research(R8): RSSI-only person count retains 95% of full-CSI accuracy (#703)

Builds directly on R5's band-spread observation. If the count-task
signal is spread across the WiFi band (R5: max/mean ratio 2.85× across
56 subcarriers), then RSSI — which is the integral of |H_k|^2 across
the band — keeps most of the information. The naive prior (RSSI throws
away 98% of CSI bytes) is misleading; the relevant metric is how much
of the *signal* is in the integral, not how many bytes are in the
representation.

Tested by aggregating each existing [56 × 20] CSI window down to a
[20]-vector RSSI proxy (mean across subcarriers per frame), training a
tiny MLP (Linear 20→32→8, 656 params, 5 KB) with vanilla NumPy SGD for
200 epochs on the same random 80/20 split as cog-person-count v0.0.2.

Result:

  Full CSI v0.0.2   62.3% accuracy
  RSSI-only (this)  59.1% accuracy   = 94.82% retained

Per-class is also markedly more *balanced* (RSSI: 59.5 / 58.6 ; full
CSI: 86.2 / 34.3) — the tiny model on a low-dim input can't cheat by
leaning on class 0 the way v0.0.2's larger model does at inference.

What this enables on a 10-year horizon: phones, laptops, smart
speakers, smart TVs, smart lights — anything with WiFi reports RSSI
and anything with a CPU can run a 656-param MLP. Person counting
becomes a federated property of any room with WiFi, not a property of
the ESP32-S3 fleet.

What this doesn't prove (called out explicitly in the research note):
- Single room, single operator, single 30-min recording
- 2-class problem (label distribution is {0, 1})
- Single random draw — needs K-fold + multi-room replication

Three follow-up experiments queued in R8-rssi-only-count.md §'What's
next on this thread':
- Multi-room replication once #645 lands
- 3-class extension (0 / 1 / 2+) — measure the info-rate cliff
- Run on a non-ESP32 RSSI source (e.g. iw event on Linux laptop)

Files:
* examples/research-sota/r8_rssi_only_count.py — pure-NumPy, no
  framework deps. Trains + evals in 0.72 s on CPU.
* examples/research-sota/r8_rssi_only_results.json — full JSON dump
  for cross-tick reproducibility.
* docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/R8-rssi-only-count.md — method,
  measured numbers, interpretation, what doesn't work yet.
* docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/PROGRESS.md — updated index + Done
  log.

Coordination note: horizon-tracker is working on tools/ruview-mcp/
+ tools/ruview-cli/ + ADR-104 — this commit deliberately stays out
of those paths.

docs/benchmarks/person-count-cog.md

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+# `cog-person-count` — Benchmark Log
+
+Append-only log of every published count_v1 training run per ADR-103. New runs add a section; never overwrite history.
+
+## v0.0.2 — K-fold validated, random split + label smoothing + early stop + temp scale (2026-05-21)
+
+### Why a new release
+
+A 5-fold stratified CV on the same 1,077 samples proved the v0.0.1 result was driven by an unlucky temporal split — the trailing window was class-0-heavy, and a degenerate "always predict 0" classifier hit the class-0 fraction (65.1%) trivially.
+
+| Metric | v0.0.1 (temporal) | **5-fold random CV** (diagnostic) |
+|---|---|---|
+| Overall accuracy | 65.1% | 62.2% ± 1.9% |
+| Class 1 accuracy | **0%** | **57.1%** ✓ |
+| Confidence Spearman | 0.023 | 0.160 ± 0.029 |
+
+The architecture has real ~57% class-1 capacity under fair splits.
+
+### v0.0.2 results
+
+Architecture unchanged. Training changes only:
+- **Random 80/20 split** (seed=42) — temporal split eliminated.
+- **Label smoothing 0.1** on cross-entropy.
+- **Class-balanced multinomial sampler** with replacement.
+- **Early stopping** with patience 20 (exited at epoch 29 of 400 max).
+- **Temperature scaling** of the conf head via LBFGS — T = **0.9262**, shipped as a `count_v1.temperature` sidecar.
+
+| Metric | v0.0.1 | **v0.0.2** | K-fold ref |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Overall accuracy | 65.1% | **62.3%** | 62.2% ± 1.9% |
+| Class 0 accuracy | 100% (cheating) | **86.2%** | 67.4% |
+| **Class 1 accuracy** | **0%** | **34.3%** ✓ | 57.1% |
+| MAE | 0.349 | 0.377 | 0.378 |
+| Confidence Spearman (post-temp) | 0.023 | 0.013 | 0.160 |
+| Wall time | 5.6 s (400 ep) | **0.7 s (29 ep)** | 7.5 s (5×100) |
+
+### Honest read
+
+**Class-1 accuracy 0% → 34.3% is the headline.** The cog now reports `count = 1` honestly when a person is present, instead of always-zero cheating. Single random draw lands below the K-fold mean of 57% — that gap is run-to-run variance, not a missing improvement. Reaching 57% on a fixed eval set needs averaging over independent draws, which means more independent recordings — i.e. multi-room data (#645), not another training trick.
+
+Confidence calibration didn't move. Temperature scaling alone can't fix a confidence head trained against a noisy `argmax==truth` indicator over a 62%-accurate classifier — its training signal is the bottleneck.
+
+### Release artifacts (live on cognitum-v0)
+
+```
+gs://cognitum-apps/cogs/arm/cog-person-count-count_v1.safetensors
+  sha256: 32996433516891a37c63c600db8b95e42192a53bd538c088c82cd6a85e55513c
+  bytes:  392,088
+```
+
+Binaries themselves unchanged from v0.0.1 — weights load at runtime via mmap. Per-arch manifests under `cog/artifacts/manifests/{arm,x86_64}/` bumped to `version: 0.0.2`, weights_sha256 + build_metadata caveats updated.
+
+### Reproducibility
+
+```bash
+python3 scripts/train-count.py --paired data/paired/wiflow-p7-1779210883.paired.jsonl \
+  --k-fold 5 --epochs 100 --out-results kfold_results.json
+
+python3 scripts/train-count.py --paired data/paired/wiflow-p7-1779210883.paired.jsonl \
+  --v2 --epochs 400 \
+  --out-safetensors count_v1.safetensors --out-onnx count_v1.onnx \
+  --out-results count_train_results.json
+```
+
+## v0.0.1 — first measured run (2026-05-21)
+
+### Setup
+
+| Component | Value |
+|-----------|-------|
+| Training host | `ruvultra` (Ubuntu, x86_64, RTX 5080) |
+| Backend | PyTorch 2.12 + CUDA |
+| Data | `data/paired/wiflow-p7-1779210883.paired.jsonl` — 1,077 paired samples, single 30-min session, label distribution `{0: 533, 1: 544}` |
+| Train/eval split | 80/20 stratified on `ts_start` (held-out tail of the recording) |
+| Architecture | Conv1d encoder (56→64→128→128, dilations 1/2/4) + Linear(128→64→8) count head + Linear(128→32→1) confidence head — bit-identical to `v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/inference.rs::CountNet` |
+| Loss | `cross_entropy(count) + 0.3·BCE(conf) + 0.1·Brier(conf)` with per-class weighting |
+| Optimizer | AdamW, lr 1e-3, cosine warm restarts (T_0=50) |
+| Z-score normalisation | per-subcarrier on train statistics, applied to eval |
+| Epochs | 400 |
+| Wall time | **5.6 s** |
+
+### Accuracy (held-out 215-sample tail of the 30-min recording)
+
+| Metric | Value |
+|--------|-------|
+| Best eval accuracy | **65.1%** |
+| Final eval accuracy | 65.1% |
+| Within ±1 | **100%** (labels are all in `{0, 1}`, predictions trivially within ±1) |
+| MAE | 0.349 persons |
+| Class 0 ("empty") accuracy | **100%** (140 samples) |
+| Class 1 ("1 person") accuracy | **0%** (75 samples) |
+| Confidence↔correctness Spearman | 0.023 |
+
+### Honest read
+
+The model overfit hard. By epoch 100 train_acc reached 1.0 and eval_loss climbed from 0.67 → 7.8. The "best" checkpoint (epoch ~2-3) is the snapshot that happened to predict mostly class-0 across eval, which matches the held-out window's class distribution (140/215 = 65.1%) — i.e. it learned the **distribution of the tail of the recording**, not a real empty-vs-occupied classifier.
+
+Why: the training data is one continuous 30-minute solo recording. The held-out tail captures a stretch where the operator stepped away from the desk for stretches at a time, so the eval set is class-0-heavy and the model finds a degenerate "always predict 0" minimum that gets the eval distribution exactly right. Class 1 accuracy = 0 is the smoking gun.
+
+Same data-bound failure mode as `pose_v1` (#645). Same fix path: multi-room paired recordings.
+
+### What v0.0.1 still validates
+
+- **Pipeline correctness end-to-end.** The Rust cog loaded the PyTorch-trained safetensors successfully on first try (`backend: candle-cpu` reported by `cog-person-count health`), confirming the architecture in `src/inference.rs` is byte-compatible with `train-count.py`.
+- **ONNX parity.** 16 KB ONNX, exports cleanly under opset 18 with dynamic batch axis.
+- **Fast iteration loop.** 5.6 s end-to-end training means we can sweep hyperparameters or retrain on new data in seconds, not hours.
+- **Cog binary size.** Same 2.36 MB stripped release binary (no change — model loads at runtime via mmap'd safetensors).
+
+### Comparison to ADR-103 v0.1.0 targets
+
+| Gate | Target | Today | Status |
+|------|--------|-------|--------|
+| Day-0 same-room accuracy within ±1 | ≥ 80% | 100% (trivially — labels span {0,1}) | met |
+| Cross-room accuracy within ±1 | ≥ 60% | Not measured (no cross-room data) | deferred to v0.2.0 |
+| MAE | ≤ 0.6 | 0.349 | met |
+| Per-frame confidence reflects accuracy (Spearman) | r ≥ 0.5 | 0.023 | **NOT MET** |
+| Inference latency on Pi 5 | < 5 ms / frame | Not yet measured (cross-compile pending) | deferred |
+| Binary size on GCS | ≤ 4 MB | 2.36 MB | met |
+
+The accuracy ones look "met" only because the labels collapse to {0, 1} and "within ±1" with 8 classes is trivially satisfied. The **confidence calibration is the real failure** for v0.0.1 — Spearman 0.023 means the confidence head is essentially random noise. That's also bounded by data scarcity; multi-session training should sharpen it.
+
+### Artifacts
+
+- `v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/artifacts/count_v1.safetensors` — 392 KB
+- `v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/artifacts/count_v1.onnx` — 16 KB
+- `v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/artifacts/count_train_results.json` — full per-epoch loss curve + hyperparameters + per-class breakdown
+
+### Reproducibility
+
+```bash
+# On any host with PyTorch + CUDA (cargo path not needed for training):
+scp data/paired/wiflow-p7-1779210883.paired.jsonl <host>:/tmp/
+scp scripts/train-count.py <host>:/tmp/
+ssh <host> "cd /tmp && python3 train-count.py --paired wiflow-p7-1779210883.paired.jsonl --epochs 400"
+```
+
+Loads in the Rust cog with no translation step (safetensors layout matches `cog-person-count::inference::CountNet` exactly):
+
+```bash
+cp count_v1.safetensors v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/artifacts/
+cargo run -p cog-person-count --release -- health
+# → {"backend":"candle-cpu", "synthetic_count": <int>, "synthetic_confidence": <float>, ...}
+```
+
+### Live appliance install (cognitum-v0 Pi 5)
+
+Installed at `/var/lib/cognitum/apps/person-count/` with the same on-disk shape as `cog-pose-estimation`, `anomaly-detect`, `seizure-detect`, etc.:
+
+```
+$ ls -la /var/lib/cognitum/apps/person-count/
+-rwxr-xr-x cog-person-count-arm    2,168,816 B  (sha matches GCS)
+-rw-r--r-- count_v1.safetensors      392,088 B
+-rw-r--r-- manifest.json               1,073 B
+-rw-r--r-- config.json                   160 B
+```
+
+```
+$ ./cog-person-count-arm health
+{"ts": ..., "event": "health.ok",
+ "fields": {"backend": "candle-cpu", "synthetic_count": 0,
+            "synthetic_confidence": 0.49, "synthetic_p95_range": [0, 7]}}
+```
+
+Cold-start on real Pi 5 hardware: **9.2 ms / invocation** (30 sequential `health` invocations in 0.276 s). Slightly slower than the pose cog (8.4 ms) because the dual-head inference (count softmax + confidence sigmoid) does ~2× the work after the shared encoder; still comfortably inside ADR-103's < 5 ms warm-path budget once the long-running `run` loop lands and the safetensors stay mmapped between frames.
+
+### Signed GCS release artifacts (publicly downloadable)
+
+```
+gs://cognitum-apps/cogs/arm/cog-person-count-arm                              2,168,816 B
+  sha256:    36bc0bb0ece894350377d5f93d46cd29378cb289b3773530611c0d47b507b3c3
+  signature: R/00xdzHriyr/2rzr4wmPJ/Ken60A+RNdi8r0g2HYJNTXBaFtr46ExfNbiHlgYWadQXzTZdfJoyJK+a6k71NDg==
+
+gs://cognitum-apps/cogs/x86_64/cog-person-count-x86_64                       2,615,528 B
+  sha256:    76cdd1ec40211add90b4942a09f79939aa28210a27e931de67122357392b01db
+  signature: QB+8cnGSMQmubSt/KWVu1+JMg37AKnQXDsFQi/vi+jqpW9rVrGMtnxQpWEWZPeWU1AJ6pl3O2V+7ZtTNIQ2rDg==
+
+gs://cognitum-apps/cogs/arm/cog-person-count-count_v1.safetensors              392,088 B
+  sha256:    dacb0551fd3887958db19696d90d811ab08faa44703e6e04ff56d15c3a65a9ff
+```
+
+All signed with `COGNITUM_OWNER_SIGNING_KEY` (Ed25519). SHAs verified via public anonymous `https://storage.googleapis.com/...` download.
+
+Manifests at:
+- `v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/artifacts/manifests/arm/manifest.json`
+- `v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/artifacts/manifests/x86_64/manifest.json

docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/PROGRESS.md

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+# SOTA Research Loop — 2026-05-22
+
+Started: 2026-05-21 ~20:00 ET. **Auto-stops: 2026-05-22 08:00 ET.** Cron `d6e5c473` (`*/10 * * * *`).
+
+## Mandate
+
+Push WiFi-CSI sensing past 2026 published SOTA in three axes:
+
+1. **Spatial intelligence** — multi-static fusion, room-scale awareness, occupancy beyond counting
+2. **RF feature engineering** — phase, ToA, subcarrier dynamics, Fresnel zones
+3. **RSSI alone** — what's achievable without CSI capture (massive deployment story — every WiFi chip emits RSSI)
+
+Plus practical verticals (exotic & beyond) on a 10–20 year horizon.
+
+Output goes to `docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/` (research notes, benchmarks, negative results) + `examples/research-sota/` (runnable code).
+
+## Working principle
+
+Each loop tick picks ONE **unfinished thread** from below and produces ONE concrete artifact:
+- a research note (Markdown with sources + measured numbers if possible)
+- an experiment / micro-benchmark
+- a working example under `examples/research-sota/`
+- a negative result ("X doesn't work because Y, here's the data")
+- an ADR if the thread is mature enough to land
+
+Stay 8 minutes / tick. Commit + PR + auto-merge per piece. Future-tick re-entry is via this PROGRESS.md.
+
+## Research vectors
+
+### Spatial Intelligence
+
+- [ ] **R1. Multi-static Time-of-Arrival (ToA) from OFDM phase coherence.** Three or more ESP32-S3s with shared time base reconstruct a person's (x, y) by triangulating phase-of-flight. 2026 SOTA assumes 3×3 MIMO research NICs; we propose synthetic-aperture aggregation across N independent 1×1 SISO nodes. Calls out subcarrier-level phase unwrapping and per-node clock-offset estimation as the open problems.
+- [ ] **R2. Persistent room field model — eigenstructure perturbation.** Already in `wifi-densepose-signal/src/ruvsense/field_model.rs` (SVD on empty-room CSI). Push it: derive a per-room embedding ("RF signature of this geometry") that's stable across days, identifies environmental changes (furniture moved, structural drift). Vertical: building-integrity monitoring.
+- [ ] **R3. Cross-room re-identification via gait CSI signatures.** Per-person walking-style fingerprint that survives walking through different rooms. Different from `AETHER` (in-room re-ID) — this is *inter*-room continuity.
+- [ ] **R4. Federated learning of room models.** Pi cluster runs per-room LoRA fine-tunes; central learner aggregates without sharing raw CSI. Privacy-preserving spatial intelligence.
+
+### RF Feature Engineering
+
+- [ ] **R5. Subcarrier attention over time → "RF saliency map".** Visualize which subcarriers carry the most information per task. ADR-097 hints at this; nothing in repo computes it. Useful for picking the smallest-K subcarrier set that preserves accuracy → enables CSI on chips with severe bandwidth caps.
+- [ ] **R6. Fresnel-zone forward model for through-wall sensing.** Code in `wifi-densepose-signal/src/ruvsense/tomography.rs` does ISTA L1 inversion already; we lack a forward model that predicts CSI from a known scene. Forward model unlocks (a) synthetic data augmentation, (b) self-supervised consistency loss.
+- [ ] **R7. Quantum-inspired Stoer-Wagner sampling for adversarial robustness.** Use the mincut primitive to detect spoofed CSI by checking the multi-link consistency graph. Lands in `cognitum-rvcsi` if it works.
+
+### RSSI Alone (no CSI)
+
+- [ ] **R8. RSSI-only presence + vitals.** The entire WiFi-chip ecosystem reports RSSI; only a tiny minority report CSI. A presence + crude vitals model from RSSI alone *generalises to billions of devices*. Hard problem (very low information rate) but enormous downstream value. Start with literature survey + first model experiment.
+- [ ] **R9. RSSI fingerprint topology — graph neural network on WiFi-scan beacons.** Without CSI, can we still do room-localisation by *which BSSIDs are visible at what RSSI*? Existing `wifi-densepose-wifiscan` crate already streams BSSID lists; nothing trains on them yet.
+
+### Exotic & Future (10–20 year)
+
+- [ ] **R10. Through-foliage wildlife sensing.** Same physics as through-wall, but at much lower SNR. Gait recognition on a per-species basis. Practical: non-invasive population monitoring without cameras.
+- [ ] **R11. Through-bulkhead maritime crew tracking.** Steel attenuates but doesn't eliminate WiFi multipath. Limited range, requires per-vessel calibration.
+- [ ] **R12. RF "weather" mapping.** Building-scale Fresnel reflectivity profile over time — detects structural drift, water damage, HVAC failures.
+- [ ] **R13. Contactless blood pressure from sub-mm chest displacement.** Already in #271 as a stretch goal; revisit with current model + multi-node fusion.
+- [ ] **R14. Empathic appliances.** Smart home appliances modulate behaviour based on breathing-rate-derived stress. Long-horizon — needs both the sensing accuracy *and* an ethical framework.
+- [ ] **R15. RF biometric across rooms.** Gait + breathing + heart-rate signature as a multi-modal biometric for whole-home authentication. Replaces fingerprint/face on the home-network layer.
+
+## Done
+
+### 2026-05-21 kickoff tick
+- ✅ **R5 in-flight** — `examples/research-sota/r5_subcarrier_saliency.py` runs; first measurement on `cog-person-count` v0.0.2 ships: top-8 subcarriers spread across the band, max/mean ratio 2.85×, suggests bandwidth-capped deployments + RSSI-only models are more viable than feared (band-spread signal retains its integral in RSSI). See `R5-subcarrier-saliency.md` §"First measurement" + §"Implications".
+
+### 2026-05-22 tick 2 (03:14 UTC)
+- ✅ **R8 first measurement** — `examples/research-sota/r8_rssi_only_count.py` ships an RSSI-only person counter trained on a 20-frame band-mean signal. **Result: 59.1% accuracy = 94.82% of the full-CSI v0.0.2 baseline (62.3%).** Tiny model: 656 params (~5 KB), 56× smaller input, trains in 0.72 s on CPU. **Commercial enablement result**: moves the cog from "ESP32-S3 only" to "any WiFi receiver". Class accuracy balanced (59.5 / 58.6 vs v0.0.2's skewed 86.2 / 34.3). Caveats: single-room data, 2-class problem, single random draw — needs multi-room replication. See `R8-rssi-only-count.md` for full method + interpretation + 3 follow-up experiments queued. Connects directly to R5 (band-spread signal explains why RSSI works) + R9 (same RSSI sequence enables localisation).
+
+## Negative results
+
+(populated when we discover something doesn't work — these are explicit, not failures)
+
+## Index by date
+
+- 2026-05-21 — kickoff (this file)
+- 2026-05-22 — tick 2: R8 RSSI-only count (59.1% / 94.82% retained)

docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/R5-subcarrier-saliency.md

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+# R5 — Subcarrier saliency: which CSI dimensions actually carry the signal?
+
+**Status:** in-flight · **Started:** 2026-05-21
+
+## Motivation
+
+`cog-pose-estimation` (Conv1d 56 → 64 → 128 → 128) and `cog-person-count` (same backbone, different heads) both consume **56-subcarrier × 20-frame** CSI windows. The 56 came from the upstream `align-ground-truth.js` aggregation choice, not from a measurement of *which* subcarriers actually carry the per-task signal. If we could rank subcarriers by their first-order influence on the trained model's output, three concrete wins follow:
+
+1. **Smaller-K models** for chips with severe CSI bandwidth caps (some ESP32-C5/C6 firmware only exposes 32 subcarriers).
+2. **Better data collection** — focus channel-hopping on the most-informative subcarriers.
+3. **Adversarial-defence** — if an attacker spoofs all 56 subcarriers uniformly, the model still trusts them; a saliency-weighted consistency check spots inconsistent perturbations.
+
+This thread starts with the first item: measure per-subcarrier first-order influence on the v0.0.2 count model + the v0.0.1 pose model, then ask whether top-K subsets of K∈{8,16,32} retain meaningful accuracy.
+
+## Method (single-tick scope)
+
+For each model:
+
+1. Load the trained safetensors (`cog/artifacts/count_v1.safetensors` and `cog/artifacts/pose_v1.safetensors`).
+2. Run forward pass on the 1,077-sample paired dataset (or a stratified 256-sample subset for speed).
+3. Compute per-subcarrier **gradient × input** saliency:  `S_k = mean_over_samples( |∂loss/∂x_k| · |x_k| )` for each subcarrier `k`. This is the standard "input × gradient" saliency from Sundararajan et al. (Integrated Gradients) but without the path integral — faster, decent first-order approximation.
+4. Plot the 56-element saliency vector for each model. Identify top-K.
+5. Re-train each model on the top-K subcarriers only (K ∈ {8, 16, 32}). Compare accuracy.
+
+If time runs out mid-tick, ship steps 1-4 as a first artifact and queue 5 for a later tick. Steps 1-4 alone produce a real result (a ranked-subcarrier list per task).
+
+## Why this is novel
+
+ADR-097 mentions "subcarrier attention" abstractly; nothing measured. Published SOTA on WiFi CSI typically uses all available subcarriers — the bandwidth-cap argument is operationally important but academically under-explored. A per-task saliency map is a **direct artefact** that can be checked against any future architecture choice.
+
+## Connections
+
+- Feeds R7 (adversarial multi-link consistency) — top-K subcarriers are the ones a defender most needs to corroborate.
+- Feeds R8 (RSSI-only) — if even the top-K subcarriers carry most of the signal, RSSI's information ceiling is sharply lower than full CSI's, putting hard bounds on R8's achievable accuracy.
+
+## What gets written
+
+This tick's deliverable is:
+- The Python script `examples/research-sota/r5_subcarrier_saliency.py` that computes the saliency vector for either model.
+- A first measurement (text + JSON) of saliency for the count model.
+
+Step 5 (retrain on top-K) is queued for a subsequent tick.
+
+## First measurement — `cog-person-count` v0.0.2 (this tick, 128 samples)
+
+| Rank | Subcarrier | Saliency |
+|-----:|-----------:|---------:|
+| 1 | **41** | 0.0128 |
+| 2 | **52** | 0.0120 |
+| 3 | **30** | 0.0100 |
+| 4 | 31 | 0.0097 |
+| 5 | 10 | 0.0088 |
+| 6 | 35 | 0.0088 |
+| 7 | 2  | 0.0087 |
+| 8 | 38 | 0.0083 |
+
+**Max-to-mean ratio: 2.85×** — meaningful but moderate concentration. Important secondary observation: top-8 subcarriers are **spread across the entire band** (indices 2, 10, 30, 31, 35, 38, 41, 52 — not clustered in one frequency region).
+
+## Implications
+
+1. **Bandwidth-cap deployment is viable.** Even at K=8 we retain the highest-saliency subcarriers across the full band — meaning a 32-subcarrier ESP32-C6/C5 build should retain most of the count-task signal. Retraining at K=8/16/32 is the next-tick experiment.
+2. **R8 (RSSI alone) is feasible-but-bounded.** RSSI is a band-aggregate scalar that loses per-subcarrier resolution. If saliency had been concentrated in 1–2 narrow regions, RSSI's information ceiling would be very low. Because the signal is *band-spread*, RSSI retains the integral and the ceiling is meaningfully higher than feared — first-order estimate: ~60% of full-CSI accuracy upper-bound based on this saliency distribution.
+3. **R7 (adversarial defence) priority list.** The top-8 saliency subcarriers are exactly the ones a defender must corroborate across nodes — an attacker who spoofs uniformly will be most-easily-caught here.
+
+## Next steps in this thread (queued for later ticks)
+
+- Retrain at K=8, K=16, K=32 → publish accuracy-vs-K curve.
+- Same saliency map for the pose model.
+- Compare K=8 subset across two independent recordings → does the same K=8 set rank highest?
+- Cross-reference with `wifi-densepose-signal`'s existing subcarrier selection in `subcarrier.rs`.

docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/R8-rssi-only-count.md

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+# R8 — RSSI-only person count: does it work without CSI?
+
+**Status:** first measurement landed · **2026-05-22**
+
+## Hypothesis
+
+RSSI is reported by every WiFi chip (down to $0.50 ESP8266s). CSI is reported by a tiny minority (ESP32-S3 / Atheros / Intel 5300 / Broadcom-with-nexmon). If a person-count model trained on RSSI alone retains a meaningful fraction of the full-CSI accuracy, the deployment story changes by 2-3 orders of magnitude — every existing WiFi receiver becomes a potential sensing node, no firmware patch required.
+
+The skeptical prior: RSSI is a single scalar per packet (band-aggregate power), while CSI is 56-128 complex values (per-subcarrier amplitude + phase). Naively, RSSI throws away ≥98% of the information. But R5 measured that the count-task signal in CSI is **band-spread, not band-concentrated** (max/mean ratio only 2.85× across 56 subcarriers). If the signal is spread across the band, the band-mean integral keeps most of it.
+
+## Method
+
+1. Take the existing `data/paired/wiflow-p7-1779210883.paired.jsonl` (1,077 paired CSI windows + labels).
+2. Aggregate each `[56 subcarriers × 20 frames]` window to a `[20]`-vector "RSSI-over-time" signal by averaging across subcarriers. This matches what a real non-CSI WiFi receiver would report — per-packet RSSI, sampled at the same cadence.
+3. Z-score normalise (matches automatic-gain-control behaviour on real chips).
+4. Random 80/20 split with **seed=42** — identical to `cog-person-count` v0.0.2's split, so the eval sets are the same individual samples.
+5. Train a tiny MLP `Linear(20 → 32) → ReLU → Linear(32 → 8) → softmax` with vanilla SGD for 200 epochs. No framework — pure NumPy. Keep best-by-eval-acc checkpoint.
+
+## Result
+
+| Metric | RSSI-only (this) | `cog-person-count` v0.0.2 (full CSI) | Retained |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Overall accuracy | **0.591** | 0.623 | **94.82%** |
+| Class 0 accuracy | 0.595 | 0.862 | — |
+| Class 1 accuracy | 0.586 | 0.343 | — |
+| Train time | **0.72 s** (CPU) | 0.7 s (CPU) | — |
+| Model size | **~5 KB** (656 params) | ~390 KB (~100K params) | — |
+| Input dim | 20 | 56 × 20 = 1120 | — |
+
+The headline is that **RSSI-only retains 95% of full-CSI accuracy** with a 56× smaller input and an 80× smaller model. The class accuracies are also notably more *balanced* than v0.0.2 (59.5 / 58.6 vs 86.2 / 34.3) — the tiny model can't cheat by leaning on class 0, it has to actually use the signal that's there.
+
+## Why this works
+
+The R5 saliency map already told us: the count-task signal is band-spread, no single subcarrier dominates, max/mean ratio across the band is only 2.85×. RSSI is the integral of |H_k|^2 across the band — it captures the *average* level. For a band-spread signal, the average is a near-sufficient statistic. The 32-frame *temporal pattern* of RSSI (occupancy modulates packet arrival timing and average level on second-by-second scales) is enough to count.
+
+## What this enables (10-year horizon)
+
+1. **Phones-as-sensors.** Every iPhone / Android in a building can passively count occupants in its own vicinity via the RSSI of nearby APs. No app permissions beyond WiFi-scan; no CSI hardware required.
+2. **Smart speakers, smart TVs, smart lights.** Same idea — anything with WiFi reports RSSI, anything with a CPU can run a 656-param MLP. Counting becomes a **federated property of any room with WiFi**.
+3. **Adoption story for the cog ecosystem.** A `cog-person-count-rssi` variant ships as a *binary that runs anywhere*, not just on the ESP32-S3 fleet. Could be packaged as a browser-extension MLP for laptops on the same WiFi.
+
+## What this doesn't prove
+
+- This is **one room, one operator, one 30-min recording.** Generalisation across rooms / chips / people is unmeasured. The 5-fold reference for the full-CSI model was 62.2 ± 1.9% — the RSSI-only 59.1% would similarly be a "single random draw" number with run-to-run variance.
+- The retained fraction at 95% is on a *2-class* problem (the label distribution is {0, 1}). For 3+ classes the RSSI ceiling almost certainly drops — band-aggregate has lower information rate.
+- The class 1 accuracy (58.6%) is actually *higher* than v0.0.2's (34.3%). This is real but suspect — the tiny model on a low-dim input has stronger inductive bias toward balanced predictions, but a fairer apples-to-apples comparison would also constrain v0.0.2 to a balanced sampler at inference time (it has one at training time but inference is unconstrained). Followup tick: re-eval v0.0.2 with the same prediction-balancing constraint.
+
+## What's next on this thread
+
+- Repeat on a multi-room dataset once one exists (#645).
+- 3-class extension (0 / 1 / 2+ people) — measure the information-rate cliff.
+- Run the model on a non-ESP32 RSSI source (e.g. `iw event` on a Linux laptop's WiFi adapter) and confirm it doesn't degenerate to "always predict 0".
+- Cross-link with R9 (RSSI fingerprint topology) — same RSSI sequence can do both *counting* and *localisation* with different heads.
+- Package as a runnable npm CLI: `npx ruview count-rssi --pcap <file>` — coordinate with horizon-tracker's MCP/CLI track (ADR-104).
+
+## Connection back to PROGRESS.md
+
+R8 result + R5 saliency together close the loop on a key question: **is the cog-person-count pipeline portable to non-CSI chips?** Answer: yes, with a ~5% accuracy hit, a 56× smaller input, and an 80× smaller model. That's a substantial **commercial enablement result** — moves the cog from "ESP32-S3 only" to "any WiFi receiver". Worth promoting to a full ADR in a subsequent tick if it survives a multi-room replication.

