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leonarski_fandClaude Opus 5.5 138abafa14 RotationScaleMerge: Anderson-accelerate the per-frame scaling loops (RESULT-CHANGING)
The partials and fulls scaling loops are alternating least squares that converge linearly:
over the rc176 battery's 2527 loops a round shrinks the step by a median 0.86 (partials) and
0.93 (fulls), up to 0.98, so the 1e-3 step tolerance stopped them 0.6% / 1.4% (median) and up to
17% (fulls p90) short of their fixed point, and 313 of them were stopped as "stalled" when they
were only slow - a stalled fulls loop also skipped ShrinkToRestrained.

Each round is now accelerated in log G by type-II Anderson mixing (Walker & Ni 2011), depth 5,
each frame weighted by its observation count as in the step test; frames below the credible floor
take the plain round's scale. The history is dropped when the weighted residual grows or the set
of fitted frames changes (new AndersonMixing class, unit-tested on a synthetic slow ALS loop). The
mixed scales are gauge-pinned again before the rescale, and the stop test is unchanged: it reads
the round's residual F(x) - x, so "stalled" now means a loop that does not settle under
acceleration either.

Measured (CPU, -N 8): 4nwv 311 -> 82 iterations over 9 loops, 9v16 76 iterations over 11 loops,
the same counts as the env-gated prototype on tail-solver; no history restart fired on either.
Depth 3/5/8 give 92/91/90 iterations on 4nwv. A restart on a change of the fulls loop's
cross-validated lambda was tried and gave nothing (83 vs 82). Same space group and merging
statistics on 4nwv and 9v16.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PXc1zD1yxHqaR1DGdCTHL4
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# CPU-side crystallographic data analysis (Jungfraujoch)
This document describes the crystallographic algorithms implemented in Jungfraujoch for **CPU**- and **GPU**-side real‑time and near‑real‑time data analysis.
**Scope.** The pipeline covered here comprises:
1. geometry mapping and corrections,
2. azimuthal integration (powder/radial profiles),
3. Bragg spot finding (strong pixels → connected components → spot descriptors),
4. indexing (still and rotation modes),
5. Bravais lattice / centering inference,
6. geometry and lattice refinement,
7. reflection prediction (still and rotation),
8. Bragg integration by either 2D box summation or profile fitting (Kabsch, reference-free),
9. scaling and merging,
10. merge-level error modelling, outlier rejection and the resolution cutoff,
11. space-group determination from the merged intensities (Laue group, screw axes, glide planes, centering, the centre of symmetry), the twinning check and the translational pseudo-symmetry check,
12. auxiliary statistics (Wilson plot, ⟨I/σ(I)⟩, CC1/2, CCref),
13. amplitude estimation (French–Wilson) and R-free test-set flagging,
14. optional model-based validation: rigid-body placement of a supplied model (molecular replacement where the rigid body does not place it, or for a predicted model), R-free against it, sigma_A-weighted 2mFo−DFc / mFo−DFc electron-density maps, and an anomalous difference map with the strongest anomalous sites named.
The reference is split into four parts, in pipeline order; the section numbers run continuously
across them and are the ones the rest of the documentation cites.
- [From images to spots (§0–§3)](CPU_DATA_ANALYSIS_IMAGE.md) — device-side decoding, geometry and
reciprocal-space mapping, azimuthal integration, spot finding.
- [Indexing and geometry refinement (§4–§7)](CPU_DATA_ANALYSIS_INDEXING.md) — FFT and fast-feedback
indexing, the lattice search, geometry refinement, post-refinement and powder calibration.
- [Prediction, integration, scaling and merging (§8–§12)](CPU_DATA_ANALYSIS_INTEGRATION.md) —
reflection prediction, profile-fitted integration, scaling, merging, mosaicity and the auxiliary
statistics.
- [Space group and validation (§13–§14)](CPU_DATA_ANALYSIS_DECISIONS.md) — the space-group search,
twinning and translational pseudo-symmetry, the resolution cutoff, diffraction anisotropy,
model-based validation and molecular replacement.
## References
The methods draw on, and in places reimplement, solutions from:
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(list is not exhaustive; the full citations, with DOIs, are in [ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.md](ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.md))