concrete files are selected from the complete resolved source surface. They orient the reader; they are not a claim that every family is independently reproducible.

- **implementation · staged-not-public** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial0a_linear_exact.py`. Locate this file in the curated companion packet; no public download is currently offered.
- **implementation · staged-not-public** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial0b_differentiation.py`. Locate this file in the curated companion packet; no public download is currently offered.
- **implementation · staged-not-public** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial0c_mixed_witness_ablation.py`. Locate this file in the curated companion packet; no public download is currently offered.
- **implementation · staged-not-public** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial0d_dual_operator_estimation.py`. Locate this file in the curated companion packet; no public download is currently offered.

## Entry points

- `run.py or named family script in each packet`

## Result artifacts

- `RESULTS.md`
- `completion.json`
- `registration.json`

## Resolved code surfaces (11)

- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial0a_linear_exact.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial0b_differentiation.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial0c_mixed_witness_ablation.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial0d_dual_operator_estimation.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial1_static_causal_identification.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial1b_equivalence_intervention_design.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial1c_active_intervention_selection.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial1d_sequential_intervention_escalation.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial2a_nonstationary_decisions.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial2n1_girl_state_admission.py`
- **implementation** — `synthetic-creativity-archive:dial2n_girl_recurrence.py`

## Frozen run records (13)

- `2026-08-09_dial0_ablation_design`
- `2026-08-09_dial0a_linear_exact_calibration`
- `2026-08-09_dial0a_linear_exact_v2_calibration`
- `2026-08-09_dial0b_differentiation_calibration`
- `2026-08-09_dial0c_mixed_witness_registered`
- `2026-08-09_dial0d_dual_operator_estimation_registered`
- `2026-08-09_dial1_static_causal_registered`
- `2026-08-09_dial1b_equivalence_design_registered`
- `2026-08-09_dial1c_active_intervention_registered`
- `2026-08-09_dial1d_sequential_escalation_registered`
- `2026-08-09_dial2a_nonstationary_decisions_registered`
- `2026-08-09_dial2n1_girl_state_admission_registered`
- `2026-08-09_dial2n_girl_recurrence_registered`

## Evidence boundary

These studies calibrate component semantics and do not establish autonomous creativity.

A code or artifact link establishes traceability. It does not by itself establish independent reproduction, statistical adequacy, correctness, or support for a claim beyond this boundary.