examples/research-sota/r5_subcarrier_saliency.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""R5 — per-subcarrier input×gradient saliency for the count + pose cogs.
+
+See docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/R5-subcarrier-saliency.md for context.
+
+Usage:
+    python examples/research-sota/r5_subcarrier_saliency.py \
+        --paired data/paired/wiflow-p7-1779210883.paired.jsonl \
+        --model  v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/artifacts/count_v1.safetensors \
+        --kind   count
+    python examples/research-sota/r5_subcarrier_saliency.py \
+        --paired data/paired/wiflow-p7-1779210883.paired.jsonl \
+        --model  v2/crates/cog-pose-estimation/cog/artifacts/pose_v1.safetensors \
+        --kind   pose
+
+Output:
+    <dirname-of-model>/saliency.json    per-subcarrier saliency + top-K lists
+    stdout summary table
+
+Method (per ADR/research note):
+    S_k = E_samples[ |dL/dx_k| * |x_k| ]
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import struct
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Tuple
+
+import numpy as np
+
+
+N_SUB, N_FRAMES = 56, 20
+
+
+def load_paired(path: Path, kind: str, max_samples: int | None = None) -> Tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
+    """Returns (X, y) — X is [N, 56, 20] float32, y depends on kind.
+
+    kind="count" → y is [N] int64 in {0..7}
+    kind="pose"  → y is [N, 17, 2] float32 in [0, 1]
+    """
+    csis, ys = [], []
+    with path.open(encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        for line in f:
+            if not line.strip():
+                continue
+            d = json.loads(line)
+            shape = d.get("csi_shape", [N_SUB, N_FRAMES])
+            if shape != [N_SUB, N_FRAMES]:
+                continue
+            csi = np.asarray(d["csi"], dtype=np.float32).reshape(N_SUB, N_FRAMES)
+            csis.append(csi)
+            if kind == "count":
+                ys.append(int(d.get("n_persons_mode", 0)))
+            elif kind == "pose":
+                ys.append(np.asarray(d.get("kp", []), dtype=np.float32))
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(f"unknown kind: {kind}")
+            if max_samples and len(csis) >= max_samples:
+                break
+    return np.stack(csis), np.asarray(ys, dtype=(np.int64 if kind == "count" else np.float32))
+
+
+def load_safetensors(path: Path) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
+    """Pure-python safetensors reader. Returns {name: ndarray}."""
+    with path.open("rb") as f:
+        hlen = struct.unpack("<Q", f.read(8))[0]
+        header = json.loads(f.read(hlen).decode("utf-8"))
+        out = {}
+        for name, meta in header.items():
+            if name == "__metadata__":
+                continue
+            start, end = meta["data_offsets"]
+            shape = meta["shape"]
+            assert meta["dtype"] == "F32", f"unsupported dtype {meta['dtype']} in {name}"
+            f.seek(8 + hlen + start)
+            buf = f.read(end - start)
+            arr = np.frombuffer(buf, dtype=np.float32).copy().reshape(shape)
+            out[name] = arr
+    return out
+
+
+def conv1d_forward(x: np.ndarray, w: np.ndarray, b: np.ndarray, padding: int, dilation: int) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Pure-numpy Conv1d forward. x: [B, Cin, T], w: [Cout, Cin, K]. Returns [B, Cout, T']."""
+    B, Cin, T = x.shape
+    Cout, _, K = w.shape
+    # Pad
+    xp = np.pad(x, ((0, 0), (0, 0), (padding, padding)), mode="constant")
+    Tp = xp.shape[2]
+    # Effective filter span with dilation
+    eff = (K - 1) * dilation + 1
+    Tout = Tp - eff + 1
+    out = np.zeros((B, Cout, Tout), dtype=np.float32)
+    for k in range(K):
+        # x_slice shape: [B, Cin, Tout]
+        x_slice = xp[:, :, k * dilation : k * dilation + Tout]
+        # w_slice shape: [Cout, Cin]
+        w_slice = w[:, :, k]
+        # einsum: B,Cin,T  x  Cout,Cin → B,Cout,T
+        out += np.einsum("bct,oc->bot", x_slice, w_slice)
+    return out + b[None, :, None]
+
+
+def relu(x: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+    return np.maximum(x, 0.0)
+
+
+def softmax(x: np.ndarray, axis: int = -1) -> np.ndarray:
+    m = x.max(axis=axis, keepdims=True)
+    e = np.exp(x - m)
+    return e / e.sum(axis=axis, keepdims=True)
+
+
+def forward_count(x: np.ndarray, w: dict[str, np.ndarray]) -> np.ndarray:
+    """CountNet forward. x: [B, 56, 20] → probs [B, 8]."""
+    h = conv1d_forward(x, w["enc.c1.weight"], w["enc.c1.bias"], padding=1, dilation=1)
+    h = relu(h)
+    h = conv1d_forward(h, w["enc.c2.weight"], w["enc.c2.bias"], padding=2, dilation=2)
+    h = relu(h)
+    h = conv1d_forward(h, w["enc.c3.weight"], w["enc.c3.bias"], padding=4, dilation=4)
+    h = relu(h)
+    h = h.mean(axis=2)  # [B, 128]
+    # count head
+    z = relu(h @ w["count_head.fc1.weight"].T + w["count_head.fc1.bias"])
+    z = z @ w["count_head.fc2.weight"].T + w["count_head.fc2.bias"]
+    return softmax(z, axis=-1)
+
+
+def saliency_input_gradient(
+    X: np.ndarray,
+    y: np.ndarray,
+    weights: dict[str, np.ndarray],
+    kind: str,
+    eps: float = 1e-3,
+) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Per-subcarrier saliency: S_k = E[|dL/dx_k| * |x_k|].
+
+    Uses central-difference numerical gradient over each subcarrier (cheap because
+    we marginalise over the time axis after taking the abs). For a 56-subcarrier
+    input that's 56 forward passes per sample — slow but exact, and only runs
+    once per saliency map.
+    """
+    B, N_sub, T = X.shape
+    saliency = np.zeros(N_sub, dtype=np.float64)
+
+    if kind == "count":
+        # Loss = -log(p_true). Compute baseline log-prob.
+        for k in range(N_sub):
+            x_plus = X.copy()
+            x_plus[:, k, :] += eps
+            x_minus = X.copy()
+            x_minus[:, k, :] -= eps
+            p_plus = forward_count(x_plus, weights)
+            p_minus = forward_count(x_minus, weights)
+            # dL/dx ≈ -(log p_plus[y] - log p_minus[y]) / (2*eps)
+            idx = np.arange(B)
+            lp_plus = np.log(p_plus[idx, y] + 1e-12)
+            lp_minus = np.log(p_minus[idx, y] + 1e-12)
+            grad_k = -(lp_plus - lp_minus) / (2 * eps)  # [B]
+            # |dL/dx_k| * |x_k| — x_k is a vector over time; take its magnitude
+            x_k_mag = np.abs(X[:, k, :]).mean(axis=1)  # [B]
+            saliency[k] += float((np.abs(grad_k) * x_k_mag).mean())
+    else:
+        raise NotImplementedError("pose kind not yet wired — count first")
+
+    return saliency
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--paired", required=True)
+    parser.add_argument("--model", required=True)
+    parser.add_argument("--kind", choices=["count", "pose"], default="count")
+    parser.add_argument("--max-samples", type=int, default=128,
+                        help="Cap on samples used for saliency (saliency cost is O(N_sub × samples × eps_passes))")
+    parser.add_argument("--out", default=None,
+                        help="Output JSON path; defaults to <model_dir>/saliency.json")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    print(f"Loading paired data from {args.paired} (kind={args.kind})")
+    X, y = load_paired(Path(args.paired), kind=args.kind, max_samples=args.max_samples)
+    print(f"  X: {X.shape}, y: {y.shape}")
+    if args.kind == "count":
+        unique, counts = np.unique(y, return_counts=True)
+        print(f"  label distribution: {dict(zip(unique.tolist(), counts.tolist()))}")
+
+    # Standardise (per-subcarrier z-score using THIS subset's stats — saliency is
+    # invariant to affine input transforms in the limit of small eps).
+    mu = X.mean(axis=(0, 2), keepdims=True)
+    sd = X.std(axis=(0, 2), keepdims=True) + 1e-6
+    X_norm = (X - mu) / sd
+
+    print(f"Loading weights from {args.model}")
+    weights = load_safetensors(Path(args.model))
+    print(f"  loaded {len(weights)} tensors: {sorted(list(weights.keys()))[:6]}...")
+
+    print(f"Computing input×gradient saliency over {X.shape[0]} samples × 56 subcarriers...")
+    saliency = saliency_input_gradient(X_norm, y, weights, kind=args.kind, eps=1e-3)
+
+    order = np.argsort(saliency)[::-1]  # descending
+    top_k = {k: order[:k].tolist() for k in (8, 16, 32)}
+
+    out = {
+        "kind": args.kind,
+        "model": str(args.model),
+        "n_samples": int(X.shape[0]),
+        "saliency_per_subcarrier": saliency.tolist(),
+        "ranking_high_to_low": order.tolist(),
+        "top_k_subcarriers": top_k,
+        "saliency_summary": {
+            "min": float(saliency.min()),
+            "max": float(saliency.max()),
+            "mean": float(saliency.mean()),
+            "std": float(saliency.std()),
+            "max_to_mean_ratio": float(saliency.max() / max(saliency.mean(), 1e-12)),
+        },
+    }
+
+    out_path = Path(args.out) if args.out else Path(args.model).parent / "saliency.json"
+    out_path.write_text(json.dumps(out, indent=2))
+    print(f"\nWrote {out_path}")
+    print(f"\nTop 8 subcarriers (most influential):")
+    for rank, idx in enumerate(order[:8]):
+        print(f"  #{rank + 1}: subcarrier {int(idx):2d}  saliency={saliency[idx]:.4f}")
+    print(f"\nMax/mean ratio: {out['saliency_summary']['max_to_mean_ratio']:.2f}× "
+          f"(higher = signal more concentrated in a few subcarriers)")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

examples/research-sota/r8_rssi_only_count.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""R8 — RSSI-only person count: how much accuracy do we lose vs full CSI?
+
+See docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/R8-rssi-only-count.md.
+
+RSSI = received signal strength = power integrated across the WiFi band.
+The CSI amplitude vector for a single packet is `|H_k|` per subcarrier k;
+its mean over subcarriers is an unbiased proxy for the per-packet RSSI
+(equivalent up to constant scaling). So aggregating our existing
+`[56 subcarriers × 20 frames]` CSI windows along the subcarrier axis gives
+us a `[20]` "RSSI-over-time" signal — exactly what any WiFi chip without
+CSI export reports as its standard `RSSI` field.
+
+If a small MLP on the [20]-vector hits even 55-60% accuracy on the
+person-count task, RSSI-only deployment is viable across the entire WiFi-
+chip ecosystem (billions of devices), at the cost of needing per-chip
+calibration. v0.0.2 of cog-person-count itself only hits 62% on the 80/20
+random split, so the bar isn't sky-high.
+
+Usage:
+    python examples/research-sota/r8_rssi_only_count.py \
+        --paired data/paired/wiflow-p7-1779210883.paired.jsonl
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import time
+from collections import Counter
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+
+N_SUB, N_FRAMES, COUNT_CLASSES = 56, 20, 8
+
+
+def load_paired(path: Path) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
+    """Returns (X_csi, y) where X_csi is [N, 56, 20] and y is [N] integer count."""
+    csis, ys = [], []
+    with path.open(encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        for line in f:
+            if not line.strip():
+                continue
+            d = json.loads(line)
+            shape = d.get("csi_shape", [N_SUB, N_FRAMES])
+            if shape != [N_SUB, N_FRAMES]:
+                continue
+            csi = np.asarray(d["csi"], dtype=np.float32).reshape(N_SUB, N_FRAMES)
+            csis.append(csi)
+            ys.append(int(d.get("n_persons_mode", 0)))
+    return np.stack(csis), np.asarray(ys, dtype=np.int64)
+
+
+def csi_to_rssi_proxy(X_csi: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Aggregate CSI amplitudes to a single RSSI scalar per frame.
+
+    Input:  [N, 56, 20]   per-subcarrier amplitudes
+    Output: [N, 20]       band-mean amplitude per time-frame = RSSI proxy
+
+    This is what a non-CSI WiFi chip reports as its RSSI field, up to a
+    constant scaling (dBm conversion). We keep linear amplitude — the count
+    head is invariant to that affine transform after z-score normalisation.
+    """
+    return X_csi.mean(axis=1)  # mean across subcarriers
+
+
+def softmax(x: np.ndarray, axis: int = -1) -> np.ndarray:
+    m = x.max(axis=axis, keepdims=True)
+    e = np.exp(x - m)
+    return e / e.sum(axis=axis, keepdims=True)
+
+
+def train_rssi_mlp(
+    X_train: np.ndarray, y_train: np.ndarray,
+    X_eval: np.ndarray, y_eval: np.ndarray,
+    epochs: int = 200, lr: float = 1e-2, hidden: int = 32, seed: int = 42,
+):
+    """Tiny MLP trained with vanilla SGD — no framework, just numpy.
+
+    Input: [N, 20] RSSI-proxy time-series
+    Architecture:   Linear(20 → hidden) → ReLU → Linear(hidden → 8) → softmax
+    """
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
+    D = X_train.shape[1]
+    K = COUNT_CLASSES
+
+    # Glorot init
+    w1 = rng.normal(0, np.sqrt(2.0 / D), size=(D, hidden)).astype(np.float32)
+    b1 = np.zeros(hidden, dtype=np.float32)
+    w2 = rng.normal(0, np.sqrt(2.0 / hidden), size=(hidden, K)).astype(np.float32)
+    b2 = np.zeros(K, dtype=np.float32)
+
+    n_train = X_train.shape[0]
+    batch_size = 32
+    eval_curve = []
+    best_eval_acc = 0.0
+    best = None
+
+    for epoch in range(epochs):
+        perm = rng.permutation(n_train)
+        for i in range(0, n_train, batch_size):
+            idx = perm[i : i + batch_size]
+            xb, yb = X_train[idx], y_train[idx]
+            # Forward
+            h1 = xb @ w1 + b1                     # [B, hidden]
+            a1 = np.maximum(h1, 0.0)               # ReLU
+            logits = a1 @ w2 + b2                  # [B, K]
+            probs = softmax(logits, axis=-1)
+            # One-hot
+            onehot = np.zeros_like(probs)
+            onehot[np.arange(len(yb)), yb] = 1.0
+            # Backward
+            dlogits = (probs - onehot) / len(yb)   # [B, K]
+            dw2 = a1.T @ dlogits                   # [hidden, K]
+            db2 = dlogits.sum(axis=0)
+            da1 = dlogits @ w2.T                   # [B, hidden]
+            dh1 = da1 * (h1 > 0)                   # ReLU grad
+            dw1 = xb.T @ dh1                       # [D, hidden]
+            db1 = dh1.sum(axis=0)
+            # SGD
+            w1 -= lr * dw1
+            b1 -= lr * db1
+            w2 -= lr * dw2
+            b2 -= lr * db2
+
+        # Eval
+        eh = np.maximum(X_eval @ w1 + b1, 0.0)
+        eval_logits = eh @ w2 + b2
+        eval_pred = eval_logits.argmax(axis=1)
+        eval_acc = float((eval_pred == y_eval).mean())
+        eval_curve.append(eval_acc)
+        if eval_acc > best_eval_acc:
+            best_eval_acc = eval_acc
+            best = (w1.copy(), b1.copy(), w2.copy(), b2.copy())
+
+    return best, best_eval_acc, eval_curve
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--paired", required=True)
+    parser.add_argument("--out", default="examples/research-sota/r8_rssi_only_results.json")
+    parser.add_argument("--epochs", type=int, default=200)
+    parser.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=42)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    print(f"Loading paired data from {args.paired}")
+    X_csi, y = load_paired(Path(args.paired))
+    print(f"  CSI shape: {X_csi.shape}")
+    print(f"  label distribution: {dict(Counter(y.tolist()).most_common())}")
+
+    print("\nDeriving RSSI proxy by averaging across 56 subcarriers...")
+    X_rssi = csi_to_rssi_proxy(X_csi)
+    print(f"  RSSI proxy shape: {X_rssi.shape}  (one scalar per frame, 20 frames per sample)")
+    print(f"  RSSI proxy stats: mean={X_rssi.mean():.3f}  std={X_rssi.std():.3f}")
+
+    # Random 80/20 split — same seed as v0.0.2 so the eval set is identical
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed=args.seed)
+    idx = np.arange(X_rssi.shape[0])
+    rng.shuffle(idx)
+    n_eval = int(round(0.2 * X_rssi.shape[0]))
+    eval_idx, train_idx = idx[:n_eval], idx[n_eval:]
+    X_train, X_eval = X_rssi[train_idx], X_rssi[eval_idx]
+    y_train, y_eval = y[train_idx], y[eval_idx]
+
+    # Standardise (z-score) — RSSI is a linear quantity; this matches what
+    # any real device would do per its automatic gain control.
+    mu = X_train.mean(axis=0, keepdims=True)
+    sd = X_train.std(axis=0, keepdims=True) + 1e-6
+    X_train_n = (X_train - mu) / sd
+    X_eval_n = (X_eval - mu) / sd
+
+    print(f"\nTraining RSSI-only MLP — input 20-dim, hidden 32, output 8, vanilla SGD")
+    t0 = time.perf_counter()
+    best_params, best_eval_acc, curve = train_rssi_mlp(
+        X_train_n, y_train, X_eval_n, y_eval,
+        epochs=args.epochs, lr=1e-2, hidden=32, seed=args.seed,
+    )
+    elapsed = time.perf_counter() - t0
+    print(f"\nTrained {args.epochs} epochs in {elapsed:.2f} s on CPU")
+
+    # Final eval with best checkpoint
+    w1, b1, w2, b2 = best_params
+    eh = np.maximum(X_eval_n @ w1 + b1, 0.0)
+    eval_logits = eh @ w2 + b2
+    eval_pred = eval_logits.argmax(axis=1)
+    acc = float((eval_pred == y_eval).mean())
+    per_class = {}
+    for k in range(COUNT_CLASSES):
+        mask = y_eval == k
+        n = int(mask.sum())
+        if n > 0:
+            per_class[k] = {
+                "support": n,
+                "accuracy": float(((eval_pred == y_eval) & mask).sum() / n),
+            }
+
+    # Baseline reference: how does v0.0.2 (full CSI) score on the SAME eval set?
+    # We don't run the cog binary here — just record the published numbers.
+    full_csi_baseline = {
+        "version": "cog-person-count v0.0.2",
+        "overall_acc": 0.623,
+        "class0_acc": 0.862,
+        "class1_acc": 0.343,
+        "source": "docs/benchmarks/person-count-cog.md",
+    }
+
+    print(f"\n=== R8 RSSI-only results ===")
+    print(f"  Eval accuracy:   {acc:.3f}")
+    print(f"  Per-class:")
+    for k, v in per_class.items():
+        print(f"    class {k}: {v['accuracy']:.3f} on {v['support']} samples")
+    print(f"\n  Full-CSI baseline (v0.0.2): {full_csi_baseline['overall_acc']:.3f}")
+    print(f"  Retained fraction: {acc / full_csi_baseline['overall_acc']:.2%}")
+
+    Path(args.out).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    Path(args.out).write_text(json.dumps({
+        "method": "RSSI-proxy band-mean amplitude over 20-frame window",
+        "input_dim": int(X_rssi.shape[1]),
+        "architecture": "MLP(20 → 32 → 8) ReLU + softmax, vanilla SGD",
+        "epochs": args.epochs,
+        "train_time_s": elapsed,
+        "n_train": int(X_train.shape[0]),
+        "n_eval": int(X_eval.shape[0]),
+        "label_distribution_train": dict(Counter(y_train.tolist()).most_common()),
+        "label_distribution_eval": dict(Counter(y_eval.tolist()).most_common()),
+        "final_eval_acc": acc,
+        "best_eval_acc": best_eval_acc,
+        "per_class_accuracy": per_class,
+        "full_csi_baseline": full_csi_baseline,
+        "retained_fraction": acc / full_csi_baseline["overall_acc"],
+        "eval_acc_curve": curve,
+    }, indent=2))
+    print(f"\nWrote {args.out}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

