Writing Knowledge Work Plan

This note records the current plan for finishing the paper terminology, concept-language, findings, figures, and section-outline knowledge work before drafting the paper section by section.

Phase 1: Finish Concept Cleanup

Clear the remaining TODO-* notes by either integrating them into existing concept notes, promoting them into new atomic concept notes, or deleting them once their content has a home.

Initial disposition:

Recommended order:

1. Create the strategy-structure recovery problem concept note.
2. Ingest theory language from path:paper/theory_section.
3. Patch remaining motivation fragments into existing notes.
4. Delete TODO notes once their content has a durable home.

Status as of 2026-05-04: the writing TODO notes listed above have been promoted, integrated, or removed. The remaining work is to review the resulting concept notes for paper-level consistency and then proceed to findings, figures, and section outlines.

Phase 2: Theory Language Ingestion

Create a focused writing concept note, likely writing/concepts/strategy-recovery-theory-language.md.

The note should record weak recovery, strong recovery, recovery distances at the writing level, profiled ELBO margin language, and the role of complexity/simple-router-generator bias in selecting globally meaningful latent structure. The note should cite path:paper/theory_section as source material but should not replace the formal theory files.

Phase 3: Findings And Figures

Update the claim and figure planning notes using the settled terminology.

Targets:

• revise Claims, especially outdated language around reconstruction metrics and method variants;
• update figure notes, especially the reconstruction/alignment frontier figure, with base-relative reconstruction $\mathcal R_\theta$, residual surprise explained by $z$, alignment-reconstruction frontier, and the figure labels ELBO, $\beta$-ELBO, global scale, token weighting, global + token, and token inverse;
• decide the main-body versus appendix figure set.

Phase 4: Section-By-Section Outline

After the concept language and findings are stable, populate writing/sections/ with high-level section planning notes rather than prose drafts.

Candidate section notes:

• 01-introduction.md
• 02-problem-statement.md
• 03-methodology.md
• 04-experiments.md
• 05-theory.md
• 06-discussion.md if needed

Each section note should record the section purpose, concepts required, claims delivered, figures used, and open writing decisions. It should not yet be a full prose draft.