When Signal-Guided Retention Loses to Index Coverage: A Character-Profile Budget Study

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  • Sean Franklin Author
  • Patrick Marshall Author
  • Benjamin Lewis Author

Abstract

A heuristic that directs observations toward changing signals can overlook variation hidden between similar endpoints. We tested such a retention rule on 2,858 released character-velocity profiles, comparing it with repeated splitting of the largest index gap. Both rules retained exactly sixteen or thirty-two observations and used linear reconstruction. Signal-guided retention increased mean profile error by 0.040904 at sixteen points and 0.005159 at thirty-two; character-clustered intervals were 0.015162-0.066646 and 0.000529-0.009790. Doubling the budget lowered pooled error under both rules. These results concern compression of already processed profiles from one writer, and do not evaluate real-time tablet sampling, character readability, or an image-restoration network.

Deterministic retention and reconstruction of public preprocessed pen-velocity profiles from one writer.

Original publication: October 31, 2026.

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