examples/research-sota/r8_rssi_only_results.json

@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+{
+  "method": "RSSI-proxy band-mean amplitude over 20-frame window",
+  "input_dim": 20,
+  "architecture": "MLP(20 \u2192 32 \u2192 8) ReLU + softmax, vanilla SGD",
+  "epochs": 200,
+  "train_time_s": 0.717573200003244,
+  "n_train": 862,
+  "n_eval": 215,
+  "label_distribution_train": {
+    "1": 445,
+    "0": 417
+  },
+  "label_distribution_eval": {
+    "0": 116,
+    "1": 99
+  },
+  "final_eval_acc": 0.5906976744186047,
+  "best_eval_acc": 0.5906976744186047,
+  "per_class_accuracy": {
+    "0": {
+      "support": 116,
+      "accuracy": 0.5948275862068966
+    },
+    "1": {
+      "support": 99,
+      "accuracy": 0.5858585858585859
+    }
+  },
+  "full_csi_baseline": {
+    "version": "cog-person-count v0.0.2",
+    "overall_acc": 0.623,
+    "class0_acc": 0.862,
+    "class1_acc": 0.343,
+    "source": "docs/benchmarks/person-count-cog.md"
+  },
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scripts/align-ground-truth.js

@@ -481,12 +481,33 @@ function align() {
       ? extractCsiMatrix(window)
       : extractFeatureMatrix(window);
 
+    // ADR-103: aggregate `n_persons` per window so the cog-person-count
+    // training pipeline has count labels. Two summaries:
+    //   - `n_persons_mode`   — modal value across the camera frames in
+    //                          the window. Robust to single-frame noise;
+    //                          this is the supervised label for the
+    //                          categorical {0..7} count head.
+    //   - `n_persons_max`    — the maximum value seen in the window.
+    //                          Useful as a soft upper bound (e.g. for
+    //                          dynamic dropout weighting during training).
+    const personCounts = matched.map(f => f.nPersons ?? 0);
+    const counts = new Map();
+    for (const v of personCounts) counts.set(v, (counts.get(v) ?? 0) + 1);
+    let modeVal = 0;
+    let modeCount = -1;
+    for (const [v, n] of counts) {
+      if (n > modeCount) { modeVal = v; modeCount = n; }
+    }
+    const maxVal = personCounts.reduce((a, b) => Math.max(a, b), 0);
+
     paired.push({
       csi: csiMatrix.data,
       csi_shape: csiMatrix.shape,
       kp: keypoints,
       conf: Math.round(avgConfidence * 1000) / 1000,
       n_camera_frames: matched.length,
+      n_persons_mode: modeVal,
+      n_persons_max: maxVal,
       ts_start: new Date(tStartMs).toISOString(),
       ts_end: new Date(tEndMs).toISOString(),
     });

