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docs(adr-150): few-shot adaptation resolves the cross-subject frontier 

Decisive result: 50 labeled frames/subject of in-room calibration ->
72.2% (reaches SOTA), 200 -> 76.1%, 1000 -> 78.3%. Few-shot target
adaptation dominates source volume (+24 subjects bought +6pt; 200 target
frames bought +12.4pt). Re-scopes the deployment story: ship a ~30s on-site
calibration, not a mass corpus. Foundation encoder's role shifts to making
that calibration cheaper. Supersedes the earlier data-bound pessimism.

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@ -149,6 +149,31 @@ target-domain adaptation (a handful of labeled frames from the deployment room),
curve implies will beat any amount of additional source subjects. This makes the encoder's curve implies will beat any amount of additional source subjects. This makes the encoder's
*domain-invariance* objective (vs the failed subject-invariance one) the design priority. *domain-invariance* objective (vs the failed subject-invariance one) the design priority.
### 3.4 Few-shot target adaptation (2026-05-31) — the actionable resolution
The saturation curve predicts a few labeled frames from the *deployment* room beat more source
subjects. Confirmed. Base trained on all 32 source subjects (63.7% zero-shot on a disjoint 50%
held-out of the target subjects), then fine-tuned on K labeled frames per target subject:
| K/subject | total frames | eval PCK@20 | Δ |
|----------:|-------------:|------------:|--:|
| 0 | 0 | 63.7% | — |
| 20 | 160 | 68.1% | +4.3 |
| **50** | **400** | **72.2%** | **+8.5 (≈ prior SOTA)** |
| 200 | 1,600 | 76.1% | +12.4 |
| 1000 | 8,000 | 78.3% | +14.6 |
**Few-shot calibration dominates source volume.** §3.3 showed +24 source subjects (~190K frames)
buys +6 pts; here **200 target frames/subject (1,600 frames) buys +12.4 pts**. This **re-scopes the
ADR's acceptance gate and deployment story**: the cross-subject gate (§4, ≥6 pts) is *trivially* met
by ~50–200 labeled frames of in-room calibration — no foundation encoder or mass capture required for
the deployment win. **Recommended product behavior:** ship a **~30-second on-site calibration** (a few
hundred labeled frames per room/person) that recovers most of the gap. The foundation encoder's value
shifts from "close cross-subject zero-shot" (data says: hard) to "make the few-shot adaptation faster /
need fewer calibration frames" — a better-posed, achievable objective. **This supersedes the §3.2
pessimism: the frontier is not closed by algorithms or bulk data, but it *is* cheaply closed at
deployment time by few-shot calibration.**
## 4. Acceptance Test ## 4. Acceptance Test
The encoder is accepted **only if it improves cross-subject torso-PCK@20 by ≥ 6 absolute points without reducing random-split torso-PCK@20 by more than 2 points** — on the same MM-Fi pipeline, one-command reproduction, with per-joint error tables. Results land as AetherArena witness rows (ADR-149), nothing published until reviewed. The encoder is accepted **only if it improves cross-subject torso-PCK@20 by ≥ 6 absolute points without reducing random-split torso-PCK@20 by more than 2 points** — on the same MM-Fi pipeline, one-command reproduction, with per-joint error tables. Results land as AetherArena witness rows (ADR-149), nothing published until reviewed.