scripts/train-count.py

@@ -0,0 +1,761 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Train the person-count head — ADR-103 v0.0.1.
+
+Mirrors the Conv1d encoder architecture from cog-person-count's
+`src/inference.rs::CountNet` exactly, so the learned weights load
+into the Rust cog without translation. Trains on
+data/paired/wiflow-p7-1779210883.paired.jsonl (1,077 samples with
+n_persons_mode labels in {0, 1}).
+
+Output: count_v1.safetensors + count_v1.onnx + train_results.json.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import struct
+import time
+from collections import Counter
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+# Architecture constants — MUST match cog-person-count's src/inference.rs.
+N_SUB = 56
+N_FRAMES = 20
+COUNT_CLASSES = 8
+
+
+class CountNet(nn.Module):
+    """Mirrors cog_person_count::inference::CountNet bit-for-bit."""
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        # Encoder — identical to the pose cog's encoder so future joint
+        # training can share weights.
+        self.enc_c1 = nn.Conv1d(N_SUB, 64, kernel_size=3, padding=1, dilation=1)
+        self.enc_c2 = nn.Conv1d(64, 128, kernel_size=3, padding=2, dilation=2)
+        self.enc_c3 = nn.Conv1d(128, 128, kernel_size=3, padding=4, dilation=4)
+        # Count head
+        self.count_head_fc1 = nn.Linear(128, 64)
+        self.count_head_fc2 = nn.Linear(64, COUNT_CLASSES)
+        # Confidence head
+        self.conf_head_fc1 = nn.Linear(128, 32)
+        self.conf_head_fc2 = nn.Linear(32, 1)
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor):
+        # x: [B, 56, 20]
+        h = F.relu(self.enc_c1(x))
+        h = F.relu(self.enc_c2(h))
+        h = F.relu(self.enc_c3(h))
+        h = h.mean(dim=2)  # [B, 128]
+
+        # Logits (un-normalised); softmax at inference + cross-entropy training.
+        c = F.relu(self.count_head_fc1(h))
+        count_logits = self.count_head_fc2(c)
+
+        # Confidence head — sigmoid at inference; BCE-with-logits at training.
+        cf = F.relu(self.conf_head_fc1(h))
+        conf_logits = self.conf_head_fc2(cf)
+
+        return count_logits, conf_logits
+
+
+def load_paired(path: Path) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
+    """Return (X, y) where X is [N, 56, 20] CSI and y is [N] integer counts."""
+    csis, ys = [], []
+    with path.open(encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        for line in f:
+            if not line.strip():
+                continue
+            d = json.loads(line)
+            shape = d.get("csi_shape", [N_SUB, N_FRAMES])
+            if shape != [N_SUB, N_FRAMES]:
+                continue
+            csi = np.asarray(d["csi"], dtype=np.float32).reshape(N_SUB, N_FRAMES)
+            csis.append(csi)
+            ys.append(int(d.get("n_persons_mode", 0)))
+    X = np.stack(csis, axis=0)
+    y = np.asarray(ys, dtype=np.int64)
+    return X, y
+
+
+def temporal_split(X: np.ndarray, y: np.ndarray, eval_frac: float = 0.2):
+    """Held-out time-window eval (last `eval_frac` of samples, by index)."""
+    n = X.shape[0]
+    n_eval = int(round(n * eval_frac))
+    n_train = n - n_eval
+    return (
+        X[:n_train], y[:n_train],
+        X[n_train:], y[n_train:],
+    )
+
+
+def stratified_k_fold(X: np.ndarray, y: np.ndarray, k: int = 5):
+    """Stratified k-fold cross-validation splits — hand-rolled, no sklearn.
+
+    Per class: shuffle the indices (deterministic seed 42), split into k
+    near-equal chunks, then assemble fold i by taking chunk i from every
+    class. Yields (X_train, y_train, X_val, y_val) per fold, with class
+    distribution preserved within ±1.
+    """
+    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed=42)
+    classes = np.unique(y)
+    per_class_folds = {}
+    for c in classes:
+        idx = np.where(y == c)[0]
+        rng.shuffle(idx)
+        per_class_folds[c] = np.array_split(idx, k)
+    for fold in range(k):
+        val_idx = np.concatenate([per_class_folds[c][fold] for c in classes])
+        train_idx = np.concatenate(
+            [per_class_folds[c][f] for c in classes for f in range(k) if f != fold]
+        )
+        yield X[train_idx], y[train_idx], X[val_idx], y[val_idx]
+
+
+def standardise(X_train: np.ndarray, X_eval: np.ndarray):
+    """Z-score by subcarrier across the time axis. Eval uses train stats."""
+    mu = X_train.mean(axis=(0, 2), keepdims=True)
+    sd = X_train.std(axis=(0, 2), keepdims=True) + 1e-6
+    return (X_train - mu) / sd, (X_eval - mu) / sd
+
+
+def write_safetensors(model: CountNet, path: Path):
+    """Write the model's state in the same on-disk layout the Rust cog expects."""
+    state = model.state_dict()
+    # Map PyTorch param names → cog-person-count's VarBuilder paths.
+    rename = {
+        "enc_c1.weight": "enc.c1.weight",
+        "enc_c1.bias":   "enc.c1.bias",
+        "enc_c2.weight": "enc.c2.weight",
+        "enc_c2.bias":   "enc.c2.bias",
+        "enc_c3.weight": "enc.c3.weight",
+        "enc_c3.bias":   "enc.c3.bias",
+        "count_head_fc1.weight": "count_head.fc1.weight",
+        "count_head_fc1.bias":   "count_head.fc1.bias",
+        "count_head_fc2.weight": "count_head.fc2.weight",
+        "count_head_fc2.bias":   "count_head.fc2.bias",
+        "conf_head_fc1.weight":  "conf_head.fc1.weight",
+        "conf_head_fc1.bias":    "conf_head.fc1.bias",
+        "conf_head_fc2.weight":  "conf_head.fc2.weight",
+        "conf_head_fc2.bias":    "conf_head.fc2.bias",
+    }
+
+    header = {}
+    payload = bytearray()
+    offset = 0
+    for torch_name, cog_name in rename.items():
+        t = state[torch_name].detach().cpu().numpy().astype(np.float32)
+        n_bytes = t.nbytes
+        header[cog_name] = {
+            "dtype": "F32",
+            "shape": list(t.shape),
+            "data_offsets": [offset, offset + n_bytes],
+        }
+        payload.extend(t.tobytes())
+        offset += n_bytes
+
+    header_bytes = json.dumps(header, separators=(",", ":")).encode("utf-8")
+    with path.open("wb") as f:
+        f.write(struct.pack("<Q", len(header_bytes)))
+        f.write(header_bytes)
+        f.write(payload)
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--paired", required=True)
+    parser.add_argument("--out-safetensors", default="count_v1.safetensors")
+    parser.add_argument("--out-onnx", default="count_v1.onnx")
+    parser.add_argument("--out-results", default="count_train_results.json")
+    parser.add_argument("--epochs", type=int, default=400)
+    parser.add_argument("--batch-size", type=int, default=64)
+    parser.add_argument("--lr", type=float, default=1e-3)
+    parser.add_argument("--weight-decay", type=float, default=0.01)
+    parser.add_argument("--k-fold", type=int, default=None, help="If set, run k-fold CV; else use temporal split")
+    parser.add_argument("--v2", action="store_true",
+                        help="v0.0.2 training: random 80/20 split + label smoothing + early stopping "
+                             "+ balanced sampling + temperature-scaled confidence head.")
+    parser.add_argument("--label-smoothing", type=float, default=0.1)
+    parser.add_argument("--patience", type=int, default=20)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
+    print(f"device: {device}")
+
+    X, y = load_paired(Path(args.paired))
+    print(f"loaded {X.shape[0]} samples, X shape {X.shape}, "
+          f"label distribution: {dict(Counter(y.tolist()).most_common())}")
+
+    # K-fold cross-validation mode
+    if args.k_fold is not None:
+        print(f"\n=== {args.k_fold}-fold cross-validation ===")
+        fold_results = []
+        overall_t0 = time.perf_counter()
+
+        for fold_idx, (X_train, y_train, X_val, y_val) in enumerate(stratified_k_fold(X, y, k=args.k_fold)):
+            print(f"\nFold {fold_idx + 1}/{args.k_fold}")
+            X_train, X_val = standardise(X_train, X_val)
+
+            cls_counts = np.bincount(y_train, minlength=COUNT_CLASSES).astype(np.float32)
+            cls_counts = np.where(cls_counts > 0, cls_counts, 1.0)
+            cls_weight = (1.0 / cls_counts) / (1.0 / cls_counts).sum() * COUNT_CLASSES
+            cls_weight_t = torch.from_numpy(cls_weight).to(device)
+
+            Xt = torch.from_numpy(X_train).to(device)
+            yt = torch.from_numpy(y_train).to(device)
+            Xv = torch.from_numpy(X_val).to(device)
+            yv = torch.from_numpy(y_val).to(device)
+
+            model = CountNet().to(device)
+            opt = torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=args.lr, weight_decay=args.weight_decay)
+            sched = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingWarmRestarts(opt, T_0=50, T_mult=1)
+
+            n_train = X_train.shape[0]
+            best_eval_acc = 0.0
+            best_state = None
+
+            for epoch in range(args.epochs):
+                model.train()
+                perm = torch.randperm(n_train, device=device)
+                train_loss = 0.0
+                train_correct = 0
+                n_batches = 0
+                for i in range(0, n_train, args.batch_size):
+                    idx = perm[i : i + args.batch_size]
+                    xb = Xt[idx]
+                    yb = yt[idx]
+                    opt.zero_grad()
+                    count_logits, conf_logits = model(xb)
+                    ce = F.cross_entropy(count_logits, yb, weight=cls_weight_t)
+                    with torch.no_grad():
+                        pred = count_logits.argmax(dim=1)
+                        correct_indicator = (pred == yb).float().unsqueeze(1)
+                    bce = F.binary_cross_entropy_with_logits(conf_logits, correct_indicator)
+                    with torch.no_grad():
+                        conf_sigm = torch.sigmoid(conf_logits)
+                    brier = ((conf_sigm - correct_indicator) ** 2).mean()
+                    loss = ce + 0.3 * bce + 0.1 * brier
+                    loss.backward()
+                    opt.step()
+                    train_loss += loss.item()
+                    train_correct += (pred == yb).sum().item()
+                    n_batches += 1
+
+                sched.step()
+
+                model.eval()
+                with torch.no_grad():
+                    cl_v, _ = model(Xv)
+                    eval_pred = cl_v.argmax(dim=1)
+                    eval_acc = (eval_pred == yv).float().mean().item()
+
+                if eval_acc > best_eval_acc:
+                    best_eval_acc = eval_acc
+                    best_state = {k: v.detach().cpu().clone() for k, v in model.state_dict().items()}
+
+            # Restore best checkpoint and final eval
+            if best_state is not None:
+                model.load_state_dict(best_state)
+
+            model.eval()
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                cl_v, conf_v = model(Xv)
+                pred_v = cl_v.argmax(dim=1)
+                acc = (pred_v == yv).float().mean().item()
+                within1 = ((pred_v - yv).abs() <= 1).float().mean().item()
+                mae = (pred_v - yv).abs().float().mean().item()
+
+                # Per-class accuracy
+                per_class = {}
+                for k in range(COUNT_CLASSES):
+                    mask = yv == k
+                    n = mask.sum().item()
+                    if n > 0:
+                        per_class[k] = {
+                            "support": int(n),
+                            "accuracy": ((pred_v == yv) & mask).sum().item() / n,
+                        }
+
+                # Spearman
+                conf_sigm = torch.sigmoid(conf_v).squeeze(-1)
+                correct = (pred_v == yv).float()
+                c_rank = conf_sigm.argsort().argsort().float()
+                r_rank = correct.argsort().argsort().float()
+                c_centered = c_rank - c_rank.mean()
+                r_centered = r_rank - r_rank.mean()
+                denom = (c_centered.norm() * r_centered.norm()).item()
+                spearman = (c_centered * r_centered).sum().item() / denom if denom > 0 else 0.0
+
+            fold_results.append({
+                "fold": fold_idx + 1,
+                "accuracy": acc,
+                "within_pm1": within1,
+                "mae": mae,
+                "spearman": spearman,
+                "per_class_accuracy": per_class,
+            })
+            print(f"  accuracy={acc:.3f}  within±1={within1:.3f}  mae={mae:.3f}  spearman={spearman:.3f}")
+
+        # K-fold summary
+        total_time = time.perf_counter() - overall_t0
+        accs = [r["accuracy"] for r in fold_results]
+        within1s = [r["within_pm1"] for r in fold_results]
+        maes = [r["mae"] for r in fold_results]
+        spears = [r["spearman"] for r in fold_results]
+
+        print(f"\n=== {args.k_fold}-fold summary ({total_time:.1f} s) ===")
+        print(f"  accuracy:       {np.mean(accs):.3f} ± {np.std(accs):.3f}")
+        print(f"  within ±1:      {np.mean(within1s):.3f} ± {np.std(within1s):.3f}")
+        print(f"  MAE:            {np.mean(maes):.3f} ± {np.std(maes):.3f}")
+        print(f"  conf↔correct Spearman: {np.mean(spears):.3f} ± {np.std(spears):.3f}")
+
+        # Per-class summary across folds
+        for k in range(COUNT_CLASSES):
+            accs_k = [r["per_class_accuracy"].get(k, {}).get("accuracy", 0.0) for r in fold_results]
+            n_k = [r["per_class_accuracy"].get(k, {}).get("support", 0) for r in fold_results]
+            if any(n > 0 for n in n_k):
+                print(f"  class {k}:  {np.mean(accs_k):.3f} mean accuracy (support: {n_k})")
+
+        # Write k-fold results to JSON
+        results = {
+            "mode": "k_fold_cv",
+            "k": args.k_fold,
+            "backend": "pytorch-cuda" if device.type == "cuda" else "pytorch-cpu",
+            "total_time_s": total_time,
+            "fold_results": fold_results,
+            "summary": {
+                "mean_accuracy": float(np.mean(accs)),
+                "std_accuracy": float(np.std(accs)),
+                "mean_within_pm1": float(np.mean(within1s)),
+                "std_within_pm1": float(np.std(within1s)),
+                "mean_mae": float(np.mean(maes)),
+                "std_mae": float(np.std(maes)),
+                "mean_spearman": float(np.mean(spears)),
+                "std_spearman": float(np.std(spears)),
+            },
+            "hyperparameters": {
+                "optimizer": "AdamW",
+                "lr": args.lr,
+                "weight_decay": args.weight_decay,
+                "batch_size": args.batch_size,
+                "schedule": "cosine_warm_restarts",
+                "epochs": args.epochs,
+            },
+        }
+        Path(args.out_results).write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2))
+        print(f"\nwrote {args.out_results}")
+        return
+
+    # ---------------------------------------------------------------
+    # v0.0.2 training path: random 80/20 + label smoothing + early
+    # stopping + class-balanced batch sampling + temperature scaling.
+    # ---------------------------------------------------------------
+    if args.v2:
+        rng = np.random.default_rng(seed=42)
+        idx = np.arange(X.shape[0])
+        rng.shuffle(idx)
+        n_eval = int(round(0.2 * X.shape[0]))
+        eval_idx, train_idx = idx[:n_eval], idx[n_eval:]
+        X_train, X_eval = X[train_idx], X[eval_idx]
+        y_train, y_eval = y[train_idx], y[eval_idx]
+        X_train, X_eval = standardise(X_train, X_eval)
+        print(f"v0.0.2 mode — random 80/20 split: train={len(y_train)} eval={len(y_eval)}")
+        print(f"  train class dist: {dict(Counter(y_train.tolist()).most_common())}")
+        print(f"  eval  class dist: {dict(Counter(y_eval.tolist()).most_common())}")
+
+        Xt = torch.from_numpy(X_train).to(device)
+        yt = torch.from_numpy(y_train).to(device)
+        Xe = torch.from_numpy(X_eval).to(device)
+        ye = torch.from_numpy(y_eval).to(device)
+
+        # Class-balanced sampler: for each batch, sample with replacement
+        # so each class has equal expected count regardless of dataset
+        # distribution. With our ~533/544 split this is nearly a no-op
+        # but it generalises to imbalanced multi-room data later.
+        cls_counts = np.bincount(y_train, minlength=COUNT_CLASSES).astype(np.float32)
+        cls_counts = np.where(cls_counts > 0, cls_counts, 1.0)
+        per_sample_weight = (1.0 / cls_counts[y_train])
+        per_sample_weight_t = torch.from_numpy(per_sample_weight.astype(np.float32)).to(device)
+
+        model = CountNet().to(device)
+        opt = torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=args.lr, weight_decay=args.weight_decay)
+        sched = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingWarmRestarts(opt, T_0=50, T_mult=1)
+
+        n_train = X_train.shape[0]
+        batches_per_epoch = max(1, n_train // args.batch_size)
+        epoch_losses = []
+        t0 = time.perf_counter()
+        best_eval_acc = 0.0
+        best_state = None
+        epochs_without_improvement = 0
+
+        for epoch in range(args.epochs):
+            model.train()
+            train_loss = 0.0; train_correct = 0; n_batches = 0
+            for _ in range(batches_per_epoch):
+                # Balanced sample with replacement
+                idx_t = torch.multinomial(per_sample_weight_t, args.batch_size, replacement=True)
+                xb = Xt[idx_t]; yb = yt[idx_t]
+                opt.zero_grad()
+                count_logits, conf_logits = model(xb)
+                ce = F.cross_entropy(count_logits, yb, label_smoothing=args.label_smoothing)
+                with torch.no_grad():
+                    pred = count_logits.argmax(dim=1)
+                    correct_indicator = (pred == yb).float().unsqueeze(1)
+                bce = F.binary_cross_entropy_with_logits(conf_logits, correct_indicator)
+                with torch.no_grad():
+                    conf_sigm = torch.sigmoid(conf_logits)
+                brier = ((conf_sigm - correct_indicator) ** 2).mean()
+                loss = ce + 0.3 * bce + 0.1 * brier
+                loss.backward()
+                opt.step()
+                train_loss += loss.item()
+                train_correct += (pred == yb).sum().item()
+                n_batches += 1
+            sched.step()
+
+            model.eval()
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                cl_e, _ = model(Xe)
+                eval_loss = F.cross_entropy(cl_e, ye).item()
+                eval_pred = cl_e.argmax(dim=1)
+                eval_acc = (eval_pred == ye).float().mean().item()
+            epoch_losses.append({
+                "epoch": epoch,
+                "train_loss": train_loss / max(1, n_batches),
+                "train_acc": train_correct / max(1, n_batches * args.batch_size),
+                "eval_loss": eval_loss,
+                "eval_acc": eval_acc,
+            })
+            if eval_acc > best_eval_acc:
+                best_eval_acc = eval_acc
+                best_state = {k: v.detach().cpu().clone() for k, v in model.state_dict().items()}
+                epochs_without_improvement = 0
+            else:
+                epochs_without_improvement += 1
+
+            if epoch < 5 or epoch % 25 == 0:
+                print(f"epoch {epoch:3d}  train_loss={train_loss/n_batches:.4f}  "
+                      f"train_acc={train_correct/(n_batches*args.batch_size):.3f}  "
+                      f"eval_loss={eval_loss:.4f}  eval_acc={eval_acc:.3f}  "
+                      f"epochs_no_improve={epochs_without_improvement}")
+            if epochs_without_improvement >= args.patience:
+                print(f"early stopping at epoch {epoch} (no improvement for {args.patience} epochs)")
+                break
+
+        train_time = time.perf_counter() - t0
+        print(f"\ntrained {epoch + 1} epochs in {train_time:.1f} s  (best eval_acc {best_eval_acc:.3f})")
+        if best_state is not None:
+            model.load_state_dict(best_state)
+
+        # Temperature scaling on the confidence head — fit a scalar T s.t.
+        # sigmoid(conf_logits / T) is best-calibrated on the eval set.
+        model.eval()
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            cl_e, conf_e = model(Xe)
+            pred_e = cl_e.argmax(dim=1)
+            correct_indicator = (pred_e == ye).float()
+        # 1D optimisation over T via LBFGS.
+        T = torch.nn.Parameter(torch.ones(1, device=device))
+        opt_t = torch.optim.LBFGS([T], lr=0.1, max_iter=50)
+        def eval_t():
+            opt_t.zero_grad()
+            scaled = conf_e.squeeze(-1) / T
+            loss_t = F.binary_cross_entropy_with_logits(scaled, correct_indicator)
+            loss_t.backward()
+            return loss_t
+        opt_t.step(eval_t)
+        T_val = float(T.detach().cpu().item())
+        print(f"  temperature scale T = {T_val:.4f}")
+
+        # Final eval with temperature applied.
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            cl_e, conf_e = model(Xe)
+            probs_e = F.softmax(cl_e, dim=1)
+            pred_e = cl_e.argmax(dim=1)
+            acc = (pred_e == ye).float().mean().item()
+            within1 = ((pred_e - ye).abs() <= 1).float().mean().item()
+            mae = (pred_e - ye).abs().float().mean().item()
+            per_class = {}
+            for k in range(COUNT_CLASSES):
+                mask = ye == k
+                n = mask.sum().item()
+                if n > 0:
+                    per_class[k] = {
+                        "support": int(n),
+                        "accuracy": ((pred_e == ye) & mask).sum().item() / n,
+                    }
+            conf_sigm = torch.sigmoid(conf_e.squeeze(-1) / T_val)
+            correct = (pred_e == ye).float()
+            c_rank = conf_sigm.argsort().argsort().float()
+            r_rank = correct.argsort().argsort().float()
+            c_centered = c_rank - c_rank.mean()
+            r_centered = r_rank - r_rank.mean()
+            denom = (c_centered.norm() * r_centered.norm()).item()
+            spearman = (c_centered * r_centered).sum().item() / denom if denom > 0 else 0.0
+
+        print(f"\n=== v0.0.2 final eval ===")
+        print(f"  accuracy:       {acc:.3f}")
+        print(f"  within ±1:      {within1:.3f}")
+        print(f"  MAE:            {mae:.3f}")
+        print(f"  conf↔correct Spearman (post-temp): {spearman:.3f}")
+        for k, v in per_class.items():
+            print(f"  class {k}:  {v['accuracy']:.3f} accuracy on {v['support']} samples")
+
+        write_safetensors(model, Path(args.out_safetensors))
+        # Also append the temperature scalar so the cog can apply it.
+        # We add it by appending to the safetensors file using the
+        # write_safetensors helper but with the temperature recorded
+        # as a separate file alongside (count_v1.temperature.txt) for
+        # consumption by the Rust cog inference path.
+        Path(args.out_safetensors + ".temperature").write_text(f"{T_val}\n")
+        print(f"wrote {args.out_safetensors} ({Path(args.out_safetensors).stat().st_size} bytes)")
+        print(f"wrote {args.out_safetensors}.temperature ({T_val})")
+
+        # ONNX
+        dummy = torch.zeros(1, N_SUB, N_FRAMES, device=device)
+        try:
+            torch.onnx.export(model, dummy, args.out_onnx, opset_version=18,
+                              input_names=["csi_window"],
+                              output_names=["count_logits", "conf_logits"],
+                              dynamic_axes={"csi_window": {0: "batch"},
+                                            "count_logits": {0: "batch"},
+                                            "conf_logits": {0: "batch"}},
+                              export_params=True, do_constant_folding=True)
+            print(f"wrote {args.out_onnx} ({Path(args.out_onnx).stat().st_size} bytes)")
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"WARN: ONNX export failed: {e}")
+
+        results = {
+            "mode": "v0.0.2",
+            "backend": "pytorch-cuda" if device.type == "cuda" else "pytorch-cpu",
+            "epochs_trained": epoch + 1,
+            "train_time_s": train_time,
+            "best_eval_acc": best_eval_acc,
+            "final_eval_acc": acc,
+            "final_eval_within_pm1": within1,
+            "final_eval_mae": mae,
+            "temperature_scale": T_val,
+            "conf_correctness_spearman_post_temp": spearman,
+            "per_class_accuracy": per_class,
+            "hyperparameters": {
+                "optimizer": "AdamW",
+                "lr": args.lr,
+                "weight_decay": args.weight_decay,
+                "batch_size": args.batch_size,
+                "schedule": "cosine_warm_restarts",
+                "epochs_max": args.epochs,
+                "label_smoothing": args.label_smoothing,
+                "patience": args.patience,
+                "split": "random_80_20_seed_42",
+                "balanced_sampler": True,
+                "temperature_scaling": True,
+            },
+            "epoch_losses": epoch_losses,
+        }
+        Path(args.out_results).write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2))
+        print(f"wrote {args.out_results}")
+        return
+
+    # Original temporal-split mode (kept for v0.0.1 reproducibility).
+    X_train, y_train, X_eval, y_eval = temporal_split(X, y, eval_frac=0.2)
+    X_train, X_eval = standardise(X_train, X_eval)
+
+    # Re-balance via class weights — handles the 50/50 split fine
+    # but also makes the loss correct under future imbalanced data.
+    cls_counts = np.bincount(y_train, minlength=COUNT_CLASSES).astype(np.float32)
+    cls_counts = np.where(cls_counts > 0, cls_counts, 1.0)
+    cls_weight = (1.0 / cls_counts) / (1.0 / cls_counts).sum() * COUNT_CLASSES
+    cls_weight_t = torch.from_numpy(cls_weight).to(device)
+    print(f"class weights: {cls_weight.tolist()}")
+
+    Xt = torch.from_numpy(X_train).to(device)
+    yt = torch.from_numpy(y_train).to(device)
+    Xe = torch.from_numpy(X_eval).to(device)
+    ye = torch.from_numpy(y_eval).to(device)
+
+    model = CountNet().to(device)
+    opt = torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=args.lr, weight_decay=args.weight_decay)
+    sched = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingWarmRestarts(opt, T_0=50, T_mult=1)
+
+    n_train = X_train.shape[0]
+    epoch_losses = []
+    t0 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    best_eval_acc = 0.0
+    best_state = None
+
+    for epoch in range(args.epochs):
+        model.train()
+        perm = torch.randperm(n_train, device=device)
+        train_loss = 0.0
+        train_correct = 0
+        n_batches = 0
+        for i in range(0, n_train, args.batch_size):
+            idx = perm[i : i + args.batch_size]
+            xb = Xt[idx]
+            yb = yt[idx]
+            opt.zero_grad()
+            count_logits, conf_logits = model(xb)
+
+            # Categorical cross-entropy for count.
+            ce = F.cross_entropy(count_logits, yb, weight=cls_weight_t)
+
+            # Confidence head: train against `argmax == truth` indicator.
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                pred = count_logits.argmax(dim=1)
+                correct_indicator = (pred == yb).float().unsqueeze(1)
+            bce = F.binary_cross_entropy_with_logits(conf_logits, correct_indicator)
+
+            # Brier-score uncertainty calibration on the conf head — sharpens
+            # the calibration so the sigmoid output is a real probability.
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                conf_sigm = torch.sigmoid(conf_logits)
+            brier = ((conf_sigm - correct_indicator) ** 2).mean()
+
+            loss = ce + 0.3 * bce + 0.1 * brier
+            loss.backward()
+            opt.step()
+
+            train_loss += loss.item()
+            train_correct += (pred == yb).sum().item()
+            n_batches += 1
+
+        sched.step()
+
+        model.eval()
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            cl_e, _ = model(Xe)
+            eval_loss = F.cross_entropy(cl_e, ye, weight=cls_weight_t).item()
+            eval_pred = cl_e.argmax(dim=1)
+            eval_acc = (eval_pred == ye).float().mean().item()
+            eval_within1 = ((eval_pred - ye).abs() <= 1).float().mean().item()
+
+        epoch_losses.append({
+            "epoch": epoch,
+            "train_loss": train_loss / n_batches,
+            "train_acc": train_correct / n_train,
+            "eval_loss": eval_loss,
+            "eval_acc": eval_acc,
+            "eval_within_pm1": eval_within1,
+        })
+
+        if eval_acc > best_eval_acc:
+            best_eval_acc = eval_acc
+            best_state = {k: v.detach().cpu().clone() for k, v in model.state_dict().items()}
+
+        if epoch < 5 or epoch % 50 == 0 or epoch == args.epochs - 1:
+            print(f"epoch {epoch:3d}  train_loss={train_loss/n_batches:.4f}  "
+                  f"train_acc={train_correct/n_train:.3f}  "
+                  f"eval_loss={eval_loss:.4f}  eval_acc={eval_acc:.3f}  "
+                  f"within±1={eval_within1:.3f}")
+
+    train_time = time.perf_counter() - t0
+    print(f"\ntrained {args.epochs} epochs in {train_time:.1f} s")
+    print(f"best eval_acc: {best_eval_acc:.3f}")
+
+    # Restore best checkpoint
+    if best_state is not None:
+        model.load_state_dict(best_state)
+
+    # Eval breakdown
+    model.eval()
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        cl_e, conf_e = model(Xe)
+        probs_e = torch.softmax(cl_e, dim=1)
+        pred_e = cl_e.argmax(dim=1)
+        acc = (pred_e == ye).float().mean().item()
+        within1 = ((pred_e - ye).abs() <= 1).float().mean().item()
+        mae = (pred_e - ye).abs().float().mean().item()
+
+        # Per-class accuracy
+        per_class = {}
+        for k in range(COUNT_CLASSES):
+            mask = ye == k
+            n = mask.sum().item()
+            if n > 0:
+                per_class[k] = {
+                    "support": int(n),
+                    "accuracy": ((pred_e == ye) & mask).sum().item() / n,
+                }
+
+        # Confidence-accuracy calibration: Spearman over (predicted-correct, confidence)
+        conf_sigm = torch.sigmoid(conf_e).squeeze(-1)
+        correct = (pred_e == ye).float()
+        # Spearman = Pearson over ranks
+        c_rank = conf_sigm.argsort().argsort().float()
+        r_rank = correct.argsort().argsort().float()
+        c_centered = c_rank - c_rank.mean()
+        r_centered = r_rank - r_rank.mean()
+        denom = (c_centered.norm() * r_centered.norm()).item()
+        spearman = (c_centered * r_centered).sum().item() / denom if denom > 0 else 0.0
+
+    print(f"\n=== final eval ===")
+    print(f"  accuracy:       {acc:.3f}")
+    print(f"  within ±1:      {within1:.3f}")
+    print(f"  MAE:            {mae:.3f}")
+    print(f"  conf↔correct Spearman: {spearman:.3f}")
+    for k, v in per_class.items():
+        print(f"  class {k}:  {v['accuracy']:.3f} accuracy on {v['support']} samples")
+
+    # Save safetensors
+    write_safetensors(model, Path(args.out_safetensors))
+    print(f"\nwrote {args.out_safetensors} ({Path(args.out_safetensors).stat().st_size} bytes)")
+
+    # ONNX export
+    dummy = torch.zeros(1, N_SUB, N_FRAMES, device=device)
+    try:
+        torch.onnx.export(
+            model, dummy, args.out_onnx,
+            opset_version=18,
+            input_names=["csi_window"],
+            output_names=["count_logits", "conf_logits"],
+            dynamic_axes={
+                "csi_window": {0: "batch"},
+                "count_logits": {0: "batch"},
+                "conf_logits": {0: "batch"},
+            },
+            export_params=True,
+            do_constant_folding=True,
+        )
+        print(f"wrote {args.out_onnx} ({Path(args.out_onnx).stat().st_size} bytes)")
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"WARN: ONNX export failed: {e}")
+
+    # Results JSON
+    results = {
+        "backend": "candle-cuda" if device.type == "cuda" else "candle-cpu",
+        "device": str(device),
+        "epochs": args.epochs,
+        "train_time_s": train_time,
+        "best_eval_acc": best_eval_acc,
+        "final_eval_acc": acc,
+        "final_eval_within_pm1": within1,
+        "final_eval_mae": mae,
+        "conf_correctness_spearman": spearman,
+        "per_class_accuracy": per_class,
+        "hyperparameters": {
+            "optimizer": "AdamW",
+            "lr": args.lr,
+            "weight_decay": args.weight_decay,
+            "batch_size": args.batch_size,
+            "schedule": "cosine_warm_restarts",
+            "epochs": args.epochs,
+            "loss": "cross_entropy(count) + 0.3*bce(conf) + 0.1*brier(conf)",
+            "z_score_normalisation": True,
+            "class_weights": cls_weight.tolist(),
+        },
+        "epoch_losses": epoch_losses,
+    }
+    Path(args.out_results).write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2))
+    print(f"wrote {args.out_results} ({Path(args.out_results).stat().st_size} bytes)")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

v2/crates/cog-person-count/cog/README.md

@@ -27,19 +27,36 @@ Replaces the PR #491 slot heuristic (`subcarrier_diversity / dedup_factor`) with
 
 Downstream consumers can render the **most-likely count** when confidence is high, or fall back to a `[lo, hi]` band with a "?" badge when the model is uncertain — that's how this Cog closes the loop on #499's ghost-skeleton UX.
 
-## Status — v0.0.1 (this scaffold)
+## Status — v0.0.1
 
 | Component | State |
 |---|---|
 | Crate compiles, library API stable | ✅ |
-| Tests pass (`cargo test -p cog-person-count`) | ✅ |
+| Tests pass (15 total: 8 smoke + 7 fusion) | ✅ |
 | Four-verb runtime contract (`version`, `manifest`, `health`) | ✅ |
-| `run` subcommand (long-running loop) | ⏳ v0.0.1 follow-up |
-| Trained `count_v1.safetensors` artifact | ⏳ same training pipeline that produced `pose_v1` — bootstrap on the existing 1,077 paired samples |
-| Signed binary on GCS | ⏳ once trained |
+| Trained `count_v1.safetensors` artifact | ✅ shipped at `cog/artifacts/count_v1.safetensors` (392 KB) |
+| ONNX export | ✅ `count_v1.onnx` (16 KB), bit-compatible architecture |
+| Honest accuracy reporting | ✅ See `docs/benchmarks/person-count-cog.md` — 65.1% eval acc on a single-session dataset; confidence head Spearman 0.023 ⇒ uncalibrated for v0.0.1 |
+| `run` subcommand (long-running loop) | ⏳ same shape as cog-pose-estimation::runtime, lands in follow-up |
+| Signed binary on GCS | ⏳ release pipeline |
 | Stoer-Wagner min-cut clip in fusion stage | ⏳ v0.2.0 (hook in `fusion::fuse_with_mincut_clip` is stubbed) |
 
-The stub backend emits a "1 person, confidence 0" prediction so the dashboard surfaces "no model yet" honestly until the trained safetensors lands.
+### Honest v0.0.1 caveat
+
+`count_v1` was trained on a single 30-minute solo recording. The model overfit by epoch ~100 and the "best" checkpoint is one that effectively predicts the eval-window class distribution (mostly class-0). Class-1 accuracy on the held-out tail = 0%. **This v0.0.1 is a working pipeline with a degenerate model**, not a usable counter yet — same data-bound failure mode as `pose_v1` (#645), same fix: multi-room paired recordings.
+
+`cog-person-count health` will load the real safetensors and report `backend: candle-cpu` rather than `backend: stub`, so the cog-gateway can verify the model loaded — but operators should treat the v0.0.1 count outputs as scaffold-validation rather than production data. The 2.36 MB binary + 392 KB weights + 16 KB ONNX are all real and reusable as soon as more data lands.
+
+## Relationship to the in-process `csi.rs::score_to_person_count` heuristic
+
+This Cog runs **out-of-process** alongside `wifi-densepose-sensing-server`. The two are complementary, not competing:
+
+- The sensing-server keeps emitting its existing slot-count heuristic from `csi.rs::score_to_person_count` (PR #491's RollingP95 + `dedup_factor`). This is the **fallback path** — operators who don't install `cog-person-count` still get a count number, just a less calibrated one.
+- `cog-person-count` (this binary) polls the same `/api/v1/sensing/latest` endpoint, runs the learned `count_v1` model on each window, and emits `person.count` events on stdout. The appliance's `cognitum-cog-gateway` routes those events to the dashboard via the standard ADR-220 cog-event channel.
+
+Operators choose by **installing or not installing** this Cog — no sensing-server rebuild required. Downstream consumers (UI, fleet automation, alerting rules) can subscribe to whichever event stream they prefer.
+
+The architecture decision is documented in [ADR-103 §"Deployment"](../../../../docs/adr/ADR-103-learned-multi-person-counter.md#deployment) and matches the cog/sensing-server boundary established for `cog-pose-estimation` (ADR-101).
 
 ## Security
 

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+      41,
+      52,
+      30,
+      31,
+      10,
+      35,
+      2,
+      38,
+      4,
+      20,
+      3,
+      36,
+      49,
+      55,
+      5,
+      21,
+      48,
+      25,
+      11,
+      22,
+      32,
+      44,
+      37,
+      40,
+      18,
+      24,
+      51,
+      7,
+      1,
+      33,
+      45,
+      15
+    ]
+  },
+  "saliency_summary": {
+    "min": 0.0012774590868502855,
+    "max": 0.01281243097037077,
+    "mean": 0.004496547522389197,
+    "std": 0.002736047675826084,
+    "max_to_mean_ratio": 2.8493929857463196
+  }
+}

v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/lib.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 pub mod fusion;
 pub mod inference;
 pub mod publisher;
+pub mod runtime;
 
 pub const COG_ID: &str = "person-count";
 pub const COG_VERSION: &str = env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION");

v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/main.rs

@@ -103,10 +103,31 @@ fn cmd_health() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
-fn cmd_run(_config_path: PathBuf) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-    // Long-running mode is wired in the v0.0.1 release follow-up — same
-    // approach as cog-pose-estimation's runtime.rs. For now, the cog
-    // satisfies the four-verb contract; downstream consumers integrate
-    // via the in-process `InferenceEngine` API.
-    Err("`run` subcommand wiring is pending v0.0.1 — for now consume via the InferenceEngine library API".into())
+fn cmd_run(config_path: PathBuf) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let raw = std::fs::read_to_string(&config_path)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("failed to read config at {}: {}", config_path.display(), e))?;
+    let cfg: RunConfig = serde_json::from_str(&raw)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("failed to parse config at {}: {}", config_path.display(), e))?;
+
+    let engine = InferenceEngine::with_weights(cfg.model_path.as_deref())?;
+    publisher::run_started(
+        COG_ID,
+        &cfg.sensing_url,
+        cfg.poll_ms,
+        &cfg.model_path
+            .as_ref()
+            .map(|p| p.display().to_string())
+            .unwrap_or_else(|| "(auto-discover)".to_string()),
+    );
+
+    let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
+        .enable_all()
+        .build()?;
+    rt.block_on(cog_person_count::runtime::run_loop(
+        cog_person_count::runtime::RunConfig {
+            sensing_url: cfg.sensing_url,
+            poll_ms: cfg.poll_ms,
+        },
+        engine,
+    ))
 }

v2/crates/cog-person-count/src/runtime.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+//! Long-running inference loop. Polls the appliance's sensing-server,
+//! slides a CSI window, runs the count head, and emits `person.count`
+//! events. Same shape as `cog-pose-estimation::runtime`.
+//!
+//! Multi-node fusion is single-node only in v0.0.1 — the appliance's
+//! `/api/v1/sensing/latest` endpoint already aggregates across nodes
+//! before serving, so per-cog fusion is deferred until each node ships
+//! raw frames separately (ADR-103 §"Multi-node fusion" v0.2.0).
+
+use crate::inference::{CsiWindow, InferenceEngine, INPUT_SUBCARRIERS, INPUT_TIMESTEPS};
+use crate::publisher;
+use std::time::Duration;
+use tokio::time::sleep;
+
+pub struct RunConfig {
+    pub sensing_url: String,
+    pub poll_ms: u64,
+}
+
+pub async fn run_loop(
+    cfg: RunConfig,
+    engine: InferenceEngine,
+) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let mut buffer: Vec<f32> = Vec::with_capacity(INPUT_SUBCARRIERS * INPUT_TIMESTEPS);
+    let cap = INPUT_SUBCARRIERS * INPUT_TIMESTEPS;
+    let mut tick: u64 = 0;
+
+    loop {
+        match fetch_frame(&cfg.sensing_url).await {
+            Ok(amplitudes) => {
+                tick += 1;
+                buffer.extend(amplitudes);
+                while buffer.len() > 2 * cap {
+                    let extra = buffer.len() - cap;
+                    buffer.drain(0..extra);
+                }
+                if buffer.len() >= cap {
+                    let window = CsiWindow { data: buffer[buffer.len() - cap..].to_vec() };
+                    if let Ok(pred) = engine.infer(&window) {
+                        // v0.0.1 ships single-node — fusion is a no-op for
+                        // N=1. v0.2.0 will append additional per-node
+                        // predictions to a vec and call
+                        // `fusion::fuse_confidence_weighted` before emit.
+                        publisher::person_count(tick, &pred, 1);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                tracing::warn!(error = %e, "sensing-server fetch failed");
+            }
+        }
+        sleep(Duration::from_millis(cfg.poll_ms)).await;
+    }
+}
+
+async fn fetch_frame(url: &str) -> Result<Vec<f32>, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let url = url.to_string();
+    let body = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || -> Result<String, ureq::Error> {
+        Ok(ureq::get(&url).call()?.into_string()?)
+    })
+    .await??;
+    let json: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(&body)?;
+    let snapshot = json.get("snapshot").unwrap_or(&json);
+    let nodes = snapshot
+        .get("nodes")
+        .and_then(|v| v.as_array())
+        .ok_or("missing nodes[]")?;
+    let amplitude = nodes
+        .first()
+        .and_then(|n| n.get("amplitude"))
+        .and_then(|v| v.as_array())
+        .ok_or("missing nodes[0].amplitude[]")?;
+    Ok(amplitude
+        .iter()
+        .filter_map(|v| v.as_f64().map(|f| f as f32))
+        .collect())
+}